1970 In Literature

EVENTS

'' Deliverance '' by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001 , the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

NEW BOOKS

'' Ali And Nino '' - Kurban Said

'' Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret '' - Judy Blume

'' Ball Four '' - Jim Bouton

'' The Birds On The Trees '' - Nina Bawden

'' The Bluest Eye '' - Toni Morrison

'' The Crystal Cave '' - Mary Stewart

'' Deliverance '' - James Dickey

'' Eagle In The Snow '' - Wallace Breem

'' The Fall Of The Towers (Trilogy) '' - Samuel R. Delany

'' Fifth Business '' - Robertson Davies

'' Frederick The Great '' - Nancy Mitford

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

'' The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight '' - Jimmy Breslin

'' Great Lion Of God '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' A Happy Death '' (''La Mort heureuse'') - Albert Camus

'' The Honours Board '' - Pamela Hansford Johnson

'' I'm The King Of The Castle '' - Susan Hill

'' Inside The Third Reich '' - Albert Speer

'' Julia And The Bazooka '' - Anna Kavan

'' Kamouraska '' - Anne Hébert

'' Love Story '' - Erich Segal

'' The Malay Dilemma '' - Mahathir Bin Mohamad

'' The Naked Face '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' The National Dream '' - Pierre Berton

'' Oh My Darling Daughter '' - Eric Malpass

'' Only The Ball Was White '' - Robert W. Peterson

'' QB VII '' - Leon Uris

'' Ringworld '' - Larry Niven

'' The Trumpet Of The Swan '' - E.B. White

'' Travels With My Aunt '' - Graham Greene

NEW DRAMA

Dario Fo - '' Accidental Death Of An Anarchist ''

Anthony Shaffer - '' Sleuth ''

BIRTHS

September 10 - Phaswane Mpe , novelist, (d. 2004 )

September 24 - Gemma Moraleja Paz , poet and novelist

''unknown date'' - Alex Garland , novelist

''unknown date'' - Jonathan Stroud , fantasy writer

DEATHS

January 10 - Charles Olson , poet

January 29 - Basil Liddell Hart , military historian

February 2 - Bertrand Russell , philosopher

March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner , ''Perry Mason'' author

March 29 - Vera Brittain , novelist and poet

April 11 - John O'Hara , novelist

May 12 - Nelly Sachs , poet and dramatist

June 3 - Adrian Conan Doyle , son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

June 7 - E. M. Forster , novelist

June 16 - Elsa Triolet , novelist

July 15 - Eric Berne , psychiatrist and author

September 1 - François Mauriac , novelist

September 28 - John Dos Passos , novelist

November 25 - Yukio Mishima , Japan ese Author and Rightist political activist (suicide)

AWARDS

, ''The Elected Member''

See 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' The Left Hand Of Darkness ''

, '' Ringworld ''

, ''Sounder''

, ''Le Roi des Aulnes''

, ''Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale''

, ''Saut de la mort''

, ''No Place To Be Somebody''

, ''Collected Stories''

, ''Untitled Subjects''

, ''Dentro e fuori''

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