The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books. This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... The table of years in literature is a tabular display of all years in literature, for overview and quick navigation to any year. ... See also: 1958 in literature, other events of 1959, 1960 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1959 in literature, other events of 1960, 1961 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1960 in literature, other events of 1961, 1962 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1961 in literature, other events of 1962, 1963 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1962 in literature, other events of 1963, 1964 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1963 in literature, other events of 1964, 1965 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 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Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game Ted Hughes, Wodwo Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems See 1967 Governor Generals Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. ... // Charles Causley, Underneath the Water Rod McKuen - Lonesome Cities Black Fire, edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, an anthology of African American poetry See 1968 Governor Generals Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. ... // FIELD Magazine founded Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to embark on a writing career after being promised a $100 stipend from Black Sparrow Press. ... // Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin See 1970 Governor Generals Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. ... Aleksandr Tvardovsky, who died this year, was a Soviet poet who, as editor of Novy Mir, fought for more independence and published Alexandr Solzhenitsyns One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962 // This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten The Canterbury Tales, a film directed... // John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate A.R. Ammons: Briefings: Poems Small and Easy Collected Poems: 1951-1971, winner of the National Book Award in 1973 John Ashbery, Three Poems Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Tom Clark, Back In Boston Again John Berryman, (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Elizabeth Bishop and... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... 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Events

• The first Booker Prize is awarded.
• "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in order to prove that sex-filled trash sells. It did.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...

New books

• Jorge Amado - Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles)
• Kingsley Amis - The Green Man
• William H. Armstrong - Sounder
• Penelope Ashe - Naked Came the Stranger
• Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
• Ray Bradbury - I Sing the Body Electric
• William S. Burroughs - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
• Merton H. Coleman - That Godless Woman
• March Cost - The Veiled Sultan
• Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain
• John Cheever - Bullet Park
• A. J. Cronin - A Pocketful of Rye
• L. Sprague de Camp - The Golden Wind
• Marion Eames - Y Stafell Ddirgel (The Secret Room)
• John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Graham Greene - Travels with My Aunt
• Sam Greenlee - The Spook Who Sat By the Door
• Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
• Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan of Cimmeria
• David H. Keller - The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Tales
• Elmore Leonard - The Big Bounce
• Doris Lessing - The Four-Gated City
• H.P. Lovecraft and Others - Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
• Yukio Mishima - Runaway Horses
• Michael Moorcock - Behold the Man
• C. L. Moore - Jirel of Joiry
• Vladimir Nabokov - Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
• Don Pendleton - War Against The Mafia
• Chaim Potok - The Promise
• Manuel Puig - Little Painted Mouths
• Mario Puzo - The Godfather
• Ellery Queen - The Campus Murders
• Pauline Réage - Retour à Roissy
• Mordecai Richler - The Street
• Harold Robbins - The Inheritors
• Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
• Irwin Shaw - Rich Man, Poor Man
• Raymond Spence - Nothing Black But A Cadillac
• Rex Stout - Death of a Dude
• Edward Streeter - Ham Martin, Class of '17
• Jacqueline Susann - The Love Machine
• Theodore Taylor - The Cay
• Colin Thiele - Blue Fin
• Jack Vance
  • The Dirdir
  • Emphyrio
  • Servants of the Wankh
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
• Irving Wallace - The Seven Minutes
• Roger Zelazny
  • Creatures of Light and Darkness
  • Damnation Alley
  • Isle of the Dead

Jorge Amado de Faria (August 10, 1912 – August 6, 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. ... Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. ... Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ... Written in 1969, The Green Man (ISBN 978-0-89733-220-0), is a novel by the noted British author Kingsley Amis. ... William Howard Armstrong (September 14, 1914 – April 11, 1999) was an American author and educator. ... Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. ... The book Naked Came the Stranger was a literary hoax perpetrated by several well-known writers and critics in 1969. ... The book Naked Came the Stranger was a literary hoax perpetrated by several well-known writers and critics in 1969. ... Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ... A paperback edition of The Edible Woman The Edible Woman, a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance, is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world suddenly slips strangely out of focus. ... Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, is widely considered... I Sing the Body Electric is: (1855) a poem by Walt Whitman. ... William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) - August 2, 1997; pronounced ), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... The Last Words of Dutch Schultz was a novel by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1969. ... Michael Crichton, pronounced [1], (born October 23, 1942) is an American author, film producer, film director, and television producer. ... This article is about the novel. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A John Cheever novel concerned with unhappiness in the suburbs. ... Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896–January 6, 1981) was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and nonfiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century. ... A Pocketful of Rye is a 1969 novel by A. J. Cronin about a young Scottish doctor, Carrol, and his life in Switzerland. ... Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... The Golden Wind by L. Sprague de Camp, Doubleday, 1969 The Golden Wind is an historical novel by L. Sprague de Camp, first published by Doubleday in 1969. ... Marion Eames (born 1921) is a Welsh novelist. ... Y Stafell Ddirgel (in English, The Secret Room) is a novel by Marion Eames written in the Welsh language and first published in 1969. ... John Robert Fowles John Robert Fowles (March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005) was an English novelist and essayist. ... The French Lieutenants Woman is a 1969 novel by John Fowles. ... This article is about the writer. ... Travels with My Aunt (1969) is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... Dune Messiah is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the second in a series of six novels. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936)[1] was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. ... Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. ... Conan of Cimmeria by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, Lancer Books, 1969 Conan of Cimmeria is a 1969 collection of six fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Howards seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan... David H. Keller (1880-1966) Psychiatrist and author; M.D., School of Medicine, U. of Pennsylvania, (1903); served as neuropsychiatrist in U.S. Army Medical Corps during World Wars I and II; staff member of various state mental institutions; author of science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories and novels... The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Tales is a collection of stories by author David H. Keller. ... Elmore John Leonard Jr. ... Categories: 1969 films | 2004 films | Comedy films | Movie stubs ... Doris Lessing CH OBE (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Iran,[1] on 22 October 1919[2]) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook. ... The Four-Gated City is a novel, published in 1969,[1] by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... A Cthulhu Mythos anthology is a type of short story collection that contains stories written in or related to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction launched by H. P. Lovecraft. ... Yukio Mishima ) was the public name of Kimitake Hiraoka , January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and playwright, famous for both his highly notable nihilistic post-war writings and the circumstances of his ritual suicide by seppuku. ... Runaway Horses is a novel by Yukio Mishima. ... Michael John Moorcock (born December 18, 1939, in London, England) is a prolific English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. ... Behold the Man is a novella by Michael Moorcock, first published in 1966 by New Worlds S.F. It is the story of one Karl Glogauer who travels back in time in a time machine constructed by one Sir James Headington (physicist and wartime inventor) to the year 28 of... Dust jacket illustration for Judgment Night by C. L. Moore, published in 1952 by Gnome Press. ... Catherine Lucile Moore (January 24, 1911 - April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899, Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American, Academy Award nominated author. ... Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. ... Don Pendleton (December 12, 1927 - October 23, 1995) was a writer, best known for the creation of American hero Mack Bolan. ... Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. ... The Promise is a novel written by Chaim Potok, published in 1969. ... Manuel Puig (General Villegas, December 28, 1932 - Cuernavaca, July 22, 1990) was an Argentinian author. ... Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969). ... The Godfather is a novel written by American author Mario Puzo originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnams Sons. ... Frederic Dannay (left), with James Yaffe (1943) Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel (David) Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905–September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905–April... The original 1969 cover The Campus Murders is a 1969 paperback novel by Gil Brewer (1922 - 1983) published under the name Ellery Queen. ... Pauline Réage, pseudonym of Anne Desclos (September 23, 1907 - April 27, 1998), was a French author. ... Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. ... The Street is an informal name for the UK TV programme Coronation Street. ... Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916-October 14, 1997) was an American author. ... Published in 1901 The Inheritors is the first novel Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated on. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey[1]) is a famous American novelist. ... Portnoys Complaint book cover Portnoys Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roths fourth and, to date, still most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (ribald, comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks. ... Irwin Shaw (né Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, February 27, 1913 - May 16, 1984) was an American Jewish playwright, screen writer and author. ... Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel written by Irwin Shaw. ... Rex Stout, full name Rex Todhunter Stout, (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. ... Death of a Dude is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1969. ... Edward Streeter (August 1, 1891 - March 31, 1976) was an American novelist and journalist, best known for the novel Father of the Bride and his Dere Mable series. ... Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Jewish-American author known for her mass-appeal novels. ... The Love Machine is a 1969 novel written by Jacqueline Susann. ... Theodore Taylor is the prize-winning author of many books including The Cay, The Weirdo, Ice Drift, Timothy of the Cay, Bomb, Sniper and Rogue Wave. ... The Cay, by Theodore Taylor The Cay, written by Theodore Taylor in the 1960s, is a childrens book about an eleven-year-old boy named Phillip Enright who lives on the Dutch island of Curaçao during World War II. The story is based on a real incident. ... Colin Thiele (born 1920 in Eudunda, South Australia) is an Australian author and educator, best known for his award winning childrens fiction. ... Blue Fin is an Australian novel and film released in 1978. ... John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author, though Vance himself has reportedly objected to such labels. ... The Dirdir is the third science fiction adventure novel in a tetralogy entitled Tschai, Planet of Adventure. ... Emphyrio is a science fiction adventure novel written by Jack Vance. ... Servants of the Wankh is the second science fiction adventure novel in a tetralogy entitled Tschai, Planet of Adventure. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 - June 29, 1990) was an American bestselling author and screenwriter. ... The Seven Minutes was a non-adult movie made by Russ Meyer about a fictional obscenity trial of a book of the same name. ... Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. ... Creatures of Light and Darkness is a science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny published in 1968, as well as a roman à clef about the Social Security Administration at Woodlawn, Maryland, where Zelazny worked. ... Damnation Alley is a 1969 science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny. ... Isle of the Dead is a science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny published in 1969. ...

New drama

• Athol Fugard - Boesman and Lena
• Joe Orton - What the Butler Saw (posthumously published)
• Dennis Potter - Son of Man (television)

Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard (b. ... Joe Orton Joe Orton (Born: John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933, Leicester, England. ... This article might not be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... Son of man is a television play by British playwright Dennis Potter. ...

Poetry

• James Schuyler - Freely Espousing

James Schuyler(9 November 1923 – 12 April 1991) was a major American poet in the late 20th century. ...

Non-fiction

• Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
• L. Sprague de Camp and George H. Scithers, editors - The Conan Swordbook.
• Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots.
• Peter Geach - God and the Soul.
• Desmond Morris - The Human Zoo

Maya Angelou (IPA: [1]), born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928 in St. ... I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiographical novel about the early years of author Maya Angelous life. ... Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... George H. Scithers (born 1929) is a science fiction author and editor. ... The Conan Swordbook is a 1969 collection of essays edited by L. Sprague de Camp and George H. Scithers, published in hardcover by Mirage Press. ... Lady Antonia Fraser, née Pakenham, (born August 27, 1932) is a British author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies. ... Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart or Stewart) (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587), better known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was the ruler of Scotland from December 14, 1542 – July 24, 1567. ... Peter Thomas Geach (born 1919) is one of the foremost contemporary British philosophers. ... Dr Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. ... The Human Zoo can refer to: The Human Zoo, a 1969 book by Desmond Morris. ...

Births

• January - David Mitchell, novelist
• January 17 - Michael Moynihan, journalist and publisher
• May 6 - Emmanuel Larcenet, comics author
• November 3 - Rik Woods, poet
• November 13 - John Belluso, dramatist
• date unknown
  • David Auburn, dramatist
  • Adrian Goldsworthy, military historian
  • John Harris, journalist

David Mitchell in Poland, Warsaw, April 7, 2006 David Mitchell (born January, 1969) is an English novelist. ... is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Moynihan, (b. ... is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Emmanuel Larcenet (born on May 6, 1969 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French comics writer and artist. ... is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Belluso (c. ... David Auburn (born 1969) is an American playwright. ... Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) is a British historian and military writer. ... For other persons named John Harris, see John Harris (disambiguation). ...

Deaths

• January 11 - Richmal Crompton, author
• March 11 - John Wyndham, British author
• March 26 - John Kennedy Toole, author
• March 27 - B. Traven, writer
• May 4 - Osbert Sitwell, novelist, poet, brother of Edith Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell
• July 24 - Witold Gombrowicz, playwright and novelist
• August 14 - Leonard Woolf, political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf
• September 6 - Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and author
• September 20 - Elinor Brent-Dyer, Chalet School author
• October 21 - Jack Kerouac, author
• date unknown - Vivian de Sola Pinto, poet and memoirist
• date unknown - Greye La Spina, writer

is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Richmal Crompton Lamburn (1890–1969) Richmal Crompton Lamburn (November 15, 1890–January 11, 1969) was a British writer, most famous for her Just William short stories. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Wyndham (July 10, 1903 – March 11, 1969) was the pen name used by the often post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist, from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces. ... is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... B. Traven (d. ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet, (December 6, 1892 – May 4, 1969) was an English writer. ... Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic. ... Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (November 15, 1897–October 1, 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. ... is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 in MaÅ‚oszyce, near Kielce, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. ... is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Leonard Woolf (November 25, 1880 – August 14, 1969) married Virginia Woolf in 1912. ... For the American writer, see Virginia Euwer Wolff. ... is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS (Sc. ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Elinor M. Brent-Dyer 1894–1969 was a children’s author who wrote over 100 books during her lifetime, the most famous being the Chalet School series. ... is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. ... Vivian de Sola Pinto (1895 - 1969) was a British poet, literary critic and historian. ... Greye La Spina (1880 – 1969) was an American writer of over 100 published serials, novelettes, one-act plays and short stories. ...

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett

The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. ...

Canada

• See 1969 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Each winner of the 1969 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. ...

France

• Prix Goncourt: Félicien Marceau, Creezy
• Prix Médicis: Hélène Cixous, Dedans

The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious prize in French literature, given to the author of the best and most imaginative prose work of the year. Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. ... Félicien Marceau (b. ... The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. ... Hélène Cixous, (born June 5, 1937), is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. ...

United Kingdom

• Booker Prize: P. H. Newby - Something to Answer For
• Cholmondeley Award: Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison
• Eric Gregory Award: Gavin Bantock, Jeremy Hooker, Jenny King, Neil Powell, Landeg E. White
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Antonia Fraser, Mary, Queen of Scots
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stevie Smith

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... Percy Howard Newby (June 25, 1918 - September 6, 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. ... The Cholmondeley Award is given by the Society of Authors for poetry. ... Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. ... Tony Harrison (born April 30, 1937) is an English poet. ... The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submisson. ... Jeremy Hooker (born 1941) is an English poet, critic, lecturer, and broadcaster born in Warsash, Hampshire. ... Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language. ... Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. ... Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language. ... Lady Antonia Fraser, née Pakenham, (born August 27, 1932) is a British author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies. ... Mary, Queen of Scots redirects here. ... The Gold Medal for Poetry, originally instituted by King George V, is awarded in some years on 23 April, for a book of verse written by a United Kingdom or British Commonwealth citizen; before 1985 it was awarded only to British writers (this rule clearly not having hardened by 1940). ... Stevie Smith was a British poet and radio personality (September 20, 1902 - March 7, 1971). ...

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Tennessee Williams
• Hugo Award: John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
• Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lloyd Alexander, The High King
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Oppen: Of Being Numerous

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Elsewhere

• Premio Nadal: Francisco García Pavón (Las hermanas coloradas
• Viareggio Prize: Fulvio Tomizza, L'albero dei sogni