1969 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969.

EventsEdit

February 8 – After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post in its original form appears in the United States.
March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of the English poet Ted Hughes and ex-wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, gasses herself and their daughter at her London home.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

April 22 – The first Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction is awarded to P. H. Newby for Something to Answer For.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
August – "Penelope Ashe", purported author of a bestselling novel, Naked Came the Stranger, is revealed as a group of Newsday journalists.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

unknown date – The Times Literary Supplement begins using the abbreviation "TLS" on its title page.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New booksEdit

FictionEdit

Eva Alexanderson – Kontradans (Counter-dance)
Eric Ambler – The Intercom Conspiracy
Jorge Amado – Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles)
Kingsley Amis – The Green Man
William H. Armstrong – Sounder
Penelope Ashe – Naked Came the Stranger
Margaret Atwood – The Edible Woman
René Barjavel – Les Chemins de Katmandou<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Ray Bradbury – I Sing the Body Electric
Melvyn Bragg – The Hired Man
Christianna Brand – Court of Foxes
William S. Burroughs – The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Victor Canning – Queen's Pawn
Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Rigadoon<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Agatha Christie – Hallowe'en Party
Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
John Cheever – Bullet Park
A. J. Cronin – A Pocketful of Rye<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Henry de Montherlant – Les Garçons (The Boys)
L. Sprague de Camp – The Golden Wind<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Philip K. Dick – Ubik
Marion Eames – Y Stafell Ddirgel (The Secret Room)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
John Fowles – The French Lieutenant's Woman<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
George MacDonald Fraser – Flashman<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Sarah Gainham – A Place in the Country
Paul Gallico – The Poseidon Adventure
Rumer Godden – In This House of Brede
Graham Greene – Travels with My Aunt
Sam Greenlee – The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Günter Grass – Local Anaesthetic (Örtlich betäubt)
Frank Herbert – Dune Messiah
Raymond Hitchcock – Percy<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Richard Horn – Encyclopedia<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan of Cimmeria
B. S. Johnson – The Unfortunates
David H. Keller – The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Tales
Derek Lambert
- Angels in the Snow
- The Kites of War
Ursula Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness
Elmore Leonard – The Big Bounce
Doris Lessing – The Four-Gated City
H. P. Lovecraft and Others – Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
John D. MacDonald – Dress Her in Indigo
Félicien Marceau – Creezy
Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫) – Runaway Horses
Michael Moorcock – Behold the Man
C. L. Moore – Jirel of Joiry
Vladimir Nabokov – Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
M. T. Vasudevan Nair – Kaalam ("Time")
Patrick O'Brian – Master and Commander
Don Pendleton – War Against The Mafia
Chaim Potok – The Promise
Manuel Puig – Little Painted Mouths
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Ellery Queen – The Campus Murders
Pauline Réage – Retour à Roissy
Mordecai Richler – The Street
Harold Robbins – The Inheritors
Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
Gabriel Ruhumbika – Village in Uhuru
Giorgio Scerbanenco
- I milanesi ammazzano al sabato
- Milano calibro 9
Irwin Shaw – Rich Man, Poor Man
Dag Solstad – Irr! Grønt!<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Rex Stout – Death of a Dude
Jacqueline Susann – The Love Machine
Theodore Taylor – The Cay
Colin Thiele – Blue Fin
Jack Vance
- The Dirdir
- Emphyrio
- Servants of the Wankh
Mario Vargas Llosa – Conversation in The Cathedral
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
Charity Waciuma – Daughter of Mumbi
Irving Wallace – The Seven Minutes
Keith Waterhouse – Everything Must Go
Colin Wilson – The Philosopher's Stone
Roger Zelazny
- Creatures of Light and Darkness
- Damnation Alley
- Isle of the Dead

Children and young peopleEdit

Rev. W. Awdry – Oliver the Western Engine (twenty-fourth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry)
Eric Carle – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Frances Carpenter – South American Wonder Tales
Penelope Farmer – Charlotte Sometimes
Rumer Godden – Operation Sippacik
Gary Paulsen – Mr. Tucket (first in Mr. Tucket series)
Barbara Sleigh – The Snowball
William Steig – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
John Rowe Townsend – The Intruder
Elfrida Vipont with Raymond Briggs – The Elephant and the Bad Baby
Anne de Vries – Into the Darkness (first in the Reis door de nacht series of five books)

DramaEdit

Leilah Assunção – Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito (Speak Quietly or I’ll Scream)
Aimé Césaire – Une Tempête
Dario Fo – Mistero Buffo<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Athol Fugard – Boesman and Lena<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Joe Orton – What the Butler Saw (posthumously premiered and published)<ref>'Playgoers' Diary', The Stage, 23 January 1969, p.8.</ref>
Michael Pertwee – She's Done It Again
Dennis Potter – Son of Man (television)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PoetryEdit

Template:Main article

James Schuyler – Freely Espousing

Non-fictionEdit

Dean Acheson – Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Fernand Braudel – Ecrits sur l'Histoire (translated as On History, 1980)
H. Rap Brown – Die Nigger Die!
Henri Charrière – Papillon
L. Sprague de Camp and George H. Scithers (editors) – The Conan Swordbook
Antonia Fraser – Mary Queen of Scots
Søren Hansen and Jesper Jensen – The Little Red Schoolbook (Den Lille Røde Bog For Skoleelever)
Pauline Kael – Going Steady
Anton LaVey – The Satanic Bible
Laurie Lee – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Dwight Macdonald – On Movies
Desmond Morris – The Human Zoo
Harold Perkin – The Origins of Modern English Society 1780–1880
Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull – The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

David Reuben – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

BirthsEdit

January – Adrian Goldsworthy, Welsh military historian and novelist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

January 12 – David Mitchell, English novelist<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 17 – Michael Moynihan, American journalist and publisher
January 21 – M. K. Hobson, American speculative fiction author
March – Jez Butterworth, English dramatist and screenwriter
May 6 – Emmanuel Larcenet, French comics author
May 6 – John Scalzi, American science-fiction author
May 28 – Muriel Barbery, French novelist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

May 29 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Korean-born novelist (suicide 1995)
June 13 – Virginie Despentes, French writer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
July 5 – Armin Kõomägi, Estonian author and screenwriter
August 4 – Jojo Moyes, English journalist and romantic novelist
September 12 – James Frey, American writer
September 30 – Julianna Baggott, American novelist, essayist, and poet
October 24 – Emma Donoghue, Irish-born Canadian novelist, dramatist, and academic
November 13 – John Belluso, American dramatist (died 2006)
November 28 – Hanne Ørstavik, Norwegian novelist<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
November 30 – David Auburn, American dramatist
unknown dates
- John Harris, English writer, journalist and critic<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation