Editing 1967 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1967'''.
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==Events==
*[[January]]
**The first publication of [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]'s novel ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' («Ма́стер и Маргари́та»), in the form left at the author's death in [[1940 in literature|1940]], concludes in the magazine ''[[Moskva (magazine)|Moskva]]'', although censored portions circulate only in [[samizdat]] in the [[Soviet Union]]. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris.
**The [[Barbara Gordon]] version of [[Batgirl]] is introduced in ''[[Detective Comics]]''.<ref>{{Citation|last=McAvennie|first= Michael|editor-last=Dolan |editor-first=Hannah |chapter= 1960s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |year=2010 |isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 122}}</ref>
*[[March 16]] – The first performance of [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s January 1913 play ''[[The Daughter-in-Law]]'' is given at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Roberts|title=The Royal Court Theatre (Routledge Revivals): 1965-1972|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2015|page=59}}</ref>
*[[April 24]] – The 18-year-old [[S. E. Hinton]]'s ''[[Bildungsroman]]'' ''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]'' is published in the United States by [[Viking Press]]. She wrote it at the age of 15–16.
*[[August 9]] – The English playwright [[Joe Orton]] (aged 34) is battered to death by his partner, [[Kenneth Halliwell]], who commits suicide in their north London home shortly after.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hoare |first1=Philip |title=Kenneth Halliwell: lover, killer… artist? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/30/halliwell-orton-art-collage-library-books |website=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |access-date=2017-07-28 |date=2013-09-30}}</ref> Orton has completed work on a film script, ''[[Up Against It]]'', for [[The Beatles]] (unproduced).
*[[October 21]] – American writer [[Norman Mailer]] is arrested for [[civil disobedience]] during the [[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]] March on [[The Pentagon]].
*[[November 9]] – The first issue of the magazine ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' is published in San Francisco.
*''unknown dates''
**[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]'s novel ''[[Cancer Ward]]'' is banned in the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite book|first=Joseph|last=Pearce|authorlink=Joseph Pearce|title=Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile|publisher=Ignatius Press|year=2011|pages=184ff}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Patricia|last=Blake|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/home/solz-cancer.html|title=A Diseased Body Politic|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1968-10-27}}</ref>
**The influential [[New Wave (science fiction)|New Wave]] [[science fiction]] anthology ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'' is published in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Tomlinson|author2=Harry Harrison|title=Harry Harrison: An Annotated Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_f4g9NHkPcC&pg=PA41|year=2002|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-1-58715-401-0|pages=41}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Lloyd Alexander]] – ''[[Taran Wanderer]]''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Phyllis |title=Review of Taran Wanderer |journal=Young Reader's Review |date=June 1967 |volume=3 |issue=10 |page=12}}</ref>
*[[Eric Ambler]] – ''[[Dirty Story (novel)|Dirty Story]]''
*[[J. G. Ballard]]
**''[[The Day of Forever]]''
**''[[The Disaster Area]]''
**''[[The Overloaded Man]]''
*[[Lindsay Barrett]] – ''[[Song for Mumu]]''
*[[Luis Berenguer]] – ''El mundo de Juan Lobón''
*[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''Killing Time''
*[[Thomas Bernhard]] – ''Verstörung'' (Disturbance, translated as ''[[Gargoyles (novel)|Gargoyles]]'')
*[[Hilda Bernstein]] – ''[[The World that was Ours]]''
*[[Richard Brautigan]] – ''[[Trout Fishing in America]]''
*[[Mikhail Bulgakov]] (died 1940) – ''[[The Master and Margarita]]''
*[[Kenneth Bulmer]]
**''[[Cycle of Nemesis]]''
**''[[To Outrun Doomsday]]''
*[[Arthur J. Burks]] – ''[[Black Medicine]]''
*[[Guillermo Cabrera Infante]] – ''[[Tres tristes tigres (novel)|Tres tristes tigres]]''
*[[Victor Canning]] – ''[[The Python Project]]''
*[[Angela Carter]] – ''[[The Magic Toyshop]]''
*[[Henry Cecil Leon|Henry Cecil]] – ''[[A Woman Named Anne]]''
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[Endless Night (novel)|Endless Night]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Cooper|author2=B.A. Pyke|title=Detective Fiction – the collector's guide|publisher=Scholar Press|year=1994|isbn=0-85967-991-8|page=82}}</ref>
*[[John Christopher]] (Sam Youd)
**''[[The Tripods#The White Mountains (1967)|The White Mountains]]''
**''[[The Tripods#The City of Gold and Lead (1967)|The City of Gold and Lead]]''
*[[Margaret Craven (writer)|Margaret Craven]] – ''[[I Heard the Owl Call My Name]]''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] editor – ''[[The Fantastic Swordsmen]]''
*[[R. F. Delderfield]] – ''[[Cheap Day Return (novel)|Cheap Day Return]]''
*[[August Derleth]] editor – ''[[Travellers by Night]]''
*[[Margaret Drabble]] – ''[[Jerusalem the Golden]]''
*[[Nell Dunn]] – ''[[Poor Cow (novel)|Poor Cow]]''
*[[Cameron Duodu]] – ''The Gab Boys''<ref>{{cite book|author=O. R. Dathorne|title=African literature in the twentieth century|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=1975|isbn=9780816607693|page=109}}</ref>
*[[Allan W. Eckert]] – ''[[Wild Season]]''
*[[Mircea Eliade]] – ''[[The Old Man and the Bureaucrats]]''
*[[Janice Elliott]] – ''[[The Buttercup Chain (novel)|The Buttercup Chain]]''
*[[Claire Etcherelli]] – ''Elise, ou la vraie vie''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Katharina M.|last2=Wilson|first2=M.|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&pg=PA391|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8240-8547-6|pages=390–391}}</ref>
*[[C. S. Forester]] – ''[[Hornblower and the Crisis]]''
*[[Sarah Gainham]] – ''[[Night Falls on the City]]''
*[[Gabriel García Márquez]] – ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]] (Cien años de soledad)''
*[[William Golding]] – ''[[The Pyramid (Golding)|The Pyramid]]''
*[[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]] – ''[[The Facemaker]]''
*[[Winston Graham]] – ''[[The Walking Stick (novel)|The Walking Stick]]''
* [[Edward Grierson]] – ''[[A Crime of One's Own]]''
*[[Paul Guimard]] – ''[[Intersection (novel)|Intersection]]''
*[[S. E. Hinton]] – ''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]''
*[[William Hope Hodgson]] – ''[[Deep Waters (book)|Deep Waters]]''
*[[Robert E. Howard]]
**''[[Conan the Warrior]]''
**(with [[L. Sprague de Camp]]) – ''[[Conan the Usurper]]''
**(with [[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Lin Carter]]) – ''[[Conan (collection)|Conan]]''
*[[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] – ''Go to the Widow-Maker''
*[[Anna Kavan]] – ''[[Ice (Kavan novel)|Ice]]''
*[[Elia Kazan]] – ''[[The Arrangement: A Novel|The Arrangement]]''
*[[Thomas Keneally]] – ''[[Bring Larks and Heroes]]''
*[[Milan Kundera]] – ''[[The Joke (novel)|The Joke]] (Žert)''
*[[Alex La Guma]] – ''[[The Stone-Country]]''
*[[Ira Levin]] – ''[[Rosemary's Baby (novel)|Rosemary's Baby]]''
*[[Joan Lindsay]] – ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]''
*[[H. P. Lovecraft]] – ''[[Three Tales of Horror]]''
*[[Alistair MacLean]] – ''[[Where Eagles Dare]]''
*[[Naguib Mahfouz]] – ''[[Miramar (novel)|Miramar]]''
*[[Daniel Pratt Mannix IV]] – ''[[The Fox and the Hound (novel)|The Fox and the Hound]]''
*[[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Death at the Dolphin]]''
*[[Catherine Marshall]] – ''[[Christy (novel)|Christy]]''
*[[Berkely Mather]] – ''[[The Gold of Malabar]]''
*[[V. S. Naipaul]] – ''[[The Mimic Men]]''
*[[R. K. Narayan]] – ''[[The Vendor of Sweets]]''
*[[Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]] – ''[[A Grain of Wheat]]''
*[[Flann O'Brien]] (died 1966) – ''[[The Third Policeman]]'' (written 1939–40)
*[[Scott O'Dell]] – ''[[The Black Pearl (Scott O'Dell)|The Black Pearl]]''
*[[Kenzaburō Ōe]] (大江 健三郎) – ''[[The Silent Cry]] (万延元年のフットボール, Man'en Gannen no Futtoboru)''
*[[K. M. Peyton]] – ''[[Flambards]]''
*[[Chaim Potok]] – ''[[The Chosen (Chaim Potok)|The Chosen]]''
*[[Marin Preda]] – ''[[Moromeţii]]'', Vol. 2
*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[It's an Old Country]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Holger Klein|title=J.B. Priestley's Fiction|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2002|page=241}}</ref>
*[[Ruth Rendell]] – ''[[A New Lease of Death]]''
*[[Thomas Savage (novelist)|Thomas Savage]] – ''[[The Power of the Dog (Savage novel)|The Power of the Dog]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lithub.com/how-the-power-of-the-dog-eviscerates-the-myths-of-the-old-western|title=How The Power of the Dog Eviscerates the Myths of the Old Western|first=Michelle|last=Nijhuis|date=December 3, 2021|website=[[Literary Hub]]}}</ref>
*[[Gaia Servadio]] – ''Tanto gentile e tanto onesta''
*[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''The Gabriel Hounds''
*[[William Styron]] – ''[[The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)|The Confessions of Nat Turner]]'' 
*[[Julian Symons]] – ''[[The Man Who Killed Himself]]''
*[[Leon Uris]] – ''[[Topaz (novel)|Topaz]]''
*[[Jack Vance]] – ''[[The Palace of Love]]''
*[[Thornton Wilder]] – ''[[The Eighth Day (Wilder novel)|The Eighth Day]]''
*[[Colin Wilson]] – ''[[The Mind Parasites]]''
*[[Roger Zelazny]] – ''[[Lord of Light]]'' (Hugo Award Winner [[1968 in literature|1968]])

===Children and young people===
*[[Rev. W. Awdry]] – ''[[List of Railway Series Books#Small Railway Engines|Small Railway Engines]]'' (twenty-second in ''[[The Railway Series]]'' of 42 books)
*[[Helen Cresswell]] – ''The Piemakers''<ref>{{cite book|last=Hahn|first=Daniel|title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-871554-2|page=459|edition=2nd}}</ref>
*[[Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire]] – ''[[Norse Gods and Giants]]''
*[[John D. Fitzgerald]] – ''[[The Great Brain]]''
*[[Alan Garner]] – ''[[The Owl Service]]''
*[[Rumer Godden]] – ''Home is the Sailor''
*[[S. E. Hinton]] – ''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]''
*[[Aldous Huxley]] (died 1963) – ''[[The Crows of Pearblossom]]'' (short story written 1944)
*[[E. L. Konigsburg]]
**''[[From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]]''
**''[[Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth]]''
*[[Boy Lornsen]] – ''[[Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt]]''
*Ann MacGovern and [[Simms Taback]] – ''Too Much Noise''
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] – ''[[A Book of Wizards]]''
*[[Daniel P. Mannix]] (with [[John Schoenherr]]) – ''[[The Fox and the Hound]]''
*[[Bill Martin Jr.]] – ''[[Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?]]'' (board book)
*[[Arthur Calder-Marshall|R. D. Mascott]] – ''[[The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½]]''
*[[Bill Peet]]
**''Buford the Little Bighorn''
**''Jennifer and Josephine''
*[[K. M. Peyton]] – ''[[Flambards]]'' (first in eponymous series of four books)
*[[Joan G. Robinson]] – ''[[When Marnie Was There (novel)|When Marnie Was There]]''
*[[Barbara Sleigh]] – ''[[Jessamy]]''
*[[Zilpha Keatley Snyder]]
**''[[The Egypt Game]]''
**''[[The Gypsy Game]]''

===Drama===
*[[Simon Gray]] – ''[[Wise Child]]''
*[[Christopher Hampton]] – ''Total Eclipse''
*[[Peter Handke]] – ''[[Kaspar (play)|Kaspar]]''
*[[Dorothy Hewett]] – ''This Old Man Comes Rolling Home''
*[[Rolf Hochhuth]] – ''[[Soldiers (play)|Soldiers]] (Soldaten: Nekrolog auf Genf)''
*[[Peter Nichols (playwright)|Peter Nichols]] – ''[[A Day in the Death of Joe Egg]]''
*[[Efua Sutherland]] – ''Edufa''
*[[Vijay Tendulkar]] – ''[[Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe]]''
*[[Peter Ustinov]] – ''[[The Unknown Soldier and His Wife]]''
*[[Luis Valdez]] – ''[[Los Vendidos]]''
*[[Charles Wood (playwright)|Charles Wood]] – ''Dingo''
*[[Leonid Zorin]] – ''A Warsaw Melody''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1967 in poetry}}
*[[Roger McGough]], [[Brian Patten]] and [[Adrian Henri]] – ''[[The Mersey Sound (book)|The Mersey Sound]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[J. A. Baker]] – ''The Peregrine''<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Zarin, Cynthia|authorlink=Cynthia Zarin|title=Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker's "The Peregrine"|magazine=The New Yorker|date=17 April 2017|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-beauty-of-j-a-bakers-the-peregrine}}</ref>
*[[Dmitri Borgmann]] – ''[[Beyond Language]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author-link=A. Ross Eckler, Jr. |last=Eckler Jr. |first=A. Ross |date=November 2005 |title=The Borgmann Apocrypha |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol38/iss4/4/ |journal=[[Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics]] |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=258–260 }}</ref>
*[[Peter Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]] – ''Augustine of Hippo: A Biography''
*[[Robert Coles (psychiatrist)|Robert Coles]] – ''[[A Study in Courage and Fear]]'', volume 1 of ''[[Children of Crisis]]''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Catherine Crook de Camp]] – ''[[The Story of Science in America]]''
*[[Jacques Derrida]]
**''[[Of Grammatology]]''
**''[[Speech and Phenomena]]''
**''[[Writing and Difference]]''
*[[Joseph Fletcher]] – ''[[Moral Responsibility]]''
*[[E. D. Hirsch]] – ''Validity in Interpretation''
*[[Martin Luther King Jr.]] – ''[[Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?]]''
*[[Ira M. Lapidus]] – ''Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages''
*[[Robert MacArthur]] and [[E. O. Wilson]] – ''[[The Theory of Island Biogeography]]''
*[[Marshall McLuhan]] and [[Quentin Fiore]] – ''[[The Medium is the Massage|The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects]]''
*[[William Manchester]] – ''[[The Death of a President]]''
*[[Robert K. Massie]] – ''[[Nicholas and Alexandra (book)|Nicholas and Alexandra]]''
*[[Desmond Morris]] – ''[[The Naked Ape]]''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_3116000/3116329.stm|title=1967: The Naked Ape steps out|date=12 October 1967|via=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=23 December 2007|archive-date=11 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411110521/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_3116000/3116329.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Anaïs Nin]] – ''[[The Diary of Anaïs Nin|The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Two: 1934-1939]]''
*[[Josep Pla]] – ''[[Life Embitters]] (La vida amarga)''
*[[Paul Robert (lexicographer)|Paul Robert]] (editor) – ''[[Petit Robert]]'' abridged dictionary
*[[Valerie Solanas]] – ''[[SCUM Manifesto]]''<ref>{{cite book |last=Penner |first=James |year=2011 |title=Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture |location=Bloomington, IN |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-22251-0 |page=232}}</ref>
*[[A. T. Q. Stewart]] – ''The Ulster Crisis: Resistance to Home Rule 1912–14''
*[[Piri Thomas]] – ''[[Down These Mean Streets]]''<ref>{{citation|newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/books/piri-thomas-author-of-down-these-mean-streets-dies.html |title= Piri Thomas, Spanish Harlem Author, Dies at 83 |last= Berger |first= Joseph |date= October 19, 2011 }}</ref>

==Births==
*[[January 7]] – [[Benjamin Kwakye]], Ghanaian novelist
*[[February 8]] – [[Rachel Cusk]], Canadian-British novelist<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barber |first=Lynn |author-link=Lynn Barber |date=30 August 2009 |title=Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt |work=[[The Observer]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/30/rachel-cusk-lynn-barber |access-date=23 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[March 8]] – [[Mitsuyo Kakuta]] (角田 光代), Japanese novelist and translator
*[[March 12]] – [[Jenny Erpenbeck]], German novelist
*[[April 19]] – [[Steven H Silver]], [[Americans|American]] science fiction writer
*[[June 16]] – [[Maylis de Kerangal]], French novelist
*[[July 11]] – [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], English-born Indian/American writer
*[[July 19]]
**[[Zoran Drvenkar]], Croatian German novelist
**[[Wladimir Kaminer]], Russian German short story writer
*[[July 31]] – [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]], American memoirist (''[[Prozac Nation]]'') (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])
*[[September 21]] – [[Suman Pokhrel]], Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
*[[October 4]] –  [[Miloš Urban]], Czech novelist
*[[December 12]] – [[Robert Lepage]], French Canadian playwright, actor and director
*''Uncertain date'' – [[S. F. Said]], Lebanese-born British children's fiction writer

==Deaths==
*[[January 29]] – [[Ion Buzdugan]], Romanian poet and political figure (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[February 8]] – [[Victor Gollancz]], English publisher (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[March 2]] – [[José Martínez Ruiz]] (Azorín), Spanish novelist (born [[1873 in literature|1873]])
*[[March 7]] – [[Alice B. Toklas]], American memoirist and autobiographer (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[March 30]] – [[Jean Toomer]], African American writer (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[May 12]] – [[John Masefield]], English Poet Laureate (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Langston Hughes]], American poet, novelist and playwright (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[June 3]] – [[Arthur Ransome]], English author of children's and other books (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])
*[[June 4]] – [[J. R. Ackerley]], English journalist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[June 7]] – [[Dorothy Parker]], American humorist (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[July 22]]
**[[Lajos Kassák]], Hungarian poet, novelist and translator (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
**[[Carl Sandburg]], American historian and poet (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])
*[[July 31]] – [[Margaret Kennedy]], English novelist and playwright (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[August 2]] – [[Giles Romilly]], English journalist (tranquilizer overdose, born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[August 9]] – [[Joe Orton]], English playwright (murdered, born [[1933 in literature|1933]])
*[[August 29]] – [[Sidney Bradshaw Fay]], American historian and author (born [[1876 in literature|1876]])
*[[September 1]] – [[Siegfried Sassoon]], English poet and memoirist (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])
*[[September 12]] – [[Vladimir Bartol]], Slovene author (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[September 16]] – [[Pavlo Tychyna]], Ukrainian poet (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*[[September 24]] – [[Robert van Gulik]], Dutch author (cancer, born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[September 29]] – [[Carson McCullers]], American novelist (brain hemorrhage, born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*September – [[Christopher Okigbo]], Nigerian poet (killed in action, born [[1930 in literature|1930]])
*[[October 8]] – [[Vernon Watkins]], Welsh poet (heart failure, born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[October 9]] – [[André Maurois]], French novelist (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])
*[[October 13]] – [[Georges Sadoul]], French journalist and writer on cinema (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[October 14]] – [[Marcel Aymé]], French novelist and children's author (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[October 25]] – [[Margaret Ayer Barnes]], American author and playwright (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Lloyd C.|last=Taylor|title=Margaret Ayer Barnes|location=Boston|publisher=Twayne Publishing|year=1974|isbn=978-0-80570-037-4|page=15}}</ref>
*[[November 17]] – [[Bo Bergman]], Swedish poet (born [[1869 in literature|1869]])
*[[November 30]] – [[Patrick Kavanagh]], Irish poet (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick Kavanagh|title=Collected Poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I79lAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Allen Lane|isbn=978-0-7139-9599-2|page=xxviii}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]]

===Canada===
*See [[1967 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[André Pieyre de Mandiargues]], ''La Marge''
*[[Prix Médicis]]: [[Claude Simon]], ''Histoire''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Alan Garner]], ''[[The Owl Service]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=Books Related to Compensatory Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l20aPwWw7XwC&pg=PA22|year=1969|publisher=U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research|pages=22}}</ref>
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Seamus Heaney]], [[Brian Jones (poet)|Brian Jones]], [[Norman Nicholson]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Angus Calder]], [[Marcus Cumberlege]], [[David Harsent]], [[David Selzer]], [[Brian Patten]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Margaret Drabble]], ''Jerusalem The Golden''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Winifred Gérin]], ''[[Charlotte Brontë]]: The Evolution of Genius''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Charles Causley]]

===United States===
*[[Frost Medal]]: [[Marianne Moore]]
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Robert A. Heinlein]], ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]''
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Samuel R. Delany]], ''[[The Einstein Intersection]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Irene Hunt]], ''[[Up a Road Slowly]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Edward Albee]], ''[[A Delicate Balance (play)|A Delicate Balance]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] & [[National Book Award]]: [[Bernard Malamud]] – ''[[The Fixer (Malamud novel)|The Fixer]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Anne Sexton]]: ''[[Live or Die (book)|Live or Die]]''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Akutagawa Prize]]: [[Oshiro Tatsuhiro]] (大城立裕), ''The Cocktail Party''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Thomas Keneally]], ''[[Bring Larks and Heroes]]''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[José María Sanjuán]], ''Réquiem por todos nosotros''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Raffaello Brignetti]], ''Il gabbiano azzurro''

==References==
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