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The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
New drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- February 15 - Edgar Snow, journalist
- March 9 - Violet Trefusis, English writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West
- April - Laurence Manning, science fiction author
- May 22 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate
- June 24 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian
- August 22 - Ernestine Hill, travel writer
- September 21 - Henry de Montherlant, essayist
- September 27 - S. R. Ranganathan, influential librarian
- December 10 - Mark Van Doren, poet
- December 13 - L. P. Hartley, novelist
- December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian
- date unknown - Richard Church, poet and novelist
Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Eudora Welty
- Booker Prize: John Berger, G.
- Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
- See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Carnegie Medal: Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Burns, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon
- Hugo Award: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John Berger, G
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf
- Nebula Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll
- Premio Nadal: José María Carrascal, Grrovy
- Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, L'Epervier de Maheux
- Prix Médicis: Maurice Clavel, Le Tiers des étoiles
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems
- Viareggio Prize: Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingradofr:1972 en littérature
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