1967 in literature

See also: 1966 in literature, other events of 1967, 1968 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.
• Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.

New books

• 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
• Jerusalm the Golden – Margaret Drabble
• Killing Time – Thomas Berger
• Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz
• One Hundred Years of Solitude  – Gabriel García Márquez
• Rosemary's Baby- Ira Levin
• Topaz  – Leon Uris
• Where Eagles Dare – Alistair MacLean
• Wild Season  – Allan W. Eckert

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

• Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, The Cocktail Party
• See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award: Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Irene Hunt, Up a Pond Slowly
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Angel Asturias
• Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
• Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Bernard Malamud – The Fixer
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die
• Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro