1967 in literature

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.

Sabon typeface, designed by Jan Tschichold, introduced.

Fiction

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

(with L. Sprague de Camp) – Conan the Usurper

(with L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter) – Conan

James Jones – Go to the Widow-Maker

Anna Kavan – Ice

Elia Kazan – The Arrangement

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

Daniel Pratt Mannix IV – The Fox and the Hound

Catherine Marshall – Christy

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

Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎) – The Silent Cry (万延元年のフットボール, Man'en Gannen no Futtoboru)

K. M. Peyton – Flambards

Chaim Potok – The Chosen

Marin Preda – Moromeţii, Vol. 2

E. Hoffmann Price – Strange Gateways

Valentin Rasputin – Money for Maria (Деньги для Марии)

Ruth Rendell – A New Lease of Death

Gaia Servadio – Tanto gentile e tanto onesta

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)

Children and young people

John D. Fitzgerald – The Great Brain

C. S. Forester – Hornblower and the Crisis

Rumer Godden – Home is the Sailor

Alan Garner – The Owl Service

S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders

Aldous Huxley (posthumous) – The Crows of Pearblossom

E. L. Konigsburg

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Wizards

R. D. Mascott – The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½

Bill Martin Jr. – Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (board book)

Jessica Nelson North – The Giant's Shoe

K. M. Peyton – Flambards (first in eponymous series of four books)

Joan G. Robinson – When Marnie Was There

Barbara Sleigh – Jessamy

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Egypt Game

The Gypsy Game

Daniel P. Mannix (with John Schoenherr) - The Fox and the Hound

Bill Peet

Jennifer and Josephine

Buford the Little Bighorn

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

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

Non-fiction

Dmitri Borgmann – Beyond Language

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

E. D. Hirsch – Validity in Interpretation

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson – The Theory of Island Biogeography

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

Desmond Morris – The Naked Ape

Josep Pla – Life Embitters

Births

January 7 – Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist

March 8 – Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田 光代), Japanese novelist and translator

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

Unknown date

S. F. Said, Lebanese-born British children's fiction writer

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 16 – Pavlo Tychyna, Ukrainian poet (born 1891)

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 (大城立裕), 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