1967 in literature

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The year 1967 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

January - Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita is first published complete (in the form left at the author's death in 1940), although in the Soviet Union censored portions circulate only in samizdat.
August 9 – English playwright Joe Orton (b. 1933) is battered to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell (who commits suicide) in their north London home shortly after Orton has completed work on a film script, Up Against It, for The Beatles (unproduced).
October 21 – American writer Norman Mailer is arrested for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's March on The Pentagon.
Influential New Wave science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published in the United States.

New books

Lloyd Alexander – Taran Wanderer
J. G. Ballard
- The Day of Forever
- The Disaster Area
- The Overloaded Man
Thomas Berger – Killing Time
Thomas Bernhard – Verstörung ("Disturbance", translated as Gargoyles)
Richard Brautigan – Trout Fishing in America
Kenneth Bulmer
- Cycle of Nemesis
- To Outrun Doomsday
Arthur J. Burks – Black Medicine
Angela Carter – The Magic Toyshop
Agatha Christie – Endless Night
'John Christopher' (Sam Youd)
- The White Mountains
- The City of Gold and Lead
Margaret Craven – I Heard the Owl Call My Name
L. Sprague de Camp editor – The Fantastic Swordsmen
August Derleth editor – Travellers by Night
Margaret Drabble – Jerusalem the Golden
Allan W. Eckert – Wild Season
Mircea Eliade – The Old Man and the Bureaucrats
Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alan Garner – The Owl Service
William Golding – The Pyramid
S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders
William Hope Hodgson – Deep Waters
Robert E. Howard – Conan the Warrior
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp – Conan the Usurper
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan
Aldous Huxley – The Crows of Pearblossom (published posthumously)
James Jones – Go to the Widow-Maker
Anna Kavan – Ice
Elia Kazan – The Arrangement
Oe Kenzaburo – The Silent Cry
Milan Kundera – The Joke
Ira Levin – Rosemary's Baby
Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
H. P. Lovecraft – Three Tales of Horror
Alistair MacLean – Where Eagles Dare
Naguib Mahfouz – Miramar
Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Wizards
Daniel Pratt Mannix IV – The Fox and the Hound
Catherine Marshall – Christy
R. D. Mascott – The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½
V. S. Naipaul – The Mimic Men
R. K. Narayan – The Vendor of Sweets
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – A Grain of Wheat
Flann O'Brien – The Third Policeman (written 1939–40; published posthumously)
Scott O'Dell – The Black Pearl
K. M. Peyton – Flambards
Chaim Potok – The Chosen
Marin Preda – Moromeţii, vol. ii
E. Hoffmann Price – Strange Gateways
Ruth Rendell – A New Lease of Death
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Cancer Ward (Раковый Корпус, Rakovy Korpus)
Mary Stewart – The Gabriel Hounds
William Styron – The Confessions of Nat Turner
Piri Thomas – Down These Mean Streets
Leon Uris – Topaz
Jack Vance – The Palace of Love
Thornton Wilder – The Eighth Day
Colin Wilson – The Mind Parasites
Roger Zelazny – Lord of Light (Hugo Award Winner 1968)

New drama

Simon Gray – Wise Child
Peter Handke – Kaspar
Peter Nichols – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Luis Valdez – Los Vendidos
Vijay Tendulkar – Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe

Poetry

Main article: 1967 in poetry

Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri – The Mersey Sound

Non-fiction

Peter Brown – Augustine of Hippo: A Biography.
Robert Coles – A Study in Courage and Fear, volume 1 of Children of Crisis.
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Story of Science in America.
Joseph Fletcher – Moral Responsibility.
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore – The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.
William Manchester – The Death of a President.
Robert K. Massie – Nicholas and Alexandra.
Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson – The Theory of Island Biogeography
Desmond Morris – The Naked Ape
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Births

January 7 - Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist
April 19 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction writer
July 11 – Jhumpa Lahiri, English-born Indian-American writer
July 19
- Zoran Drvenkar, Croatian-German novelist
- Wladimir Kaminer, Russian-German short story writer

Deaths

February 8 – Victor Gollancz, publisher, 73
February 28 – Henry Luce, publisher, 68
March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, muse of Gertrude Stein, 89
May 12 – John Masefield, Poet Laureate of the UK, 88
May 22 – Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and playwright, 65
June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, journalist, 70
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, humorist, 73
July 22
- Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor and translator, 80
- Carl Sandburg, historian and poet, 89
August 2 – Giles Romilly, journalist, 50 (tranquilliser overdose)
August 9 – Joe Orton, playwright, 34 (murdered)
August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, historian, author, 91
September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, poet and memoirist, 80
September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author, 57 (cancer)
September 29 - Carson McCullers, novelist, 50 (brain haemorrhage)
October 8 – Vernon Watkins, poet, 61 (heart failure)
October 9 – André Maurois, French novelist, 82
October 13 – Georges Sadoul, French journalist and cinema writer, 63
October 14 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and children's author, 65
November 17 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet, 98
November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet, 63
unknown date – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, killed in the Nigerian-Biafran War

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Ángel Asturias

Canada

See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire

United Kingdom

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Alan Garner, The Owl Service
Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem The Golden
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley

United States

Elsewhere

Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, The Cocktail Party
Premio Nadal: José María Sanjuán, Réquiem por todos nosotros
Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro

References

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