1972 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1972.
Contents
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 prose fiction
- Richard Adams – Watership Down
- Dritëro Agolli – The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo (Shkëlqimi dhe Rënja e Shokut Zylo, published in the magazine Hosteni)
- Jorge Amado – Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra ("Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars")
- Martin Amis – The Rachel Papers
- Isaac Asimov – The Gods Themselves
- Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
- Taylor Caldwell – Captains and the Kings
- John Dickson Carr – The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel
- Angela Carter – The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
- Agatha Christie – Elephants Can Remember
- Brian Cleeve – Tread Softly in this Place
- Michael Crichton - The Terminal Man
- Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
- Robertson Davies – The Manticore
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, editors – 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- R. F. Delderfield – To Serve Them All My Days
- Frederick Forsyth – The Odessa File
- Günter Grass – Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke ("From the Diary of a Snail")
- Graham Greene – The Honorary Consul
- Peter Handke – A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
- James Herriot – All Creatures Great and Small
- Georgette Heyer – Lady of Quality
- George V. Higgins – The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- P. D. James – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- Dan Jenkins – Semi-Tough
- Thomas Keneally – The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
- Carl Jacobi – Disclosures in Scarlet
- Halldór Laxness - Guðsgjafaþula
- Ira Levin – The Stepford Wives
- Frank Belknap Long – The Rim of the Unknown
- Robert Ludlum – The Osterman Weekend
- John D. MacDonald – The Scarlet Ruse
- David McCullough – The Great Bridge[4]
- Barry N. Malzberg – Beyond Apollo
- Vladimir Nabokov – Transparent Things
- Kenzaburō Ōe – The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away (みずから我が涙をぬぐいたまう日, Mizukara Waga Namida o Nugui Tamau Hi)
- Chaim Potok – My Name is Asher Lev
- Mary Renault – The Persian Boy
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
- Paul Theroux – Saint Jack
- Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Irving Wallace – The Word
Non-fiction
- The American Museum of Natural History – An Introduction
- Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man
- L. Sprague de Camp – Great Cities of the Ancient World
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – Darwin and His Great Discovery'
- Carlos Castaneda – Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
- Michael Kammen – People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
- Nena and George O'Neill – Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples[5]
- Robert Newton Peck – A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Frances Yates – The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
- John Howard Yoder – The Politics of Jesus
Drama
- Alan Ayckbourn – Absurd Person Singular
- Samuel Beckett – Not I
- Hanay Geiogamah – Body Indian
- Eugène Ionesco – Macbett
- Vijay Tendulkar
Births
- January 1 – Maile Meloy, American novelist and short story writer
- February 11 – Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese light novel 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 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)
Awards
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 Burns, 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
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- ↑ Obituary pp. 4–6 New York Times "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55" 29 January 1996.
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