1965 IN LITERATURE

The year '1965 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' wins the first ever Nebula Award

New books

★ Lloyd Alexander - ''The Black Cauldron''

★ J. G. Ballard - ''The Drought''

★ Ray Bradbury - ''The Vintage Bradbury''

★ John Brunner

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★ ''The Martian Sphinx'' as Keith Woodcott

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★ ''The Squares of the City''

★ Kenneth Bulmer - ''Land Beyond the Map''

★ Edgar Rice Burroughs - ''Tarzan and the Castaways''

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''The Arrows of Hercules''

★ L. Sprague de Camp, editor - ''The Spell of Seven''

★ August Derleth - ''The Casebook of Solar Pons''

★ Philip K. Dick - ''The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch''

★ Margaret Drabble - ''The Millstone''

★ Ian Fleming - ''The Man with the Golden Gun''

★ Margaret Forster - ''Georgy Girl''

★ Frank Herbert - ''Dune''

★ Arthur Hailey - ''Hotel''

★ Bel Kaufman - ''Up the Down Staircase''

★ Jerzy Kosinski - ''The Painted Bird''

★ John le Carré - ''The Looking-Glass War''

★ David Lodge - ''The British Museum Is Falling Down''

★ H.P. Lovecraft - ''Dagon and Other Macabre Tales''

★ Eric Malpass - ''Morning's at Seven''

★ Ruth Manning-Sanders - ''A Book of Dragons''

★ James A. Michener - ''The Source''

★ Iris Murdoch - ''The Red and the Green''

★ Peter O'Donnell - ''Modesty Blaise''

★ Raymond Queneau - ''Les fleurs bleues''

★ Françoise Sagan - ''La chamade''

★ Vincent Starrett - ''The Quick and the Dead''

★ Irving Stone - ''Those Who Love''

★ Jack Vance - ''Space Opera''

★ Kurt Vonnegut - ''God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater''

★ Donald Wandrei - ''Strange Harvest''

New drama

★ Samuel Beckett - ''Come and Go''

★ Edward Bond - ''Saved''

★ John Osborne - ''A Patriot for Me''

★ Michel Tremblay - ''Les Belles-Sœurs''

Poetry

★ Stanley McNail - ''Something Breathing''

★ Sylvia Plath - ''Ariel''

★ Clark Ashton Smith - ''Poems in Prose''

Non-fiction

★ Barney Glaser & Anselm Strauss - ''Awareness of Dying''

★ Alex Haley & Malcolm X - ''The Autobiography of Malcolm X''

★ H.P. Lovecraft - ''Selected Letters I (1911-1924)''

★ Truman Capote - ''In Cold Blood''

★ Robin Moore - ''The Green Berets''

Births

★ March 4 - Andrew Collins, journalist and scriptwriter

★ March 30 - Piers Morgan, controversial journalist and editor

★ July 31 - Joanne Rowling, author

★ October 23 - Augusten Burroughs, memoirist

★ November 11 - Thomas K. Ward, software project manager

★ December 31 - Nicholas Sparks, novelist

★ ''date unknown'' - Patience Agbabi, performance poet

★ ''date unknown'' - Thomas Brussig, novelist

Deaths

★ January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet

★ January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer

★ May 3 - Howard Spring, novelist

★ June 5 - Thornton Burgess, children's author

★ July 9 - Jacques Audiberti

★ July 31 - John Metcalfe UK writer

★ August 17 - Jack Spicer, poet

★ October 8 - Thomas B. Costain, popular historian

★ October 15 - Randall Jarrell, poet

★ November 8 - Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist

★ November 20 - Katharine Anthony, biographer

★ December 16 - William Somerset Maugham

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Canada

★ See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Goncourt: J. Borel, ''L'Adoration''

★ Prix Médicis: René-Victor Pilhes, ''La Rhubarbe''

United Kingdom

★ Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot

★ Newdigate prize: Peter Jay

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin

United States

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: Walter Lippmann

★ Hugo Award: Fritz Leiber, ''The Wanderer''

★ Nebula Award: Frank Herbert, ''Dune''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska, ''Shadow of a Bull''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank D. Gilroy, ''The Subject Was Roses''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau - ''The Keepers Of The House''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: ''77 Dream Songs''

Elsewhere

★ Premio Nadal: E. Cabalero Calderón, ''El buen salvaje''

★ Viareggio Prize: Goffredo Parise, ''Il Padrone'' (''The Boss'')