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Overview of the events of 1969 in literature
Overview of the events of 1969 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 12 –
David Mitchell , English novelist
[13]
January 17 –
Michael Moynihan , American journalist and publisher
January 21 –
M. K. Hobson , American speculative fiction author
March –
Jez Butterworth , English dramatist and screenwriter
May 6 –
Emmanuel Larcenet , French comics author
May 6 –
John Scalzi , American science-fiction author
May 28 –
Muriel Barbery , French novelist
[14]
May 29 –
Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Korean-born novelist (suicide
1995 )
June 13 –
Virginie Despentes , French writer
July 5 –
Armin Kõomägi , Estonian author and screenwriter
August 4 –
Jojo Moyes , English journalist and romantic novelist
September 12 -
James Frey , American writer
September 30 -
Julianna Baggott , American novelist, essayist, and poet
October 24 –
Emma Donoghue , Irish-born Canadian novelist, dramatist, and academic
November 13 –
John Belluso , American dramatist (died
2006 )
November 28 –
Hanne Ørstavik , Norwegian novelist
[15]
November 30 –
David Auburn , American dramatist
unknown dates
Deaths
January 11 –
Richmal Crompton , English children's writer (born
1890 )
[17]
January 21 –
Giovanni Comisso , Italian writer (born
1895 )
March 9 –
Charles Brackett , American novelist and screenwriter (born
1892 )
March 11 –
John Wyndham , English science fiction novelist (born
1903 )
[18]
March 24 –
Margery Fish , English gardening writer (born
1892 )
March 25 –
Max Eastman , American writer (born
1883 )
[19]
March 26 –
John Kennedy Toole , American novelist (suicide, born
1937 )
March 27 –
B. Traven , presumed German-born novelist (unknown year of birth)
April 6 –
Gabriel Chevallier , French writer (born
1895 )
April 7 –
Rómulo Gallegos , Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th
President of Venezuela (born
1884 )
[20]
May 4 –
Osbert Sitwell , English novelist and poet (born
1892 )
[21]
July 24 –
Witold Gombrowicz , Polish playwright and novelist (born
1904 )
[22]
July 27 –
Vivian de Sola Pinto , English poet and memoirist (born
1895 )
[23]
August 10 –
Maurine Dallas Watkins , American journalist/play and screenwriter (born
1896 )
August 14 –
Leonard Woolf , English political theorist (born
1880 )
[24]
August 27 –
Ivy Compton-Burnett , English novelist (born
1884 )
[25]
September 6 –
Gavin Maxwell , Scottish naturalist and author (cancer, born
1914 )
[26]
September 17 –
Greye La Spina , American dramatist and short story writer (born
1880 )
September 20 –
Elinor Brent-Dyer , English children's writer (born
1894 )
September 22 –
Rachel Davis Harris , African American librarian (born
1869 )
October 14 –
August Sang , Estonian poet and literary translator (born
1914 )
October 21 –
Jack Kerouac , American novelist and poet (internal hemorrhage, born
1922 )
[27]
November 6 –
Susan Taubes , Hungarian American writer and Jewish intellectual (suicide, born
1928 )
November 15 –
Ignacio Aldecoa , Spanish writer (born
1925 )
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
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ISBN
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^
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^ May, Derwent (2001).
Critical Times: The History of the "Times Literary Supplement" . Harper Collins.
ISBN
0-00-711449-4 .
^ Contemporary Authors . Gale. 1998. p. 24.
ISBN
9780787619978 .
^ Solomon, Philip P. (1992).
Understanding Céline .
Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press . p. 105.
ISBN
9780872498143 .
^ Israel Shenker (1969-06-08).
"Michael Crichton (rhymes with frighten); Michael Crichton" .
The New York Times . p. BR5. Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Ross McKibbin (2019). Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History . Oxford University Press. p. 73.
ISBN
9780198834205 .
^ A History of Norwegian Literature . University of Nebraska Press. 1993. p. 308.
ISBN
0803233175 .
^ Gaetana Marrone (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J . Routledge. p. 742.
^ Kruger, Loren (1999). The drama of South Africa : plays, pageants, and publics since 1910 . London New York: Routledge. p. 219.
ISBN
9781134680863 .
^ Ousby, Ian (1996). Cambridge paperback guide to literature in English . New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 227.
ISBN
9780521436274 .
^
"The Peter Principle Lives" . Bloomberg Businessweek . 2009-04-01. Archived from
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Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months . Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 82–.
ISBN
978-1-64143-316-7 .
^
"Meet the Authors" . Reading Women Podcast . 10 November 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2021 .
^
Godal, Anne Marit (ed.).
"Hanne Ørstavik" .
Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 1 December 2021 .
^
"John Harris" . RCW Literary Agency . Retrieved 17 December 2020 .
^
Contemporary Authors . Gale Research Company. 1975. p. 360.
ISBN
978-0-8103-0036-1 .
^ Seed, David (9 June 2008).
A Companion to Science Fiction . John Wiley & Sons. p. 387.
ISBN
978-0-470-79701-3 .
^
"Max Eastman Dies: Author and Radical" (obituary) . The New York Times . March 26, 1969. p. 1.
^ Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature . Taylor & Francis. 1997. p. 630.
ISBN
9781135314255 .
^
Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society . 1969. p. 159.
^ Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska (January 1995),
The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism , p. 235,
ISBN
9780791427118
^ W. Rubinstein; Michael A. Jolles (27 January 2011).
The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History . Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 758.
ISBN
978-0-230-30466-6 .
^ Glendinning, Victoria (2006). Leonard Woolf : a biography . New York: Free Press. p. 435.
ISBN
9780743289184 .
^ J. Bhagyalakshmi (1986).
Ivy Compton-Burnett and Her Art . Mittal Publications. p. 5.
^ Oxbury, Harold (1985). Great Britons: twentieth-century lives . Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Oxford University Press. p. 239.
ISBN
9780192115997 .
^ Larson, Jordan.
"What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation" . The Atlantic . Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
^
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969" . Nobel Prize . Retrieved 17 December 2020 .
^
"Awards — K M Peyton" . kmpeyton.co.uk . Retrieved 28 December 2016 .
^
"Stevie Smith" . www.poetryarchive.org . Retrieved 28 December 2016 .