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The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Fiction
2 Non-fiction
3 Drama
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Awards
7 Other events
8 References

Fiction

Richard Adams - Watership Down
Jorge Amado - Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra (Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars)
Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers
Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Taylor Caldwell - Captains and the Kings
John Dickson Carr - The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel
Angela Carter - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Agatha Christie - Elephants Can Remember
Brian Cleeve - Tread Softly in this Place
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
R. F. Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days
Frederick Forsyth - The Odessa File
Günter Grass - Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke - (From the Diary of a Snail)
Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small
Georgette Heyer - Lady of Quality
George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle
P. D. James - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Dan Jenkins - Semi-Tough
Oe Kenzaburo - The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away
Carl Jacobi - Disclosures in Scarlet
Ira Levin - The Stepford Wives
Frank Belknap Long - The Rim of the Unknown
Robert Ludlum - The Osterman Weekend
John D. MacDonald - The Scarlet Ruse
David McCullough - The Great Bridge
Barry N. Malzberg - Beyond Apollo
Vladimir Nabokov - Transparent Things
Chaim Potok - My Name is Asher Lev
Mary Renault - The Persian Boy
Tom Sharpe - Indecent Exposure
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - August 1914
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Paul Theroux - Saint Jack
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Irving Wallace - The Word

Non-fiction

Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man
L. Sprague de Camp - Great Cities of the Ancient World
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - Darwin and His Great Discovery'
Nena and George O'Neill - Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples^[1]
John Howard Yoder - The Politics of Jesus
Carlos Castenada - Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

Drama

Alan Ayckbourn - Absurd Person Singular

Births

January 1 - Maile Meloy
February 11 - Noboru Yamaguchi
September 6 - China Miéville

Deaths

February 15 - Edgar Snow, journalist
March 4 - Richard Church, poet and novelist^[2]
March 9 - Violet Trefusis, English writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West
March 11 - Fredric Brown, science fiction and mystery author
April 10 - 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
November 1 - Ezra Pound, poet
December 10 - Mark Van Doren, poet
December 13 - L. P. Hartley, novelist
December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian

Awards

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Eudora Welty
Man Booker Prize: John Berger, G.
Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
Carnegie Medal: Richard Adams, Watership Down
Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Burns, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon
Hugo Award: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John Berger, G
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf
Nebula Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Nobel Prize in Literature: Heinrich Böll
Premio Nadal: José María Carrascal, Grrovy
Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, L'Epervier de Maheux
Prix Médicis: Maurice Clavel, Le Tiers des étoiles
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

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