From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Overview of the events of 1962 in literature
Overview of the events of 1962 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1962 .
Events
January 7 – In an article in The New York Times Book Review Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist".[ 1] February 17 – Arthur Miller marries the photographer Inge Morath .[ 2] February 28 – F. R. Leavis delivers the Richmond lecture Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow at Downing College, Cambridge , which arouses controversy.[ 3] [ 4] May 11 – The Finnish Ministry of Education forbids the import and distribution of eight children's books (including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [ 5] May – Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books in London.
June 5 – Marvel Comics publishes Amazing Fantasy #15, featuring the debut of its Spider-Man Stan Lee and Steve Ditko . The Amazing Spider-Man periodical series begins publication in December.
June 30 – The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.July – The General Law Amendment Act in South Africa denies freedom of speech to opposition activists and writers.
September – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate.[ 6] Ariel Winter Trees . On October 31, Heinemann in London publish The Colossus which will be the only collection of her poems published in her lifetime under her own name. In December she moves to a London flat in a house where W. B. Yeats lived as a boy.
November – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Template:Lang-ru , Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha ), the author's semi-autobiographical account of life in the gulag , is published in Novy Mir Soviet Union 's Stalinist past.
December – L. Frank Baum 's short story "The Tiger's Eye " appears for the first time nearly 60 after it was written.
December 4 – A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction takes place between Kingsley Amis , C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 17 – Sebastian Junger , American novelist, journalist and documentary film-makerJanuary 29 – Olga Tokarczuk , Polish fiction writer and poetFebruary 8 – Malorie Blackman , English writer for young adults and childrenFebruary 21
March 27 – John O'Farrell , English writer of fiction and non-fiction, comedy scriptwriter and political campaignerMarch 30 – Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子), Japanese novelist and essayistMarch 31 – Michal Viewegh , Czech fiction writerApril 2 – Mark Shulman , American children's authorApril 6 – Javier Cercas , Spanish novelist and academicApril 13 – Chris Riddell , South African-born English children's book illustratorApril 22 – B. Jeyamohan , Tamil novelistMay 11 - Amir Hamed , Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator (died 2017 )May 12 – Yang Hongying (楊紅櫻), Chinese children's authorMay 17 – Lise Lyng Falkenberg , Danish novelist and biographerMay 19 – Jonathan Dee , American novelistJune 12 – Jordan Peterson , Canadian clinical psychologist and writerJuly 30 – Lavinia Greenlaw , English poet and novelistAugust 3 – Abdo Khal , Saudi Arabian writerAugust 10 – Suzanne Collins , American novelist and television writerAugust 16 – Christian Cameron , American-born Canadian writerAugust 27 – Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson), Icelandic novelist and poetSeptember 22 - Nuzo Onoh , British-Nigerian writerOctober 11 – Anne Enright , Irish novelistOctober 19 – Tracy Chevalier , American historical novelistOctober 28 – Mark Haddon , English novelist and poetNovember 4 - Rick Yancey , American young-adult writerNovember 12
December 17 – Jan Bondeson , Swedish non-fiction writer
Deaths
January 17 – Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet (heart attack, born 1905 )[ 9] January 20 – Robinson Jeffers , American poet (born 1887 )[ 10] January 24 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar , Turkish novelist and essayist (born 1901 )February 16 – Frank Prewett , Canadian poet (born 1893 )[ 11] February 24 – Hu Shih (胡適), Chinese Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and language reformer (born 1891 )March 3 – Pierre Benoit , French novelist (born 1886 )[ 12] March 16 – Dora Adele Shoemaker , American poet, playwright, educator (born 1873 )March 20 – C. Wright Mills , American sociologist (born 1916 )April 1 – Michel de Ghelderode , Belgian playwright (born 1898 )[ 13] April 24 – Emilio Prados , Spanish poet and editor (born 1899 )May 3 — Helen Dortch Longstreet , American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (born 1863 )May 24 – E. M. W. Tillyard , English literary scholar (born 1889 )May 13 – Constantin Gane , Romanian biographer and historical novelist (torture, born 1885 )May 26 – Wilfrid Wilson Gibson , English poet (born 1878 )[ 14] June 2 – Vita Sackville-West , English poet and gardener (born 1892 )[ 15] June 27 – Paul Viiding , Estonian poet and critic (born 1904 )July 6 – William Faulkner , American novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1897 )[ 16] July 8 – Georges Bataille , French writer (cerebral arteriosclerosis, born 1897)[ 17] July 21 – G. M. Trevelyan , English historian (born 1876 )July 27 – Richard Aldington , English poet and novelist (born 1892 )August 9 – Hermann Hesse , German-born Swiss novelist, poet and painter (born 1877 )[ 18] September 3 – E. E. Cummings , American poet (born 1894 )[ 19] September 21 – Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩), Chinese dramatist (born 1889)September 22 – Jean-René Huguenin , French novelist and literary critic (born in 1936 )[ 20] September 23 – Patrick Hamilton , English dramatist (liver and kidney failure, born 1904 )November 6 – Howard R. Garis , American children's fiction writer (born 1873 )November 17 – Sandu Tudor , Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (stroke and possibly torture, born 1896 )December 3 – Dame Mary Gilmore , Australian poet and journalist (born 1865 )December 12 – Felix Aderca , Romanian novelist, critic, poet and journalist (cancer, born 1891 )December 18 – Garrett Mattingly , American historian (born 1900 )[ 21] December – Ethel Carnie Holdsworth , English working class novelist and campaigner (born 1886 )
Awards
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction : William Faulkner Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Pauline Clarke , The Twelve and the Genii Eric Gregory Award : Donald Thomas , James Simmons , Brian Johnson , Jenny Joseph James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Ronald Hardy , Act of Destruction James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Meriol Trevor , Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud and Newman: Light in Winter Miles Franklin Award : Thea Astley , The Well Dressed Explorer George Turner , The Cupboard Under the Stairs Newbery Medal for children's literature : Elizabeth George Speare , The Bronze Bow Newdigate Prize : Stanley Johnson Nobel Prize for Literature : John Steinbeck Premio Nadal : José María Mendiola , Muerte por fusilamiento Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Frank Loesser , Abe Burrows , How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Edwin O'Connor , The Edge of Sadness Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Alan Dugan , Poems Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Christopher Fry
References
^ "The Satiric World of Evelyn Waugh" . Retrieved 18 April 2013.^ Obituary, retrieved 27 December 2019. ^ Published in The Spectator Gerhardi, William (1962-03-16). "Sir Charles Snow, Dr. F. R. Leavis and the Two Cultures" . The Spectator : 9.
^ Kimball, Roger (1994). "The Two Cultures' Today: On the C. P. Snow–F. R. Leavis Controversy" . The New Criterion . 12 (6): 10. ^ Ennakkoratkaisu KKO 1967-II-10. (A retrospective abstract of the whole process by The Supreme Court of Finland , February 6, 1967. In Finnish.)^ Kirk, Connie Ann (2004). Sylvia Plath: A Biography ^ Oliver Balch (22 August 2019). "Richard Booth obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 30 June 2020 . ^ Jewish Observer and Middle East Review ^ Roy Temple House (1963). Books Abroad ^ Robinson Jeffers; Tim Hunt (2001). The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers ISBN 978-0-8047-4108-8 ^ Profiles in Canadian Literature ISBN 978-1-55002-001-4 ^ The Illustrated London News ^ Paul F. State (27 July 2004). Historical Dictionary of Brussels ISBN 978-0-8108-6555-6 ^ Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields ISBN 978-0-7876-2674-7 ^ Nigel Nicolson (28 June 2018). Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919–1962 ISBN 978-1-4746-1086-5 ^ Gene D. Phillips (1988). Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation ISBN 978-1-57233-166-2 ^ Benjamin Noys (20 May 2000). Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction ISBN 978-0-7453-1587-4 ^ Ingo Cornils (2009). A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse ISBN 978-1-57113-330-4 ^ Jay Parini (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9 ^ French News: Books ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2
