1972 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
Literary prizes
- International literary prizes
- Science fiction
- Isaac Asimov , The Gods Themselves , Lunatico or The Next World , Category: Best Novel
- Arthur C. Clarke , A Meeting with Medusa , Titanenkampf also: Encounter with Medusa , Category: Best Short Novel
- Poul Anderson , Goat Song , Bocksgesang , Category: Best story
- Joanna Russ , When It Changed , When Everything Was Different : Change , Category: Best Short Story
- Philip José Farmer , To Your Scattered Bodies Go , The River World of Time , Category: Best Novel
- Poul Anderson, The Queen of Air and Darkness , Mistress of Air and Darkness , Category: Best Short Novel
- Larry Niven , Inconstant Moon , dress rehearsal Doomsday also: The moon shines bright ... also: Changeable moon , Category: Best short story
- Ursula K. Le Guin , The Lathe of Heaven , The Scourge of Heaven , Category: Best Novel
- Poul Anderson, The Queen of Air and Darkness , Mistress of Air and Darkness , Category: Best Short Story
New releases
Fiction
- The Odessa Files - Frederick Forsyth
- From the diary of a snail - Günter Grass
- Elephants don't forget - Agatha Christie
- End Zone - Don DeLillo
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
- G. - John Berger
- The year of the silent sun - Wilson Tucker
- The short letter as a long farewell - Peter Handke
- The Persian Boy - Mary Renault
- Picnic by the wayside - Arkadi and Boris Strugazki
- The school of the atheists - Arno Schmidt
- Simultaneous (Bachmann) - Ingeborg Bachmann
- The invisible cities - Italo Calvino
- Who likes to die under palm trees? - Heinz G. Konsalik
- The wondrous journeys of Gustav the world traveler - Irmtraud Morgner
- Desireless misfortune - Peter Handke
drama
Children's and young people's literature
- Charlie and the big glass elevator - Roald Dahl
- The little I-am-me - Mira Lobe
- Down by the river - Richard Adams
- We don't give a damn about the cucumber king - Christine Nöstlinger
New magazines
- Amsterdam contributions to older German studies , German medieval studies
- Bargfelder Bote , materials on Arno Schmidt's work
- Daphnis , Journal for Middle German Literature and Culture of the Early Modern Age (1400–1750)
- Gırgır , Turkey cartoon magazine
Born
- January 11: Mathias Énard , French writer and translator
- February 2: Esther Gerritsen , Dutch writer and playwright
- February 26: Liisi Ojamaa , Estonian poet and translator († 2019)
- March 1: Fabio Geda , Italian writer
- March 2nd: Monique Schwitter , German-Swiss writer and actress
- March 10: Simone Buchholz , German writer
- March 25: Alessandro Piperno , Italian writer
- April 2: Thomas Glavinic , Austrian writer
- May 18: Kyro Ponte , German-Greek writer and translator
- May 28: Marcin Szczygielski , Polish writer
- June 3: Michela Murgia , Italian writer
- June 7th: Bart van Es , Dutch-British literary scholar and author
- June 9: Marija Stepanova , Russian writer, poet and essayist
- July 5: Gary Shteyngart , American cultural journalist and writer of Russian origin
- July 19: Laurent Binet , French writer
- July 21: Josué Guébo , Ivorian poet and writer
- July 26: Jan Süselbeck , German literary scholar, essayist and editor
- August 6: Paolo Bacigalupi , American science fiction writer
- August 19: Sema Kaygusuz , Turkish writer
- September 19: NK Jemisin , American writer
- September 25: Dorit Rabinyan , Israeli writer
- September 30: Ari Behn , Norwegian writer († 2019)
- October 16: T Cooper , American writer
- November 7th: Björn Bicker , German writer, director and dramaturge
Exact date unknown
- Barbaros Altuğ , Turkish writer, journalist and literary agent
- Nicolas Dickner , Canadian writer
- Edward Docx , British writer
- Nick Harkaway , British writer
- Tom Hillenbrand , German journalist and writer
- Murat Uyurkulak , Turkish writer, translator and journalist
- Volker Weiß , German historian, publicist and essayist
Died
- January 1 : Eberhard Wolfgang Möller , German writer and playwright (* 1906 )
- January 4 : Hermann Ferdinand Schell , Swiss writer (* 1900 )
- January 7th : John Berryman , American poet and university professor (* 1914 )
- January 8 : Kenneth Patchen , American writer (* 1911 )
- January 10 : Georg Rendl , Austrian writer (* 1903 )
- January 11 : Padraic Colum , Irish writer (* 1881 )
- January 14 : Anna Maria Achenrainer , Austrian writer (* 1909 )
- January 19 : Olga Meyer , Swiss writer and journalist (* 1889 )
- January 28 : Dino Buzzati , Italian writer (* 1906 )
- February 1 : Karl Grünberg , German writer and journalist (* 1891 )
- February 5 : Marianne Moore , American poet and modern writer (* 1887 )
- February 9 : George Langelaan , British writer and journalist (* 1908 )
- February 15 : Julie Kniese , German author for children and young people (* 1880 )
- February 15 : Jef Last , Dutch poet and writer (* 1898 )
- February 19 : Franz Karl Franchy , Austrian writer (* 1896 )
- February 23 : Othmar Fiebiger , German teacher; Poet of the Giant Mountains Song (* 1886 )
- February 29 : Violet Trefusis , British writer (* 1894 )
- March 4 : Richard Church , British journalist and realistic writer (* 1893 )
- March 7th : Jan Weiss , Czech writer (* 1892 )
- March 11th : Fredric Brown , American crime and science fiction writer (* 1906 )
- March 28 : Karl Fischer , German writer, pastor and politician (* 1900 )
- March 28 : Ruwim Frajerman , Russian writer (* 1891 )
- April 1 : Joachim von der Goltz , German writer (* 1892 )
- April 4 : Miksa Fenyő , Hungarian journalist and writer (* 1877 )
- April 6 : August Annist , Estonian literary scholar, translator, folklorist and poet (* 1899 )
- April 7th : Mitsuhashi Takajo , Japanese haiku poet (* 1899 )
- April 12 : CW Ceram , German journalist and science author (* 1915 )
- April 15 : Iwan Heilbut , German writer (* 1898 )
- April 16 : Kawabata Yasunari , Japanese writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1899 )
- April 24th : Pem , German journalist and writer (* 1901 )
- April 27 : Kwame Nkrumah , Ghanaian thinker, politician and statesman (* 1909 )
- May 2 : Hugo Hartung , German writer (* 1902 )
- May 4 : Maurice Samuel , American author (* 1885 )
- May 22 : Cecil Day-Lewis , Irish-British writer and poet (* 1904 )
- May 23 : Kamil Bednář , Czech poet and translator, prose writer, playwright and publishing editor (* 1912 )
- May 23 : Nicolas de Crosta , German writer (* 1900 )
- May 28 : Violette Leduc , French writer (* 1907 )
- June 1 : Fritz Weber , Austrian writer and narrator (* 1895 )
- June 11 : Cordt von Brandis , German officer and author of several books with autobiographical content (* 1888 )
- June 12 : Edmund Wilson , American writer and literary critic (* 1895 )
- June 19 : Theodor Ottawa , Austrian journalist and writer (* 1909 )
- June 24 : RF Delderfield , English playwright and novelist (* 1912 )
- June 24th : Hans Heyck , German writer (* 1891 )
- July 2 : Rafael Muñoz , Mexican writer (* 1899 )
- July 8 : Ghassan Kanafani , Arabic writer (* 1936 )
- July 20 : Richard Fischer , German writer (* 1883 )
- July 23 : Emil Merker , Sudeten German writer (* 1888 )
- July 24 : Adolfo Casais Monteiro , Portuguese writer, poet, essayist and literary scholar (* 1908 )
- July 25 : Robert Gillon , President of the Belgian Senate and writer (* 1884 )
- July 31 : Ernst Fischer , Austrian writer and politician (* 1899 )
- August 4th : Norah Lange , Argentine writer (* 1905 )
- August 9 : Robert Koch , German author of science fiction novels (* 1895 )
- August 17th : Alexander Sacher-Masoch , Austrian writer (* 1901 )
- August 17 : Alexander Vampilow , Soviet writer and playwright (* 1937 )
- August 19 : Leopold Reitz , German writer and local poet of the Palatinate (* 1889 )
- August 21 : Alfred Reinhold Böttcher , German writer and children's book author (* 1903 )
- August 25 : Kurt Ihlenfeld , German pastor and writer (* 1901 )
- August 30 : Joseph Maria Lutz , German writer (* 1893 )
- September 6th : Paul Bräcklein , dialect poet of the Ore Mountains (* 1882 )
- September 18 : Robert Faesi , Swiss Germanist and writer (* 1883 )
- September 21 : Henry de Montherlant , French writer (* 1895 )
- September 24th : Alfred von Buttlar-Moscon , Austrian writer, poet and translator (* 1898 )
- September 25 : Alejandra Pizarnik , Argentine poet (* 1936 )
- October 1 : Kurt Hiller , German writer and publicist (* 1895 )
- October 3 : Hugo Kocher , German writer and illustrator (* 1904 )
- October 15 : Joachim Maass , German writer and poet (* 1901 )
- October 17 : František Gel , Czech journalist, radio presenter, writer and translator (* 1901 )
- October 18 : Ernst Brauchlin , Swiss educator, writer and free thinker (* 1877 )
- November 1 : Ezra Pound , American poet (* 1885 )
- November 2 : Alexander Alfredowitsch Bek , Russian novelist and writer (* 1903 )
- November 11 : Wera Mikhailovna Inber , Russian writer (* 1890 )
- November 17th : Pierre Apestéguy , French writer of Basque origin (* 1912 )
- November 18 : André Héléna , French writer (* 1919 )
- November 20 : Ennio Flaiano , Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter (* 1910 )
- November 30th : Compton Mackenzie , Scottish writer (* 1883 )
- December 2 : Kang Yong-hŭl , Korean-American writer (* 1898 )
- December 3 : Ilse Schneider-Lengyel , German art historian, photographer, writer (* 1903 )
- December 13 : Leslie Poles Hartley , British writer (* 1895 )
- December 20 : Günter Eich , German radio play author and poet (* 1907 )
- December 24th : Ernst Kreuder , German writer (* 1903 )
- 1972 : Marten Cumberland , British journalist and writer (* 1892 )
- 1972 : HFM Prescott , British writer and historian (* 1896 )
