1973 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1973.

Events[]

  • March 6 – The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i umjetnost) in Podgorica, elects its first members.[1]
  • May 14
  • June 21
  • July 26 – Peter Shaffer's drama Equus is premièred in London by the National Theatre company at The Old Vic.
  • September – Following the overthrow of President Allende by a military regime, book burnings take place in Chile.[3]
  • September 16 – Chilean poet and playwright Víctor Jara, detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in Estadio Chile and tortured during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, is shot and killed. His last poem, "Estadio Chile", is preserved in memories and scraps of paper retained by fellow detainees.
  • September 25 – The funeral of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda becomes a focus for protests against the new government of Augusto Pinochet.[4]
  • December 3 – French police of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire, disguised as plumbers, are caught trying to install a spy microphone in the directors' office of the Paris satirical paper Le Canard enchaîné.
  • c. December 27 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, written 1958–1968) is first published, by the Paris publisher Éditions du Seuil from a typescript smuggled out of the Soviet Union.
  • unknown dates
    • André Brink's novel Kennis van die aand ("Looking on Darkness") becomes the first Afrikaans book banned by the government of South Africa.[5]
    • Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is first published complete in Moscow (in the form left at the author's death in 1940), by Khudozhestvennaya Literatura.
    • Frank Herbert becomes director-photographer of the television show, The Tillers.
    • Robert B. Parker starts the Boston-based Spenser book series with his debut crime novel The Godwulf Manuscript.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1973 in poetry
  • Allen Curnow – An Abominable Temper and Other Poems
  • Tomás Rivera – Always and other poems

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 8 – Madhulika Liddle, Indian writer
  • January 13 – Lois Pryce, Scottish-born travel writer and journalist
  • February 21 – Jacob M. Appel, American short story writer and bioethicist
  • May 10 – Tana French, American-born mystery novelist and actress
  • June 2 – David Bezmozgis, Latvian-Canadian writer
  • August 13 – Kamila Shamsie, Pakistan-born novelist
  • August 18 – Victoria Coren Mitchell, English writer, presenter and poker player, daughter of Alan Coren
  • December 20 – Maarja Kangro, Estonian author and poet
  • December 24 – Stephenie Meyer, American young-adult vampire romance writer and film producer
  • unknown dates
    • Frances Hardinge, English young people's fiction writer
    • Ahmed Saadawi, Iraqi writer
    • Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Colombian novelist[9]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize in Literature: Patrick White

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA)". IAP. 2013. Archived from the original on 2015-01-09. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  2. ^ "The History of Virago". Virago. 2013. Archived from the original on 2015-03-23. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  3. ^ Sonia Cardenas (2010). Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 37. ISBN 0-8122-2130-3.
  4. ^ The Washington Post. Archived December 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Peter France (2001). The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-19-924784-4.
  6. ^ "1973 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  7. ^ Jan van Coillie (1999). Leesbeesten en boekenfeesten: hoe werken (met) kinder- en jeugdboeken?. NBD Biblion Publishers. p. 285. ISBN 978-90-5483-189-1.
  8. ^ Bernard Alger Drew (1997). The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Libraries Unlimited. p. 453. ISBN 978-1-56308-615-1.
  9. ^ Juan Gabriel Vásquez (3 May 2018). The Shape of the Ruins: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019. Quercus. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-85705-660-3.
  10. ^ Birinci, Necat (1993). Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel: Inceleme-Seçmeler (in Turkish). Cağaloğlu: Boğaziçi yayınları. p. 13. ISBN 978-9-75451-102-4.
  11. ^ R. Reginald (1981). Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards ... Borgo Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-89370-806-1.
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