1974 in literature

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

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.^[1]
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.

New books

Fiction

Kingsley Amis – Ending Up
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
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 adults

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

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^[2]
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)^[3]
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
- 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)^[4]
June 11 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (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

References

^ "History of Guildhall Library". City of London. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
^ Bourne, Stephen. "The Black Presence on the London Stage" (PDF). London: Talawa Theatre Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 14, 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ McGregor, Liz (2005-02-07). "Kabelo Duiker (obituary)". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
^ Byram, Michael S. (1982). Tom Kristensen. Boston.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[1] "History of Guildhall Library". City of London. Retrieved 2014-04-07.

[2] Bourne, Stephen. "The Black Presence on the London Stage" (PDF). London: Talawa Theatre Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 14, 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[3] McGregor, Liz (2005-02-07). "Kabelo Duiker (obituary)". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2015-02-23.

[4] Byram, Michael S. (1982). Tom Kristensen. Boston.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young adults

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

References