1967 in literature

Events

• January
• *The first publication of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, in the form left at the author's death in 1940, concludes in the magazine Moskva, although censored portions circulate only in samizdat in the Soviet Union. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris.
• *Barbara Gordon is introduced as Batgirl in the Detective Comics series in the United States; when not exercising her superhero powers she uses her doctorate in library science as head of Gotham City public library.
• March 16 – The first performance of D. H. Lawrence's January 1913 play The Daughter-in-Law is given at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
• April 24 – The 18-year-old S. E. Hinton's Bildungsroman The Outsiders is published in the United States by Viking Press. She wrote it at the age of 15–16.
• August 9 – The English playwright Joe Orton is battered to death by his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, who commits suicide in their north London home shortly after. Orton has completed work on a film script, Up Against It, for The Beatles.
• October 21 – American writer Norman Mailer is arrested for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam March on The Pentagon.
• November 9 – The first issue of the magazine Rolling Stone is published in San Francisco.

• The influential New Wave science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions is published in the United States.
• The Sabon typeface, designed by Jan Tschichold, is introduced.

  New books

Fiction

• Lloyd Alexander – Taran Wanderer
• J. G. Ballard
• *The Day of Forever
• *The Disaster Area
• *The Overloaded Man
• Lindsay Barrett – Song for Mumu
• Luis Berenguer – El mundo de Juan Lobón
• Thomas Berger – Killing Time
• Thomas Bernhard – Verstörung
• Hilda Bernstein – The World that was Ours
• Richard Brautigan – Trout Fishing in America
• Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita
• Kenneth Bulmer
• *Cycle of Nemesis
• *To Outrun Doomsday
• Arthur J. Burks – Black Medicine
• Angela Carter – The Magic Toyshop
• Agatha Christie – Endless Night
• John Christopher
• *The White Mountains
• *The City of Gold and Lead
• 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
• Nell Dunn – Poor Cow
• Cameron Duodu – The Gab Boys
• Allan W. Eckert – Wild Season
• Mircea Eliade – The Old Man and the Bureaucrats
• Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Alan Garner – The Owl Service
• William Golding – The Pyramid
• Winston Graham – The Walking Stick
• Paul Guimard – Intersection
• S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders
• William Hope Hodgson – Deep Waters
• Robert E. Howard
• *Conan the Warrior
• * – Conan the Usurper
• * – Conan
• James Jones – Go to the Widow-Maker
• Anna Kavan – Ice
• Elia Kazan –
• Thomas Keneally – Bring Larks and Heroes
• Milan Kundera – The Joke
• Alex La Guma – The Stone-Country
• 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
• Daniel Pratt Mannix IV – The Fox and the Hound
• Catherine Marshall – Christy
• V. S. Naipaul – The Mimic Men
• R. K. Narayan – The Vendor of Sweets
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – A Grain of Wheat
• Flann O'Brien – The Third Policeman
• Scott O'Dell – The Black Pearl
• Kenzaburō Ōe – The Silent Cry
• K. M. Peyton – Flambards
• Chaim Potok – The Chosen
• Marin Preda – Moromeţii, Vol. 2
• E. Hoffmann Price – Strange Gateways
• Valentin Rasputin – Money for Maria
• Ruth Rendell – A New Lease of Death
• Gaia Servadio – Tanto gentile e tanto onesta
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Cancer Ward
• Mary Stewart – The Gabriel Hounds
• William Styron – The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Piri Thomas – Down These Mean Streets
• Leon Uris – Topaz
• Jack Vance – The Palace of Love
• Thornton Wilder – The Eighth Day
• Colin Wilson – The Mind Parasites
• Roger Zelazny – Lord of Light''

  Children and young people

• Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire – Norse Gods and Giants
• John D. Fitzgerald – The Great Brain
• C. S. Forester – Hornblower and the Crisis
• Rumer Godden – Home is the Sailor
• Alan Garner – The Owl Service
• S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders
• Aldous Huxley – The Crows of Pearblossom
• E. L. Konigsburg
• *Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
• *From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Boy Lornsen – Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt
• Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Wizards
• R. D. Mascott – The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½
• Bill Martin Jr. – Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Jessica Nelson North – The Giant's Shoe
• K. M. Peyton – Flambards
• Joan G. Robinson – When Marnie Was There
• Barbara Sleigh – Jessamy
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• *The Egypt Game
• *The Gypsy Game
• Daniel P. Mannix – The Fox and the Hound
• Bill Peet
• *Jennifer and Josephine
• *Buford the Little Bighorn

  Drama

• Simon Gray – Wise Child
• Christopher Hampton – Total Eclipse
• Peter Handke – Kaspar
• Dorothy Hewett – This Old Man Comes Rolling Home
• Rolf Hochhuth – Soldiers
• Peter Nichols – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Efua Sutherland – Edufa
• Vijay Tendulkar – Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe
• Peter Ustinov – The Unknown Soldier and His Wife
• Luis Valdez – Los Vendidos
• Leonid Zorin – A Warsaw Melody

  Poetry

• Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri – The Mersey Sound

  Non-fiction

• J. A. Baker – The Peregrine
• Dmitri Borgmann – Beyond Language
• 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
• E. D. Hirsch – Validity in Interpretation
• Ira M. Lapidus – Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages
• Martin Luther King, Jr. –
• Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson – The Theory of Island Biogeography
• 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
• Desmond Morris – The Naked Ape
• Josep Pla – Life Embitters
• Valerie Solanas – SCUM Manifesto
• A. T. Q. Stewart – The Ulster Crisis: Resistance to Home Rule 1912–14

  Births

• January 7 – Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist
• March 8 – Mitsuyo Kakuta, Japanese novelist and translator
• April 19 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction writer
• June 16 – Maylis de Kerangal, French novelist
• July 11 – Jhumpa Lahiri, English-born Indian/American writer
• July 19
• *Zoran Drvenkar, Croatian German novelist
• *Wladimir Kaminer, Russian German short story writer
• July 31 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, American memoirist
• September 21 – Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
• October 4 – Miloš Urban, Czech novelist
• December 12 – Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright, actor and director

• S. F. Said, Lebanese-born British children's fiction writer

  Deaths

• January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure
• February 8 – Victor Gollancz, English publisher
• March 2 – José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish novelist
• March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist and autobiographer
• March 30 – Jean Toomer, African American writer
• May 12 – John Masefield, English Poet Laureate
• May 22 – Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and playwright
• June 3 – Arthur Ransome, English author of children's and other books
• June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, English journalist
• June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American humorist
• July 22
• *Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and translator
• *Carl Sandburg, American historian and poet
• July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English novelist and playwright
• August 2 – Giles Romilly, English journalist
• August 9 – Joe Orton, English playwright
• August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, American historian and author
• September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist
• September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author
• September 16 – Pavlo Tychyna, Ukrainian poet
• September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Dutch author
• September 29 – Carson McCullers, American novelist
• September – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet
• October 8 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet
• October 9 – André Maurois, French novelist
• October 13 – Georges Sadoul, French journalist and writer on cinema
• October 14 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and children's author
• November 17 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet
• November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet

  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
• Miles Franklin Award: Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes
• Premio Nadal: José María Sanjuán, Réquiem por todos nosotros
• Viareggio Prize: Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro