1972 in literature
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The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Fiction
- Richard Adams - Watership Down
- Jorge Amado - Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra (Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars)
- Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves
- Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
- Taylor Caldwell - Captains and the Kings
- Angela Carter - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
- Brian Cleeve - Tread Softly in this Place
- Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
- Robertson Davies - The Manticore
- R. F. Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days
- Frederick Forsyth - The Odessa File
- Günter Grass - Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke - (From the Diary of a Snail)
- James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small
- Georgette Heyer - Lady of Quality
- George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- P. D. James - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- Dan Jenkins - Semi-Tough
- Oe Kenzaburo - The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away
- Carl Jacobi - Disclosures in Scarlet
- Ira Levin - The Stepford Wives
- Frank Belknap Long - The Rim of the Unknown
- Robert Ludlum - The Osterman Weekend
- John D. MacDonald - The Scarlet Ruse
- David McCullough - The Great Bridge
- Barry N. Malzberg - Beyond Apollo
- Vladimir Nabokov - Transparent Things
- Chaim Potok - My Name is Asher Lev
- Mary Renault - The Persian Boy
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - August 1914
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
- Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Irving Wallace - The Word
Non-fiction
- L. Sprague de Camp - Great Cities of the Ancient World
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - Darwin and His Great Discovery'
- Nena and George O'Neill - Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples[1]
- John Howard Yoder - The Politics of Jesus
- Carlos Castenada - Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
Drama
Births
Deaths
- February 15 - Edgar Snow, journalist
- March 4 - Richard Church, poet and novelist[2]
- March 9 - Violet Trefusis, English writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West
- March 11 - Fredric Brown, science fiction and mystery author
- April 10 - Laurence Manning, science fiction author
- May 22 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate
- June 24 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian
- August 22 - Ernestine Hill, travel writer
- September 21 - Henry de Montherlant, essayist
- September 27 - S. R. Ranganathan, influential librarian
- December 10 - Mark Van Doren, poet
- December 13 - L. P. Hartley, novelist
- December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian
Awards
- See also: 1972 Governor General's Awards and :Category:Literary awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Eudora Welty
- Man Booker Prize: John Berger, G.
- Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
- Carnegie Medal: Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Burns, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon
- Hugo Award: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John Berger, G
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf
- Nebula Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Heinrich Böll
- Premio Nadal: José María Carrascal, Grrovy
- Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, L'Epervier de Maheux
- Prix Médicis: Maurice Clavel, Le Tiers des étoiles
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems
- Viareggio Prize: Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingrado
Other events
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