1968 in literature
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See also: 1967 in literature, other events of 1968, 1969 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest is published.
New books
- Airport - Arthur Hailey
- Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
- Cancer Ward - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Cocksure - Mordecai Richler
- Couples - John Updike
- Cousin Kate – Georgette Heyer
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- The Double Helix - James D. Watson
- The End of Obscenity: The trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill - Charles Rembar
- The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- I Am Mary Dunne - Brian Moore
- The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories - James Jones
- Lonesome Cities (poetry) - Rod McKuen
- The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell
- The Money Game - Adam Smith
- Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
- Preserve and Protect - Allen Drury
- The Salzburg Connection - Helen McInnes
- A Small Town in Germany - John le Carré
- Testimony of Two Men - Taylor Caldwell
Births
- January 30 - Rhoda Shipman, comic book writer
- date unknown - K. V. Johansen, children's author
Deaths
- January 14 - Dorothea Mackellar, poet
- April 16 - Edna Ferber
- April 25 - Donald Davidson
- May 1 - Harold Nicolson, biographer and husband of Vita Sackville-West
- May 30 - Martin Noth, Hebraist
- June 1 - Helen Keller
- October 13 - Sir Stanley Unwin (publisher)
- November 17 - Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast author
- November 25 - Upton Sinclair
- December 5 - Anna Kavan
- December 20 - John Steinbeck
Awards
- See 1968 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award: Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
- Nebula Award: Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Yasunari Kawabata
- Prix Goncourt: Bernard Clavel, Les fruits de l'hiver
- Prix Médicis: Élie Wiesel, Le Mendiant de Jérusalem
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours
- Viareggio Prize: Libero Bigiaretti, La controfigura