1967 in literature

Last updated March 06, 2026

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1967.

Events

January
- The first publication of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita («Ма́стер и Маргари́та»), in the form left at the author's death in 1940, concludes in the magazine Moskva , although censored portions circulate only in samizdat in the Soviet Union. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris.^[1]
- The Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl is introduced in Detective Comics .^[2]
March 16 – The first performance of D. H. Lawrence's January 1913 play The Daughter-in-Law is given at the Royal Court Theatre in London.^[3]
April 24 – The 18-year-old S. E. Hinton's Bildungsroman The Outsiders is published in the United States by Viking Press. She wrote it at the age of 15–16.
August 9 – The English playwright Joe Orton (aged 34) is battered to death by his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, who commits suicide in their north London home shortly after.^[4] Orton has completed work on a film script, Up Against It , for The Beatles (unproduced).
October 21 – American writer Norman Mailer is arrested for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam March on The Pentagon.
November 9 – The first issue of the magazine Rolling Stone is published in San Francisco.
unknown dates
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is banned in the Soviet Union.^[5]^[6]
- The influential New Wave science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions is published in the United States.^[7]

New books

Births

January 7 – Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist
February 8 – Rachel Cusk, Canadian-British novelist^[24]
March 8 – Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代), Japanese novelist and translator
March 12 – Jenny Erpenbeck, German novelist
April 19 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction writer
June 16 – Maylis de Kerangal, French novelist
July 11 – Jhumpa Lahiri, English-born Indian/American writer
July 19
- Zoran Drvenkar, Croatian German novelist
- Wladimir Kaminer, Russian German short story writer
July 31 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, American memoirist ( Prozac Nation ) (died 2020)
September 21 – Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
October 4 – Miloš Urban, Czech novelist
November 27 – Navid Kermani, German writer, essayist and orientalist^[25]
December 12 – Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright, actor and director
Uncertain date – S. F. Said, Lebanese-born British children's fiction writer

Deaths

January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (born 1887)
February 8 – Victor Gollancz, English publisher (born 1893)
March 2 – José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), Spanish novelist (born 1873)
March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist and autobiographer (born 1893)
March 30 – Jean Toomer, African American writer (born 1894)
May 12 – John Masefield, English Poet Laureate (born 1878)
May 22 – Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and playwright (born 1902)
June 3 – Arthur Ransome, English author of children's and other books (born 1884)
June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, English journalist (born 1896)
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American humorist (born 1893)
July 22
- Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and translator (born 1887)
- Carl Sandburg, American historian and poet (born 1878)
July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English novelist and playwright (born 1896)
August 2 – Giles Romilly, English journalist (tranquilizer overdose, born 1916)
August 9 – Joe Orton, English playwright (murdered, born 1933)
August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, American historian and author (born 1876)
September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist (born 1886)
September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (born 1903)
September 16 – Pavlo Tychyna, Ukrainian poet (born 1891)
September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Dutch author (cancer, born 1910)
September 29 – Carson McCullers, American novelist (brain hemorrhage, born 1917)^[26]
September – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet (killed in action, born 1930)
October 8 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (heart failure, born 1906)^[27]
October 9 – André Maurois, French novelist (born 1885)
October 13 – Georges Sadoul, French journalist and writer on cinema (born 1904)
October 14 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and children's author (born 1902)
October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (born 1886)^[28]
November 17 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet (born 1869)
November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (born 1904)^[29]

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Ángel Asturias

Canada

See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire

United Kingdom

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Alan Garner, The Owl Service ^[30]
Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem The Golden
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley

Elsewhere

Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro (大城立裕), The Cocktail Party
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Ernst Bloch
Miles Franklin Award: Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes
Premio Nadal: José María Sanjuán, Réquiem por todos nosotros
Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro

References

↑ Moss, Kevin. "Master: Russian Editions". Middlebury College . Archived from the original on 20 January 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2007.
↑ McAvennie, Michael (2010), "1960s", in Dolan, Hannah (ed.), DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle, Dorling Kindersley, p. 122, ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9
↑ Philip Roberts (2015). The Royal Court Theatre (Routledge Revivals): 1965-1972. Taylor & Francis. p. 59.
↑ Hoare, Philip (2013-09-30). "Kenneth Halliwell: lover, killer… artist?". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
↑ Pearce, Joseph (2011). Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile. Ignatius Press. pp. 184ff.
↑ Blake, Patricia (1968-10-27). "A Diseased Body Politic". The New York Times.
↑ Paul Tomlinson; Harry Harrison (2002). Harry Harrison: An Annotated Bibliography. Wildside Press LLC. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-58715-401-0.
↑ John Cooper; B.A. Pyke (1994). Detective Fiction – the collector's guide. Scholar Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-85967-991-8.
↑ Randall Stevenson (2004). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: The Last of England?. Oxford University Press. p. 541.
↑ O. R. Dathorne (1975). African literature in the twentieth century. University of Minnesota Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780816607693.
↑ The Old Man and the Bureaucrats. OCLC 5286248.
↑ Alan Goble (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 145.
↑ Wilson, Katharina M.; Wilson, M. (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. pp. 390–391. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6.
↑ Dooley, Gillian (2006), V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer, University of South Carolina Press, pp. 53–55, ISBN 978-1-57003-587-6 , retrieved 30 September 2013
↑ Holger Klein (2002). J.B. Priestley's Fiction. Peter Lang. p. 241.
↑ Nijhuis, Michelle (December 3, 2021). "How The Power of the Dog Eviscerates the Myths of the Old Western". Literary Hub .
↑ Cohen, Phyllis (June 1967). "Review of Taran Wanderer". Young Reader's Review. 3 (10): 12.
↑ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
↑ Zarin, Cynthia (17 April 2017). "Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker's "The Peregrine"". The New Yorker.
↑ Eckler Jr., A. Ross (November 2005). "The Borgmann Apocrypha". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics . 38 (4): 258–260.
↑ "1967: The Naked Ape steps out". 12 October 1967. Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2007– via news.bbc.co.uk.
↑ Penner, James (2011). Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-253-22251-0.
↑ Berger, Joseph (October 19, 2011), "Piri Thomas, Spanish Harlem Author, Dies at 83", The New York Times
↑ Barber, Lynn (30 August 2009). "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". The Observer . Retrieved 23 April 2019.
↑ "Navid Kermani" (in German). Retrieved 1 February 2026.
↑ Als, Hilton (2001-11-25). "The Unhappy Endings of Carson McCullers". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2023-06-13.
↑ Roland Mathias (2001). "Watkins, Vernon Phillips (1906-1967), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 1 February 2026.
↑ Taylor, Lloyd C. (1974). Margaret Ayer Barnes. Boston: Twayne Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-80570-037-4.
↑ Patrick Kavanagh (2004). Collected Poems. Allen Lane. p. xxviii. ISBN 978-0-7139-9599-2.
↑ Books Related to Compensatory Education. U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research. 1969. p. 22.

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[1] Moss, Kevin. "Master: Russian Editions". Middlebury College . Archived from the original on 20 January 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2007.

[2] McAvennie, Michael (2010), "1960s", in Dolan, Hannah (ed.), DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle, Dorling Kindersley, p. 122, ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9

[3] Philip Roberts (2015). The Royal Court Theatre (Routledge Revivals): 1965-1972. Taylor & Francis. p. 59.

[4] Hoare, Philip (2013-09-30). "Kenneth Halliwell: lover, killer… artist?". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2017-07-28.

[5] Pearce, Joseph (2011). Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile. Ignatius Press. pp. 184ff.

[6] Blake, Patricia (1968-10-27). "A Diseased Body Politic". The New York Times.

[7] Paul Tomlinson; Harry Harrison (2002). Harry Harrison: An Annotated Bibliography. Wildside Press LLC. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-58715-401-0.

[8] John Cooper; B.A. Pyke (1994). Detective Fiction – the collector's guide. Scholar Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-85967-991-8.

[9] Randall Stevenson (2004). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: The Last of England?. Oxford University Press. p. 541.

[10] O. R. Dathorne (1975). African literature in the twentieth century. University of Minnesota Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780816607693.

[11] The Old Man and the Bureaucrats. OCLC 5286248.

[12] Alan Goble (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 145.

[13] Wilson, Katharina M.; Wilson, M. (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. pp. 390–391. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6.

[14] Dooley, Gillian (2006), V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer, University of South Carolina Press, pp. 53–55, ISBN 978-1-57003-587-6 , retrieved 30 September 2013

[15] Holger Klein (2002). J.B. Priestley's Fiction. Peter Lang. p. 241.

[16] Nijhuis, Michelle (December 3, 2021). "How The Power of the Dog Eviscerates the Myths of the Old Western". Literary Hub .

[17] Cohen, Phyllis (June 1967). "Review of Taran Wanderer". Young Reader's Review. 3 (10): 12.

[18] Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.

[19] Zarin, Cynthia (17 April 2017). "Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker's "The Peregrine"". The New Yorker.

[20] Eckler Jr., A. Ross (November 2005). "The Borgmann Apocrypha". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics . 38 (4): 258–260.

[21] "1967: The Naked Ape steps out". 12 October 1967. Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2007– via news.bbc.co.uk.

[22] Penner, James (2011). Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-253-22251-0.

[23] Berger, Joseph (October 19, 2011), "Piri Thomas, Spanish Harlem Author, Dies at 83", The New York Times

[24] Barber, Lynn (30 August 2009). "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". The Observer . Retrieved 23 April 2019.

[25] "Navid Kermani" (in German). Retrieved 1 February 2026.

[26] Als, Hilton (2001-11-25). "The Unhappy Endings of Carson McCullers". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2023-06-13.

[27] Roland Mathias (2001). "Watkins, Vernon Phillips (1906-1967), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 1 February 2026.

[28] Taylor, Lloyd C. (1974). Margaret Ayer Barnes. Boston: Twayne Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-80570-037-4.

[29] Patrick Kavanagh (2004). Collected Poems. Allen Lane. p. xxviii. ISBN 978-0-7139-9599-2.

[30] Books Related to Compensatory Education. U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research. 1969. p. 22.

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1967 in literature

Contents

Events

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Poetry

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