1960 in literature
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The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case in the United Kingdom.[1]
- November 10 – Lady Chatterley's Lover sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication since being banned since 1928.[2]
- August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- Astounding magazine is renamed Analog.
- Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Exodus and Spartacus released this year.
- Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos, intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.
- Michael Foot relinquishes the editorship of Tribune to return to Parliament.
- Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
[edit] New prose fiction
- Chinua Achebe – No Longer at Ease
- Kingsley Amis – Take a Girl Like You
- Poul Anderson – The High Crusade
- Lynne Reid Banks – The L-Shaped Room
- Stan Barstow – A Kind of Loving
- Hamilton Basso – The Light Infantry Ball
- Augusto Roa Bastos – Hijo de hombre
- Robert Bloch – Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares
- Algis Budrys – Rogue Moon
- Morley Callaghan – The Many Colored Coat
- John Dickson Carr – In Spite of Thunder
- Carlo Cassola – La ragazza di Bube
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - North
- Agatha Christie – The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- L. Sprague de Camp
- L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – Wall of Serpents
- Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss
- Jean-Paul Desbiens – The Insolences of Brother Anonymous
- Lawrence Durrell – Clea, the final volume of The Alexandria Quartet (begun 1957)
- Henry Farrell – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Ian Fleming – For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)
- Per Anders Fogelström - City of My Dreams
- Alan Garner – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- Vintilă Horia – Dieu est né en exil
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra – Hunters in a Narrow Street
- Greye La Spina – Invaders from the Dark
- Hubert Lampo – De komst van Joachim Stiller ("The Coming of Joachim Stiller")
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- David Lodge – The Picturegoers
- John Masters – The Venus of Konpara
- Walter M. Miller – A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Nancy Mitford – Don't Tell Alfred
- Alberto Moravia – La noia (The Empty Canvas)
- Edna O'Brien – The Country Girls
- Flannery O'Connor – The Violent Bear It Away
- Scott O'Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Wilder Penfield – The Torch
- Frederik Pohl – Drunkard's Walk
- Anthony Powell – Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- James H. Schmitz – Agent of Vega
- Dr. Seuss – Green Eggs and Ham
- Nevil Shute – Trustee from the Toolroom (published posthumously)
- Clark Ashton Smith – The Abominations of Yondo
- Muriel Spark – The Ballad of Peckham Rye
- David Storey – This Sporting Life
- Rex Stout
- John Updike – Rabbit, Run
- Irving Wallace – The Chapman Report
- Raymond Williams – Border Country
- John Wyndham – Trouble with Lichen
[edit] New drama
- Edward Albee – The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox (both first performed)
- Samuel Beckett – The Old Tune (first broadcast)
- Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons and The Tiger and the Horse
- Eugène Ionesco – Rhinoceros
- Harold Pinter – The Caretaker (first performed), The Room (first professional performance) and A Night Out (first broadcast)
- Terence Rattigan – Ross
- Wole Soyinka – A Dance of the Forests
- Tennessee Williams – Period of Adjustment
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1960 in poetry
- Douglas Livingstone – The Skull in the Mud
- Sylvia Plath - The Colossus and Other Poems
- Alan Sillitoe - The Rats and other poems
- Jan Twardowski – Znaki ufności
[edit] Non-fiction
- Joy Adamson – Born Free
- Kingsley Amis – New Maps of Hell
- Peg Bracken – The I Hate to Cook Book
- Albert Camus – Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
- Jean-Paul Desbiens – Les insolences du Frère Untel
- Hans-Georg Gadamer – Truth and Method
- John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
- Helen Keller – Light in my Darkness
- Arthur Koestler – The Lotus and the Robot
- Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier – Le Matin des Magiciens
- Jean-Paul Sartre – Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason)
- William L. Shirer – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- W. T. Stace - The Teachings of the Mystics
- Elie Wiesel – Night – (Previously published in French in 1958 as La Nuit)
[edit] Births
- January 1 – Helen Fielding, author
- April 28 – Ian Rankin, crime novelist
- May 21 – John O'Brien, novelist (died 1994)
- July 13 – Ian Hislop, satirist
- November 10 – Neil Gaiman, author
- date unknown – Malcolm Pryce, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 – Albert Camus, novelist (car accident)
- January 12 – Nevil Shute, writer
- January 14 – Ralph Chubb, poet
- January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston
- May 30 – Boris Pasternak, novelist and poet
- November 28 – Richard Wright, author
[edit] Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: E.B. White
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Ian Wolfram Cornwall, The Making of Man
- Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rex Warner, Imperial Caesar
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Canon Adam Fox, The Life of Dean Inge
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
- Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
- Premio Nadal: Ramiro Pinilla, Ciegas hormigas
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello!
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury – Advise and Consent
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman
[edit] References
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out". On This Day. BBC. 1960-11-10. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/10/newsid_2965000/2965194.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-11.