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Overview of the events of 1972 in literature
Overview of the events of 1972 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972 .
Events
May 22 –
Cecil Day-Lewis ,
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom , dies at
Lemmons , the home of novelists
Kingsley Amis and
Elizabeth Jane Howard in North London, which he has shared with his wife and son – actors
Jill Balcon and
Daniel Day-Lewis – and at weekends with Kingsley's writer son
Martin Amis and others.
[1]
June 4 – The poet
Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the
Soviet Union .
[2]
October 6 –
7 – The new
Staatstheater Darmstadt is opened.
October 8 – The play
Sizwe Bansi is Dead has its first performance at the
Space Theatre (Cape Town) ,
South Africa , before a multiracial audience. Playwright
Athol Fugard directs, with co-writers
John Kani and
Winston Ntshona in lead roles.
October 10 – Sir
John Betjeman is declared Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first knight ever to be so.
[3]
"The three Marias",
Maria Isabel Barreno ,
Maria Teresa Horta and
Maria Velho da Costa , publish in Lisbon
New Portuguese Letters (Novas Cartas Portuguesas) , a collection challenging the
Estado Novo dictatorship, to immediate success,
[4] but banned by censors as "pornographic and an offense to public morals".
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8] Its authors are imprisoned for "abuse of freedom of the press" and "outrage to public decency".
[9]
[10]
[6] Only after the 1974 "
Carnation Revolution " does their trial end with the authors pardoned and the judge assigning "outstanding literary merit" to the book.
[10]
unknown date –
Somali Latin alphabet is introduced.
[11]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
Maile Meloy , American novelist and short story writer
February 11 –
Noboru Yamaguchi (山口 登), Japanese light novelist and game scenario author (died
2013 )
[28]
March 29 -
Ernest Cline , American science-fiction novelist and screenwriter
May 22 –
Max Brooks , American horror author and screenwriter
[29]
May 27 –
Maggie O'Farrell , Northern Ireland-born novelist
July 21 –
Josué Guébo , Ivorian writer and academic
August 6 -
Paolo Bacigalupi , American science-fiction and fantasy writer
August 18 –
Adda Djørup , Danish poet and fiction writer
August 26 -
Paula Hawkins , British novelist and journalist
September 6 –
China Miéville , English science fiction novelist
[30]
September 19
Cheryl B (Cheryl Burke), American poet and spoken word artist
N. K. Jemisin , American science fiction and fantasy writer
November 4 –
Yiyun Li (李翊雲), Chinese American writer of fiction in English
November 26 -
James Dashner , American writer of
speculative fiction
December 20 –
Gen Urobuchi , Japanese novelist and screenwriter
unknown dates
Deaths
January 1 –
Eberhard Wolfgang Möller , German playwright and poet (born
1906 )
January 7 –
John Berryman , American poet (suicide; born
1914 )
[33]
January 8 –
Kenneth Patchen , American poet and author (born
1911 )
[34]
January 17 –
Betty Smith , American novelist (born
1896 )
[35]
February 2 –
Natalie Clifford Barney , American writer and patron (born
1876 )
[36]
February 15 –
Edgar Snow , American political writer (cancer, born
1905 )
[37]
March 4 –
Richard Church , English poet and novelist (born
1893
[38]
March 9 –
Violet Trefusis , English writer (born
1894 )
[39]
March 11 –
Fredric Brown , American genre novelist (born
1906
March 14 –
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli , Italian publisher (born
1926 )
April 10 –
Laurence Manning , Canadian science fiction author (born
1899 )
April 16 –
Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成), Japanese fiction writer,
Nobel laureate (born 1899)
May 22 –
Cecil Day-Lewis , Irish-born Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and (as Nicholas Blake) novelist (born
1904 )
[40]
May 28 –
Violette Leduc , French novelist and memoirist (born
1907 )
[41]
June 24 –
R. F. Delderfield , English novelist and playwright (born
1912 )
[42]
August 2 –
Helen Hoyt (Helen Lyman), American poet (born
1887 )
August 9 –
Ernst von Salomon , German writer (born
1902 )
August 17 –
Alexander Vampilov , Russian dramatist (drowned fishing, born
1937 )
August 22 –
Ernestine Hill , Australian travel writer (born
1899 )
September 21 –
Henry de Montherlant , French novelist, dramatist and essayist (suicide, born
1895 )
September 27 –
S. R. Ranganathan , Indian mathematician and librarian (born
1892 )
October 5 –
Ivan Yefremov , Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (born
1908 )
[43]
November 1 –
Ezra Pound , American poet (born
1885 )
[44]
November 12 –
José Nucete Sardi , Venezuelan historian and diplomat (born
1897 )
[45]
November 29 –
Victor Bridges (Victor George de Freyne), English genre novelist, playwright and poet (born
1878 )
December 10 –
Mark Van Doren , American poet, writer and critic (born
1894 )
December 13 –
L. P. Hartley , English novelist (born
1895 )
[46]
December 23 –
Abraham Joshua Heschel , Polish-born American theologian and rabbi (born
1907 )
unknown dates
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
John Berger ,
G.
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Richard Adams ,
Watership Down
[48]
Cholmondeley Award :
Molly Holden ,
Tom Raworth ,
Patricia Whittaker
Eric Gregory Award :
Tony Curtis ,
Richard Berengarten ,
Brian Oxley ,
Andrew Greig ,
Robin Lee ,
Paul Muldoon
[49]
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
John Berger ,
G
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Quentin Bell ,
Virginia Woolf
United States
Elsewhere
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
References
^ Kelbie, Paul; Davies, Caroline (2008-08-31).
"Auden, Kerr, Day-Lewis" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2015-09-30 .
^
Obituary pp. 4–6
The New York Times "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55" January 29, 1996.
^
"From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2012-12-05 .
^ Kauffman, Linda S. (1988).
"8. Poetics, Passion and Politics in The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters " . Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 279–311.
ISBN
9780801495106 . Retrieved 2019-07-18 .
^ Patrick, Oona; Ellis, Dean; Fernandes, Jose (translator) (2014-04-15).
"Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria" . Guernica . Retrieved 2019-07-18 .
^
a
b Kramer, Jane (1975-02-02).
"The Three Marias" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2019-07-18 .
^
"The Case of The Three Marias" .
Time . Vol. 102, no. 4. US. 1973-07-23. p. 52.
ISSN
0040-781X . Retrieved 2019-06-30 .
^
"Three Women Charged With Pornography" .
Democrat and Chronicle . Rochester, NY. 1973-10-26. p. C1. Retrieved 2019-07-18 .
^ Hamilton-Faria, Hope (December 1975). "Reviewed Works".
The Modern Language Journal . 59 (8). Wiley for National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations: 451–452.
doi :
10.2307/325498 .
JSTOR
325498 .
^
a
b Mitchell, Juliet (1975-10-05). "Passion's prisoners".
The Sunday Times . No. 7947. London. p. 39.
^ Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001).
Culture and Customs of Somalia . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 73.
ISBN
978-0-313-31333-2 .
^ Jorge Amado (1972).
Obras de Jorge Amado: Tereza Batista, cansada de guerra . Martins.
^ James Vinson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1979).
Novelists and Prose Writers . Macmillan. p. 157.
ISBN
978-0-333-25292-5 .
^ Italo Calvino (1972).
Le città invisibili . Einaudi.
^ Joe McGuinniss (February 6, 1972).
"Real Cops and Robbers" . New York Times . Retrieved March 14, 2021 .
^ Emmis Communications (November 1984).
Texas Monthly . Emmis Communications. p. 234.
^
Google Books . Retrieved 2015-02-22.
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^ Hahn 2015, p. 118
^ Books, University of Chicago Center for Children's (1973).
The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1966-1972 . University of Chicago Press. p. 149.
ISBN
978-0-226-78057-3 .
^
"Review: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson" . the Guardian . 12 July 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2022 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 377
^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
^ Michael Holt (17 August 2018).
Alan Ayckbourn . Oxford University Press. p. 21.
ISBN
978-0-7463-1281-0 .
^ Elaine Morgan (1 February 2001).
Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution . Souvenir Press.
ISBN
978-0-285-63984-3 .
^
"Noboru Yamaguchi (novelist)" . Anime News Network . Retrieved March 14, 2021 .
^ Shelley, Peter (2017).
Anne Bancroft: The Life and Work .
McFarland & Company . p. 102.
ISBN
978-1476662428 .
^
Science-fiction Studies . SFS Publications. p. 355.
^ Brown, Mark (2018). Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969: A Revolution on Stage . Springer. p. 130.
^
Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature . Margaret Obank. 2006. p. 138-9.
^
Literary Research Newsletter . Literary Research Newsletter Association. 1982. p. 86.
^ Paul Varner (21 June 2012).
Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement . Scarecrow Press. p. 240.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7397-1 .
^ Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P–S edited by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979, p. 372.
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An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers . Taylor & Francis. p. 82.
ISBN
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The People's Republic of China's United Front Tactics in the United States, 1972-1988 . C. Schlacks, Jr. p. 9.
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The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: 1969-1973. 2015 . Princeton University Press. p. 765.
ISBN
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^ Hughes, Alex (1994).
Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language . MHRA.
ISBN
9780901286413 .
^ Sanford Sternlicht (1988).
R.F. Delderfield . Twayne Publishers. p. 20.
ISBN
978-0-8057-6967-8 .
^ Christy G. Turner II; Nicolai D. Ovodov; Olga V. Pavlova (11 July 2013).
Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia . Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
ISBN
978-1-107-06765-3 .
^ Peter Ackroyd (1980).
Ezra Pound and His World . Scribner. p. 116.
ISBN
978-0-684-16798-5 .
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The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 . Interlink Publishing. p. 1.
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^
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