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The year 1970 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

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

Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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
John Dickson Carr - The Ghosts' High Noon
Agatha Christie - Passenger to Frankfurt
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business
L. Sprague de Camp
- The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales
- Warlocks and Warriors (ed.)
Samuel R. Delany - The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy)
James Dickey - Deliverance
José Donoso - The Obscene Bird of Night (El obsceno pájaro de la noche)
Lawrence Durrell - Nunquam
J. G. Farrell - Troubles
Anne Hébert - Kamouraska
Ernest Hemingway - Islands in the Stream
Susan Hill - I'm the King of the Castle
Pamela Hansford Johnson - The Honours Board
Anna Kavan - Julia and the Bazooka
Jaan Kross - Between Three Plagues (part 1)
Ira Levin - This Perfect Day
H. P. Lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
John D. MacDonald - The Long Lavender Look
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
Muriel Spark - The Driver's Seat
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

Dario Fo - Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Anthony Shaffer - Sleuth

Poetry

Main article: 1970 in poetry

L. Sprague deCamp - Demons and Dinosaurs

Non-fiction

Dee Brown - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Henri Charrière - Papillon
August Derleth - Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969: A History and Bibliography
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
October 27 - Jonathan Stroud, fantasy writer
unknown date - Alex Garland, novelist
unknown date - Chris Adrian, novelist
unknown date - Nathan Englander, author

Deaths

January 10 - Charles Olson, poet
January 29 - B. H. 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

Nobel Prize for Literature: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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