1973 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1972 in literature, other events of 1973, 1974 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• The Billion Dollar Sure Thing – Paul E. Erdman
• The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
• Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco
• Burr - Gore Vidal
• The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone - Allan W. Eckert
• Cromwell, our Chief of Men - Antonia Fraser
• Demon Seed - Dean R. Koontz
• Devil Tree - Jerzy Kosinski
• Evening in Byzantium - Irwin Shaw
• Eye of the Storm - Patrick White
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson
• Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
• The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
• If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home - Tim O'Brien
• The Matlock Paper - Robert Ludlum
• The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
• Once Is Not Enough - Jacqueline Susann
• The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
• Sula - Toni Morrison
• Tar Baby - Jerome Charyn
• Temporary Kings - Anthony Powell
• Temptations of Big Bear - Rudy Wiebe
• There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden - Leon Forrest
• A Touch of Danger - James Jones
• Who Are You? - Anna Kavan

Births

Deaths

• March 6 - Pearl S. Buck
• June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
• September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy writer
• September 23 - Pablo Neruda
• W. H. Auden

Awards

• Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
• See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
• Nebula Award: Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Patrick White
• Prix Goncourt: Jacques Chessex, L'Ogre
• Prix Médicis French: Tony Duvert, Paysage de fantaisie
• Prix Médicis International: Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jason Miller, That Championship Season
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Eudora Welty, The Optimists Daughter
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country*Viareggio Prize: Achille Campanile, Manuale di conversazione