1974 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1974.

Events[]

  • February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper Marcha a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain.[1]
  • February 12 – After publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear.
  • August 8 – The first of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is published as a serial in The Pacific Sun (Marin County, California).
  • October 21 – New Guildhall Library opens in the City of London.[2]
  • unknown dates
    • The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.[3]
    • German writer Uwe Johnson moves to Sheerness on the English Isle of Sheppey.[4]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

  • Nezihe Araz – Bozkır Güzellemesi (An Ode to the Steppe)
  • Michael Cook – Jacob's Wake
  • Dario Fo – Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!)
  • Paavo Haavikko
    • Ratsumies (The Horseman)
    • Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King Goes Forth to France)
    • Harald Pitkäikäinen
  • Ira Levin – Veronica's Room
  • Mustapha Matura – Play Mas[6]
  • Harold Pinter – No Man's Land
  • David Rudkin – Penda's Fen (television play)
  • Tom Stoppard – Travesties

Poetry[]

Main article: 1974 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 6 – Romain Sardou, French novelist
  • January 26 – Shannon Hale, American fantasy author
  • February 15 – Miranda July (née Grossinger), American filmmaker, performance artist and fiction writer
  • April 13 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (died 2005)[7]
  • June 12 – Chika Unigwe, Nigerian novelist writing in English and Dutch
  • August 7 – Faisal Tehrani, Malaysian novelist
  • August 9 – Ryūsui Seiryōin (清涼院 流水), Japanese novelist
  • August 18 – Nicole Krauss, American novelist
  • August 23 – Serhiy Zhadan, Ukrainian poet, novelist and essayist
  • September 20 – Owen Sheers, Fijian-born Welsh poet, playwright and novelist
  • November 4 – Carlos Be, Spanish playwright
  • December 26 – Joshua John Miller, American novelist and screenwriter
  • unknown dates
    • Naomi Alderman, English novelist[8]
    • Sarah Hall, English novelist
    • Joanna Kavenna, English novelist and travel writer
    • Joe Meno, American novelist and journalist
    • Roger Williams, Welsh dramatist and screenwriter

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ Adrian Nathan West (November 7, 2019). "Uruguay's detective of despair". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. ^ "History of Guildhall Library". City of London. Archived from the original on 2014-04-05. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  3. ^ Elizabeth H. Oakes (2004). American Writers. Infobase Publishing. p. 352. ISBN 978-1-4381-0809-4.
  4. ^ D. G. Bond (1993). German History and German Identity: Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage. Rodopi. p. 199. ISBN 90-5183-459-4.
  5. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542.
  6. ^ Bourne, Stephen. "The Black Presence on the London Stage" (PDF). London: Talawa Theatre Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 14, 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
  7. ^ McGregor, Liz (2005-02-07). "Kabelo Duiker (obituary)". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
  8. ^ William D. Rubinstein; Michael Jolles; Hilary L. Rubinstein (22 February 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4.
  9. ^ Anne Commire (1977). Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People. Gale. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8103-0072-9.
  10. ^ Calcutta Municipal Gazette. Superintendent of Printing, Corporation Press. 1973. pp. 313–314.
  11. ^ Byram, Michael S. (1982). Tom Kristensen. Boston.
  12. ^ Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2001). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. Waterford: Yorkin Publications, Gale Group. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-78764-068-2.
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