1981 în literatură

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Anul 1981 în literatură a implicat o serie de evenimente și cărți noi semnificative.

• Kingsley Amis - The Golden Age of Science Fiction
• Martin Amis - Other People
• Louis Auchincloss - The Cat and the King
• René Barjavel - Une rose au paradis
• Samuel Beckett - Ill Seen Ill Said
• Thomas Berger - Reinhart's Women
• Pierre Berton - Flames Across the Border
• Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes
• Simon Bond- 101 Uses for a Dead Cat
• William Boyd - A Good Man in Africa
• Peter Carey - Bliss
• Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
• David Case - The Third Grave
• James Clavell - Noble House
• Roald Dahl - George's Marvellous Medicine
• L. Sprague de Camp - The Hand of Zei
• L. Sprague de Camp & Catherine Crook de Camp - Footprints on Sand
• Bernard Cornwell
  • Sharpe's Eagle
  • Sharpe's Gold
• Samuel R. Delany - Distant Star
• Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
• Régine Deforges - La Bicyclette Bleue
• Cynthia Freeman - No Time for Tears
• John Gardner - Licence Renewed
• Charles L. Grant - Tales from the Nightside
• Alasdair Gray - Lanark
• Jan Guillou - Ondskan
• Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
• Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune
• Douglas Hill - Planet of the Warlord
• Robert E. Howard și L. Sprague de Camp - The Flame Knife
• John Irving - Hotel New Hampshire
• Alan Judd - A Breed of Heroes
• Ismail Kadare - Dosja J
• Stephen King - Cujo
• Dean Koontz (as Leigh Nichols) – The Eyes of Darkness
• Chart Korbjitti – Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment)
• Joe R. Lansdale – Act of Love
• Stanisław Lem – Golem XIV
• Gabriel García Márquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession
• Ian McEwan – The Comfort of Strangers
• Elliot S! Maggin - Miracle Monday
• Naguib Mahfouz – Arabian Nights and Days (ليالي ألف ليلة)
• Enzo Mainardi — scriitor, muzician, poet și pictor, membru important al mișcării artistice futuriste, publică la Tipografia Arte Nuova, Cremona, 3 Liriche di E.M. poeta e pittore futurista cremonese – 3 [grupuri de] poeme lirice de E.M. poet și pictor futurist cremonez, ediția a 5-a (cu repertoriu critic)
• Toni Morrison – Tar Baby
• Robert B. Parker
  • A Savage Place
  • Early Autumn
• Terry Pratchett - Strata
• Alain Robbe-Grillet - Djinn
• Harold Robbins - Goodbye, Janette
• Lawrence Sanders - The Third Deadly Sin
• Martin Cruz Smith - Gorky Park
• Muriel Spark - Loitering with Intent
• Paul Theroux - The Mosquito Coast
• D. M. Thomas - The White Hotel
• Jack Vance - The Book of Dreams
• Gore Vidal - Creation
• Joseph Wambaugh - The Glitter Dome
• Kit Williams - Masquerade
• Gene Wolfe
  • The Claw of the Conciliator
  • The Sword of the Lictor
• Roger Zelazny
  • The Changing Land
  • Madwand

• Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură: Elias Canetti