1972 in literature
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See also: 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- August 1914 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Captains and the Kings - Taylor Caldwell
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
- Die the Long Day - Horace Orlando Patterson
- Endurance - James L Harris
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
- The Great Bridge - David McCullough
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
- Lady of Quality – Georgette Heyer
- The Manticore - Robertson Davies
- My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
- The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
- The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum
- The Politics of Jesus - John Howard Yoder
- Semi-Tough - Dan Jenkins
- Two from Galilee - Marjorie Holmes
- The Word - Irving Wallace
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
Births
- September 6 - China Miéville, English writer
Deaths
- February 15 - Edgar Snow, journalist
- March 9 - Violet Trefusis, English writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West
- April - Laurence Manning, science fiction author
- May 22 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate
- June 24 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian
- August 22 - Ernestine Hill, travel writer
- September 21 - Henry de Montherlant, essayist
- September 27 - S. R. Ranganathan, influential librarian
- December 10 - Mark Van Doren, poet
- December 13 - L. P. Hartley, novelist
- December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian
- date unknown - Richard Church, poet and novelist
Awards
- Booker Prize: John Berger, G
- See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Carnegie Medal: Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Hugo Award: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Nebula Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll
- Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, L'Epervier de Maheux
- Prix Médicis: Maurice Clavel, Le Tiers des étoiles
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems
- Viareggio Prize: Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingrado