- 1970 in literature
The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
* "Deliverance" by American poet
James Dickey published. In2001 , the book would 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 "
*Pierre Berton - "The National Dream "
*Judy Blume - "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret "
*Jim Bouton - "Ball Four "
*Wallace Breem - "Eagle in the Snow "
*Jimmy Breslin - "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight "
*Taylor Caldwell - "Great Lion of God "
*Robertson Davies - "Fifth Business "
*L. Sprague de Camp
**"The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales "
**"Warlocks and Warriors " (ed.)
*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 "
*Graham Greene - "Travels with My Aunt "
*Anne Hébert - "Kamouraska"
*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 "
*Eric Malpass - "Oh My Darling Daughter "
*Ruth Manning-Sanders - "A Book of Devils and Demons "
*Yukio Mishima - "The Decay of the Angel " last book in theThe Sea of Fertility series
* Brian Moore - "Fergus"
*Toni Morrison - "The Bluest Eye "
*Larry Niven - "Ringworld "
*John Jay Osborn, Jr. - "The Paper Chase "
* Robert W. Peterson - "Only the Ball was White "
*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 "
*E. B. White - "The Trumpet Of The Swan "
*Roger Zelazny - "Nine Princes in Amber "New drama
*
Dario Fo - "Accidental Death of an Anarchist "
*Anthony Shaffer - "Sleuth"Poetry
*
L. Sprague deCamp - "Demons and Dinosaurs "Non-fiction
* Dee Brown - "
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
*Henri Charrière - "Papillon"
*August Derleth - ""
*Helene Hanff - "84 Charing Cross Road "
*Arthur Janov - "The Primal Scream "
*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
*
September 10 -Phaswane Mpe , novelist, (d.2004 )
*September 16 -Nick Sagan , novelist and screenwriter
*September 24 -Gemma Moraleja Paz , poet and novelist
* "unknown date" -Alex Garland , novelist
*October 27 -Jonathan Stroud , fantasy writerDeaths
*
January 10 -Charles Olson , poet
*January 29 -Basil Liddell Hart , military historian
*February 2 -Bertrand Russell , philosopher
*March 11 -Erle Stanley Gardner , "Perry Mason" author
*March 29 -Vera Brittain , novelist and poet
*April 11 -John O'Hara , novelist
*May 12 -Nelly Sachs , poet and dramatist
*June 3 -Adrian Conan Doyle , son and literary executor of SirArthur Conan Doyle
*June 7 -E. M. Forster , novelist
*June 16 -Elsa Triolet , novelist
*July 15 -Eric Berne , psychiatrist and author
*September 1 -François Mauriac , novelist
*September 28 -John Dos Passos , novelist
*November 25 -Yukio Mishima ,Japan eseauthor andrightist political activist (suicide)Awards
*
Nobel Prize for Literature :Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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"
*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 forchildren'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"
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