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

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

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
Agatha Christie - Endless Night
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

Main article: 1967 in 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.

Elsewhere

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

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