1970 in literature

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

Events

January 16 – The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus opens with a performance of Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod.[1]
June 17 – The première of David Storey's play Home at the Royal Court Theatre, London, is directed by Lindsay Anderson and stars Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
July 7 – The English publisher Sir Allen Lane dies (born 1902).[2] On August 21 his paperback imprint Penguin Books is acquired by Pearson.
August 27 – England's Royal Shakespeare Company introduces a revolutionary production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Peter Brook, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.[3]
November 20 – The playwright Fadil Paçrami becomes Chairman of the Parliament of Albania.
November 25 – In Tokyo, the Japanese author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫, 45) and others take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. Mishima's speech commits seppuku (public ritual suicide) when he fails to sway the public to his right-wing politics, which include restoring the powers of the Emperor.
December 5 – Dario Fo premières his play Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Morte accidentale di un anarchico) at Varese in Italy.

Uncertain dates

Len Deighton's Bomber, set in 1943, appears this year in England as the first novel written on a word processor, an IBM MT/ST.[4]
The novel Deliverance of this year, by the American poet James Dickey, will be named in 2001 among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by an editorial board of the American Modern Library.
The English novelist Antony Burgess in Malta delivers an inflammatory lecture, "Obscenity and the Arts", that leads to him leaving the island.[5] He has begun on a novel that will become Earthly Powers (1980).
An unexpurgated edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748–1749) appears in the U.K. without legal challenge.
Bohumil Hrabal's books Domácí úkoly (Home Work) and Poupata (Buds) are suppressed by the communist authorities in Czechoslovakia.
Magdalena Mouján's story "Gu ta Gutarrak" ("We and Ours") in Basque is suppressed by the authorities in Francoist Spain.

New books

Non-fiction

Theodor W. Adorno (posthumously) – Aesthetic Theory (Asthetische Theorie)
Hannah Arendt – On Violence
Roland Barthes – S/Z
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
James MacGregor Burns – Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
Henri Charrière – Papillon
Elizabeth David – Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen
Edward De Bono – Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step
August Derleth – Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969: A History and Bibliography
Michel Foucault – Les Mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines (The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences)
Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch
Helene Hanff – 84 Charing Cross Road
Arthur Janov – The Primal Scream
Christopher Lloyd – The Well-Tempered Garden
Norman Mailer – Of a Fire on the Moon
Dumas Malone – Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805
Mahathir bin Mohamad – The Malay Dilemma
Kate Millet – Sexual Politics
Nancy Mitford – Frederick the Great
Robin Morgan (ed.) – Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement
Harold Perkin – The Age of the Railway
J. B. Priestley – The Edwardians
Albert Speer – Inside the Third Reich
Alvin Toffler – Future Shock

Births

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
March 26 – Martin McDonagh, British-born Irish playwright
May 20 – Dorthe Nors, Danish fiction writer
May 26 – Alex Garland, English novelist
June 6 – Sarah Dessen, American novelist
July 22 – Doug Johnstone, Scottish crime fiction writer
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

Uncertain dates

Nathan Englander, American fiction writer
Neel Mukherjee, Indian novelist
Faruk Šehić, Bosnian poet and fiction 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)
February 20 – Sophie Treadwell, American dramatist and journalist (born 1885)
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 3 – Ruth Sawyer, American children's writer and novelist (born 1880)
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)
October 18 – Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Irish language writer (born 1906)
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)

Uncertain 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
Alfaguara Prize: Carlos Droguett, Todas esas muertes
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. Archived from the original on 2011-11-01. 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.
"Going into Exile: Anthony Burgess in Malta". International Anthony Burgess Foundation. 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2020-05-17.

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[1] "Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus" (in German). nrw-buehnen.de. Retrieved 2013-07-19.

[2] "About Penguin: Company history". Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2013-11-01.

[3] Barnes, Clive (1970-08-28). "Historic Staging of Dream". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-06-23.

[4] 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.

[5] "Going into Exile: Anthony Burgess in Malta". International Anthony Burgess Foundation. 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2020-05-17.