1970 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1970.

Events[]

  • January 16 – The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus opens with a performance of Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod.[1]
  • March – Magdalena Mouján's story "Gu ta Gutarrak" ("We and Ours") in Basque is suppressed by the authorities in Francoist Spain.[2]
  • June 10 – The English novelist Antony Burgess delivers an inflammatory lecture, "Obscenity and the Arts", at the University of Malta; its reception leads to him leaving Malta.[3] He has begun a novel that will become Earthly Powers (1980).
  • June 17 – The première of David Storey's play Home at the Royal Court Theatre, London, is directed by Lindsay Anderson and stars Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
  • July 7 – The English publisher Sir Allen Lane dies (born 1902).[4] On August 21 his paperback imprint Penguin Books is acquired by Pearson.
  • August 27 – England's Royal Shakespeare Company introduces a revolutionary production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Peter Brook, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.[5]
  • November 20 – The playwright Fadil Paçrami becomes Chairman of the Parliament of Albania.
  • November 25 – In Tokyo, the Japanese author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫, 45) and others take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. Mishima's speech commits seppuku (public ritual suicide) when he fails to sway the public to his right-wing politics, which include restoring the powers of the Emperor.
  • December 5 – Dario Fo premières his play Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Morte accidentale di un anarchico) at Varese in Italy.
  • unknown dates
    • Len Deighton's Bomber, set in 1943, becomes the first published novel to have been written on a word processor, an IBM MT/ST.[6]
    • The novel Deliverance by the American poet James Dickey is published; it will go on to be named among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by an editorial board of the American Modern Library.[7]
    • An unexpurgated edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748–1749) appears in the U.K. without legal challenge.[8]
    • Bohumil Hrabal's books Domácí úkoly (Home Work) and Poupata (Buds) are suppressed by the communist authorities in Czechoslovakia.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1970 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Theodor W. Adorno (posthumously) – Aesthetic Theory (Asthetische Theorie)
  • Hannah Arendt – On Violence
  • Roland Barthes – S/Z
  • Pierre Berton – The National Dream
  • Jim Bouton – Ball Four
  • Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • James MacGregor Burns – Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
  • Henri Charrière – Papillon
  • Elizabeth David – Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen
  • Edward De Bono – Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step
  • August Derleth – Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969: A History and Bibliography
  • Michel Foucault – Les Mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines (The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences)
  • Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch
  • Helene Hanff – 84 Charing Cross Road
  • Arthur Janov – The Primal Scream
  • Uwe Johnson – Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (Jahrestage: Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl; begins publication)
  • Christopher Lloyd – The Well-Tempered Garden
  • Norman Mailer – Of a Fire on the Moon
  • Dumas Malone – Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805
  • Mahathir bin Mohamad – The Malay Dilemma
  • Kate Millet – Sexual Politics
  • Nancy Mitford – Frederick the Great
  • Robin Morgan (ed.) – Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement
  • Harold Perkin – The Age of the Railway
  • J. B. Priestley – The Edwardians
  • Albert Speer – Inside the Third Reich
  • Alvin Toffler – Future Shock

Births[]

  • January 25 – Stephen Chbosky, American novelist and screenwriter
  • March 6 – Simona Vinci, Italian fiction writer
  • March 12 – Dave Eggers, American writer, editor and publisher
  • March 20 – Michele Jaffe, American author
  • March 26 – Martin McDonagh, British-born Irish playwright
  • May 20 – Dorthe Nors, Danish fiction writer
  • May 26 – Alex Garland, English novelist
  • June 6 – Sarah Dessen, American novelist
  • July 22 – Doug Johnstone, Scottish crime fiction writer
  • September 10 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (died 2004)
  • September 16 – Nick Sagan, American novelist and screenwriter
  • October 27 – Jonathan Stroud, English fantasy writer
  • November 7 – Chris Adrian, American novelist
  • November 24 – Marlon James, Jamaican novelist
  • November 27 – Han Kang, South Korean novelist
  • unknown dates
    • Raja'a Alem, Saudi Arabian writer[9]
    • Roberta Dapunt, Italian poet[10]
    • Nathan Englander, American novelist and short story writer[11]
    • Neel Mukherjee, Indian novelist[12]
    • Faruk Šehić, Bosnian poet and fiction writer

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Michael Ashley (2000). The History of the Science-fiction Magazine. Liverpool University Press. p. 411. ISBN 978-1-84631-003-4.
  3. ^ "Anthony Burgess's censorship scandal in Malta: a timeline". International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  4. ^ "About Penguin: Company history". Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  5. ^ Barnes, Clive (1970-08-28). "Historic Staging of Dream". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  6. ^ Kirschenbaum, Matthew (2013-03-01). "The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor?". Slate. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  7. ^ "100 Best Novels". Modern Library. 1998.
  8. ^ John Sutherland (1983). Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-389-20354-4.
  9. ^ "Raja Alem: "All my life, i tried to break the frame"". KAWA. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Roberta Dapunt, info e libri dell'autore. Giulio Einaudi Editore". Einaudi (in Italian). Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  11. ^ "Nathan Englander". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Neel Mukherjeewebsite=Royal Society of Literature". Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  13. ^ Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (28 December 2000). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-387-95178-2.
  14. ^ Eric L. Haralson (21 January 2014). Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-317-76322-2.
  15. ^ Louise Heck-Rabi (1976). Sophie Treadwell: Subjects and Structures in 20th Century American Drama. Wayne State University. p. 181.
  16. ^ Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 327.
  17. ^ Harold Bloom (1995). Modern Mystery Writers. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-7910-2375-4.
  18. ^ Meanjin Quarterly. University of Melbourne. 1970. p. 338.
  19. ^ Harold Oxbury (1985). Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives. Oxford University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-19-211599-7.
  20. ^ Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers. 1999. p. 234. ISBN 0403099501.
  21. ^ Leo Baeck Institute (1990). Catalog of the Archival Collections. Mohr Siebeck. p. 124. ISBN 978-3-16-145597-1.
  22. ^ Norman Page (22 January 1988). E-M-Forster. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-349-19008-9.
  23. ^ Gale Cengage (2002). Modern French Poets. Gale Group. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7876-5252-4.
  24. ^ Bernard A. Cook (2001). Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 840. ISBN 978-0-8153-4058-4.
  25. ^ Konzett, Matthias (2000). Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 814. ISBN 9781135941222.
  26. ^ Jay Parini (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9.
  27. ^ Igoe, Vivien (2001). Dublin burial grounds & graveyards. Dublin: Wolfhound Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780863278723.
  28. ^ Ove Røsbak. "Alf Prøysen, 1914–1970" (in Norwegian). Norsk Oversetterleksikon. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  29. ^ Henry Scott Stokes (2000). The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-8154-1074-4.
  30. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
  31. ^ Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press. 1972. p. 1188.
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