1966 in literature
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[edit] Events
- 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.
[edit] New books
- Chinua Achebe - A Man of the People
- Robert H. Adleman - The Devil's Brigade
- Kingsley Amis - The Anti-Death League
- Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage
- Margaret Atwood
- Louis Auchincloss - The Embezzler
- Mihail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
- James Clavell - Tai-Pan
- Robert Crichton - The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- William Crossing - The Dartmoor Worker (anthology)
- Roald Dahl - The Magic Finger
- Allen Drury - Capable of Honor
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Der Meteor
- Ian Fleming - Octopussy and The Living Daylights
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Helen McInnes - The Double Image
- Larry McMurtry - Last Picture Show
- Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
- Marcel Pagnol
- Anthony Powell - The Soldier's Art
- Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
- Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
- Harold Robbins - The Adventurers
- Adela Rogers St. Johns - Tell No Man
- Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls
- Patrick White - The Solid Mandala
[edit] 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
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, volume 1
- P. J. Kavanagh - The Perfect Stranger
- Nancy Mitford - The Sun King
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - A Thousand Days
[edit] Births
- April 12 - Jim Duffy, political writer
- September 24 - Rhys Hughes, short story writer
- date unknown - Sarah Waters, novelist
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- 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
- 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 vittimefr:1966 en littérature
