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1966 in literature Totally Explained
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Everything about 1966 In Literature totally explainedThe year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
Chinua Achebe - A Man of the People
Robert H. Adleman - The Devil's Brigade
Lloyd Alexander - The Castle of Llyr
Kingsley Amis - The Anti-Death League
Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage
Margaret Atwood
Louis Auchincloss - The Embezzler
J. G. Ballard
Paul Bowles - Up Above the World
Ray Bradbury - S is for Space
Mihail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Truman Capote - "In Cold Blood"
James Clavell - Tai-Pan
Robert Crichton - The Secret of Santa Vittoria
William Crossing - The Dartmoor Worker (anthology)
Roald Dahl - The Magic Finger
August Derleth and Mark Schorer - Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People
Philip K. Dick - Now Wait for Last Year
Philip K. Dick - The Crack in Space
Philip K. Dick - The Unteleported Man
Allen Drury - Capable of Honor
Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Der Meteor
Ian Fleming - Octopussy and The Living Daylights
John Fowles - The Magus
Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - Conan the Adventurer
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
José Lezama Lima - Paradiso
H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands - The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces
Helen McInnes - The Double Image
Larry McMurtry - Last Picture Show
Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
Marcel Pagnol
Anthony Powell - The Soldier's Art
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
Seabury Quinn - Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Harold Robbins - The Adventurers
Leonardo Sciascia - A ciascuno il suo
Adela Rogers St. Johns - Tell No Man
Rex Stout - Death of a Doxy
Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls
Roderick Thorp - The Detective
Jack Vance - The Eyes of the Overworld
Patrick White - The Solid Mandala
Roger Zelazny
New drama
Barbara Garson - MacBird
Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Zdeněk Svěrák, Jiří Šebánek, Ladislav Smoljak - Akt (English The Nude), where the famous Czech fictional character Jára Cimrman was first introduced
Poetry
Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist
Non-fiction
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, volume 1.
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - Spirits, Stars, and Spells.
Michel Foucault -The Order of Things (Les Mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines.).
P. J. Kavanagh - The Perfect Stranger.
Alasdair MacIntyre - A Short History of Ethics.
Nancy Mitford - The Sun King.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - A Thousand Days.
Births
April 12 - Jim Duffy, political writer
September 24 - Rhys Hughes, short story writer
date unknown - Sarah Waters, novelist
Deaths
January 18 - Kathleen Norris, writer
March 10 - Frank O'Connor, short-story writer
April 1 - Flann O'Brien, satirist
April 2 - C. S. Forester, Hornblower author
April 10 - Evelyn Waugh
April 13 - Georges Duhamel, novelist
June 7 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet
June 10 - Henry Treece, historical novelist
June 30 - Margery Allingham, crime novelist
July 25 - Frank O'Hara, poet
August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
September 25 - Mina Loy, poet and artist
September 28 - André Breton, surrealist author
November 26 - Siegfried Kracauer, journalist and critic
Awards
Cholmondeley Award: Ted Walker, Stevie Smith
Eric Gregory Award: Robin Fulton, Seamus Heaney, Hugo Williams
See 1966 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Hugo Award: Frank Herbert, Dune and Roger Zelazny, ... And Call Me Conrad
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Christine Brooke-Rose, Such, and Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Geoffrey Keynes, The Life of William Harvey
Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 and Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Borten de Trevino, I, Juan de Pareja
Nobel Prize for literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
Premio Nadal: Vicente Soto, La zancada
Prix Goncourt: Edmonde Charles-Roux, Oublier Palerme
Prix Médicis: Marie-Claire Blais, Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems
Viareggio Prize: Alfonso Gatto, La storia delle vittimeFurther Information
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