1975 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1975.

Events[]

  • January 1 – English-born comic writer P. G. Wodehouse is awarded a knighthood,[1] six weeks before he dies in the United States.
  • January – Colin Dexter's detective novel Last Bus to Woodstock introduces his Oxford police officer, Inspector Morse.[2]
  • April 23
    • Barbara Pym and Philip Larkin meet in person for the first time, at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, after years of correspondence.[3]
    • Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land is premièred by the National Theatre at The Old Vic in London, directed by Peter Hall and starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
  • April 28 – Harold Pinter leaves his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, having begun an affair with the married biographer Lady Antonia Fraser on January 8.
  • May 10 – Leftist Salvadoran poet, journalist and political activist Roque Dalton (born 1935) is assassinated by former colleagues in the People's Revolutionary Army (El Salvador).
  • August 12 – As the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death expires, sealed packets of 32 of the author's notebooks are opened in Zürich, Switzerland.
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1975 in poetry
  • Lin Carter – Dreams from R'lyeh
  • Leslie Norris – Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 13 – Daniel Kehlmann, German novelist
  • February 25 – Carrie Mac, Canadian young-adult fiction writer
  • February 27 – Cynan Jones, Welsh novelist
  • April 11 – Walid Soliman, Tunisian author and translator
  • June 23 – Markus Zusak, Australian young-adult novelist
  • July 19 – Martina Montelius, Swedish playwright
  • August 20 – Matthew and Michael Dickman, American poets
  • October 27 – Zadie Smith (Sadie Smith), English novelist
  • unknown dates – Gavin Francis, Scottish medical writer and physician

Deaths[]

  • January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, Scottish poet, dramatist and novelist (heart attack, born 1915)
  • February 14
    • Sir Julian Huxley, English biologist and author (born 1887)[10]
    • Sir P. G. Wodehouse, English-born comic novelist (born 1881)[11]
  • February 20 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian author (born 1882)
  • March 3 – T. H. Parry-Williams, Welsh poet (born 1887)[12]
  • March 7 – Kate Seredy, Hungarian-born American children's writer and illustrator (born 1899)
  • March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1892)
  • April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, German poet (killed in hit-and-run-accident in London, born 1940)
  • May 21 – A. H. Dodd, Welsh historian (born 1891)
  • June 8 – Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins), American science fiction writer (born 1896)
  • July 10 – Peter Frederick Anson, English writer on religion and maritime matters (born 1889)
  • September 20 – Saint-John Perse (Alexis Leger), French poet and Nobel laureate (born 1887)
  • October 5 – Lady Constance Malleson, Irish actress and writer (born 1895)
  • October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (born 1889)
  • November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English dramatist and novelist (born 1896)
  • November 19 – Elizabeth Taylor, English novelist (cancer, born 1912)
  • November 27 – Ross McWhirter, English sports journalist and joint compiler of Guinness Book of Records (assassinated, born 1925)[13]
  • December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher (born 1906)
  • December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and dramatist (born 1897)

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale[14]

Canada[]

France[]

  • Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar – La vie devant soi[4]
  • Prix Médicis French: Jacques Almira, Le Voyage à Naucratis
  • Prix Médicis International: Steven Millhauser, La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse – United States

Spain[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. "No. 46444". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1974-12-31. p. 8.
  2. ^ Robin W. Winks; Maureen Corrigan (1998). Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage. Scribner's Sons. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-684-80519-1.
  3. ^ Dale Salwak (18 June 1989). Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-1-349-09700-5.
  4. ^ a b K. K. Ruthven (30 April 2001). Faking Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-521-66965-8.
  5. ^ Dimond, J.; Kirkpatrick, P. (2000). Literary Sydney: A walking guide. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-3150-6.
  6. ^ "Dorothy Hewett passes away". ABC radio (PM). 2002-08-26.
  7. ^ Bart Moore-Gilbert (1 February 2013). The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure. Routledge. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-134-85837-8.
  8. ^ "The Laugh of the Medusa". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 1 (4): 875–93. 1976.
  9. ^ Thomas Riggs (1999). Reference Guide to Short Fiction. St. James Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-55862-222-7.
  10. ^ Addresses Delivered at a Memorial Ceremony for Julian Huxley Formerly Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1946-1948. Unesco House. 1975.
  11. ^ McCrum, Robert (2004). Wodehouse: A Life. London: Viking. pp. 415–417. ISBN 978-0-670-89692-9.
  12. ^ "PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir Thomas (Herbert) (1887–1975)". Who Was Who (subscription access). A&C Black (Publishers) Ltd. January 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
  13. ^ Bernstein, Adam (2004-04-21). "Norris McWhirter Dies; 'Guinness Book' Co-Founder". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2020-05-22. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
  14. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1975". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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