1969 in literature

none 1969 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969. Events February 8 – After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post in its original form appears in the United States.Bedingfield, Robert E. "February 8 Issue of Saturday Evening Post to Be Last", The New York Times, January 11, 1969. Accessed August 29, 2009. March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of the English poet Ted Hughes and ex-wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, gasses herself and their 4-year-old daughter Alexandra Tatiana Elise "Shura" Wevill at her London home.2022-11-09 Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill https://lithub.com/diary-of-a-pilgrimage-marking-the-gravesite-of-assia-and-shura-wevill/ 2024-02-06 Literary Hub en-US April 22 – The first Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction is awarded to P. H. Newby for Something to Answer For.Who was who https://books.google.com/books?id=Btjc3DN_WX0C 1996 St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-29366-6 426 August – "Penelope Ashe", purported author of a bestselling novel, Naked Came the Stranger, is revealed as a group of Newsday journalists.http://www.openroadmedia.com/penelope-ashe Open Road Integrated Media Penelope Ashe 2013-03-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20131110220838/http://www.openroadmedia.com/penelope-ashe 2013-11-10 deadThe book was co-written by a group of twenty-four journalists which was led by the Newsday columnist Mike McGrady.Staff 'Naked Came the Stranger' (1975): The Hoax, The Film http://www.therialtoreport.com/2017/04/05/naked-came-the-stranger-2/ April 5, 2017 The Rialto Report April 5, 2017 McGrady's intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and which contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that the popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969. Later that year, the co-writers revealed the hoax, spurring the book's popularity.Fox Margalit Mike McGrady, Known for a Literary Hoax, Dies at 78 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/business/media/mike-mcgrady-known-for-a-literary-hoax-dies-at-78.html September 18, 2012 New York Times May 15, 2012 B12 unknown date – The Times Literary Supplement begins using the abbreviation "TLS" on its title page.Derwent May Critical Times: The History of the "Times Literary Supplement" 2001 Harper Collins 0-00-711449-4 https://archive.org/details/criticaltimeshis0000mayd New books Fiction Eva Alexanderson – Kontradans (Counter-dance)Björklund Jenny Lesbianism in Swedish Literature: An Ambiguous Affair https://books.google.com/books?id=rc9CBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT71 2014 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-137-36496-8 71–73 Eric Ambler – The Intercom Conspiracy Jorge Amado – Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles) Kingsley Amis – The Green Man William H. Armstrong – Sounder Penelope Ashe – Naked Came the Stranger Margaret Atwood – The Edible Woman René Barjavel – Les Chemins de KatmandouContemporary Authors Gale 1998 9780787619978 24 Ray Bradbury – I Sing the Body Electric Melvyn Bragg – The Hired Man Christianna Brand – Court of Foxes William S. Burroughs – The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Victor Canning – Queen's PawnReilly John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writer Springer 2015 254 Louis-Ferdinand Céline – RigadoonSolomon Philip P. 1992 https://books.google.com/books?id=q7ea6_VQfeoC&pg=PA105 Understanding Céline Columbia, South Carolina University of South Carolina Press 105 9780872498143 Agatha Christie – Hallowe'en Party Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strainhttps://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/08/archives/michael-crichton-rhymes-with-frighten-michael-crichton.html Michael Crichton (rhymes with frighten); Michael Crichton The New York Times Israel Shenker 1969-06-08 BR5 2019-06-06 John Cheever – Bullet Park A. J. Cronin – A Pocketful of RyeRoss McKibbin Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History Oxford University Press 2019 9780198834205 73 Henry de Montherlant – Les Garçons (The Boys) L. Sprague de Camp – The Golden WindCarol Ann Shine Review: DE CAMP, L. Sprague. The Golden Wind Library Journal Mar. 15, 1969 1159-1160 Philip K. Dick – Ubik Marion Eames – Y Stafell Ddirgel (The Secret Room)The New Companion to the Literature of Wales Meic Stephens University of Wales Press 1998 9780708313831 537 John Fowles – The French Lieutenant's Woman 441682 Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall down: Ourika, Cinderella, and The French Lieutenant's Woman Eileen Warburton Twentieth Century Literature 42 1 Spring 1996 165–186 10.2307/441682 George MacDonald Fraser – FlashmanFlashman: From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842. By George Macdonald Fraser. 256 pp. New York: NAL-World Publishing Company. $5.95 Brian Glanville The New York Times 26 October 1969 BR62 Paul Gallico – The Poseidon Adventure Rumer Godden – In This House of Brede Edward Gorey The Epiplectic Bicycle The Iron Tonic Graham Greene – Travels with My AuntRichard Boston Travels with My Aunt https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/25/books/greene70-aunt.html The New York Times 25 January 1970 2009-02-19 Sam Greenlee – The Spook Who Sat by the Door Günter Grass – Local Anaesthetic (Örtlich betäubt) Frank Herbert – Dune Messiah Raymond Hitchcock – PercyAlan Goble The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film Walter de Gruyter 1999 224 Richard Horn – EncyclopediaPfeffer Judith 2023-01-12 Arlington micro press announces release of 50th book https://www.yourarlington.com/arlington-archives/town-school/business/news/schober-111722.html 2023-01-19 Your Arlington 2023-01-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20230119190642/https://www.yourarlington.com/arlington-archives/town-school/business/news/schober-111722.html dead Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan of Cimmeria B. S. Johnson – The Unfortunates David H. Keller – The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Tales Derek Lambert Angels in the Snow The Kites of War Ursula Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness Elmore Leonard – The Big Bounce Doris Lessing – The Four-Gated City H. P. Lovecraft and Others – Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos John D. MacDonald – Dress Her in Indigo Félicien Marceau – Creezy Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) – Runaway Horses Michael Moorcock – Behold the Man C. L. Moore – Jirel of Joiry Vladimir Nabokov – Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle M. T. Vasudevan Nair – Kaalam ("Time") Patrick O'Brian – Master and Commander Don Pendleton – War Against The Mafia Chaim Potok – The Promise Manuel Puig – Little Painted Mouths Mario Puzo – The Godfather Ellery Queen – The Campus Murders Pauline Réage – Retour à Roissy Mordecai Richler – The Street Harold Robbins – The Inheritors Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint Gabriel Ruhumbika – Village in Uhuru Giorgio Scerbanenco I milanesi ammazzano al sabato Milano calibro 9 Irwin Shaw – Rich Man, Poor Man Dag Solstad – Irr! Grønt!A History of Norwegian Literature University of Nebraska Press 1993 308 0803233175 Rex Stout – Death of a Dude Jacqueline Susann – The Love Machine Theodore Taylor – The Cay Colin Thiele – Blue Fin Jack Vance The Dirdir Emphyrio Servants of the Wankh Mario Vargas Llosa – Conversation in The Cathedral Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five Charity Waciuma – Daughter of Mumbi Irving Wallace – The Seven Minutes Keith Waterhouse – Everything Must Go Colin Wilson – The Philosopher's Stone Roger Zelazny Creatures of Light and Darkness Damnation Alley Isle of the Dead Children and young people Rev. W. Awdry – Oliver the Western Engine (twenty-fourth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Eric Carle – The Very Hungry Caterpillar Frances Carpenter – South American Wonder Tales Penelope Farmer – Charlotte Sometimes Rumer Godden – Operation Sippacik Gary Paulsen – Mr. Tucket (first in Mr. Tucket series) Barbara Sleigh – The Snowball William Steig – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble John Rowe Townsend – The Intruder Elfrida Vipont with Raymond Briggs – The Elephant and the Bad Baby Anne de Vries – Into the Darkness (first in the Reis door de nacht series of five books) Drama Leilah Assunção – Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito (Speak Quietly or I’ll Scream) Aimé Césaire – Une Tempête Dario Fo – Mistero BuffoGaetana Marrone Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Routledge 2007 742 Athol Fugard – Boesman and Lena Kruger Loren The drama of South Africa : plays, pageants, and publics since 1910 Routledge London New York 1999 9781134680863 219 Joe Orton – What the Butler Saw (posthumously premiered and published)'Playgoers' Diary', The Stage, 23 January 1969, p.8. Michael Pertwee – She's Done It Again Dennis Potter – Son of Man (television)http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1056162/ BFI Screenonline: Son of Man Screenonline.org.uk 1969-04-16 2014-08-24 Dalmiro Sáenz – Quién yo? (Who me?) David Storey – In Celebration Paul Zindel – Let Me Hear You Whisper Poetry 1969 in poetry James Schuyler – Freely Espousing Non-fiction Dean Acheson – Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Fernand Braudel – Ecrits sur l'Histoire (translated as On History, 1980) H. Rap Brown – Die Nigger Die! Henri Charrière – Papillon L. Sprague de Camp and George H. Scithers (editors) – The Conan Swordbook Antonia Fraser – Mary Queen of Scots Søren Hansen and Jesper Jensen – The Little Red Schoolbook (Den Lille Røde Bog For Skoleelever) Pauline Kael – Going Steady Anton LaVey – The Satanic Bible Laurie Lee – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning Ousby Ian Cambridge paperback guide to literature in English Cambridge University Press New York 1996 9780521436274 227 Dwight Macdonald – On Movies Desmond Morris – The Human Zoo Harold Perkin – The Origins of Modern English Society 1780–1880 Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull – The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wronghttp://www.businessweek.com/stories/2009-04-01/the-peter-principle-lives https://web.archive.org/web/20120701145608/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2009-04-01/the-peter-principle-lives dead July 1, 2012 The Peter Principle Lives Bloomberg Businessweek 2009-04-01 2013-06-27 David Reuben – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) Births January – Adrian Goldsworthy, Welsh military historian and novelisthttps://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12542357/officers Dr Adrian Goldsworthy Companies House 19 November 2024 January 12 – David Mitchell, English novelist((Editors of Chase's)) Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82 24 September 2019 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-316-7 82– January 17 – Michael Moynihan, American journalist and publisher January 21 – M. K. Hobson, American speculative fiction author March – Jez Butterworth, English dramatist and screenwriter May 6 – Emmanuel Larcenet, French comics author May 6 – John Scalzi, American science-fiction author May 28 – Muriel Barbery, French novelisthttps://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/blog/meet-the-authors Meet the Authors 10 November 2016 Reading Women Podcast 1 December 2021 May 29 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Korean-born novelist (suicide 1995) June 13 – Virginie Despentes, French writerJanis L Pallister Ruth A Hottell Francophone women film directors: a guide Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2005 9780838640463 123 July 5 – Armin Kõomägi, Estonian author and screenwriter August 4 – Jojo Moyes, English journalist and romantic novelist September 12 – James Frey, American writer September 30 – Julianna Baggott, American novelist, essayist, and poet October 15 – Nora Ikstena, Latvian writer (died 2026)https://chytomo.com/en/the-most-famous-latvian-writer-of-the-21st-century-passed-away/ The most famous Latvian writer of the 21st century passed away Chytomo 9 January 2025 October 24 – Emma Donoghue, Irish-born Canadian novelist, dramatist, and academic November 13 – John Belluso, American dramatist (died 2006) November 22 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-born French author (died 2026) November 27 – Sidsel Dalen, Norwegian journalist and crime-fiction writer November 28 – Hanne Ørstavik, Norwegian novelistHanne Ørstavik Store norske leksikon Godal Anne Marit Anne Marit Godal Norsk nettleksikon Oslo https://snl.no/Hanne_Ørstavik no 1 December 2021 November 30 – David Auburn, American dramatist December 12 – Sophie Kinsella, English novelist (died 2025) unknown dates John Harris, English writer, journalist and critichttps://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/harris-john/ John Harris RCW Literary Agency 17 December 2020 Tom McCarthy, English novelist Deaths January 11 – Richmal Crompton, English children's writer (born 1890)Contemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsHfAAAAMAAJ 1975 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-0036-1 360 January 21 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (born 1895)Gaetana Marrone Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Routledge 2007 496 March 9 – Charles Brackett, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1892) March 11 – John Wyndham, English science fiction novelist (born 1903)Seed David A Companion to Science Fiction 9 June 2008 John Wiley & Sons 978-0-470-79701-3 387 https://books.google.com/books?id=PiphRocVYRwC&pg=PA387 en March 24 – Margery Fish, English gardening writer (born 1892)https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-48830 Fish [née Townshend], Margery (1892–1969), gardener and author 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/48830 March 25 – Max Eastman, American writer (born 1883)March 26, 1969 Max Eastman Dies: Author and Radical 1 The New York Times obituary https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/26/archives/max-eastman-dies-author-and-radical-max-eastman-author-radical-and.html March 26 – John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (suicide, born 1937)René Pol Nevils Deborah George Hardy Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole Louisiana State University Press 2001 168-90-8071-3059-1 March 27 – B. Traven, presumed German-born novelist (unknown year of birth)Britannica Book of the Year Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated 1970 978-0-85229-144-3 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Britannica_Book_of_the_Year/DI3eHzNKV_UC?hl=es-419&gbpv=1&bsq=traven+1969+obituary&dq=traven+1969+obituary&printsec=frontcover 2025-11-23 April 6 – Gabriel Chevallier, French writer (born 1895)Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal, Issues 3297-3310 J. Whitaker 1969 2096 April 7 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th President of Venezuela (born 1884)Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature Taylor & Francis 1997 9781135314255 630 May 4 – Osbert Sitwell, English novelist and poet (born 1892)Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society https://books.google.com/books?id=f5ILAAAAIAAJ 1969 159 July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish playwright and novelist (born 1904)https://books.google.com/books?id=hkUhDi-q5mkC&pg=PA235 The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska January 1995 235 9780791427118 July 27 – Vivian de Sola Pinto, English poet and memoirist (born 1895)W. Rubinstein Michael A. Jolles The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA758 27 January 2011 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-0-230-30466-6 758 August 10 – Maurine Dallas Watkins, American journalist/play and screenwriter (born 1896) August 14 – Leonard Woolf, English political theorist (born 1880) Glendinning Victoria Leonard Woolf : a biography Free Press New York 2006 9780743289184 435 August 27 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (born 1884)J. Bhagyalakshmi Ivy Compton-Burnett and Her Art https://books.google.com/books?id=upyZa3ORGlMC&pg=PA5 1986 Mittal Publications 5 September 6 – Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author (cancer, born 1914) Oxbury Harold Great Britons: twentieth-century lives Oxford University Press Oxford Oxfordshire New York 1985 9780192115997 239 September 17 – Greye La Spina, American dramatist and short story writer (born 1880) September 20 – Elinor Brent-Dyer, English children's writer (born 1894)McClelland Helen Dyer, Elinor Mary Brent- (1894–1969), children's writer. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-48278. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 31 January 2018 odnb 6 January 2011 September 22 – Rachel Davis Harris, African American librarian (born 1869) October 14 – August Sang, Estonian poet and literary translator (born 1914) October 21 – Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (internal hemorrhage, born 1922)https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/what-hollywood-gets-wrong-about-jack-kerouac-and-the-beat-generation/280612/ What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation Larson Jordan The Atlantic September 12, 2017 November 6 – Susan Taubes, Hungarian American writer and Jewish intellectual (suicide, born 1928) November 15 – Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (born 1925) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Becketthttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1969/summary/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 Nobel Prize 17 December 2020 Canada See 1969 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France Prix Goncourt: Félicien Marceau, Creezy Prix Médicis: Hélène Cixous, Dedans United Kingdom Booker Prize: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For Carnegie Medal for children's literature: K. M. Peyton, The Edge of the CloudAwards — K M Peyton http://kmpeyton.co.uk/awards kmpeyton.co.uk 28 December 2016 Cholmondeley Award: Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison Eric Gregory Award: Gavin Bantock, Jeremy Hooker, Jenny King, Neil Powell, Landeg E. White James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stevie SmithStevie Smith http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/stevie-smith www.poetryarchive.org 28 December 2016 United States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Tennessee Williams Hugo Award: Best Novel: John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar Best Novella: Robert Silverberg, Nightwings Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lloyd Alexander, The High King Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope Fiction: N. Scott Momaday – House Made of Dawn Poetry: George Oppen: Of Being Numerous Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Alexander Mitscherlich Miles Franklin Award: George Johnston, Clean Straw for Nothing Premio Nadal: Francisco García Pavón, Las hermanas coloradas Viareggio Prize: Fulvio Tomizza, L'albero dei sogni References 30em External links Popular Books of 1969 at Goodreads Published 1969 Books at Goodreads 1969 Books at Goodreads