This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1968.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- January 21 â Will Lang, Jr., American journalist (born 1914)
- March 23 â Edwin O'Connor, American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator (born 1918)
- April 4 - Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi, Iranian-Iraqi Ja'fari jurist, religious teacher and poet (born 1889)
- April 16 â Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer and playwright (born 1885)
- April 27 â Vasily Azhayev, Soviet writer (born 1915)
- April 29 â Anthony Boucher, American author, critic, and editor (born 1911)
- May 1 â Sir Harold Nicolson, British biographer (born 1886)
- May 30 â Constantin S. NicolÃÂescu-PlopÃÂor, Romanian anthropologist, ethnographer and children's writer (born 1900)
- May 31 â Abel Bonnard, French poet, novelist and politician (born 1883)
- June 1 â Helen Keller, deaf-blind American author, activist and lecturer (born 1880)
- August 21 - Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian writer (born 1893)
- November 17 â Mervyn Peake, English novelist (dementia, born 1911)
- November 25 â Upton Sinclair, American novelist and politician (born 1878)
- November 28 â Enid Blyton, English author and poet (born 1897)
- December 5 â Anna Kavan, British novelist, short story writer and painter (born 1901)
- December 20 â John Steinbeck, American novelist (congestive heart failure, born 1902)
- December 24 â D. Gwenallt Jones, Welsh poet (born 1899)
Awards
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