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Overview of the events of 1968 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1968 .
Children and young people
January 21 –
Will Lang, Jr. , American journalist (born
1914 )
[52]
March 23 –
Edwin O'Connor , American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator (born
1918 )
[53]
April 4 -
Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi , Iranian-Iraqi Ja'fari jurist, religious teacher and poet (born
1889 )
[54]
April 16 –
Edna Ferber , American novelist, short story writer and playwright (born
1885 )
[55]
April 27 –
Vasily Azhayev , Soviet writer (born
1915 )
[56]
April 29 –
Anthony Boucher , American author, critic, and editor (born
1911 )
[57]
May 1 – Sir
Harold Nicolson , British biographer (born
1886 )
[58]
May 30 –
Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor , Romanian anthropologist, ethnographer and children's writer (born
1900 )
[59]
May 31 –
Abel Bonnard , French poet, novelist and politician (born
1883 )
[60]
June 1 –
Helen Keller , deaf-blind American author, activist and lecturer (born
1880 )
[61]
August 21 -
Germaine Guèvremont , Canadian writer (born
1893 )
[62]
November 17 –
Mervyn Peake , English novelist (dementia, born
1911 )
[63]
November 25 –
Upton Sinclair , American novelist and politician (born
1878 )
[64]
November 28 –
Enid Blyton , English author and poet (born
1897 )
[65]
December 5 –
Anna Kavan , British novelist, short story writer and painter (born
1901 )
December 20 –
John Steinbeck , American novelist (congestive heart failure, born
1902 )
[66]
December 24 –
D. Gwenallt Jones , Welsh poet (born
1899 )
[67]
^ Marshall, Rita (January 2, 1968). "C. Day Lewis Is Poet Laureate".
The Times . No. 57138. London. p. 1.
^ Altbach, Philip Gabriel; Hoshino, Edith S. (1995).
International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia . Garland Publishing. p. 65.
ISBN
978-0-8153-0786-0 .
^ Kane, Joseph Nathan (1997).
Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History (5th ed.). The H.W. Wilson Company. p.
67 .
ISBN
0-8242-0930-3 .
^ Elsaesser, Thomas (1996). Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject . Amsterdam University Press. p. 301.
ISBN
90-5356-059-9 .
^ Stephen Hu (1989).
Tom Stoppard's Stagecraft . P. Lang. p. 253.
ISBN
978-0-8204-0709-8 .
^
Sutherland, John ; Fender, Stephen (2011). Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature . London: Icon. pp. 283–4.
ISBN
978-184831-247-0 .
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999.
ISBN
978-1-85986-000-7 .
^
Text of the Theatres Act 1968 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from
legislation.gov.uk .
^
"Going into Exile: Anthony Burgess in Malta" . International Anthony Burgess Foundation. June 26, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
^
Hallo, William W. ; Van Dijk, J. J. A. (1968). The Exaltation of Inanna . New Haven: Yale University Press.
^ Christopher P. Stephens (1992).
A Checklist of Dean R. Koontz . Ultramarine Publishing. p. 7.
ISBN
978-0-89366-133-5 .
^ Miranda H. Ferrara (2004).
The Writers Directory: Vol. 1: A-L. 2004 . St. James Press. p. 434.
ISBN
978-1-55862-525-9 .
^ Sherwood, Harriet (April 18, 2022).
"The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen's jubilee book list" . The Guardian . Retrieved June 14, 2022 .
^
Moving Out . 1975. p. 39.
^ Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1991).
Reference Guide to English Literature: Introductions; Writers A-G . St. James Press. p. 325.
ISBN
978-1-55862-078-0 .
^ John M. Reilly (2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers . Springer. p. 254.
^ Fogelström, Per Anders.
"Stad i världen / Per Anders Fogelström" . Stockholmskällan (in Swedish). Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
^ George L. Scheper (1986). Michael Innes . Ungar. p. 186.
^ Jim O'Loughlin (March 26, 2019).
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered . University of Alabama Press. p. 219.
ISBN
978-0-8173-2011-9 .
^
Scandinavian Studies: Publication of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study . The Society. 1985. p. 88.
^ BOSTON, RICHARD (October 27, 1968).
"What Became Of Harting?" .
The New York Times . Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
^ Hubin, Allen J. (September 15, 1968).
"Blackmail unlimited" . The New York Times . The New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2022 .
^
Richardson, Maurice (October 27, 1968). "Crime Ration".
The Observer . p. 29.
^ Scarberry-García, Susan. Landmarks of Healing: a Study of House Made of Dawn . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1990. Print.
^
Fulford, Robert (January 12, 1999).
"Brian Moore: A writer who never failed to surprise his readers" .
The Globe and Mail . Retrieved February 6, 2016 .
^ Raicu, Lucian (1968). "Mișcarea literară 1968. Romanul total". România Literară (11): 1.
^ Barnes, Simon, "Magic in Action: Coincidences in A Dance to the Music of Time. " Secret Harmonies 10 (Spring 2023):149-157.
^
"Formats and Editions of I ragazzi del massacro" .
WorldCat . Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
^ Chapman, Edgar L. (1999). The road to Castle Mount: the science fiction of Robert Silverberg .
Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press. p. 45.
ISBN
0-313-26145-8 .
^ Frank Northen Magill (1989).
Cyclopedia of World Authors II . Salem Press. p. 4391.
ISBN
978-0-89356-516-9 .
^ The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark . Edinburgh University Press. 2010. p. 21.
ISBN
9780748637706 .
^
"The Iron Man by Ted Hughes" . www.bl.uk . Retrieved January 10, 2022 .
^ Eyre, Charlotte (February 5, 2018).
"HarperCollins to celebrate 50 years of 'Tiger Who Came to Tea' - The Bookseller" .
The Bookseller .
Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
^ The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television . Springer International Publishing. 2019. p. 45.
ISBN
9783030176204 .
^
"The evolution of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant" . BBC News . July 9, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2022 .
^ The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 331.
ISBN
9780547348896 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 436
^ Guardian Staff (April 2, 2003).
"Obituary: Paul Zindel" . The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
^ Lachance, François (2002),
"Tremblay, Michel" ,
glbtq.com , archived from
the original on August 14, 2007, retrieved August 18, 2007
^ College Language Association (U.S.) (1977).
CLA Journal . College Language Association. p. 556.
^
"YIVO News" (PDF) . No. 206. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Spring 2010. p. 12. Retrieved December 2, 2023 .
^ Ronald Gottesman; Harry M. Geduld (1972). Guidebook to Film: An Eleven-in-one Reference . Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 22.
^
Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives . National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1990. p. 104.
^ Story, Ronald (1976).
The space-gods revealed : a close look at the theories of Erich von Däniken . New York: Harper & Row. p.
2 .
ISBN
0-06-014141-7 . Citing Der Spiegel, in issue 12/1969 (March 17, 1969), p. 184 and issue 12/1973 (March 19, 1973), p. 145.
^ The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature . Cambridge University Press. 2019. p. 403.
ISBN
9781107106765 .
^ Feldman, Burton (2001).
The Nobel prize: a history of genius, controversy, and prestige . Arcade Publishing. p. 263.
ISBN
1-55970-592-2 .
^
Book Review Digest . H.W. Wilson Company. December 2001. p. 90.
^
"Will Lang, Headed Life News Bureaus" . The New York Times . January 23, 1968. p. 43.
^ Charles F. Duffy (2003).
A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O'Connor . CUA Press. p. 353.
ISBN
978-0-8132-1337-8 .
^ Al-Khaqani, Abdullah (2000). Mawsūʻat al-Najaf al-Ashraf موسوعة النجف الأشرف [Encyclopedia of Najaf ] (in Arabic). Vol. 20 (first ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adhwa. p. 143.
^ R. Baird Shuman (2002).
Great American Writers: Twentieth Century . Marshall Cavendish. p. 503.
ISBN
978-0-7614-7240-7 .
^ Andreas Lahusen; Thomas Lahusen; Gene Kuperman (1993).
Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika . Duke University Press. p. 141.
ISBN
978-0-8223-1290-1 .
^ Michael Ashley (2000).
The History of the Science-fiction Magazine . Liverpool University Press. p. 300.
ISBN
978-0-85323-779-2 .
^ Derek Drinkwater; Visiting Fellow Department of International Relations Derek Drinkwater (February 17, 2005).
Sir Harold Nicolson and International Relations: The Practitioner as Theorist . OUP Oxford. p. 33.
ISBN
978-0-19-927385-0 .
^ "Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor". România Liberă . May 31, 1968. p. 5.
^ Olivier Mathieu (1988). Abel Bonnard, une aventure inachevée (in French). Paris:
Léon Degrelle . p. 371.
^ Nigel Starck (January 1, 2006).
Life After Death: The Art of the Obituary . Melbourne Univ. Publishing. p. 188.
ISBN
978-0-522-85256-1 .
^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 498.
ISBN
978-0-87779-042-6 .
^ Sahlas, Demetrios J. (2003).
"Dementia With Lewy Bodies and the Neurobehavioral Decline of Mervyn Peake" .
Archives of Neurology . 60 (6): 889.
doi :
10.1001/archneur.60.6.889 .
PMID
12810496 .
^ Jay Parini (2004).
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature . Oxford University Press. p. 3.
ISBN
978-0-19-515653-9 .
^ Greenfield, George (1999). Enid Blyton . Oxford: Isis. p. xiv.
ISBN
978-0-75310-720-1 .
^
"John Steinbeck Biography" . National Steinbeck Centre. Archived from
the original on March 5, 2010.
^ Brynley Francis Roberts.
"Jones, David James ('Gwenallt'; 1899-1968), poet, critic and scholar" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved December 17, 2020 .
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .