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The 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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