1966 in literature

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The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

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

Events

February 14 - Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity".
In a landmark obscenity case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the banned novel John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland did not meet the Roth standard for obscenity.
Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel, Valley of the Dolls published. From a friend, she obtained a list of the bookstores upon which the New York Times relied for sales figures to determine its bestseller list. Ms. Susann then used her own money to buy large quantities of her own book at these selected stores resulting in her novel going to #1 on the "Times" bestseller list. Valley of the Dolls is the second best selling novel of all time.
Publication of Octopussy and the Living Daylights, the final collection of James Bond short stories by the character's creator, Ian Fleming, who had died in 1964.

New drama

Barbara Garson - MacBird
Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Zdeněk Svěrák, Jiří Šebánek, Ladislav Smoljak - Akt (English The Nude), where the famous Czech fictional character Jára Cimrman was first introduced

Poetry

Main article: 1966 in poetry

Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist

Non-fiction

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, volume 1.
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - Spirits, Stars, and Spells.
Michel Foucault -The Order of Things (Les Mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines.).
P. J. Kavanagh - The Perfect Stranger.
Alasdair MacIntyre - A Short History of Ethics.
Nancy Mitford - The Sun King.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - A Thousand Days.

Births

April 12 - Jim Duffy, political writer
September 24 - Rhys Hughes, short story writer
date unknown - Sarah Waters, novelist

Deaths

January 18 - Kathleen Norris, writer
March 10 - Frank O'Connor, short-story writer
April 1 - Flann O'Brien, satirist
April 2 - C. S. Forester, Hornblower author
April 10 - Evelyn Waugh
April 13 - Georges Duhamel, novelist
June 7 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet
June 10 - Henry Treece, historical novelist
June 30 - Margery Allingham, crime novelist
July 25 - Frank O'Hara, poet
August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
September 25 - Mina Loy, poet and artist
September 28 - André Breton, surrealist author
November 26 - Siegfried Kracauer, journalist and critic

Awards

Cholmondeley Award: Ted Walker, Stevie Smith
Eric Gregory Award: Robin Fulton, Seamus Heaney, Hugo Williams
See 1966 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Hugo Award: Frank Herbert, Dune and Roger Zelazny, ... And Call Me Conrad
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Christine Brooke-Rose, Such, and Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Geoffrey Keynes, The Life of William Harvey
Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 and Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Borten de Trevino, I, Juan de Pareja
Nobel Prize for literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
Premio Nadal: Vicente Soto, La zancada
Prix Goncourt: Edmonde Charles-Roux, Oublier Palerme
Prix Médicis: Marie-Claire Blais, Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems
Viareggio Prize: Alfonso Gatto, La storia delle vittime

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