Awards
- Cholmondeley Award: Ted Walker, Stevie Smith
- Eric Gregory Award: Robin Fulton, Seamus Heaney, Hugo Williams
- See 1966 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award: Frank Herbert, Dune and Roger Zelazny, ...And Call Me Conrad
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Christine Brooke-Rose, Such, and Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Geoffrey Keynes, The Life of William Harvey
- Nebula Award: Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 and Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, I, Juan de Pareja
- Nobel Prize for literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
- Premio Nadal: Vicente Soto, La zancada
- Prix Goncourt: Edmonde Charles-Roux, Oublier Palerme
- Prix Médicis: Marie-Claire Blais, Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems
- Viareggio Prize: Alfonso Gatto, La storia delle vittime
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