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EVENTS

Influential Science Fiction anthology '' Dangerous Visions '' published.

Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.

NEW BOOKS

'''' - R.D. Mascott ( Arthur Calder-Marshall )

'' The Arrangement '' - Elia Kazan

'' The Chosen '' - Chaim Potok

'' Christy '' - Catherine Marshall

'' The Confessions Of Nat Turner '' - William Styron

'' The Crows Of Pearblossom '' - Aldous Huxley

'' Death Of A President '' - William Manchester

'' Down These Mean Streets '' - Piri Thomas

'' The Eighth Day '' - Thornton Wilder

'' The Exhibitionist '' - Henry Sutton

'' The Gabriel Hounds '' - Mary Stewart

'' Go To The Widow-Maker '' - James Jones

'' Ice '' - Anna Kavan

'' I Heard The Owl Call My Name '' - Margaret Craven

'' Jerusalem The Golden '' - Margaret Drabble

'' Killing Time '' - Thomas Berger

'' Miramar '' - Naguib Mahfouz

'' One Hundred Years Of Solitude '' - Gabriel García Márquez

'' Rosemary's Baby ''- Ira Levin

'' The Silent Cry ''- Oe Kenzaburo

'' Topaz '' - Leon Uris

'' Where Eagles Dare '' - Alistair MacLean

'' Wild Season '' - Allan W. Eckert

'' Lord Of Light '' - Roger Zelazny (Hugo Winner 1968)

NEW DRAMA

Peter Handke - ''Kaspar''

Peter Nichols - '' A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg ''

Tom Stoppard - '' Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ''

NON-FICTION

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BIRTHS

April 19 - Steven H Silver , science fiction writer

DEATHS

February 8 - Victor Gollancz , publisher

February 28 - Henry Luce , publisher

March 7 - Alice B. Toklas , muse of Gertrude Stein

May 12 - John Masefield , Poet Laureate

June 4 - J. R. Ackerley , journalist

June 7 - Dorothy Parker , humorist

July 22 - Carl Sandburg , historian and poet

August 2 - Giles Romilly , journalist

August 9 - Joe Orton , dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell

August 29 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay , historian, author

September 1 - Siegfried Sassoon , poet, author

September 24 - Robert Van Gulik , ''Judge Dee'' author

October 8 - Vernon Watkins , poet

October 9 - André Maurois , novelist

October 14 - Marcel Aymé , novelist and children's author

November 30 - Patrick Kavanagh , poet

AWARDS

, ''The Cocktail Party''

See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress ''

, '' The Einstein Intersection ''

, ''Up a Road Slowly''

, ''La Marge''

, ''Histoire''

, ''A Delicate Balance''

- ''The Fixer''

: ''Live or Die''

, ''Il gabbiano azzurro''