1974 in literature

none 1974 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1974. Events February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper Marcha a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/juan-carlos-onetti-latin-americas-first-modern-novelist-was-a-detective-of-despair Uruguay's detective of despair November 7, 2019 Washington Examiner Adrian Nathan West 26 December 2020 February 12 – After publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (ru Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer, the first translations into French and English begin to appear. August 8 – The first of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is published as a serial in The Pacific Sun (Marin County, California). October 21 – New Guildhall Library opens in the City of London.History of Guildhall Library http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/guildhall-library/Pages/History-of-Guildhall-Library.aspx City of London 2014-04-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20140405044034/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/guildhall-library/Pages/History-of-Guildhall-Library.aspx 2014-04-05 dead unknown dates The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.Elizabeth H. Oakes American Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=6Lb0zPJcYOwC&pg=PA352 2004 Infobase Publishing 978-1-4381-0809-4 352 German writer Uwe Johnson moves to Sheerness on the English Isle of Sheppey.D. G. Bond German History and German Identity: Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage https://books.google.com/books?id=Rhlvhew1JFEC&pg=PA199 1993 Rodopi 90-5183-459-4 199 New books Fiction Eric Ambler – Doctor Frigo Kingsley Amis – Ending Up René Barjavel – Les Dames à la licorne Augusto Roa Bastos – I, the Supreme (Yo el supremo) Peter Benchley – Jaws Hal Bennett – Wait Until the Evening Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann) Anthony Burgess – The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End Andrés Caicedo – "Maternidad" Agatha Christie – Poirot's Early Cases Roald Dahl – Switch Bitch Philip K. Dick – Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Annie Dillard – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Lawrence Durrell – Monsieur Frederick Forsyth – The Dogs of War John Fowles – The Ebony Tower Donald Goines – Crime Partners Imil Habibi – The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل, Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-gharībah fī 'khtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī 'l-Naḥsh al-Mutashāʾil) John Hawkes – Death Sleep Joseph Heller – Something Happened James Herbert – The Rats Hammond Innes – North Star Anna Kavan – Let Me Alone Stephen King – Carrie Manuel Mujica Láinez El laberinto El viaje de los siete demonios Derek Lambert Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe The Yermakov Transfer Margaret Laurence – The Diviners John le Carré – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Ursula K. Le Guin – The Dispossessed Madeleine L'Engle – A Wind in the Door H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Watchers Out of Time and Others Robert Ludlum – The Cry of the Halidon Brian Lumley – Beneath the Moors Ngaio Marsh – Black as He's Painted Colleen McCullough – Tim Nicholas Meyer – The Seven-Per-Cent Solution James A. Michener – Centennial Elsa Morante – La Storia (History. A Novel, 1978) Gerald Murnane – Tamarisk Row Meja Mwangi – Carcase for Hounds Vladimir Nabokov – Look at the Harlequins! Edith Pargeter – Sunrise in the West (first in the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet) Robert B. Parker – God Save the Child Ellen Raskin – Figgs & Phantoms Ishmael Reed – The Last Days of Louisiana Red Brigitte Reimann (died 1973) – Franziska Linkerhand Harold Robbins – The Pirate Fran Ross – Oreo Nawal El Saadawi – God Dies by the Nile Leonardo Sciascia – Todo modo Tom Sharpe – Porterhouse Blue Sidney Sheldon – The Other Side of Midnight C. P. Snow – In Their Wisdom Children and young people Richard Adams – ShardikHahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 3 2nd Stan and Jan Berenstain – The Berenstain Bears' New Baby Robert Cormier – The Chocolate War Paula Danziger – The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Fynn (Sydney Hopkins) – Mister God, This Is Anna Virginia Hamilton – M. C. Higgins, the Great Diana Wynne Jones – The Ogre Downstairs Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Sorcerers and Spells Jill Murphy – The Worst Witch Bill Peet – Merle the High Flying Squirrel Miriam Roth – A Tale of Five Balloons (מעשה בחמישה בלונים) Richard Scarry – The Best Rainy Day Book Ever Jill Paton Walsh – The Emperor's Winding Sheet Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman – Collected Ghost Stories Drama Nezihe Araz – Bozkır Güzellemesi (An Ode to the Steppe) Michael Cook – Jacob's Wake Dario Fo – Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!) Paavo Haavikko Ratsumies (The Horseman) Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King Goes Forth to France) Harald Pitkäikäinen Ira Levin – Veronica's Room Mustapha Matura – Play MasStephen Bourne (writer) Stephen Bourne http://www.talawa.com/downloads/resourcepacks/retrace/retrace_general_resources.pdf The Black Presence on the London Stage Talawa Theatre Company London 2015-02-23 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140814110534/http://www.talawa.com/downloads/resourcepacks/retrace/retrace_general_resources.pdf August 14, 2014 Harold Pinter – No Man's Land David Rudkin – Penda's Fen (television play) Tom Stoppard – Travesties Poetry 1974 in poetry Duncan Bush, Tony Curtis, Nigel Jenkins – Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets Non-fiction Maya Angelou – Gather Together in My Name Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – All the President's Men Augusto Boal – Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas (translated as Theatre of the Oppressed 1979) Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry – Helter Skelter Robert A. Caro – The Power Broker David Clark – Social Therapy in Psychiatry Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox The Freud/Jung Letters Dumas Malone – Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809 Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Erin Pizzey – Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear Jonathan Raban – Soft City Piers Paul Read – Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Barbu Solacolu – Evocări. Confesiuni. Portrete (Memoirs. Confessions. Portraits) Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (Հայկական Սովետական Հանրագիտարան, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran; begins publication) Lewis Thomas – The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Studs Terkel – Working Joseph Wambaugh – The Onion Field Births January 6 – Romain Sardou, French novelist January 26 – Shannon Hale, American fantasy author February 15 – Miranda July (née Grossinger), American filmmaker, performance artist and fiction writer April 13 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (died 2005)Liz McGregor https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries Kabelo Duiker (obituary) The Guardian London 2005-02-07 2015-02-23 June 12 – Chika Unigwe, Nigerian novelist writing in English and Dutch August 7 – Faisal Tehrani, Malaysian novelist August 9 – Ryūsui Seiryōin (清涼院 流水), Japanese novelist August 18 – Nicole Krauss, American novelist August 23 – Serhiy Zhadan, Ukrainian poet, novelist and essayist September 20 – Owen Sheers, Fijian-born Welsh poet, playwright and novelist November 4 – Carlos Be, Spanish playwright December 26 – Joshua John Miller, American novelist and screenwriter unknown dates Naomi Alderman, English novelistWilliam D. Rubinstein Michael Jolles Hilary L. Rubinstein The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA21 22 February 2011 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-4039-3910-4 21 Sarah Hall, English novelist Joanna Kavenna, English novelist and travel writer Joe Meno, American novelist and journalist Roger Williams, Welsh dramatist and screenwriter Deaths January 20 – Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic (born 1896) January 25 – James Pope-Hennessy, English biographer (murdered, born 1916) January 29 H. E. Bates, English novelist (born 1905) Sheila Stuart, Scottish author and children's writer (born 1892)Anne Commire Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People https://books.google.com/books?id=esZkAAAAMAAJ 1977 Gale 978-0-8103-0072-9 27 February 2 – Marieluise Fleißer, German dramatist (born 1901) February 24 – Martin Armstrong, English poet and short story writer (born 1882) March 3 – Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (born 1891) March 8 – Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet and writer (born 1908)Calcutta Municipal Gazette https://books.google.com/books?id=VNotMPSGCm0C 1973 Superintendent of Printing, Corporation Press 313–314 March 19 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, playwright and novelist (born 1896) March 24 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (born 1882) April 14 – Howard Pease, American novelist (born 1894) May 9 – L. T. C. Rolt, English biographer and writer of ghost stories (born 1910) May 13 – Arthur J. Burks, American writer (born 1898) June 2 – Tom Kristensen, Danish novelist and poet (born 1893)Michael S. Byram Tom Kristensen https://archive.org/details/tomkristensen0000byra registration Boston 1982 9780805764918 June 11 – Julius Evola, Italian esotericist, journalist and philosopher (born 1898) June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist (born 1899) July 3 – Samuel Roth, American publisher (born 1893) July 4 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (born 1902) July 16 – Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, Brazilian playwright (born 1936)Leslie Hawkins Damasceno Cultural Space and Theatrical Conventions in the Works of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho Wayne State University Press 1996 9780814325957 244 July 29 - Erich Kästner, German children's author (born 1899) August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican writer and diplomat (electric shock, born 1925) August 11 – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer and writer (born 1902) August 17 – Emma L. Brock, American children's author and illustrator (born 1886)Thornley, Stew (2004). Six Feet Under: A Graveyard Guide to Minnesota. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 8. 0-87351-514-5. September 11 – Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (born 1893)Commire Anne Klezmer Deborah Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia 9 2001 Yorkin Publications, Gale Group Waterford 978-0-78764-068-2 380 September 21 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (born 1918)https://theconversation.com/valley-of-the-dolls-40-years-since-the-death-of-jacqueline-susann-22232 Valley of the Dolls: 40 years since the death of Jacqueline Susann May 4, 2014 The Conversation August 9, 2022 October 4 – Anne Sexton, American poet (born 1928) October 28 – David Jones, Anglo-Welsh poet and artist (born 1895)https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/30/archives/david-jones-dies-poet-and-painter-welshmanslnparenthesis-onwar-won.html David Jones dies; Poet and Painter 30 October 1974 New York Times 7 May 2022 October 29 – Victor E. van Vriesland, Dutch writer (born 1892) November 5 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (born 1927) November 7 – Eric Linklater, Welsh-born Scottish novelist and travel writer (born 1899) November 26 – Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (born 1903) December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer (born 1889) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson Canada See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France Prix Goncourt: Pascal Lainé, La Dentellière Prix Médicis: French: Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples International: Julio Cortázar, Libro de Manuel United Kingdom Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist and Stanley Middleton, Holiday. Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt, Robin Hamilton, Frank Ormsby, Penelope Shuttle Newdigate prize: Alan Hollinghurst James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Fiction: Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness Biography: John Wain, Samuel Johnson Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes United States Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock Hugo Award: Best Novella: James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In Best Novel: Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer Pulitzer Prize: Drama: no award given Fiction: no award given Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Frère Roger Miles Franklin Award: Ronald McKie, The Mango Tree Premio Nadal: Luis Gasulla, Culminación de Montoya Viareggio Prize: Clotilde Marghieri, Amati enigmi References 30em External links Popular Books of 1974 at Goodreads Published 1974 Books at Goodreads 1974 Books at Goodreads