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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1974'''.
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==Events==
*February – [[Novelist]] [[Juan Carlos Onetti]] is one of a group arrested by the [[Uruguay]]an dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper ''[[Marcha (newspaper)|Marcha]]'' a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/juan-carlos-onetti-latin-americas-first-modern-novelist-was-a-detective-of-despair|title=Uruguay's detective of despair|date=November 7, 2019|website=Washington Examiner|author= Adrian Nathan West|access-date=26 December 2020}}</ref>
*[[February 12]] – After publication at the end of [[1973 in literature|1973]] of [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]'s ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'' (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the [[Soviet Union]]. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear.
*[[August 8]] – The first of [[Armistead Maupin]]'s ''[[Tales of the City]]'' is published as a serial in ''The Pacific Sun'' ([[Marin County, California]]).
*[[October 21]] – New [[Guildhall Library]] opens in the [[City of London]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Guildhall Library |url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/guildhall-library/Pages/History-of-Guildhall-Library.aspx |publisher=City of London |access-date=2014-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405044034/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/guildhall-library/Pages/History-of-Guildhall-Library.aspx |archive-date=2014-04-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**The [[Jack Kerouac School]] of Disembodied Poetics is founded by [[Allen Ginsberg]] and [[Anne Waldman]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth H. Oakes|title=American Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Lb0zPJcYOwC&pg=PA352|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0809-4|pages=352}}</ref>
**German writer [[Uwe Johnson]] moves to [[Sheerness]] on the English [[Isle of Sheppey]].<ref>{{cite book|author=D. G. Bond|title=German History and German Identity: Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rhlvhew1JFEC&pg=PA199|year=1993|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-5183-459-4|pages=199}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
* [[Eric Ambler]] – ''[[Doctor Frigo]]''
*[[Kingsley Amis]] – ''Ending Up''
*[[René Barjavel]] – ''[[Les Dames à la licorne]]''
*[[Augusto Roa Bastos]] – ''[[I, the Supreme]] (Yo el supremo)''
*[[Peter Benchley]] – ''[[Jaws (novel)|Jaws]]''
*[[Hal Bennett]] – ''[[Wait Until the Evening]]''
*[[Heinrich Böll]] – ''[[The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum]] (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann)''
*[[Anthony Burgess]] – ''[[The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End]]''
*[[Andrés Caicedo]] – "Maternidad"
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[Poirot's Early Cases]]''
*[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[Switch Bitch]]''
*[[Philip K. Dick]] – ''[[Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said]]''
*[[Annie Dillard]] – ''[[Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]]''
*[[Lawrence Durrell]] – ''[[Monsieur (novel)|Monsieur]]''
*[[Frederick Forsyth]] – ''[[The Dogs of War (novel)|The Dogs of War]]''
*[[John Fowles]] – ''[[The Ebony Tower]]''
*[[Donald Goines]] – ''[[Crime Partners]]''
*[[Imil Habibi]] – ''[[The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist]]'' (الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل, ''Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-gharībah fī 'khtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī 'l-Naḥsh al-Mutashāʾil'')
*[[John Hawkes (novelist)|John Hawkes]] – ''Death Sleep''
*[[Joseph Heller]] – ''[[Something Happened]]''
*[[James Herbert]] – ''[[The Rats (novel)|The Rats]]''
*[[ Hammond Innes]] – ''[[North Star (novel)|North Star]]''
*[[Anna Kavan]] – ''Let Me Alone''
*[[Stephen King]] – ''[[Carrie (novel)|Carrie]]''
*[[Manuel Mujica Láinez]]
**''[[El laberinto (novel)|El laberinto]]''
**''El viaje de los siete demonios''
*[[Derek Lambert (author)|Derek Lambert]] 
**''[[Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe]]''
**''[[The Yermakov Transfer]]''
*[[Margaret Laurence]] – ''[[The Diviners]]''
*[[John le Carré]] – ''[[Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy]]''
*[[Ursula K. Le Guin]] – ''[[The Dispossessed]]''
*[[Madeleine L'Engle]] – ''[[A Wind in the Door]]''
*[[H. P. Lovecraft]] and [[August Derleth]] – ''[[The Watchers Out of Time and Others]]''
*[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Cry of the Halidon]]''
*[[Brian Lumley]] – ''[[Beneath the Moors]]''
*[[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Black as He's Painted]]''
*[[Colleen McCullough]] – ''[[Tim (novel)|Tim]]''
*[[Nicholas Meyer]] – ''[[The Seven-Per-Cent Solution]]''
*[[James A. Michener]] – ''[[Centennial (novel)|Centennial]]''
*[[Elsa Morante]] – ''[[History (novel)|La Storia]]'' (''History. A Novel'', 1978)
*[[Gerald Murnane]] – ''Tamarisk Row''
*[[Meja Mwangi]] – ''[[Carcase for Hounds]]''
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]] – ''[[Look at the Harlequins!]]''
*[[Edith Pargeter]] – ''Sunrise in the West'' (first in the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet)
*[[Robert B. Parker]] – ''[[God Save the Child]]''
*[[Ellen Raskin]] – ''[[Figgs & Phantoms]]''
*[[Ishmael Reed]] – ''[[The Last Days of Louisiana Red]]''
*[[Brigitte Reimann]] (died 1973) – ''[[Franziska Linkerhand]]''
*[[Harold Robbins]] – ''The Pirate''
*[[Fran Ross]] – ''[[Oreo (novel)|Oreo]]''
*[[Leonardo Sciascia]] – ''Todo modo''
*[[Tom Sharpe]] – ''[[Porterhouse Blue]]''
*[[Sidney Sheldon]] – ''[[The Other Side of Midnight]]''
*[[C. P. Snow]] – ''In Their Wisdom''

===Children and young people===
*[[Richard Adams]] – ''[[Shardik]]''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |page=3 |edition=2nd}}</ref>
*[[Stan and Jan Berenstain]] – ''The Berenstain Bears' New Baby''
*[[Robert Cormier]] – ''[[The Chocolate War]]''
*[[Paula Danziger]] – ''[[The Cat Ate My Gymsuit]]''
*Fynn (Sydney Hopkins) – ''[[Mister God, This Is Anna]]''
*[[Virginia Hamilton]] – ''[[M. C. Higgins, the Great]]''
*[[Diana Wynne Jones]] – ''[[The Ogre Downstairs]]''
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] – ''[[A Book of Sorcerers and Spells]]''
*[[Jill Murphy]] – ''[[The Worst Witch]]''
*[[Bill Peet]] – ''Merle the High Flying Squirrel''
*[[Miriam Roth]] – ''[[A Tale of Five Balloons]]'' ([[מעשה בחמישה בלונים]])
*[[Richard Scarry]] – ''The Best Rainy Day Book Ever''
*[[Jill Paton Walsh]] – ''The Emperor's Winding Sheet''
*[[Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman|Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman]] – ''[[Collected Ghost Stories]]''

===Drama===
*[[Nezihe Araz]] – ''Bozkır Güzellemesi'' (An Ode to the Steppe)
*[[Michael Cook (playwright)|Michael Cook]] – ''Jacob's Wake''
*[[Dario Fo]] – ''[[Can't Pay? Won't Pay!]] (Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!)''
*[[Paavo Haavikko]]
**''Ratsumies'' (The Horseman)
**''Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan'' (The King Goes Forth to France)
**''Harald Pitkäikäinen''
*[[Ira Levin]] – ''[[Veronica's Room]]''
*[[Mustapha Matura]] – ''Play Mas''<ref>{{cite web |author-link=Stephen Bourne (writer) |first=Stephen |last=Bourne |url=http://www.talawa.com/downloads/resourcepacks/retrace/retrace_general_resources.pdf |title=The Black Presence on the London Stage |publisher=[[Talawa Theatre Company]] |location=London |access-date=2015-02-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814110534/http://www.talawa.com/downloads/resourcepacks/retrace/retrace_general_resources.pdf |archive-date=August 14, 2014 }}</ref>
*[[Harold Pinter]] – ''[[No Man's Land (play)|No Man's Land]]''
*[[David Rudkin]] – ''[[Penda's Fen]]'' (television play)
*[[Tom Stoppard]] – ''[[Travesties]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1974 in poetry}}
*[[Duncan Bush]], [[Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)|Tony Curtis]], [[Nigel Jenkins]] – ''Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Maya Angelou]] – ''[[Gather Together in My Name]]''
*[[Carl Bernstein]] and [[Bob Woodward]] – ''[[All the President's Men]]''
*[[Augusto Boal]] – ''Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas'' (translated as ''Theatre of the Oppressed'' 1979)
*[[Vincent Bugliosi]] with [[Curt Gentry]] – ''[[Helter Skelter (book)|Helter Skelter]]''
*[[Robert A. Caro]] – ''[[The Power Broker]]''
*[[David Clark (psychiatrist)|David Clark]] – ''Social Therapy in Psychiatry''
*[[Shelby Foote]] – ''[[The Civil War: A Narrative]] – Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox''
*''[[The Freud/Jung Letters]]''
*[[Dumas Malone]] – ''[[Jefferson and His Time|Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809]]''
*[[Robert M. Pirsig]] – ''[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]''
*[[Erin Pizzey]] – ''Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear''
*[[Jonathan Raban]] – ''[[Soft City]]''
*[[Piers Paul Read]] – ''[[Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors]]''
*[[Barbu Solacolu]] – ''Evocări. Confesiuni. Portrete'' (Memoirs. Confessions. Portraits)
*''[[Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia]]'' (Հայկական Սովետական Հանրագիտարան, ''Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran''; begins publication)
*[[Lewis Thomas]] – ''The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher''
*[[Studs Terkel]] – ''[[Working (Terkel book)|Working]]''
*[[Joseph Wambaugh]] – ''[[The Onion Field]]''

==Births==
*[[January 6]] – [[Romain Sardou]], French novelist
*[[January 26]] – [[Shannon Hale]], American fantasy author
*[[February 15]] – [[Miranda July]] (née Grossinger), American filmmaker, performance artist and fiction writer
*[[April 13]] – [[K. Sello Duiker]], South African novelist (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])<ref>{{cite news |first=Liz |last=McGregor|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |title=Kabelo Duiker (obituary) |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=2005-02-07 |access-date=2015-02-23}}</ref>
*[[June 12]] – [[Chika Unigwe]], Nigerian novelist writing in English and Dutch
*[[August 7]] – [[Faisal Tehrani]], Malaysian novelist
*[[August 9]] – [[Ryūsui Seiryōin]] (清涼院 流水), Japanese novelist
*[[August 18]] – [[Nicole Krauss]], American novelist
*[[August 23]] – [[Serhiy Zhadan]], Ukrainian poet, novelist and essayist
*[[September 20]] – [[Owen Sheers]], Fijian-born Welsh poet, playwright and novelist
*[[November 4]] – [[Carlos Be]], Spanish playwright
*[[December 26]] – [[Joshua John Miller]], American novelist and screenwriter
*''unknown dates''
**[[Naomi Alderman]], English novelist<ref>{{cite book|author1=William D. Rubinstein|author2=Michael Jolles|author3=Hilary L. Rubinstein|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA21|date=22 February 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4039-3910-4|pages=21}}</ref>
**[[Sarah Hall (writer)|Sarah Hall]], English novelist
**[[Joanna Kavenna]], English novelist and travel writer
**[[Joe Meno]], American novelist and journalist
**[[Roger Williams (playwright)|Roger Williams]], Welsh dramatist and screenwriter

==Deaths==
*[[January 20]] – [[Edmund Blunden]], English poet and critic (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[January 25]] – [[James Pope-Hennessy]], English biographer (murdered, born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[January 29]] 
**[[H. E. Bates]], English novelist (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
**[[Sheila Stuart]], Scottish author and children's writer (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anne Commire|title=Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esZkAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-0072-9|page=27}}</ref>
*[[February 2]] – [[Marieluise Fleißer]], German dramatist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[February 24]] – [[Martin Armstrong (writer)|Martin Armstrong]], English poet and short story writer (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[March 3]] – [[Carl Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss historian (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*[[March 8]] – [[Buddhadeb Bosu]], Bengali poet and writer (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Calcutta Municipal Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNotMPSGCm0C|year=1973|publisher=Superintendent of Printing, Corporation Press|pages=313–314}}</ref>
*[[March 19]] – [[Austin Clarke (poet)|Austin Clarke]], Irish poet, playwright and novelist (born 1896)
*[[March 24]] – [[Olive Higgins Prouty]], American novelist (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[April 14]] – [[Howard Pease]], American novelist (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[May 9]] – [[L. T. C. Rolt]], English biographer and writer of ghost stories (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[May 13]] – [[Arthur J. Burks]], American writer (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[June 2]] – [[Tom Kristensen (poet)|Tom Kristensen]], Danish novelist and poet (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Michael S. |last=Byram |title=Tom Kristensen |url=https://archive.org/details/tomkristensen0000byra |url-access=registration |location=Boston |year=1982|isbn=9780805764918 }}</ref>
*[[June 11]] – [[Julius Evola]], Italian esotericist, journalist and philosopher (born 1898)
*[[June 9]] – [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]], Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
*[[July 3]] – [[Samuel Roth]], American publisher (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[July 4]] – [[Georgette Heyer]], English novelist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[July 16]] – [[Oduvaldo Vianna Filho]], Brazilian playwright (born [[1936 in literature|1936]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Leslie Hawkins Damasceno|title=Cultural Space and Theatrical Conventions in the Works of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780814325957|page=244}}</ref>
*[[July 29]] - [[Erich Kästner]], German children's author (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
*[[August 7]] – [[Rosario Castellanos]], Mexican writer and diplomat (electric shock, born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[August 11]] – [[Jan Tschichold]], German-born typographer and writer (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[August 17]] – [[Emma L. Brock]], American children's author and illustrator (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>Thornley, Stew (2004). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=z8bizMiODPcC&pg=PA8-IA8 Six Feet Under: A Graveyard Guide to Minnesota]''. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p.&nbsp;8. {{ISBN|0-87351-514-5}}.</ref>
*[[September 11]] – [[Lois Lenski]], American author and illustrator (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor1-last=Commire|editor1-first=Anne|editor2-last=Klezmer|editor2-first=Deborah|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|volume=9|year=2001|publisher=Yorkin Publications, Gale Group|location=Waterford|isbn=978-0-78764-068-2|page=380}}</ref>
*[[September 21]] – [[Jacqueline Susann]], American novelist (born [[1918 in literature|1918]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/valley-of-the-dolls-40-years-since-the-death-of-jacqueline-susann-22232|title=Valley of the Dolls: 40 years since the death of Jacqueline Susann|date=May 4, 2014|website=The Conversation|access-date=August 9, 2022}}</ref>
*[[October 4]] – [[Anne Sexton]], American poet (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])
*[[October 28]] – [[David Jones (artist-poet)|David Jones]], Anglo-Welsh poet and artist (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/30/archives/david-jones-dies-poet-and-painter-welshmanslnparenthesis-onwar-won.html|title=David Jones dies; Poet and Painter|date=30 October 1974|website=New York Times|access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[October 29]] – [[Victor E. van Vriesland]], Dutch writer (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[November 5]] – [[William Gardner Smith]], expatriate American novelist and journalist (born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[November 7]] – [[Eric Linklater]], Welsh-born Scottish novelist and travel writer (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
*[[November 26]] – [[Cyril Connolly]], English critic and writer (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Walter Lippmann]], American writer (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Eyvind Johnson]] and [[Harry Martinson]]

===Canada===
*See [[1974 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Pascal Lainé]], ''La Dentellière''
*[[Prix Médicis]] French: ''Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples''
*[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Julio Cortázar]], ''[[Libro de Manuel]]''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Nadine Gordimer]], ''[[The Conservationist]]'' and [[Stanley Middleton]], ''[[Holiday (novel)|Holiday]]''.
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Mollie Hunter]], ''[[The Stronghold (novel)|The Stronghold]]''
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[D.J. Enright]], [[Vernon Scannell]], [[Alasdair Maclean]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Duncan Forbes (poet)|Duncan Forbes]], [[Roger Garfitt]], [[Robin Hamilton (poet)|Robin Hamilton]], [[Frank Ormsby]], [[Penelope Shuttle]]
*[[Newdigate prize]]: [[Alan Hollinghurst]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Lawrence Durrell]], ''[[Monsieur (novel)|Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[John Wain]], ''[[Samuel Johnson]]''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Ted Hughes]]

===United States===
*[[Frost Medal]]: [[John Hall Wheelock]]
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''[[Rendezvous with Rama]]''
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[The Dispossessed]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Paula Fox]], ''[[The Slave Dancer]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: ''no award given''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: ''no award given''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Lowell]], ''The Dolphin''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Ronald McKie]], ''[[The Mango Tree]]''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Luis Gasulla]], ''Culminación de Montoya''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Clotilde Marghieri]], ''Amati enigmi''

==References==
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