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Overview of the events of 1975 in literature
Overview of the events of 1975 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1975 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
January 15 –
Sydney Goodsir Smith , Scottish poet, dramatist and novelist (heart attack, born
1915 )
February 14
February 20 –
Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov , Russian author (born
1882 )
March 3 –
T. H. Parry-Williams , Welsh poet (born
1887 )
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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 25 –
Edward Hyams , English historian and novelist (born
1910 )
November 27 –
Ross McWhirter , English sports journalist and joint compiler of
Guinness Book of Records (assassinated, born
1925 )
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December 4 –
Hannah Arendt , German-American philosopher (born
1906 )
December 7 –
Thornton Wilder , American novelist and dramatist (born
1897 )
Awards
Canada
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ,
Heat and Dust
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Robert Westall ,
The Machine Gunners
Cholmondeley Award :
Jenny Joseph ,
Norman MacCaig ,
John Ormond
Duff Cooper Prize :
Seamus Heaney ,
North
Eric Gregory Award :
John Birtwhistle ,
Duncan Bush ,
Val Warner ,
Philip Holmes ,
Peter Cash ,
Alasdair Paterson
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Karl Miller , Cockburn's Millennium
United States
Elsewhere
References