Novels
Ulysses, James Joyce (Ireland)
The Trial, Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia)
The Day of Judgment, Salvatore Satta (Italy)
In Transit, Brigid Brophy
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk (Netherlands)
Our Horses in Egypt, Rosalind Belben
Grande Sertão, João Guimarães Rosa (Brazil)
Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (France)
Short Story Collections
The Adventures of Sindbad, by Gyula Krúdy (Hungary)
Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
Plays
Sheridan's Plays, R B Sheridan
Danton's Death etc, Georg Büchner (Germany)
Other Books
Memoirs of My Dead Life, George Moore
A Small Boy and Others, Henry James
Dark Genius of Wall Street, Edward J Renehan, Jr.
A Sentimental Journey, Viktor Shklovsky (Russia)
The Torch in My Ear, Elias Canetti (Austria)
…Gabriel García Márquez, for his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. (Runner-up was Larry Niven’s The Ringworld Engineers).
I acknowledge, this is a fairly dull outcome to a fairly dull competition this year. I don’t think I read many more than 5 books of fiction by living writers. Will try to do better next year (I have plenty on my shelves).
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Nothing wrong with that – a most worthy winner
Worthy, yes. I guess he had to win at some point. But to me, it’s seemed inevitable since May, and I’ve perhaps even avoided books which might have toppled him from his perch; whereas usually I’m scrambling around in December trying to find some of value to award the prize to.
The Ringworld Engineers is very good. I’m saddened to see it come in second, though.
It is sad, but we can’t have sci-fi winning. – Still, I’ve got The Ringworld Throne to read this year, so there’s always hope.