1965 in literature
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The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Frank Herbert's Dune wins the first ever Nebula Award
[edit] New books
- Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron
- J. G. Ballard - The Drought
- Ray Bradbury - The Vintage Bradbury
- John Brunner
- The Martian Sphinx as Keith Woodcott
- The Squares of the City
- Kenneth Bulmer - Land Beyond the Map
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Castaways
- L. Sprague de Camp - The Arrows of Hercules
- L. Sprague de Camp, editor - The Spell of Seven
- August Derleth - The Casebook of Solar Pons
- Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- Margaret Drabble - The Millstone
- Ian Fleming - The Man with the Golden Gun
- Margaret Forster - Georgy Girl
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- Arthur Hailey - Hotel
- Bel Kaufman - Up the Down Staircase
- Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird
- John le Carré - The Looking-Glass War
- David Lodge - The British Museum Is Falling Down
- H. P. Lovecraft - Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
- Eric Malpass - Morning's at Seven
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Dragons
- James A. Michener - The Source
- Iris Murdoch - The Red and the Green
- Peter O'Donnell - Modesty Blaise
- Raymond Queneau - Les fleurs bleues
- Françoise Sagan - La chamade
- Vincent Starrett - The Quick and the Dead
- Irving Stone - Those Who Love
- Rex Stout - The Doorbell Rang
- Jack Vance - Space Opera
- Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Donald Wandrei - Strange Harvest
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Come and Go
- Edward Bond - Saved
- John Osborne - A Patriot for Me
- Michel Tremblay - Les Belles-Sœurs
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Barney Glaser & Anselm Strauss - Awareness of Dying
- Alex Haley & Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- H. P. Lovecraft - Selected Letters I (1911-1924)
- Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
- Robin Moore - The Green Berets
[edit] Births
- March 4 - Andrew Collins, journalist and scriptwriter
- March 30 - Piers Morgan, controversial journalist and editor
- July 31 - Joanne Rowling, author
- October 23 - Augusten Burroughs, memoirist
- November 11 - Thomas K. Ward, software project manager
- December 31 - Nicholas Sparks, novelist
- date unknown - Patience Agbabi, performance poet
- date unknown - Thomas Brussig, novelist
- September 21 - Robert Zilliox Network Management Systems
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
- January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
- May 3 - Howard Spring, novelist
- June 5 - Thornton Burgess, children's author
- July 9 - Jacques Audiberti
- July 31 - John Metcalfe UK writer
- August 17 - Jack Spicer, poet
- October 8 - Thomas B. Costain, popular historian
- October 15 - Randall Jarrell, poet
- November 8 - Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist
- November 20 - Katharine Anthony, biographer
- December 16 - William Somerset Maugham
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[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
- See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: J. Borel, L'Adoration
- Prix Médicis: René-Victor Pilhes, La Rhubarbe
[edit] United Kingdom
- Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot
- Newdigate prize: Peter Jay
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: The Later Years 1803-1850
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin
[edit] United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: Walter Lippmann
- Hugo Award: Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
- Nebula Award: Frank Herbert, Dune
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers Of The House
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs
[edit] Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: E. Cabalero Calderón, El buen salvaje
- Viareggio Prize: Goffredo Parise, Il Padrone (The Boss)
