1967 in literature

List of years in literature

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In poetry: 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1967.

Events

January
- First publication of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita («Ма́стер и Маргари́та», in the form left at the author's death in 1940) concludes in the magazine Moskva, although in the Soviet Union censored portions circulate only in samizdat. It is first published this year in book format by the YMCA Press in Paris.
- Barbara Gordon is introduced as Batgirl in the Detective Comics series in the United States; when not exercising her superhero powers she uses her doctorate in library science as head of Gotham City public library.
August 9 – English playwright Joe Orton (age 34) is battered to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell (who commits suicide) in their north London home shortly after Orton has completed work on a film script, Up Against It, for The Beatles (unproduced).
October 21 – American writer Norman Mailer is arrested for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's March on The Pentagon.
November 9 – First issue of the magazine Rolling Stone published in San Francisco.
Influential New Wave science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published in the United States.
Sabon typeface, designed by Jan Tschichold, introduced.

New books

Births

January 7 – Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist
March 8 – Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代), Japanese novelist and translator
April 19 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction writer
June 16 – Maylis de Kerangal, French novelist
July 11 – Jhumpa Lahiri, English-born Indian/American writer
July 19
- Zoran Drvenkar, Croatian German novelist
- Wladimir Kaminer, Russian German short story writer
Unknown date
- S. F. Said, Lebanese-born British children's fiction writer
- Miloš Urban, Czech novelist

Deaths

January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (born 1887)
February 8 – Victor Gollancz, English publisher (born 1893)
March 2 – José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), Spanish novelist (born 1873)
March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist and autobiographer (born 1893)
March 30 – Jean Toomer, African American writer (born 1894)
May 12 – John Masefield, English Poet Laureate (born 1878)
May 22 – Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and playwright (born 1902)
June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, English journalist (born 1896)
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American humorist (born 1893)
July 22
- Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and translator (born 1887)
- Carl Sandburg, American historian and poet (born 1878)
July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English novelist and playwright (born 1896)
August 2 – Giles Romilly, English journalist (tranquilizer overdose, born 1916)
August 9 – Joe Orton, English playwright (murdered, born 1933)
August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, American historian and author (born 1876)
September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist (born 1886)
September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (born 1903)
September 16 – Pavlo Tychyna, Ukrainian poet (born 1891)
September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Dutch author (cancer, born 1910)
September 29 – Carson McCullers, American novelist (brain hemorrhage, born 1917)
September – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet (killed in action, born 1930)
October 8 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (heart failure, born 1906)
October 9 – André Maurois, French novelist (born 1885)
October 13 – Georges Sadoul, French journalist and writer on cinema (born 1904)
October 14 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and children's author (born 1902)
November 17 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet (born 1869)
November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (born 1904)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Ángel Asturias

Canada

See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire

United Kingdom

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Alan Garner, The Owl Service
Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem The Golden
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley

United States

Elsewhere

Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro (大城立裕), The Cocktail Party
Miles Franklin Award: Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes
Premio Nadal: José María Sanjuán, Réquiem por todos nosotros
Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro

References

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