Editing 1973 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1973'''.
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==Events==
*[[March 6]] – The [[Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts]], founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (''Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i umjetnost'') in [[Podgorica]], elects its first members.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA) |url=http://www.interacademies.net/Academies/ByRegion/SouthEasternEurope/Montenegro/13024.aspx |publisher=IAP |year=2013 |access-date=2015-01-09 |archive-date=2015-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109162532/http://www.interacademies.net/Academies/ByRegion/SouthEasternEurope/Montenegro/13024.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*March – 5 Italian fascists abduct [[Franca Rame]] (wife of [[Dario Fo]]) and rape, beat and mutilate her.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Tony|last=Mitchell|title=Dario Fo: People's Court Jester|edition=Updated & expanded|location=London|publisher=Methuen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrdMAgAAQBAJ|year=1999|isbn=0-413-73320-3|page=122}}</ref> She and Fo continue to write and tour drama in Italy, although Fo is arrested by police in November.
*[[May 14]]
**New [[orthography]] for the [[Greenlandic language]] is introduced.
**[[François Truffaut]]'s film ''[[Day for Night (film)|Day for Night]] (La Nuit américaine)'' premieres; novelist [[Graham Greene]] (credited as Henry Graham) has a cameo role as an English insurance company representative.
*[[June 21]]
**The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] delivers its decision in the [[List of landmark court decisions in the United States|landmark case]] ''[[Miller v. California]]'', establishing the "[[Miller test]]" for determining [[obscenity]].
**[[Virago Press]], registered on June 18 in the U.K. by [[Carmen Callil]] mainly to publish classics by [[List of women writers|women writers]], holds its first board meeting;<ref>{{Cite web |title=The History of Virago |url=http://www.virago.co.uk/the-history-of-virago/ |publisher=Virago |year=2013 |access-date=2015-01-09 |archive-date=2015-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323043711/http://www.virago.co.uk/the-history-of-virago/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> its first book will be published in 1975.
*[[July 26]] – [[Peter Shaffer]]'s drama ''[[Equus (play)|Equus]]'' is premièred in London by the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] company at [[The Old Vic]].
*September – Following the overthrow of President Allende by a military regime, [[book burnings in Chile|book burnings take place in Chile]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sonia Cardenas|title=Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T9nymQvJmBoC&pg=PA37|year=2010|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-2130-3|pages=37}}</ref>
*[[September 16]] – [[Chile]]an poet and playwright [[Víctor Jara]], detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in [[Víctor Jara Stadium|Estadio Chile]] and tortured during the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état]], is shot and killed. His last poem, "[[Estadio Chile (poem)|Estadio Chile]]", is preserved in memories and scraps of paper retained by fellow detainees.
*[[September 25]] – The funeral of Chilean poet [[Pablo Neruda]] becomes a focus for protests against the new government of [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-296272.html ''The Washington Post''.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221155733/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-296272.html |date=December 21, 2009}}</ref>
*[[December 3]] – French police of the [[Direction de la surveillance du territoire]], disguised as plumbers, are caught trying to install a spy microphone in the directors' office of the Paris satirical paper ''[[Le Canard enchaîné]]''.
*c. [[December 27]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]'s novel ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'' (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, written 1958–1968) is first published, by the Paris publisher [[Éditions du Seuil]] from a typescript smuggled out of the [[Soviet Union]].
*''unknown dates''
**[[André Brink]]'s novel ''Kennis van die aand'' ("Looking on Darkness") becomes the first [[Afrikaans]] book banned by the government of [[South Africa]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter France|title=The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmNoS2dndKsC&pg=PA137|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-924784-4|pages=137}}</ref>
**[[Mikhail Bulgakov]]'s novel ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is first published complete in Moscow (in the form left at the author's death in [[1940 in literature|1940]]), by [[Khudozhestvennaya Literatura]].
**[[Frank Herbert]] becomes director-photographer of the television show, ''The Tillers''.
**[[Robert B. Parker]] starts the [[Boston]]-based [[Spenser (character)|Spenser]] book series with his debut crime novel ''[[The Godwulf Manuscript]]''.

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Nelson Algren]] – ''The Last Carousel'' (short stories)
*[[Martin Amis]] – ''[[The Rachel Papers (novel)|The Rachel Papers]]''
*[[J. G. Ballard]] – ''[[Crash (J. G. Ballard novel)|Crash]]''
*[[René Barjavel]] – ''[[The Immortals (Barjavel novel)|The Immortals]]''
*[[Donald Barr]] - ''[[Space Relations]]''
*[[Erhan Bener]] - ''[[Böcek (novel)|Böcek]]''
*[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''Regiment of Women''
*[[Joseph Payne Brennan]] – ''[[Stories of Darkness and Dread]]''
*[[Rita Mae Brown]] – ''[[Rubyfruit Jungle]]''
*[[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]] – ''The Stone That Never Came Down''
*[[Ramsey Campbell]] – ''[[Demons by Daylight]]''
*[[Jerome Charyn]] – ''[[The Tar Baby]]''
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[Postern of Fate]]''
*[[Arthur C. Clarke]] – ''[[Rendezvous with Rama]]''
*[[Basil Copper]] – ''[[From Evil's Pillow]]''
*[[Julio Cortázar]] – ''[[Libro de Manuel]] (A Manual for Manuel)''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[The Fallible Fiend]]''
*L. Sprague de Camp and [[Catherine Crook de Camp]], editors – ''[[Tales Beyond Time]]''
*[[Michel Déon]] – ''[[Un taxi mauve|Un Taxi mauve]]''
*[[August Derleth]] – ''[[The Chronicles of Solar Pons]]''
*[[Michael Ende]] – ''[[Momo (novel)|Momo]]''
*[[Paul E. Erdman]] – ''The Billion Dollar Sure Thing''
*[[J. G. Farrell]] – ''[[The Siege of Krishnapur]]''
*[[Leon Forrest]] – ''There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden''
*[[William Goldman]] – ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'' ("S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version")
*[[Graham Greene]] – ''[[The Honorary Consul]]''
*[[Elisabeth Harvor]] – ''Women and Children'' (11 stories revised as ''Our Lady of All Distances'' in 1991)
*[[L.P. Hartley]] – ''[[The Will and the Way (novel)|The Will and the Way]]''
*[[Robert A. Heinlein]] – ''[[Time Enough for Love]]''<ref name="WWE-1973">{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1973|title=1973 Award Winners & Nominees|work=Worlds Without End|access-date=2009-09-29}}</ref>
*[[Witi Ihimaera]] – ''Tangi''
*[[Hammond Innes]] – ''[[Golden Soak (novel)|Golden Soak]]''
*[[Joseph Joffo]] – ''[[A Bag of Marbles]] (Un sac de billes)''
*[[B. S. Johnson]] – ''[[Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry]]''
*[[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] – ''A Touch of Danger''
*[[Anna Kavan]] – ''Who Are You?''
*[[Brian Killick]] – ''[[The Heralds]]''
*[[Dean R. Koontz]] – ''[[Demon Seed (novel)|Demon Seed]]''
*[[Jerzy Kosiński]] – ''The Devil Tree''
*[[Milan Kundera]] – ''[[Life Is Elsewhere]]'' (''Život je jinde'', first published in French as ''La Vie est ailleurs'')
*[[Derek Lambert (author)|Derek Lambert]] 
**''[[Beau Blackstone]]''
**''[[Blackstone's Fancy]]''
*[[Clarice Lispector]] – ''Água Viva''
*[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Matlock Paper]]''
*[[John D. MacDonald]] – ''[[The Turquoise Lament]]''
*[[Cormac McCarthy]] – ''[[Child of God]]''
*[[Robert Marasco]] – ''Burnt Offerings''
*[[Toni Morrison]] – ''[[Sula (novel)|Sula]]''
*[[Iris Murdoch]] – ''[[The Black Prince (novel)|The Black Prince]]''
*[[Robert B. Parker]] – ''[[The Godwulf Manuscript]]''
*[[Mervyn Peake]] (died 1968) – ''[[The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb]]''
*[[Anthony Powell]] – ''[[Temporary Kings]]''
*[[Thomas Pynchon]] – ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]''
*[[Ernst von Salomon]] – ''[[Der tote Preuße]]''
*[[Irwin Shaw]] – ''[[Evening in Byzantium]]''
*[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] – ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]] (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ)''
*[[Richard G. Stern]] – ''Other Men's Daughters''
*[[Rex Stout]] – ''[[Please Pass the Guilt]]''
*[[Jacqueline Susann]] – ''[[Once Is Not Enough]]''
*[[Julian Symons]] – ''[[The Plot Against Roger Rider]]''
*[[Hunter S. Thompson]] – ''[[Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72]]''
*[[Jack Vance]] – ''[[The Anome]]''
*[[Mario Vargas Llosa]] – ''[[Captain Pantoja and the Special Service]] (Pantaleón y las visitadoras)''
*[[Gore Vidal]] – ''[[Burr (novel)|Burr]]''
*[[Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]] – ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]''
*[[Patrick White]] – ''[[The Eye of the Storm (novel)|The Eye of the Storm]]''
*[[Rudy Wiebe]] – ''Temptations of Big Bear''
*[[Venedikt Yerofeyev]] – ''[[Moscow-Petushki]]'' (''Moscow to the end of the line''; first commercial publication, in Israel)
*[[Roger Zelazny]]
**''[[To Die in Italbar]]''
**''[[Today We Choose Faces]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Nina Bawden]] – ''[[Carrie's War]]''
*[[Thea Beckman]] – ''[[Crusade in Jeans]] ([[Kruistocht in spijkerbroek]])''<ref>{{cite book|author=Jan van Coillie|title=Leesbeesten en boekenfeesten: hoe werken (met) kinder- en jeugdboeken?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5F0st8-bBngC&pg=PA285|year=1999|publisher=NBD Biblion Publishers|isbn=978-90-5483-189-1|pages=285}}</ref>
*[[Lois Duncan]] – ''[[I Know What You Did Last Summer]]''
*[[Penelope Lively]] – ''[[The Ghost of Thomas Kempe]]''
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] – ''[[A Book of Ogres and Trolls]]''
*[[Ruth Park]] – ''The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Bush Band''
*[[Bill Peet]] – ''The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock''
*Dick Roughsey – ''[[The Giant Devil Dingo]]''
*[[Doris Buchanan Smith]] – ''[[A Taste of Blackberries]]''
*[[Patricia Wrightson]] – ''[[The Nargun and the Stars]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard Alger Drew|title=The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ubHYRVKquEC&pg=PA453|year=1997|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-1-56308-615-1|pages=453}}</ref>

===Drama===
*[[Alan Ayckbourn]] – ''[[The Norman Conquests]]''
*[[Dario Fo]]
**''Guerra di popolo in Cile'' (The People's War in Chile - published version includes monologue ''[[Mamma Togni]]'')
**''Pum, pum, chi è? La Polizia!'' (Knock, knock, who's there? The police!)
*[[Griselda Gambaro]] – ''[[Information For Foreigners]] (Información para extranjeros)''
*[[Jean Poiret]] – ''[[La Cage aux Folles (play)|La Cage aux Folles]]''
*[[David Rudkin]] – ''[[Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin]]'' (radio play)
*[[Peter Shaffer]] – ''[[Equus (play)|Equus]]''
*[[Wole Soyinka]] – ''[[The Bacchae of Euripides]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1973 in poetry}}
*[[Allen Curnow]] – ''An Abominable Temper and Other Poems''
*[[Tomás Rivera]] – ''Always and other poems''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Ernest Becker]] – ''[[The Denial of Death]]''
*[[Howard W. Bergerson]] – ''[[Palindromes and Anagrams]]''
*[[Allan W. Eckert]] – ''The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone''
*[[Antonia Fraser]] – ''[[Cromwell, Our Chief of Men]]''
*[[Nancy Friday]] – ''[[My Secret Garden]]''
*[[Pauline Kael]] – ''[[Deeper into Movies]]'' (1974 [[National Book Award]] winner for Arts and Letters)
*[[Christopher Lloyd (gardener)|Christopher Lloyd]] – ''Foliage Plants''
*[[Peter Maas]] – ''Serpico''
*[[Biblica|New York Bible Society International]] – ''[[New Testament]]'', [[New International Version]] (translated into modern [[American English]])
*[[Nigel Nicolson]] – ''[[Portrait of a Marriage]]'' (compiled from writings of his mother, [[Vita Sackville-West]], died 1962)
*[[Tim O'Brien (author)|Tim O'Brien]] – ''[[If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home]]''
*[[Bill Owens (photographer)|Bill Owens]] – ''[[Suburbia (book)|Suburbia]]''
*[[John Pearson (author)|John Pearson]] – ''[[James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007]]''
*[[Flora Rheta Schreiber]] – ''[[Sybil (Schreiber book)|Sybil]]''
*[[E. F. Schumacher]] – ''[[Small Is Beautiful]]''
*[[Maureen Wheeler|Maureen]] and [[Tony Wheeler]] – ''Across Asia on the Cheap''
*[[Paula Wolfert]] – ''Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco''

==Births==
*[[January 1]] – [[Bryan Thao Worra]], Lao writer
*[[January 8]] – [[Madhulika Liddle]], Indian writer
*[[January 13]] – [[Lois Pryce]], Scottish-born travel writer and journalist
*[[February 10]] – [[Núria Añó]], Catalan writer
*[[February 21]]
**[[Jacob M. Appel]], American short story writer and bioethicist
**[[Mariana Savka]], Ukrainian poet, children's writer, translator and publisher
*[[March 3]] – [[Abbas Khadir]], German author and poet of Iraqi origin
*[[April 15]] – [[Maria V. Snyder]], American fantasy and science-fiction writer
*[[May 10]] – [[Tana French]], American-born mystery novelist and actress
*[[May 20]] – [[Natalka Sniadanko]], Ukrainian writer, journalist and translator
*[[June 2]] – [[David Bezmozgis]], Latvian-Canadian writer
*[[June 16]] – [[Veronica Rossi]], Brazilian-American young adult novelist
*[[August 13]] – [[Kamila Shamsie]], Pakistan-born novelist
*[[August 18]] – [[Victoria Coren Mitchell]], English writer, presenter and poker player, daughter of Alan Coren
*[[November 12]] - [[Jay Kristoff]], Australian fantasy and science-fiction author
*[[November 17]] – [[Marianna Kiyanovska]], Ukrainian poet, translator and literary scholar
*[[December 20]] – [[Maarja Kangro]], Estonian author and poet
*[[December 24]] – [[Stephenie Meyer]], American young-adult vampire romance writer and film producer
*''unknown dates''
**[[Frances Hardinge]], English young people's fiction writer
**[[Ahmed Saadawi]], Iraqi writer
**[[Juan Gabriel Vásquez]], Colombian novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=Juan Gabriel Vásquez|title=The Shape of the Ruins: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=caDGDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124|date=3 May 2018|publisher=Quercus|isbn=978-0-85705-660-3|pages=124}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 15]] – [[Neil M. Gunn]], Scottish novelist, dramatist and critic (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*[[February 22]]
**[[Elizabeth Bowen]], Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
**[[Brigitte Reimann]], East German novelist (cancer) (born [[1933 in literature|1933]])
*[[March 5]] - [[Robert C. O'Brien (author)|Robert C. O'Brien]], American novelist (born [[1918 in literature|1918]])
*[[March 6]] – [[Pearl S. Buck]], American novelist (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1973|page=163}}</ref>
*[[March 18]] – [[Roland Dorgelès]], French novelist and memoirist (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Obituaries on File: A-R.|publisher=Facts on File|year=1979|page=163}}</ref>
*[[March 26]] – Sir [[Noël Coward]], English dramatist and humorist (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])<ref>"Obituary: Sir Noel Coward", ''The Times'', 27 March 1973, p. 18</ref>
*[[April 9]] – [[Warren Lewis]], Irish author (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[April 20]] – [[Elisabeth Hauptmann]], German writer (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])
*[[April 28]] – [[Jacques Maritain]], French philosopher (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[April 30]] – [[Jirō Osaragi]] (大佛 次郎, ''Haruhiku Nojiri''), Japanese novelist (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])
*[[May 21]] – [[Carlo Emilio Gadda]], Italian poet and linguist (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[June 4]] – [[Arna Bontemps]], American poet (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[June 9]] – [[John Creasey]], English crime writer (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/10/archives/john-creasey-author-is-dead-specialized-in-mystery-novels.html|title=John Creasey, Author, Is Dead; Specialized in Mystery Novels|date=June 10, 1973|website=New York Times|access-date=March 8, 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] – [[William Inge]], American playwright (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Inge's Funeral Today |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/12/archives/inges-funeral-today.html |access-date=24 April 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=June 12, 1973}}</ref>
*[[June 30]] – [[Nancy Mitford]], English novelist and biographer (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{ODNBweb |first=Selina |last=Hastings |title=Mitford, Nancy Freeman- (1904–1973) |origyear=2004 |year=2015 |edition=online |id=31450 }}</ref>
*[[July 11]] – [[Nobuko Yoshiya]] (吉屋 信子, ''Yoshiya Nobuko''), Japanese romantic novelist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[July 29]] – [[Henri Charrière]], French writer and criminal (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[August 1]] – [[Ann Quin]], English novelist (born [[1936 in literature|1936]])
*[[September 2]] – [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], English fantasy writer and scholar (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 September 1973 |title=J. R. R. Tolkien Dead at 81; Wrote 'The Lord of the Rings' |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/specials/tolkien-obit.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411062439/http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/specials/tolkien-obit.html |archive-date=11 April 2009}}</ref>
*[[September 9]] – [[S. N. Behrman]], American playwright, screenwriter and biographer (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[September 13]] – [[Sajjad Zaheer]], Urdu writer and revolutionary (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shingavi|first=Snehal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ffxsAwAAQBAJ&q=sajjad+zaheer|title=Angaaray|date=2018-06-05|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-93-5118-695-3|language=en}}</ref>
*[[September 20]] – [[William Plomer]], South African-born British novelist, poet and literary editor (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Alexander|first=Peter F.|title=William Plomer: A Biography|year=1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-212243-8}}</ref>
*[[September 23]] – [[Pablo Neruda]], Chilean poet (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>"Pablo Neruda, Nobel Poet, Dies in a Chilean Hospital", ''The New York Times'', 24 September 1973.</ref>
*[[September 29]] – [[W. H. Auden]], English-born poet (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])<ref>{{cite news |first=Israel |last=Shrenker|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/30/archives/w-h-auden-dies-in-vienna-w-h-auden-dies-in-vienna-at-the-age-of-66.html?mcubz=1 |title=W. H. Auden Dies in Vienna |date=30 September 1973|access-date=20 September 2017|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
*[[October 6]] – [[Margaret Wilson (novelist)|Margaret Wilson]], American novelist (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[October 28]] – [[Sergio Tofano]], Italian dramatist (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])
*[[November 8]] – [[Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel]], Turkish poet, author and playwright (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Necat|last=Birinci|title=Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel: Inceleme-Seçmeler|location=Cağaloğlu|publisher=Boğaziçi yayınları|year=1993|language=Turkish|isbn=978-9-75451-102-4|page=13}}</ref>
*[[November 13]] – [[B. S. Johnson]], English novelist (suicide) (born [[1933 in literature|1933]])
*[[December 7]] – [[Benn Levy]], English playwright and politician (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])
*[[December 9]] – [[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]], English crime writer (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
*[[December 11]] – [[May Wedderburn Cannan]], English poet (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Josef Magnus Wehner]], German poet and playwright (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*''unknown date'' – [[Kathleen Lindsay]], English-born South African romance novelist (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Patrick White]]

===Canada===
*See [[1973 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Jacques Chessex]], ''L'Ogre''
*[[Prix Médicis]] French: [[Tony Duvert]], ''Paysage de fantaisie''
*[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Milan Kundera]], ''[[Life Is Elsewhere]]''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[J. G. Farrell]], ''[[The Siege of Krishnapur]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Penelope Lively]], ''[[The Ghost of Thomas Kempe]]''
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Patric Dickinson]], [[Philip Larkin]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[John Wyndham|John Beynon]], [[Ian Caws]], [[James Fenton]], [[Keith Harris (poet)|Keith Harris]], [[David Howarth (poet)|David Howarth]], [[Philip Pacey]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Iris Murdoch]], ''[[The Black Prince (novel)|The Black Prince]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Robin Lane Fox]], ''[[Alexander the Great (book)|Alexander the Great]]''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[John Heath-Stubbs]]

===United States===
*[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Poetry|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry]], [[John Crowe Ransom]]
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Isaac Asimov]], ''[[The Gods Themselves]]''
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''[[Rendezvous with Rama]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=R. Reginald|title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GIOAAAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Borgo Press|isbn=978-0-89370-806-1|page=51}}</ref>
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Jean Craighead George]], ''[[Julie of the Wolves]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Jason Miller (playwright)|Jason Miller]], ''[[That Championship Season]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Eudora Welty]], ''[[The Optimist's Daughter]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Maxine Kumin]], ''Up Country''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: No award presented
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[José García Blázquez]], ''El rito''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Achille Campanile]], ''Manuale di conversazione''

==References==
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