1969 in literature
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See also: 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
- The Campus Murders - Ellery Queen
- 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
- War Against The Mafia - Don Pendleton
Births
- January - David Mitchell, novelist
- May 6 - Emmanuel Larcenet, comics author
- unknown date - Adrian Goldsworthy, military historian
Deaths
- January 11 - Richmal Crompton, author
- March 11 - John Wyndham, British author
- March 26 - John Kennedy Toole, author
- March 27 - B. Traven, writer
- May 4 - Osbert Sitwell, novelist, poet, brother of Edith Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell
- August 14 - Leonard Woolf, political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf
- September 6 - Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and author
- September 20 - Elinor Brent-Dyer, Chalet School author
- October 21 - Jack Kerouac, author
- date unknown - Vivian de Sola Pinto, poet and memoirist
Awards
- Booker Prize: P. H. Newby - Something to Answer For
- See 1969 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award: John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
- Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lloyd Alexander, The High King
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett
- Prix Goncourt: Félicien Marceau, Creezy
- Prix Médicis: Hélène Cixous, Dedans
- 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
- Viareggio Prize: Fulvio Tomizza, L'albero dei sogni