1964 in literature

See also: 1963 in literature, other events of 1964, 1965 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award: Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Emily Cheney Neville, It's Like This, Cat
• Nobel Prize for literature - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Prix Goncourt: Georges Conchon, L'Etat sauvage
• Prix Médicis: Monique Wittig, L'Opoponax
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: At The End Of The Open Road
• Viareggio Prize: Giuseppe Berto, Il male oscuro