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Overview of the events of 1967 in literature
Overview of the events of 1967 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1967 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 7 –
Benjamin Kwakye , Ghanaian novelist
March 8 –
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田 光代), Japanese novelist and translator
April 19 –
Steven H Silver ,
American science fiction writer
June 16 –
Maylis de Kerangal , French novelist
July 11 –
Jhumpa Lahiri , English-born Indian/American writer
July 19
July 31 –
Elizabeth Wurtzel , American memoirist (
Prozac Nation ) (died
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 )
February 8 –
Victor Gollancz , English publisher (born
1893 )
March 2 –
José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), Spanish novelist (born
1873 )
March 7 –
Alice B. Toklas , American memoirist and autobiographer (born
1893 )
March 30 –
Jean Toomer , African American writer (born
1894 )
May 12 –
John Masefield , English Poet Laureate (born
1878 )
May 22 –
Langston Hughes , American poet, novelist and playwright (born
1902 )
June 3 –
Arthur Ransome , English author of children's and other books (born
1884 )
June 4 –
J. R. Ackerley , English journalist (born
1896 )
June 7 –
Dorothy Parker , American humorist (born
1893 )
July 22
July 31 –
Margaret Kennedy , English novelist and playwright (born
1896 )
August 2 –
Giles Romilly , English journalist (tranquilizer overdose, born
1916 )
August 9 –
Joe Orton , English playwright (murdered, born
1933 )
August 29 –
Sidney Bradshaw Fay , American historian and author (born
1876 )
September 1 –
Siegfried Sassoon , English poet and memoirist (born
1886 )
September 12 –
Vladimir Bartol , Slovene author (born
1903 )
September 16 –
Pavlo Tychyna , Ukrainian poet (born
1891 )
September 24 –
Robert van Gulik , Dutch author (cancer, born
1910 )
September 29 –
Carson McCullers , American novelist (brain hemorrhage, born
1917 )
September –
Christopher Okigbo , Nigerian poet (killed in action, born
1930 )
October 8 –
Vernon Watkins , Welsh poet (heart failure, born
1906 )
October 9 –
André Maurois , French novelist (born
1885 )
October 13 –
Georges Sadoul , French journalist and writer on cinema (born
1904 )
October 14 –
Marcel Aymé , French novelist and children's author (born
1902 )
October 25 –
Margaret Ayer Barnes , American author and playwright (born
1886 )
[6]
November 17 –
Bo Bergman , Swedish poet (born
1869 )
November 30 –
Patrick Kavanagh , Irish poet (born
1904 )
[7]
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
References