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
Events
February–October – Astounding Analog
Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States.
March 22 – Joan Henry 's play Look on Tempests 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 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 2016 .August 12 – Green Eggs and Ham 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 Exodus 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 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 [ 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 directorJanuary 23 – André Verbart , Dutch poetJanuary 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky , Austrian-American historian and academicJanuary 31 – Grant Morrison , Scottish comic-book and graphic-novel scriptwriterFebruary 19 – Helen Fielding , English novelist and screenwriterMarch 8 – Jeffrey Eugenides , American fiction writerApril 28 – Ian Rankin , Scottish crime novelistApril 29 – Andrew Miller , English novelistMay 4 – Kate Saunders , English author and children's writerMay 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 columnistJuly 13 – Ian Hislop , Welsh-born satiristAugust 4 – Tim Winton , Australian novelistOctober 2 – Joe Sacco , Maltese-born graphic authorOctober 18 – Hồ Anh Thái , Vietnamese authorNovember 10 – Neil Gaiman , English authorDecember 10 – Kenneth Branagh , Northern Irish actor and screenwriterDecember 14 – Wolf Haas , Austrian writerunknown dates
Deaths
January 4 – Albert Camus , French Pied-Noir 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 )[ 23] 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 [ 24] 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 [ 24] 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 119 –122. ISBN 0-415-03362-4 ^ Pouteau, Jacques (25 March 1960). "London Sees Play of Type Formerly Banned" . Los Angeles Times the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2010-10-30 . ^ Galens, David M., ed. (2000). "Overview: The Caretaker ". Drama for Students . 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 ^ 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 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 . Retrieved 2013-10-31 .^ Semiotica ^ Professor Emeritus Phyllis M Martin; Phyllis M. Martin; Patrick O'Meara (1995). Africa ISBN 0-253-20984-6 ^ Gary Westfahl (2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders ISBN 978-0-313-32952-4 ^ Barrett, David V. (1997-09-19). "Obituary: Judith Merril". The Independent .^ Cowart, David; Wyner, Thomas L. (1981). "Miller Bio-Bibliography". Dictionary of Literary Biography . Vol. 8: Twentieth-Century American Science-Fiction Writers. The Gale Group. pp. 19– 30. ^ Keating, Frank (2010-12-02). "David Storey's yarn hits 50 and is still top of the league" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2016-06-14 .^ Guy M. Townsend (1980). Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography . Garland Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 0-8240-9479-4 ^ 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 ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1 ^ Stamatis, Alexis (2007). Bar Flaubert ISBN 978-1-900850-57-5 ^ Hjalmar Dahl – Svenskt översättarlexikon (in Swedish)^ a b Library Association (1956). Proceedings, Papers and Summaries of Discussions at the ... Conference