1972 in literature

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In poetry: 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1972.

Events

May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London,^[1] which he has been sharing with his wife and son, actors Jill Balcon and Daniel Day-Lewis, and (at weekends) Kingsley's writer son Martin Amis, amongst others.
June 4 – Poet Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.^[2]
October 6–7 – New Staatstheater Darmstadt opened.
October 8 – The play Sizwe Bansi is Dead is premiered at the Space Theatre (Cape Town) in South Africa before a multiracial audience. Playwright Athol Fugard directs with co-writers John Kani and Winston Ntshona in the lead roles.
October 10 – Sir John Betjeman is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first knight ever to be appointed to the post.^[3]

New books

Births

January 1 – Maile Meloy, American novelist and short story writer
February 11 – Noboru Yamaguchi (山口登), Japanese light novelist and game scenario author
August 18 – Adda Djørup, Danish poet and fiction writer
September 6 – China Miéville, English science fiction novelist
September 19 – Cheryl B (Cheryl Burke), American poet and spoken word artist
Unknown dates
- Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and novelist
- Rabee Jaber, Lebanese novelist
- Marente de Moor, Dutch novelist and columnist
- Ben Rice, English novelist

Deaths

January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, German playwright and poet (born 1906)
January 7 – John Berryman, American poet (suicide, born 1914)
February 2 – Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer and patron (born 1876)
February 15 – Edgar Snow, American political writer (cancer, born 1905)
March 4 – Richard Church, English poet and novelist (born 1893^[6]
March 9 – Violet Trefusis, English writer (born 1894)
March 11 – Fredric Brown, American genre novelist (born 1906
March 14 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher (born 1926)
April 10 – Laurence Manning, Canadian science fiction author (born 1899)
May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-born Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and (as Nicholas Blake) novelist (born 1904)
June 24 – R. F. Delderfield, English novelist and playwright (born 1912)
August 2 – Helen Hoyt (Helen Lyman), American poet (born 1887)
August 17 – Alexander Vampilov, Russian dramatist (drowned fishing, born 1937)
August 22 – Ernestine Hill, Australian travel writer (born 1899)
September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist and dramatist (born 1895)
September 27 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician and librarian (born 1892)
November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet (born 1885)
November 29 – Victor Bridges (Victor George de Freyne), English genre novelist, playwright and poet (born 1878)
December 10 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, writer and critic (born 1894)
December 13 – L. P. Hartley, English novelist (born 1895)
December 23 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born American theologian and rabbi (born 1907)
Unknown date
- Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Palestinian Arab diarist, poet, and composer (born 1897)
- Donar Munteanu, Romanian poet and magistrate (born 1886)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll

Canada

See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, L'Epervier de Maheux
Prix Médicis French: Maurice Clavel, Le Tiers des étoiles

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: John Berger, G.
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Richard Adams, Watership Down
Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Berengarten, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon^[7]
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John Berger, G
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf

United States

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the novel, Eudora Welty
Hugo Award: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)
Nebula Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner – Angle of Repose
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems

Elsewhere

Miles Franklin Award: Thea Astley, The Acolyte
Premio Nadal: José María Carrascal, Groovy^[8]
Viareggio Prize: Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingrado

References

↑ Kelbie, Paul; Davies, Caroline (2008-08-31). "Auden, Kerr, Day-Lewis". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
↑ Obituary pp. 4–6 New York Times "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55" 29 January 1996.
↑ "From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
↑ Google Books. Accessed 22 February 2015
↑ "Nena O'Neill, 82, an Author of 'Open Marriage,' Is Dead". The New York Times.
↑ "Richard (Thomas) Church". Author and Book Info. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
↑ Society of Authors: Eric Gregory past winners. Accessed 22 February 2015
↑ "Libros". Casa del Libro. Retrieved 2015-09-30.

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