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Overview of the events of 1968 in literature
Overview of the events of 1968 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1968 .
Events
January 1 –
Cecil Day-Lewis is announced as the new
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom .
[1]
March 28 –
Glidrose Publications releases the
James Bond novel,
Colonel Sun by "
Robert Markham " (a pseudonym for
Kingsley Amis ). Initially intended to relaunch the Bond book series after the death in 1964 of the character's creator,
Ian Fleming , Colonel Sun ends up as the final book in the series, discounting a "biography" of Bond and a pair of film-script adaptations, until
John Gardner revives it in 1981.
April – The American edition of
Andrew Garve 's thriller
The Long Short Cut becomes the first book printed completely by electronic composition.
[2]
[3]
May – The Action Theater in
Munich is disbanded after its building is wrecked by one of its founders, jealous of director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's growing power in the group.
[4]
June 17 –
Tom Stoppard 's
parodic comedy
The Real Inspector Hound opens at the
Criterion Theatre in London's
West End , starring
Richard Briers and
Ronnie Barker .
[5]
July 28 –
Last Exit to Brooklyn is cleared of obscenity in the English
appeal court .
John Mortimer appears for the defence.
[6] This is the last prosecution of a book under the U.K.
Obscene Publications Acts .
August –
Tom Wolfe 's books
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and
The Pump House Gang are published on the same day. Both will become bestsellers and cement Wolfe's status as a leading social critic, chronicler of the
counterculture of the 1960s , and practitioner of
New Journalism .
September 26 –
Theatres Act 1968 (royal assent July 26) ends
censorship of the theater in the
United Kingdom .
[7]
[8]
October –
Colin Spencer 's comedy Spitting Image , one of the first plays with openly
gay male leads, premières in London
October 31 –
Alan Bennett 's first stage play,
Forty Years On , opens at the
Apollo Theatre in London's West End under the direction of
Patrick Garland , starring Sir
John Gielgud ,
Paul Eddington and the playwright.
November – The English novelist
Anthony Burgess and his new wife
Liana settle in
Lija on
Malta .
[9]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 30 –
Rhoda Shipman , American comic book writer
February 11 -
Mo Willems , American children's author and cartoonist
February 27 -
Lisa McMann , American young-adult novelist
March 23 –
Mitch Cullin , American novelist
March 31 –
Yann Moix , French novelist and filmmaker
May 27 –
Ekow Eshun , British Ghanaian writer, journalist and broadcaster
June 11
June 12 –
Peadar Ó Guilín , Irish novelist
July 6 –
Tiit Aleksejev , Estonian novelist and playwright
July 7 –
Jeff VanderMeer , American fiction writer
September 14 –
Shuichi Yoshida (吉田修), Japanese novelist
October 28 –
Uwe Tellkamp , German writer
December 6 –
Karl Ove Knausgård , Norwegian autobiographical novelist
December 14 -
Rachel Cohn , American young-adult writer
December 31 –
Junot Díaz , Dominican American novelist
unknown date –
K. V. Johansen , Canadian children's author
[31]
Deaths
January 1 –
Donagh MacDonagh , Irish poet, playwright and judge (born
1912 )
January 14 –
Dorothea Mackellar , Australian poet (born
1885 )
January 21 –
Will Lang, Jr. , American journalist (born
1914 )
[32]
February 23 –
Fannie Hurst , American novelist (born
1889 )
March 22 -
Margaret Duley , Newfoundland novelist (born
1894 )
March 23 –
Edwin O'Connor , American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator (born
1918 )
[33]
April 4 -
Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi , Iranian-Iraqi Ja'fari jurist, religious teacher and poet (born
1889 )
[34]
April 9 -
Zofia Kossak , Polish writer (born
1889 )
April 16 –
Edna Ferber , American novelist, short story writer and playwright (born
1885 )
[35]
April 25 –
Donald Davidson , American poet (born
1893 )
April 27 –
Vasily Azhayev , Soviet writer (born
1915 )
[36]
April 29 –
Anthony Boucher , American author, critic, and editor (born
1911 )
[37]
May 1 – Sir
Harold Nicolson , British biographer (born
1886 )
[38]
May 30
May 31 –
Abel Bonnard , French poet, novelist and politician (born
1883 )
[39]
June 1 –
Helen Keller , deaf-blind American author, activist and lecturer (born
1880 )
[40]
June 2 –
A. A. Thomson , English cricket and travel writer (born
1894 )
August 21 -
Germaine Guèvremont , Canadian writer (born
1893 )
[41]
September 29 –
Sixto Pondal Ríos , Argentine screenwriter, poet and dramatist (born
1907 )
October 30 –
Conrad Richter , American novelist (born
1890 )
November 17 –
Mervyn Peake , English novelist (dementia, born
1911 )
[42]
November 25 –
Upton Sinclair , American novelist and politician (born
1878 )
[43]
November 28 –
Enid Blyton , English author and poet (born
1897 )
[44]
December 5 –
Anna Kavan , British novelist, short story writer and painter (born
1901 )
December 10 –
Tian Han , Chinese dramatist (born
1898 )
December 20 –
John Steinbeck , American novelist (congestive heart failure, born
1902 )
[45]
December 24 –
D. Gwenallt Jones , Welsh poet (born
1899 )
[46]
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
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