1970 in literature

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In poetry: 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1970.

Events

January 16 – The new Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus is inaugurated with a performance of Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod.^[1]
June 17 – Première of David Storey's play Home at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
July 7 – Death of English publisher Sir Allen Lane (b. 1902).^[2] On August 21 his paperback imprint Penguin Books is acquired by Pearson.
August 27 – RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Royal Shakespeare Company premieres its revolutionary production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Brook, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.^[3]
November 20 – Playwright Fadil Paçrami becomes Chairman of the Parliament of Albania.
November 25 – In Tokyo, Japanese author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima (45) and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing politics, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
December 5 – Dario Fo premières his play Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Morte accidentale di un anarchico) at Varese in Italy.
Len Deighton's 1943-set Bomber, published this year in England, is the first novel written on a word processor, the IBM MT/ST.^[4]
Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book will be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
An unexpurgated edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748-9) is published in the United Kingdom without legal challenge.
Bohumil Hrabal's books Domácí úkoly and Poupata are suppressed by the authorities in Czechoslovakia.

New books

Births

January 1 – Alex Garland, English novelist
January 25 – Stephen Chbosky, American novelist and screenwriter
March 6 – Simona Vinci, Italian fiction writer
March 12 – Dave Eggers, American writer, editor and publisher
March 20 – Michele Jaffe, American author
June 6 – Sarah Dessen, American novelist
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
Unknown date – Nathan Englander, American short story 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)
March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American writer (born 1889)
March 21 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian novelist (born 1920)
March 29 – Vera Brittain, English novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1893)
April 11 – John O'Hara, American novelist (cardiovascular disease, born 1905)
May 12 – Nelly Sachs, Jewish German poet and dramatist (born 1891)
June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian modernist poet and writer (born 1888)
June 7 – E. M. Forster, English novelist (born 1879)
June 16 – Elsa Triolet, French novelist (born 1896)
July 15 – Eric Berne, Canadian-born psychiatrist and author (heart attack, born 1910)
September 1 – François Mauriac, French novelist (born 1885)
September 28 – John Dos Passos, American novelist (born 1896)
November 23 – Alf Prøysen, Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (born 1914)
November 25 – Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫), Japanese author (seppuku, born 1925)
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: 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 for Drama: Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects

Elsewhere

Miles Franklin Award: Dal Stivens, A Horse of Air
Premio Nadal: Jesús Fernández Santos, Libro de las memorias de las cosas
Viareggio Prize: Nello Saito, Dentro e fuori

References

↑ "Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus" (in German). nrw-buehnen.de. Retrieved 2013-07-19.
↑ "About Penguin: Company history". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
↑ Barnes, Clive (1970-08-28). "Historic Staging of Dream". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
↑ Kirschenbaum, Matthew (2013-03-01). "The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor?". Slate. Retrieved 2016-02-21.

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