1967 in literature

The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

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

New books

 * Lloyd Alexander - Taran Wanderer
 * J.G. Ballard
 * The Day of Forever
 * The Disaster Area
 * The Overloaded Man
 * Thomas Berger - Killing Time
 * Kenneth Bulmer''
 * ''Cycle of Nemesis
 * ''To Outrun Doomsday
 * Arthur J. Burks - Black Medicine
 * Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
 * Agatha Christie - Endless Night
 * Margaret Craven - I Heard the Owl Call My Name
 * L. Sprague de Camp editor - The Fantastic Swordsmen
 * August Derleth editor - Travellers by Night
 * Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden
 * Allan W. Eckert - Wild Season
 * Alan Garner - The Owl Service
 * William Golding - The Pyramid
 * S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders
 * William Hope Hodgson - Deep Waters
 * Robert E. Howard - Conan the Warrior
 * Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - Conan the Usurper
 * Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan
 * Aldous Huxley - The Crows of Pearblossom (published posthumously)
 * James Jones - Go to the Widow-Maker
 * Anna Kavan - Ice
 * Elia Kazan - The Arrangement
 * Oe Kenzaburo - The Silent Cry
 * Milan Kundera - The Joke
 * Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby
 * Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
 * H.P. Lovecraft - Three Tales of Horror
 * Alistair MacLean - Where Eagles Dare
 * Naguib Mahfouz - Miramar
 * Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Wizards
 * Daniel Pratt Mannix IV - The Fox and the Hound
 * Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
 * Catherine Marshall - Christy
 * R.D. Mascott - 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior
 * V.S. Naipaul - The Mimic Men
 * R.K. Narayan - The Vendor of Sweets
 * Ngugi wa Thiongo - A Grain of Wheat
 * Scott O'Dell - The Black Pearl
 * K.M. Peyton - Flambards
 * Chaim Potok - The Chosen
 * Marin Preda - Moromeţii
 * E. Hoffmann Price - Strange Gateways
 * Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
 * Mary Stewart - The Gabriel Hounds
 * William Styron - The Confessions of Nat Turner
 * Henry Sutton - The Exhibitionist
 * Piri Thomas - Down These Mean Streets
 * Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat
 * Leon Uris - Topaz
 * Jack Vance - The Palace of Love
 * Thornton Wilder - The Eighth Day
 * Colin Wilson - The Mind Parasites
 * John Christopher
 * The White Mountains (1967)
 * The City of Gold and Lead (1967)
 * Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light (Hugo Winner 1968)

New drama

 * Simon Gray - Wise Child
 * Peter Handke - Kaspar
 * Peter Nichols - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
 * Luis Valdez - Los Vendidos
 * Vijay Tendulkar - Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe

Poetry

 * Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri - The Mersey Sound

Non-fiction

 * Peter Brown – Augustine of Hippo: A Biography.
 * Robert Coles – A Study in Courage and Fear, volume 1 of Children of Crisis.
 * L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Story of Science in America.
 * Joseph Fletcher - Moral Responsibility.
 * Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore – The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.
 * William Manchester – The Death of a President.
 * Robert K. Massie – Nicholas and Alexandra.
 * Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson – The Theory of Island Biogeography
 * Desmond Morris - The Naked Ape
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. - Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Births

 * April 19 - Steven H Silver, science fiction writer
 * July 19 - Wladimir Kaminer, short story writer

Deaths

 * February 8 - Victor Gollancz, publisher
 * February 28 - Henry Luce, publisher
 * March 7 - Alice B. Toklas, muse of Gertrude Stein
 * May 12 - John Masefield, Poet Laureate
 * June 4 - J. R. Ackerley, journalist
 * June 7 - Dorothy Parker, humorist
 * July 22 - Carl Sandburg, historian and poet
 * August 2 - Giles Romilly, journalist
 * August 9 - Joe Orton, dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell
 * August 29 - Sidney Bradshaw Fay, historian, author
 * September 1 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet, author
 * September 24 - Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author
 * October 8 - Vernon Watkins, poet
 * October 9 - André Maurois, novelist
 * October 14 - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's author
 * November 17 - Bo Bergman, poet
 * November 30 - Patrick Kavanagh, poet
 * unknown date - Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, killed in the Nigerian-Biafran War

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Ángel Asturias

Canada

 * See 1967 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

 * Prix Goncourt: André Pieyre de Mandiargues, La Marge
 * Prix Médicis: Claude Simon, Histoire

United Kingdom

 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Alan Garner, The Owl Service
 * Cholmondeley Award: Seamus Heaney, Brian Jones, Norman Nicholson
 * Eric Gregory Award: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem The Golden
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius
 * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Charles Causley

United States

 * Frost Medal: Marianne Moore
 * Hugo Award: Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
 * Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & National Book Award: Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die

Elsewhere

 * Akutagawa Prize: Oshiro Tatsuhiro, The Cocktail Party
 * Premio Nadal: José María Sanjuán, Réquiem por todos nosotros
 * Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro