Overview of the events of 1970 in literature
Overview of the events of 1970 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1970 .
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 Anthony 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 age 67 having suffered cancer.[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 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 [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] January 25 – Stephen Chbosky , American novelist and screenwriter February 28 – Daniel Handler , American novelist 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 August 27 - Ann Aguirre , American speculative 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 December 21 – Mohamedou Ould Salahi , Mauritanian author and former Guantánamo detainee unknown dates January 10 – Charles Olson , American modernist poet (liver cancer, born 1910 ) January 29 – B. H. Liddell Hart , English military historian (born 1895 ) February 2 – Bertrand Russell , English philosopher (born 1872 )[17] February 4 – Louise Bogan , American poet (born 1897 )[18] February 20 – Sophie Treadwell , American dramatist and journalist (born 1885 )[19] February 21 – Johannes Semper , Estonian writer, translator and politician (born 1892 )[20] March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner , American writer (born 1889 )[21] March 15 – Arthur Adamov , Russian-French playwright (born 1908 )[22] March 21 – Marlen Haushofer , Austrian novelist (born 1920 ) March 29 – Vera Brittain , English novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1893 )[23] April 11 – John O'Hara , American novelist (cardiovascular disease, born 1905 )[24] May 7 – Jack Jones , Welsh novelist (born 1884 )[25] May 12 – Nelly Sachs , Jewish German poet and dramatist (born 1891 )[26] June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian modernist poet and writer (born 1888 ) June 3 – Ruth Sawyer , American children's writer and novelist (born 1880 ) June 7 – E. M. Forster , English novelist (born 1879 )[27] June 16 – Elsa Triolet , French novelist (born 1896 )[28] July 7 – Allen Lane , English publisher (born 1902 ) July 15 – Eric Berne , Canadian-born psychiatrist and author (heart attack, born 1910 ) September 1 – François Mauriac , French novelist (born 1885 )[29] September 25 – Erich Maria Remarque , German novelist (All Quiet On The Western Front ) (born 1898 )[30] September 28 – John Dos Passos , American novelist (born 1896 )[31] October 18 – Máirtín Ó Cadhain , Irish language writer (born 1906 )[32] November 23 – Alf Prøysen , Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (born 1914 )[33] November 25 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), Japanese author (seppuku , born 1925 )[34] unknown date – Racey Helps , English children's author and illustrator (born 1913 ) United Kingdom [ edit ] Booker Prize : Bernice Rubens , The Elected Member Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen , The God Beneath the Sea Cholmondeley Award : Kathleen Raine , Douglas Livingstone , Edward Brathwaite Eric Gregory Award : Helen Frye , Paul Mills , John Mole , Brian Morse , Alan Perry , Richard Tibbitts James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Lily Powell , The Bird of Paradise James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Jasper Ridley , Lord Palmerston Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Roy Fuller United States [ edit ] Elsewhere [ edit ] Hahn, Daniel (2015). 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