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Events relating to literature
US feminist Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is her doctoral dissertation on the exploitation of women
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London
English poet James Fenton publishes his first collection, Terminal Moraine
British economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher publishes an influential economic tract, Small is Beautiful
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London
US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels
US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying
Patrick White is the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers
German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England
US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century
English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust
Canadian novelist Robertson Davies completes his semi-autobiographical Deptford Trilogy
Black American author Alex Haley traces his family origins in Africa in Roots
German author Botho Strauss's play Three Acts of Recognition wins him an international audience
US author John Irving has wide success with his novel The World According to Garp
Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the 1978 Booker Prize
English author Andrew Motion publishes his first collection of poems, The Pleasure Steamers
British author Ian McEwan publishes his first novel, The Cement Garden
Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart, Amadeus, has its premiere in London
Italian academic Umberto Eco publishes The Name of the Rose, a medieval murder mystery
US author Sam Shepard's play True West has its premiere in New York
War Music is the first instalment of Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad
