1967 in literature
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See also: 1966 in literature, other events of 1967, 1968 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.
- Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.
New books
- The Arrangement - Elia Kazan
- The Chosen - Chaim Potok
- Christy - Catherine Marshall
- The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
- The Crows of Pearblossom - Aldous Huxley
- Death of a President - William Manchester
- Down These Mean Streets - Piri Thomas
- The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder
- The Exhibitionist - Henry Sutton
- The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart
- Go to the Widow-Maker - James Jones
- Ice - Anna Kavan
- Jerusalm the Golden - Margaret Drabble
- Killing Time - Thomas Berger
- Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
- Rosemary's Baby- Ira Levin
- Topaz - Leon Uris
- Where Eagles Dare - Alistair MacLean
- Wild Season - Allan W. Eckert
Births
- April 19 - Steven H Silver, science fiction writer
Deaths
- February 8 - Victor Gollancz, publisher
- February 28 - Henry Luce, publisher
- March 7 - Alice B. Toklas, muse of Gertrude Stein
- May 12 - John Masefield, Poet Laureate
- June 4 - J. R. Ackerley, journalist
- June 7 - Dorothy Parker, humorist
- July 22 - Carl Sandburg, historian and poet
- August 2 - Giles Romilly, journalist
- August 9 - Joe Orton, dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell
- August 29 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay, historian, author
- September 1 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet, author
- September 24 - Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author
- October 8 - Vernon Watkins, poet
- October 9 - André Maurois, novelist
- October 14 - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's author
- November 30 - Patrick Kavanagh, poet
Awards
- Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, The Cocktail Party
- See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award: Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Irene Hunt, Up a Pond Slowly
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Angel Asturias
- Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
- Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die
- Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro