- 1973 in literature
The year 1973 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Frank Herbert becomes director-photographer of the television show, "The Tillers".
*Robert B. Parker starts theSpenser book series.New books
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Martin Amis – "The Rachel Papers "
*Ernest Becker – "The Denial of Death "
*Joseph Payne Brennan – "Stories of Darkness and Dread "
*John Brunner - "The Stone That Never Came Down"
*Ramsey Campbell - "Demons by Daylight "
*Jerome Charyn – "Tar Baby "
*Basil Copper – "From Evil's Pillow "
*L. Sprague de Camp – "The Fallible Fiend "
*L. Sprague de Camp andCatherine Crook de Camp , editors – "3000 Years of nd Science Fiction "
*August Derleth – "The Chronicles of Solar Pons "
*Michael Ende – "Momo"
*Paul E. Erdman – "The Billion Dollar Sure Thing "
*Leon Forrest – "There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden "
*William Goldman – "The Princess Bride "
*Graham Greene - "The Honorary Consul "
*Elisabeth Harvor , "Women and Children" 11 stories (revised as "Our Lady of All Distances", 1991)
*James Jones – "A Touch of Danger "
*Anna Kavan – "Who Are You? "
*Brian Killick – "The Heralds "
*Dean R. Koontz – "Demon Seed "
*Jerzy Kosinski – "The Devil Tree "
*Robert Ludlum – "The Matlock Paper "
*Cormac McCarthy – "Child of God "
*Ruth Manning-Sanders – "A Book of Ogres and Trolls "
*Robert Marasco – "Burnt Offerings"
*Toni Morrison – "Sula"
*Iris Murdoch – "The Black Prince"
*Robert B. Parker – "The Godwulf Manuscript "
*Mervyn Peake – "The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb " (posthumously published)
*Anthony Powell – "Temporary Kings "
*Thomas Pynchon – "Gravity's Rainbow "
*Irwin Shaw – "Evening in Byzantium "
*Rex Stout - "Please Pass the Guilt "
*Jacqueline Susann – "Once Is Not Enough "
*Hunter S. Thompson – "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 "
*Jack Vance – "The Anome "
*Gore Vidal – "Burr "
*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – "Breakfast of Champions "
*Patrick White – "The Eye of the Storm "
*Rudy Wiebe – "Temptations of Big Bear "
*Roger Zelazny
**"To Die in Italbar "
**"Today We Choose Faces "New drama
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Alan Ayckbourn – "The Norman Conquests "Poetry
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Allen Curnow – "An Abominable Temper and Other Poems"
*Tomás Rivera – "Always and other poems"Non-fiction
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Allan W. Eckert - "The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone "
*Antonia Fraser - "Cromwell, our Chief of Men "
*Tim O'Brien – "If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home "
*John Pearson - ""
*Binod Bihari Verma - "Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan "Maithili bookBirths
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Deaths
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February 22 -Elizabeth Bowen , novelist
*March 6 -Pearl S. Buck
*March 26 - SirNoel Coward , dramatist and humorist
*April 9 -Warren Lewis , author, Inkling, and brother ofC. S. Lewis
*April 28 -Jacques Maritain , philosopher
*May 21 -Carlo Emilio Gadda , author
*June 9 -John Creasey , author
*June 30 -Nancy Mitford , English novelist and biographer
*July 29 -Henri Charrière , "Papillon" author
*September 2 -J. R. R. Tolkien ,fantasy writer
*September 23 -Pablo Neruda , poet
*September 29 -W. H. Auden , poet
*October 28 -Sergio Tofano , dramatist
*December 9 - Anthony Gilbert, crime writerAwards
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Nobel Prize for Literature :Patrick White Canada
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1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.France
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Prix Goncourt :Jacques Chessex , "L'Ogre"
*Prix Médicis French:Tony Duvert , "Paysage de fantaisie"
*Prix Médicis International:Milan Kundera , "Life Is Elsewhere "United Kingdom
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Booker Prize :J. G. Farrell , "The Siege of Krishnapur "
*Cholmondeley Award :Patric Dickinson ,Philip Larkin
*Eric Gregory Award :John Beynon ,Ian Caws ,James Fenton ,Keith Harris ,David Howarth ,Philip Pacey
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Iris Murdoch , "The Black Prince"
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Robin Lane Fox , "Alexander the Great "
*Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :John Heath-Stubbs United States
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry,
John Crowe Ransom
*Hugo Award :Isaac Asimov , "The Gods Themselves "
*Nebula Award :Arthur C. Clarke , "Rendezvous with Rama "
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Jean Craighead George , "Julie of the Wolves "
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Jason Miller, "That Championship Season "
*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :Eudora Welty , "The Optimists Daughter "
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Maxine Kumin , "Up Country"Elsewhere
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Premio Nadal :José García Blázquez , "El rito"
*Viareggio Prize :Achille Campanile , "Manuale di conversazione"
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