Editing 1970 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1970'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 16]] – The [[Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus]] opens with a performance of [[Georg Büchner]]'s ''[[Danton's Death|Dantons Tod]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nrw-buehnen.de/buehnen/detail.php?id_adr=23415&event_account=15931&id_language=1 |title=Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus |publisher=nrw-buehnen.de |language=de |access-date=2013-07-19 |archive-date=2014-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223181034/http://www.nrw-buehnen.de/buehnen/detail.php?id_adr=23415&event_account=15931&id_language=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*March – [[Magdalena Mouján]]'s story "{{Lang|eu|Gu ta Gutarrak|italic=no}}" ("We and Ours") in [[Basque language|Basque]] is suppressed by the authorities in [[Francoist Spain]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Ashley|title=The History of the Science-fiction Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qkmF8HvP_gC&pg=PA411|year=2000|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-1-84631-003-4|pages=411}}</ref>
*[[June 10]] – The English novelist [[Anthony Burgess]] delivers an inflammatory lecture, "Obscenity and the Arts", at the University of Malta; its reception leads to him leaving [[Malta]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/anthony-burgesss-censorship-scandal-in-malta-a-timeline|title=Anthony Burgess's censorship scandal in Malta: a timeline|publisher=International Anthony Burgess Foundation |access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref> He has begun a novel that will become ''[[Earthly Powers]]'' (1980).
*[[June 17]] – The première of [[David Storey]]'s play ''[[Home (Storey play)|Home]]'' at the [[Royal Court Theatre]], London, is directed by [[Lindsay Anderson]] and stars Sir [[John Gielgud]] and Sir [[Ralph Richardson]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Alighting in the Confines of a Lonely Cuckoo's Nest|author=Genzlinger, Neil|url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/theater/reviews/08home.html?ex=157680000&en=6e8f685b80c281b2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 December 2006}}</ref>
*[[August 21]] – The [[Penguin Books]] paperback imprint is acquired by [[Pearson PLC]], following the death of its owner Sir [[Allen Lane]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Pearson Timeline|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020151110/http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/Pearson.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-10-20|url=http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/index.htm|work=The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition|first=Mary H.|last=Munroe|year=2004|via= Northern Illinois University}}</ref>
*[[August 27]] – Britain's [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] introduces a revolutionary production of Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' directed by [[Peter Brook]], at the [[Royal Shakespeare Theatre]], [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].<ref>{{Cite web |first=Clive |last=Barnes |title=Historic Staging of Dream |url=http://www.alanhoward.org.uk/dreamnytimes.htm |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1970-08-28 |access-date=2010-06-23}}</ref>
*[[November 20]] – The playwright [[Fadil Paçrami]] becomes [[Chairman of the Parliament of Albania]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Avatars of Intellectuals Under Communism|publisher=Zeta Books|year=2011|isbn=9786068266145|page=81}}</ref>
*[[November 25]] – In [[Tokyo]], the Japanese author and [[Tatenokai]] militia leader [[Yukio Mishima]] ({{Lang|ja|三島由紀夫}}, 45) and others take over the headquarters of the [[Japan Self-Defense Forces]] in an attempted [[coup d'état]]. Mishima commits [[seppuku]] (public ritual suicide) when he fails to sway the public to his [[right-wing politics]], which include restoring the powers of the [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]].
*[[December 5]] – [[Dario Fo]] premières his play ''[[Accidental Death of an Anarchist]]'' ({{Lang|it|Morte accidentale di un anarchico}}) at [[Varese]] in Italy.
*''unknown dates''
**[[Len Deighton]]'s ''[[Bomber (novel)|Bomber]]'', set on June 31 [''sic.''] 1943, becomes the first published novel to have been written on a [[word processor]], an [[IBM MT/ST]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/03/len_deighton_s_bomber_the_first_book_ever_written_on_a_word_processor.single.html |title=The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor? |work=[[Slate (magazine) |Slate]] |date=2013-03-01 |access-date=20 August 2020 |last=Kirschenbaum |first=Matthew}}</ref>
**The novel ''[[Deliverance (novel)|Deliverance]]'' by the American poet [[James Dickey]] is published; it will go on to be named among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by an editorial board of the American Modern Library.<ref>{{cite news
| url= http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
| title=100 Best Novels |work=Modern Library | year=1998}}</ref>
**An unexpurgated edition of [[John Cleland]]'s ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' (''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', 1748–1749) appears in the U.K. without legal challenge.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Sutherland|title=Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=udkN4xWi2r0C&pg=PA39|year=1983|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-389-20354-4|pages=39–}}</ref>
**[[Bohumil Hrabal]]'s books {{Lang|cs|Domácí úkoly}} (Home Work) and {{Lang|cs|Poupata}} (Buds) are suppressed by the communist authorities in [[Czechoslovakia]].

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Dritëro Agolli]] – {{Lang|sq|Komisari Memo}} (Commissar Memo)
*[[Poul Anderson]] – ''[[Tau Zero]]''
*[[Abdelhamid ben Hadouga]] - ''[[The South Wind (novel)]]''
*[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''Vital Parts''
*[[Thomas Bernhard]] – ''[[The Lime Works]]'' ({{Lang|de|Das Kalkwerk}})
*[[Melvyn Bragg]] – ''[[A Place in England]]''
*[[John Braine]] – ''[[Stay with Me Till Morning]]''
*[[Wallace Breem]] – ''[[Eagle in the Snow]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mench |first=Fred |date=2003 |title=Maximus to the Rescue |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=10530796&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |journal=Archaeology |volume=56 |issue=5 |pages=60 |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref>
*[[Jimmy Breslin]] – ''[[The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight]]''
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[Passenger to Frankfurt]]''
*[[Robertson Davies]] – ''[[Fifth Business]]''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]]
**''[[The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales]]''
**''[[Warlocks and Warriors]]'' (ed.)
*[[Samuel R. Delany]] – ''The Fall of the Towers'' (trilogy)
*[[Michel Déon]] – ''[[Les Poneys sauvages]]''
*[[James Dickey]] – ''[[Deliverance (novel)|Deliverance]]''
*[[Joan Didion]] – ''[[Play It as It Lays]]''
*[[José Donoso]] – ''[[The Obscene Bird of Night]]'' ({{Lang|es|El obsceno pájaro de la noche}})
*[[Lawrence Durrell]] – ''[[Nunquam]]''
*[[Vincent Eri]] – ''The Crocodile''
*[[Nuruddin Farah]] – ''[[From a Crooked Rib]]''
*[[J. G. Farrell]] – ''[[Troubles (novel)|Troubles]]''
*[[Juan Goytisolo]] – ''[[Count Julian (novel)|Count Julian]]'' ({{Lang|es|Reivindicación del conde don Julián}})
*[[Pierre Guyotat]] - ''[[Eden, Eden, Eden]]'' ({{Lang|fr|Éden, Éden, Éden}})
* [[L. P. Hartley]] – ''[[My Sisters' Keeper]]''
*[[Anne Hébert]] – ''[[Kamouraska (novel)|Kamouraska]]''
*[[Ernest Hemingway]] – ''[[Islands in the Stream (novel)|Islands in the Stream]]''
*[[Susan Hill]] – ''[[I'm the King of the Castle]]''
*[[Pamela Hansford Johnson]] – ''[[The Honours Board]]''
*[[Anna Kavan]] – ''Julia and the Bazooka''
*[[Jaan Kross]] – ''Between Three Plagues'' (part 1)
*[[Halldór Laxness]] – {{Lang|is|Innansveitarkronika}}
*[[Ira Levin]] – ''[[This Perfect Day]]''
*[[Mario Levrero]] – ''[[:es:La ciudad (novela)|La ciudad]]''
*[[H. P. Lovecraft]] – ''[[The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions]]''
*[[Peter Lovesey]] – ''[[Wobble to Death]]''
*[[John D. MacDonald]] – ''[[The Long Lavender Look]]''
*[[Eric Malpass]] – ''[[Oh My Darling Daughter]]''
*[[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[When in Rome (novel)|When in Rome]]''
*[[Yukio Mishima]] ({{Lang|ja|三島由紀夫}}) – ''[[The Decay of the Angel]]'' ({{Lang|ja|天人五衰}}, {{Lang|ja-latn|Tennin Gosui}}; last in ''[[The Sea of Fertility]]'' tetralogy)
*[[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]] – ''Fergus''
*[[Toni Morrison]] – ''[[The Bluest Eye]]''
*[[Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk]] – ''Harpoon of the Hunter'' ({{Lang|iu|ᐊᖑᓇᓱᑦᑎᐅᑉ ᓇᐅᒃᑯᑎᖓ}})
*[[Larry Niven]] – ''[[Ringworld]]''
*[[John Jay Osborn, Jr.]] – ''[[The Paper Chase (Osborn novel)|The Paper Chase]]''
*[[Abel Posse]] – {{Lang|es|Los bogavantes}}
*[[Mary Renault]] – ''[[Fire from Heaven]]''
*[[Kurban Said]] – ''[[Ali and Nino]]''
*[[Erich Segal]] – ''[[Love Story (novel)|Love Story]]''
*[[Sidney Sheldon]] – ''[[The Naked Face]]''
*[[Clark Ashton Smith]] – ''[[Other Dimensions]]''
*[[Manuel Scorza]] – ''[[Drums for Rancas]]''
*[[Muriel Spark]] – ''[[The Driver's Seat (novel)|The Driver's Seat]]''
*[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''[[The Crystal Cave]]''
*[[Alan Sillitoe]] – ''[[A Start in Life (1970 novel)|A Start in Life]]''
*[[Leon Uris]] – ''[[QB VII]]''
*[[Jack Vance]] – ''[[The Pnume]]''
*[[Gore Vidal]] – ''[[Two Sisters (novel)|Two Sisters]]''
*[[Patrick White]] – ''[[The Vivisector]]''
*[[Venedikt Yerofeyev]] – ''[[Moscow-Petushki]] (Moscow to the End of the Line''; [[samizdat]] publication)
*[[Roger Zelazny]] – ''[[Nine Princes in Amber]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Lloyd Alexander]] – ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian''<ref>Hahn 2015, p.14</ref>
*[[Rev. W. Awdry]] – ''[[List of Railway Series Books#Duke the Lost Engine|Duke the lost Engine]]'' (twenty-fifth in ''[[The Railway Series]]'' of 42 books by him and his son [[Christopher Awdry]])
*[[Richard Bach]] – ''[[Jonathan Livingston Seagull]]''
*[[Nina Bawden]] – ''[[The Birds on the Trees]]''
*[[Judy Blume]] – ''[[Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 76</ref>
*[[John Burningham]] – ''[[Mr Gumpy's Outing]]''
*[[Betsy Byars]] – ''[[Summer of the Swans]]''
*[[John Christopher]] ([[Sam Youd]]) – ''[[The Guardians (Christopher novel)|The Guardians]]'' (science fiction)
*[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[Fantastic Mr Fox]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p, 199</ref>
*[[Leon Garfield]] and [[Edward Blishen]] – ''[[The God Beneath the Sea]]''
*[[Judith Kerr]] – ''Mog the Forgetful Cat'' (first in the [[Mog (Judith Kerr)|Mog]] series of 17 books)
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] – ''[[A Book of Devils and Demons]]''
*[[Dr. Seuss]] – ''[[Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?]]''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barone |first1=Diane M. |title=Children's Literature in the Classroom: Engaging Lifelong Readers |date=8 March 2011 |publisher=Guilford Press |isbn=978-1-60623-940-7 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PwjCE5cEABsC&pg=PA67 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Ruth Park]]
**''The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Springtime''
**''The Muddle-Headed Wombat on the River''
*[[Bill Peet]]
**''The Whingdingdilly''
**''[[The Wump World]]''
*[[Maurice Sendak]] – ''[[In the Night Kitchen]]''
*[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] – ''[[A Day of Pleasure|A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw]]''
*[[E. B. White]] – ''[[The Trumpet Of The Swan]]''
*[[Annette Tison]] and [[Talus Taylor]] - ''[[Barbapapa]]''

===Drama===
*[[Ama Ata Aidoo]] – ''[[Anowa]]''
*[[Robert Bolt]] – ''[[Vivat! Vivat Regina!]]''
*[[Dario Fo]] – ''[[Accidental Death of an Anarchist]]''
*[[Michael Frayn]] – ''[[The Two of Us (play)|The Two of Us]]'' (4 1-act plays)
*[[Trevor Griffiths]] – ''Occupations''
*[[Christopher Hampton]] – ''[[The Philanthropist (play)|The Philanthropist]]''
*[[Lorraine Hansberry]] – ''[[Les Blancs]]''
*[[Welcome Msomi]] – ''[[uMabatha]]''
*[[Terence Rattigan]] – ''[[A Bequest to the Nation]]''
*[[Anthony Shaffer (writer)|Anthony Shaffer]] – ''[[Sleuth (play)|Sleuth]]''
*[[Alexander Vampilov]] – ''Duck Hunting'' ({{Lang|ru|Утиная охота}}, {{Lang|ru-latn|Utinaya okhota}}, published; first performed 1976)
*[[Derek Walcott]] – ''[[Dream on Monkey Mountain]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1970 in poetry}}
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[Demons and Dinosaurs]]''
*[[Ted Hughes]] – ''[[Crow (poetry)|Crow]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Theodor W. Adorno]] (posthumously) – ''[[Aesthetic Theory]]'' (''Asthetische Theorie'')
*[[Hannah Arendt]] – ''On Violence''
*[[Roland Barthes]] – ''[[S/Z]]''
*[[Pierre Berton]] – ''[[The National Dream (book)|The National Dream]]''
*[[Jim Bouton]] – ''[[Ball Four]]''
*[[Dee Brown (novelist)|Dee Brown]] – ''[[Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee]]''
*[[James MacGregor Burns]] – ''[[Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom]]''
*[[Henri Charrière]] – ''[[Papillon (autobiography)|Papillon]]''
*[[Elizabeth David]] – ''Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen''
*[[Edward De Bono]] – ''[[Lateral Thinking]]: creativity step by step''
*[[August Derleth]] – ''[[Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969: A History and Bibliography]]''
*[[Michel Foucault]] – {{Lang|fr|Les Mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines}} ''([[The Order of Things]]: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences)''
*[[Germaine Greer]] – ''[[The Female Eunuch]]''
*[[Helene Hanff]] – ''[[84 Charing Cross Road]]''
*[[Arthur Janov]] – ''[[The Primal Scream]]''
*[[Uwe Johnson]] – ''[[Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl]]'' ({{lang|de|Jahrestage: Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl}}; begins publication)
*[[Hal Lindsey]] – ''[[The Late Great Planet Earth]]''
*[[Christopher Lloyd (gardener)|Christopher Lloyd]] – ''The Well-Tempered Garden''
*[[Norman Mailer]] – ''[[Of a Fire on the Moon]]''
*[[Dumas Malone]] – ''[[Jefferson and His Time|Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805]]''
*[[Mahathir Mohamad]] – ''[[The Malay Dilemma]]''
*[[Kate Millett]] – ''[[Sexual Politics]]''
*[[Nancy Mitford]] – ''[[Frederick the Great]]''
*[[Robin Morgan]] (ed.) – ''[[Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement]]''
*[[Harold Perkin]] – ''The Age of the Railway''
*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''The Edwardians''
*[[Albert Speer]] – ''[[Inside the Third Reich]]''
*[[Alvin Toffler]] – ''[[Future Shock]]''

==Births==
*[[January 25]] – [[Stephen Chbosky]], American novelist and screenwriter
*[[February 28]] – [[Daniel Handler]], American novelist
*[[March 6]] – [[Simona Vinci]], Italian fiction writer
*[[March 12]] – [[Dave Eggers]], American writer, editor and publisher
*[[March 20]] – [[Michele Jaffe]], American author
*[[March 26]] – [[Martin McDonagh]], British-born Irish playwright
*[[May 20]] – [[Dorthe Nors]], Danish fiction writer
*[[May 26]] – [[Alex Garland]], English novelist
*[[June 6]] – [[Sarah Dessen]], American novelist
*[[July 22]] – [[Doug Johnstone]], Scottish crime fiction writer
*[[August 27]] - [[Ann Aguirre]], American speculative fiction writer
*[[September 10]] – [[Phaswane Mpe]], South African novelist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[September 16]] – [[Nick Sagan]], American novelist and screenwriter
*[[October 27]] – [[Jonathan Stroud]], English fantasy writer
*[[November 7]] – [[Chris Adrian]], American novelist
*[[November 24]] – [[Marlon James (novelist)|Marlon James]], Jamaican novelist
*[[November 27]] – [[Han Kang]], South Korean novelist
*[[December 21]] – [[Mohamedou Ould Slahi|Mohamedou Ould Salahi]], Mauritanian author and former Guantánamo detainee 
*''unknown dates''
**[[Raja'a Alem]], Saudi Arabian writer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kawa-news.com/en/raja-alem-life-tried-break-frame/|title=Raja Alem: "All my life, i tried to break the frame"|date=20 November 2017|website=KAWA|access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref>
**[[Roberta Dapunt]], Italian poet<ref>{{cite web |title=Roberta Dapunt, info e libri dell'autore. Giulio Einaudi Editore. |url=https://www.einaudi.it/autori/roberta-dapunt/ |website=Einaudi |access-date=22 August 2020 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
**[[Nathan Englander]], American novelist and short story writer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/nathan-englander/|title=Nathan Englander|website=American Academy in Berlin|access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref>
**[[Neel Mukherjee (writer)|Neel Mukherjee]], Indian novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/neel-mukherjee/|title=Neel Mukherjeewebsite=Royal Society of Literature|access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref>
**[[Faruk Šehić]], Bosnian poet and fiction writer

==Deaths==
*[[January 10]] – [[Charles Olson]], American modernist poet (liver cancer, born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[January 29]] – [[B. H. Liddell Hart]], English military historian (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[February 2]] – [[Bertrand Russell]], English philosopher (born [[1872 in literature|1872]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Jagdish |last1=Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra|first2=Helmut |last2=Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg|title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9ZmLmVFSYQC&pg=PA44|date=28 December 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95178-2|pages=44}}</ref>
*[[February 4]] – [[Louise Bogan]], American poet (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Eric L. Haralson|title=Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=noCrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA96|date=21 January 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-76322-2|pages=96}}</ref>
*[[February 20]] – [[Sophie Treadwell]], American dramatist and journalist (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Louise Heck-Rabi|title=Sophie Treadwell: Subjects and Structures in 20th Century American Drama|publisher=Wayne State University|year=1976|page=181}}</ref>
*[[February 21]] – [[Johannes Semper]], Estonian writer, translator and politician (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov|title=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1sNAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Macmillan|page=327}}</ref>
*[[March 11]] – [[Erle Stanley Gardner]], American writer (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold Bloom|title=Modern Mystery Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rNodAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Chelsea House Publishers|isbn=978-0-7910-2375-4|page=76}}</ref>
*[[March 15]] – [[Arthur Adamov]], Russian-French playwright (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Meanjin Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNBZAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=University of Melbourne|page=338}}</ref>
*[[March 21]] – [[Marlen Haushofer]], Austrian novelist (born [[1920 in literature|1920]])
*[[March 29]] – [[Vera Brittain]], English novelist, memoirist and poet (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold Oxbury|title=Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211599-7|page=48}}</ref>
*[[April 11]] – [[John O'Hara]], American novelist (cardiovascular disease, born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary|publisher=Somerset Publishers|year=1999|page=234|isbn=0403099501}}</ref>
*[[May 7]] – [[Jack Jones (novelist)|Jack Jones]], Welsh novelist (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-JAC-1884|title=Jones, Jack (1884-1970), author and playwright|author=Keri Edwards|year=2001|access-date=2 June 2022}}</ref>
*[[May 12]] – [[Nelly Sachs]], Jewish German poet and dramatist (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Leo Baeck Institute|title=Catalog of the Archival Collections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hqzCTJ6DODIC&pg=PA124|year=1990|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|isbn=978-3-16-145597-1|pages=124}}</ref>
*[[June 2]] – [[Giuseppe Ungaretti]], Italian [[Modernism|modernist]] poet and writer (born [[1888 in literature|1888]])
*[[June 3]] – [[Ruth Sawyer]], American children's writer and novelist (born [[1880 in literature|1880]])
*[[June 7]] – [[E. M. Forster]], English novelist (born [[1879 in literature|1879]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Norman Page|title=E-M-Forster|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QERdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|date=22 January 1988|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-19008-9|pages=16}}</ref>
*[[June 16]] – [[Elsa Triolet]], French novelist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale Cengage|title=Modern French Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-5252-4|page=32}}</ref>
*[[July 7]] – [[Allen Lane]], English publisher (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Penguin: Company history |url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/aboutpenguin_companyhistory.html |publisher=Penguin Books |access-date=2013-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101142744/http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/aboutpenguin_companyhistory.html |archive-date=2011-11-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[July 15]] – [[Eric Berne]], Canadian-born psychiatrist and author (heart attack, born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[September 1]] – [[François Mauriac]], French novelist (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hafLHZgZtt4C&pg=PA840|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-4058-4|pages=840}}</ref>
*[[September 25]] – [[Erich Maria Remarque]], German novelist (''All Quiet On The Western Front'') (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Konzett | first = Matthias | title = Encyclopedia of German Literature | publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers | location = Chicago | year = 2000 | isbn = 9781135941222 | page=814}}</ref>
*[[September 28]] – [[John Dos Passos]], American novelist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA397|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|pages=397}}</ref>
*[[October 18]] – [[Máirtín Ó Cadhain]], Irish language writer (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Igoe | first = Vivien | title = Dublin burial grounds & graveyards | publisher = Wolfhound Press | location = Dublin | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780863278723 | page=179}}</ref>
*[[November 23]] – [[Alf Prøysen]], Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{cite web|url=  https://www.oversetterleksikon.no/2018/05/31/alf-proysen-1914-1970/|title=Alf Prøysen, 1914–1970|publisher= Norsk Oversetterleksikon |author= Ove Røsbak|access-date=July 1, 2019|language=no}}</ref>
*[[November 25]] – [[Yukio Mishima]] (三島 由紀夫), Japanese author ([[seppuku]], born [[1925 in literature|1925]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Scott Stokes|title=The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PjYSgQSCIlsC&pg=PA249|year=2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8154-1074-4|pages=249}}</ref>
*''unknown date'' – [[Racey Helps]], English children's author and illustrator (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]

===Canada===
*See [[1970 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Michel Tournier]], ''Le Roi des Aulnes''
*[[Prix Médicis]] French: [[Camille Bourniquel]], ''Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale''
*[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Luigi Malerba]], ''Saut de la mort''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Bernice Rubens]], ''[[The Elected Member]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Leon Garfield]] and [[Edward Blishen]], ''[[The God Beneath the Sea]]''
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Kathleen Raine]], [[Douglas Livingstone (poet)|Douglas Livingstone]], [[Edward Brathwaite]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Helen Frye (writer)|Helen Frye]], [[Paul Mills (writer)|Paul Mills]], [[John Mole (poet)|John Mole]], [[Brian Morse]], [[Alan Perry (poet)|Alan Perry]], [[Richard Tibbitts]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Lily Powell]], ''The Bird of Paradise''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Jasper Ridley (historian)|Jasper Ridley]], ''[[Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Lord Palmerston]]''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Roy Fuller]]

===United States===
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Larry Niven]], ''[[Ringworld]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[William H. Armstrong (author)|William H. Armstrong]], ''[[Sounder (novel)|Sounder]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Charles Gordone]], ''No Place To Be Somebody''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA120|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=120}}</ref>
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Jean Stafford]], ''[[The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford|Collected Stories]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Richard Howard]], ''Untitled Subjects''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Dal Stivens]], ''[[A Horse of Air]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Novelists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpUYAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=St. James Press|page=1188}}</ref>
*[[Alfaguara Prize]]: [[Carlos Droguett]], ''Todas esas muertes''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Jesús Fernández Santos]], ''Libro de las memorias de las cosas''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Nello Saito]], ''Dentro e fuori''

==Notes==

* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

==References==
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