1973 in literature
See also: 1972 in literature, other events of 1973, 1974 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New Books
- The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
- Temporary Kings - Anthony Powell
- Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
- Cromwell, our Chief of Men - Antonia Fraser
- There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden - Leon Forrest
- Once Is Not Enough - Jacqueline Susann
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
- Who Are You? - Anna Kavan
- Burr - Gore Vidal
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson
- Evening in Byzantium - Irwin Shaw
- Sula - Toni Morrison
- The Matlock Paper - Robert Ludlum
- The Billion Dollar Sure Thing – Paul E. Erdman
- The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
- The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone - Allan W. Eckert
- Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco
- Eye of the Storm - Patrick White
- Temptations of Big Bear - Rudy Wiebe
- Devil Tree - Jerzy Kosinski
- Tar Baby - Jerome Charyn
Births
Deaths
- March 6 - Pearl S. Buck
- June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda
- W. H. Auden
Awards
- Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Eudora Welty, The Optimists Daughter
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jason Miller, That Championship Season
- Newberry Medal for children's literature: Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
- Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur