Overview of the events of 1972 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972 .
Events
May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis , Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom , dies at Lemmons , the home of novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard in North London, which he has shared with his wife and son – actors Jill Balcon and Daniel Day-Lewis – and at weekends with Kingsley's writer son Martin Amis and others.[ 1] June 4 – The poet Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union .[ 2] October – In Somalia , the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali Latin alphabet as the country's official writing script.[ 3] [ 4]
October 6 –7 – The new Staatstheater Darmstadt is opened.October 8 – The play Sizwe Bansi is Dead Space Theatre (Cape Town) , South Africa , before a multiracial audience. Playwright Athol Fugard directs, with co-writers John Kani and Winston Ntshona in lead roles.October 10 – Sir John Betjeman is declared Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first knight ever to be so.[ 5] "The three Marias", Maria Isabel Barreno , Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa , publish in Lisbon New Portuguese Letters (Novas Cartas Portuguesas)Estado Novo [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 8] Carnation Revolution " does their trial end with the authors pardoned and the judge assigning "outstanding literary merit" to the book.[ 12]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – Maile Meloy , American novelist and short story writerFebruary 11 – Noboru Yamaguchi (山口 登), Japanese light novelist and game scenario author (died 2013 )[ 29] March 29 - Ernest Cline , American science-fiction novelist and screenwriterMay 22 – Max Brooks , American horror author and screenwriter[ 30] May 27 – Maggie O'Farrell , Northern Ireland-born novelistJuly 21 – Josué Guébo , Ivorian writer and academicAugust 6 - Paolo Bacigalupi , American science-fiction and fantasy writerAugust 18 – Adda Djørup , Danish poet and fiction writerAugust 26 - Paula Hawkins , British novelist and journalistSeptember 6 – China Miéville , English science fiction novelist[ 31] September 19
Cheryl B (Cheryl Burke), American poet and spoken word artistN. K. Jemisin , American science fiction and fantasy writerNovember 4 – Yiyun Li (李翊雲), Chinese American writer of fiction in EnglishNovember 26 - James Dashner , American writer of speculative fiction December 20 – Gen Urobuchi , Japanese novelist and screenwriterunknown dates
Deaths
January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller , German playwright and poet (born 1906 )January 7 – John Berryman , American poet (suicide; born 1914 )[ 34] January 8 – Kenneth Patchen , American poet and author (born 1911 )[ 35] January 17 – Betty Smith , American novelist (born 1896 )[ 36] February 2 – Natalie Clifford Barney , American writer and patron (born 1876 )[ 37] February 15 – Edgar Snow , American political writer (cancer, born 1905 )[ 38] March 4 – Richard Church , English poet and novelist (born 1893 [ 39] March 9 – Violet Trefusis , English writer (born 1894 )[ 40] March 11 – Fredric Brown , American genre novelist (born 1906 March 14 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli , Italian publisher (born 1926 )April 10 – Laurence Manning , Canadian science fiction author (born 1899 )April 16 – Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成), Japanese fiction writer, Nobel laureate (born 1899)May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis , Irish-born Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and (as Nicholas Blake) novelist (born 1904 )[ 41] May 28 – Violette Leduc , French novelist and memoirist (born 1907 )[ 42] June 24 – R. F. Delderfield , English novelist and playwright (born 1912 )[ 43] August 2 – Helen Hoyt (Helen Lyman), American poet (born 1887 )August 9 – Ernst von Salomon , German writer (born 1902 )August 17 – Alexander Vampilov , Russian dramatist (drowned fishing, born 1937 )August 22 – Ernestine Hill , Australian travel writer (born 1899 )September 21 – Henry de Montherlant , French novelist, dramatist and essayist (suicide, born 1895 )September 27 – S. R. Ranganathan , Indian mathematician and librarian (born 1892 )October 5 – Ivan Yefremov , Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (born 1908 )[ 44] November 1 – Ezra Pound , American poet (born 1885 )[ 45] November 12 – José Nucete Sardi , Venezuelan historian and diplomat (born 1897 )[ 46] November 29 – Victor Bridges (Victor George de Freyne), English genre novelist, playwright and poet (born 1878 )December 10 – Mark Van Doren , American poet, writer and critic (born 1894 )December 13 – L. P. Hartley , English novelist (born 1895 )[ 47] December 23 – Abraham Joshua Heschel , Polish-born American theologian and rabbi (born 1907 )unknown dates
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize : John Berger , G. Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Richard Adams , Watership Down [ 49] Cholmondeley Award : Molly Holden , Tom Raworth , Patricia Whittaker Eric Gregory Award : Tony Curtis , Richard Berengarten , Brian Oxley , Andrew Greig , Robin Lee , Paul Muldoon [ 50] James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John Berger , G James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Quentin Bell , Virginia Woolf
United States
Elsewhere
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
References
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^ Books, University of Chicago Center for Children's (1973). The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1966-1972 ISBN 978-0-226-78057-3 ^ "Review: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson" . the Guardian . 12 July 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2022 .^ Hahn 2015, p. 377
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