1969 in literature
Overview of the events of 1969 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 12 – David Mitchell , English novelist[ 16]
January 17 – Michael Moynihan , American journalist and publisher
January 21 – M. K. Hobson , American speculative fiction author
March – Jez Butterworth , English dramatist and screenwriter
May 6 – Emmanuel Larcenet , French comics author
May 6 – John Scalzi , American science-fiction author
May 28 – Muriel Barbery , French novelist[ 17]
May 29 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Korean-born novelist (suicide 1995 )
June 13 – Virginie Despentes , French writer
July 5 – Armin Kõomägi , Estonian author and screenwriter
August 4 – Jojo Moyes , English journalist and romantic novelist
September 12 - James Frey , American writer
September 30 - Julianna Baggott , American novelist, essayist, and poet
October 24 – Emma Donoghue , Irish-born Canadian novelist, dramatist, and academic
November 13 – John Belluso , American dramatist (died 2006 )
November 28 – Hanne Ørstavik , Norwegian novelist[ 18]
November 30 – David Auburn , American dramatist
unknown dates
Deaths
January 11 – Richmal Crompton , English children's writer (born 1890 )[ 20]
January 21 – Giovanni Comisso , Italian writer (born 1895 )
March 9 – Charles Brackett , American novelist and screenwriter (born 1892 )
March 11 – John Wyndham , English science fiction novelist (born 1903 )[ 21]
March 24 – Margery Fish , English gardening writer (born 1892 )
March 25 – Max Eastman , American writer (born 1883 )[ 22]
March 26 – John Kennedy Toole , American novelist (suicide, born 1937 )
March 27 – B. Traven , presumed German-born novelist (unknown year of birth)
April 6 – Gabriel Chevallier , French writer (born 1895 )
April 7 – Rómulo Gallegos , Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th President of Venezuela (born 1884 )[ 23]
May 4 – Osbert Sitwell , English novelist and poet (born 1892 )[ 24]
July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz , Polish playwright and novelist (born 1904 )[ 25]
July 27 – Vivian de Sola Pinto , English poet and memoirist (born 1895 )[ 26]
August 10 – Maurine Dallas Watkins , American journalist/play and screenwriter (born 1896 )
August 14 – Leonard Woolf , English political theorist (born 1880 )[ 27]
August 27 – Ivy Compton-Burnett , English novelist (born 1884 )[ 28]
September 6 – Gavin Maxwell , Scottish naturalist and author (cancer, born 1914 )[ 29]
September 17 – Greye La Spina , American dramatist and short story writer (born 1880 )
September 20 – Elinor Brent-Dyer , English children's writer (born 1894 )
September 22 – Rachel Davis Harris , African American librarian (born 1869 )
October 14 – August Sang , Estonian poet and literary translator (born 1914 )
October 21 – Jack Kerouac , American novelist and poet (internal hemorrhage, born 1922 )[ 30]
November 6 – Susan Taubes , Hungarian American writer and Jewish intellectual (suicide, born 1928 )
November 15 – Ignacio Aldecoa , Spanish writer (born 1925 )
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
References
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