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1981
 
    
War Music is the first instalment of Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad       
1981
 
     
Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism        
1981
 
    
English author Anita Brookner publishes her first novel, A Start in Life       
1982
 
     
Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, opens in New York        
1982
 
    
Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West end       
1982
 
     
Australian novelist Thomas Keneally publishes Schindler's Ark and wins the Booker Prize        
1983
 
     
British economist Nicholas Kaldor attacks monetarism in The Economic Consequences of Mrs Thatcher        
1983
 
     
Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser is partly inspired by the British actor Donald Wolfit        
1983
 
     
South African novelist J.M. Coetzee publishes The Life and Times of Michael K, and wins the Booker Prize        
1984
 
   
US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante