1975 in literature

none 1975 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1975. Events thumb|Roque Dalton and Cuban Fayad Jamís, in the newsroom of the newspaper Hoy in 1962. January 1 – English-born comic writer P. G. Wodehouse is awarded a knighthood,Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. 46444 8 1974-12-31 y six weeks before he dies in the United States. January – Colin Dexter's detective novel Last Bus to Woodstock introduces his Oxford police officer, Inspector Morse.Robin W. Winks Maureen Corrigan Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage https://books.google.com/books?id=e3SnIItDKh8C 1998 Scribner's Sons 978-0-684-80519-1 292 April 23 Barbara Pym and Philip Larkin meet in person for the first time, at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, after years of correspondence.Dale Salwak Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work https://books.google.com/books?id=u3mwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 18 June 1989 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-1-349-09700-5 59– Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land is premièred by the National Theatre at The Old Vic in London, directed by Peter Hall and starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.William Baker Harold Pinter Bloomsbury Academic 2008 9780826499714 84 April 28 – Harold Pinter leaves his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, having begun an affair with the married biographer Lady Antonia Fraser on January 8.Michael Billington 1996 The Life and Work of Harold Pinter 253 Faber and Faber 0571171036 May 10 – Leftist Salvadoran poet, journalist and political activist Roque Dalton (born 1935) is assassinated by former colleagues in the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). At the time, the ERP, was torn by a bitter factional fight. Dalton criticized the organization for its military adventurism and its perceived failure to build a mass base. Dalton himself was accused of complicity with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and assassinated by members of a rival faction within the ERP.Beverley, 74. August 12 – As the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death expires, sealed packets of 32 of the author's notebooks are opened in Zürich, Switzerland. unknown dates Writing as Émile Ajar, the author Romain Gary becomes the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice.K. K. Ruthven Faking Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=70QxwcZTN3kC&pg=PA110 30 April 2001 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-66965-8 110 Radical Australian poet Dorothy Hewett publishes her collection Rapunzel in Suburbia, triggering a successful libel action by her ex-husband.Dimond, J. Kirkpatrick, P. https://books.google.com/books?id=iLkHvBvATW0C&pg=PA130 Literary Sydney: A walking guide University of Queensland Press 2000 978-0-7022-3150-6http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s659224.htm Dorothy Hewett passes away ABC radio (PM) 2002-08-26 Hearing Secret Harmonies, the twelfth and final novel in the A Dance to the Music of Time series begun in 1951 by Anthony Powell, is published.Bart Moore-Gilbert The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNZm8oNDSQYC&pg=PT172 1 February 2013 Routledge 978-1-134-85837-8 172 The French critic Hélène Cixous coins the term Écriture féminine in an article, "Le Rire de la méduse".The Laugh of the Medusa https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:2ejPblYQ8IcJ:www.dwrl.utexas.edu/~davis/crs/e321/Cixous-Laugh.pdf+%22laugh+of+the+medusa%22&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj4eAASbB4kJn89mWZNdze7a5GTBQtSAVzgJenWQKFPFOQr2XC0mxOSmiboiNN928ynkRGZNGf_85hzF4o8YDEtBzkMmTXZo7Xusj6WBzzszBF8Ufwe4g4JJF0PsXPkii9Oa10l&sig=AHIEtbTu7rPsB-ocVIXGsrIiVQBUTmKACQ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1 4 1976 875–93 Milan Kundera emigrates from Czechoslovakia to France, to take up an academic position at the University of Rennes.Thomas Riggs Reference Guide to Short Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=_KxaAAAAYAAJ 1999 St. James Press 978-1-55862-222-7 356 The Petrarca-Preis is founded by Hubert Burda. New books Fiction Chabua Amirejibi – Data Tutashkhia Edward Abbey – The Monkey Wrench GangA Study Guide for Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang" Gale, Cengage Learning 9781410352897 2016 1 Dritëro Agolli – Njeriu me top (The Man with the Cannon)Encyclopedia of the Novel Taylor & Francis 2014 9781135918262 1254 Martin Amis – Dead BabiesNick Bentley Martin Amis Northcote 2015 9780746311783 21 Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting J. G. Ballard – High-RiseJ. G. Ballard James Goddard J. G. Ballard, the First Twenty Years Bran's Head Books Limited 1976 9780905220031 89 Donald Barthelme – The Dead Father Saul Bellow – Humboldt's GiftJay Clayton The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory Oxford University Press 1993 9780195359299 3 Thomas Bernhard – Correction (Korrektur)International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice Douwe Wessel Fokkema Johannes Willem Bertens J. Benjamins 1997 9789027234452 266-7 Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Sand (El libro de arena, short stories) Malcolm Bradbury – The History ManLodge, David 1992 117–120 The Art of Fiction Penguin John Braine – The Pious Agent Charles Bukowski – Factotum Morley Callaghan – A Fine and Private Place J. L. Carr – How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup Agatha Christie – Curtain: Poirot's last case (written in 1940s) James Clavell – Shōgun Michael Crichton – The Great Train RobberyLehmann-Haupt Christopher Books of The Times: A Flash Pull for a Fat Pogue https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/28/archives/director-michael-crichton-films-a-favorite-novelist.html New York Times June 10, 1975 36 A. J. Cronin – The Minstrel Boy Robertson Davies – World of Wonders L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – The Compleat Enchanter Samuel R. Delany – Dhalgren Michel Déon – The Foundling Boy (Le Jeune Homme vert) August Derleth – Harrigan's File Guram Dochanashvili – The First Garment E. L. Doctorow – Ragtime Max Frisch – Montauk Carlos Fuentes – Terra Nostra William Gaddis – J R Gabriel García Márquez – The Autumn of the Patriarch (El Otoño del Patriarca) Romain Gary as Émile Ajar – The Life Before Us (La vie devant soi) Jon Godden – Ahmed and the Old Lady Rumer Godden – The Peacock Spring Arthur Hailey – The Moneychangers Peter Handke – A Moment of True Feeling (Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung) Thomas Harris – Black Sunday Xavier Herbert – Poor Fellow My Country Georgette Heyer – My Lord John Jack Higgins – The Eagle Has Landed Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – Heat and Dust B. S. Johnson – See the Old Lady Decently Gayl Jones – Corregidora Stephen King – Salem's Lot Sheridan Le Fanu (died 1873) – The Purcell Papers Derek Lambert – Touch the Lion's Paw David Lodge – Changing Places Robert Ludlum – The Road to Gandolfo John D. MacDonald – The Dreadful Lemon Sky Bharati Mukherjee – Wife Abdul Rahman Munif – East of the Mediterranean Gary Myers – The House of the Worm V. S. Naipaul – Guerrillas N. Richard Nash - Cry Macho Tim O'Brien – Northern Lights Gerald W. Page, editor – Nameless Places Robert B. Parker – Mortal Stakes Georges Perec – W, or the Memory of Childhood (W, ou le Souvenir d'enfance) Elizabeth Peters – Crocodile on the Sandbank (first in the Amelia Peabody series)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xwtkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5998,1202352&dq=crocodile-on-the-sandbank&hl=en In Lighter Vein Marie Knuckey The Sydney Morning Herald 2 July 1978 9 March 2012 Baltasar Porcel – Horses into the Night (Cavalls cap a la fosca) Anthony Powell – Hearing Secret Harmonies James Purdy – In a Shallow Grave Judith Rossner – Looking for Mr. Goodbar Joanna Russ – The Female Man Nawal El Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero (Emra'a Enda Noktat el Sifr)Contemporary Literary Criticism Gale 2005 131 James Salter – Light Years Paul Scott – A Division of the Spoils Anya Seton – Smouldering Fires Gerald Seymour – Harry's GameThirdWay Films and the Troubles Steve Greenhill July 1988 18 Tom Sharpe – Blott on the Landscapehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/tom-sharpe-dies Tom Sharpe obituary 6 June 2013 Stanley Reynolds The Guardian 17 July 2024 Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson – The Illuminatus! Trilogy (individual editions) M. P. Shiel – Xélucha and Others Rex Stout – A Family Affair Glendon Swarthout – The Shootist Julian Symons – A Three-Pipe Problem Joseph Wambaugh – The Choirboys Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar on the Moon Jack Vance – Showboat World Georgi Vladimov – Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog («Верный Руслан. История караульной собаки», first trade publication)Reference Guide to Russian Literature Fitzroy Dearborn 1998 9781884964107 878 Roger Zelazny – Sign of the Unicorn Children and young people Verna Aardema (with Leo and Diane Dillon) – Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears Nina Bawden – The Peppermint Pig Susan Cooper – The Grey King Roald Dahl – Danny, the Champion of the World Tomie dePaola - Strega Nona Rumer Godden – Mr. McFadden's Hallowe'en Peter Härtling – Oma (Grandma)Bookbird, volumes 14-15 International Board on Books for Young People One Man Edition 1976 45-46 Eva Ibbotson – The Great Ghost Rescue E. L. Konigsburg - The Second Mrs. Gioconda Ronald McCuaig – Fresi Fantastika (Norwegian translation of Gangles) Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Invention Robert Westall – The Machine Gunners Mercer Mayer – Just for You (first in the Little Critter series) Drama Alan Ayckbourn – Bedroom Farce Thomas Bernhard – Der Präsident Patrick Galvin – We Do It For Love Trevor Griffiths – Comedians Christopher Hampton – Treats David Hare Fanshen Teeth 'n' Smiles Colin Higgins and Denis Cannan with Peter Brook – The Ik Franz Xaver Kroetz Geisterbahn (Ghost Train) Das Nest (The Nest) Tom Murphy – The Sanctuary Lamp Stewart Parker – Spokesong Harold Pinter – No Man's Land Wole Soyinka – Death and the King's Horseman Ben Travers – The Bed Before Yesterday Charles Wood – Jingo Poetry 1975 in poetry Lin Carter – Dreams from R'lyeh Leslie Norris – Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies Non-fiction Philip Agee – Inside the Company: CIA Diary Kingsley Amis – Rudyard Kipling and His World Robert Bresson – Notes on the Cinematographer (Notes sur le cinématographe) Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man Mary Chamberlain – Fenwomen: a portrait of women in an English village L. Sprague de Camp Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages Lovecraft: A Biography The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard S. M. Dubey – Social Mobility Among the Professions Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison) Paul Fussell – The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Horgan – Lamy of Santa Fe Frank Belknap Long – Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside Philip Roth – Reading Myself and Others Peter Singer – Animal Liberation Paul Theroux – The Great Railway Bazaar Births January 13 – Daniel Kehlmann, German novelist February 25 – Carrie Mac, Canadian young-adult fiction writer February 27 – Cynan Jones, Welsh novelist April 6 - Leigh Bardugo, American fantasy writer April 11 – Walid Soliman, Tunisian author and translator June 23 Hugh Howey, American science-fiction writer Markus Zusak, Australian young-adult novelist July 3 - Matt Haig, American speculative fiction writer July 19 – Martina Montelius, Swedish playwright August 20 – Matthew and Michael Dickman, American poets October 13 - Robin Parrish, American speculative fiction writer October 27 – Zadie Smith (Sadie Smith), English novelist December 19 – Brandon Sanderson, American fiction writer unknown dates Gavin Francis, Scottish medical writer and physician Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lankan English-language novelist Deaths January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, Scottish poet, dramatist and novelist (heart attack; born 1915)58855 Smith, Sydney Goodsir February 14 Sir Julian Huxley, English biologist and author (born 1887)Addresses Delivered at a Memorial Ceremony for Julian Huxley Formerly Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1946-1948 https://books.google.com/books?id=J3a_1Ahk010C 1975 Unesco House Sir P. G. Wodehouse, English-born comic novelist (born 1881) McCrum Robert Robert McCrum Wodehouse: A Life 2004 London Viking 978-0-670-89692-9 415-417 February 20 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian author (born 1882) March 3 – T. H. Parry-Williams, Welsh poet (born 1887)http://www.knowuk.co.uk Who Was Who (subscription access) January 2007 PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir Thomas (Herbert) (1887–1975) A&C Black (Publishers) Ltd 2007-07-25 March 7 – Kate Seredy, Hungarian-born American children's writer and illustrator (born 1899)Charles Moritz Current biography yearbook: 1975 H.W. Weilson Company 1976 473 March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1892) Hawkesworth Celia 1984 Ivo Andrić: Bridge Between East and West Athlone Press 978-1-84714-089-0 30 April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, German poet (killed in hit-and-run-accident in London, born 1940) May 21 – A. H. Dodd, Welsh historian (born 1891)Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association 1976 W. Pickering 137 June 8 – Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins), American science fiction writer (born 1896) July 2 – Audrey Maas, American novelist and television writer (born 1934) July 10 – Peter Frederick Anson, English writer on religion and maritime matters (born 1889) September 20 – Saint-John Perse (Alexis Leger), French poet and Nobel laureate (born 1887) October 5 – Lady Constance Malleson, Irish actress and writer (born 1895) October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (born 1889) November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English dramatist and novelist (born 1896)The Antiquaries Journal Oxford University Press 1976 Robert Cedric Sherriff 363 November 19 – Elizabeth Taylor, English novelist (cancer; born 1912)Bailey Paul Paul Bailey (British writer) Paul Bailey Taylor, Elizabeth (1912–1975) 23 October 2017 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39186 2004 November 25 – Edward Hyams, English historian and novelist (born 1910) November 27 – Ross McWhirter, English sports journalist and joint compiler of Guinness Book of Records (assassinated, born 1925)https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29395-2004Apr20 https://web.archive.org/web/20200522215456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29395-2004Apr20/ dead 2020-05-22 Norris McWhirter Dies; 'Guinness Book' Co-Founder 2004-04-21 2008-12-16 The Washington Post Adam Bernstein December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher (born 1906) December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and dramatist (born 1897) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio MontaleThe Nobel Prize in Literature 1975 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1975/montale/facts/ NobelPrize.org 7 July 2021 Canada See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar – La vie devant soi Prix Médicis: French: Jacques Almira, Le Voyage à Naucratis International: Steven Millhauser, La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse – United States Spain Premio Nadal: Francisco Umbral, Las ninfas United Kingdom Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman MacCaig, John Ormond Duff Cooper Prize: Seamus Heaney, North Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Fiction: Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection Biography: Karl Miller, Cockburn's Millennium United States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Kenneth Burke Hugo Award for Best Novella: George R. R. Martin, A Song for Lya Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great Newdigate Prize: Andrew Motion Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Edward Albee, Seascape Fiction: Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels Poetry: Gary Snyder, Turtle Island Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Alfred Grosser Miles Franklin Award: Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale References 30em Sources Beverley, John. “Poems: Roque Dalton, John Beverley, Edward Baker.” Social Text, No. 5 (Spring, 1982) External links Popular Books of 1975 at Goodreads Published 1975 Books at Goodreads 1975 Books at Goodreads