1974 in literature

• February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper Marcha a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain. • February 12 – After publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear. • August 8 – The first of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is published as a serial in The Pacific Sun (Marin County, California). • October 21 – New Guildhall Library opens in the City of London. • unknown dates • The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. • German writer Uwe Johnson moves to Sheerness on the English Isle of Sheppey. ==New books==

Fiction • Eric Ambler – Doctor Frigo • Kingsley Amis – Ending Up • René Barjavel – Les Dames à la licorne • Augusto Roa Bastos – I, the Supreme (Yo el supremo) • Peter Benchley – Jaws • Hal Bennett – Wait Until the Evening • Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann) • Anthony Burgess – ''The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End'' • Andrés Caicedo – "Maternidad" • Agatha Christie – ''Poirot's Early Cases'' • Roald Dahl – Switch Bitch • Philip K. Dick – Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said • Annie Dillard – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek • Lawrence Durrell – Monsieur • Frederick Forsyth – The Dogs of War • John Fowles – The Ebony Tower • Donald Goines – Crime Partners • Imil Habibi – The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل, ''Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-gharībah fī 'khtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī 'l-Naḥsh al-Mutashāʾil'') • John Hawkes – Death Sleep • Joseph Heller – Something Happened • James Herbert – The Rats • Hammond Innes – North Star • Anna Kavan – Let Me Alone • Stephen King – Carrie • Manuel Mujica Láinez • El laberinto • El viaje de los siete demonios • Derek Lambert • Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe • The Yermakov Transfer • Margaret Laurence – The Diviners • John le Carré – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy • Ursula K. Le Guin – The Dispossessed • Madeleine L'Engle – A Wind in the Door • H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Watchers Out of Time and Others • Robert Ludlum – The Cry of the Halidon • Brian Lumley – Beneath the Moors • Ngaio Marsh – ''Black as He's Painted'' • Colleen McCullough – Tim • Nicholas Meyer – The Seven-Per-Cent Solution • James A. Michener – Centennial • Elsa Morante – La Storia (History. A Novel, 1978) • Gerald Murnane – Tamarisk Row • Meja Mwangi – Carcase for Hounds • Vladimir Nabokov – Look at the Harlequins! • Edith Pargeter – Sunrise in the West (first in the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet) • Robert B. Parker – God Save the Child • Ellen Raskin – Figgs & Phantoms • Ishmael Reed – The Last Days of Louisiana Red • Brigitte Reimann (died 1973) – Franziska Linkerhand • Harold Robbins – The Pirate • Fran Ross – Oreo • Nawal El Saadawi – God Dies by the Nile • Leonardo Sciascia – Todo modo • Tom Sharpe – Porterhouse Blue • Sidney Sheldon – The Other Side of Midnight • C. P. Snow – In Their Wisdom Children and young people • Richard Adams – Shardik • Stan and Jan Berenstain – ''The Berenstain Bears' New Baby'' • Robert Cormier – The Chocolate War • Paula Danziger – The Cat Ate My Gymsuit • Fynn (Sydney Hopkins) – Mister God, This Is Anna • Virginia Hamilton – M. C. Higgins, the Great • Diana Wynne Jones – The Ogre Downstairs • Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Sorcerers and Spells • Jill Murphy – The Worst Witch • Bill Peet – Merle the High Flying Squirrel • Miriam Roth – A Tale of Five Balloons (מעשה בחמישה בלונים) • Richard Scarry – The Best Rainy Day Book Ever • Jill Paton Walsh – ''The Emperor's Winding Sheet'' • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman – Collected Ghost Stories Drama • Nezihe Araz – Bozkır Güzellemesi (An Ode to the Steppe) • Michael Cook – ''Jacob's Wake'' • Dario Fo – ''Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!)'' • Paavo Haavikko • Ratsumies (The Horseman) • Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King Goes Forth to France) • Harald Pitkäikäinen • Ira Levin – ''Veronica's Room'' • Mustapha Matura – Play Mas • Harold Pinter – ''No Man's Land'' • David Rudkin – ''Penda's Fen'' (television play) • Tom Stoppard – Travesties Poetry • Duncan Bush, Tony Curtis, Nigel Jenkins – Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets Non-fiction • Maya Angelou – Gather Together in My Name • Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – ''All the President's Men'' • Augusto Boal – Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas (translated as Theatre of the Oppressed 1979) • Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry – Helter Skelter • Robert A. Caro – The Power Broker • David Clark – Social Therapy in Psychiatry • Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox • The Freud/Jung Letters • Dumas Malone – Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809 • Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance • Erin Pizzey – Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear • Jonathan Raban – Soft City • Piers Paul Read – Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors • Barbu Solacolu – Evocări. Confesiuni. Portrete (Memoirs. Confessions. Portraits) • Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (Հայկական Սովետական Հանրագիտարան, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran; begins publication) • Lewis Thomas – The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher • Studs Terkel – Working • Joseph Wambaugh – The Onion Field ==Births==

• January 6 – Romain Sardou, French novelist • January 26 – Shannon Hale, American fantasy author • February 15 – Miranda July (née Grossinger), American filmmaker, performance artist and fiction writer • April 13 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (died 2005) • June 12 – Chika Unigwe, Nigerian novelist writing in English and Dutch • August 7 – Faisal Tehrani, Malaysian novelist • August 9 – Ryūsui Seiryōin (清涼院 流水), Japanese novelist • August 18 – Nicole Krauss, American novelist • August 23 – Serhiy Zhadan, Ukrainian poet, novelist and essayist • September 20 – Owen Sheers, Fijian-born Welsh poet, playwright and novelist • November 4 – Carlos Be, Spanish playwright • December 26 – Joshua John Miller, American novelist and screenwriter • unknown dates • Naomi Alderman, English novelist • Sarah Hall, English novelist • Joanna Kavenna, English novelist and travel writer • Joe Meno, American novelist and journalist • Roger Williams, Welsh dramatist and screenwriter ==Deaths==

• January 20 – Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic (born 1896) • January 25 – James Pope-Hennessy, English biographer (murdered, born 1916) • January 29 • H. E. Bates, English novelist (born 1905) • Sheila Stuart, Scottish author and children's writer (born 1892) • February 2 – Marieluise Fleißer, German dramatist (born 1901) • February 24 – Martin Armstrong, English poet and short story writer (born 1882) • March 3 – Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (born 1891) • March 8 – Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet and writer (born 1908) • March 19 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, playwright and novelist (born 1896) • March 24 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (born 1882) • April 14 – Howard Pease, American novelist (born 1894) • May 9 – L. T. C. Rolt, English biographer and writer of ghost stories (born 1910) • May 13 – Arthur J. Burks, American writer (born 1898) • June 2 – Tom Kristensen, Danish novelist and poet (born 1893) • June 11 – Julius Evola, Italian esotericist, journalist and philosopher (born 1898) • June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist (born 1899) • July 3 – Samuel Roth, American publisher (born 1893) • July 4 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (born 1902) • July 16 – Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, Brazilian playwright (born 1936) • July 29 - Erich Kästner, German children's author (born 1899) • August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican writer and diplomat (electric shock, born 1925) • August 11 – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer and writer (born 1902) • August 17 – Emma L. Brock, American children's author and illustrator (born 1886) • September 11 – Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (born 1893) • September 21 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (born 1918) • October 4 – Anne Sexton, American poet (born 1928) • October 28 – David Jones, Anglo-Welsh poet and artist (born 1895) • October 29 – Victor E. van Vriesland, Dutch writer (born 1892) • November 5 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (born 1927) • November 7 – Eric Linklater, Welsh-born Scottish novelist and travel writer (born 1899) • November 26 – Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (born 1903) • December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer (born 1889) ==Awards==

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson Canada • See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France • Prix Goncourt: Pascal Lainé, La Dentellière • Prix Médicis: • French: Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples • International: Julio Cortázar, Libro de Manuel United Kingdom • Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist and Stanley Middleton, Holiday. • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold • Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean • Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt, Robin Hamilton, Frank Ormsby, Penelope Shuttle • Newdigate prize: Alan Hollinghurst • James Tait Black Memorial Prize: • Fiction: Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness • Biography: John Wain, Samuel Johnson • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes United States • Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock • Hugo Award: • Best Novella: James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In • Best Novel: 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 • Pulitzer Prize: • Drama: no award given • Fiction: no award given • Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin Elsewhere • Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Frère Roger • Miles Franklin Award: Ronald McKie, The Mango Tree • Premio Nadal: Luis Gasulla, Culminación de Montoya • Viareggio Prize: Clotilde Marghieri, Amati enigmi ==References==