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EVENTS

Frank Herbert 's '' Dune '' wins the first ever Nebula Award

'' The Magus '' - John Fowles is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Autobiography Of Malcolm X '' - Alex Haley & Malcolm X

'' The British Museum Is Falling Down '' - David Lodge

'' Dune '' - Frank Herbert

'' Georgy Girl '' - Margaret Forster

'' The Green Berets '' - Robin Moore

'' Hotel '' - Arthur Hailey

'' The Looking-Glass War '' - John Le Carré

'' The Magus '' - John Fowles

'' The Man With The Golden Gun '' - Ian Fleming

'' Markings '' - Dag Hammarskjöld

'' Morning's At Seven '' - Eric Malpass

'' The Painted Bird '' - Jerzy Kosinski

'' The Source '' - James A. Michener

'' Those Who Love '' - Irving Stone

'' The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch '' - Philip K. Dick

'' Up The Down Staircase '' - Bel Kaufman

NEW DRAMA

Samuel Beckett - '' Come And Go ''

Edward Bond - '' Saved ''

John Osborne - '' A Patriot For Me ''

Michel Tremblay - '' Les Belles-Sœurs ''

BIRTHS

March 4 - Andrew Collins , journalist and scriptwriter

March 30 - Piers Morgan , controversial journalist and editor

July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling , author

October 23 - Augusten Burroughs , memoirist

November 11 - Thomas K. Ward , software project manager

December 31 - Nicholas Sparks , novelist

''date unknown'' - Patience Agbabi , performance poet

''date unknown'' - Thomas Brussig , novelist

DEATHS

January 4 - T. S. Eliot , American/British poet

January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry , writer

May 3 - Howard Spring , novelist

June 5 - Thornton Burgess , children's author

July 9 - Jacques Audiberti

August 17 - Jack Spicer , poet

October 8 - Thomas B. Costain , popular historian

October 15 - Randall Jarrell , poet

November 8 - Dorothy Kilgallen , journalist

November 20 - Katharine Anthony , biographer

December 16 - William Somerset Maugham

AWARDS

See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' The Wanderer ''

, '' Dune ''

, ''Shadow of a Bull''

Nobel Prize For Literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

, ''L'Adoration''

, ''La Rhubarbe''

, ''The Subject Was Roses''

- ''The Keepers Of The House''

: ''77 Dream Songs''

, ''Il Padrone'' (''The Boss'')