1975 IN LITERATURE

The year '1975 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.

★ Writing under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar," author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice.

★ ''Hearing Secret Harmonies'', the twelfth and final novel of the ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' duodecalogy by Anthony Powell is published.

★ Milan Kundera emigrated to France.

New books

★ Edward Abbey - ''The Monkey Wrench Gang''

★ Martin Amis - ''Dead Babies''

★ Saul Bellow - ''Humboldt's Gift''

★ Thomas Berger - ''Sneaky People''

★ Timothy L. Bottoms - ''Mr. Schutzer''

★ Malcolm Bradbury - ''The History Man''

★ Morley Callaghan - ''A Fine and Private Place''

★ Agatha Christie - ''Curtain''

★ James Clavell - ''Shogun''

★ Susan Cooper - ''The Grey King''

★ Michael Crichton - ''The Great Train Robbery''

★ A. J. Cronin - ''The Minstrel Boy''

★ Robertson Davies - ''World of Wonders''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - ''The Compleat Enchanter''

★ Samuel R. Delany - ''Dhalgren''

★ August Derleth - ''Harrigan's File''

★ E. L. Doctorow - ''Ragtime''

★ William Gaddis - ''JR''

★ Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - ''La vie devant soi''

★ Arthur Hailey - ''The Moneychangers''

★ Thomas Harris - ''Black Sunday''

★ Georgette Heyer - ''My Lord John''

★ Jack Higgins - ''The Eagle Has Landed''

★ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - ''Heat and Dust''

★ Stephen King - '''Salem's Lot''

★ J. Sheridan LeFanu - ''The Purcell Papers''

★ David Lodge - ''Changing Places''

★ Robert Ludlum - ''The Road to Gandolfo''

★ Gabriel García Márquez - ''El Otoño del Patriarca''

★ Bharati Mukherjee - ''Wife''

★ Gary Myers - ''The House of the Worm''

★ Tim O'Brien - ''Northern Lights''

★ Gerald W. Page, editor - ''Nameless Places''

★ Robert B. Parker - ''Mortal Stakes''

★ Elizabeth Peters - ''Crocodile on the Sandbank'' (the first in the Amelia Peabody series)

★ Anthony Powell - ''Hearing Secret Harmonies''

★ James Purdy - ''In A Shallow Grave''

★ Judith Rossner - ''Looking for Mister Goodbar''

★ Nawal El Saadawi - ''Woman at Point Zero''

★ Paul Scott - ''A Division of the Spoils''

★ Anya Seton - ''Smouldering Fires''

★ Tom Sharpe - ''Blott on the Landscape''

★ Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy'' (individual editions)

★ M. P. Shiel - ''Xélucha and Others''

★ Glendon Swarthout - ''The Shootist''

★ Joseph Wambaugh - ''The Choirboys''

★ Jack Vance - ''Showboat World''

★ Roger Zelazny - ''Sign of the Unicorn''

Poetry

★ Lin Carter - ''Dreams from R'lyeh''

★ Leslie Norris - ''Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies''

Non-fiction

★ Philip Agee - ''

★ Kingsley Amis - ''Rudyard Kipling and His World''

★ Jacob Bronowski - ''The Ascent of Man''

★ L. Sprague de Camp

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★ Paul Fussell - ''The Great War and Modern Memory''

★ Frank Belknap Long - ''

Births

★ January 13 - Daniel Kehlmann, novelist

★ October 27 - Zadie Smith, novelist

Deaths

★ January 15 - Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist

★ February 14 - Sir P. G. Wodehouse (b.1881), English comic novelist - creator of Jeeves and Wooster

★ February 14 - Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley

★ March 13 - Ivo Andrić (b.1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature

★ June 8 - Murray Leinster, science fiction writer

★ September 20 - Saint-John Perse, poet

★ October 5 - Constance Malleson, actress and writer

★ October 22 - Arnold J. Toynbee, historian

★ November 13 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist

★ November 19 - Elizabeth Taylor, novelist

★ November 23 - Francis Webb, poet

★ November 27 - Ross McWhirter, joint author of the ''Guinness Book of Records''

★ December 4 - Hannah Arendt, philosopher

★ December 7 - Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist

★ ''date unknown'' - Janko Glazer, (b.1893) - poet

★ ''date unknown'' - Vojko Gorjan, (b.1949) - poet

Awards

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Kenneth Burke

★ Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , ''Heat and Dust''

★ See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

★ Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman Maccaig, John Ormond

★ Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson

★ Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, ''The Forever War''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, ''M. C. Higgins, the Great''

★ Newdigate prize: Andrew Motion

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale

★ Premio Nadal: Francisco Umbral, ''Las ninfas''

★ Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - ''La vie devant soi''

★ Prix Médicis French: Jacques Almira, ''Le Voyage à Naucratis''

★ Prix Médicis International: Steven Millhauser, ''La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse'' - United States

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, ''Seascape''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Shaara - ''The Killer Angels''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder - ''Turtle Island''

★ Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, ''Il sipario ducale''