1975 in literature

1975 in literature

The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.
* Writing under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar," author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice.
* "Hearing Secret Harmonies", the twelfth and final novel of the "A Dance to the Music of Time" duodecalogy by Anthony Powell is published.
* Milan Kundera emigrated to France.

Books

Fiction

*Edward Abbey - "The Monkey Wrench Gang"
*Martin Amis - "Dead Babies"
*Saul Bellow - "Humboldt's Gift"
*Thomas Berger - "Sneaky People"
*Timothy L. Bottoms - "Mr. Schutzer"
*Malcolm Bradbury - "The History Man"
*Morley Callaghan - "A Fine and Private Place"
*Agatha Christie - "Curtain"
*James Clavell - "Shogun"
*Susan Cooper - "The Grey King"
*Michael Crichton - "The Great Train Robbery"
*A. J. Cronin - "The Minstrel Boy"
*Robertson Davies - "World of Wonders"
*L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - "The Compleat Enchanter"
*Samuel R. Delany - "Dhalgren"
*August Derleth - "Harrigan's File"
*E. L. Doctorow - "Ragtime"
*William Gaddis - "J R"
*Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - "La vie devant soi"
*Arthur Hailey - "The Moneychangers"
*Thomas Harris - "Black Sunday"
*Georgette Heyer - "My Lord John"
*Jack Higgins - "The Eagle Has Landed"
*Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - "Heat and Dust"
*Stephen King - "'Salem's Lot"
*J. Sheridan LeFanu - "The Purcell Papers"
*David Lodge - "Changing Places"
*Robert Ludlum - "The Road to Gandolfo"
*Gabriel García Márquez - "El Otoño del Patriarca"
*Bharati Mukherjee - "Wife"
* Gary Myers - "The House of the Worm"
*Tim O'Brien - "Northern Lights"
*Gerald W. Page, editor - "Nameless Places"
*Robert B. Parker - "Mortal Stakes"
*Elizabeth Peters - "Crocodile on the Sandbank" (the first in the Amelia Peabody series)
*Anthony Powell - "Hearing Secret Harmonies"
*James Purdy - "In A Shallow Grave"
*Judith Rossner - "Looking for Mister Goodbar"
*Nawal El Saadawi - "Woman at Point Zero"
*Paul Scott - "A Division of the Spoils"
*Anya Seton - "Smouldering Fires"
*Tom Sharpe - "Blott on the Landscape"
*Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" (individual editions)
*M. P. Shiel - "Xélucha and Others"
*Rex Stout - "A Family Affair"
*Glendon Swarthout - "The Shootist"
*Joseph Wambaugh - "The Choirboys"
*Jack Vance - "Showboat World"
*Roger Zelazny - "Sign of the Unicorn"

Poetry

*Lin Carter - "Dreams from R'lyeh"
*Leslie Norris - "Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies"

Non-fiction

*Philip Agee - ""
*Kingsley Amis - "Rudyard Kipling and His World"
*Jacob Bronowski - "The Ascent of Man"
*L. Sprague de Camp
**"Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages"
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*Paul Fussell - "The Great War and Modern Memory"
*Frank Belknap Long - ""
*Philip Roth - "Reading Myself and Others"

Births

*January 13 - Daniel Kehlmann, novelist
*October 27 - Zadie Smith, novelist

Deaths

*January 15 - Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
*February 14 - Sir P. G. Wodehouse (b.1881), English comic novelist - creator of Jeeves and Wooster
*February 14 - Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley
*March 13 - Ivo Andrić (b.1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature
*June 8 - Murray Leinster, science fiction writer
*September 20 - Saint-John Perse, poet
*October 5 - Constance Malleson, actress and writer
*October 22 - Arnold J. Toynbee, historian
*November 13 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist
*November 19 - Elizabeth Taylor, novelist
*November 23 - Francis Webb, poet
*November 27 - Ross McWhirter, joint author of the "Guinness Book of Records"
*December 4 - Hannah Arendt, philosopher
*December 7 - Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist
*"date unknown" - Janko Glazer, (b.1893) - poet
*"date unknown" - Vojko Gorjan, (b.1949) - poet

Awards

* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Kenneth Burke
* Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , "Heat and Dust"
* See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman Maccaig, John Ormond
* Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Brian Moore, "The Great Victorian Collection"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Karl Miller, "Cockburn's Millennium"
* Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, "The Forever War"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, "M. C. Higgins, the Great"
*Newdigate prize: Andrew Motion
* Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale
*Premio Nadal: Francisco Umbral, "Las ninfas"
*Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - "La vie devant soi"
* Prix Médicis French: Jacques Almira, "Le Voyage à Naucratis"
* Prix Médicis International: Steven Millhauser, "La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse" - United States
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, "Seascape"
* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Shaara - "The Killer Angels"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder - "Turtle Island"
*Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, "Il sipario ducale"


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