1973 in literature
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The year 1973 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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- Frank Herbert becomes director-photographer of the television show, The Tillers.
- Robert B. Parker starts the Spenser book series.
- Martin Amis – The Rachel Papers
- Ernest Becker – The Denial of Death
- Joseph Payne Brennan – Stories of Darkness and Dread
- John Brunner - The Stone That Never Came Down
- Ramsey Campbell - Demons by Daylight
- Jerome Charyn – Tar Baby
- Basil Copper – From Evil's Pillow
- L. Sprague de Camp – The Fallible Fiend
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, editors – 3000 Years of nd Science Fiction
- August Derleth – The Chronicles of Solar Pons
- Michael Ende – Momo
- Paul E. Erdman – The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
- Leon Forrest – There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden
- William Goldman – The Princess Bride
- Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
- Elisabeth Harvor, Women and Children 11 stories (revised as Our Lady of All Distances, 1991)
- James Jones – A Touch of Danger
- Anna Kavan – Who Are You?
- Brian Killick – The Heralds
- Dean R. Koontz – Demon Seed
- Jerzy Kosinski – The Devil Tree
- Robert Ludlum – The Matlock Paper
- John D. MacDonald - The Turquoise Lament
- Cormac McCarthy – Child of God
- Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Ogres and Trolls
- Robert Marasco – Burnt Offerings
- Toni Morrison – Sula
- Iris Murdoch – The Black Prince
- Robert B. Parker – The Godwulf Manuscript
- Mervyn Peake – The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (posthumously published)
- Anthony Powell – Temporary Kings
- Thomas Pynchon – Gravity's Rainbow
- Irwin Shaw – Evening in Byzantium
- Rex Stout - Please Pass the Guilt
- Jacqueline Susann – Once Is Not Enough
- Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
- Jack Vance – The Anome
- Gore Vidal – Burr
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – Breakfast of Champions
- Patrick White – The Eye of the Storm
- Rudy Wiebe – Temptations of Big Bear
- Roger Zelazny
- Allen Curnow – An Abominable Temper and Other Poems
- Tomás Rivera – Always and other poems
- Allan W. Eckert - The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone
- Antonia Fraser - Cromwell, our Chief of Men
- Tim O'Brien – If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home
- John Pearson - James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007
- Binod Bihari Verma - Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan Maithili book
- February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen, novelist
- March 6 - Pearl S. Buck
- March 26 - Sir Noel Coward, dramatist and humorist
- April 9 - Warren Lewis, author, Inkling, and brother of C. S. Lewis
- April 28 - Jacques Maritain, philosopher
- May 21 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, author
- June 9 - John Creasey, author
- June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
- July 29 - Henri Charrière, Papillon author
- September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy writer
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda, poet
- September 29 - W. H. Auden, poet
- October 28 - Sergio Tofano, dramatist
- December 9 - Anthony Gilbert, crime writer
- See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Prix Goncourt: Jacques Chessex, L'Ogre
- Prix Médicis French: Tony Duvert, Paysage de fantaisie
- Prix Médicis International: Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere
- Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
- Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin
- Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Crowe Ransom
- 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
- 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
- Premio Nadal: José GarcÃa Blázquez, El rito
- Viareggio Prize: Achille Campanile, Manuale di conversazione
