Wikipedia: 1968 in literature

1968 in literature
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See also: 1967 in literature, other events of 1968, 1969 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

Airport - Arthur Hailey
Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
Cancer Ward - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Cocksure - Mordecai Richler
Couples - John Updike
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
The Double Helix - James D. Watson
The End of Obscenity: The trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill - Charles Rembar
The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I Am Mary Dunne - Brian Moore
The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories - James Jones
Lonesome Cities (poetry) - Rod McKuen
The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell
The Money Game - Adam Smith
Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
Preserve and Protect - Allen Drury
The Salzburg Connection - Helen McInnes
A Small Town in Germany - John le Carré
Testimony of Two Men - Taylor Caldwell

See 1968 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Hugo Award: Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
Nebula Award: Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
Newbery Medal for children's literature: E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Nobel Prize for Literature: Yasunari Kawabata
Prix Goncourt: Bernard Clavel, Les fruits de l'hiver
Prix Médicis: Élie Wiesel, Le Mendiant de Jérusalem
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours
Viareggio Prize: Libero Bigiaretti, La controfigura