1970 in literature Totally Explained

Everything about 1970 In Literature totally explained

The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New books

Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Nina Bawden - The Birds on the Trees

Pierre Berton - The National Dream

Judy Blume - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

Jim Bouton - Ball Four

Wallace Breem - Eagle in the Snow

Jimmy Breslin - The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

Taylor Caldwell - Great Lion of God

Robertson Davies - Fifth Business

L. Sprague de Camp

Samuel R. Delany - The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy)

James Dickey - Deliverance

José Donoso - The Obscene Bird of Night ((El obsceno pájaro de la noche)

Lawrence Durrell - Nunquam

Graham Greene - Travels with My Aunt

Anne Hébert - Kamouraska

Susan Hill - I'm the King of the Castle

Pamela Hansford Johnson - The Honours Board

Anna Kavan - Julia and the Bazooka

Jaan Kross - Between Three Plagues (part 1)

Ira Levin - This Perfect Day

H. P. Lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

Eric Malpass - Oh My Darling Daughter

Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Devils and Demons

Yukio Mishima - The Decay of the Angel last book in the The Sea of Fertility series

Brian Moore - Fergus

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Larry Niven - Ringworld

John Jay Osborn, Jr. - The Paper Chase

Robert W. Peterson - Only the Ball was White

Kurban Said - Ali and Nino

Erich Segal - Love Story

Sidney Sheldon - The Naked Face

Clark Ashton Smith - Other Dimensions

Mary Stewart - The Crystal Cave

Leon Uris - QB VII

Jack Vance - The Pnume

E. B. White - The Trumpet Of The Swan

Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber

New drama

Dario Fo - Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Anthony Shaffer - Sleuth

Poetry

L. Sprague deCamp - Demons and Dinosaurs

Non-fiction

Dee Brown - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Henri Charrière - Papillon

August Derleth -

Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road

Arthur Janov - The Primal Scream

Mahathir bin Mohamad - The Malay Dilemma

Kate Millet - Sexual Politics

Nancy Mitford - Frederick the Great

Albert Speer - Inside the Third Reich

Alvin Toffler - Future Shock
Births

September 10 - Phaswane Mpe, novelist, (d. 2004)

September 16 - Nick Sagan, novelist and screenwriter

September 24 - Gemma Moraleja Paz, poet and novelist

unknown date - Alex Garland, novelist

unknown date - Jonathan Stroud, fantasy writer
Deaths

January 10 - Charles Olson, poet

January 29 - Basil Liddell Hart, military historian

February 2 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher

March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason author

March 29 - Vera Brittain, novelist and poet

April 11 - John O'Hara, novelist

May 12 - Nelly Sachs, poet and dramatist

June 3 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

June 7 - E. M. Forster, novelist

June 16 - Elsa Triolet, novelist

July 15 - Eric Berne, psychiatrist and author

September 1 - François Mauriac, novelist

September 28 - John Dos Passos, novelist

November 25 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and rightist political activist (suicide)
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

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

Premio Nadal: Jesús Fernández Santos, Libro de las memorias de las cosas

Viareggio Prize: Nello Saito, Dentro e fuoriFurther Information
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