1967 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1967.

Events

January
*The first publication of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, in the form left at the author's death in 1940, concludes in the magazine Moskva, although censored portions circulate only in samizdat in the Soviet Union. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris.
*The Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl is introduced in Detective Comics.
March 16 – The first performance of D. H. Lawrence's January 1913 play The Daughter-in-Law is given at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
April 24 – The 18-year-old S. E. Hinton's Bildungsroman ''The Outsiders is published in the United States by Viking Press. She wrote it at the age of 15–16.
August 9 – The English playwright Joe Orton is battered to death by his partner, 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.
October 21 – American writer Norman Mailer is arrested for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam March on The Pentagon.
November 9 – The first issue of the magazine Rolling Stone is published in San Francisco.
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*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is banned in the Soviet Union.
*The influential New Wave science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions'' is published in the United States.

New books

Births

January 7 – Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist
February 8 – Rachel Cusk, Canadian-British novelist
March 8 – Mitsuyo Kakuta, Japanese novelist and translator
March 12 – Jenny Erpenbeck, German novelist
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
July 31 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, American memoirist
September 21 – Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
October 4 – Miloš Urban, Czech novelist
December 12 – Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright, actor and director
Uncertain date – S. F. Said, Lebanese-born British children's fiction writer

Deaths

January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure
February 8 – Victor Gollancz, English publisher
March 2 – José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish novelist
March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist and autobiographer
March 30 – Jean Toomer, African American writer
May 12 – John Masefield, English Poet Laureate
May 22 – Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and playwright
June 3 – Arthur Ransome, English author of children's and other books
June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, English journalist
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American humorist
July 22
*Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and translator
*Carl Sandburg, American historian and poet
July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English novelist and playwright
August 2 – Giles Romilly, English journalist
August 9 – Joe Orton, English playwright
August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, American historian and author
September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist
September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author
September 16 – Pavlo Tychyna, Ukrainian poet
September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Dutch author
September 29 – Carson McCullers, American novelist
September – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet
October 8 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet
October 9 – André Maurois, French novelist
October 13 – Georges Sadoul, French journalist and writer on cinema
October 14 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and children's author
October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright
November 17 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet
November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet

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, The Cocktail Party
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Ernst Bloch
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''

1967 in literature

Events

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Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

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Awards

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