Events
- Douglas Adams begins writing for BBC radio.
- V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE.
- Christopher Tolkien, with Guy Gavriel Kay, completes and publishes his father's work, The Silmarillion.
- Philosophy and Literature, an academic journal that explores the connections between literary and philosophical studies by presenting ideas on the aesthetics of literature, critical theory, and the philosophical interpretation of literature, is founded.
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