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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' August 1914 '' - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

'' Beyond Apollo '' - Barry N. Malzberg

'' Captains And The Kings '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator '' - Roald Dahl

'' Die The Long Day '' - Horace Orlando Patterson

'' Endurance '' - James L Harris

'' Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas '' - Hunter S. Thompson

'' The Gods Themselves '' - Isaac Asimov

'' The Great Bridge '' - David McCullough

'' Jonathan Livingston Seagull '' - Richard Bach

'' Lady Of Quality '' – Georgette Heyer

'' The Manticore '' - Robertson Davies

'' My Name Is Asher Lev '' - Chaim Potok

'' The Odessa File '' - Frederick Forsyth

'' The Osterman Weekend '' - Robert Ludlum

'' The Politics Of Jesus '' - John Howard Yoder

'' Semi-Tough '' - Dan Jenkins

'' Two From Galilee '' - Marjorie Holmes

'' The Word '' - Irving Wallace

'' Watership Down '' - Richard Adams

NEW DRAMA

Alan Ayckbourn - '' Absurd Person Singular ''

BIRTHS

September 6 - China Miéville , English writer

DEATHS

February 15 - Edgar Snow , journalist

March 9 - Violet Trefusis , English writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West

April - Laurence Manning , science fiction author

May 22 - Cecil Day-Lewis , Poet Laureate

June 24 - R. F. Delderfield , novelist and historian

August 22 - Ernestine Hill , travel writer

September 21 - Henry De Montherlant , essayist

September 27 - S. R. Ranganathan , influential librarian

December 10 - Mark Van Doren , poet

December 13 - L. P. Hartley , novelist

December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel , theologian

''date unknown'' - Richard Church , poet and novelist

AWARDS

, '' G. ''

See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Carnegie Medal : Richard Adams, ''Watership Down''

, '' To Your Scattered Bodies Go ''

, '' The Gods Themselves ''

, ''Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH''

, ''L'Epervier de Maheux''

, ''Le Tiers des étoiles''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

- ''Angle of Repose''

, ''Collected Poems''

, ''Il bottone di Stalingrado''