1972 in literature

none 1972 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972. Events May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard in North London, which he has shared with his wife and son – actors Jill Balcon and Daniel Day-Lewis – and at weekends with Kingsley's writer son Martin Amis and others.Auden, Kerr, Day-Lewis https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/aug/31/helensburgh.heroes Paul Kelbie Caroline Davies The Guardian London 2008-08-31 2015-09-30 June 4 – The poet Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.Obituary pp. 4–6 The New York Times "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55" January 29, 1996. October – In Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali Latin alphabet as the country's official writing script.Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain) Middle East Annual Review 1975 229Abdullahi Mohamed Diriye https://books.google.com/books?id=2Nu918tYMB8C&pg=PA73 Culture and Customs of Somalia 2001 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-31333-2 73 October 6–7 – The new Staatstheater Darmstadt is opened. October 8 – The play Sizwe Bansi is Dead has its first performance at the Space Theatre (Cape Town), South Africa, before a multiracial audience. Playwright Athol Fugard directs, with co-writers John Kani and Winston Ntshona in lead roles. October 10 – Sir John Betjeman is declared Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first knight ever to be so.https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/oct/11/betjeman-poet-laureate-1972-archive From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him The Guardian London 2012-12-05 "The three Marias", Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, publish in Lisbon New Portuguese Letters (Novas Cartas Portuguesas), a collection challenging the Estado Novo dictatorship, to immediate success,Kauffman Linda S. Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions 1988 Cornell University Press Ithaca, NY 9780801495106 279–311 https://books.google.com/books?id=mPM6VlzJtjcC&q=%22New+Portuguese+Letters%22&pg=PA279 2019-07-18 8. Poetics, Passion and Politics in The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters but banned by censors as "pornographic and an offense to public morals".Patrick Oona Ellis Dean Fernandes ((Jose (translator))) Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria Guernica 2014-04-15 https://www.guernicamag.com/the-third-maria/ 2019-07-18Kramer Jane The Three Marias https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/02/archives/the-three-marias.html 2019-07-18 The New York Times 1975-02-02The Case of The Three Marias http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=53814493&site=ehost-live 2019-06-30 Time US 0040-781X 102 4 1973-07-23 52Three Women Charged With Pornography https://www.newspapers.com/image/136817704/?terms=%22Three%2BMarias%22%2Btheater 2019-07-18 Democrat and Chronicle 1973-10-26 Rochester, NY C1 Its authors are imprisoned for "abuse of freedom of the press" and "outrage to public decency".Hamilton-Faria Hope Reviewed Works The Modern Language Journal December 1975 59 8 451–452 10.2307/325498 325498 Wiley for National Federation of Modern Language Teachers AssociationsMitchell Juliet Passion's prisoners The Sunday Times 7947 1975-10-05 London 39 Only after the 1974 "Carnation Revolution" does their trial end with the authors pardoned and the judge assigning "outstanding literary merit" to the book. New books Fiction Dritëro Agolli – The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo (Shkëlqimi dhe Rënja e Shokut Zylo, published in the magazine Hosteni) Srikrishna Alanahalli – Kaadu Jorge Amado – Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra (Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars)Jorge Amado Obras de Jorge Amado: Tereza Batista, cansada de guerra https://books.google.com/books?id=u2sVAQAAMAAJ 1972 Martins Eric Ambler – The Levanter Martin Amis – The Rachel Papers William Charles Anderson – Hurricane Hunters Evelyn Anthony – The Poellenberg Inheritance Isaac Asimov – The Gods Themselves Nina Bawden – Anna Apparent Pierre Boulle – Ears of the Jungle (Les Oreilles de jungle) Melvyn Bragg – Josh Lawton John Braine – The Queen of a Distant CountryJames Vinson D. L. Kirkpatrick Novelists and Prose Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=1oEjAQAAIAAJ 1979 Macmillan 978-0-333-25292-5 157 Gerald Butler – There Is a Death, Elizabeth Martin Caidin – Cyborg Taylor Caldwell – Captains and the Kings Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili)Italo Calvino Le città invisibili https://books.google.com/books?id=OJf3zQEACAAJ 1972 Einaudi John Dickson Carr – The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel Angela Carter – The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Agatha Christie – Elephants Can Remember Brian Cleeve – Tread Softly in this Place Robin Cook – Year of the Intern Michael Crichton – The Terminal Man Robertson Davies – The Manticore Margaret Thomson Davis – The Breadmakers L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, editors – 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction R. F. Delderfield – To Serve Them All My Days Margaret Drabble, B. S. Johnson and others – London Consequences Anne Edwards – Haunted Summer Howard Fast – The Hessian Frederick Forsyth – The Odessa File Brian Garfield – Death Wish Joe Gores – Dead Skip Günter Grass – Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke (From the Diary of a Snail) Graham Greene – The Honorary Consul Peter Handke – A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Wunschloses Unglück) James Herriot – All Creatures Great and Small Georgette Heyer – Lady of Quality George V. Higgins – The Friends of Eddie Coylehttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/20/specials/higgins-eddie.html?module=inline Real Cops and Robbers February 6, 1972 New York Times Joe McGuinniss March 14, 2021 Isabelle Holland – The Man Without a Face Witi Ihimaera – Pounamu Pounamu (short story collection) Carl Jacobi – Disclosures in Scarlet John Jakes – Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (film novelization) P. D. James – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman Dan Jenkins – Semi-ToughEmmis Communications Texas Monthly https://books.google.com/books?id=9ioEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA234 November 1984 Emmis Communications 234 Thomas Keneally – The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Dean Koontz Chase (written as K. R. Dwyer) Children of the Storm (written as Deanna Dwyer) Dance with the Devil (written as Deanna Dwyer) The Dark of Summer (written as Deanna Dwyer) A Darkness in My Soul The Flesh in the Furnace Starblood Time Thieves Warlock Derek Lambert Blackstone The Red House Halldór Laxness – Guðsgjafaþula (Mantra of God's Gift) Fritz Leiber – You're All Alone Elmore Leonard – Forty Lashes Less One Ira Levin – The Stepford Wives Audrey Erskine Lindop – Journey Into Stone Frank Belknap Long – The Rim of the Unknown Peter Lovesey – Abracadaver Robert Ludlum – The Osterman Weekend John D. MacDonald – The Scarlet Ruse Ngaio Marsh – Tied Up in Tinsel Barry N. Malzberg – Beyond Apollo David McCullough – The Great BridgeGoogle Books. Retrieved 2015-02-22. Larry McMurtry – All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers David Morrell – First Blood Vladimir Nabokov – Transparent Things Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎) – The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away (みずから我が涙をぬぐいたまう日, Mizukara Waga Namida o Nugui Tamau Hi) Donald G. Payne (written as Ian Cameron) – The Mountains at the Bottom of the World Chaim Potok – My Name Is Asher Lev Thomas N. Scortia – Artery of Fire Margery Sharp – The Innocents Isaac Bashevis Singer – Enemies, A Love Story Josef Škvorecký – The Miracle Game (Mirákl) Richard Martin Stern – Stanfield Harvest David Storey – Pasmore Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic («Пикник на обочине», Piknik na obochine) Paul Theroux – Saint Jack Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Irving Wallace – The Word Donald E. Westlake Bank Shot Cops and Robbers Don't Lie to Me (written as Tucker Coe) Plunder Squad (written as Richard Stark) Children and young people Chinua Achebe – How the Leopard Got His ClawsHahn 2015, p. 2-3 Richard Adams – Watership DownHahn 2015, p. 3 Lloyd Alexander – The Four Donkeys E. M. Almedingen – AnnaHahn 2015, pp. 20-21 Rev. W. Awdry – Tramway Engines (twenty-sixth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Betty Baker The Big Push (illustrated by Bonnie Johnson) A Stranger and Afraid Judy Blume – Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Michael Bond – Paddington's Garden (tenth in the Paddington Bear series) Ray Bradbury (illustrated by Joe Mugnaini) – The Halloween Tree Betsy Byars – The House of Wings Ellen Conford – Why Can't I Be William? Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Great Glass ElevatorHahn 2015, p. 118 Rumer Godden The Diddakoi (also Gypsy Girl) The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar BottleBooks University of Chicago Center for Children's The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1966-1972 1973 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-78057-3 149 https://books.google.com/books?id=UaIl2ebmxm8C&pg=PA149 en Marguerite Henry (illustrated by Robert Lougheed) – San Domingo, the Medicine Hat Stallion Russell Hoban (illustrated by Abrom Hoban) – The Sea-thing Child Robert E. Howard (with Alicia Austin) – Echoes from an Iron Harp Tove Jansson – The Summer BookReview: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/12/fiction.alismith the Guardian 18 January 2022 en 12 July 2003 Alexander Key – The Strange White Doves Michael de Larrabeiti – The Redwater Raid Arnold Lobel – Frog and Toad Together (second in the Frog and Toad series of four books) Ronald McCuaig – Gangles James Marshall – George and Martha (first in a series of seven eponymous books)Hahn 2015, p. 377 Helen Nicoll (illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski) – Meg and Mog (first in series) Graham Oakley – The Church Mouse (first in the Church Mice series of twelve books) Bill Peet The Ant and the Elephant Countdown to Christmas John Peterson (illustrated by Roberta Carter Clark) – The Littles Give a Party (fifth in The Littles series) Ellen Raskin – Franklin Stein Mary Renault – The Persian Boy Barbara Robinson – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Joan G. Robinson (illustrated by Shirley Hughes) – The House in the Square Thomas Rockwell (illustrated by Gail Rockwell) – Squawwwk! Mary Rodgers – Freaky Friday Dr. Seuss – Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! Marjorie W. Sharmat – Nate the Great Margery Sharp – Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (seventh in The Rescuers series of nine books) Alfred Slote – The Biggest Victory Robert Kimmel Smith – Chocolate Fever Eve Titus – Why the Wind God Wept P. L. Travers – Friend Monkey Judith Viorst – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DayHahn 2015, p. 14 Drama Alan Ayckbourn – Absurd Person SingularMichael Holt Alan Ayckbourn https://books.google.com/books?id=czVtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 17 August 2018 Oxford University Press 978-0-7463-1281-0 21 Samuel Beckett – Not I Bill Bryden – Willie Rough Caryl Churchill – Owners Hanay Geiogamah – Body Indian Eugène Ionesco – Macbett Vijay Tendulkar Ghashiram Kotwal Sakharam Binder Non-fiction The American Museum of Natural History – An Introduction Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man L. Sprague de Camp Great Cities of the Ancient World with Catherine Crook de Camp – Darwin and His Great Discovery''' Carlos Castaneda – Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don JuanWinston Graham – The Spanish ArmadasBruce Joyce and Marsha Weil – Models of Teaching (first edition) Michael Kammen – People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American CivilizationRichard Mabey – Food for FreeDennis Meadows et al. – The Limits to GrowthElaine Morgan – The Descent of WomanElaine Morgan Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution https://books.google.com/books?id=CMbuCwAAQBAJ 1 February 2001 Souvenir Press 978-0-285-63984-3 Robert Newton Peck – A Day No Pigs Would DieFrances Yates – The Rosicrucian EnlightenmentJohn Howard Yoder – The Politics of JesusBirths January 1 – Maile Meloy, American novelist and short story writer February 11 – Noboru Yamaguchi (山口 登), Japanese light novelist and game scenario author (died 2013)https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=65643 Noboru Yamaguchi (novelist) Anime News Network March 14, 2021 March 29 - Ernest Cline, American science-fiction novelist and screenwriter May 22 – Max Brooks, American horror author and screenwriterhttps://books.google.com/books?id=7qAuDwAAQBAJ&dq=max+brooks+born+may+1972&pg=PA102 Anne Bancroft: The Life and Work Peter Shelley 2017 McFarland & Company 102 978-1476662428 May 27 – Maggie O'Farrell, Northern Ireland-born novelist July 21 – Josué Guébo, Ivorian writer and academic August 6 - Paolo Bacigalupi, American science-fiction and fantasy writer August 18 – Adda Djørup, Danish poet and fiction writer August 26 - Paula Hawkins, British novelist and journalist September 6 – China Miéville, English science fiction novelistScience-fiction Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=_pmRAAAAIAAJ SFS Publications 355 September 19 Cheryl B (Cheryl Burke), American poet and spoken word artist N. K. Jemisin, American science fiction and fantasy writer November 4 – Yiyun Li (李翊雲), Chinese American writer of fiction in English November 26 - James Dashner, American writer of speculative fiction December 20 – Gen Urobuchi, Japanese novelist and screenwriterunknown datesZinnie Harris, British dramatistMark Brown Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969: A Revolution on Stage Springer 2018 130 Rabee Jaber, Lebanese novelistBanipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=WTckAQAAMAAJ 2006 Margaret Obank 138-9 Charlotte Mendelson, English novelist Marente de Moor, Dutch novelist and columnist Ben Rice, English novelist Fran Wilde, American science fiction novelist Deaths January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, German playwright and poet (born 1906) January 7 – John Berryman, American poet (suicide; born 1914)Literary Research Newsletter https://books.google.com/books?id=OzhNAQAAIAAJ 1982 Literary Research Newsletter Association 86 January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (born 1911)Paul Varner Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement https://books.google.com/books?id=f6s9CNteO0MC&pg=PA240 21 June 2012 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7397-1 240 January 17 – Betty Smith, American novelist (born 1896)Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P–S edited by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979, p. 372. February 2 – Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer and patron (born 1876)Katharina M. Wilson M. Wilson An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&pg=PA82 1991 Taylor & Francis 978-0-8240-8547-6 82 February 15 – Edgar Snow, American political writer (cancer, born 1905)William J. Miller The People's Republic of China's United Front Tactics in the United States, 1972-1988 https://books.google.com/books?id=Oo91AAAAMAAJ 1988 C. Schlacks, Jr. 9 March 4 – Richard Church, English poet and novelist (born 1893http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/cgi-bin/auth.pl?C003146 Richard (Thomas) Church Author and Book Info 2014-06-15 March 9 – Violet Trefusis, English writer (born 1894)The Antigonish Review https://books.google.com/books?id=meHMOxgUNXoC 1990 40 March 11 – Fredric Brown, American genre novelist (born 1906 March 14 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher (born 1926) April 10 – Laurence Manning, Canadian science fiction author (born 1899) April 16 – Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成), Japanese fiction writer, Nobel laureate (born 1899) May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-born Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and (as Nicholas Blake) novelist (born 1904)Wystan Hugh Auden The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: 1969-1973. 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=-Oo9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA765 1988 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-16458-8 765 May 28 – Violette Leduc, French novelist and memoirist (born 1907)https://books.google.com/books?id=WpAu1YK-cEgC&dq=Berthe+Leduc+and+Andr%C3%A9+Debaralle&pg=PA1 Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language Hughes Alex 1994 MHRA 9780901286413 en June 24 – R. F. Delderfield, English novelist and playwright (born 1912)Sanford Sternlicht R.F. Delderfield https://books.google.com/books?id=94BaAAAAMAAJ 1988 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-6967-8 20 August 2 – Helen Hoyt (Helen Lyman), American poet (born 1887) August 9 – Ernst von Salomon, German writer (born 1902) August 17 – Alexander Vampilov, Russian dramatist (drowned fishing, born 1937) August 22 – Ernestine Hill, Australian travel writer (born 1899) September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French novelist, dramatist and essayist (suicide, born 1895) September 27 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician and librarian (born 1892) October 5 – Ivan Yefremov, Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (born 1908)Christy G. Turner II Nicolai D. Ovodov Olga V. Pavlova Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia https://books.google.com/books?id=8U5CAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 11 July 2013 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-06765-3 27 November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet (born 1885)Peter Ackroyd Ezra Pound and His World https://books.google.com/books?id=IccfAQAAIAAJ 1980 Scribner 978-0-684-16798-5 116 November 12 – José Nucete Sardi, Venezuelan historian and diplomat (born 1897)Mireya Sosa de LEÓN: «Nucete Sardi, José». En: Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela. Venezuela: Fundación Empresas Polar, 1997. 980-6397-37-I. November 29 – Victor Bridges (Victor George de Freyne), English genre novelist, playwright and poet (born 1878) December 10 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, writer and critic (born 1894) December 13 – L. P. Hartley, English novelist (born 1895)Edward T. Jones Edward Trostle Jones L. P. Hartley https://books.google.com/books?id=oMtaAAAAMAAJ 1978 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-6703-2 14-15 December 23 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born American theologian and rabbi (born 1907)unknown datesWasif Jawhariyyeh, Palestinian Arab diarist, poet and composer (born 1897)Salim Tamari Issam Nassar The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 https://books.google.com/books?id=tb8cAwAAQBAJ 1 October 2013 Interlink Publishing 978-1-62371-039-2 1 Donar Munteanu, Romanian poet and magistrate (born 1886) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll Canada See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, L'Epervier de MaheuxPrix Médicis French: Maurice Clavel, Le Tiers des étoilesUnited Kingdom Booker Prize: John Berger, G.Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Richard Adams, Watership DownHahn 2015, p. 660 Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Berengarten, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul MuldoonSociety of Authors: Eric Gregory past winners. Retrieved 2015-02-22. James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Fiction: John Berger, GBiography: Quentin Bell, Virginia WoolfUnited States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the novel, Eudora Welty Hugo Award: Best Novel: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies GoBest Novella: Poul Anderson, The Queen of Air and DarknessNational Book Award: Flannery O'Connor, The Complete StoriesNebula Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods ThemselvesNewbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMHHahn 2015, p.357 Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Not awardedFiction: Wallace Stegner, Angle of ReposePoetry: James Wright, Collected PoemsElsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Janusz Korczak Miles Franklin Award: Thea Astley, The AcolytePremio Nadal: José María Carrascal, Groovyhttp://www.casadellibro.com/libro-groovy-premio-nadal-1972/9788423307418/433713 Libros Casa del Libro 2015-09-30 Viareggio Prize: Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingrado'' Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 2nd References 30em External links Popular Books of 1972 at Goodreads Published 1972 Books at Goodreads 1972 Books at Goodreads