Events

• The first ever Nebula Award is won by Frank Herbert's Dune.

New books

• Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron

• J. G. Ballard - The Drought

• Ray Bradbury - The Vintage Bradbury

• John Brunner

• *The Martian Sphinx as Keith Woodcott

• *The Squares of the City

• Kenneth Bulmer - Land Beyond the Map

• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Castaways

• L. Sprague de Camp

• *The Arrows of Hercules

• *The Spell of Seven (ed.)

• August Derleth - The Casebook of Solar Pons

• Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

• Margaret Drabble - The Millstone

• Ian Fleming - The Man with the Golden Gun

• Margaret Forster - Georgy Girl

• Witold Gombrowicz - Kosmos

• Graham Greene - The Comedians

• Frank Herbert - Dune

• Arthur Hailey - Hotel

• Bel Kaufman - Up the Down Staircase

• Pierre Klossowski - Le Baphomet

• Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird

• John le Carré - The Looking-Glass War

• J. M. G. Le Clézio - Le Livre des fuites

• David Lodge - The British Museum Is Falling Down

• H. P. Lovecraft - Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

• Eric Malpass - Morning's at Seven

• Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Dragons

• James A. Michener - The Source

• Iris Murdoch - The Red and the Green

• Peter O'Donnell - Modesty Blaise

• Raymond Queneau - Les fleurs bleues

• Françoise Sagan - La chamade

• Vincent Starrett - The Quick and the Dead

• Irving Stone - Those Who Love

• Rex Stout - The Doorbell Rang

• Jack Vance - Space Opera

• Erico Verissimo - O Senhor Embaixador

• Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

• Donald Wandrei - Strange Harvest

• John D. MacDonald - A Deadly Shade of Gold

New drama

• Samuel Beckett - Come and Go

• Edward Bond - Saved

• John Osborne - A Patriot for Me

• Michel Tremblay - Les Belles-Sœurs

Poetry

• Stanley McNail - Something Breathing

• Sylvia Plath - Ariel

• Clark Ashton Smith - Poems in Prose

Non-fiction

• Acheson, Dean - Morning and Noon

• Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

• Nirad C. Chaudhuri - The Continent of Circe

• Barney Glaser & Anselm Strauss - Awareness of Dying

• William Golding - The Hot Gates

• Alex Haley & Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• H. P. Lovecraft - Selected Letters I (1911-1924)

• Robin Moore - The Green Berets

Births

• March 4 - Andrew Collins, journalist and scriptwriter

• March 30 - Piers Morgan, controversial journalist and editor

• July 31 - Joanne Rowling, author

• October 23 - Augusten Burroughs, memoirist

• December 31 - Nicholas Sparks, novelist

• date unknown

• *Patience Agbabi, performance poet

• *Thomas Brussig, novelist

Deaths

• January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet

• January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer

• March 13 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop and poet (b. 1882)

• May 3 - Howard Spring, novelist

• June 5 - Thornton Burgess, children's author

• July 9 - Jacques Audiberti, Absurdist dramatist, poet and novelist

• July 28 - Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)

• July 30 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)

• July 31 - John Metcalfe, novelist and short story writer

• August 17 - Jack Spicer, poet

• October 8 - Thomas B. Costain, popular historian

• October 15 - Randall Jarrell, poet

• October 30 - Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (b. 1888)

• November 8 - Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist

• November 20 - Katharine Anthony, biographer

• December 16 - William Somerset Maugham, dramatist, novelist and short story writer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Canada

• See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

• Prix Goncourt: J. Borel, L'Adoration

• Prix Médicis: René-Victor Pilhes, La Rhubarbe

United Kingdom

• Eric Gregory Award: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot

• Newdigate prize: Peter Jay

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: The Later Years 1803-1850

• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Philip Larkin

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: Walter Lippmann

• Hugo Award: Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer

• Nebula Award: Frank Herbert, Dune

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull

• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers Of The House

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs

Elsewhere

• Premio Nadal: E. Cabalero Calderón, El buen salvaje

• Viareggio Prize: Goffredo Parise, Il Padrone (The Boss)