Books - 1974 in literature

Events

New books

• All the President's Men
  - Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
• Carrie
  - Stephen King
• Centennial
  - James A. Michener
• Crime Partners - Donald Goines
• The Cry of the Halidon - Robert Ludlum
• Death Sleep - John Hawkes
• The Diviners
  - Margaret Laurence
• The Dogs of War - Frederick Forsyth
• The Ebony Tower
  - John Fowles
• Ending Up - Kingsley Amis
• Falstaff - Robert Nye
• Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
• Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
  - Philip K. Dick
• The Last Days of Louisiana Red - Ishmael Reed
• Let Me Alone - Anna Kavan
• Look at the Harlequins - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Other Side of Midnight
  - Sidney Sheldon
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
• The Pirate - Harold Robbins
• Porterhouse Blue
  - Tom Sharpe
• The Power Broker
  - Robert A. Caro
• Something Happened
  - Joseph Heller
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  - John le Carré
• Wait Until the Evening - Hal Bennett
• A Wind in the Door
  - Madeleine L'Engle
• Working - Studs Terkel

New drama

• Michael Cook - Jacob's Wake
• Dario Fo - Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
• Paavo Haavikko - The Knight
• Ira Levin - Veronica's Room
• Harold Pinter - No Man's Land
• Tom Stoppard - Travesties

Births

• April 13 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (d. 2005)
• date unknown - Owen Sheers, poet

Deaths

• March 24 - Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist
• July 4 - Georgette Heyer, author
• October 4 - Anne Sexton, poet
• December 14 - Walter Lippmann, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
• See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award: Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
• Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Evyind Johnson and Harry Martinson
• Prix Goncourt: Pascal Lainé, La Dentellière
• Prix Médicis French: Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples
• Prix Médicis International: Julio Cortázar, Libro de Manuel
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin
• Viareggio Prize: Clotilde Marghieri, Amati enigmi

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