1970 in literature
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The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
New books
- Nina Bawden - The Birds on the Trees
- Pierre Berton - The National Dream
- Judy Blume - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
- Jim Bouton - Ball Four
- Wallace Breem - Eagle in the Snow
- Jimmy Breslin - The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
- Taylor Caldwell - Great Lion of God
- Robertson Davies - Fifth Business
- L. Sprague de Camp - The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales
- L. Sprague de Camp, editor - Warlocks and Warriors
- Samuel R. Delany - The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy)
- James Dickey - Deliverance
- John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Graham Greene - Travels with My Aunt
- Anne Hébert - Kamouraska
- Susan Hill - I'm the King of the Castle
- Pamela Hansford Johnson - The Honours Board
- Anna Kavan - Julia and the Bazooka
- Ira Levin - This Perfect Day
- H.P. Lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
- Eric Malpass - Oh My Darling Daughter
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Devils and Demons
- Yukio Mishima - The Decay of the Angel last book in the The Sea of Fertility series
- Brian Moore - Fergus
- Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye
- Larry Niven - Ringworld
- John Jay Osborn, Jr. - The Paper Chase
- Robert W. Peterson - Only the Ball was White
- Kurban Said - Ali and Nino
- Erich Segal - Love Story
- Sidney Sheldon - The Naked Face
- Clark Ashton Smith - Other Dimensions
- Mary Stewart - The Crystal Cave
- Leon Uris - QB VII
- Jack Vance - The Pnume
- E. B. White - The Trumpet Of The Swan
- Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber
New drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Dee Brown - ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Henri Charrière - Papillon
- August Derleth -
- Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road
- Arthur Janov - The Primal Scream
- Mahathir bin Mohamad - The Malay Dilemma
- Kate Millet - Sexual Politics
- Nancy Mitford - Frederick the Great
- Albert Speer - Inside the Third Reich
- Alvin Toffler - Future Shock
Births
- September 10 - Phaswane Mpe, novelist, (d. 2004)
- September 16 - Nick Sagan, novelist and screenwriter
- September 24 - Gemma Moraleja Paz, poet and novelist
- unknown date - Alex Garland, novelist
- unknown date - Jonathan Stroud, fantasy writer
Deaths
- January 10 - Charles Olson, poet
- January 29 - Basil Liddell Hart, military historian
- February 2 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher
- March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason author
- March 29 - Vera Brittain, novelist and poet
- April 11 - John O'Hara, novelist
- May 12 - Nelly Sachs, poet and dramatist
- June 3 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- June 7 - E. M. Forster, novelist
- June 16 - Elsa Triolet, novelist
- July 15 - Eric Berne, psychiatrist and author
- September 1 - François Mauriac, novelist
- September 28 - John Dos Passos, novelist
- November 25 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and rightist political activist (suicide)
Awards
Canada
- See 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Goncourt: Michel Tournier, Le Roi des Aulnes
- Prix Médicis French: Camille Bourniquel, Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale
- Prix Médicis International: Luigi Malerba, Saut de la mort
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
- Cholmondeley Award: Kathleen Raine, Douglas Livingstone, Edward Brathwaite
- Eric Gregory Award: Helen Frye, Paul Mills, John Mole, Brian Morse, Alan Perry, Richard Tibbitts
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Lily Powell, The Bird of Paradise
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Roy Fuller
United States
- Hugo Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Nebula Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: William H. Armstrong, Sounder
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Jesús Fernández Santos, Libro de las memorias de las cosas
- Viareggio Prize: Nello Saito, Dentro e fuori
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