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EVENTS

The first Booker Prize is awarded;

Penelope Ashe , author of bestselling novel, '' Naked Came The Stranger '' is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "''junk''" in order to prove that sex-filled trash sells. It did.

NEW BOOKS

'''' - Vladimir Nabokov

'' The Andromeda Strain '' - Michael Crichton

'' The Campus Murders '' - Ellery Queen

'' The Edible Woman '' - Margaret Atwood

'' The French Lieutenant's Woman '' - John Fowles

'' The Godfather '' - Mario Puzo

'' The Green Man '' - Kingsley Amis

'' Ham Martin, Class Of '17 '' - Edward Streeter

'' The Inheritors '' - Harold Robbins

'' Jirel Of Joiry '' - C. L. Moore

'' Little Painted Mouths '' - Manuel Puig

'' The Love Machine '' - Jacqueline Susann

'' Naked Came The Stranger '' - Penelope Ashe

'' Nothing Black But A Cadillac '' - Raymond Spence

'' A Pocketful Of Rye '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Portnoy's Complaint '' - Philip Roth

'' Retour à Roissy '' - Pauline Réage

'' Sounder '' - William H. Armstrong

'' The Seven Minutes '' - Irving Wallace

'' The Street '' - Mordecai Richler

'' That Godless Woman '' - Merton H. Coleman

'' The Veiled Sultan '' - March Cost

'' War Against The Mafia '' - Don Pendleton

NEW DRAMA

Athol Fugard - '' Boesman And Lena ''

NON-FICTION

Maya Angelou - '' I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings ''

Antonia Fraser - '' Mary Queen Of Scots ''

BIRTHS

January - David Mitchell , novelist

May 6 - Emmanuel Larcenet , comics author

''unknown date'' - Adrian Goldsworthy , military historian

DEATHS

January 11 - Richmal Crompton , author

March 11 - John Wyndham , British author

March 26 - John Kennedy Toole , author

March 27 - B. Traven , writer

May 4 - Osbert Sitwell , novelist, poet, brother of Edith Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell

August 14 - Leonard Woolf , political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf

September 6 - Gavin Maxwell , naturalist and author

September 20 - Elinor Brent-Dyer , ''Chalet School'' author

October 21 - Jack Kerouac , author

''date unknown'' - Vivian De Sola Pinto , poet and memoirist

AWARDS

- ''Something to Answer For''

See 1969 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' Stand On Zanzibar ''

, '' The Left Hand Of Darkness ''

, ''The High King''

, ''Creezy''

, ''Dedans''

, ''The Great White Hope''

- ''House Made of Dawn''

: ''Of Being Numerous''

, ''L'albero dei sogni''