1965 in literature

The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• March 26 – Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming is given its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff, by the Royal Shakespeare Company directed by Peter Hall.^[1] Its London première is on June 3 at the Aldwych Theatre and it is first published this year. Vivien Merchant, Pinter's wife at this time, appears in it.
• June 29 – English novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard marry (his second marriage, her third).
• The Nebula Award is conceived by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.^[2] The first award will be made in the following year to Frank Herbert's Dune.

New books

• Lloyd Alexander – The Black Cauldron
• Cécile Aubry – Belle et Sébastien
• J. G. Ballard – The Drought
• Ray Bradbury – The Vintage Bradbury
• John Brunner
  • The Martian Sphinx as Keith Woodcott
  • The Squares of the City
• Kenneth Bulmer – Land Beyond the Map
• Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Castaways
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante – Tres Tristes Tigres
• John Dickson Carr – The House at Satan's Elbow
• Agatha Christie – At Bertram's Hotel
• L. Sprague de Camp
  • The Arrows of Hercules
  • The Spell of Seven (ed.)
• August Derleth – The Casebook of Solar Pons
• Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
• Margaret Drabble – The Millstone
• Ian Fleming – The Man with the Golden Gun
• Margaret Forster – Georgy Girl
• Witold Gombrowicz – Kosmos
• Graham Greene – The Comedians
• Frank Herbert – Dune
• Arthur Hailey – Hotel
• James Leo Herlihy - Midnight Cowboy
• Bohumil Hrabal – Ostře sledované vlaky ("Closely Observed Trains")
• Bel Kaufman – Up the Down Staircase
• Danilo Kiš – Garden, Ashes (Bašta, pepeo)
• Pierre Klossowski – Le Baphomet
• Jerzy Kosinski – The Painted Bird
• John le Carré – The Looking-Glass War
• J. M. G. Le Clézio – Le Livre des fuites
• David Lodge – The British Museum Is Falling Down
• H. P. Lovecraft – Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
• John D. MacDonald – A Deadly Shade of Gold
• Norman Mailer – An American Dream
• Eric Malpass – Morning's at Seven
• Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Dragons
• James A. Michener – The Source
• Mudrooroo (also known as Colin Johnson) – Wild Cat Falling
• Iris Murdoch – The Red and the Green
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (also known as James Ngigi) – The River Between
• Peter O'Donnell – Modesty Blaise
• Raymond Queneau – Les fleurs bleues
• Françoise Sagan – La chamade
• Muriel Spark - The Mandelbaum Gate
• Vincent Starrett – The Quick and the Dead
• Irving Stone – Those Who Love
• Rex Stout – The Doorbell Rang
• Benjamin Tammuz – חיי אליקום (Hayei Elyakum, "The Life of Elyakum")
• Jack Vance – Space Opera
• Erico Verissimo – O Senhor Embaixador
• Arved Viirlaid – Sadu jõkke ("Rain for the River")
• Kurt Vonnegut – God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
• Donald Wandrei – Strange Harvest
• Marguerite Young – Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

New drama

• Alan Ayckbourn – Relatively Speaking (as Meet my Father)
• Samuel Beckett – Come and Go
• Edward Bond – Saved
• John B. Keane – The Field
• Sławomir Mrożek – Tango
• John Osborne – A Patriot for Me
• Nelson Rodrigues – Toda Nudez Será Castigada ("All Nudity Shall Be Punished")
• Michel Tremblay – Les Belles-Sœurs

Poetry

• Stanley McNail – Something Breathing
• Sylvia Plath – Ariel
• Clark Ashton Smith – Poems in Prose

Non-fiction

• Nirad C. Chaudhuri – The Continent of Circe
• Allen G. Debus – The English Paracelsians.
• Acheson, Dean – Morning and Noon
• Barney Glaser & Anselm Strauss – Awareness of Dying
• William Golding – The Hot Gates
• Alex Haley & Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• H. P. Lovecraft – Selected Letters I (1911–1924)
• Robin Moore – The Green Berets

Births

• March 4
  • Andrew Collins, English journalist and scriptwriter
  • Anisul Hoque, Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist and journalist
• March 30 – Piers Morgan, English journalist and editor
• July 7 – Zoë Heller, English novelist
• July 31 – J. K. Rowling, English children's novelist
• August 1 – Sam Mendes, English theatre and film director
• September 29 - Nikolaj Frobenius, Norwegian novelist
• October 23 – Augusten Burroughs, American memoirist
• December 31 – Nicholas Sparks, American novelist
• Unknown date – Patience Agbabi, British performance poet

Deaths

• January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-born English poet and dramatist (born 1888)
• January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, journalist and dramatist (cancer, born 1930)
• March 13 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop and poet (born 1882)
• May 3 – Howard Spring, Welsh-born novelist and writer (born 1889)
• May 5 – Edgar Mittelholzer, Guyanese-born novelist (suicide, born 1909)
• May 19 – Maria Dąbrowska, Polish novelist, essayist and playwright (born 1889)
• June 5
  • Thornton Burgess, American children's author (born 1874)
  • Eleanor Farjeon, English children's writer and poet (born 1881)
• June 13 – Martin Buber, Austrian-born Jewish philosopher (born 1878)
• July 9 – Jacques Audiberti, French Absurdist dramatist, poet and novelist (born 1899)
• July 28 – Rampo Edogawa (Taro Hirai), Japanese author and critic (born 1894)
• July 30 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎), Japanese novelist (born 1888)
• July 31 – John Metcalfe, English novelist and short story writer (born 1891)
• August 17 – Jack Spicer, poet (alcohol-related, born 1925)
• October 8 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian popular historian (born 1885)
• October 15 – Randall Jarrell, American poet, 54 (road accident, born 1914)
• October 30 – Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (born 1888)
• November 8 – Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist (alcohol/drug overdose, born 1913)
• November 20 – Katharine Anthony, American biographer (born 1877 in literature|1877]])
• December 16 – W. Somerset Maugham novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born 1874)

Awards

• Nobel Prize for literature – Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Canada

• See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

• Prix Goncourt: J. Borel, L'Adoration
• Prix Médicis: René-Victor Pilhes, La Rhubarbe

United Kingdom

• Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force
• Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot
• Newdigate prize: Peter Jay
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: The Later Years 1803–1850
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: Walter Lippmann
• Hugo Award: Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
• Nebula Award: Frank Herbert, Dune
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau – The Keepers Of The House
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs

Elsewhere

• Miles Franklin Award: Thea Astley, The Slow Natives
• Premio Nadal: E. Cabalero Calderón, El buen salvaje
• Viareggio Prize: Goffredo Parise, Il Padrone (The Boss)

References