Literature year 1966

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

• Peter Hammer Verlag is founded in Wuppertal .
• The Book Art Foundation is established in Frankfurt am Main .
• The Circle of Friends for the Promotion of Literary and Scientific Translations is founded in Stuttgart .
• BuchMarkt is founded as a specialist magazine for the book trade .
• Rodopi Verlag is founded in Amsterdam and will be independent until 2014.
• The Éditions L'Âge d'Homme are founded in Lausanne .
• The book series Spiritualité Orientale is founded.
• The French literary magazine La Quinzaine littéraire appears for the first time in Paris .
• In Salzburg, the Austrian literary journal Literature and Critique appears for the first time .
• The scientifically authoritative Koran translation by Rudi Paret appears for the first time .
• The first volumes of Twayne's world authors series appear.
• With the volume The Art of the 19th Century , written by Rudolf Zeitler , a 26-volume new edition of the Propylaea Art History begins .
• The book series World History of Painting was published in Lausanne in 27 volumes by 1968 .
• The publishing house Volk und Welt (GDR) founded the book series Erkundungen , in which up to 1996 numerous anthologies with stories by authors from one country or one region will appear.
• The magic circle publisher founded the Romanheft series SF science fiction in which will appear to 1985 a total of 296 numbers.
• In Kelter publishing 98 books of science fiction series published between August 1966 and 1969, Ren Dhark .
• The Bastei Verlag published 38 issues of the science fiction series Rex Corda between November 1966 and August 1967 .
• The Kindler Verlag published 1966-1975 about 70 volumes in Kindler University Library .
• From 1966, the Belgian comic magazine Tintin published the Franco-Belgian comic series Chevalier Ardent (German: Roland, Ritter Ungestüm ) and Bernard Prince .
• Under the title Hit Comics appear in the picture magazine publisher for the first time Marvel Comics in Germany.
• The youth magazine Rasselbande , which has been published in Hamburg since 1953, ceases to appear under this name.
• On May 27th, the hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria by Martin Sperr will be premiered at the Bremen Theater.
• In February, Tiny Alice by Edward Albee will have its German premiere in Hamburg, followed by The Sandpit by the same author in Munich in May .
• The musical Cabaret premieres on Broadway on November 20th .
• On December 4th, the Komische Oper Berlin will reopen after extensive modernization with Mozart's Don Giovanni .
• The British Society of Authors is presenting the Cholmondeley Award for poetry for the first time .
• The Negro Motorist Green Book was published for the last time in the USA .
• By decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is suspended on March 29, 1967.

Literature adaptations (selection)

• The drama A man for all seasons by Robert Bolt is being filmed by Fred Zinnemann under the same title .
• The drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee is being filmed by Mike Nichols under the same title .
• The comedy Alfie by Bill Naughton is (dt. Under the same title as the seducer makes beautiful greeting ) by Lewis Gilbert filmed.
• The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is filmed by François Truffaut under the same title .
• The novel An American Dream by Norman Mailer is being filmed by Robert Gist under the same title .
• The novel The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna is under the same title by Robert Wise filmed.
• The novel Seconds by David Ely is filmed under the same title (German as The Man Who Lived Twice ) by John Frankenheimer .
• The historical novel War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy is being filmed under the same title by Sergei Bondarchuk in four parts, the first two of which premiered in March and July 1966, respectively.
• The story The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is being filmed for television by Konrad Wolf under the same title .
• The novel Greek is looking for a Greek by Friedrich Dürrenmatt is filmed by Rolf Thiele under the same title .
• Loosely based on two stories by Guy de Maupassant created Masculin - féminin: The children of Marx and Coca-Cola of Jean-Luc Godard .
• Based on a screenplay by the Spanish writer Jorge Semprun appear The war is over by Alain Resnais .
• After a script of the Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore created Torn Curtain of Alfred Hitchcock .
• The short story La Noire de ... by Ousmane Sembène is being made into a film by the author himself under the same title .
• The letter from Vlado Kristl is based on his own script .
• The film Big Birds, Little Birds by Pier Paolo Pasolini will be released in May based on his own script .
• The film Farewell to Yesterday by Alexander Kluge, made based on his own text and script, will be released in September .

New releases

Fiction

• As if it were a piece of me - Carl Zuckmayer (autobiography)
• Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock (Magazin-OA)
• The blue flowers - Raymond Queneau (transl. By Eugen Helmlé )
• La casa verde - Mario Vargas Llosa
• Chinmoku - Endō Shūsaku
• The chronoscope - Isaac Asimov
• The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
• The Crystal World - JG Ballard
• Deaf, Dumb, and Blind - HP Lovecraft (1st Book Edition)
• The Dervish and Death (OA) - Mehmed Meša Selimović
• Not everyone has dragons - Cecil Scott Forester
• End of a business trip - Heinrich Böll
• Exploring the Galaxy (Russian) - Sergei Snegow (Space Opera)
• The Franza - Ingeborg Bachmann case (created 1966)
• Long distance calls - Marie Luise Kaschnitz
• Go and announce it from the mountain - James Baldwin
• Stories from the Moomin Valley - Tove Jansson
• It was nice yesterday - Roald Dahl (German)
• A wonderful day for banana fish - JD Salinger
• Heaven that ends nowhere - Marlen Haushofer
• Holy Quarrel - Philip K. Dick
• The Hornets - Peter Handke
• In cold blood - Truman Capote
• The Battle for the Island - Arthur Ransome (children's book, new translation)
• Caribbean Affair - Agatha Christie (Ger.)
• The little ghost - Otfried Preußler (children's book)
• Convention of Space Explorers - Isaac Asimov
• Love nights in the taiga - Heinz G. Konsalik
• Maigret and the mysterious captain & Maigret and the crime on board & Maigret defends himself & Maigret among the anarchists & Maigret gropes in the dark - Georges Simenon
• Main Line Engines - Wilbert Vere Awdry (children's book)
• The man who brought luck - Jürg Federspiel
• Men som gick upp i rök - Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
• The Master and Margarita - Michail Bulgakow (first print as a magazine serial novel)
• First class murder - John le Carré
• After zero hour - Alfred Coppel
• Night over the prairie - Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (Indian novel; Vol. 1 of a pentalogy)
• Nine stories - JD Salinger (German)
• Noy bor i Thailand - Astrid Lindgren
• Octopussy and The Living Daylights - Ian Fleming (posthumous)
• Uncle Wobble Peter in Connecticut - JD Salinger
• Planet of Exile - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The place for the memorial - Daniil Granin (SF story; magazine first edition)
• Rocannon's World - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Secret of Skeleton Island - Robert Arthur (Vol. 6 in the Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series )
• Señas de identidad - Juan Goytisolo
• The city and the dogs - Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Ziegentur constellation - Fasil Iskander (first time, in Nowy Mir )
• The star maker - Olaf Stapledon
• The Mute Prophet - Joseph Roth (posthumous)
• The diary of Maria Rolnikaite - Mascha Rolnikaitė (autobiography)
• Third Girl - Agatha Christie
• Drummers with the Tsar - Arno Schmidt
• The ultimatum from the stars - Robert A. Heinlein
• Accident in Crete - Patricia Highsmith
• Down by the boat - JD Salinger
• Under the star of evil - Gabriel García Márquez
• An irresistible man - Gabriele Wohmann (1st book edition)
• Viktor Halbnarr - Thomas Bernhard
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - Philip K. Dick
• Reflection of Fire - Yuri Trifonov (1st book edition)
• See you in Venice - Gabriele Wohmann
• The landlady - Roald Dahl (German)
• The Witch's Daughter - Nina Bawden
• Two birds swimming - Flann O'Brien

drama

• Coming and Going - Samuel Beckett
• The Meteor - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• Operetta - Witold Gombrowicz
• The plebeians rehearse the uprising - Günter Grass
• Public abuse - Peter Handke (also premiered on June 8, 1966)
• The Judge of London - Tankred Dorst (UA 1966)
• Winnetou II - Ribanna and Old Firehand - Wulf Leisner (open-air play based on Karl May)
• The Word - Arthur Schnitzler (fragment)
• Two lost in a dirty night - Plínio Marcos

Poetry

• Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan (Album)
• Laut and Luise - Ernst Jandl (poems); this includes:
  • Vienna: Heldenplatz ; darling ; falamaleikum ; clearing
• father come tell us about the war - Ernst Jandl (poem; composed 1966)

Essay and non-fiction book

• I Benandanti - Carlo Ginzburg
• History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages - Werner Spieß
• The divine spark - Arthur Koestler
• Beyond Guilt and Atonement - Jean Améry (Essays)
• LTI - Notebook of a Philologist - Victor Klemperer (1st West German edition)
• Les mots et les choses - Michel Foucault (Philosophy)
• Negative Dialectic - Theodor W. Adorno (Philosophy)
• Repressive Tolerance - Herbert Marcuse (Essay)
• The Social Construction of Reality - Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
• Requirements - Helmut Heißenbüttel (literary theory)

additional

• 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night - Simon & Garfunkel (song)
• Geography - Martin Walser (radio play)
• Puntila - music: Paul Dessau ; Libretto: Peter Palitzsch and Manfred Wekwerth (opera based on Brecht)
• Chimney No. 4 - Marguerite Duras (screenplay)
• Zurich - Transit - Max Frisch (film script)

Born

January - March

• 0January 1st: Su Turhan , German film director and writer
• 0January 3rd: Robert Misik , Austrian journalist and political writer
• 0January 4th: Faysal Dağlı , Kurdish-Turkish journalist and writer
• 0January 4th: Thomas Stangl , Austrian writer
• 0January 6th: Johannes Jansen , German poet and writer
• 0January 7th: Heike Franke , German writer
• 0January 7th: Lisa Ortgies , German author
• January 13: Maria de la Pau Janer , Spanish writer
• January 13: Wolfgang Lutz , German psychologist and essayist
• January 14th: Christian Scheuss , German author and journalist
• January 16: Manel Gibert Vallès , Andorran poet
• January 16: Alek Popov , Bulgarian writer
• January 16: Dana Spiotta , American writer
• January 17: Susanna Kearsley , Canadian writer
• January 19: Guy Delisle , Canadian comic book writer and illustrator
• January 22nd: Rainer Stolz , German poet and writer
• January 24th: Renate Meinhof , German journalist and book author
• January 25: Frank Faber , German crime novelist († 2013)
• January 25th: Simon Kernick , British crime novelist
• January 27: Alvydas Šlepikas , Lithuanian actor and writer
• January 28: Stephan Alfare , Austrian poet and writer
• January 28: Maik Lippert , German poet and writer
• January 28: Christin-Désirée Rudolph , German author, mainly on military topics
• January 29th: Serap Çileli , German publicist and author
• 0February 1: Sabine Klewe , German writer
• 0February 7: Dato Barbakadze , Georgian writer, poet, essayist and translator
• 0February 9: Christoph Maria Herbst , German actor, speaker and author
• February 10: Bettina Grabis , German children's book author
• February 15: Andreas Platthaus , German journalist, writer and editor
• February 15: Jakob Strobel y Serra , German journalist and book author
• February 17th: Jörg Bong , German publishing director, author, literary scholar, ...
• February 18: Markus Vahlefeld , German-speaking author
• February 19: Gintaras Grajauskas , Lithuanian writer and musician
• February 19: Jan Kuhlbrodt , German poet and writer
• February 21: Katrin Askan , German writer
• February 21: Christian Schertz , German media lawyer and author
• February 24: David Diop , Franco-Senegalese writer and literary scholar
• February 24: Alain Mabanckou , Congolese-French poet and writer
• February 27: Afshin Ellian , Iranian-Dutch legal philosopher, poet and essayist
• February 27: Barbara Goldstein , German writer († 2014)
• February 28: Andree Hesse , German writer and translator
• February 28: Philip Reeve , British writer
• 0March 1st: Delphine de Vigan , French writer
• 0March 2nd: Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril , Swedish writer and literary critic
• 0March 2: Ann Leckie , American science fiction and fantasy writer
• 0March 5: Mark Z. Danielewski , American writer
• 0March 8th: Steffi von Wolff , German author
• March 13: Alastair Reynolds , British science fiction writer
• March 14: Robert Bingham , American writer († 1999)
• March 16: Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam , French writer
• March 16: Dirk von Petersdorff , German literary scholar and writer
• March 18: Álvaro Vargas Llosa , Peruvian writer and publicist
• March 20: Christoph Schwennicke , German journalist and book author
• March 22nd: Iven Fritsche , German poet and writer of texts
• March 23: Ryszard Koziołek , Polish literary scholar and historian
• March 25: Guillaume Sorel , French comic book writer, illustrator and illustrator
• March 26: Jonathan C. Friedman , American historian and author
• March 27: Bettina Balàka , Austrian writer, poet and playwright
• March 27: Jakob Wegelius , Swedish children's author and illustrator
• March 29: Eric Walz (also called Eric Berg ), German writer
• March 30: Nicola Barker , British writer

April June

• 0April 1: Oliver G. Wachlin , German writer († 2017)
• 0April 2: Gerhard Jäger , Austrian journalist and writer († 2018)
• 0April 4: Katharina Gericke , German playwright
• 0April 6: Vince Flynn , American author of political thrillers († 2013)
• April 10: Tamaki Daidō , Japanese writer
• April 10: Dick Harrison , Swedish historian and writer
• April 15: Cressida Cowell , British children's author
• April 15: Jouni Inkala , Finnish poet; also essayist, playwright, translator
• April 17th: Catherine Dufour , French writer
• April 20: David Chalmers , Australian philosopher
• April 21: Maike Dörries , German literary translator
• April 22nd: Helene Cooper , American author
• April 23: Michael Kirchschlager , German historian, writer and publisher
• April 26: Natasha Trethewey , American poet
• April 27: Oliver Maria Schmitt , German writer
• April 27: Jochen Strobel , German literary scholar and editor
• April 28th: Amir Shaheen , German poet and writer
• April 29th: Mischa Bach , German writer
• April 30: Ivo de Figueiredo , Norwegian historian, biographer and essayist
• 0May 1st: Oliver Driesen , German journalist and writer
• 0May 2nd: Øyvind Rimbereid , Norwegian poet, writer and essayist
• 0May 3: Agnès Desarthe , French writer
• 0May 8: Miriam Pharo , German-speaking author
• May 10: Dawit Turashvili , Georgian writer and playwright
• May 11: Thomas Oberender , German writer and playwright
• May 15: Hanno Millesi , Austrian artist and writer
• May 18: Gerd Frey , German (science fiction) writer
• May 18: Christiane Fux , German (crime) writer and journalist
• May 20: Nina Jäckle , German writer
• May 21: Serafina Cuomo , Italian historian of science
• May 21: Thomas Morris , Austrian actor and author
• May 23: Armin Strohmeyr , German poet, biographer and editor
• May 24th: Thomas Sigmund , German journalist and non-fiction author
• May 27: Olaf Irlenkäuser , German editor, publicist and editor
• May 28: Miljenko Jergović , Bosnian writer, poet and essayist who writes in Croatian
• May 28: Markus Kastenholz , German writer
• May 31: Frank Goosen , German cabaret artist and writer
• 00.May: Michel Mettler , Swiss writer
• 0June 1: Sheri Holman , American writer
• 0June 1st: Pablo Ramos , Argentine poet, writer and publisher
• 0June 3: Kate Forsyth , Australian writer and poet
• 0June 6: Agata Bielik-Robson , Polish philosopher and author
• 0June 7th: Roy Kummer , German writer and journalist
• 0June 7th: Eva Lirot , German crime novelist
• 0June 7: Mark Ravenhill , British playwright
• 0June 7th: Lorenzo Silva , Spanish writer
• 0June 8: Fabjan Hafner , Slovenian-Austrian literary scholar, poet and translator († 2016)
• 0June 9: Marco Kunst , Dutch writer
• June 15: Jörg Menke-Peitzmeyer , German playwright
• June 16: Julija Latynina , Russian writer and journalist
• June 16: Siva Vaidhyanathan , American media scholar and essayist
• June 23: Tessa Korber , German writer
• June 23: Milen Ruskow , Bulgarian writer and translator
• June 25: Laslo Blašković , Serbian poet, writer, essayist and director of the Serbian National Library
• June 26: Annette M. Böckler , German author and translator of religious texts
• June 27: Katy Couprie , French author (?) And illustrator
• June 28: Åsa Larsson , Swedish (crime) writer

July September

• 0July 2nd: Vladimir Vertlib , Austrian writer
• 0July 4: Christof Hamann , German Germanist, writer and editor
• 0July 6: Cezary Łazarewicz , Polish journalist and essayist
• 0July 7th: Thomas Binotto , Swiss journalist and book author
• 0July 9: Rita Bertolini , Austrian author and publisher († 2017)
• 0July 9: Andreas Leben , Austrian literary scholar and translator of Slovenian literature
• 0July 9: Amélie Nothomb , Belgian writer (according to other information * 1967)
• July 10: Andrea Weibel , Swiss writer and editor
• July 11: Nadeem Aslam , Pakistani-British writer
• July 11th: Taavi Soininvaara , Finnish crime writer
• July 11: Paul Sussman , British journalist and writer († 2012)
• July 14: Brian Selznick , American author and illustrator for children and young adults
• July 15: Mario Avagliano , Italian author
• July 15: Élisa Brune , Belgian science journalist and writer († 2018)
• July 18: Kirsten John , German writer
• July 19: Tom Buk-Swienty , Danish historian and writer
• July 21: Edwin Ernesto Ayala , Salvadoran writer
• July 21: Sarah Waters , British writer
• July 27: Darek Foks , Polish poet, prose writer and literary critic
• July 31: Mudlum , Estonian writer and literary critic
• 0August 1st: Nils Röller , German cultural theorist and author
• 0August 1st: Jens Soering , German author
• 0August 2nd: Ángel Santiesteban Prats , Cuban writer
• 0August 3: Guillaume Nicloux , French director and writer
• 0August 7th: Olga Kryuchkova , Russian author of historical novels
• 0August 7th: Robert Seethaler , Austrian writer, screenwriter and actor
• 0August 8: Bachtyar Ali , Kurdish-Iraqi writer
• 0August 9: Linn Ullmann , Norwegian writer
• 0August 9: Sascha Weber , German journalist and writer
• August 10: Laurent Gounelle , French writer
• August 12: Arno Orzessek , German journalist and writer
• August 13: Jens Bisky , German journalist and writer
• August 14: Sibylle Hamann , Austrian journalist and book author
• August 14: Georg Timber-Trattnig , Austrian author († 2000)
• August 15: Jeong Yu-jeong , South Korean writer
• August 19: Armin Wolf , Austrian journalist, television presenter and book author
• August 21: Denise Mina , British writer and playwright
• August 22nd: Alexander Gorkow , German journalist and writer
• August 23: Keith Brooke , British science fiction and youth book writer
• August 25: Sandra Maischberger , German presenter and author
• August 27: Martin Molitor , German actor, playwright and translator
• August 28: Matthias Matting (as science fiction writer: Brandon Q. Morris ), German journalist and book author
• August 30: ʿAlī al-Muqrī , Yemeni journalist and writer
• 0September 4th: Marek Krajewski , Polish classical philologist and crime novelist
• 0September 4th: Torsten Sträter , German writer and cabaret artist
• 0September 5: Mariusz Szczygieł , Polish journalist and writer
• 0September 8: Perikles Monioudis , Swiss writer and journalist
• 0September 9: Nathalie Azoulai , French writer
• September 10: Jürgen-Thomas Ernst , Austrian writer and playwright
• September 10: Fabrice Roger-Lacan , French playwright
• September 12th: Stanislas Nordey , French theater director and director
• September 14th: Thomas Kastura , German writer
• September 15: Hakan Taş , German author and politician
• September 16: Wil McCarthy , American science fiction writer
• September 16: Elizabeth McCracken , American writer
• September 17th: Aldo Cazzullo , Italian journalist and writer
• September 20: Lee Hall , British playwright, radio play and screenwriter
• September 20: Arne Roß , German writer
• September 22: Ruth Jones , British actress and writer
• September 22nd: Günter Neuwirth , Austrian writer
• September 23: Thomas Meurer , German religious educator and author († 2010)
• September 25: Niccolò Ammaniti , Italian writer
• September 26: Kirstin Breitenfellner , Austro-German writer
• September 28: Lone Frank , Danish science journalist and non-fiction author
• September 29: Nicolas de Crécy , French comic book writer and illustrator

October - December

• 0October 2nd: Christiane Kofler , German manager, author and publisher
• 0October 2: Robert Reid , American author
• 0October 3: Sandra Hughes , Swiss writer
• 0October 3: Saskia Hula , Austrian children's book author
• 0October 3: Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright , American translator
• 0October 6: Melania Mazzucco , Italian writer
• 0October 7: Sherman Alexie , Native American poet and writer
• 0October 8: Kerstin Gier , German writer
• 0October 9: Inge Kralupper , Austrian book trade manager († 2016)
• October 10: Sylk Schneider , German author and curator
• October 10: Menno Wigman , Dutch poet and translator († 2018)
• October 11: Christoph Peters , German writer
• October 11: Michael Rohrschneider , German historian and author
• October 12: Nene Adams , American writer († 2015)
• October 14th: Thomas Klees , German actor and author
• October 15: Liz Kessler , British writer and journalist
• October 15: Perumal Murugan , Indian writer
• October 19: Adnan G. Köse , German playwright
• October 19: Dimitris Lyacos , Greek poet and playwright
• October 19: David Vann , American writer
• October 20: John von Düffel , German writer and playwright
• October 21: Peter van Dongen , Dutch comic book writer and illustrator
• October 24: Christine Langer , German poet, writer and literary critic
• October 27: Steve Almond , American storyteller and essayist
• October 27: Sabine Baumann , German publisher and translator
• October 29: Kersten Flenter , German writer
• October 31: Gergely Péterfy , Hungarian writer
• October 31: Nick Stone , British thriller writer
• 0November 1st: Sören Sieg , German writer and composer
• 0November 2nd: Daniela Drescher , German children's book illustrator and author
• 0November 5th: Pascal Beucker , German journalist and book author
• 0November 5: Christian Weis , German writer, mainly from science fiction and fantasy († 2017)
• 0November 6: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel , Equatorial Guinean writer and poet
• November 10: Aka Mortschiladze , Georgian writer
• November 11th: Susanne Keuchel , German cultural scientist, author and editor
• November 12th: Andrzej Majewski , Polish aphorist, writer and photographer
• November 12th: Nils Minkmar , German historian, journalist and essayist
• November 17: Ed Brubaker , American comic book writer and illustrator
• November 17th: Friederike Pannewick , German Arabist and essayist
• November 18: Jorge Camacho , Spanish writer (in Spanish and Esperanto)
• November 19: Shmuley Boteach , American rabbi and author
• November 19: Simone Katrin Paul , German poet and translator
• November 20: Ulrich Koch , German poet
• November 20: Jill Thompson , American comic book writer and illustrator
• November 22: Akiko Itoyama , Japanese writer
• November 22: Jason Starr , American writer
• November 24th: Stefan Ahnhem , Swedish writer and screenwriter
• November 24th: Siegfried Langer , German writer
• November 27: Dirk Bierbaß , German poet and prose author
• November 28: Ulrike Schweikert , German writer
• November 30th: David Nicholls , British writer
• 0December 5th: Anja Liedtke , German writer
• 0December 6: Dirk Dobbrow , German writer and playwright
• 0December 7th: Lucía Etxebarria , Spanish poet, writer, essayist, biographer, translator
• 0December 8th: Sinéad O'Connor , Irish musician and songwriter
• December 10th: Peter Liehr , German comic author († 2016)
• December 12th: Sven Zimmermann , German musician and lyricist
• December 12th: Chris Zintzen-Bader , German literary scholar, author, editor and journalist
• December 13: David Safier , German writer
• December 14th: Sarah Zettel , American science fiction and fantasy writer
• December 16: Empar Moliner , Catalan-Spanish writer
• December 24th: Dirk van den Boom , German political scientist and science fiction writer
• December 25th: Raphael Gross , Swiss historian and publicist
• December 26th: Stefan Baiker , Swiss author and publisher
• December 28th: Rainer Vollath , German writer
• December 29: Christian Kracht , Swiss writer and journalist
• December 30th: Thomas Hoeps , German writer and editor

Exact date unknown

A - J

• Chris Abani , Nigerian writer
• Christian Adam , German Germanist, editor and publicist
• Maike Albath , German literary critic and author
• Erik Altorfer , Swiss director, dramaturge and writing workshop leader
• Mark Anthony , American fantasy author
• Eduard Augustin , German author
• Marek Krystian Emanuel Baczewski , Polish poet, prose author and literary critic (according to other information * 1964)
• Dominic Barker , British children's author
• Heike Baryga , German translator from Dutch
• Ruth Johanna Benrath , German poet and writer
• Max Bentow , German crime writer
• Wolfgang Berends , German poet and translator
• Christian Berg , German children's book author and children's musical writer
• Markus Berges , German singer and author
• Virginia Bergin , British writer
• Harald Bergsdorf , German political scientist and author
• David Bernet , Swiss filmmaker and author
• Annette Biemer , German writer
• Katharina Blum , German author, including film biographies
• Julia Boehme , German children's book author
• Frank Borsch , German science fiction writer and translator
• Roland Brodbeck , Swiss writer
• Royce Buckingham , American author
• Maximilian Buddenbohm , German author
• Silke Burmester , German journalist, columnist and author
• Hasan Çil , Turkish-German author and editor
• Dominic Cooke , British theater director and director
• Süleyman Deveci , Turkish-German writer
• Caius Dobrescu , Romanian poet, essayist and novelist
• Gabriella Engelmann , German writer
• Orkun Ertener , German screenwriter and novelist
• Eva Þengilsdóttir , Icelandic children's author
• Kristin Falck , German fantasy author
• Alexandra Fischer-Hunold , German author for children and young people
• Patrick French , British historian, literary scholar and biographer
• Anna Funder , Australian writer
• Stephan Grotz , German philosopher and historian of philosophy
• Charlotte Habersack , German writer
• Kerstin Hamann , German writer
• Kim Harrison , American writer
• David Harrower , British playwright and translator
• Caroline Hartge , German poet, writer and translator
• Claus Heck , German writer (published as Aléa Torik , * 1983)
• Bernhard Hennen , German writer
• Bertina Henrichs , German writer (writing in French)
• Ingo Herzke , German literary. translator
• Yvonne Hofstetter , German essayist
• Michael Hüttler , Austrian author and publishing director
• Kirsten John-Stucke , German historian and author
• Dominic Johnson , British-German journalist and book author

K - Z

• Olaf Kemmler , German science fiction author and editor
• Alex Kershaw , British journalist, biographer and non-fiction author
• Martina Kieninger , German chemist and writer
• Alona Kimchi , Israeli writer
• Andrea Kluitmann , German literary translator
• Doris Knecht , Austrian journalist and writer
• Sebastian Knell , German philosopher and writer
• Olga Kurilo , Russian historian, ethnologist and author
• Matthias Kußmann , German literary scholar, editor and translator
• Arian Leka , Albanian writer
• Stefanie Lieb , German art historian and author
• Cvetka Lipuš , Austrian poet (writing in Slovenian)
• David Liss , American writer
• Jochen Meißner , German radio feature author, radio play critic and journalist
• Claire Messud , American writer
• Amanda Michalopoulou , Greek writer
• Sergio Missana , Chilean writer
• Rita Monaldi , Italian writer
• Corinna Müller , German (crime) author
• Eckhart Nickel , German writer and journalist
• Uli Oesterle , German comic author and illustrator
• Alice Oswald , British poet
• Ivo Pala , German author
• Matthias Penzel , German writer and journalist
• Britta Petersen , German journalist and book author
• Ralf Piorr , German historian and publicist
• Ralph Pordzik , German poet and writer
• Nana Rademacher , German writer
• Will Randall , British writer
• Manfred Rebhandl , Austrian script and crime writer
• Patrick Redmond , British lawyer and writer
• Heidi Rehn , German journalist and writer
• Uli Reich , German Romance scholar, linguist and author
• Ulrich Riegel , German theologian and author
• Marcel Ruijters , Dutch comic book writer
• Arnaud Rykner , French writer and essayist
• Beate Sauer , German writer
• Frank Schäfer , German writer
• Natalie Scharf , German author
• Sabine Schiffer , German linguist and media scientist and author
• Ulf Schmidt , German playwright and essayist
• Eckhard Schumacher , German Germanist, author and editor
• Ralf Schwob , German writer
• Katrin Seebacher , German writer († 1997)
• Nedim Şener , Turkish journalist and book author
• Gök Senin , German journalist and (crime) author
• Fatima Sharafeddine , Lebanese writer and children's book author
• Volker Sielaff , German poet
• Tina Soliman , German author
• Andreas Speit , German journalist and book author
• Clarissa Stadler , Austrian presenter and author
• Bettina Stangneth , German philosopher and author
• Matthias Steinbach , German historian and author
• Hito Steyerl , German filmmaker and author
• Christoph Strupp , historian who publishes in German
• Sobo Swobodnik , German writer and filmmaker
• Antje Szillat , German author of books for children and young people
• Mark Terkessidis , German journalist and book author
• Karl Friedrich Ulrichs , German Protestant theologian and author
• Adrian Urban , German psychotherapist and author
• Brigitte Waldach , German visual artist who works with texts, among other things
• Martina Weber , German lawyer, poet and non-fiction author
• Thomas Josef Wehlim , German writer
• Alexander Wendt , German journalist and book author
• Jonas Winner , German writer
• Bärbel Wolfmeier , Low German author
• Christine Wunnicke , German writer and translator
• Mischa Zickler , Austrian radio play author and director
• Joshua D. Zimmerman , American modern historian and author
• Rodolfo Zucco , Italian philologist and author

Died

January - March

• 0January 3: Elfriede Rotermund , German writer
• 0January 5th: Gian Gaspare Napolitano , Italian journalist and writer
• 0January 9: Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster , German philosopher, educator and pacifist
• January 10: Hermann Kasack , German writer and poet
• January 16: Margarete Susman , German journalist, essayist and poet
• January 18: Kathleen Norris , American writer
• January 19: Ruth Landshoff , German-American writer
• January 20th: George Devine , British theater director, theater director and actor
• January 22nd: Elisabeth Aman , Swiss writer
• January 22: Kawada Jun , Japanese poet
• January 27: Caterina Albert (Víctor Català) , Catalan-Spanish poet and writer
• January 28: Bruno Peterson , German publisher
• January 29th: Wolfgang Cordan , German writer and translator
• January 29th: Josef Winckler , German writer
• 0February 6: Emil Balmer , Swiss dialect author
• 0February 6: Vilis Lācis , Latvian writer and politician of the Soviet era
• 0February 6: Walter Meckauer , German writer
• February 10th: Othmar Rieger , Austrian poet and storyteller
• February 11: Adele Moroder , Ladin writer
• February 12: Elio Vittorini , Italian writer
• February 18: Stanisław Mackiewicz , Polish politician and author
• February 22nd: Wilhelm Pferdekamp , German writer and translator
• February 27th: Paula von Hanstein , German author of trivial literature
• 0March 2: Rog Phillips , American science fiction writer
• 0March 3: Joseph Fields , American playwright
• 0March 5: Anna Akhmatova , Russian poet and writer
• 0March 6: Ivar Paulson , Estonian ethnologist, religious scholar and poet
• March 10: Frank O'Connor , Irish writer
• March 12: Lee Meriwether , American travel writer
• March 13: Breno Accioly , Brazilian doctor and writer
• March 15: Grete Weiskopf , German children's book author
• March 27: Ragnar Josephson , Swedish art historian and writer
• March 27: Karl König , Austrian anthroposophist and author
• March 28: Werner Kortwich , German trivial author and translator
• March 30th: Erwin Piscator , German theater maker and essayist

April June

• 0April 1: Dimitar Dimov , Bulgarian writer
• 0April 1: Flann O'Brien , Irish writer
• 0April 2nd: Cecil Scott Forester , British writer
• 0April 3: Russel Crouse , American playwright
• 0April 7th: Laura Thoma , Swiss author
• 0April 8: Vladimír Zmeškal , Czech Sorabist and writer
• April 10: Evelyn Waugh , British writer
• April 13: Carlo Carrà , Italian painter and art writer
• April 13: Georges Duhamel , French writer
• April 13: Felix Graf von Luckner , German military and writer
• April 20: Warren Miller , American writer
• April 22nd: Hans Förster , German draftsman and author
• April 24th: Hans Christian Branner , Danish writer
• April 30: Richard Fariña , American writer and musician
• 0May 1st: Wilhelm Mommsen , German (near-Nazi) historian and author
• 0May 2nd: Cristina Agosti-Garosci , Italian polonist and translator from Polish
• 0May 2nd: Hans Fritz von Zwehl , German lawyer, poet and playwright
• 0May 5th: Chit Phumisak , Thai intellectual, poet and translator
• 0May 7th: Stanisław Jerzy Lec , Polish poet and aphorist
• May 11: Georg Goyert , German translator
• May 12: Anna Langfus , Polish-French writer and playwright
• May 14: Georgia Douglas Johnson , African-American poet, playwright, and composer
• May 16: Hellmut Holthaus , German writer
• May 20: Kurt Hildebrandt , German psychiatrist, philosopher and writer
• May 25: Maidy Koch , German poet and playwright
• May 26: Luciano Folgore , Italian poet and writer
• May 26th: Hannah von Mettal , Czech translator
• May 26: Áron Tamási , Hungarian writer and playwright
• May 30th: Feliks Araszkiewicz , Polish literary historian
• May 30th: Oscar Walter Cisek , Romanian-German writer and diplomat
• 0June 1: Peter George , British writer
• 0June 1st: Inge Müller , German poet and writer
• 0June 2nd: Stephen King-Hall, Baron King-Hall , British writer
• 0June 4th: Blanche Wolf Knopf , American publisher
• 0June 6: Heinz Liepman , German writer and playwright
• 0June 7th: Hans Arp , German-French painter, sculptor and poet
• June 10: Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver , Turkish poet, essayist and politician
• June 18: Konrad Heiden , German journalist and writer
• June 24th: Peter Jung , Romanian German homeland poet
• June 25: Elisabeth Kaerrick , Dostoevsky translator
• June 27: Arthur Waley , British translator from Chinese and Japanese
• June 30th: Margery Allingham , British crime novelist

July September

• 0July 1st: Natalena Korolewa , Ukrainian writer, translator, freelance artist, ...
• 0July 2nd: Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet, writer and translator
• 0July 5th: Fritz Lau , Low German writer
• July 10: Jakob Hommes , German Catholic. Philosopher and author
• July 11: Delmore Schwartz , American writer and poet
• July 12th: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , Japanese Zen writer
• July 13: David H. Keller , American writer
• July 14th: Friedrich Middelhauve , German publisher and politician
• July 19: Mary Jobe Akeley , American naturalist and author
• July 21: Philipp Frank , Austrian-American philosopher and essayist
• July 24th: Marie Pappenheim , Austrian writer and librettist
• July 25: Francis Edward Faragoh , American writer
• July 25: Frank O'Hara , American poet; Essayist and art critic
• July 28: Jakow Kuldurkajew , Ersya-Mordovian poet and writer
• July 29: Edward Gordon Craig , British author, spec. to the theatre
• 0August 3: Tristan Klingsor , French poet, writer, composer, painter
• 0August 4th: Bernard Mark , Polish historian, literary critic, essayist and publicist
• 0August 6: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger), American psychologist and writer
• 0August 9: Giorgi Leonidze , Georgian poet and writer
• August 12: Artur Alliksaar , Estonian poet and translator
• August 13: Anton Gabele , German writer
• August 15: Gerhart Pohl , German writer and editor
• August 18: François Piétri , French politician and writer
• August 22: Günther Birkenfeld , German writer and editor
• August 23: Hans Zehrer , German journalist, publicist and author
• August 24th: Lao She , Chinese writer
• August 26th: Margarete Elzer , German writer of entertainment novels
• August 27: John Cournos , American writer and translator
• August 29: Fritz Max Cahén , German journalist and book author
• August 29: Sayyid Qutb , Egyptian Islamist thinker and author
• August 31: Kasimir Edschmid , German writer
• 0September 1: Arthur Seehof , German publisher, bookseller and author
• 0September 6: Margaret Sanger , American suffragette, activist and author
• 0September 8: Emilio Cecchi , Italian writer and literary critic
• September 10: Emil Julius Gumbel , German-American mathematician and political journalist
• September 13: Karl Rauch , German publisher, author and translator
• September 13: Josef Luitpold Stern , Austrian poet and publicist
• September 13: Albert Trapp , German educator and writer
• September 15: Wolf Schwertebach , Swiss author
• September 17th: Mário Filho , Brazilian sports journalist and writer
• September 18: Erich Meder , Austrian lyricist
• September 22: Valentin Bulgakov , Russian author and biographer
• September 22: Ninon Hesse , art historian and editor
• September 22nd: Josef Vital Kopp , Swiss theologian, teacher and writer
• September 22nd: Nicolás Olivari , Argentine writer and translator
• September 25: Mina Loy , British-American image. Artist and poet
• September 25th: Jo Hanns Rösler , German entertainment writer
• September 28: André Breton , French poet and writer
• September 28: Lillian Smith , American writer
• 00.September: Gerda von Uslar , German dramaturge and translator

October - December

• 0October 2nd: Anna Lesznai , Hungarian picture. Artist and writer
• 0October 7: Ludwig Dexheimer (pseud. Ri Tokko ), German chemical engineer and writer
• 0October 8: Célestin Freinet , French reform pedagogue and author
• 0October 8: Franz Xaver Kappus , German writer and journalist
• October 11: Maria Estreicherówna , Polish writer and translator
• October 11: Hans Gruhl , German physician and (entertainment) writer
• October 14: Constantin Bauer , German educator and writer
• October 15: Charles Duff , Irish-British writer
• October 17: Eduard Koelwel , German (conformist) writer
• October 20: Tõnis Braks , Estonian journalist, playwright and children's book author
• October 20: Dimitar Talew , Bulgarian writer
• October 23: Rudolf Österreicher , Austrian playwright and operetta librettist
• October 29: Erhard Göpel , German art historian and author
• October 30: Ludwig Levy-Lenz , German doctor and non-fiction author
• October 31: Ruth von Ostau , German writer and poet
• 0November 3: Fritz Baumgarten , German children's / picture book illustrator
• 0November 3rd: Ernst Hoferichter , Bavarian writer
• 0November 6th: Günther Roeder , German Egyptologist and author
• 0November 9: Richard Benz , German philologist, cultural historian and writer (private scholar)
• 0November 9: Jürgen von der Wense , German writer and conceptual artist
• November 14th: Kamei Katsuichirō , Japanese writer and literary critic
• November 24th: Josef Marschall , Austrian classical philologist, writer and poet
• November 26th: Siegfried Kracauer , German sociologist, film theorist and writer
• November 29th: Ernst Baur , German writer
• 0December 9: Walter Hösterey , German writer and publisher
• December 10: Gregorio López y Fuentes , Mexican writer
• December 14: Víctor Andrés Belaúnde , Peruvian diplomat and author
• December 18: Otto Koke , German writer of hunting and animal stories
• December 18: Albert Salomon , German-American social scientist
• December 19: Ehm Welk , German journalist and writer
• December 23: Heimito von Doderer , Austrian writer
• December 26th: Ludwig Juergens , German writer
• December 31: Pieter Geijl , Dutch historian and author

Exact date unknown

• Lisa Barthel-Winkler , German writer
• Bryan Berry , British science fiction writer
• Louise Bresslau-Hoff , German writer and poet
• Alfred Buckowitz , German author, especially of animal stories
• Vizconde de Lascano Tegui , Argentine diplomat and writer
• Charles Mauron , French essayist, translator and literary critic
• Hernando Téllez , Colombian writer and politician
• Lothar Weise , German science fiction author

Literature prizes 1966

German literary prizes

• Andreas Gryphius Prize : Johannes Urzidil (main prize); Ernst Günther Bleisch and Hans Lipinsky-Gottersdorf (sponsorship awards)
• Bodensee Literature Prize : Albert Bächtold for his narrative work
• Bremen Literature Prize : Wolfgang Hildesheimer for Tynset
• German Youth Book Prize (children's book): David by Max Bolliger
• German Critics' Award : Elias Canetti
• Eichendorff Literature Prize : Dagmar Nick
• Fontane Prize : Walter Höllerer
• Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize : Ben Ali and his herd by Karl Friedrich Kohlenberg
• Friedrich Hebbel Prize : Ernst-Otto Schlöpke
• Georg Büchner Prize : Wolfgang Hildesheimer
• Heinrich Heine Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR : Bruno Frei , Helmut Preißler
• Heinrich Mann Prize : Peter Weiss
• Radio play award of the war blind : Miserere by Peter Hirche
• Johann Heinrich Merck Prize : Karl Heinz Ruppel
• Johann Peter Lever Prize : Eberhard Meckel
• Klaus Groth Prize : Johann Diedrich Bellmann
• Lessing Ring and the German Freemasons Prize for Literature : Max Tau
• Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts : Werner Kraft
• Quickborn Prize : Albert Mähl
• Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam District (selection): Erwin Strittmatter , Fred Wander
• Tukan Prize (selection): Gunter Groll , Curt Hohoff , Isabella Nadolny , Eugen Skasa-Weiß
• Wilhelm Raabe Prize : Heimito von Doderer for The Slunj Waterfalls

International literary prizes

• Aleksis Kivi Prize : Paavo Haavikko
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (selection): The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
• Anton Wildgans Prize : Herbert Zand
• Bancroft Prize (selection): The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence by Richard B. Morris
• Bellman Prize : Bo Bergman and Tomas Tranströmer
• Bialik Prize (selection): Salman Schasar
• Bokhandlerprisen : Det trange hjerte from Ebba Haslund
• Literature prizes of the Casa de las Américas (selection):
  • Los que vieron la zarza by Liliana Heker
  • Poesía de paso by Enrique Lihn
  • Las ceremonias del verano by Marta Traba
• Cholmondeley Award : Stevie Smith , Ted Walker
• Constantijn Huygensprijs : Louis Paul Boon
• Dazai Osamu Prize : Hoshi e no tabi by Akira Yoshimura
• De Gyldne Laurbær : Klaus Rifbjerg
• Det Danske Akademis Store Pris : Klaus Rifbjerg
• Dobloug Prize : Days Aurell (Sweden) and Jakob Sande (Norway)
• Duff Cooper Prize : The Continent of Circe by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards (selection):
  • Best novel: The Berlin Memorandum by Adam Hall
  • Best Short Story: The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson (posthumous)
  • Best nonfiction book: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Grand Master Award: Georges Simenon
• Elsa Beskow plaque : Lilla spöket Laban von Lasse Sandberg (as the illustrator honored here)
• Expressens Heffaklump : Maria Gripe for Hugo
• Women's Literature Prize (Japan): Namamiko monogatari by Enchi Fumiko
• Governor General's Award for Fiction : La joue gauche by Claire Martin (French) and A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence (English)
• Grand prix de littérature policière (International): Berlin memorandum by Adam Hall
• Grand Prix de Poésie : Pierre Jean Jouve
• Grand Prix du Roman : Une histoire française by François Nourissier
• Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature: Fritz Hochwälder
• Samfound De Nio Grand Prix : Lars Gyllensten
• Hans Christian Andersen Prize : Tove Jansson (author) and Alois Carigiet (illustrator)
• Hugo Awards :
  • Best novel: Dune by Frank Herbert and This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
  • Best Short Story: “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
  • "Best All-Time Series": Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize (prose): The Almond Tree Gate by Muriel Spark
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize : The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
• Joost van den Vondel Prize : Jef Last
• Kikuchi Kan Prize : Shiba Ryōtarō for Ryōma ga yuku (historical novel) and Ishizaka Yōjirō
• Kogge-Förderpreis : Kurt Sigel
• Kościelski Prize : Henryk Grynberg ; Gustaw Herling-Grudziński ; Włodzimierz Odojewski
• Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Benny Andersen
• Lewis Carroll Shelf Award : Once a Mouse… A Fable Cut in Wood by Marcia Brown
• Nordic Council Literature Prize : Diwán över Fursten av Emgión by Gunnar Ekelöf
• Literature Prize of the City of Vienna : Elias Canetti
• Mainichi Culture Prize (“Literature and Art” category): Kinoshita Junji for Mugenkidō and Kido Kōichi for Kido Kōichi nikki
• Nadal Literature Prize : Vicente Soto , La zancada
• Naoki Prize : Shiroi Keshi by Tachihara Masaaki | Aozameta uma o miyo by Hiroyuki Itsuki
• National Book Award :
  • Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
  • Nonfiction: Janet Flanner for Paris Journal, 1944–1965 and Arthur M. Schlesinger for A Thousand Days
  • Poetry: James Dickey for Buckdancer's Choice: Poems
• Nebula Awards :
  • Best novel: Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Best Short Novel: The Saliva Tree by Brian Aldiss and He Who Shapes by Roger Zelazny
  • Best story: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny
  • Best Short Story: “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
• New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Best Play): Marat / Sade by Peter Weiss
• Nobel Prize in Literature : Samuel Agnon and Nelly Sachs
• Noma Literature Prize : Ibuse Masuji for Kuroi ame (German: Black Rain )
• O. Henry Prize : The Bulgarian Poetess by John Updike
• Austrian Prize for Literature (lyric section): Michael Guttenbrunner
• Austrian State Prize for European Literature : WH Auden
• PC Hooft Prize : Anton van Duinkerken
• Peter Rosegger Prize : Hannelore Valencak
• Premi Sant Jordi de novella : El carrer de les Camèlies by Mercè Rodoreda
• Premio Alfaguara de Novela : Pascua y naranjas by Manuel Vicent
• Premio Atenea (selection): La lengua castellana en Chile by Rodolfo Oroz
• Premio Campiello : Questa specie d'amore by Alberto Bevilacqua
• Prêmio Jabuti : Jardim selvagem by Lygia Fagundes Telles
• Prêmio Juca Pato : Caio Prado Júnior
• Premio Planeta : A tientas ya ciegas by Marta Portal
• Premio Strega : Una spirale di nebbia by Michele Prisco
• Premio Viareggio : Alfonso Gatto for La storia delle vittime
• Prix ​​Femina : Nature morte devant la fenêtre by Irène Monesi
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Oublier Palerme by Edmonde Charles-Roux
• Prix ​​du Gouverneur général (poésie ou théâtre de langue française) pour la poésie : L'Avalée des avalés by Réjean Ducharme
• Prix ​​Interallié : L'été finit sous les tilleuls by Kléber Haedens
• Prix ​​Médicis : Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais
• Prix ​​du Meilleur livre étranger : Niembsch ou l'Immobilité by Peter Härtling
• Prix ​​Renaudot : La Bataille de Toulouse by José Cabanis
• Prose award of the city of Amsterdam : Op weg naar het one by Gerard Reve
• Pulitzer Prize :
  • Fiction: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
  • Biography: A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger
  • Poetry: Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart
  • Story: The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller (posthumous)
• Schlegel-Tieck Prize : Dog Years , translated into English by Ralph Manheim
• Swiss Youth Book Prize : Alois Carigiet for Zottel, Zick and Zwerg
• Swiss Schiller Foundation (selection):
  • Overall work award: Jakob Bührer for his poetic and essayistic work
  • Single work prize: In the summer of the rabbit by Adolf Muschg
• Skylark Award : Frederik Pohl
• Somerset Maugham Award : Michael Frayn for The Tin Men and Julian Mitchell for The White Father
• Søren Gyldendal Prize : Peter Vilhelm Glob
• Svenska Akademiens Finlandspris : Hagar Olsson
• Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize : Chinmoku by Endō Shūsaku
• Taras Shevchenko Prize (selection): Petro Pantsch
• Theodor Körner Prize : Paul Kruntorad
• Vijverbergprijs : Willem Frederik Hermans for Nooit meer slapen
• Yomiuri Literature Prize (Fiction): Ichiro by Niwa Fumio

Related awards and honors

• Bavarian Art Prize : Alexander Kluge
• Boekenweek present : Het zwaard, de zee en het valse hart from Theun de Vries
• Carl von Ossietzky Medal : Fritz von Unruh
• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize : Hugo Loetscher
• Dimitrov Prize : Georgi Dschagarow
• Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna (selection): Ernst Waldinger
• Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna (selection): Heimito von Doderer
• Erasmus Prize : Herbert Read and René Huyghe
• Erich Weinert Medal (selection): Bruno Apitz , Horst Beseler , Günther Rücker
• Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists (selection): Klas Ewert Everwyn and Peter Faecke
• Francis Parkman Prize : The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Augustin Bea and Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft
• Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Victor Lange
• Goethe Medal (selection): Herman Meyer , Ladislao Mittner
• Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main (selection): Marie Luise Kaschnitz
• Johann Heinrich Merck Honor : Paul Appel
• Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Philippe Jaccottet and Eva Rechel-Mertens
• Johannes R. Becher Medal :
  • ... in gold: Herbert Sandberg
  • ... in silver: Walter Dietze ; Herbert neighbor
• John Brinckman Prize : Hans-Joachim Gernentz
• Joseph E. Drexel Prize (selection): Klaus Harpprecht
• Cardinal Innitzer Prize (selection): Alfred Doppler
• Kate Greenaway Medal : Mother Goose Treasury by Raymond Briggs
• Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck (selection):
  • Narrative poetry: Hugo Bonatti
  • Dramatic poetry: Helmut Schinagl
• Saarland Art Prize : Ludwig Harig
• Kurt Magnus Prize : Uwe Schultz
• Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize (selection): Herbert Friedrich
• Molson Prize (selection): Hugh MacLennan
• National Prize of the GDR III. Art and literature class (selection): Benno Pludra
• National Prize for Science and the Arts (Lingüística y Literatura): Jaime Torres Bodet
• Nordgau culture award of the city of Amberg for poetry: Franz Liebl
• Person with special cultural merits (Japan; selection): Ibuse Masuji
• City of Nuremberg Prize : Hans Magnus Enzensberger
• Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism : Friedrich Torberg
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize : The Career of Philosophy: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin by John Herman Randall, Jr.
• Bushel Prize (selection): Michael Bauer
• Schwabing Art Prize (Honorary Prize): Wolf Peter Schnetz
• Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose : Emil Staiger
• Theodor Heuss Prize (selection): Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
• Tony Award / Best Play : Marat / Sade by Peter Weiss

See also

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