- 1965 in literature
The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Frank Herbert 's "Dune" wins the first everNebula Award New books
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Lloyd Alexander - "The Black Cauldron"
*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 "
*L. Sprague de Camp - "The Arrows of Hercules "
*L. Sprague de Camp , editor - "The Spell of Seven "
*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 "
*Frank Herbert - "Dune"
*Arthur Hailey - "Hotel"
*Bel Kaufman - "Up the Down Staircase"
*Jerzy Kosinski - "The Painted Bird "
*John le Carré - "The Looking-Glass War "
*David Lodge - "The British Museum Is Falling Down "
*H. P. Lovecraft - "Dagon and Other Macabre Tales "
*Eric Malpass - "Morning's at Seven"
*Ruth Manning-Sanders - "A Book of Dragons "
*James A. Michener - "The Source"
*Iris Murdoch - "The Red and the Green "
*Peter O'Donnell - "Modesty Blaise"
*Raymond Queneau - "Les fleurs bleues"
*Françoise Sagan - "La chamade "
*Vincent Starrett - "The Quick and the Dead"
*Irving Stone - "Those Who Love "
*Rex Stout - "The Doorbell Rang "
*Jack Vance - "Space Opera"
*Kurt Vonnegut - "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater "
*Donald Wandrei - "Strange Harvest "New drama
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Samuel Beckett - "Come and Go "
*Edward Bond - "Saved"
*John Osborne - "A Patriot for Me "
*Michel Tremblay - "Les Belles-Sœurs "Poetry
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Stanley McNail - "Something Breathing "
*Sylvia Plath - "Ariel"
*Clark Ashton Smith - "Poems in Prose "Non-fiction
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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) "
*Truman Capote - "In Cold Blood"
*Robin Moore - "The Green Berets"Births
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March 4 - Andrew Collins, journalist and scriptwriter
*March 30 -Piers Morgan , controversial journalist and editor
*July 31 - Joanne Rowling, author
*October 23 -Augusten Burroughs , memoirist
*November 11 -Thomas K. Ward , software project manager
*December 31 - Nicholas Sparks, novelist
*"date unknown" -Patience Agbabi , performance poet
*"date unknown" -Thomas Brussig , novelist
*September 21 - Robert Zilliox Network Management SystemsDeaths
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January 4 -T. S. Eliot , American/British poet
*January 12 -Lorraine Hansberry , writer
*May 3 -Howard Spring , novelist
*June 5 -Thornton Burgess , children's author
*July 9 -Jacques Audiberti
*July 31 - John Metcalfe UK writer
*August 17 -Jack Spicer , poet
*October 8 -Thomas B. Costain , popular historian
*October 15 -Randall Jarrell , poet
*November 8 -Dorothy Kilgallen , journalist
*November 20 -Katharine Anthony , biographer
*December 16 -William Somerset Maugham ++++
Awards
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Nobel Prize for literature -Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov Canada
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1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.France
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Prix Goncourt :J. Borel , "L'Adoration"
*Prix Médicis :René-Victor Pilhes , "La Rhubarbe"United Kingdom
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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 forchildren'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
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Premio Nadal :E. Cabalero Calderón , "El buen salvaje"
*Viareggio Prize :Goffredo Parise , "Il Padrone" ("The Boss")
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