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1970 in literature

Index 1970 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1970. [1]

370 relations: A Bequest to the Nation, A Horse of Air, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Place in England, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Aesthetic Theory, Agatha Christie, Albert Speer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alex Garland, Alexander Vampilov, Alf Prøysen, Ali and Nino, Allen Lane, Alvin Toffler, Ama Ata Aidoo, Anna Kavan, Anne Hébert, Anowa, Anthony Shaffer (writer), April 11, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Arthur Janov, August 21, August 27, August Derleth, B. H. Liddell Hart, Ball Four, Bernice Rubens, Bertrand Russell, Betsy Byars, Bill Peet, Bohumil Hrabal, Bomber (novel), Booker Prize, Brian Moore (novelist), Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Carnegie Medal (literary award), Charles Gordone, Charles Olson, Children's literature, Cholmondeley Award, Chris Adrian, Christopher Hampton, Christopher Lloyd (gardener), Clark Ashton Smith, Count Julian (novel), Coup d'état, Crow (poetry), Czechoslovakia, ..., Dal Stivens, Dantons Tod (opera), Dario Fo, Dave Eggers, David Storey, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, December 5, Dee Brown (writer), Deliverance (novel), Demons and Dinosaurs, Derek Walcott, Dorthe Nors, Douglas Livingstone (poet), Dream on Monkey Mountain, Dritëro Agolli, Drums for Rancas, Dumas Malone, E. B. White, E. M. Forster, Eagle in the Snow, Edward Blishen, Edward de Bono, Elizabeth David, Elsa Triolet, Emperor of Japan, Eric Berne, Eric Gregory Award, Eric Malpass, Erich Segal, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, Fadil Paçrami, Fanny Hill, Fantastic Mr Fox, February 2, Fifth Business, Fire from Heaven, François Mauriac, Frederick the Great, From a Crooked Rib, Future Shock, Georg Büchner, Germaine Greer, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Gore Vidal, H. P. Lovecraft, Halldór Laxness, Han Kang, Hannah Arendt, Harold Perkin, Helene Hanff, Henri Charrière, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Home (play), Hugo Award, I'm the King of the Castle, IBM MT/ST, In the Night Kitchen, Inside the Third Reich, Ira Levin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Islands in the Stream (novel), J. B. Priestley, J. G. Farrell, Jaan Kross, Jack Vance, James Dickey, James MacGregor Burns, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, January 1, January 10, January 16, January 25, January 29, Japan, Japan Self-Defense Forces, Jasper Ridley, Jean Stafford, Jefferson and His Time, Jim Bouton, Jimmy Breslin, John Burningham, John Christopher, John Cleland, John D. MacDonald, John Dickson Carr, John Dos Passos, John Gielgud, John Jay Osborn Jr., John Mole (poet), John O'Hara, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Stroud, José Donoso, Juan Goytisolo, Judy Blume, July 15, July 7, June 16, June 17, June 2, June 3, June 6, June 7, Kamau Brathwaite, Kamouraska (novel), Kate Millett, Kathleen Raine, Kurban Said, L. Sprague de Camp, Larry Niven, Lateral thinking, Lawrence Durrell, Len Deighton, Leon Garfield, Leon Uris, Les Blancs, Les Poneys sauvages, Lily Powell, Lindsay Anderson, List of years in literature, Lorraine Hansberry, Love Story (novel), Luigi Malerba, Mahathir Mohamad, Manuel Scorza, March 11, March 12, March 20, March 21, March 26, March 29, March 6, Marlen Haushofer, Marlon James (novelist), Martin McDonagh, Mary Renault, Mary Stewart (novelist), Maurice Sendak, May 12, May 20, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Frayn, Michel Déon, Michel Foucault, Michel Tournier, Michele Jaffe, Miles Franklin Award, Modernism, Moscow-Petushki, Mr Gumpy's Outing, Muriel Spark, Nancy Mitford, Nathan Englander, Nebula Award, Neel Mukherjee (writer), Nelly Sachs, Newbery Medal, Nick Sagan, Nina Bawden, Nine Princes in Amber, Nobel Prize in Literature, Norman Mailer, November 20, November 23, November 24, November 25, November 27, November 7, Nuruddin Farah, October 27, Of a Fire on the Moon, Oh My Darling Daughter, Other Dimensions, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Papillon (book), Passenger to Frankfurt, Patrick White, Pearson plc, Penguin Books, Peter Brook, Phaswane Mpe, Pierre Berton, Poul Anderson, Premio Nadal, Prix Goncourt, Prix Médicis, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, QB VII, Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Racey Helps, Ralph Richardson, Richard Bach, Richard Howard, Right-wing politics, Ringworld, Roald Dahl, Robert Blatchford, Robert Bolt, Robertson Davies, Robin Morgan, Roger Zelazny, Roland Barthes, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, Roy Fuller, Royal Court Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970), Ruth Manning-Sanders, Ruth Park, Ruth Sawyer, S/Z, Samizdat, Samuel R. Delany, Sarah Dessen, Seppuku, September 1, September 10, September 16, September 28, Sexual Politics, Sidney Sheldon, Simona Vinci, Sisterhood Is Powerful, Slate (magazine), Sleuth (play), Sounder, Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, Stephen Chbosky, Stratford-upon-Avon, Summer of the Swans, Susan Hill, Tatenokai, Tau Zero, Taylor Caldwell, Ted Hughes, Terence Rattigan, The Birds on the Trees, The Bluest Eye, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, The Crystal Cave, The Decay of the Angel, The Driver's Seat (novel), The Elected Member, The Female Eunuch, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, The God Beneath the Sea, The Guardians (novel), The Honours Board, The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lime Works, The Long Lavender Look, The Malay Dilemma, The Naked Face, The National Dream (book), The New York Times, The Obscene Bird of Night, The Order of Things, The Paper Chase (novel), The Philanthropist (play), The Pnume, The Primal Scream, The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales, The Sea of Fertility, The Trumpet of the Swan, The Two of Us (play), The Vivisector, The Wump World, Theodor W. Adorno, Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939–69, This Perfect Day, Thomas Berger (novelist), Thomas Bernhard, Tokyo, Toni Morrison, Trevor Griffiths, Troubles (novel), Two Sisters (novel), UMabatha, Ursula K. Le Guin, Uwe Johnson, Varese, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Vera Brittain, Viareggio Prize, Vincent Eri, Vivat! Vivat Regina!, Wallace Breem, Warlocks and Warriors, William H. Armstrong, William Shakespeare, Word processor, Yukio Mishima, 1872 in literature, 1879 in literature, 1880 in literature, 1885 in literature, 1888 in literature, 1889 in literature, 1891 in literature, 1893 in literature, 1895 in literature, 1896 in literature, 1902 in literature, 1905 in literature, 1910 in literature, 1913 in literature, 1914 in literature, 1920 in literature, 1925 in literature, 1969 in literature, 1970, 1970 Governor General's Awards, 1971 in literature, 2004 in literature, 84, Charing Cross Road. Expand index (320 more) »

A Bequest to the Nation

A Bequest to the Nation is a 1970 play by Terence Rattigan, based on his 1966 television play Nelson (full title - Nelson - A Portrait in Miniature).

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A Horse of Air

A Horse of Air (1970) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Dal Stivens.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.

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A Place in England

A Place in England is a novel by Melvyn Bragg, first published in 1970.

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Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Italian title: Morte accidentale di un anarchico) is a play by Italian playwright and left-wing activist Dario Fo.

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Aesthetic Theory

Aesthetic Theory (Ästhetische Theorie) is a book by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno, which was culled from drafts written between 1961 and 1969 and ultimately published posthumously in 1970.

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Albert Speer

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer.

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Alex Garland

Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director.

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Alexander Vampilov

Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov (Александр Валентинович Вампилов) (19 August 1937, Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast – 17 August 1972 at Lake Baikal) was a Russian playwright.

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Alf Prøysen

Alf Prøysen (23 July 1914 – 23 November 1970) was a Norwegian author, poet, playwright, songwriter and musician.

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Ali and Nino

Ali and Nino is a novel about a romance between a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku in the years 1918-1920.

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Allen Lane

Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.

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Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide.

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Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo was born on 23 March 1942 in Saltpond.

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Anna Kavan

Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter.

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Anne Hébert

Anne Hébert, (pronounced in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a French Canadian author and poet.

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Anowa

Anowa is a play by Ghanaian playwright Ama Ata Aidoo published in 1970.

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Anthony Shaffer (writer)

Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 19266 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister and advertising executive.

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April 11

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is a 1970 book by Judy Blume, typically categorized as a young adult novel, about a sixth-grade girl who has grown up without a religious affiliation, due to her parents' interfaith marriage.

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Arthur Janov

Arthur Janov (August 21, 1924October 1, 2017), also known as Art Janov, was an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and writer.

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August 21

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August 27

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August Derleth

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist.

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B. H. Liddell Hart

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist.

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Ball Four

Ball Four is a book written by former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton in 1970.

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Bernice Rubens

Bernice Rubens (26 July 1923 – 13 October 2004) was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

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Betsy Byars

Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books.

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Bill Peet

William Bartlett "Bill" Peet (né Peed; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Disney Studios.

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Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal (28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often cited as one of the best Czech writers of the 20th century.

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Bomber (novel)

Bomber is a novel by Len Deighton and published in the United Kingdom in 1970.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Brian Moore (novelist)

Brian Moore (25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), who has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel", was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 book by American writer Dee Brown that covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century.

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Carnegie Medal (literary award)

The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new book for children or young adults.

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Charles Gordone

Charles Gordone (October 12, 1925 – November 16, 1995) was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator.

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Charles Olson

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Cholmondeley Award

The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom.

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Chris Adrian

Chris Adrian (born 1970) is an American author.

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Christopher Hampton

Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSL (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director.

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Christopher Lloyd (gardener)

Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE (2 March 1921 – 27 January 2006) was a British gardener and author.

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Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

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Count Julian (novel)

Count Julian (Reivindicación del conde don Julián) is a 1970 novel by the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.

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Crow (poetry)

Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber and Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Dal Stivens

Dallas George "Dal" Stivens (31 December 1911 – 16 June 1997) was an Australian writer who produced six novels and eight collections of short stories between 1936, when The Tramp and Other Stories was published, and 1976, when his last collection The Unicorn and Other Tales was released.

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Dantons Tod (opera)

(German for Danton's Death) is an opera by Gottfried von Einem to a libretto by Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem after Georg Büchner's 1835 play of the same name.

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Dario Fo

Dario Fo (24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian actor–playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter, political campaigner for the Italian left-wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player.

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Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus is a theatre building and company in Düsseldorf.

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December 5

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Dee Brown (writer)

Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown (February 29, 1908 – December 12, 2002) was an American novelist, historian, and librarian.

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Deliverance (novel)

Deliverance is a 1970 novel by James Dickey, his first.

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Demons and Dinosaurs

Demons and Dinosaurs is a 1970 collection of poetry by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, published by Arkham House in an edition of 500 copies.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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Dorthe Nors

Dorthe Nors (born 20 May 1970) is a Danish writer.

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Douglas Livingstone (poet)

Douglas Livingstone (1932–1996) was a South African poet.

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Dream on Monkey Mountain

Dream on Monkey Mountain is a play by the Nobel Prize-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

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Dritëro Agolli

Dritëro Agolli (13 October 1931 – 3 February 2017) was an Albanian poet, writer, politician, and former president of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists.

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Drums for Rancas

Drums for Rancas (Redoble por Rancas) is a 1977 novel by Peruvian author Manuel Scorza that represent the historical struggles of the inhabitants of the Department of Cerro de Pasco as they fight to recuperate control and ownership of their communal lands from the Peruvian government and multinational mining interests.

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Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone (January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history.

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E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer and a world federalist.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.

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Eagle in the Snow

Eagle in the Snow is a 1970 historical fiction novel, written by Wallace Breem, which revolves around the Roman general Paulinus Gaius Maximus, a Mithraic in an age of Christianization, in Britannia and Germania, between the late 4th century and the early 5th century.

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Edward Blishen

Edward Blishen (29 April 1920 – 13 December 1996) was an English author and broadcaster.

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Edward de Bono

Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono (born 19 May 1933) is a Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author, inventor and consultant.

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Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David, CBE (born Elizabeth Gwynne, 26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a British cookery writer.

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Elsa Triolet

Elsa Triolet (– 16 June 1970), born Ella Yurievna Kagan (Элла Юрьевна Каган), was a Russian-French writer.

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Emperor of Japan

The Emperor of Japan is the head of the Imperial Family and the head of state of Japan.

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Eric Berne

Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who, in the middle of the 20th century, created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior.

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Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission.

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Eric Malpass

Eric Lawson Malpass (14 November 1910 – 16 October 1996) was an English novelist noted for his humorous and witty descriptions of rural family life, in particular that of his creation,the extended Pentecost family.

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Erich Segal

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator and classicist.

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Fadil Paçrami

Fadil Paçrami (born Shkodër, May 25, 1922 – died Tirana, January 16, 2008) was an Albanian politician, writer and playwright.

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Fanny Hill

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill, an anglicisation of the Latin mons veneris, mound of Venus) is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748.

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Fantastic Mr Fox

Fantastic Mr Fox is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl.

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February 2

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Fifth Business

Fifth Business (1970) is a novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies.

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Fire from Heaven

Fire from Heaven is a 1969 historical novel by Mary Renault about the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great.

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François Mauriac

François Charles Mauriac (11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king.

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From a Crooked Rib

From a Crooked Rib is the first published novel by Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah.

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Future Shock

Future Shock is a 1970 book by the futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler, in which the authors define the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies.

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Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.

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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti (8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

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Halldór Laxness

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer.

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Han Kang

Han Kang (born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer.

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Hannah Arendt

Johanna "Hannah" Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-born American philosopher and political theorist.

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Harold Perkin

Harold James Perkin (11 November 1926 – 16 October 2004) was an English social historian and founder of the Social History Society (1976).

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Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916April 9, 1997) was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Henri Charrière

Henri Charrière (16 November 1906 – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts.

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.

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Home (play)

Home is a play by David Storey.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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I'm the King of the Castle

I’m the King of the Castle is a novel written by Susan Hill, originally published in 1970.

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IBM MT/ST

The IBM MT/ST (Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter, and known in Europe as MT72) was a model of the IBM Selectric typewriter, built into its own desk, integrated with magnetic tape recording and playback facilities, located in an attached enclosure, with controls and a bank of relays.

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In the Night Kitchen

In the Night Kitchen is a popular and controversial children's picture book, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and first published in 1970.

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Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich (Erinnerungen, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period.

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Ira Levin

Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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Islands in the Stream (novel)

Islands in the Stream (1970) is the first of the posthumously published works of Ernest Hemingway.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.

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J. G. Farrell

James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August 1979) was an English-born novelist of Irish descent who spent much of his adult life in Ireland.

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Jaan Kross

Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer.

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Jack Vance

John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.

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James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist.

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James MacGregor Burns

James MacGregor Burns (August 3, 1918 in Melrose, MA – July 15, 2014 in Williamstown, MA) was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.

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January 1

January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.

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January 10

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January 16

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January 25

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January 29

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan Self-Defense Forces

The (JSDF), occasionally referred to as the Japan Defense Forces (JDF), Self-Defense Forces (SDF), or Japanese Armed Forces, are the unified military forces of Japan that were established in 1954, and are controlled by the Ministry of Defense.

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Jasper Ridley

Jasper Ridley (25 May 1920 – 1 July 2004) was a British writer, known for historical biographies.

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Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.

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Jefferson and His Time

Jefferson and His Time is a six-volume biography of US President Thomas Jefferson by American historian Dumas Malone, published between 1948 and 1981.

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Jim Bouton

James Alan Bouton (born March 8, 1939) is an American retired professional baseball player.

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Jimmy Breslin

James Earle Breslin (October 17, 1928 – March 19, 2017) was an American journalist and author.

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John Burningham

John Burningham (born 27 April 1936) is an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children.

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John Christopher

Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods.

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John Cleland

John Cleland (baptised 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

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John D. MacDonald

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.

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John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.

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John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century.

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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John Jay Osborn Jr.

John Jay Osborn Jr. (born August 5, 1945) is an American author, lawyer and legal academic.

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John Mole (poet)

John Mole (born 1941 in Taunton, England)Poetry Archive (GB) is an English poet for adults and children.

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John O'Hara

John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and later became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, and illustrated by Russell Munson is a fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection.

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Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Anthony Stroud (born 27 October 1970) is a British writer of fantasy fiction, mainly for children and young adults.

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José Donoso

José Donoso Yáñez (October 5, 1924 – December 7, 1996) was a Chilean writer.

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Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo Gay (5 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist.

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Judy Blume

Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer known for children's and young adult (YA) fiction.

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July 15

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July 7

The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.

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June 16

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June 17

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June 2

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June 3

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June 6

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June 7

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Kamau Brathwaite

Edward Kamau Brathwaite (born 11 May 1930) is a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.

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Kamouraska (novel)

Kamouraska is a novel written by Anne Hébert and published in 1970.

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Kate Millett

Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist.

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Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.

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Kurban Said

Kurban Said (Qurban Səid, Гурбан Сәид), is the pseudonym for the author of Ali and Nino, a novel originally published in 1937 in the German language by the Austrian publisher, E.P. Tal.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Lateral thinking

Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.

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Len Deighton

Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British author.

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Leon Garfield

Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction.

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Leon Uris

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote two bestselling books, Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).

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Les Blancs

Les Blancs is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry.

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Les Poneys sauvages

Les Poneys sauvages ("the wild ponies") is a 1970 novel by the French writer Michel Déon.

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Lily Powell

Lily Powell (aka Lily Powell Froissard) is an English author.

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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

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List of years in literature

This page gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events.

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Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.

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Love Story (novel)

Love Story is a 1970 romance novel by American writer Erich Segal.

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Luigi Malerba

Luigi Malerba (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2008), born Luigi Bonardi, was an Italian author who wrote short stories (often written with Tonino Guerra), historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism.

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Mahathir Mohamad

Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad (Jawi:محضير بن محمد; IPA:; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Malaysia for the second time.

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Manuel Scorza

Manuel Scorza (September 9, 1928November 27, 1983) was an important Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist, exiled under the regime of Manuel Odría.

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March 11

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March 12

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March 20

Typically the March equinox falls on this date, marking the vernal point in the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal point in the Southern Hemisphere.

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March 21

In astrology, the day of the equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries.

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March 26

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March 29

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March 6

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Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer née Marie Helene Frauendorfer (11 April 1920 – 21 March 1970) was an Austrian author, most famous for her novel The Wall.

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Marlon James (novelist)

Marlon James (born 24 November 1970) is a Jamaican writer.

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Martin McDonagh

Martin Faranan McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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Mary Renault

Mary Renault (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), born Eileen Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.

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Mary Stewart (novelist)

Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow; 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014), was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations.

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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May 12

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May 20

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.

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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn, FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.

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Michel Déon

Michel Déon (4 August 1919 – 28 December 2016) was a French novelist and literary columnist.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.

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Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier (19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer.

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Michele Jaffe

Michele Sharon Jaffe (born March 20, 1970) is an American writer.

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Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Moscow-Petushki

Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles, is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Yerofeyev.

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Mr Gumpy's Outing

Mr Gumpy's Outing is a children's picture book written and illustrated by John Burningham and published by Jonathan Cape in 1970.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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Nancy Mitford

Nancy Freeman-Mitford (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist.

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Nathan Englander

Nathan Englander (born 1970) is an American short story writer and novelist.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Neel Mukherjee (writer)

Neel Mukherjee (born 1970) is an India-born writer who lives in London and writes in English.

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Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a Swedish poet and playwright of Jewish German birth.

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Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

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Nick Sagan

Nick Sagan (born September 16, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer.

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Nine Princes in Amber

Nine Princes in Amber is a fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, the first in the Chronicles of Amber series.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

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November 20

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November 23

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November 24

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November 25

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November 27

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November 7

This day marks the approximate midpoint of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and of spring in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the September equinox).

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Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah (Nuuradiin Faarax, نورالدين فارح) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist.

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October 27

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Of a Fire on the Moon

Of a Fire on the Moon is a work of non-fiction by Norman Mailer which was serialised in ''Life'' magazine in 1969 and 1970, and published in 1970 as a book.

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Oh My Darling Daughter

Oh My Darling Daughter is a humorous coming-of-age novel by Eric Malpass first published in 1970.

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Other Dimensions

Other Dimensions is a collection of stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith.

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Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow, CBE, FRSL (29 May 1912 – 18 June 1981) was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.

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Papillon (book)

Papillon is an autobiographical novel written by Henri Charrière, first published in France on 30 April 1969.

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Passenger to Frankfurt

Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravanganza is a spy novel by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in September 1970Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon.

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Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 191230 September 1990) was an Australian writer who, from 1935 to 1987, published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays.

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Pearson plc

Pearson plc is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.

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Phaswane Mpe

Phaswane Mpe (10 September 1970 – 12 December 2004) was a South African poet and novelist.

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Pierre Berton

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a television personality and journalist.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.

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Premio Nadal

Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta.

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Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt (Le prix Goncourt,, The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".

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Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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QB VII

QB VII by Leon Uris is a dramatic courtroom novel published in 1970.

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Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms.

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Racey Helps

Angus Clifford Racey Helps (1913–1970) was an English children's author and illustrator.

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Ralph Richardson

Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Richard Bach

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer.

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Richard Howard

Richard Joseph Howard (born October 13, 1929; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.

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Ringworld

Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

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Robert Blatchford

Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford (17 March 1851 – 17 December 1943) was an English socialist campaigner, journalist, and author in the United Kingdom.

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Robert Bolt

Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Robertson Davies

William Robertson Davies, (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.

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Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor.

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

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Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician.

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Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom, 1940-1945 is a 1970 biography of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt by James MacGregor Burns, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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Roy Fuller

Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

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RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970)

The 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was directed by Peter Brook, and is often known simply as Peter Brook's Dream. It opened in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon and then moved to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End in 1971.

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Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders (21 August 1886 – 12 October 1988) was a Welsh-born English poet and author, well known for a series of children's books in which she collected and related fairy tales from all over the world.

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Ruth Park

Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 191714 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author.

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Ruth Sawyer

va Ruth Sawyer (August 5, 1880 – June 3, 1970) was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults.

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S/Z

S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes's structural analysis of "Sarrasine", the short story by Honoré de Balzac.

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Samizdat

Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.

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Samuel R. Delany

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Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Seppuku

Seppuku (切腹, "cutting belly"), sometimes referred to as harakiri (腹切り, "abdomen/belly cutting", a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.

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Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics is a 1970 book by Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation.

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Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer.

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Simona Vinci

Simona Vinci (born March 6, 1970) is an Italian writer.

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Sisterhood Is Powerful

Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement is a 1970 anthology of radical feminist writings edited by Robin Morgan, a feminist poet and founding member of New York Radical Women.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Sleuth (play)

Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer.

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Sounder

Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong, published in 1969.

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Speaker of the Parliament of Albania

The Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, officially styled the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Albania (Kryetar i Kuvendit së Shqipërisë), is the head of the Parliament of Albania.

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Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky (born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best-known for writing The New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for writing and directing the film version of the same book, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon, north west of London, south east of Birmingham, and south west of Warwick.

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Summer of the Swans

Summer of the Swans is a children's novel by Betsy Byars about fourteen-year-old Sara Godfrey's search for her missing, mentally challenged brother Charlie.

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Susan Hill

Susan Hill CBE (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works.

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Tatenokai

The or Shield Society was a private militia in Japan dedicated to traditional Japanese values and veneration of the Emperor.

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Tau Zero

Tau Zero is a hard science fiction novel by Poul Anderson.

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Taylor Caldwell

Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist.

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The Birds on the Trees

The Birds on the Trees is a novel by Nina Bawden first published in 1970 about a middle-class English family whose 19-year-old son does not live up to his parents' expectations.

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The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison in 1970.

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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford is a short story collection by Jean Stafford.

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The Crystal Cave

The Crystal Cave is a 1970 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart.

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The Decay of the Angel

is a novel by Yukio Mishima and is the fourth and last in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy.

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The Driver's Seat (novel)

The Driver's Seat is a novella by Muriel Spark.

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The Elected Member

The Elected Member is a Booker Prize-winning novel by Welsh writer Bernice Rubens.

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The Female Eunuch

The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement.

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is a 1969 novel written by Jimmy Breslin.

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The God Beneath the Sea

The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970.

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The Guardians (novel)

The Guardians is a young-adult science fiction novel written by John Christopher and published by Hamilton in 1970.

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The Honours Board

The Honours Board is a novel by Pamela Hansford Johnson first published in 1970.

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The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions is a collection of stories revised or ghostwritten by American author H. P. Lovecraft.

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The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by U.S. writer Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 1969.

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The Lime Works

The Lime Works is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, first published in German in 1970.

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The Long Lavender Look

The Long Lavender Look (1970) is the twelfth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald.

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The Malay Dilemma

The Malay Dilemma is a book written by Mahathir bin Mohamad in 1970, 11 years before he became Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister.

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The Naked Face

The Naked Face is the first novel (1970) written by Sidney Sheldon.

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The National Dream (book)

The National Dream is a 1970 Canadian non-fiction book by Pierre Berton describing the planning and commencement of the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1871 and 1881.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Obscene Bird of Night

The Obscene Bird of Night (El obsceno pájaro de la noche, 1970) is the most acclaimed novel by the Chilean writer José Donoso.

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The Order of Things

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a 1966 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault.

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The Paper Chase (novel)

The Paper Chase is a 1971 novel written by John Jay Osborn, Jr., a 1970 graduate of Harvard Law School.

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The Philanthropist (play)

The Philanthropist is a play by Christopher Hampton, written as a response to Molière's The Misanthrope.

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The Pnume

The Pnume is a science fiction adventure novel by American writer Jack Vance.

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The Primal Scream

The Primal Scream.

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The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales

The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales is a collection of short stories by American science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in November 1970.

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The Sea of Fertility

is a tetralogy of novels written by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima.

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The Trumpet of the Swan

The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970.

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The Two of Us (play)

The Two of Us is a 1970 play by British playwright Michael Frayn.

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The Vivisector

The Vivisector is the eighth published novel by Patrick White.

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The Wump World

The Wump World by Bill Peet (1970) is a children's book taking place on an imaginary planet.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.

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Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939–69

Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939–1969: A History and Bibliography is a bibliography of books published from 1939 to 1969 under the imprints of Arkham House, Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee.

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This Perfect Day

This Perfect Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Ira Levin, about a technocratic dystopia.

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Thomas Berger (novelist)

Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist.

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Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard (born Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

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Trevor Griffiths

Trevor Griffiths (born 4 April 1935, Ancoats, Manchester), is an English dramatist.

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Troubles (novel)

Troubles is a 1970 novel by J. G. Farrell.

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Two Sisters (novel)

Two Sisters is a novelistic memoir by the American writer Gore Vidal.

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UMabatha

uMabatha is a 1970 play written by South African playwright Welcome Msomi.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.

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Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson (20 July 1934 – 22 February 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar.

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Varese

Varese (Latin Baretium, archaic Väris, Varés in Varesino) is a city and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan.

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Venedikt Yerofeyev

Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev or Erofeev or Erofeyev (Венеди́кт Васи́льевич Ерофе́ев; 24 October 1938 in Niva-3 settlement, suburb of Kandalaksha – 11 May 1990 in Moscow) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident.

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Vera Brittain

Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist.

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Viareggio Prize

The Viareggio Prize (italic or Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930.

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Vincent Eri

Sir Vincent Serei Eri, GCMG (12 September 1936, in Moveave, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea – 25 May 1993, in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) was the fifth Governor General of Papua New Guinea and is often cited as being the first Papua New Guinean national to write a novel, The Crocodile in English.

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Vivat! Vivat Regina!

Vivat! Vivat Regina! is a play written by Robert Bolt.

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Wallace Breem

Wallace Breem (1926–1990) was a British librarian and author.

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Warlocks and Warriors

For the fantasy anthology published by Mayflower see Warlocks and Warriors (Mayflower) Warlocks and Warriors is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by American writer L. Sprague de Camp.

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William H. Armstrong

William Howard Armstrong (September 14, 1911 – April 11, 1999) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Word processor

A word processor is a computer program or device that provides for input, editing, formatting and output of text, often plus other features.

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Yukio Mishima

is the pen name of, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, founder of the Tatenokai, and nationalist.

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1872 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1872.

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1879 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1879.

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1880 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1880.

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1885 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1885.

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1888 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1888.

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1889 in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1889.

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1891 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1891.

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1893 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1893.

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1895 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1895.

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1896 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1896.

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1902 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1902.

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1905 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1905.

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1910 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1910.

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1913 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1913.

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1914 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1914.

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1920 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1920.

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1925 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1925.

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1969 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1969.

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1970

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1970 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1970 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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1971 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1971.

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2004 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2004.

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84, Charing Cross Road

84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play, and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London, England.

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