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The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books.

Contents

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

Events

Frank Herbert becomes directo-photographer of the television show, The Tillers.
Robert B. Parker starts the Spenser book series.

New books

Martin Amis – The Rachel Papers
Ernest Becker – The Denial of Death
Joseph Payne Brennan – Stories of Darkness and Dread
John Brunner - The Stone That Never Came Down
Ramsey Campbell – Demons by Daylight
Jerome Charyn – Tar Baby
Agatha Christie – Postern of Fate
Basil Copper – From Evil's Pillow
L. Sprague de Camp – The Fallible Fiend
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, editors – 3000 Years of nd Science Fiction
August Derleth – The Chronicles of Solar Pons
Michael Ende – Momo
Paul E. Erdman – The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
J. G. Farrell; The Siege of Krishnapur
Leon Forrest – There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden
William Goldman – The Princess Bride
Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
Elisabeth Harvor, Women and Children 11 stories (revised as Our Lady of All Distances, 1991)
James Jones – A Touch of Danger
Anna Kavan – Who Are You?
Brian Killick – The Heralds
Dean R. Koontz – Demon Seed
Jerzy Kosinski – The Devil Tree
Robert Ludlum – The Matlock Paper
John D. MacDonald - The Turquoise Lament
Cormac McCarthy – Child of God
Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Ogres and Trolls
Robert Marasco – Burnt Offerings
Toni Morrison – Sula
Iris Murdoch – The Black Prince
Robert B. Parker – The Godwulf Manuscript
Mervyn Peake – The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (posthumously published)
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Anthony Powell – Temporary Kings
Thomas Pynchon – Gravity's Rainbow
Irwin Shaw – Evening in Byzantium
Rex Stout - Please Pass the Guilt
Jacqueline Susann – Once Is Not Enough
Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Jack Vance – The Anome
Gore Vidal – Burr
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – Breakfast of Champions
Patrick White – The Eye of the Storm
Rudy Wiebe – Temptations of Big Bear
Roger Zelazny
- To Die in Italbar
- Today We Choose Faces

New drama

Alan Ayckbourn – The Norman Conquests

Poetry

Main article: 1973 in poetry

Allen Curnow – An Abominable Temper and Other Poems
Tomás Rivera – Always and other poems

Non-fiction

Allan W. Eckert - The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone
Antonia Fraser - Cromwell, our Chief of Men
Tim O'Brien – If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home
John Pearson - James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007
E. F. Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful
Binod Bihari Verma - Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan Maithili book

Births

February 21 - Jacob M. Appel, short story writer
June 2 - David Bezmozgis, Latvian-Canadian writer

Deaths

February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen, novelist
March 6 - Pearl S. Buck
March 26 - Sir Noel Coward, dramatist and humorist
April 9 - Warren Lewis, author, Inkling, and brother of C. S. Lewis
April 28 - Jacques Maritain, philosopher
May 21 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, author
June 9 - John Creasey, author
June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
July 29 - Henri Charrière, Papillon author
September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy writer
September 23 - Pablo Neruda, poet
September 29 - W. H. Auden, poet
October 28 - Sergio Tofano, dramatist
December 9 - Anthony Gilbert, crime writer

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Patrick White

Canada

See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Jacques Chessex, L'Ogre
Prix Médicis French: Tony Duvert, Paysage de fantaisie
Prix Médicis International: Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin
Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs

United States

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: José García Blázquez, El rito
Viareggio Prize: Achille Campanile, Manuale di conversazione

Categories: 1973 books | Years in literature

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