1972 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972.

Events[]

  • May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard in North London, which he has shared with his wife and son – actors Jill Balcon and Daniel Day-Lewis – and at weekends with Kingsley's writer son Martin Amis and others.[1]
  • June 4 – The poet Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.[2]
  • October 6–7 – The new Staatstheater Darmstadt is opened.
  • October 8 – The play Sizwe Bansi is Dead has its first performance at the Space Theatre (Cape Town), South Africa, before a multiracial audience. Playwright Athol Fugard directs, with co-writers John Kani and Winston Ntshona in lead roles.
  • October 10 – Sir John Betjeman is declared Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first knight ever to be so.[3]
  • "The three Marias", Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, publish in Lisbon New Portuguese Letters (Novas Cartas Portuguesas), a collection challenging the Estado Novo dictatorship, to immediate success,[4] but banned by censors as "pornographic and an offense to public morals".[5][6][7][8] Its authors are imprisoned for "abuse of freedom of the press" and "outrage to public decency".[9][10][6] Only after the 1974 "Carnation Revolution" does their trial end with the authors pardoned and the judge assigning "outstanding literary merit" to the book.[10]
  • unknown date – Somali Latin alphabet is introduced.[11]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, German playwright and poet (born 1906)
  • January 7 – John Berryman, American poet (suicide; born 1914)[26]
  • January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (born 1911)[27]
  • January 17 – Betty Smith, American novelist (born 1896)[28]
  • February 2 – Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer and patron (born 1876)[29]
  • February 15 – Edgar Snow, American political writer (cancer, born 1905)[30]
  • March 4 – Richard Church, English poet and novelist (born 1893[31]
  • March 9 – Violet Trefusis, English writer (born 1894)[32]
  • March 11 – Fredric Brown, American genre novelist (born 1906
  • March 14 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher (born 1926)
  • April 10 – Laurence Manning, Canadian science fiction author (born 1899)
  • April 16 – Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成), Japanese fiction writer, Nobel laureate (born 1899)
  • May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-born Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and (as Nicholas Blake) novelist (born 1904)[33]
  • May 28 – Violette Leduc, French novelist and memoirist (born 1907)[34]
  • June 24 – R. F. Delderfield, English novelist and playwright (born 1912)[35]
  • August 2 – Helen Hoyt (Helen Lyman), American poet (born 1887)
  • August 17 – Alexander Vampilov, Russian dramatist (drowned fishing, born 1937)
  • August 22 – Ernestine Hill, Australian travel writer (born 1899)
  • September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French novelist, dramatist and essayist (suicide, born 1895)
  • September 27 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician and librarian (born 1892)
  • October 5 – Ivan Yefremov, Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (born 1908)[36]
  • November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet (born 1885)[37]
  • November 12 – José Nucete Sardi, Venezuelan historian and diplomat (born 1897)[38]
  • November 29 – Victor Bridges (Victor George de Freyne), English genre novelist, playwright and poet (born 1878)
  • December 10 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, writer and critic (born 1894)
  • December 13 – L. P. Hartley, English novelist (born 1895)[39]
  • December 23 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born American theologian and rabbi (born 1907)
  • unknown dates
    • Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Palestinian Arab diarist, poet and composer (born 1897)[40]
    • Donar Munteanu, Romanian poet and magistrate (born 1886)

Awards[]

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ Kelbie, Paul; Davies, Caroline (2008-08-31). "Auden, Kerr, Day-Lewis". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  2. ^ Obituary pp. 4–6 The New York Times "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55" January 29, 1996.
  3. ^ "From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  4. ^ Kauffman, Linda S. (1988). "8. Poetics, Passion and Politics in The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters". Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 279–311. ISBN 9780801495106. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  5. ^ Patrick, Oona; Ellis, Dean; Fernandes, Jose (translator) (2014-04-15). "Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria". Guernica. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Kramer, Jane (1975-02-02). "The Three Marias". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  7. ^ "The Case of The Three Marias". Time. 102 (4). US. 1973-07-23. p. 52. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  8. ^ "Three Women Charged With Pornography". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, NY. 1973-10-26. p. C1. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  9. ^ Hamilton-Faria, Hope (December 1975). "Reviewed Works". The Modern Language Journal. Wiley for National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations. 59 (8): 451–452. doi:10.2307/325498. JSTOR 325498.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Mitchell, Juliet (1975-10-05). "Passion's prisoners". The Sunday Times (7947). London. p. 39.
  11. ^ Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Culture and Customs of Somalia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-313-31333-2.
  12. ^ Jorge Amado (1972). Obras de Jorge Amado: Tereza Batista, cansada de guerra. Martins.
  13. ^ James Vinson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1979). Novelists and Prose Writers. Macmillan. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-333-25292-5.
  14. ^ Italo Calvino (1972). Le città invisibili. Einaudi.
  15. ^ Joe McGuinniss (February 6, 1972). "Real Cops and Robbers". New York Times. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  16. ^ Emmis Communications (November 1984). Texas Monthly. Emmis Communications. p. 234.
  17. ^ Google Books. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
  18. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780198715542.
  19. ^ Michael Holt (17 August 2018). Alan Ayckbourn. Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-7463-1281-0.
  20. ^ Elaine Morgan (1 February 2001). Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution. Souvenir Press. ISBN 978-0-285-63984-3.
  21. ^ "Noboru Yamaguchi (novelist)". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  22. ^ Shelley, Peter (2017). Anne Bancroft: The Life and Work. McFarland & Company. p. 102. ISBN 978-1476662428.
  23. ^ Science-fiction Studies. SFS Publications. p. 355.
  24. ^ Mark Brown (2018). Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969: A Revolution on Stage. Springer. p. 130.
  25. ^ Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Margaret Obank. 2006. p. 138-9.
  26. ^ Literary Research Newsletter. Literary Research Newsletter Association. 1982. p. 86.
  27. ^ Paul Varner (21 June 2012). Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement. Scarecrow Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-8108-7397-1.
  28. ^ Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P–S edited by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979, p. 372.
  29. ^ Katharina M. Wilson; M. Wilson (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6.
  30. ^ William J. Miller (1988). The People's Republic of China's United Front Tactics in the United States, 1972-1988. C. Schlacks, Jr. p. 9.
  31. ^ "Richard (Thomas) Church". Author and Book Info. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  32. ^ The Antigonish Review. 1990. p. 40.
  33. ^ Wystan Hugh Auden (1988). The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: 1969-1973. 2015. Princeton University Press. p. 765. ISBN 978-0-691-16458-8.
  34. ^ Hughes, Alex (1994). Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language. MHRA. ISBN 9780901286413.
  35. ^ Sanford Sternlicht (1988). R.F. Delderfield. Twayne Publishers. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-8057-6967-8.
  36. ^ Christy G. Turner II; Nicolai D. Ovodov; Olga V. Pavlova (11 July 2013). Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia. Cambridge University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-107-06765-3.
  37. ^ Peter Ackroyd (1980). Ezra Pound and His World. Scribner. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-684-16798-5.
  38. ^ Mireya Sosa de LEÓN: «Nucete Sardi, José». En: Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela. Venezuela: Fundación Empresas Polar, 1997. 980-6397-37-I.
  39. ^ Edward T. Jones; Edward Trostle Jones (1978). L. P. Hartley. Twayne Publishers. p. 14-15. ISBN 978-0-8057-6703-2.
  40. ^ Salim Tamari; Issam Nassar (1 October 2013). The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948. Interlink Publishing. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-62371-039-2.
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