1981 in literature
See also: 1980 in literature, other events of 1981, 1982 in literature, list of years in literature.
Awards
- Booker Prize: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
- See 1981 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Elias Canetti
- Prix Goncourt: Lucien Bodard, Anne Marie
- Prix Médicis French: François-Olivier Rousseau, L'Enfant d'Édouard
- Prix Médicis International: David Shahar, Le Jour de la comtesse
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler: The Morning of the Poem
- Whitbread Best Book Award: William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa
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