1967 in literature

The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.
• Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.

New books

• Lloyd Alexander - Taran Wanderer
• J. G. Ballard
  • The Day of Forever
  • The Disaster Area
  • The Overloaded Man
• Thomas Berger - Killing Time
• Kenneth Bulmer
  • Cycle of Nemesis
  • To Outrun Doomsday
• Arthur J. Burks - Black Medicine
• Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
• Margaret Craven - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
• L. Sprague de Camp editor - The Fantastic Swordsmen
• August Derleth editor - Travellers by Night
• Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden
• Allan W. Eckert - Wild Season
• Alan Garner - The Owl Service
• William Golding - The Pyramid
• S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders
• William Hope Hodgson - Deep Waters
• Robert E. Howard - Conan the Warrior
• Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - Conan the Usurper
• Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan
• Aldous Huxley - The Crows of Pearblossom (published posthumously)
• James Jones - Go to the Widow-Maker
• Anna Kavan - Ice
• Elia Kazan - The Arrangement
• Oe Kenzaburo - The Silent Cry
• Milan Kundera - The Joke
• Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby
• Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
• H. P. Lovecraft - Three Tales of Horror
• Alistair MacLean - Where Eagles Dare
• Naguib Mahfouz - Miramar
• Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Wizards
• Daniel Pratt Mannix IV - The Fox and the Hound
• Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Catherine Marshall - Christy
• R. D. Mascott - 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior
• V. S. Naipaul - The Mimic Men
• R. K. Narayan - The Vendor of Sweets
• Scott O'Dell - The Black Pearl
• K. M. Peyton - Flambards
• Chaim Potok - The Chosen
• Marin Preda - Moromeţii
• E. Hoffmann Price - Strange Gateways
• Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
• Mary Stewart - The Gabriel Hounds
• William Styron - The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Henry Sutton - The Exhibitionist
• Piri Thomas - Down These Mean Streets
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat
• Leon Uris - Topaz
• Jack Vance - The Palace of Love
• Thornton Wilder - The Eighth Day
• Colin Wilson - The Mind Parasites
• Samuel Youd
  • The White Mountains (1967)
  • The City of Gold and Lead (1967)
• Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light (Hugo Winner 1968)

New drama

• Peter Handke - Kaspar
• Peter Nichols - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
• Luis Valdez - Los Vendidos

Poetry

• Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri - The Mersey Sound

Non-fiction

• Peter Brown – Augustine of Hippo: A Biography.
• Robert Coles – A Study in Courage and Fear, volume 1 of Children of Crisis.
• L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Story of Science in America.
• Joseph Fletcher - Moral Responsibility.
• Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore – The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.
• William Manchester – The Death of a President.
• Robert K. Massie – Nicholas and Alexandra.
• Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson – The Theory of Island Biogeography
• Desmond Morris - The Naked Ape

Births

• April 19 - Steven H Silver, science fiction writer
• July 19 - Wladimir Kaminer, short story 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 17 - Bo Bergman, poet
• November 30 - Patrick Kavanagh, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Ángel Asturias

Canada

• See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

• Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
• Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire

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United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
• Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
• Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem The Golden
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley

United States

• 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 Road Slowly
• 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

Elsewhere

• Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, The Cocktail Party
• Premio Nadal: José María Sanjuán (Réquiem por todos nosotros
• Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro