1969 in literature
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See also: 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- The first Booker Prize is awarded;
- "Penelope Ashe", author of 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.
[edit] 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
- 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
- Elmore Leonard - The Big Bounce
- 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
- Edward Streeter - Ham Martin, Class of '17
- Jacqueline Susann - The Love Machine
- Theodore Taylor - The Cay
- Colin Thiele - Blue Fin
- Irving Wallace - The Seven Minutes
[edit] New drama
- Athol Fugard - Boesman and Lena
- Joe Orton - What the Butler Saw (posthumously published)
- Dennis Potter - Son of Man (television)
[edit] Poetry
- James Schuyler - Freely Espousing
[edit] Non-fiction
- Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots
- Desmond Morris - The Human Zoo
[edit] Births
- January - David Mitchell, novelist
- January 17 - Michael Moynihan, journalist and publisher
- May 6 - Emmanuel Larcenet, comics author
- November 13 - John Belluso, dramatist
- date unknown
- David Auburn, dramatist
- Adrian Goldsworthy, military historian
- John Harris, journalist
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
- See 1969 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Félicien Marceau, Creezy
- Prix Médicis: Hélène Cixous, Dedans
[edit] 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
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stevie Smith
[edit] 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
[edit] Elsewhere
- Viareggio Prize: Fulvio Tomizza, L'albero dei sogni
