1970 in literature

none 1970 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1970. Events right|thumb|200px|Yukio Mishima delivering his speech on the balcony, 25 November 1970 January 16 – The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus opens with a performance of Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod.http://www.nrw-buehnen.de/buehnen/detail.php?id_adr=23415&event_account=15931&id_language=1 Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus nrw-buehnen.de de 2013-07-19 2014-02-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20140223181034/http://www.nrw-buehnen.de/buehnen/detail.php?id_adr=23415&event_account=15931&id_language=1 dead March – Magdalena Mouján's story "eu Gu ta Gutarrak no" ("We and Ours") in Basque is suppressed by the authorities in Francoist Spain.Michael Ashley The History of the Science-fiction Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=2qkmF8HvP_gC&pg=PA411 2000 Liverpool University Press 978-1-84631-003-4 411 June 10 – The English novelist Anthony Burgess delivers an inflammatory lecture, "Obscenity and the Arts", at the University of Malta; its reception leads to him leaving Malta.https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/anthony-burgesss-censorship-scandal-in-malta-a-timeline Anthony Burgess's censorship scandal in Malta: a timeline 10 June 2020 International Anthony Burgess Foundation 21 August 2020 He has begun a novel that will become Earthly Powers (1980). June 17 – The première of David Storey's play Home at the Royal Court Theatre, London, is directed by Lindsay Anderson and stars Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.Alighting in the Confines of a Lonely Cuckoo's Nest Genzlinger, Neil http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/theater/reviews/08home.html?ex=157680000&en=6e8f685b80c281b2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink The New York Times 8 December 2006 August 21 – The Penguin Books paperback imprint is acquired by Pearson PLC, following the death of its owner Sir Allen Lane.Pearson Timeline https://web.archive.org/web/20141020151110/http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/Pearson.htm dead 2014-10-20 http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/index.htm The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition Mary H. Munroe 2004 Northern Illinois University August 27 – Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company introduces a revolutionary production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Peter Brook, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Clive Barnes Historic Staging of Dream http://www.alanhoward.org.uk/dreamnytimes.htm The New York Times 1970-08-28 2010-06-23 November 20 – The playwright Fadil Paçrami becomes Chairman of the Parliament of Albania.Avatars of Intellectuals Under Communism Zeta Books 2011 9786068266145 81 November 25 – Mishima Incident: In Tokyo, the Japanese author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima (ja 三島由紀夫, 45) and others take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. Mishima commits seppuku (public ritual suicide) when he fails to sway the public to his right-wing politics, which include restoring the powers of the Emperor. December 5 – Dario Fo premières his play Accidental Death of an Anarchist (it Morte accidentale di un anarchico) at Varese in Italy. unknown dates Len Deighton's Bomber, set on June 31 [sic.] 1943, becomes the first published novel to have been written on a word processor, an IBM MT/ST.http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/03/len_deighton_s_bomber_the_first_book_ever_written_on_a_word_processor.single.html The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor? Slate 2013-03-01 20 August 2020 Kirschenbaum Matthew The novel Deliverance by the American poet James Dickey is published; it will go on to be named among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by an editorial board of the American Modern Library. http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/ 100 Best Novels Modern Library 1998 An unexpurgated edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748–1749) appears in the U.K. without legal challenge.John Sutherland Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982 https://books.google.com/books?id=udkN4xWi2r0C&pg=PA39 1983 Rowman & Littlefield 978-0-389-20354-4 39– Bohumil Hrabal's books cs Domácí úkoly (Home Work) and cs Poupata (Buds) are suppressed by the communist authorities in Czechoslovakia. New books Fiction Dritëro Agolli – sq Komisari Memo (Commissar Memo) Poul Anderson – Tau Zero Abdelhamid ben Hadouga - The South Wind (novel) Thomas Berger – Vital Parts Thomas Bernhard – The Lime Works (de Das Kalkwerk) Melvyn Bragg – A Place in England John Braine – Stay with Me Till Morning Wallace Breem – Eagle in the SnowMench Fred 2003 Maximus to the Rescue https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=10530796&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site Archaeology 56 5 60 EBSCOhost Jimmy Breslin – The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Agatha Christie – Passenger to Frankfurt 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) Michel Déon – Les Poneys sauvages James Dickey – Deliverance Joan Didion – Play It as It Lays José Donoso – The Obscene Bird of Night (es El obsceno pájaro de la noche) Lawrence Durrell – Nunquam Vincent Eri – The Crocodile Nuruddin Farah – From a Crooked Rib J. G. Farrell – Troubles Juan Goytisolo – Count Julian (es Reivindicación del conde don Julián) Pierre Guyotat - Eden, Eden, Eden (fr Éden, Éden, Éden) L. P. Hartley – My Sisters' Keeper Anne Hébert – Kamouraska Ernest Hemingway – Islands in the Stream 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) Halldór Laxness – is Innansveitarkronika Ira Levin – This Perfect Day Mario Levrero – La ciudad H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions Peter Lovesey – Wobble to Death John D. MacDonald – The Long Lavender Look Eric Malpass – Oh My Darling Daughter Ngaio Marsh – When in Rome Yukio Mishima (ja 三島由紀夫) – The Decay of the Angel (ja 天人五衰, ja-latn Tennin Gosui; last in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy) Brian Moore – Fergus Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk – Harpoon of the Hunter (iu ᐊᖑᓇᓱᑦᑎᐅᑉ ᓇᐅᒃᑯᑎᖓ) Larry Niven – Ringworld John Jay Osborn, Jr. – The Paper Chase Abel Posse – es Los bogavantes Mary Renault – Fire from Heaven Kurban Said – Ali and Nino Erich Segal – Love Story Sidney Sheldon – The Naked Face Clark Ashton Smith – Other Dimensions Manuel Scorza – Drums for Rancas Muriel Spark – The Driver's Seat Mary Stewart – The Crystal Cave Alan Sillitoe – A Start in Life Leon Uris – QB VII Jack Vance – The Pnume Gore Vidal – Two Sisters Patrick White – The Vivisector Venedikt Yerofeyev – Moscow-Petushki (Moscow to the End of the Line; samizdat publication) Roger Zelazny – Nine Princes in Amber Children and young people Lloyd Alexander – The Marvelous Misadventures of SebastianHahn 2015, p.14 Rev. W. Awdry – Duke the lost Engine (twenty-fifth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull Nina Bawden – The Birds on the Trees Judy Blume – Are You There, God? It's Me, MargaretHahn 2015, p. 76 John Burningham – Mr Gumpy's Outing Betsy Byars – Summer of the Swans John Christopher (Sam Youd) – The Guardians (science fiction) Roald Dahl – Fantastic Mr FoxHahn 2015, p, 199 Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen – The God Beneath the Sea Judith Kerr – Mog the Forgetful Cat (first in the Mog series of 17 books) Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Devils and Demons Dr. Seuss – Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?Barone Diane M. Children's Literature in the Classroom: Engaging Lifelong Readers 8 March 2011 Guilford Press 978-1-60623-940-7 67 https://books.google.com/books?id=PwjCE5cEABsC&pg=PA67 en Ruth Park The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Springtime The Muddle-Headed Wombat on the River Bill Peet The Whingdingdilly The Wump World Maurice Sendak – In the Night Kitchen Isaac Bashevis Singer – A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw E. B. White – The Trumpet Of The Swan Annette Tison and Talus Taylor - Barbapapa Drama Ama Ata Aidoo – Anowa Robert Bolt – Vivat! Vivat Regina! Dario Fo – Accidental Death of an Anarchist Michael Frayn – The Two of Us (4 1-act plays) Trevor Griffiths – Occupations Christopher Hampton – The Philanthropist Lorraine Hansberry – Les Blancs Welcome Msomi – uMabatha Terence Rattigan – A Bequest to the Nation Anthony Shaffer – Sleuth Alexander Vampilov – Duck Hunting (ru Утиная охота, ru-latn Utinaya okhota, published; first performed 1976) Derek Walcott – Dream on Monkey Mountain Poetry 1970 in poetry L. Sprague de Camp – Demons and Dinosaurs Ted Hughes – Crow Non-fiction Theodor W. Adorno (posthumously) – Aesthetic Theory (Asthetische Theorie) Hannah Arendt – On Violence Roland Barthes – S/Z Pierre Berton – The National Dream Jim Bouton – Ball Four Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee James MacGregor Burns – Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom Henri Charrière – Papillon Elizabeth David – Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen Edward De Bono – Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step August Derleth – Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969: A History and Bibliography Michel Foucault – fr Les Mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines (The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences) Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch Helene Hanff – 84 Charing Cross Road Arthur Janov – The Primal Scream Uwe Johnson – Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (de Jahrestage: Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl; begins publication) Hal Lindsey – The Late Great Planet Earth Christopher Lloyd – The Well-Tempered Garden Norman Mailer – Of a Fire on the Moon Dumas Malone – Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 Mahathir Mohamad – The Malay Dilemma Kate Millett – Sexual Politics Nancy Mitford – Frederick the Great Robin Morgan (ed.) – Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement Harold Perkin – The Age of the Railway J. B. Priestley – The Edwardians Albert Speer – Inside the Third Reich Alvin Toffler – Future Shock Births January 25 – Stephen Chbosky, American novelist and screenwriter February 28 – Daniel Handler, American novelist March 6 – Simona Vinci, Italian fiction writer March 12 – Dave Eggers, American writer, editor and publisher March 20 – Michele Jaffe, American author March 26 – Martin McDonagh, British-born Irish playwright May 20 – Dorthe Nors, Danish fiction writer May 26 – Alex Garland, English novelist June 6 – Sarah Dessen, American novelist July 22 – Doug Johnstone, Scottish crime fiction writer August 27 - Ann Aguirre, American speculative fiction writer September 10 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (died 2004) September 16 – Nick Sagan, American novelist and screenwriter October 27 – Jonathan Stroud, English fantasy writer November 7 – Chris Adrian, American novelist November 24 – Marlon James, Jamaican novelist November 27 – Han Kang, South Korean novelist December 21 – Mohamedou Ould Salahi, Mauritanian author and former Guantánamo detainee unknown dates Raja'a Alem, Saudi Arabian writerhttps://kawa-news.com/en/raja-alem-life-tried-break-frame/ Raja Alem: "All my life, i tried to break the frame" 20 November 2017 KAWA 21 August 2020 Roberta Dapunt, Italian poetRoberta Dapunt, info e libri dell'autore. Giulio Einaudi Editore. https://www.einaudi.it/autori/roberta-dapunt/ Einaudi 22 August 2020 it-IT Nathan Englander, American novelist and short story writerhttps://www.americanacademy.de/person/nathan-englander/ Nathan Englander American Academy in Berlin 21 August 2020 Neel Mukherjee, Indian novelisthttps://rsliterature.org/fellow/neel-mukherjee/ Neel Mukherjeewebsite=Royal Society of Literature 21 August 2020 Faruk Šehić, Bosnian poet and fiction writer Deaths January 10 – Charles Olson, American modernist poet (liver cancer, born 1910) January 29 – B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian (born 1895) February 2 – Bertrand Russell, English philosopher (born 1872)Jagdish Mehra Jagdish Mehra Helmut Rechenberg Helmut Rechenberg The Historical Development of Quantum Theory https://books.google.com/books?id=c9ZmLmVFSYQC&pg=PA44 28 December 2000 Springer Science & Business Media 978-0-387-95178-2 44 February 4 – Louise Bogan, American poet (born 1897)Eric L. Haralson Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=noCrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 21 January 2014 Routledge 978-1-317-76322-2 96 February 20 – Sophie Treadwell, American dramatist and journalist (born 1885)Louise Heck-Rabi Sophie Treadwell: Subjects and Structures in 20th Century American Drama Wayne State University 1976 181 February 21 – Johannes Semper, Estonian writer, translator and politician (born 1892)Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov Great Soviet Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=c1sNAQAAMAAJ 1973 Macmillan 327 March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American writer (born 1889)Harold Bloom Modern Mystery Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=rNodAQAAIAAJ 1995 Chelsea House Publishers 978-0-7910-2375-4 76 March 15 – Arthur Adamov, Russian-French playwright (born 1908)Meanjin Quarterly https://books.google.com/books?id=BNBZAAAAMAAJ 1970 University of Melbourne 338 March 21 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian novelist (born 1920) March 29 – Vera Brittain, English novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1893)Harold Oxbury Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ 1985 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-211599-7 48 April 11 – John O'Hara, American novelist (cardiovascular disease, born 1905)Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary Somerset Publishers 1999 234 0403099501 May 7 – Jack Jones, Welsh novelist (born 1884)s2-JONE-JAC-1884 Jones, Jack (1884-1970), author and playwright Keri Edwards 2001 2 June 2022 May 12 – Nelly Sachs, Jewish German poet and dramatist (born 1891)Leo Baeck Institute Catalog of the Archival Collections https://books.google.com/books?id=hqzCTJ6DODIC&pg=PA124 1990 Mohr Siebeck 978-3-16-145597-1 124 June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian modernist poet and writer (born 1888) June 3 – Ruth Sawyer, American children's writer and novelist (born 1880) June 7 – E. M. Forster, English novelist (born 1879)Norman Page E-M-Forster https://books.google.com/books?id=QERdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 22 January 1988 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-19008-9 16 June 16 – Elsa Triolet, French novelist (born 1896)Gale Cengage Modern French Poets https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ 2002 Gale Group 978-0-7876-5252-4 32 July 7 – Allen Lane, English publisher (born 1902)About Penguin: Company history http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/aboutpenguin_companyhistory.html Penguin Books 2013-11-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20111101142744/http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/aboutpenguin_companyhistory.html 2011-11-01 dead July 15 – Eric Berne, Canadian-born psychiatrist and author (heart attack, born 1910) September 1 – François Mauriac, French novelist (born 1885)Bernard A. Cook Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=hafLHZgZtt4C&pg=PA840 2001 Taylor & Francis 978-0-8153-4058-4 840 September 25 – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet On The Western Front) (born 1898) Konzett Matthias Encyclopedia of German Literature Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers Chicago 2000 9781135941222 814 September 28 – John Dos Passos, American novelist (born 1896)Jay Parini The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA397 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-515653-9 397 October 18 – Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Irish language writer (born 1906) Igoe Vivien Dublin burial grounds & graveyards Wolfhound Press Dublin 2001 9780863278723 179 November 23 – Alf Prøysen, Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (born 1914) https://www.oversetterleksikon.no/2018/05/31/alf-proysen-1914-1970/ Alf Prøysen, 1914–1970 Norsk Oversetterleksikon Ove Røsbak 31 May 2018 July 1, 2019 no November 25 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), Japanese author (seppuku, born 1925)Henry Scott Stokes The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima https://books.google.com/books?id=PjYSgQSCIlsC&pg=PA249 2000 Rowman & Littlefield 978-0-8154-1074-4 249 unknown date – Racey Helps, English children's author and illustrator (born 1913) 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 Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, The God Beneath the Sea 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: Best Novella: Fritz Leiber, Ship of Shadows Best Novella: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Nebula Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld Newbery Medal for children's literature: William H. Armstrong, Sounder Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Charles Gordone, No Place To Be SomebodyElizabeth A. Brennan Elizabeth C. Clarage Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA120 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-1-57356-111-2 120 Fiction: Jean Stafford, Collected Stories Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects Elsewhere Alfaguara Prize: Carlos Droguett, Todas esas muertes Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal (together) Miles Franklin Award: Dal Stivens, A Horse of AirContemporary Novelists https://books.google.com/books?id=wpUYAAAAMAAJ 1972 St. James Press 1188 Premio Nadal: Jesús Fernández Santos, Libro de las memorias de las cosas Viareggio Prize: Nello Saito, Dentro e fuori Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 2nd References 30em External links Popular Books of 1970 at Goodreads Published 1970 Books at Goodreads 1970 Books at Goodreads