Editing 1969 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1969'''.
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==Events==
*[[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>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-09 |title=Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill |url=https://lithub.com/diary-of-a-pilgrimage-marking-the-gravesite-of-assia-and-shura-wevill/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref>
*April 22 – The first [[Booker Prize|Booker-McConnell Prize]] for fiction is awarded to [[P. H. Newby]] for ''[[Something to Answer For]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Btjc3DN_WX0C|year=1996|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-29366-6|page=426}}</ref>
*August – "Penelope Ashe", purported author of a bestselling novel, ''[[Naked Came the Stranger]]'', is revealed as a group of ''[[Newsday]]'' journalists.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.openroadmedia.com/penelope-ashe |publisher=Open Road Integrated Media |title=Penelope Ashe |access-date=2013-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110220838/http://www.openroadmedia.com/penelope-ashe |archive-date=2013-11-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''unknown date'' – ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'' begins using the abbreviation "TLS" on its title page.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Derwent |last=May |title=Critical Times: The History of the "Times Literary Supplement" |year=2001 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=0-00-711449-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/criticaltimeshis0000mayd}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Eva Alexanderson]] – ''Kontradans'' (Counter-dance)
* [[Eric Ambler]] – ''[[The Intercom Conspiracy]]''
*[[Jorge Amado]] – ''[[Tenda dos Milagres (novel)|Tenda dos Milagres]]'' (Tent of Miracles)
*[[Kingsley Amis]] – ''[[The Green Man (Kingsley Amis novel)|The Green Man]]''
*[[William H. Armstrong (author)|William H. Armstrong]] – ''[[Sounder (novel)|Sounder]]''
*[[Penelope Ashe]] – ''[[Naked Came the Stranger]]''
*[[Margaret Atwood]] – ''[[The Edible Woman]]''
*[[René Barjavel]] – ''[[Les Chemins de Katmandou]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|publisher=Gale|year=1998|isbn=9780787619978|page=24}}</ref>
*[[Ray Bradbury]] – ''[[I Sing the Body Electric (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 (novel)|Queen's Pawn]]''
*[[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] – ''[[Rigadoon (novel)|Rigadoon]]''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Solomon|first=Philip P.|year=1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7ea6_VQfeoC&pg=PA105|title=Understanding Céline|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]]|page=105|isbn=9780872498143}}</ref>
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[Hallowe'en Party]]''
*[[Michael Crichton]] – ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]''<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/08/archives/michael-crichton-rhymes-with-frighten-michael-crichton.html| title = Michael Crichton (rhymes with frighten); Michael Crichton| work        = [[The New York Times]]| author = Israel Shenker| date  = 1969-06-08| page  = BR5| access-date  = 2019-06-06}}</ref>
*[[John Cheever]] – ''[[Bullet Park]]''
*[[A. J. Cronin]] – ''[[A Pocketful of Rye]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Ross McKibbin|title=Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=9780198834205|page=73}}</ref>
*[[Henry de Montherlant]] – ''Les Garçons'' (The Boys)
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[The Golden Wind]]''<ref>{{cite journal|author=Carol Ann Shine|title=Review: DE CAMP, L. Sprague. The Golden Wind|journal=Library Journal|issue=Mar. 15, 1969|pages=1159-1160}}</ref>
*[[Philip K. Dick]] – ''[[Ubik]]''
*[[Marion Eames]] – ''Y Stafell Ddirgel ([[The Secret Room]])''<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Companion to the Literature of Wales|editor=[[Meic Stephens]]|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1998|isbn=9780708313831|page=537}}</ref>
*[[John Fowles]] – ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]''<ref>{{cite journal| jstor = 441682| title = Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall down: Ourika, Cinderella, and The French Lieutenant's Woman| first = Eileen| last=  Warburton| journal = Twentieth Century Literature |volume = 42| number = 1| date  = Spring 1996 | pages= 165–186| doi = 10.2307/441682}}</ref>
*[[George MacDonald Fraser]] – ''[[Flashman (novel)|Flashman]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=Flashman: From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842. By George Macdonald Fraser. 256 pp. New York: NAL-World Publishing Company. $5.95 |first=Brian |last=Glanville |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 October 1969 |page=BR62}}</ref>
*[[Sarah Gainham]] – ''[[A Place in the Country (novel)|A Place in the Country]]''
*[[Paul Gallico]] – ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (novel)|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 (novel)|The Spook Who Sat by the Door]]''
*[[Günter Grass]] – ''[[Local Anaesthetic (novel)|Local Anaesthetic]] (Örtlich betäubt)''
*[[Frank Herbert]] – ''[[Dune Messiah]]''
*[[Raymond Hitchcock (author)|Raymond Hitchcock]] – ''[[Percy (novel)|Percy]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Goble|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=1999|page=224}}</ref>
*Richard Horn – [[Encyclopedia (novel)|''Encyclopedia'']]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pfeffer |first=Judith |date=2023-01-12 |title=Arlington micro press announces release of 50th book |url=https://www.yourarlington.com/arlington-archives/town-school/business/news/schober-111722.html |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=Your Arlington}}</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 (author)|Derek Lambert]] 
** ''[[Angels in the Snow]]''
** ''[[The Kites of War]]''
*[[Ursula Le Guin]] – ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''
*[[Elmore Leonard]] – ''[[The Big Bounce (novel)|The Big Bounce]]''
*[[Doris Lessing]] – ''[[The Four-Gated City]]''
*[[H. P. Lovecraft]] and Others – ''[[Cthulhu Mythos anthology#Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos|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 (novel)|Behold the Man]]''
*[[C. L. Moore]] – ''[[Jirel of Joiry]]''
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]] – ''[[Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle]]''
*[[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]] – ''[[Kaalam (novel)|Kaalam]]'' ("Time")
*[[Patrick O'Brian]] – ''[[Master and Commander]]''
*[[Don Pendleton]] – ''War Against The Mafia''
*[[Chaim Potok]] – ''[[The Promise (Chaim Potok novel)|The Promise]]''
*[[Manuel Puig]] – ''Little Painted Mouths''
*[[Mario Puzo]] – ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]''
*[[Ellery Queen]] – ''[[The Campus Murders]]''
*[[Pauline Réage]] – ''Retour à Roissy''
*[[Mordecai Richler]] – ''[[The Street (story collection)|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 (novel)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]''
*[[Dag Solstad]] – ''Irr! Grønt!''<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Norwegian Literature|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=1993|page=308|isbn=0803233175}}</ref>
*[[Rex Stout]] – ''[[Death of a Dude]]''
*[[Jacqueline Susann]] – ''[[The Love Machine (novel)|The Love Machine]]''
*[[Theodore Taylor (author)|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 (novel)|Everything Must Go]]''
*[[Colin Wilson]] – ''[[The Philosopher's Stone (novel)|The Philosopher's Stone]]''
*[[Roger Zelazny]]
**''[[Creatures of Light and Darkness]]''
**''[[Damnation Alley]]''
**''[[Isle of the Dead (Zelazny novel)|Isle of the Dead]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Rev. W. Awdry]] – ''[[List of Railway Series Books#Oliver the Western Engine|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 (novel)|Charlotte Sometimes]]''
*[[Rumer Godden]] – ''Operation Sippacik''
*[[Gary Paulsen]] – ''[[Mr. Tucket]]'' (first in ''[[Mr. Tucket]]'' series)
*[[Barbara Sleigh]] – ''[[The Snowball (children's novel)|The Snowball]]''
*[[William Steig]] – ''[[Sylvester and the Magic Pebble]]''
*[[John Rowe Townsend]] – ''[[The Intruder (Townsend novel)|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)

===Drama===
*[[Leilah Assunção]] – ''Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito (Speak Quietly or I’ll Scream)''
*[[Aimé Césaire]] – ''[[Une Tempête]]''
*[[Dario Fo]] – ''[[Mistero Buffo]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Gaetana Marrone|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J.|publisher=Routledge|year=2007|page=742}}</ref>
*[[Athol Fugard]] – ''[[Boesman and Lena]]''<ref>{{cite book | last = Kruger | first = Loren | title = The drama of South Africa : plays, pageants, and publics since 1910 | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781134680863 |page=219}}</ref>
*[[Joe Orton]] – ''[[What the Butler Saw (play)|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 (play)|She's Done It Again]]''
*[[Dennis Potter]] – ''[[Son of Man (The Wednesday Play)|Son of Man]]'' (television)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1056162/ |title=BFI Screenonline: ''Son of Man'' |website=Screenonline.org.uk |date=1969-04-16 |accessdate=2014-08-24}}</ref>
*[[Dalmiro Sáenz]] – ''Quién yo? (Who me?)''
*[[David Storey]] – ''[[In Celebration (play)|In Celebration]]''
*[[Paul Zindel]] – ''[[Let Me Hear You Whisper (play)|Let Me Hear You Whisper]]''

===Poetry===
{{main article|1969 in poetry}}
*[[James Schuyler]] – ''Freely Espousing''

===Non-fiction===
*[[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 (book)|Papillon]]''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[George H. Scithers]] (editors) – ''[[The Conan Swordbook]]''
*[[Antonia Fraser]] – ''[[Mary Queen of Scots (1969 book)|Mary Queen of Scots]]''
*Søren Hansen and Jesper Jensen – ''[[The Little Red Schoolbook]] (Den Lille Røde Bog For Skoleelever)''
*[[Pauline Kael]] – ''[[Going Steady (book)|Going Steady]]''
*[[Anton LaVey]] – ''[[The Satanic Bible]]''
*[[Laurie Lee]] – ''[[As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning]]''<ref>{{cite book | last = Ousby | first = Ian | title = Cambridge paperback guide to literature in English | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521436274 | page=227}}</ref>
*[[Dwight Macdonald]] – ''On Movies''
*[[Desmond Morris]] – ''[[The Human Zoo (book)|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>{{Cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2009-04-01/the-peter-principle-lives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701145608/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2009-04-01/the-peter-principle-lives |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |title=The Peter Principle Lives |work=Bloomberg Businessweek |date=2009-04-01 |access-date=2013-06-27}}</ref>
*[[David Reuben (author)|David Reuben]] – ''Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)''

==Births==
*January – [[Adrian Goldsworthy]], Welsh military historian and novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12542357/officers|title=Dr Adrian Goldsworthy|website=Companies House|access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref>
*[[January 12]] – [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]], English novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=82–}}</ref>
*[[January 17]] – [[Michael Moynihan (journalist)|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>{{cite web|url=https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/blog/meet-the-authors|title=Meet the Authors|date=10 November 2016|website=Reading Women Podcast|access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[May 29]] – [[Qiu Miaojin]] (邱妙津), Korean-born novelist (suicide [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[June 13]] – [[Virginie Despentes]], French writer<ref>{{cite book|author1=Janis L Pallister|author2=Ruth A Hottell|title=Francophone women film directors: a guide|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780838640463|page=123}}</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 in literature|2006]])
*[[November 28]] – [[Hanne Ørstavik]], Norwegian novelist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Hanne Ørstavik |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Godal |editor-first=Anne Marit |editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Hanne_Ørstavik |language=no |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[November 30]] – [[David Auburn]], American dramatist
*''unknown dates''
**[[John Harris (critic)|John Harris]], English writer, journalist and critic<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/harris-john/|title=John Harris|website=RCW Literary Agency|access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref>
**[[Tom McCarthy (novelist)|Tom McCarthy]], English novelist

==Deaths==
*[[January 11]] – [[Richmal Crompton]], English children's writer (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsHfAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-0036-1|page=360}}</ref>
*[[January 21]] – [[Giovanni Comisso]], Italian writer (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[March 9]] – [[Charles Brackett]], American novelist and screenwriter (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[March 11]] – [[John Wyndham]], English science fiction novelist (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seed |first1=David |title=A Companion to Science Fiction |date=9 June 2008 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-79701-3 |page=387 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PiphRocVYRwC&pg=PA387 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[March 24]] – [[Margery Fish]], English gardening writer (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[March 25]] – [[Max Eastman]], American writer (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])<ref>{{cite news |date=March 26, 1969 |title=Max Eastman Dies: Author and Radical |page=1 |work=The New York Times |format=obituary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/26/archives/max-eastman-dies-author-and-radical-max-eastman-author-radical-and.html}}</ref>
*[[March 26]] – [[John Kennedy Toole]], American novelist (suicide, born [[1937 in literature|1937]])
*[[March 27]] – [[B. Traven]], presumed German-born novelist (unknown year of birth)
*[[April 6]] – [[Gabriel Chevallier]], French writer (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[April 7]] – [[Rómulo Gallegos]], Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th [[President of Venezuela]] (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1997|isbn=9781135314255|page=630}}</ref>
*[[May 4]] – [[Osbert Sitwell]], English novelist and poet (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5ILAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|page=159}}</ref>
*[[July 24]] – [[Witold Gombrowicz]], Polish playwright and novelist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkUhDi-q5mkC&pg=PA235 |title=The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism |author=Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska |date=January 1995 |page=235|isbn=9780791427118 }}</ref>
*[[July 27]] – [[Vivian de Sola Pinto]], English poet and memoirist (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=W. Rubinstein|author2=Michael A. Jolles|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA758|date=27 January 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-230-30466-6|pages=758}}</ref>
*[[August 10]] – [[Maurine Dallas Watkins]], American journalist/play and screenwriter (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[August 14]] – [[Leonard Woolf]], English political theorist (born [[1880 in literature|1880]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Glendinning | first = Victoria | title = Leonard Woolf : a biography | publisher = Free Press | location = New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780743289184 | page=435}}</ref>
*[[August 27]] – [[Ivy Compton-Burnett]], English novelist (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author=J. Bhagyalakshmi|title=Ivy Compton-Burnett and Her Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=upyZa3ORGlMC&pg=PA5|year=1986|publisher=Mittal Publications|pages=5}}</ref>
*[[September 6]] – [[Gavin Maxwell]], Scottish naturalist and author (cancer, born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Oxbury | first = Harold | title = Great Britons: twentieth-century lives | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire New York | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780192115997 | page=239}}</ref>
*[[September 17]] – [[Greye La Spina]], American dramatist and short story writer (born [[1880 in literature|1880]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Elinor Brent-Dyer]], English children's writer (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[September 22]] – [[Rachel Davis Harris]], African American librarian (born [[1869 in literature|1869]])
*[[October 14]] – [[August Sang]], Estonian poet and literary translator (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[October 21]] – [[Jack Kerouac]], American novelist and poet (internal hemorrhage, born [[1922 in literature|1922]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/what-hollywood-gets-wrong-about-jack-kerouac-and-the-beat-generation/280612/|title=What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation|last=Larson|first=Jordan|work=The Atlantic|access-date=September 12, 2017}}</ref>
*[[November 6]] – [[Susan Taubes]], Hungarian American writer and Jewish intellectual (suicide, born [[1928 in literature|1928]])
*[[November 15]] – [[Ignacio Aldecoa]], Spanish writer (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Samuel Beckett]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1969/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref>

===Canada===
*See [[1969 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Félicien Marceau]], ''[[Creezy]]''
*[[Prix Médicis]]: [[Hélène Cixous]], ''Dedans''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[P. H. Newby]], ''[[Something to Answer For]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[K. M. Peyton]], ''[[The Edge of the Cloud]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards — K M Peyton |url=http://kmpeyton.co.uk/awards |website=kmpeyton.co.uk |access-date=28 December 2016}}</ref>
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Derek Walcott]], [[Tony Harrison]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Gavin Bantock]], [[Jeremy Hooker]], Jenny King, [[Neil Powell (author)|Neil Powell]], [[Landeg E. White]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Elizabeth Bowen]], ''[[Eva Trout (novel)|Eva Trout]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Antonia Fraser]], ''[[Mary Queen of Scots (1969 book)|Mary Queen of Scots]]''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Stevie Smith]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stevie Smith |url=http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/stevie-smith |website=www.poetryarchive.org |access-date=28 December 2016}}</ref>

===United States===
*[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Drama|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama]]: [[Tennessee Williams]]
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]], ''[[Stand on Zanzibar]]''
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Lloyd Alexander]], ''[[The High King]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Howard Sackler]], ''[[The Great White Hope]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[N. Scott Momaday]] – ''[[House Made of Dawn]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[George Oppen]]: ''Of Being Numerous''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[George Johnston (novelist)|George Johnston]], ''[[Clean Straw for Nothing]]''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Francisco García Pavón]] ''Las hermanas coloradas''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Fulvio Tomizza]], ''L'albero dei sogni''

==References==
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