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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.

New books

• Lloyd Alexander – Taran Wanderer
• J. G. Ballard
  • The Day of Forever
  • The Disaster Area
  • The Overloaded Man
• Thomas Berger – Killing Time
• Thomas Bernhard – Verstörung ("Disturbance", translated as Gargoyles)
• Hilda Bernstein – The World that was Ours
• Richard Brautigan – Trout Fishing in America
• Kenneth Bulmer
  • Cycle of Nemesis
  • To Outrun Doomsday
• Arthur J. Burks – Black Medicine
• Angela Carter – The Magic Toyshop
• Agatha Christie – Endless Night
• 'John Christopher' (Sam Youd)
  • The White Mountains
  • The City of Gold and Lead
• Margaret Craven – I Heard the Owl Call My Name
• L. Sprague de Camp editor – The Fantastic Swordsmen
• August Derleth editor – Travellers by Night
• Margaret Drabble – Jerusalem the Golden
• Nell Dunn – Poor Cow
• Cameron Duodu – The Gab Boys
• Allan W. Eckert – Wild Season
• Mircea Eliade – The Old Man and the Bureaucrats
• Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)
• Alan Garner – The Owl Service
• William Golding – The Pyramid
• Paul Guimard – Intersection
• S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders
• William Hope Hodgson – Deep Waters
• Robert E. Howard – Conan the Warrior
• Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp – Conan the Usurper
• Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan
• Aldous Huxley – The Crows of Pearblossom (published posthumously)
• James Jones – Go to the Widow-Maker
• Anna Kavan – Ice
• Elia Kazan – The Arrangement
• Oe Kenzaburo – The Silent Cry (万延元年のフットボール, Man'en Gannen no Futtoboru)
• Milan Kundera – The Joke (Žert)
• Ira Levin – Rosemary's Baby
• Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
• H. P. Lovecraft – Three Tales of Horror
• Alistair MacLean – Where Eagles Dare
• Naguib Mahfouz – Miramar
• Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Wizards
• Daniel Pratt Mannix IV – The Fox and the Hound
• Catherine Marshall – Christy
• R. D. Mascott – The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½
• V. S. Naipaul – The Mimic Men
• R. K. Narayan – The Vendor of Sweets
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – A Grain of Wheat
• Flann O'Brien – The Third Policeman (written 1939–40; published posthumously)
• Scott O'Dell – The Black Pearl
• K. M. Peyton – Flambards
• Chaim Potok – The Chosen
• Marin Preda – Moromeţii, vol. ii
• E. Hoffmann Price – Strange Gateways
• Valentin Rasputin – Money for Maria (Деньги для Марии)
• Ruth Rendell – A New Lease of Death
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Cancer Ward (Раковый Корпус, Rakovy Korpus)
• Mary Stewart – The Gabriel Hounds
• William Styron – The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Piri Thomas – Down These Mean Streets
• Leon Uris – Topaz
• Jack Vance – The Palace of Love
• Thornton Wilder – The Eighth Day
• Colin Wilson – The Mind Parasites
• Roger Zelazny – Lord of Light (Hugo Award Winner 1968)

New drama

• Simon Gray – Wise Child
• Christopher Hampton – Total Eclipse
• Peter Handke – Kaspar
• Dorothy Hewett – This Old Man Comes Rolling Home
• Rolf Hochhuth – Soldiers (Soldaten: Nekrolog auf Genf)
• Peter Nichols – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Efua Sutherland – Edufa
• Vijay Tendulkar – Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe
• Luis Valdez – Los Vendidos

Poetry

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• Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri – The Mersey Sound

Non-fiction

• Peter Brown – Augustine of Hippo: A Biography.
• Robert Coles – A Study in Courage and Fear, volume 1 of Children of Crisis.
• L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Story of Science in America.
• Joseph Fletcher – Moral Responsibility.
• Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore – The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.
• William Manchester – The Death of a President.
• Robert K. Massie – Nicholas and Alexandra.
• Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson – The Theory of Island Biogeography
• Desmond Morris – The Naked Ape
• Martin Luther King, Jr. – Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
• Josep Pla – Life Embitters

Births

• January 7 – Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist
• April 19 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction writer
• 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
  • Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田 光代), Japanese novelist
  • 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 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

• Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
• Hugo Award: Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & National Book Award: Bernard Malamud – The Fixer
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die

Elsewhere

• Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, 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