1969 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969.

Events[]

  • February 8 – After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post in its original form appears in the United States.
  • March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of the English poet Ted Hughes and ex-wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, gasses herself and their daughter at her London home.
  • August – "Penelope Ashe", purported author of a bestselling novel, Naked Came the Stranger, is revealed as a group of Newsday journalists.[1]
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

  • Eric Carle – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Frances Carpenter – South American Wonder Tales
  • Penelope Farmer – Charlotte Sometimes
  • Rumer Godden – Operation Sippacik
  • Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat on a Rainy Day
  • Gary Paulsen – Mr. Tucket (first in Mr. Tucket series)
  • Bill Peet – Fly Homer Fly
  • Barbara Sleigh – The Snowball
  • William Steig – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
  • John Rowe Townsend – The Intruder
  • Elfrida Vipont with Raymond Briggs – The Elephant and the Bad Baby
  • Anne de Vries – Into the Darkness (first in the Reis door de nacht series of five books)

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1969 in poetry
  • James Schuyler – Freely Espousing

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett[19]

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Who was who. St. Martin's Press. 1996. p. 426. ISBN 978-0-312-29366-6.
  3. ^ May, Derwent (2001). Critical Times: The History of the "Times Literary Supplement". Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-711449-4.
  4. ^ A History of Norwegian Literature. University of Nebraska Press. 1993. p. 308. ISBN 0803233175.
  5. ^ Gaetana Marrone (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Routledge. p. 742.
  6. ^ Kruger, Loren (1999). The drama of South Africa : plays, pageants, and publics since 1910. London New York: Routledge. p. 219. ISBN 9781134680863.
  7. ^ Ousby, Ian (1996). Cambridge paperback guide to literature in English. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 227. ISBN 9780521436274.
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  12. ^ "John Harris". RCW Literary Agency. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  13. ^ Contemporary Authors. Gale Research Company. 1975. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-8103-0036-1.
  14. ^ Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. 1969. p. 159.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Glendinning, Victoria (2006). Leonard Woolf : a biography. New York: Free Press. p. 435. ISBN 9780743289184.
  17. ^ J. Bhagyalakshmi (1986). Ivy Compton-Burnett and Her Art. Mittal Publications. p. 5.
  18. ^ Oxbury, Harold (1985). Great Britons: twentieth-century lives. Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Oxford University Press. p. 239. ISBN 9780192115997.
  19. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969". Nobel Prize. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  20. ^ "Awards — K M Peyton". kmpeyton.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  21. ^ "Stevie Smith". www.poetryarchive.org. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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