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1974 in literature

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This article presents a list of the literary events and publications in 1974.

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Events

  • February 12 – Following publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear.
  • October 21 – New Guildhall Library opened in the City of London.
  • Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is among a group arrested and incarcerated by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper Marcha a short story implicitly critical of the military regime; he subsequently goes into exile in Spain.
  • The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.

    • Fiction

  • Kingsley Amis – Ending Up
  • René Barjavel – Les Dames à la licorne
  • Augusto Roa Bastos – I, the Supreme (Yo el supremo)
  • Peter Benchley – Jaws
  • Hal Bennett – Wait Until the Evening
  • Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann)
  • Anthony Burgess – The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End
  • Andrés Caicedo – "Maternidad"
  • Robert A. Caro – The Power Broker
  • Agatha Christie – Poirot's Early Cases
  • Roald Dahl – Switch Bitch
  • Philip K. Dick – Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
  • Annie Dillard – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  • Lawrence Durrell – Monsieur
  • Frederick Forsyth – The Dogs of War
  • John Fowles – The Ebony Tower
  • Donald Goines – Crime Partners
  • Imil Habibi – The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل, Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-gharībah fī 'khtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī 'l-Naḥsh al-Mutashāʾil)
  • John Hawkes – Death Sleep
  • Joseph Heller – Something Happened
  • James Herbert – The Rats
  • Erica Jong – Fear of Flying
  • Anna Kavan – Let Me Alone
  • Stephen King – Carrie
  • Manuel Mujica Láinez
  • El laberinto
  • El viaje de los siete demonios
  • Margaret Laurence – The Diviners
  • John le Carré – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • Ursula K. Le Guin – The Dispossessed
  • Madeleine L'Engle – A Wind in the Door
  • H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Watchers Out of Time and Others
  • Robert Ludlum – The Cry of the Halidon
  • Brian Lumley – Beneath the Moors
  • Colleen McCullough – Tim
  • Nicholas Meyer – The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
  • James A. Michener – Centennial
  • Elsa Morante – La Storia (History. A Novel, 1978)
  • Meja Mwangi – Carcase for Hounds
  • Vladimir Nabokov – Look at the Harlequins!
  • Edith Pargeter – Sunrise in the West (first in the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet)
  • Robert B. Parker – God Save the Child
  • Ellen Raskin – Figgs & Phantoms
  • Ishmael Reed – The Last Days of Louisiana Red
  • Harold Robbins – The Pirate
  • Leonardo Sciascia – Todo modo
  • Tom Sharpe – Porterhouse Blue
  • Sidney Sheldon – The Other Side of Midnight
  • C. P. Snow – In Their Wisdom
  • Studs Terkel – Working

    • 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

    • Drama

  • 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

    • Poetry

  • Duncan Bush, Tony Curtis, Nigel Jenkins – Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets

    • Non-fiction

  • 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

    • Births

  • 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

    • Deaths

  • 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)

    • Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson

    • Canada

  • See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

    • France

  • Prix Goncourt: Pascal Lainé, La Dentellière
  • Prix Médicis French: Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples
  • Prix Médicis International: Julio Cortázar, Libro de Manuel

    • United Kingdom

  • 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

    • United States

  • 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

    • Elsewhere

  • Miles Franklin Award: Ronald McKie, The Mango Tree
  • Premio Nadal: Luis Gasulla, Culminación de Montoya
  • Viareggio Prize: Clotilde Marghieri, Amati enigmi

    • References

    1974 in literature Wikipedia
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