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Overview of the events of 1970 in literature
Overview of the events of 1970 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1970 .
Events
January 16 – The
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus opens with a performance of
Georg Büchner 's
Dantons Tod .
[1]
March –
Magdalena Mouján 's story "Gu ta Gutarrak" ("We and Ours") in
Basque is suppressed by the authorities in
Francoist Spain .
[2]
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 .
[3] He has begun a novel that will become
Earthly Powers (1980).
June 17 – The première of
David Storey 's play
Home at the
Royal Court Theatre , London, is directed by
Lindsay Anderson and stars Sir
John Gielgud and Sir
Ralph Richardson .
July 7 – The English publisher Sir
Allen Lane dies age 67 having suffered cancer.
[4] On
August 21 his paperback imprint
Penguin Books is acquired by
Pearson .
August 27 – England'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 .
[5]
November 20 – The playwright
Fadil Paçrami becomes
Chairman of the Parliament of Albania .
November 25 – In
Tokyo , the Japanese author and
Tatenokai militia leader
Yukio Mishima (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 .
December 5 –
Dario Fo premières his play
Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Morte accidentale di un anarchico) at
Varese in Italy.
unknown dates
Len Deighton 's
Bomber , set in 1943, becomes the first published novel to have been written on a
word processor , an
IBM MT/ST .
[6]
The 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.
[7]
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.
[8]
Bohumil Hrabal 's books Domácí úkoly (Home Work) and Poupata (Buds) are suppressed by the communist authorities in
Czechoslovakia .
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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 )
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 , Jamaican novelist
November 27 –
Han Kang , South Korean novelist
December 21 –
Mohamedou Ould Salahi , Mauritanian author and former Guantánamo detainee
unknown dates
Deaths
January 10 –
Charles Olson , American modernist poet (liver cancer, born
1910 )
January 29 –
B. H. Liddell Hart , English military historian (born
1895 )
February 2 –
Bertrand Russell , English philosopher (born
1872 )
[17]
February 4 –
Louise Bogan , American poet (born
1897 )
[18]
February 20 –
Sophie Treadwell , American dramatist and journalist (born
1885 )
[19]
February 21 –
Johannes Semper , Estonian writer, translator and politician (born
1892 )
[20]
March 11 –
Erle Stanley Gardner , American writer (born
1889 )
[21]
March 15 –
Arthur Adamov , Russian-French playwright (born
1908 )
[22]
March 21 –
Marlen Haushofer , Austrian novelist (born
1920 )
March 29 –
Vera Brittain , English novelist, memoirist and poet (born
1893 )
[23]
April 11 –
John O'Hara , American novelist (cardiovascular disease, born
1905 )
[24]
May 7 –
Jack Jones , Welsh novelist (born
1884 )
[25]
May 12 –
Nelly Sachs , Jewish German poet and dramatist (born
1891 )
[26]
June 2 –
Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian
modernist poet and writer (born
1888 )
June 3 –
Ruth Sawyer , American children's writer and novelist (born
1880 )
June 7 –
E. M. Forster , English novelist (born
1879 )
[27]
June 16 –
Elsa Triolet , French novelist (born
1896 )
[28]
July 7 –
Allen Lane , English publisher (born
1902 )
July 15 –
Eric Berne , Canadian-born psychiatrist and author (heart attack, born
1910 )
September 1 –
François Mauriac , French novelist (born
1885 )
[29]
September 25 –
Erich Maria Remarque , German novelist (All Quiet On The Western Front ) (born
1898 )
[30]
September 28 –
John Dos Passos , American novelist (born
1896 )
[31]
October 18 –
Máirtín Ó Cadhain , Irish language writer (born
1906 )
[32]
November 23 –
Alf Prøysen , Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (born
1914 )
[33]
November 25 –
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), Japanese author (
seppuku , born
1925 )
[34]
unknown date –
Racey Helps , English children's author and illustrator (born
1913 )
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Bernice Rubens ,
The Elected Member
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Leon Garfield and
Edward Blishen ,
The God Beneath the Sea
Cholmondeley Award :
Kathleen Raine ,
Douglas Livingstone ,
Edward Brathwaite
Eric Gregory Award :
Helen Frye ,
Paul Mills ,
John Mole ,
Brian Morse ,
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 ,
Lord Palmerston
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :
Roy Fuller
United States
Elsewhere
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^ Hahn 2015, p.14
^ Hahn 2015, p. 76
^ Hahn 2015, p, 199
^ Barone, Diane M. (8 March 2011).
Children's Literature in the Classroom: Engaging Lifelong Readers . Guilford Press. p. 67.
ISBN
978-1-60623-940-7 .
^
"Raja Alem: "All my life, i tried to break the frame" " . KAWA . 20 November 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2020 .
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ISBN
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ISBN
978-1-317-76322-2 .
^ Louise Heck-Rabi (1976). Sophie Treadwell: Subjects and Structures in 20th Century American Drama . Wayne State University. p. 181.
^ Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973).
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^ Harold Bloom (1995).
Modern Mystery Writers . Chelsea House Publishers. p. 76.
ISBN
978-0-7910-2375-4 .
^
Meanjin Quarterly . University of Melbourne. 1970. p. 338.
^ Harold Oxbury (1985).
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ISBN
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ISBN
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E-M-Forster . Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 16.
ISBN
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^ Gale Cengage (2002).
Modern French Poets . Gale Group. p. 32.
ISBN
978-0-7876-5252-4 .
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Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia . Taylor & Francis. p. 840.
ISBN
978-0-8153-4058-4 .
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ISBN
9781135941222 .
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