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Overview of the events of 1960 in literature
Overview of the events of 1960 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1960 .
Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?
–
Mervyn Griffith-Jones prosecuting in the
Lady Chatterley's Lover case
Events
February–October –
Astounding magazine is renamed
Analog .
Spring –
August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States.
March 22 –
Joan Henry 's play
Look on Tempests is premièred at the
Comedy Theatre in London's
West End , as the first play dealing openly with
homosexuality to be passed for performance by the
Lord Chamberlain in Britain.
[1]
[2]
April 27 –
Harold Pinter 's play
The Caretaker is premièred at the
Arts Theatre Club in London's West End, transferring to the
Duchess Theatre the following month, where it runs for 444 performances before departing from London for
Broadway , Pinter's first significant commercial success.
[3]
[4]
Alan Bates and
Donald Pleasence star in the original production.
July 11 –
Harper Lee 's
Southern Gothic
Bildungsroman
To Kill a Mockingbird is published in the United States. She completes no later novel before her death in
2016 .
August 12 –
Green Eggs and Ham , by
Dr. Seuss , is published in the United States; 40 years on it will be the fourth-best selling English-language children's hardcover book yet written.
[5]
September 5 –
Welsh poet
Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
[6]
October 3 – The
Lilly Library is opened on the campus of
Indiana University Bloomington , based on the collections of
Josiah K. Lilly Jr.
October 6 and
December 16 –
Dalton Trumbo , one of the
Hollywood Ten , receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films
Spartacus and
Exodus , released in the United States on these dates.
c. October –
Vasily Grossman submits his novel
Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба ) for publication, resulting in confiscation of the manuscript and all related material by the
KGB in the Soviet Union.
[7]
November –
Rita Rait-Kovaleva 's Russian translation of
The Catcher in the Rye is published in the Soviet literary magazine Inostrannaya Literatura as Над пропастью во ржи ("Over the Abyss in Rye").
[8]
November 2 –
R v Penguin Books Ltd :
Penguin Books is found not guilty of
obscenity for publishing
Lady Chatterley's Lover in the United Kingdom.
[9]
November 8 –
Richard Wright delivers a polemical lecture, "The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States", to students and members of the
American Church in Paris , a few weeks before his death in the city from heart attack aged 52.
[10]
November 10 – Lady Chatterley's Lover sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication in the U.K. since being banned in 1928.
[11]
November 17 –
Michael Foot is re-elected to the
Parliament of the United Kingdom and relinquishes the editorship of
Tribune .
November 19 – American novelist
Norman Mailer
stabs his wife , the artist
Adele Morales .
[12]
November 24 –
Raymond Queneau founds
Oulipo in France.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 18 –
Mark Rylance , English actor and theater director
January 23 –
André Verbart , Dutch poet
January 28 –
Robert von Dassanowsky , Austrian-American historian and academic
January 31 –
Grant Morrison , Scottish comic-book and graphic-novel scriptwriter
February 19 –
Helen Fielding , English novelist and screenwriter
March 8 –
Jeffrey Eugenides , American fiction writer
April 28 –
Ian Rankin , Scottish crime novelist
April 29 –
Andrew Miller , English novelist
May 4 –
Kate Saunders , English author and children's writer
May 21 –
John O'Brien , American novelist (died
1994 )
May 24 -
Eric Brown , British science fiction writer (died
2023 )
June 2 –
Julie Myerson , English novelist and columnist
July 13 –
Ian Hislop , Welsh-born satirist
August 4 –
Tim Winton , Australian novelist
October 2 –
Joe Sacco , Maltese-born graphic author
October 18 –
Hồ Anh Thái , Vietnamese author
November 10 –
Neil Gaiman , English author
December 10 –
Kenneth Branagh , Northern Irish actor and screenwriter
unknown dates
Deaths
January 4 –
Albert Camus , French
Pied-Noir novelist (car accident, born
1913 )
January 9 –
Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English girls' story writer (born
1880 )
January 12 –
Nevil Shute , English-born novelist (stroke, born
1899 )
January 14 –
Ralph Chubb , English poet, printer and artist (born
1892 )
January 28 –
Zora Neale Hurston , African-American anthropologist and author (born
1891 )
May 30 –
Boris Pasternak , Russian novelist, poet and translator (born
1890 )
July 27
July 28 –
Kassian Bogatyrets , Rusyn priest, politician and historian (born
1868 )
August 19 –
Frances Cornford , English poet (born
1886 )
August 29 –
Vicki Baum , Austrian-born novelist writing in German and English (born
1888 )
October 19 –
Hjalmar Dahl , Finnish journalist, translator and writer (born
1891 )
[19]
October 31 –
H. L. Davis , American fiction writer and poet (born
1894 )
November 20 –
Ya'akov Cohen , Russian-born Israeli poet (born
1881 )
November 28 –
Richard Wright , African-American novelist and poet (born
1908 )
December 26 –
Tetsuro Watsuji (和辻 哲郎), Japanese philosopher and historian of ideas (born
1889 )
Awards
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism :
E. B. White
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Ian Wolfran Cornwall ,
The Making of Man
[20]
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
Kate Greenaway Medal :
Gerald Rose , Old Winkle and the seagulls
[20]
Miles Franklin Award :
Elizabeth O'Conner ,
The Irishman
Newbery Medal for
children's literature :
Joseph Krumgold ,
Onion John
Nobel Prize for literature :
Saint-John Perse
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
References
^ De Jongh, Nicholas (1992).
Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality on stage . Routledge. pp.
119 –122.
ISBN
0-415-03362-4 .
^ Pouteau, Jacques (25 March 1960).
"London Sees Play of Type Formerly Banned" .
Los Angeles Times . Archived from
the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2010-10-30 .
^ Galens, David M., ed. (2000). "Overview: The Caretaker ".
Drama for Students . Literature Resource Center. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved 2012-09-04 .
^
"The Caretaker – Première" . HaroldPinter.org. Retrieved 2009-05-28 .
^
"All-Time Bestselling Children's Books" . Publishers Weekly . 2001-12-17. Archived from
the original on 2005-12-25.
^ "Welsh Nationalist Sent to Prison".
The Times . No. 54869. London. 1960-09-06. p. 6.
^ Chandler, Robert (1985). Introduction to Life and Fate . New York Review of Books Classics. p. xv.
^
"Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' Resonated Behind Iron Curtain As Well" .
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty . Retrieved 2015-06-18 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Cedric J. Robinson (12 October 2005).
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition . Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 405.
ISBN
978-0-8078-7612-1 .
^
"Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out" . On This Day .
BBC . 1960-11-10.
Archived from the original on 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2008-02-11 .
^
"Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party" .
The New York Times . 1960-11-22. Retrieved 2013-10-31 .
^
Semiotica . Mouton Publishers. 1995. p. 84.
^ Professor Emeritus Phyllis M Martin; Phyllis M. Martin; Patrick O'Meara (1995).
Africa . Indiana University Press. p. 310.
ISBN
0-253-20984-6 .
^ Gary Westfahl (2005).
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 457.
ISBN
978-0-313-32952-4 .
^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 10.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
^ Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001).
International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 . Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 3.
ISBN
978-1-57607-090-1 .
^ Stamatis, Alexis (2007).
Bar Flaubert . Arcadia.
ISBN
978-1-900850-57-5 .
^
Hjalmar Dahl – Svenskt översättarlexikon (in Swedish)
^
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