1972 in literature

See also: 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• Booker Prize: John Berger, G
• See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Carnegie Medal: Richard Adams, Watership Down
• Hugo Award: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
• Nebula Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll
• Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, L'Epervier de Maheux
• Prix Médicis: Maurice Clavel, Le Tiers des étoiles
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems
• Viareggio Prize: Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingrado