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 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] Earthly Powers June 17 – The première of David Storey 's play Home Royal Court Theatre , London, is directed by Lindsay Anderson and stars Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson .[ 4] August 21 – The Penguin Books paperback imprint is acquired by Pearson PLC , following the death of its owner Sir Allen Lane .[ 5] August 27 – Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company introduces a revolutionary production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Peter Brook , at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , Stratford-upon-Avon .[ 6] November 20 – The playwright Fadil Paçrami becomes Chairman of the Parliament of Albania .[ 7] November 25 – In Tokyo , the Japanese author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫 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 Varese in Italy.unknown dates
Len Deighton 's Bomber sic. ] 1943, becomes the first published novel to have been written on a word processor , an IBM MT/ST .[ 8] The novel Deliverance 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.[ 9]
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.[ 10]
Bohumil Hrabal 's books Domácí úkoly Poupata Czechoslovakia .
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 25 – Stephen Chbosky , American novelist and screenwriterFebruary 28 – Daniel Handler , American novelistMarch 6 – Simona Vinci , Italian fiction writerMarch 12 – Dave Eggers , American writer, editor and publisherMarch 20 – Michele Jaffe , American authorMarch 26 – Martin McDonagh , British-born Irish playwrightMay 20 – Dorthe Nors , Danish fiction writerMay 26 – Alex Garland , English novelistJune 6 – Sarah Dessen , American novelistJuly 22 – Doug Johnstone , Scottish crime fiction writerAugust 27 - Ann Aguirre , American speculative fiction writerSeptember 10 – Phaswane Mpe , South African novelist (died 2004 )September 16 – Nick Sagan , American novelist and screenwriterOctober 27 – Jonathan Stroud , English fantasy writerNovember 7 – Chris Adrian , American novelistNovember 24 – Marlon James , Jamaican novelistNovember 27 – Han Kang , South Korean novelistDecember 21 – Mohamedou Ould Salahi , Mauritanian author and former Guantánamo detaineeunknown 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 )[ 20] February 4 – Louise Bogan , American poet (born 1897 )[ 21] February 20 – Sophie Treadwell , American dramatist and journalist (born 1885 )[ 22] February 21 – Johannes Semper , Estonian writer, translator and politician (born 1892 )[ 23] March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner , American writer (born 1889 )[ 24] March 15 – Arthur Adamov , Russian-French playwright (born 1908 )[ 25] March 21 – Marlen Haushofer , Austrian novelist (born 1920 )March 29 – Vera Brittain , English novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1893 )[ 26] April 11 – John O'Hara , American novelist (cardiovascular disease, born 1905 )[ 27] May 7 – Jack Jones , Welsh novelist (born 1884 )[ 28] May 12 – Nelly Sachs , Jewish German poet and dramatist (born 1891 )[ 29] 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 )[ 30] June 16 – Elsa Triolet , French novelist (born 1896 )[ 31] July 7 – Allen Lane , English publisher (born 1902 )[ 32] July 15 – Eric Berne , Canadian-born psychiatrist and author (heart attack, born 1910 )September 1 – François Mauriac , French novelist (born 1885 )[ 33] September 25 – Erich Maria Remarque , German novelist (All Quiet On The Western Front ) (born 1898 )[ 34] September 28 – John Dos Passos , American novelist (born 1896 )[ 35] October 18 – Máirtín Ó Cadhain , Irish language writer (born 1906 )[ 36] November 23 – Alf Prøysen , Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (born 1914 )[ 37] November 25 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), Japanese author (seppuku , born 1925 )[ 38] 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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