1973 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1973.

Events

March 6 – The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i umjetnost) in Podgorica, elects its first members.^[1]
May 14 – New orthography for the Greenlandic language is introduced.
June 21 – Virago Press, established in the U.K. by Carmen Callil primarily to publish classic books by women writers, holds its first board meeting.^[2]
July 26 – Peter Shaffer's drama Equus is premiered in London by the National Theatre company at The Old Vic.
September 16 – Chilean poet and playwright Víctor Jara, having been detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in Estadio Chile and tortured during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, is shot and killed. His last poem, known as "Estadio Chile", is preserved in memories and scraps of paper retained by fellow detainees.
September 25 – The funeral of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda becomes a focus for protests against the new government of Augusto Pinochet.^[3]
December 3 – French police of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire, disguised as plumbers, are caught attempting to install a spy microphone in the directorial office of the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné in Paris.
c. December 27 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, written 1958–1968) is first published, by the Paris publisher Éditions du Seuil from a typescript smuggled out of the Soviet Union.
André Brink's novel Kennis van die aand ("Looking on Darkness") becomes the first Afrikaans book banned by the government of South Africa.
Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is first published complete in Moscow (in the form left at the author's death in 1940), by Khudozhestvennaya Literatura.
Frank Herbert becomes director-photographer of the television show, The Tillers.
Robert B. Parker starts the Boston-based Spenser book series with his debut crime novel The Godwulf Manuscript.

New books

Fiction

Martin Amis – The Rachel Papers
J. G. Ballard – Crash
René Barjavel – The Immortals
Ernest Becker – The Denial of Death
Thomas Berger – Regiment of Women
Joseph Payne Brennan – Stories of Darkness and Dread
Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
John Brunner – The Stone That Never Came Down
Ramsey Campbell – Demons by Daylight
Jerome Charyn – The Tar Baby
Agatha Christie – Postern of Fate
Arthur C. Clarke – Rendezvous with Rama
Basil Copper – From Evil's Pillow
Julio Cortázar – Libro de Manuel (A Manual for Manuel)
L. Sprague de Camp – The Fallible Fiend
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, editors – Tales Beyond Time
Michel Déon – Un taxi mauve
August Derleth – The Chronicles of Solar Pons
Michael Ende – Momo
Paul E. Erdman – The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
J. G. Farrell – The Siege of Krishnapur
Leon Forrest – There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden
William Goldman – The Princess Bride
Graham Greene – The Honorary Consul
Elisabeth Harvor – Women and Children 11 stories (revised as Our Lady of All Distances, 1991)
B. S. Johnson – Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
James Jones – A Touch of Danger
Anna Kavan – Who Are You?
Brian Killick – The Heralds
Dean R. Koontz – Demon Seed
Jerzy Kosiński – The Devil Tree
Milan Kundera – Life Is Elsewhere (Život je jinde, first published in French as La vie est ailleurs)
Robert Ludlum – The Matlock Paper
John D. MacDonald – The Turquoise Lament
Cormac McCarthy – Child of God
Robert Marasco – Burnt Offerings
Toni Morrison – Sula
Iris Murdoch – The Black Prince
Tim O'Brien – If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Robert B. Parker – The Godwulf Manuscript
Mervyn Peake (posthumously) – The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
Anthony Powell – Temporary Kings
Thomas Pynchon – Gravity's Rainbow
Ernst von Salomon – Der tote Preuße
Irwin Shaw – Evening in Byzantium
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ)
Rex Stout – Please Pass the Guilt
Jacqueline Susann – Once Is Not Enough
Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Jack Vance – The Anome
Mario Vargas Llosa – Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Pantaleón y las visitadoras)
Gore Vidal – Burr
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – Breakfast of Champions
Patrick White – The Eye of the Storm
Rudy Wiebe – Temptations of Big Bear
Venedikt Yerofeyev – Moscow-Petushki (Moscow to the end of the line; first commercial publication, in Israel)
Roger Zelazny
- To Die in Italbar
- Today We Choose Faces

Children and young people

Nina Bawden – Carrie's War
Thea Beckman – Crusade in Jeans (Kruistocht in spijkerbroek)
Lois Duncan – I Know What You Did Last Summer
Penelope Lively – The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Ogres and Trolls
Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Bush Band
Doris Buchanan Smith – A Taste of Blackberries
Patricia Wrightson – The Nargun and the Stars
Bill Peet – The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock

Drama

Poetry

Allen Curnow – An Abominable Temper and Other Poems
Tomás Rivera – Always and other poems

Non-fiction

Howard W. Bergerson – Palindromes and Anagrams
Allan W. Eckert – The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone
Antonia Fraser – Cromwell, Our Chief of Men
Peter Maas – Serpico
New York Bible Society International – New Testament, New International Version (translated into modern American English)
Tim O'Brien – If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Bill Owens – Suburbia
John Pearson – James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007
Flora Rheta Schreiber – Sybil
E. F. Schumacher – Small Is Beautiful
Binod Bihari Verma – Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan (in Maithili)
Maureen and Tony Wheeler – Across Asia on the Cheap

Births

January 8 – Madhulika Liddle, Indian writer
January 13 – Lois Pryce, Scottish-born travel writer and journalist
February 21 – Jacob M. Appel, American short story writer and bioethicist
June 2 – David Bezmozgis, Latvian-Canadian writer
August 13 – Kamila Shamsie, Pakistan-born novelist
August 18 – Victoria Coren Mitchell, English writer, presenter and poker player, daughter of Alan Coren
December 24 – Stephenie Meyer, American young-adult vampire romance writer and film producer
Unknown dates
- Frances Hardinge, English young people's fiction writer
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Colombian novelist

Deaths

January 15 – Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, dramatist and critic (born 1891)
February 22 – Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer (born 1899)
March 6 – Pearl S. Buck, American novelist (born 1892)
March 18 – Roland Dorgelès, French novelist and memoirist (born 1885)
March 26 – Sir Noël Coward, English dramatist and humorist (born 1899)
April 9 – Warren Lewis, Irish author (born 1895)
April 28 – Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (born 1882)
April 30 – Jiro Osaragi (大佛次郎, Haruhiku Nojiri), Japanese novelist (born 1897)
May 21 – Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian poet and linguist (born 1893)
June 4 – Arna Bontemps, American poet (born 1902)
June 9 – John Creasey, English crime writer (born 1908)
June 30 – Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer (born 1904)
July 29 – Henri Charrière, French writer and criminal (born 1906)
September 2 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English fantasy writer and scholar (born 1892)
September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (born 1904)
September 29 – W. H. Auden, English poet (born 1907)
October 6 – Margaret Wilson, American novelist (born 1882)
October 28 – Sergio Tofano, Italian dramatist (born 1886)
November 13 – B. S. Johnson, English novelist (born 1933)
December 7 – Benn Levy, English playwright and politician (born 1900)
December 9 – Anthony Gilbert, English crime writer (born 1899)
December 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner, German poet and playwright (born 1891)

Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature: Patrick White

Canada

See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Jacques Chessex, L'Ogre
Prix Médicis French: Tony Duvert, Paysage de fantaisie
Prix Médicis International: Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin
Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs

United States

Elsewhere

Miles Franklin Award: No award presented
Premio Nadal: José García Blázquez, El rito
Viareggio Prize: Achille Campanile, Manuale di conversazione

References

^ "Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA)". IAP. 2013. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
^ "The History of Virago". Virago. 2013. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
^ The Washington Post. Archived December 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA)". IAP. 2013. Retrieved 2015-01-09.

[2] "The History of Virago". Virago. 2013. Retrieved 2015-01-09.

[3] The Washington Post. Archived December 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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