1967 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.
- Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.
[edit] New books
- Thomas Berger - Killing Time
- Margaret Craven - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden
- Allan W. Eckert - Wild Season
- Alan Garner - The Owl Service
- S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders
- 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
- Alistair MacLean - Where Eagles Dare
- Naguib Mahfouz - Miramar
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Wizards
- Daniel Pratt Mannix IV - The Fox and the Hound
- Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Catherine Marshall - Christy
- R. D. Mascott - 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior
- K. M. Peyton - Flambards
- Chaim Potok - The Chosen
- Marin Preda - Moromeţii
- Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
- Mary Stewart - The Gabriel Hounds
- William Styron - The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Henry Sutton - The Exhibitionist
- Piri Thomas - Down These Mean Streets
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat
- Leon Uris - Topaz
- Thornton Wilder - The Eighth Day
- Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light (Hugo Winner 1968)
[edit] New drama
- Peter Handke - Kaspar
- Peter Nichols - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Peter Brown - Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
- 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
[edit] Births
- April 19 - Steven H Silver, science fiction writer
- July 19 - Wladimir Kaminer, short story writer
[edit] Deaths
- February 8 - Victor Gollancz, publisher
- February 28 - Henry Luce, publisher
- March 7 - Alice B. Toklas, muse of Gertrude Stein
- May 12 - John Masefield, Poet Laureate
- June 4 - J. R. Ackerley, journalist
- June 7 - Dorothy Parker, humorist
- July 22 - Carl Sandburg, historian and poet
- August 2 - Giles Romilly, journalist
- August 9 - Joe Orton, dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell
- August 29 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay, historian, author
- September 1 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet, author
- September 24 - Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author
- October 8 - Vernon Watkins, poet
- October 9 - André Maurois, novelist
- October 14 - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's author
- November 30 - Patrick Kavanagh, poet
[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
- See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
- Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
- Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
- Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley
[edit] United States
- Hugo Award: Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die
[edit] Elsewhere
- Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, The Cocktail Party
- Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro
