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1969 in literature
See also:
1968 in literature
,
other events of 1969
,
1970 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
The first
Booker Prize
is awarded;
Penelope Ashe[?]
, author of bestselling novel,
Naked Came the Stranger[?]
is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "
junk
" in order to prove that sex-filled trash sells. It did.
New Books
The Andromeda Strain
-
Michael Crichton
The Edible Woman[?]
-
Margaret Atwood
The French Lieutenant's Woman
-
John Fowles
The Godfather
-
Mario Puzo
The Green Man[?]
-
Kingsley Amis
The Inheritors[?]
-
Harold Robbins
Jirel of Joiry[?]
-
C. L. Moore
Little Painted Mouths[?]
-
Manuel Puig[?]
The Love Machine[?]
-
Jacqueline Susann[?]
Mary Queen of Scots
-
Antonia Fraser
Naked Came the Stranger[?]
-
Penelope Ashe[?]
Nothing Black But A Cadillac[?]
-
Raymond Spence[?]
A Pocketful of Rye[?]
-
A.J. Cronin
Portnoy's Complaint
-
Philip Roth
Retour à Roissy[?]
-
Pauline Réage
Sounder
-
William H. Armstrong[?]
The Seven Minutes[?]
-
Irving Wallace[?]
The Street[?]
-
Mordecai Richler
That Godless Woman[?]
-
Merton H. Coleman[?]
The Veiled Sultan[?]
-
March Cost[?]
Births
Deaths
March 26
-
John Kennedy Toole
, author
March 27
-
B. Traven[?]
, writer
October 21
-
Jack Kerouac
, author
January 11
-
Richmal Crompton
, author
Awards
Booker Prize
:
P. H. Newby[?]
-
Something to Answer For
Newberry Medal
for
children's literature
:
Lloyd Alexander
,
The High King
Nobel Prize for Literature
:
Samuel Beckett
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
:
Howard Sackler[?]
,
The Great White Hope
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
:
N. Scott Momaday[?]
-
House Made of Dawn
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
:
George Oppen[?]
:
Of Being Numerous
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