1970 in literature
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The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- January 16 – The new Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus is inaugurated with a performance of Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod.[1]
- June 17 – Première of David Storey's play Home at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
- July 7 – Death of English publisher Sir Allen Lane (b. 1902).[2] On August 21 his paperback imprint Penguin Books is acquired by Pearson PLC.
- August 27 – RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Royal Shakespeare Company premieres its revolutionary production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Brook, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.[3]
- November 25 – In Tokyo, Japanese author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima (45) and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing politics, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
- December 5 – Dario Fo premières his play Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Varese in Italy.
- Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book will be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
New books
- Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Nina Bawden – The Birds on the Trees
- Thomas Berger – Vital Parts
- Pierre Berton – The National Dream
- Judy Blume – Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
- Jim Bouton – Ball Four
- Melvyn Bragg – A Place in England
- Wallace Breem – Eagle in the Snow
- Jimmy Breslin – The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
- Taylor Caldwell – Great Lion of God
- John Dickson Carr – The Ghosts' High Noon
- Agatha Christie – Passenger to Frankfurt
- Roald Dahl – Fantastic Mr Fox
- Robertson Davies – Fifth Business
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Samuel R. Delany – The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy)
- James Dickey – Deliverance
- José Donoso – The Obscene Bird of Night (El obsceno pájaro de la noche)
- Lawrence Durrell – Nunquam
- J. G. Farrell – Troubles
- Shirley Hazzard – The Bay of Noon
- Anne Hébert – Kamouraska
- Ernest Hemingway – Islands in the Stream
- Susan Hill – I'm the King of the Castle
- Pamela Hansford Johnson – The Honours Board
- Anna Kavan – Julia and the Bazooka
- Jaan Kross – Between Three Plagues (part 1)
- Ira Levin – This Perfect Day
- H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
- John D. MacDonald – The Long Lavender Look
- Eric Malpass – Oh My Darling Daughter
- Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Devils and Demons
- Yukio Mishima – The Decay of the Angel (天人五衰, Tennin Gosui, last book in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy)
- Brian Moore – Fergus
- Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
- Larry Niven – Ringworld
- John Jay Osborn, Jr. – The Paper Chase
- Mary Renault – Fire from Heaven
- Kurban Said – Ali and Nino
- Erich Segal – Love Story
- Sidney Sheldon – The Naked Face
- Clark Ashton Smith – Other Dimensions
- Muriel Spark – The Driver's Seat
- Mary Stewart – The Crystal Cave
- Leon Uris – QB VII
- Jack Vance – The Pnume
- Gore Vidal – Two Sisters
- E. B. White – The Trumpet Of The Swan
- Patrick White – The Vivisector
- Venedikt Yerofeyev – Moscow-Petushki (Moscow to the end of the line; samizdat publication)
- Roger Zelazny – Nine Princes in Amber
New drama
- Dario Fo – Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Welcome Msomi – uMabatha
- Terence Rattigan – A Bequest to the Nation
- Anthony Shaffer – Sleuth
Poetry
Main article: 1970 in poetry
Non-fiction
- Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- James MacGregor Burns – Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
- Henri Charrière – Papillon
- Edward De Bono – Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step
- August Derleth – Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969: A History and Bibliography
- Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch
- Helene Hanff – 84 Charing Cross Road
- Arthur Janov – The Primal Scream
- Norman Mailer – Of a Fire on the Moon
- Dumas Malone – Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805
- Mahathir bin Mohamad – The Malay Dilemma
- Kate Millet – Sexual Politics
- Nancy Mitford – Frederick the Great
- Albert Speer – Inside the Third Reich
- Alvin Toffler – Future Shock
Births
- January 1 – Alex Garland, English novelist
- March 12 – Dave Eggers, American writer, editor and publisher
- September 10 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (died 2004)
- September 16 – Nick Sagan, American novelist and screenwriter
- September 24 – Gemma Moraleja Paz, Spanish poet and novelist
- October 27 – Jonathan Stroud, English fantasy writer
- November 7 – Chris Adrian, American novelist
- Undated – Nathan Englander, American short story writer
Deaths
- January 10 – Charles Olson, modernist poet, 59 (liver cancer)
- January 29 – B. H. Liddell Hart, military historian, 74
- February 2 – Bertrand Russell, philosopher, 97
- March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason author, 80
- March 29 – Vera Brittain, novelist, memoirist and poet, 76
- April 11 – John O'Hara, novelist, 65 (cardiovascular disease)
- May 12 – Nelly Sachs, Jewish German poet and dramatist, 78
- June 3 – Adrian Conan Doyle, son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 59
- June 7 – E. M. Forster, English novelist, 91
- June 16 – Elsa Triolet, French novelist, 73
- July 15 – Eric Berne, Canadian-born psychiatrist and author, 60 (heart attack)
- September 1 – François Mauriac, French novelist, 84
- September 28 – John Dos Passos, American novelist, 74
- November 25 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and political activist, 45 (seppuku)
Awards
Canada
- See 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Goncourt: Michel Tournier, Le Roi des Aulnes
- Prix Médicis French: Camille Bourniquel, Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale
- Prix Médicis International: Luigi Malerba, Saut de la mort
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, The God Beneath the Sea
- Cholmondeley Award: Kathleen Raine, Douglas Livingstone, Edward Brathwaite
- Eric Gregory Award: Helen Frye, Paul Mills, John Mole, Brian Morse, Alan Perry, Richard Tibbitts
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Lily Powell, The Bird of Paradise
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Roy Fuller
United States
- Hugo Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Nebula Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: William H. Armstrong, Sounder
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Jesús Fernández Santos, Libro de las memorias de las cosas
- Viareggio Prize: Nello Saito, Dentro e fuori
References
- ↑ "Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus" (in German). nrw-buehnen.de. Retrieved 2013-07-19.
- ↑ "About Penguin: Company history". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
- ↑ Barnes, Clive (28 August 1970). "Historic Staging of Dream". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
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