1964 in literature
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The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners(ODIPP).
- Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds.
- W. H. Auden describes his "Vision of Agape" (June 1933) in his preface to the anthology The Protestant Mystics.
- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court three decades after its original publication in France.
- Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group stages a Theatre of Cruelty season at the LAMDA Theatre Club, London.
[edit] New books
- Chinua Achebe - Arrow of God
- Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three
- Poul Anderson - Time and Stars
- Louis Auchincloss - The Rector of Justin
- J. G. Ballard - The Terminal Beach
- Simone de Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death (Une Mort très douce)
- Saul Bellow - Herzog
- Thomas Berger - Little Big Man
- Leigh Brackett
- Ray Bradbury - The Machineries of Joy
- John Braine - The Jealous God
- Richard Brautigan - A Confederate General From Big Sur
- John Brunner
- Sara Bulette - The Splendid Belt of Mr. Big
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Madman
- J. Ramsey Campbell - The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants
- John Dickson Carr - Most Secret
- Agatha Christie - A Caribbean Mystery
- A. J. Cronin - A Song of Sixpence
- Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Len Deighton - Funeral in Berlin
- August Derleth editor - Over the Edge
- Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- Ralph Ellison - Shadow and Act
- Ian Fleming
- William Golding - The Spire
- Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
- Carl Jacobi - Portraits in Moonlight
- B. S. Johnson - Albert Angelo
- Richard E. Kim - The Martyred
- H. P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Dwarfs
- John D. MacDonald - The Deep Blue Good-by, A Purple Place For Dying, and The Quick Red Fox
- Sterling North - Rascal
- Vladimir Nabokov - The Defense
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (also known as James Ngigi) - Weep Not, Child
- Jan Pfloog - The Farm Book
- Anthony Powell - The Valley of Bones
- Mario Puzo - Fortunate Pilgrim
- Ellery Queen - And On the Eighth Day
- Ruth Rendell - From Doon With Death
- Hubert Selby Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn
- Shel Silverstein - The Giving Tree
- Clark Ashton Smith - Tales of Science and Sorcery
- Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds
- Rex Stout - Trio for Blunt Instruments
- Rex Stout - A Right to Die
- Leon Uris - Armageddon
- Jack Vance
- Gore Vidal - Julian
- Irving Wallace - The Man
- Raymond Williams - Second Generation
- Maia Wojciechowska - Shadow of a Bull
[edit] New drama
- Brian Friel - Philadelphia Here I Come!
- Frank Marcus - The Killing of Sister George
- Joe Orton - Entertaining Mr Sloane
- Peter Weiss - Marat/Sade
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1964 in poetry
- Joseph Payne Brennan - Nightmare Need
- Leonard Cohen - Flowers for Hitler
- Philip Larkin - The Whitsun Weddings
- Donald Wandrei - Poems for Midnight
- Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 (anthology)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Eric Berne - Games People Play
- Allan Bloom with Harry V. Jaffa - Shakespeare's Politics
- L. Sprague deCamp - Elephant
- L. Sprague deCamp and Catherine Crook de Camp - Ancient Ruins and Archaeology
- Dick Gregory - Nigger: An Autobiography
- John F. Kennedy - A Nation of Immigrants (published posthumously)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Why We Can't Wait
- Jan Kott - Shakespeare, Our Contemporary
- Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man
- Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
- Evelyn Waugh - A Little Learning
[edit] Births
- March 7 - Bret Easton Ellis, author
- July 3 - Joanne Harris, author
- July 16 - Anne Provoost, author
- date unknown - Dan Chaon, author
- date unknown - Aleksandar Hemon, author
[edit] Deaths
- January 17 - T.H. White, author
- February 3 - Clarence Irving Lewis, philosopher
- February 25 - Grace Metalious, writer Peyton Place
- April 14 - Rachel Carson, environmentalist author
- April 18 - Ben Hecht, screenwriter
- May 13 - Hamilton Basso, novelist and journalist
- August 3 - Flannery O'Connor
- August 12 - Ian Fleming, James Bond author
- September 18 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist
- November 21 - Leah Bodine Drake, poet
- December 21 - Carl Van Vechten
[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
- See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Georges Conchon, L'Etat sauvage
- Prix Médicis: Monique Wittig, L’Opoponax
[edit] United Kingdom
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank
- Eric Gregory Award: Robert Nye, Ken Smith, Jean Symons, Ted Walker
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Frank Tuohy, The Ice Saints
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: R. S. Thomas
[edit] United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Lillian Hellman
- Hugo Award: Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Emily Cheney Neville, It's Like This, Cat
- 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
[edit] Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Alfredo Martínez Garrido, El miedo y la esperanza
- Viareggio Prize: Giuseppe Berto, Il male oscuro
