Literature year 1965

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

January: The book club 65 is founded in the GDR ; it exists until September 1990.
February 15: World première of the opera The Soldiers by Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Cologne, based on the drama of the same name by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

June: The political culture magazine Kursbuch, founded by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Karl Markus Michel , is published for the first time by Suhrkamp Verlag .

The cultural-political quarterly magazine Kürbiskern appears for the first time (discontinued in 1987) . Literature and criticism .

After its 10th edition, the "Calligrammatic Literature Review " Rhinozeros, which appeared episodically from 1960, ceases to appear.

Insel Verlag published the insel collection in 50 volumes between 1965 and 1969 .

The German Thomas Mann Society is founded in Lübeck .

At the University of Berlin that is Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature established.

New Criticism publishing house is founded in Frankfurt am Main .

The Reich Cabaret, which existed until 1971, was founded in West Berlin, and its programs were created with the collaboration of various German authors.

Mvg Verlag is founded as a publisher for advice and help in life .

The exhibition Exile Literature 1933–1945 curated by Werner Berthold opens in Frankfurt am Main on May 28th .

The book series Classiques de la Pensée Politique is founded in Geneva .

Damon Knight founds (lead) the Science Fiction Writers of America .

From 1965, the Belgian comic series Balthazar and Ringo appear in the Belgian comic magazine Tintin .

Between 1965 and 1975, the crime novel series Roman about a crime by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö was published in ten volumes .

The first volume of the book series on fantastic literature The Man from UNCLE is published .

The last volume ( Mystery of the Alpine Pass ) of the thirteen-part American adventure and crime novel series for young people (“adolescent boys”) Biff Brewster is published .

The only two issues of the American literary magazine Bulletin from Nothing appear .

Based on a series of lectures given by Hannah Arendt in 1965 under the title Some Questions of Moral Philosophy , the text Responsibility and Judgment will appear posthumously in 2003 .

In Tallinn , Estonia, the Estonian State Publishing House, which had been in existence since 1949, was renamed and split up into the publishing house for beautiful literature Eesti Raamat (“Estonian Book”), which continued to exist after Estonia's independence in 1991; The Valgus publishing house is established for educational, (popular) scientific and non-fiction literature .

An international short story colloquium developed from a writers' meeting first held in 1965 , which will take place every two years between 1969 and 1994 in Neheim-Hüsten and Arnsberg.

The Premio Alfaguara de Novela is being awarded for the first time in Spain .

The Egyptian scholar Sayyid Qutb completes his 30-volume commentary on the Koran , In the Shadow of the Koran .

The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method is ending its publication.

The 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the SED leads to a massive tightening of the cultural-political course in the GDR.

Literature adaptations (selection)

The novel Doktor Schiwago by Boris Pasternak is being filmed by David Lean under the same title .

The novel The Collector by John Fowles is being filmed by William Wyler under the same title .

The novel The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh is being filmed by Tony Richardson under the same title .

The DEFA makes the novel The disciples of Jesus of Leonhard Frank under the title of a murder Chronicle film.

With dialogues from five pieces of Shakespeare , the film is produced Falstaff by Orson Welles .

New releases

007 James Bond intervenes - Ian Fleming (anthology)

The adventures of the »black hand« - Hans Jürgen Press (children's book classic)

Farewell for longer - Gabriele Wohmann (Roman)

Everything for the gallery - Gabriele Wohmann (story, created 1965)

Nightmares - Fredric Brown (Science Fiction Short Stories)

Ariel - Sylvia Plath (poems, posthumous; arr. EA)

The poor spendthrift - Ernst Weiß (exile novel; 1st post-war edition)

At Bertram's Hotel - Agatha Christie (detective novel)

Breath Crystal - Paul Celan (Poems)

Atlas, compiled by German authors (an anthology of 43 authors in total, published by Verlag Klaus Wagenbach )

On a double track - Agatha Christie (detective novel)

Notes of a dead man - Mikhail Bulgakov (fragment of a novel; first published in "Nowy Mir", posthumously)

The auditorium - Hermann Kant (novel)

The acolyte's testimony - Georges Simenon (crime story)

The building - Heiner Müller (play, first print in sense and form ; premiered 1980)

Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan (Album)

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter

Cyberiada - Stanisław Lem ( short stories; OA)

The Doorbell Rang - Rex Stout (detective novel)

Dune - Frank Herbert (science fiction novel)

Drought September - William Faulkner (Short Story)

Thirst - Yuri Trifonov (novel)

The Ivory Tower - Herbert W. Franke (Science Fiction Novel)

The Investigation - Peter Weiss (Drama)

The first teacher - Tschingis Aitmatow (story)

The Far Side of the Dollar - Ross Macdonald (detective novel)

Film - Samuel Beckett (screenplay)

Escape - Ernst Waldbrunn and Lida Winiewicz (drama)

The Greedy Things of the Century - Arkadi and Boris Strugazki (science fiction novel; OA)

The green light of the steppes - Brigitte Reimann (diary)

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (Album)

In the first morning light (later udT: Topkapi ) - Eric Ambler (Thriller)

Iwan Wassiljewitsch - Michail Bulgakow (Comedy, composed 1934–1936)

Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria - Martin Sperr (Drama)

The Young Lord - Hans Werner Henze and Ingeborg Bachmann (Libretto)

The power of the weak - Anna Seghers (short stories)

War in the Mirror - John le Carré (Spy Novel)

Kuroi ame (German 1974 as Black Rain ) - Ibuse Masuji (novel)

Love unpaid - Georgette Heyer (Roman)

Lilla spöket Laban (German 1968 as Laban does not want to ghost ; Vol. 1 of a children's book series) - Inger Sandberg (text) and Lasse Sandberg (illustrations)

Loot (German EA 1966 as booty ) - Joe Orton (drama)

The girl from space (later udT: Andromedanebel ) - Iwan Jefremow (science fiction novel; first unabridged German translation)

The Magus - John Fowles

Maigret and the Man of the World & Maigret and the Phantom - Georges Simenon (detective novels)

The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming (novel; posthumous)

Memed my falcon - Yaşar Kemal (novel; unabridged edition)

Monday starts on Saturday - Arkadi and Boris Strugazki (science fiction novel; OA)

Moomin's Wondrous Island Adventures - Tove Jansson (Vol. 8 of the Moomin Books; OA)

The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy - Robert Arthur (Vol. 3 of the Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series )

Le mythe de Sisyphe - Albert Camus (in the final version)

The Negroes - Jean Genet (Drama)

Old Surehand - Wulf Leisner (open-air play based on Karl May)

The Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle (novel)

Randi from Norway - Astrid Lindgren (youth literature)

The Rats in the Walls - HP Lovecraft (short story)

The Ripper of Chicago - Fredric Brown (detective novel)

Roseanna - Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö (detective novel)

Rummelplatz - Werner Bräunig (unfinished novel; 1965 preprint)

SAS - Gérard de Villiers (pocket booklet series, 1965–2013)

Scarlett Dream - Author: Claude Moliterni ; Illustrator: Robert Gigi (comic series, published from 1965)

Shadows Over Innsmouth - HP Lovecraft (short story)

The Leaning Tower - Katherine Anne Porter (short stories; new translation)

The Sons of Space - Edmund Cooper (utopian novel)

Don't play with the dirty kids - Franz Josef Degenhardt (Album)

Stoner - John Williams (novel)

Sword of Honor - Evelyn Waugh (arr. New edition of a novel trilogy)

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick (science fiction novel)

Driven hunt - Gabriele Wohmann (story, written 1965)

Tristessa - Jack Kerouac (short novel)

Tynset - Wolfgang Hildesheimer (prose)

The Eerie From Space - Fredric Brown (utopian novel)

Statute of limitations - Gabriele Wohmann (story, written 1965)

The Crazy Jourdain - Mikhail Bulgakov (comedy, made 1932)

The Conspirators - Wolfgang Graetz (Drama)

Very Old Engines - Wilbert Vere Awdry (children's book)

Welt am Draht - Daniel F. Galouye (science fiction novel)

When the sun goes down - William Faulkner (short story)

The Wild Forest - Tonke Dragt (youth book; OA)

Two views - Uwe Johnson (novel)

Incident on the Owl River Bridge - Ambrose Bierce (short story)

Non-fiction / further works

The Berlin Anti-Semitism Controversy - Walter Boehlich (Ed.)
Historian in Central Germany
Old World Lexicon
The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays - Richard Hofstadter
Drive structure and society - Herbert Marcuse (NA under this title)
Our Auschwitz - Martin Walser (political essay, published in course book 1 )

Born

January - March

0January 1: Édouard Levé , French writer and photographer († 2007)
0January 1: Robert Twigger , British writer
0January 6: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock , American author
0January 7th: Beate Andres , German radio play writer and director
0January 7th: Armin Steigenberger , German poet and writer
0January 9: Berkan Karpat , Turkish-German poet and essayist
January 11: Henry Trujillo , Uruguayan writer
January 17th: Birgit Brüster , German literary professor and author
January 18: Urs Augstburger , Swiss writer
January 18: Britta Jürgs , German publisher, editor and editor
January 21: Oliver Hohlfeld , German dramaturge and author
January 21: Nauja Lynge , Greenland-Danish writer
January 22nd: Christine Fehér , German author of children's and young people's books
January 23: Denise Schmid , Swiss historian, author and publisher
January 23: Bodo Traber , German writer, radio play author and director, film journalist, editor, ...
January 26: Frederick Baker , Austro-British filmmaker, media scholar and publisher († 2020)
January 27: Wolfgang Bleier , Austrian writer
January 28: Astrid Dehe , German writer
January 28: Jörg Hilbert , German children's book author and music teacher
January 29th: Günter Krieger , German writer
January 30th: Jan Beinßen , German journalist and author of detective novels
January 30: Zoran Bognar , Serbian poet and writer
0February 1st: Monika Felten , German author of children's books and fantasy
0February 1: Louise Welsh , British writer
0February 2: Walter Schmidt , German journalist and writer († 2016)
0February 4th: Ellen Schaller , German cabaret artist and poet
0February 5: Theresa Révay , French writer and translator
0February 7th: Nataša Dragnić , Croatian German-speaking writer
0February 7th: Thomas de Padova , German science journalist
0February 9: Tim Krohn , (German-) Swiss writer and playwright
February 10: Gen Getsu , Japanese writer of Korean descent
February 11: Petra Durst-Benning , German writer
February 12: Shyam Selvadurai , Sri Lankan-Canadian writer
February 15: Hannes Stein , German-American journalist, literary critic and book author
February 16: Jan Peter Bremer , German writer
February 17: Peterson Toscano , American playwright and actor
February 18: Antje Ippensen , German writer
February 19: Jaime Bayly , Peruvian writer and television presenter
February 20: Philip Hensher , British writer, literary critic and essayist
February 23: Stephan Detjen , German journalist and essayist
February 24: Ivan Luchuk , Ukrainian poet, translator and literary critic
February 26: Stefan Schwarz , German journalist and writer
February 27: Martin Dreyer , German theologian and author
February 28: Ken'ichirō Isozaki , Japanese writer
February 28: Colum McCann , Irish writer
0March 1: Hermann Ritter , German science fiction author
0March 3: Gioacchino Criaco , Italian lawyer and writer
0March 4: Khaled Hosseini , Afghan-American writer
0March 4th: Maiken Nielsen , German writer and journalist
0March 6th: Mario Sixtus , German author and publicist
0March 7: EE Knight , American fantasy and science fiction writer
0March 8: Ercüment Aytaç , Austrian writer of Turkish origin
0March 8: Friedrich Forssman , German book designer
0March 9: Monica Cantieni , Swiss writer
March 10: Michael Fuchs-Gamböck , German editor and author
March 13: Nils Aschenbeck , German journalist and book author
March 15: James Barclay , British fantasy writer
March 15: Sunetra Gupta , Indian epidemiologist and writer
March 18: Esteban Navarro , Spanish crime novelist
March 18: Christine Thiemt , Austrian writer and translator
March 20: William Dalrymple , British historian, travel writer and essayist
March 20: Achim Elfers , German writer
March 20: Frank Schablewski , German poet, writer and translator
March 21: Thomas Frank , American journalist and book author
March 22nd: Symone Hengy , German writer
March 22nd: Norbert Kron , German writer and journalist
March 23: John Gardner , British legal philosopher and author († 2019)
March 23: Rainer Thielmann , German author
March 24th: Stefanie Menzinger , German writer
March 26th: Minna Burgarth , German author for children and young people
March 29: Kai Ambos , German lawyer and author
March 30th: Piers Morgan , British journalist and author

April June

0April 2nd: Ève Chiapello , French economist and author
0April 5: Kéthévane Davrichewy , French writer
0April 5: Florian Scheuba , Austrian cabaret artist, cabaret writer, columnist and book author
0April 7: Fabián Casas , Argentine poet, writer and journalist
0April 8: Peter Telep , American writer
April 11th: Pietro Ratto , Italian writer and rock musician
April 13: Rainer Haubrich , German journalist, architecture critic and essayist
April 13: Ran Yunfei , Chinese author, blogger and civil rights activist
April 14th: Alexandre Jardin , French writer
April 19: Christel Scheja , German writer
April 19: Gadi Taub , Israeli historian and writer
April 21: Oliver Bottini , German writer
April 27: Alvis Hermanis , Latvian theater director and writer
April 29: Elisabeth Åsbrink , Swedish writer and playwright
April 29: Michel Bussi , French political scientist, geographer and crime writer
April 29: Robert Woelfl , Austrian writer and playwright
April 30th: Giuseppe Culicchia , Italian writer and translator
0May 1: Élisabeth Filhol , French writer
0May 3: Michael Marshall Smith , British writer
0May 3: Mary L. Trump , American psychologist and author
0May 9: Carmen Caputo , German-Italian writer
May 11th: Marty Chan , Canadian writer of Chinese origin
May 12: Herbert Maurer , Austrian writer, translator, ...
May 14: Eoin Colfer , Irish writer
May 15: Sabine Küchler , German writer
May 15: Martin Sonneborn , German satirist, politician and author
May 20: Ted Allen , American television presenter and non-fiction author
May 22: Heike Düselder , German historian and author
May 22: Yasemin Karakaşoğlu , German Turkologist, educationalist and author
May 26: Gjekë Marinaj , Albanian-American poet, writer, translator and literary critic
May 27: Tom Piccirilli , American writer († 2015)
May 30th: Anna Langhoff , German writer
0June 2: Konradin Leiner ( QRT ), German author († 1996)
0June 2: Sean Stewart , American-Canadian writer
0June 5th: Andreas Beck , German dramaturge and theater maker
0June 5: Johannes W. Betz , German author
0June 6: Alexandra Ernst , German translator and literary critic
0June 6: Erik Fosnes Hansen , Norwegian writer, essayist and literary critic
0June 7: Christopher Goscha , American historian and author
0June 8: Karin Alvtegen , Swedish writer
0June 8th: Frederike Demattio , German-Italian author
0June 9: Mirko Bonné , German writer and translator
0June 9: Thomas Kunst , German poet and writer
June 10: Hanni Münzer , German writer
June 11: Martina Hefter , German poet and writer
June 12: Wolfgang Herrndorf , German writer († 2013)
June 16: Yuri Khanon , Russian composer and author
June 17th: Richard Auer , German crime writer and journalist
June 20: RJ Ellory , British thriller writer
June 23: Claudia Bitter , Austrian writer, poet and translator
June 24th: Urs Richle , Swiss writer
June 26: Daryl Gregory , American science fiction and comic book writer
June 26th: Markus Peters , German journalist and writer
June 29: Matthew Weiner , American author
June 30th: Astrid Köhler , German Germanist and author

July September

0July 1: Joachim Frank , German journalist and book author
0July 1: Malte S. Sembten , German writer and illustrator († 2016)
0July 4th: Tracy Letts , American actor and playwright
0July 5th: Anke Laufer , German writer
0July 7th: Zoë Heller , British journalist and writer
July 10: Niels Werber , German literary, media and cultural scientist
July 13: Scott Smith , American writer
July 14: Chris Carter , Brazilian writer (writes in English)
July 15: Ruth Schweikert , Swiss writer (according to other information * 1964)
July 16: Milan Ohnisko , Czech poet and publisher
July 16: Cristina Torrão , Portuguese writer
July 18: Frank Trentmann , German historian and book author
July 20: Attila Márton Farkas , Hungarian Egyptologist, cultural anthropologist and publicist
July 20: Abdourahman Waberi , Djiboutian writer and literary critic
July 20: Jess Walter , American journalist and writer
July 24th: Olivier Py , French director, artistic director and playwright
July 27th: Franco Supino , Swiss writer
July 29: Chang-Rae Lee , American writer
July 31: Joanne K. Rowling , British writer
0August 1st: Eva Horn , German cultural and literary scholar and essayist
0August 3: Christiaan Bakkes , South African writer (writing Afrikaans)
0August 3: Beatrice Weder di Mauro , Swiss-Italian economist and author
0August 4th: Dennis Lehane , American crime writer
0August 4th: Corinna T. Sievers , German writer
0August 5th: Oliver Pautsch , German writer
0August 9: Rainer Schorm , German writer
August 15: Stefan T. Pinternagel , German writer († 2009)
August 15: Hartmut Rosa , German social scientist and essayist
August 15: Rob Thomas , American writer, screenwriter, and producer
August 18: Michael Herzig , Swiss crime writer
August 23: Alexander Nützenadel , German economic and social historian
August 23: Ilija Trojanow , German writer, translator, editor and publisher
August 24th: Gro Skartveit , Norwegian politician and author
August 28: Bettina Rühl , German journalist and feature writer
August 31: Manuela Golz , German writer
0September 4: LJ Smith , American youth author
0September 6: Christopher Nolan , Irish writer († 2009)
0September 6: Sabine Wassermann , German author of historical novels († 2017)
0September 7th: Achim Engelberg , German author and publicist
0September 8: Matt Ruff , American writer
0September 9: Richard Morgan , British writer
September 10: Giampaolo Simi , Italian writer and journalist
September 11th: Axel Schock , German journalist, writer, editor
September 12: Semier Insayif , Austrian writer
September 12: Oliver Kalkofe , German actor and author
September 12: Susanne-Marie Wrage , German actress, theater director and author
September 16: Martin Baltscheit , German writer and illustrator
September 21: Frédéric Beigbeder , French writer
September 21: Arne Braun , German translator, in particular. from Dutch
September 21: Antke Engel , German gender researcher and author
September 21: Torsten Körner , German critic, writer and biographer
September 24: Marcel Magis , German writer († 2018)
September 24th: Sabine Schiffner , German poet, writer and translator
September 26: Claudio Paglieri , Italian writer
September 26th: Edo Reents , German cultural journalist, literary critic, biographer and essayist
September 29: Nikolaj Frobenius , Norwegian writer
29 September: Achim Geisenhanslüke , German literary scholar and essayist
00.September: Torsten Fink , German writer

October - December

0October 1st: Ralf Palandt , German comic author and sponsor
0October 2: John Hart , American crime writer
0October 2nd: Keith Ridgway , Irish writer
0October 2nd: Tim Staffel , German writer, playwright and theater director
0October 5: Stephan Groetzner , German author
0October 5th: Markus C. Schulte von Drach , German science journalist and writer
October 10: Heidrun Jänchen , German writer of science fiction and fantasy
October 10: Olívio Jekupé , Brazilian writer of indigenous origin
October 11: Alexander Hacke , German musician and author
October 12: Dan Abnett , British author
October 14: Jan Lurvink , Swiss musician and writer
October 19: Merle Jääger ( Merca ), Estonian actress, poet and writer
October 22: AL Kennedy , British writer
October 23: Augusten Burroughs , American writer and journalist
October 23: Ulrich Schmid , Swiss Slavist, literary critic and essayist
October 24: József Ács , Hungarian writer, poet and playwright
October 24: Zsuzsa Bánk , German writer
0November 1st: Kirsten Hammann , Danish writer
0November 1st: James Wood , British literary scholar, critic and essayist
0November 3: Vito Avantario , German-speaking journalist and author
0November 3: Hans Rath , German author
0November 3: Ann Scott , French writer
0November 5th: Michael Marrak , German writer and illustrator
0November 6: Sandra Newman , American writer
0November 9: Bjarni Bjarnason , Icelandic writer and poet
November 13: Ursula Fricker , Swiss writer and essayist
November 13: Jan Vlasák , Czech-German writer
November 15: Claudia Edelmann , German author
November 19: Alison Winter , American science historian and author († 2016)
November 23: Eva Almstädt , German crime writer
November 23: Marcel Beyer , German writer
November 23: Jennifer Michael Hecht , American historian, poet, essayist, ...
November 24th: Stephan Pörtner , Swiss (crime) writer and translator
November 25th: Gregor Hens , German writer and translator
November 26th: Ewald Arenz , German writer
November 28: Erwin Mortier , Flemish writer
November 29: Jürgen Brôcan , German writer, poet and translator
November 29th: Susanne Schädlich , German writer and translator
November 30: Morten A. Strøksnes , Norwegian author
0December 1: Karsten Brüggemann , German historian and author
0December 7th: Dirk Stermann , German radio presenter, cabaret artist and writer
December 12th: Else Buschheuer , German journalist and book author
December 12: Toni Weisskopf , American science fiction writer and editor
December 14: Karin Beier , German theater director and artistic director
December 14th: Vinicio Capossela , Italian musician and writer
December 14th: Helle Helle , Danish writer
December 17th: Sabina Naber , Austrian author
December 22nd: Nora Okja Keller , Korean-American writer
December 24th: James Lovegrove , British science fiction, fantasy and youth book writer
December 25: Anna Dewdney , American children's author and illustrator († 2016)
December 26th: Mani Beckmann , German writer
December 27th: Peter Walther , German philologist, literary historian, editor, biographer
December 28: Jörg Schieke , German poet and writer
December 30th: Peter Lund , German director and author
December 31: Sergio Álvarez , Colombian writer and journalist
December 31: Nicholas Sparks , American writer

Exact date unknown

Heike Abidi , German writer
Rob Alef , German writer
Johann Allacher , Austrian writer and musician
Dirk Alvermann , German historian, archivist and editor
Ulrike Arnold , German theater director
Bae Su-ah , South Korean writer and translator
Stephanie Bart , German writer
Sven Beckert , German historian and book author
Lars-Olav Beier , German journalist, film critic, author and editor
Xuan Bello , Spanish poet, writer and translator who wrote in Asturian
Tillmann Bendikowski , German author
Niall Binns , British poet (writing Spanish)
Bov Bjerg , German writer and cabaret artist
Alfred Bodenheimer , Swiss literary scholar and author
Holger Böhme , German director and author
Andrew Bond , Swiss musician and writer, often for children
Patricia Briggs , American (fantasy) author
Kristen Britain , American (fantasy) writer
Corina Caduff , Swiss literary critic, essayist and editor
Canan Can , German-speaking Turkish author
Mustafa Cebe , Turkish-German children's book author
Amanda Coe , British writer
Eugen Cojocaru , Romanian writer and journalist
Mauro Covacich , Italian writer and journalist
Matthew Crawford , American writer and philosopher
María Sonia Cristoff , Argentine writer and journalist
Antje Damm , German children's book author and illustrator
Gunnar Decker , German publicist, critic, essayist, biographer
José Riço Direitinho , Portuguese writer
Jens Dobler , German historian and author
Gerhild Ebel , German image. Artist, author and editor
Àngel Fabregat , Catalan-Spanish writer
Thomas Fatzinek , Austrian comic author and illustrator
Günther Frauenlob , German translator from Norwegian and Danish
Tom Fritze , German author
André Georgi , German-speaking writer and screenwriter
Stefanie Gerstenberger , German writer
Gary Gibson , British science fiction writer
Stefan Gmünder , Swiss-Austrian literary critic and author
Dilaver Gök , Turkish-German author
Svenja Goltermann , German historian and author
Thomas Greanias , American writer
Volker Griese , German (biographical) writer and editor
Peter Guckes , German children's book author and illustrator
Christian Gude , German (crime) author
Francisco Haghenbeck , Mexican writer, biographer and comic book author
Michael Hanfeld , German journalist and publicist
Mohammed Hanif , Pakistani journalist, writer and playwright (possibly born Nov. 1964)
Elizabeth Haydon , American fantasy writer
Anke te Heesen , German science historian and essayist
Kai Hensel , German writer and playwright
Tim Herden , German journalist and crime novel writer
Kerstin Herrnkind , German journalist and book author
Benjamin Carter Hett , American historian, biographer, and essayist
Matthias Heyl , German historian and educationalist
Kai-Michael Hingst , German lawyer and author
Sabine Hock , German author and editor
Peter Ralf Hofmann , German poet and writer
Daniel Höra , German author of young books
Lann Hornscheidt writes linguistic non-fiction
Simon Ings , British science fiction and non-fiction writer
Frank Jakubzik , German translator and writer
Martin Jankowski , German writer and poet
Tyehimba Jess , American lyric poet
Jung Young Moon , Korean writer and translator
Julia Kaergel , German book illustrator
Yadé Kara , Turkish-German (speaking) writer
Udo Kawasser , Austrian poet, writer and translator
Jörn Klare , German journalist and book author
Artur Klinau , Belarusian writer
Nadja Klinger , German journalist and book author
Susanne Koelbl , German journalist and book author
Ivan Krastev , Bulgarian political scientist, author and essayist
Gabi Kreslehner , Austrian writer
Dietmar Kreutzer , German author
Gülbahar Kültür , (German-) Turkish writer, poet and translator
Ina Kutulas , German author and translator from Modern Greek
Karsten Laske , German director, screenwriter and playwright
Ingrid Lausund , German playwright and director (and screenwriter Mizzi Meyer )
Markus Lemke , German literary translator from Hebrew and Arabic
Stephan Lessenich , German sociologist and author
Li Bifeng , Chinese activist and poet
Theo Ligthart , Dutch artist and essayist
Dieter Lohr , German writer and audio book publisher
Nina Lykke , Norwegian writer
Charlotte Lyne , German writer, translator and editor
Anne Maar , German children's book author and theater director
Anja Maier , German journalist and writer
Gina Mayer , German writer
Mike McCormack , Irish writer
Juliet E. McKenna , British fantasy writer
Alexander Meschnig , German-speaking author and publicist
Martin Muser , German writer and screenwriter
Kaveh Nassirin , Iranian-German publicist, author and essayist
Peter Nathschläger , Austrian writer
Tamsin Oglesby , British playwright and theater director
Bernd Ohm , German author and translator
Lori Ostlund , American writer
Kurt Pelda , Swiss journalist, war reporter and book author
Nina Petrick , German author
Ronald Pohl , Austrian theater critic and writer
Cay Rademacher , German journalist and writer
Andrea Rings , German author of children's books
Adam Roberts , British writer and literary scholar
Thorsten Roelcke , German linguist
Jörn Jacob Rohwer , German biographical publicist and essayist
Andrea Röpke , German author
Barbara Rose , German writer
Stephan Rürup , German cartoonist and author
Ada Salas , Spanish poet
Yishai Sarid , Israeli lawyer and writer
Martin Schacht , German journalist and writer
Rüdiger Schäfer , German science fiction author
Ulrike Schäfer , German writer
Thomas Schuler , German journalist and writer
Boris Schumatsky , Russian-German writer and publicist
Jacques Schuster , German journalist and book author
Stefan Schweikert , German author
Anja Sicking , Dutch musician and writer
Burhan Sönmez , Turkish lawyer and writer
Sabine Städing , German children's book author
Boris Steinberg , German chanson singer and lyricist
Mario H. Steinmetz , German writer
Andreas Strobl , German art historian and author
Kate Summerscale , British writer and biographer
Canan Topçu , German journalist and author of Turkish origin
Joachim Trebbe , German media analyst and author
Christos Tsiolkas , Australian novelist and playwright
Pablo Tusset , Spanish writer
Cristina Urchueguía , Spanish music historian and author
Lot Vekemans , Dutch playwright and novelist
Paul Verhaeghen , Belgian writer and psychologist
Arwed Vogel , German writer
Pieter Webeling , Dutch author
Heinrich Wefing , German journalist, architecture critic and book author
Jens Weinreich , German sports journalist and non-fiction author
Angie Westhoff , German author of children's and young people's books
Klaus Wiegrefe , German journalist and book author
Markus Wissen , German political scientist and book author
Barbara Wolflingseder , Austrian journalist and author

Died

January - March

0January 4: TS Eliot , English-language poet and playwright
0January 7th: Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch , German writer and ...
0January 8: Volodymyr Sosyura , Ukrainian poet
January 12: Lorraine Hansberry , American playwright and essayist
January 14: Christian Wegner , German publisher
January 17th: Hans Marchwitza , German writer
January 18: Wilhelm Lamszus , German author
January 20: Hermann Buddenhagen , German author and editor
January 21: Reino Helismaa , Finnish writer, songwriter and playwright
January 24th: Winston Churchill , British politician and writer
January 25: Moritz Julius Bonn , German economist and author
January 26: Jean Calvet , French literary scholar and writer
0February 2: Richard Palmer Blackmur , American literary critic, poet, and essayist
February 12th: Hans Barth , Swiss publicist and philosopher
February 12: Karl Otto Horch , German writer (also during the Nazi era)
February 18: Rudolf Eger , German writer and translator
February 19: Hilde Stieler , German poet and writer
February 20: Masao Yamakawa , Japanese writer
February 21: Malcolm X , American civil rights leader and author
February 22nd: Peter Martin Lampel , German writer and playwright
February 23: Fedor Stepun , Russian-German author
February 23: Friedrich Winkler , German art historian and author
February 24th: Louise Hartung , German educator and promoter of reading culture
February 24: Georg Mackensen , German publisher
February 24: Leonore Pany , Austrian writer and composer
February 25: Sydney Fowler Wright , British novelist and poet
February 26: George Adamski , American science fiction writer
February 26: Lotte Bergtel-Schleif , German librarian
0March 4: Willard Motley , American writer
0March 5th: Václav Hrabě , Czech poet
0March 5: Helen Waddell , British writer and translator
0March 6: Alexander von Bernus , German writer
0March 9: Kazys Boruta , Lithuanian writer and poet
March 12th: Hans Lehr , German writer and translator
March 13th: Fan Noli , Albanian ... and writer
March 17th: Nancy Cunard , British publicist, poet and publisher
March 22nd: Heinrich Wandt , German author and publicist
March 26th: Hildegard Johanna Kaeser , German writer and translator
March 27: Charles Kingsley Meek , British anthropologist
March 27: Friedrich Rasche , German journalist, critic, essayist, writer and poet
March 28: Clemence Dane , British novelist, playwright and screenwriter
March 29: Peadar Ó hAnnracháin , Irish novelist and playwright
March 30th: John Farleigh , British (book) illustrator
March 30th: Richard Schweizer , Swiss author

April June

0April 1: Walter Morgenthaler , Swiss psychiatrist and author
0April 1st: Bruno Schönlank , German poet and (worker) writer
0April 2nd: Nelly Wolffheim , German educator and author
0April 9: Rubén Azócar , Chilean poet and novelist
April 11th: Willy Schüller , German lyricist
April 12th: René Sonderegger , Swiss publicist, author and publisher
April 12: Ferdinand Springer junior , German scientific publisher
April 15: Hans Karl Breslauer , Austrian film director and writer
April 16: Kurt Pritzkoleit , German journalist and writer
April 21: Artur Marya Swinarski , Polish playwright, poet and translator
April 22nd: Sakari Pälsi , Finnish writer
April 22nd: Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini , Italian writer
April 26: Werner Wittgenstein , German lawyer, writer and politician
April 28: Maurice Ascher , Swiss writer and educator
April 28: Ferdinand Bordewijk , Dutch writer
April 30: Károly Lyka , Hungarian art historian and biographer
April 30th: Wolf-Heinrich von der Mülbe , German writer and translator
0May 2nd: Otto Forst de Battaglia , Austrian publicist
0May 3: Naka Kansuke , Japanese writer
0May 3: Howard Spring , British writer and literary critic
0May 5th: Edgar Mittelholzer , Guyanese writer
0May 6: Hermann Wolfgang Zahn , German neurologist and writer
May 11: Lode Baekelmans , Flemish writer
May 12: Roger Vailland , French writer
May 13: Sida Košutić , Croatian-Yugoslav writer
May 17th: Karl Langenbacher , German graphic artist and radio play author
May 18: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis , Dutch historian of science and essayist
May 18: Heinz Rusch , German publicist and writer
May 19: Maria Dąbrowska , Polish writer
May 22: Heinrich Barth , Swiss philosopher
0June 4th: Jonas Fränkel , Swiss German studies specialist and editor
0June 5: Eleanor Farjeon , British writer, children's book author, poet, playwright, ...
0June 7th: Richard Billinger , Austrian writer, poet and playwright with an affinity for Nazi Germany
0June 7: Abraham Aron Roback , American psychologist and linguist, promoter of Yiddish
June 10: Otto Hellmut Lienert , Swiss author
June 10: Georg Misch , German philosopher
June 10: Max Rychner , Swiss journalist and writer
June 12th: Wolfram von Hanstein , German publisher, writer and secret agent
June 13: Martin Buber , Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author
June 15: Shōda Shinoe , Japanese poet
June 18: Walter Widmer , Swiss literary critic and translator
June 19: Ruth Goetz , German writer
June 21: Leo Balet , Dutch-German art historian and author
June 22nd: Joseph Auslander , American poet and writer
June 26: Reginald Beckwith , British actor, film critic and playwright
June 28: Anton Schmitt , German (...) regional writer
June 29th: Hans Schwarz , Swiss author, especially of travel literature

July September

0July 1: Arthur Drey , German poet, playwright and essayist
0July 1: Robert Ruark , American columnist and writer
0July 4th: Edward Sackville-West , British music critic and writer
0July 6th: Max Jara , Chilean poet
0July 8: TS Stribling , American writer
July 10: Jacques Audiberti , French writer, poet and playwright
July 13: Fotis Kontoglou , Greek painter and writer
July 14th: Alina Borioli , Swiss writer
July 14: Nat Nakasa , South African writer
July 17th: Rudolf Holzer , Austrian writer and critic
July 18: Refik Halit Karay , Ottoman-Turkish writer
July 19: Ingrid Jonker , South African poet
July 19: Umezaki Haruo , Japanese writer
July 25th: Albert Minder , Yenish poet-painter in Switzerland
July 26: Eugene Burdick , American author
July 26th: Benno Geiger , Austrian poet, writer and translator
July 28th: Edogawa Rampo , Japanese (crime) writer
July 30th: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō , Japanese writer
0August 2nd: František Langer , Czech writer and playwright
0August 3: Bruce Manning , American journalist and writer
0August 3: Wolfgang Stammler , German Germanist and literary historian
0August 5: Émile Moussat , French author
0August 6: Aksel Sandemose , Danish-Norwegian writer
0August 8: Ludwig Egler , German composer and writer
0August 8: Shirley Jackson , American writer
0August 9: Arnold Krieger , German (NS-affine) writer, playwright and poet
August 15: Otto Wohlgemuth , German (NS-affine) poet and writer
August 17th: Takami Jun , Japanese writer and poet
August 28: Maria Batzer , German writer
August 30: Armin Kesser , German-Swiss writer and publicist
August 31: Edward E. Smith , American science fiction writer
August 31: Enn Uibo , Estonian poet
0September 2: Johannes Bobrowski , German poet and narrator
0September 2: Walter Alvares Keller , Swiss writer
0September 4th: Albert Schweitzer , Franco-German (...), philosopher and author
0September 5: Louis Cazamian , French essayist and translator
September 10: Gerhard Möbus , German pedagogue, political scientist and author
September 16: Peter Paul Althaus , German poet, writer and cabaret artist
September 16: Anton Kecht , Austrian writer
September 17th: Moscheh Ya'akov Ben-Gavriêl , Austrian and Israeli writer and publicist
September 17th: Alejandro Casona , Spanish writer and playwright
September 17th: Reinhold von Walter , German poet, writer and translator
September 17th: Ernest Wood , British author on yoga and meditation
September 22nd: Niels Lynge , Greenlandic pastor and (song) poet
September 30: Philip Stevenson , American novelist and playwright

October - December

0October 3: Max Picard , Swiss writer
October 13: Carl Misch , German-American journalist and book author
October 14: Randall Jarrell , American writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, poet laureate
October 18: Hans Zulliger , Swiss psychotherapist and writer
October 20: Corrado Govoni , Italian poet and writer
October 21: Nora Scholly , Austrian children's book author, publisher and illustrator
October 22: Hans Morgenstern , Austrian playwright
October 22: Salomon David Steinberg , Swiss poet and writer
October 22nd: Paul Tillich , German-American religious philosopher and author
October 25th: Fried Lübbecke , German art historian and author
October 27: Max Beer , German publicist and author
October 27: Georg Stöger-Ostin , German author of trivial literature
October 31: Olivier Larronde , French poet
October 31: Benno Vigny , Franco-German writer and screenwriter
0November 1: Hellmuth Petriconi , German Romance studies and literary scholar
0November 2nd: Marta Karlweis , Austrian writer
0November 6: Nahum Stutchkoff , Polish-American Yiddish author, playwright and lexicographer
November 13: Catherine Colomb , French-speaking Swiss writer
November 20: Armas Äikiä , Finnish writer
November 20th: Nicole Vedrès , French writer and filmmaker
November 25: Josef Štefan Kubín , Czech ethnographer and fairy tale collector
November 26th: Wilhelm Matthießen , German author of children's and youth literature and anti-Semitic inflammatory pamphlets
November 28: Aslaug Vaa , Norwegian poet and playwright
0December 2nd: Victor Gunn , British writer
0December 5: Friedrich Franz von Conring , German writer, playwright and biographer (Nazi affinity)
0December 5: Albert J. Welti , Swiss writer
0December 6: Walter Muschg , Swiss literary historian and essayist
0December 7th: Allan Eugene Updegraff , American journalist and writer
December 10th: Max Sidow , German poet, writer and dramaturge
December 16: William Somerset Maugham , British storyteller and playwright
December 17th: Max Hinrichsen , German-British music publisher
December 19: Hans Brockhaus , German publisher
December 24th: Otto Rosing , Greenlandic writer
December 30th: Manfred George , German-American writer and publicist
December 31: Ludwig Breitwieser , German graphic artist and author

Exact date unknown

Edwin Baer , German antiquarian
Roberto Bazlen , Italian writer and publicist
Allen Roy Evans , Canadian writer
Ludwig Gorm , Austrian writer and translator
Joachim G. Leithäuser , German author
Simin Palay , French Occitan Language Writer
Erwin Erich Torenburg , German journalist and writer

100 years earlier ...

... the music drama Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner had its world premiere on June 10th .
... the picture stories Max and Moritz and Der Virtuos by Wilhelm Busch appeared .
... the story The Twelve Apostles by E. Marlitt appeared in the gazebo .

Literature prizes 1965

German literary prizes

Andreas Gryphius Prize : Peter Jokostra and Josef Mühlberger
Bremen Literature Prize : Thomas Bernhard for Frost
German Youth Book Prize :
- Picture book: Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- Children's book: Wickie and the strong men by Runer Jonsson
- Children's book: America saga by Frederik Hetmann
- Awarded: The leghold trap from Denis Ronald Sherman
German Critics' Prize : Hans Mayer
F. C. Weiskopf Prize : Peter Hacks
Fontane Prize : Victor Otto Stomps
Friedrich Rückert Prize : Annemarie Schimmel
Georg Büchner Prize : Günter Grass
Georg Mackensen Literature Prize : Jürg Federspiel ; Gabriele Wohmann
Gerhart Hauptmann Prize : Hans Günter Michelsen
Hans Böttcher Prize : Hinrich Kruse for Dat souvenirs
Heinrich Heine Prize from the Ministry of Culture of the GDR : Heinz Knobloch , Walter Werner
Heinrich Mann Prize : Johannes Bobrowski for Levins Mühle and Brigitte Reimann for Die Geschwister
Hermann Hesse Literature Prize : Hubert Fichte for The Orphanage
Radio play award of the war blind : Night program by Richard Hey
Immermann Prize of the City of Düsseldorf : Ernst Jünger ; Sponsorship award: Astrid Gehlhoff-Claes
Johann-Peter-Hebel-Prize : Adalbert Welte
Lessing Prize of the GDR : Rainer Kerndl and Gerhard Rentzsch
Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg :
- Main award winner: Peter Weiss
- Scholarship holder: Peter Bichsel
Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts : Wolfgang Koeppen
Schiller Memorial Prize : Max Frisch
Tukan Prize : Alfons von Czibulka , Horst Lange , Paul Mommertz , Georg Schwarz , Otto von Taube , Roland Ziersch

International literary prizes

Adalbert Stifter Prize : Julius Zerzer

Akutagawa Prize : Setsuko Tsumura for Gangu

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (selection): The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction by James M. McPherson

Anton Wildgans Prize : Andreas Okopenko

BMF badge : Calvinols resa genom världen by PC Jersild

Bokhandler prizes : Blåtind by Johan Borgen

Caldecott Medal : Beni Montresor (Illustrator) for May I Bring a Friend?

CNA Literary Award (South Africa; work in Afrikaans): Olé by André Brink

Constantijn Huygensprijs : Lucebert

De Gyldne Laurbær : Thorkild Hansen

Dobloug Prize : Fritiof Nilsson Piraten (Sweden) and Johan Borgen (Norway)

Duff Cooper Prize : Marcel Proust by George D. Painter

Edgar Allan Poe Award :

Best novel: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Best Short Story: H as in Homicide by Lawrence Treat

Faroese Literature Prize : Christian Matras and Páll J. Nolsøe

Franz Grillparzer Prize : Orpheus by Felix Braun

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize : The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy

Gottfried Keller Prize : Meinrad Inglin for the complete work

Governor General's Award for Fiction : L'Incubation by Gérard Bessette

Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire :

Les Dirigeants africains face à leurs peuples by Seydou Badian and
Patron de New York by Bernard Dadié

Grand prix de littérature policière (International): Frontière belge (originally: Question of Loyalty ) by Nicolas Freeling

Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature: not awarded

Grand Prix of Samfundet De Nio : Willy Kyrklund

Hawthornden Prize : The Old Boys by William Trevor

Herder Prize : László Németh ; Tudor Arghezi

Hertzogprys for poetry: Tristia en other verse, voorspele en vlugte by NP van Wyk Louw

Hugo Award :

Best novel: The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
Best Short Story: Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson

James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography): Victoria RI by Elizabeth Longford

Jerusalem Prize : Max Frisch

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize : The White Father by Julian Mitchell

Kikuchi Kan Prize : Kamei Katsuichirō for research on the spiritual history of the Japanese

Kinderboek van het jaar : Paul Biegel for Het sleutelkruid

Children's and Youth Book Prize of the City of Vienna (selection):

Children's book: Marlen Haushofer for being brave is difficult and Mira Lobe for The Grandma in the Apple Tree
Youth book: Mira Lobe for Master Thomas in St. Wolfgang

Critic prizes (Denmark) : Amagerdigte by Klaus Rifbjerg

Critics' prizes (Norway) : Alfred Hauge for the trilogy Cleng Peerson

Levstik Prize : Velikan in Pajac by Leopold Suhodolčan

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award : The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Nordic Council Literature Prize :

Det gode Håb by William Heinesen and
Från helvetet till paradiset by Olof Lagercrantz

Literature Prize of the City of Vienna : Ernst Schönwiese

Mainichi Culture Prize (“Literature and Art” category; selection): Umezaki Haruo for Genka

Mainichi Art Prize (selection): Noguchi Fujio for Tokuda Shūsei-den

Miles Franklin Award : The Slow Natives by Thea Astley

Nadal Literature Prize : Eduardo Cabalero Calderón , El buen salvaje

National Book Award :

Fiction: Saul Bellow for Herzog
Nonfiction (selection): Norbert Wiener for God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
Poetry: Theodore Roethke for The Far Field

Nelly Sachs Prize : Max Tau

Nils Holgersson badge : Gunnel Linde

Nobel Prize for Literature : Mikhail Scholokhov

Noma Literature Prize : Nagai Tatsuo for Ikko sono hoka

O. Henry Prize : Revelation by Flannery O'Connor

Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Zbigniew Herbert

PC Hooft Prize : not awarded

Peter Rosegger Prize : Alois Hergouth

Premio Atenea (selection): El peso de la noche by Jorge Edwards

Premio Bancarella : Giovinezza, giovinezza by Luigi Preti

Premio Biblioteca Breve : Últimas tardes con Teresa by Juan Marsé

Premio Campiello : La compromissione by Mario Pomilio

Prêmio Jabuti : O senhor embaixador by Érico Veríssimo

Prêmio Juca Pato : Cassiano Ricardo

Prêmio Machado de Assis : Cecília Meireles (posthumous)

Premio Marzotto : Ignazio Silone for emergency exit

Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile : Pablo de Rokha

Premio Planeta : Equipaje de amor para la tierra by Rodrigo Rubio

Premio Strega : La macchina mondiale by Paolo Volponi

Premio Viareggio : Goffredo Parise for Il Padrone

Prix Claude-Farrère : Les trompettes se sont tues by Dominique Farale

Prix des Critiques : Pierre Klossowski for Le Baphomet

Prix des Deux Magots : Les Pierres sauvages by Fernand Pouillon

Prix Femina : Quelqu'un by Robert Pinget

Prix Goncourt : L'adoration by Jacques Borel

Prix du Gouverneur général (poésie ou théâtre de langue française) pour la poésie : Quand les bateaux s'en vont by Gilles Vigneault

Prix Médicis : La Rhubarbe by René-Victor Pilhes

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger : Le Centaure by John Updike

Prix Rambert : Jean Starobinski

Prix Renaudot : Les Choses by Georges Perec

Pulitzer Prize :

Fiction: The Keepers of the House ( en ) by Shirley Ann Grau
Biography: Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels
Poetry: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
Drama: The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy
Story: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
Non-fiction book: O Strange New World. American Culture: The Formative Years by Howard Mumford Jones