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Content
Prizes
International
- The Nobel Prize for Literature - Patrick White , "For epic and psychological mastery, thanks to which a new literary mainland was discovered."
Austria
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature - Harold Pinter .
Israel
- The Israeli State Prize for Hebrew Literature is Shin Shalom .
UK
- Booker Prize - James Gordon Farrell , Siege of Krishnapur
USSR
- Lenin Prize in Literature — Not Awarded
- USSR State Prize in Literature :
- Mikhail Lukonin , for the book of poems "Necessity";
- Nabi Khazri , for the poem collection “The Sea Starts from the Tops” and new poems from the book “Poems and Poems”;
- Victor Pertsov , for the book Mayakovsky. Life and art";
- Alexey Metchenko, for the book “Blood, conquered. From the history of Soviet literature ”
- Gorky Prize :
- Sergey Vasiliev , for the poem "Dignity";
- Anatoly Kalinin , for the novel “Echo of War” and “No Return”;
- Gregory Hodger , for the Amur Wide trilogy
USA
- Pulitzer Prize for Theater Drama - Jason Miller, Championship Season
- The Pulitzer Prize in the category of artwork written by an American writer - Udora Welty , “The Daughter of an Optimist”
- Poetry Pulitzer Prize - Maxine Cumin, Up Country
France
- Goncourt Prize - Jacques Chesset , The Eater.
- Medici Award - Tony Duver , Paysage de fantaisie.
- Renodo Prize - Susanne Prue , La Terrasse des Bernardini.
- Femin Award - Michelle Dar, Juan Maldonne.
Books
- Birch Grove is a book by John Banville .
- “Dragon on the Roof” is a book by Ivan Elagin .
- “Dogs Bark” is a work of Truman Capote .
- “A Strange History” - a book by Evgeny Ternovsky .
- “Quiet Dawns” - a book by Boris Zaitsev (published posthumously).
- “The Master and Margarita” is a separate publication.
Novels
- “In August the forty-fourth,” Vladimir Bogomolov .
- The Death of a Dragon , Sakyo Komatsu .
- "Our Golden Iron", Vasily Aksyonov .
- "Forest", John Khmelevskaya .
- “Do not shoot white swans” , Boris Vasiliev
- “Impatience”, Yuri Trifonov .
- The Submarine, Lothar-Gunther Buchheim .
- The Port of Saints , William Burroughs .
- "Date with Rama" , Arthur Clark .
- Deadly Leap, Dick Francis .
Tale
- “ The Lionheart Brothers ” is a fairy tale by Astrid Lindgren .
- “Mr. Au” is a fairy tale by Hannah Mäkel .
- “ Uncle Fedor, the dog and the cat ” is a fairy tale by Eduard Uspensky .
- “ The Underworld Man ” is a fantastic story by the Strugatsky brothers .
Pieces
- “ Watch solo with a fight ” (Sólo pre bicie) - a play by the Slovak playwright Oswald Zagradnik
- " Emigrants " - a play by the Polish playwright Slavomir Mrozhek .
Born
- April 14 - Tower, Wells , American writer, winner of several literary awards.
- German Sadulayev , Chechen writer.
Died
- February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen , Anglo-Irish writer (born 1899 ).
- March 6 - Pearl Buck , American writer, 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (born in 1892 ).
- April 28 - Jacques Maritain , French philosopher, theologian (born 1882 ).
- May 20 - Mykolas Vaitkus , Lithuanian poet and playwright (born 1883 ).
- July 20 - Mikhail Vasilievich Isakovsky , Soviet poet (born in 1900 ).
- July 28 - Mary Ellen Chase (born 1887 ), American writer, scientist and teacher.
- September 2 - John Ronald Ruel Tolkien , English writer, linguist, philologist (born 1892 ).
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet, diplomat and politician (born in 1904 ).
- September 29 - Whisten Hugh Oden , English poet (born 1907 ).