1978 жылғы әдебиет оқиғаларына шолу

Overview of the events of 1978 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1978.

March 8 – Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy originates as a radio comedy broadcast on the U. K. BBC Radio 4. March – Philip Larkin ends his relationships with Maeve Brennan and Betty Mackereth. April – James Blaylock's first published story, "The Ape Box Affair", appears in Unearth magazine, pioneering steampunk fiction. August 1 – Barbara Pym is a guest on Desert Island Discs. October – The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles, is launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The first winner is Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice. November 15 – Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, inspired by a seven year clandestine extramarital affair with BBC Television presenter Joan Bakewell, opens at the National Theatre in London, directed by Peter Hall and featuring Penelope Wilton and her husband at this time, Daniel Massey, with Michael Gambon. December 15 – The Berlin State Library's new Haus Potsdamer Straße is opened in West Berlin's Kulturforum. unknown date – Antonia White's 1933 novel Frost in May becomes the first in Virago Press's Modern Classics series of reissues of books by neglected women authors, published in the UK.

See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.