This article presents a list of the literary events and publications in 1974.
Children and young people
Richard Adams – Shardik
Robert Cormier – The Chocolate War
Paula Danziger – The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Fynn (Sydney Hopkins) – Mister God, This Is Anna
Virginia Hamilton – M. C. Higgins, the Great
Diana Wynne Jones – The Ogre Downstairs
Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Sorcerers and Spells
Jill Murphy – The Worst Witch
Miriam Roth – A Tale of Five Balloons (מעשה בחמישה בלונים)
Jill Paton Walsh – The Emperor's Winding Sheet
Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman – Collected Ghost Stories
Bill Peet – Merle the High Flying Squirrel
Nezihe Araz – Bozkır Güzellemesi (An Ode to the Steppe)
Michael Cook – Jacob's Wake
Dario Fo – Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!)
Paavo Haavikko
Ratsumies ("The Horseman")
Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King Goes Forth to France)
Harald Pitkäikäinen
Ira Levin – Veronica's Room
Mustapha Matura – Play Mas
Harold Pinter – No Man's Land
David Rudkin – Penda's Fen (television play)
Tom Stoppard – Travesties
Duncan Bush, Tony Curtis, Nigel Jenkins – Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets
Maya Angelou – Gather Together in My Name
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – All the President's Men
Vincent Bugliosi – Helter Skelter
Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox
Dumas Malone – Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809
Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Jonathan Raban – Soft City
Piers Paul Read – Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (Հայկական Սովետական Հանրագիտարան, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran; begins publication)
Lewis Thomas – The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Joseph Wambaugh – The Onion Field
January 6 – Romain Sardou, French novelist
January 26 – Shannon Hale, American fantasy author
April 13 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (died 2005)
August 7 – Faisal Tehrani, Malaysian novelist
August 9 – Ryūsui Seiryōin (清涼院 流水), Japanese novelist
August 18 – Nicole Krauss, American novelist
August 23 – Serhiy Zhadan, Ukrainian poet, novelist and essayist
September 20 – Owen Sheers, Fijian-born Welsh poet, playwright and novelist
November 4 – Carlos Be, Spanish playwright
December 26 – Joshua John Miller, American novelist and screenwriter
Unknown dates
Naomi Alderman, English novelist
Chika Unigwe, Nigerian novelist writing in English and Dutch
Joanna Kavenna, English novelist and travel writer
Joe Meno, American novelist and journalist
Roger Williams, Welsh dramatist and screenwriter
January 20 – Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic (born 1896)
January 25 – James Pope-Hennessy, English biographer (murdered, born 1916)
January 29 – H. E. Bates, English novelist (born 1905)
February 2 – Marieluise Fleißer, German dramatist (born 1901)
February 24 – Martin Armstrong, English poet and short story writer (born 1882)
March 3 – Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (born 1891)
March 19 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, playwright and novelist (born 1896)
March 24 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (born 1882)
April 14 – Howard Pease, American novelist (born 1894)
May 13 – Arthur J. Burks, American writer (born 1898)
June 2 – Tom Kristensen, Danish novelist and poet (born 1893)
June 11 – Julius Evola, Italian esotericist, journalist and philosopher (born 1898)
June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist (born 1899)
July 3 – Samuel Roth, American publisher (born 1893)
July 4 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (born 1902)
August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican writer and diplomat (electric shock, born 1925)
August 11 – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer and writer (born 1902)
September 21 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (born 1918)
October 4 – Anne Sexton, American poet (born 1928)
October 29 – Victor E. van Vriesland, Dutch writer (born 1892)
November 5 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (born 1927)
November 7 – Eric Linklater, Welsh-born Scottish novelist and travel writer (born 1899)
November 26 – Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (born 1903)
November 28 – David Jones, English artist and poet (born 1895)
December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer (born 1889)
Unknown date – Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet and writer (born 1908)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson
See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Prix Goncourt: Pascal Lainé, La Dentellière
Prix Médicis French: Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples
Prix Médicis International: Julio Cortázar, Libro de Manuel
Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist and Stanley Middleton, Holiday.
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold
Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean
Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt, Robin Hamilton, Frank Ormsby, Penelope Shuttle
Newdigate prize: Alan Hollinghurst
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Wain, Samuel Johnson
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes
Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock
Hugo Award: Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin
Miles Franklin Award: Ronald McKie, The Mango Tree
Premio Nadal: Luis Gasulla, Culminación de Montoya
Viareggio Prize: Clotilde Marghieri, Amati enigmi
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