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| 1975 |
| | | US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century | |
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| 1975 |
| | | English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Canadian novelist Robertson Davies completes his semi-autobiographical Deptford Trilogy | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Steven Spielberg writes and directs an inflential science fiction movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
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| 1978 |
| | | US author John Irving has wide success with his novel The World According to Garp | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the 1978 Booker Prize | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Douglas Adams creates Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a science fiction comedy series for BBC's Radio 4 | |
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| 1978 |
| | | British author Ian McEwan publishes his first novel, The Cement Garden | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Italian academic Umberto Eco publishes The Name of the Rose, a medieval murder mystery | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism | |
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