1975 in literature
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The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events[edit]
- August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks are opened in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Writing under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar", author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice.
- Hearing Secret Harmonies, the twelfth and final novel of the A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy by Anthony Powell is published.
- Milan Kundera emigrated to France.
- Petrarca-Preis was founded by Hubert Burda.
Books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Edward Abbey – The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Martin Amis – Dead Babies
- Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting
- Donald Barthelme – The Dead Father
- Saul Bellow – Humboldt's Gift
- Thomas Berger – Sneaky People
- Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Sand
- Malcolm Bradbury – The History Man
- Morley Callaghan – A Fine and Private Place
- Agatha Christie – Curtain
- James Clavell – Shōgun
- Susan Cooper – The Grey King
- Michael Crichton – The Great Train Robbery
- A. J. Cronin – The Minstrel Boy
- Roald Dahl – Danny, the Champion of the World
- Robertson Davies – World of Wonders
- L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – The Compleat Enchanter
- Samuel R. Delany – Dhalgren
- August Derleth – Harrigan's File
- E. L. Doctorow – Ragtime
- Carlos Fuentes - Terra Nostra
- William Gaddis – J R
- Gabriel García Márquez – El Otoño del Patriarca (The Autumn of the Patriarch)
- Romain Gary as Emile Ajar – La vie devant soi
- Arthur Hailey – The Moneychangers
- Thomas Harris – Black Sunday
- Georgette Heyer – My Lord John
- Jack Higgins – The Eagle Has Landed
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – Heat and Dust
- Stephen King – 'Salem's Lot
- J. Sheridan LeFanu – The Purcell Papers
- David Lodge – Changing Places
- Robert Ludlum – The Road to Gandolfo
- John D. MacDonald – The Dreadful Lemon Sky
- Bharati Mukherjee – Wife
- Gary Myers – The House of the Worm
- V.S. Naipaul – Guerillas
- Tim O'Brien – Northern Lights
- Gerald W. Page, editor – Nameless Places
- Robert B. Parker – Mortal Stakes
- Elizabeth Peters – Crocodile on the Sandbank (the first in the Amelia Peabody series)
- Anthony Powell – Hearing Secret Harmonies
- James Purdy – In a Shallow Grave
- Judith Rossner – Looking for Mister Goodbar
- Nawal El Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero
- Paul Scott – A Division of the Spoils
- Anya Seton – Smouldering Fires
- Tom Sharpe – Blott on the Landscape
- Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson – The Illuminatus! Trilogy (individual editions)
- M. P. Shiel – Xélucha and Others
- Rex Stout – A Family Affair
- Glendon Swarthout – The Shootist
- Joseph Wambaugh – The Choirboys
- Jack Vance – Showboat World
- Roger Zelazny – Sign of the Unicorn
Poetry[edit]
Main article: 1975 in poetry
- Lin Carter – Dreams from R'lyeh
- Leslie Norris – Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
Non-fiction[edit]
- Philip Agee – Inside the Company: CIA Diary
- Kingsley Amis – Rudyard Kipling and His World
- Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Paul Fussell – The Great War and Modern Memory
- Paul Horgan - Lamy of Santa Fe
- Frank Belknap Long – Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nitghtside
- Philip Roth – Reading Myself and Others
- Paul Theroux – The Great Railway Bazaar
Births[edit]
- January 13 – Daniel Kehlmann, novelist
- October 27 – Zadie Smith, novelist
Deaths[edit]
- January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist, 59 (heart attack)
- February 14
- Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley, 87
- Sir P. G. Wodehouse (born 1881), English comic novelist – creator of Jeeves and Wooster, 93
- February 20 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian author, 92
- March 3 - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87
- March 13 – Ivo Andrić (born 1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist and Nobel laureate of 1961
- May 21 - A. H. Dodd, hanesydd, 83
- June 8 – Murray Leinster, science fiction writer, 78
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse, poet and Nobel laureate of 1960
- October 5 – Constance Malleson, actress and writer
- October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, historian, 86
- November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, dramatist, 79
- November 19 – Elizabeth Taylor, novelist, 63 (cancer)
- November 27 – Ross McWhirter, journalist and joint author of the Guinness Book of Records, 50 (assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).[1])
- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, philosopher, 69
- December 7 – Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist, 78
Awards[edit]
Canada[edit]
- See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France[edit]
- Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar – La vie devant soi
- Prix Médicis French: Jacques Almira, Le Voyage à Naucratis
- Prix Médicis International: Steven Millhauser, La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse – United States
Spain[edit]
- Premio Nadal: Francisco Umbral, Las ninfas
United Kingdom[edit]
- Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners
- Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman MacCaig, John Ormond
- Duff Cooper Prize: – Seamus Heaney, North
- Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Karl Miller, Cockburn's Millennium
United States[edit]
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Kenneth Burke
- Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great
- Newdigate prize: Andrew Motion
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, Seascape
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Shaara – The Killer Angels
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder – Turtle Island
Elsewhere[edit]
- Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale
References[edit]
- ^ Bernstein, Adam (21 April 2004). "Norris McWhirter Dies; 'Guinness Book' Co-Founder". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
