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1959 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1959.

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  1. ^ Diaconescu, Ioana (2006). . România Literară (in Romanian) (43). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  2. ^ Grove Press, Inc. v. Christenberry, 175 F. Supp. 488 (SDNY 1959), 21 July 1959.
  3. ^ Tim Kindseth (6 June 2010). "Anthony Burgess's Take on Brunei". TIME magazine. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Les BD oubliées D'Astérix". BDoubliées (in French). Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  5. ^ Sarah Lyall (January 26, 2012). "Which is cooler: To accept a knighthood from the queen, or to turn one down?". New York Times. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
  6. ^ Scot Peacock (September 2001). Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Cengage Gale. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7876-4608-0.
  7. ^ John Cusatis (2010). Research Guide to American Literature. Infobase Publishing. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-4381-3405-5.
  8. ^ France. French Embassy, Press and Information Division. 1971. p. 17.
  9. ^ Janet Davies (15 January 2014). The Welsh Language: A History. University of Wales Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-78316-020-4.
  10. ^ Sanders, Vicki (Autumn 1988). "Dancing and the Dark Soul of Japan: An Aesthetic Analysis of "Butō"". Asian Theatre Journal. 5 (2): 148. JSTOR 25161489.
  11. ^ "Ben Elton". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  12. ^ Fisher, Lawrence M. (April 17, 1994). "SOUND BYTES; Orwell – Class of 1994". The New York Times. from the original on December 6, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  13. ^ "Edwin Muir 1887-1959". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  14. ^ "G. D. H. Cole". The Times. London. 15 January 1959.
  15. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "About Luis Palés Matos | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  16. ^ Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature of Georgia: A History, pp. 251–4. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5
  17. ^ Aldrich, Robert; Wotherspoon, Garry, eds. (2002). Who's who in gay and lesbian history : from antiquity to World War II. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415159822. OCLC 50479290.
  18. ^ [1][permanent dead link] January 22, 1961 St. Petersburg Times


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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources 1959 in literature news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2012 Learn how and when to remove this message This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1959 List of years in literature table 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 In poetry 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science Contents 1 Events 2 New books 2 1 Fiction 2 2 Children and young people 2 3 Drama 2 4 Non fiction 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards 6 ReferencesEvents editJanuary 31 Sandu Tudor begins a 40 year sentence at Jilava Prison for conspiracy against social order and intense activity against the working class as meted out by a Romanian communist tribunal He will die in 1962 at Aiud prison possibly from torture 1 April 30 Bertolt Brecht s Saint Joan of the Stockyards receives its stage premiere It was originally performed on radio in 1932 May 7 Scientist and novelist C P Snow delivers in the Senate House University of Cambridge a Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures to do with a perceived breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities It is later published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution May 28 The Mermaid Theatre opens in the City of London July 21 D H Lawrence s Lady Chatterley s Lover is one of three books whose bans are overturned in court with assistance from the lawyer Charles Rembar in the United States the others being Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill 2 The book published in 1928 legally circulates in the U S after a 31 year obscenity ban July 29 The U K Obscene Publications Act becomes law coming into force on August 29 It requires a work to be seen as a whole permitting a public good defence against a prosecution for obscenity and making prosecutions for obscene libel difficult September Anthony Burgess teaching in Brunei suffers a breakdown and is forced to return to the UK where he becomes a full time novelist 3 October 29 Asterix the Gaul makes a first appearance in the first regular issue of the comic magazine Pilote 4 November 11 In the United States the short film Pull My Daisy is released adapted from an unperformed play by Jack Kerouac Beat Generation and narrated by him It stars poets Allen Ginsberg Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso unknown dates Aldous Huxley turns down a knighthood 5 Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School 6 Frank Herbert begins researching Dune Frederik Pohl becomes an editor of the American science fiction magazine Galaxy 7 Marcel Achard is elected to the Academie francaise 8 Literature Wales is established as The Academi Gymreig 9 The first butoh performance Kinjiki by Tatsumi Hijikata is played at a dance festival in Japan It is based on the novel of that name Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima and explores the taboos of male homosexuality and pedophilia 10 New books editFiction edit Eric Ambler Passage of Arms Isaac Asimov Nine Tomorrows H E Bates A Breath of French Air Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King Derek Bickerton Payroll Robert Bloch Psycho Antoine Blondin A Monkey in Winter Un Singe en hiver Heinrich Boll Billiards at Half Past Nine Billard um halb zehn Ray Bradbury A Medicine for Melancholy Jurij Brezan Der Gymnasiast John Brophy The Day They Robbed the Bank of England John Brunner Echo in the Skull The World Swappers Algis Budrys The Falling Torch William S Burroughs Naked Lunch Taylor Caldwell Dear and Glorious Physician John Dickson Carr Scandal at High Chimneys A Victorian Melodrama Henry Cecil Settled Out of Court James Hadley Chase The World in My Pocket Agatha Christie Cat Among the Pigeons Ivy Compton Burnett A Heritage and Its History Barbara Comyns The Vet s Daughter Richard Condon The Manchurian Candidate Alexander Cordell Rape of the Fair Country Julio Cortazar Las armas secretas The Secret Weapons short stories Richard Crichton The Great Impostor Cecil Day Lewis The Widow s Cruise Allen Drury Advise and Consent Alfred Duggan Children of the Wolf Jane Duncan My Friends the Miss Boyds first in the My Friends series of 19 books Shusaku Endo 遠藤 周作 Wonderful Fool おバカさん William Faulkner The Mansion Ian Fleming Goldfinger Sarah Gainham The Stone Roses Paul Gallico Mrs Arris Goes to Paris William Golding Free Fall Richard Gordon Doctor and Son Gunter Grass The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel Walter Greenwood Saturday Night at the Crown Vasily Grossman Life and Fate Zhizn i sudba completed but unpublished until the 1980s Mark Harris Wake Up Stupid Robert A Heinlein The Menace From Earth Starship Troopers The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag Dorothy Hewett Bobbin Up Hwang Sun won Rain Shower 소나기 Sonagi short story Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Tammuz fi al Madinah Tammuz in the city Michael Innes Hare Sitting Up Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House Uwe Johnson Mutmassungen uber Jakob Speculations about Jakob John Knowles A Separate Peace H P Lovecraft etc The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces John Lymington Night of the Big Heat John D MacDonald Deadly Welcome The Beach Girls The Crossroads Ross Macdonald The Galton Case Colin MacInnes Absolute Beginners Compton Mackenzie The Lunatic Republic Alistair MacLean The Last Frontier Night Without End Naguib Mahfouz Children of Gebelaawi أولاد حارتنا Norman Mailer Advertisements for Myself Ngaio Marsh Singing in the Shrouds James A Michener Hawaii Walter M Miller Jr A Canticle for Leibowitz Gladys Mitchell The Man Who Grew Tomatoes V S Naipaul Miguel Street Patrick O Brian The Unknown Shore Mervyn Peake Titus Alone David Piper as Peter Towry Trial by Battle Raymond Queneau Zazie in the Metro Zazie dans le Metro Robert Randall as Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett The Dawning Light Mordecai Richler The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Kate Roberts Te yn y grug short stories Philip Roth Goodbye Columbus Robert Ruark Poor No More Nathalie Sarraute Le Planetarium Andre Schwarz Bart The Last of the Just Le Dernier des justes Mary Shelley died 1851 Mathilda novella written 1819 20 Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Andrew Sinclair The Breaking of Bumbo My Friend Judas Aimee Sommerfelt The Road to Agra Veien til Agra Terry Southern The Magic Christian Howard Spring All the Day Long Rex Stout Plot It Yourself Valerie Taylor The Girls in 3 B John Updike The Same Door Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan Keith Waterhouse Billy Liar Sheila Watson The Double Hook Children and young people edit Rev W Awdry The Little Old Engine Fourteenth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry Bruce Carter Four Wheel Drift Rene Goscinny Le petit Nicolas Joseph Krumgold Onion John Spike Milligan Silly Verse for Kids Bill Peet Hubert s Hair Raising Adventure Goliath II Dr Seuss Happy Birthday to You Margery Sharp The Rescuers first in the eponymous series of nine novels Drama edit Edward Albee The Death of Bessie Smith written The Zoo Story premiered in German Jean Anouilh Becket John Arden Serjeant Musgrave s Dance Alan Ayckbourn as Roland Allen The Square Cat Samuel Beckett Embers first broadcast Bertolt Brecht died 1956 Saint Joan of the Stockyards Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthofe first stage performance Albert Camus The Possessed Les Possedes Beverley Cross One More River William Douglas Home Aunt Edwina Refik Erduran Cengiz Han in Bisikleti The Bicycle of Genghis Khan Jack Gelber The Connection Jean Genet The Blacks A Clown Show Les Negres clownerie first performed Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun Eugene Ionesco The Killer Tueur sans gages Geoffrey Lumsden Caught Napping Harold Pinter The Caretaker first published Zofia Posmysz Pasazerka z kabiny 45 Passenger from Cabin 45 radio drama Jean Paul Sartre The Condemned of Altona Les Sequestres d Altona translated as Loser Wins N F Simpson One Way Pendulum Wole Soyinka The Lion and the Jewel Arnold Wesker Roots The Kitchen Tennessee Williams Sweet Bird of Youth Egon Wolff Parejas de trapo Zhou Xinfang with Xu Siyan Hai Rui Submits His Memorial 海瑞上疏 Hai Rui Shangshu Non fiction edit Kenneth Anger Hollywood Babylon L Sprague de Camp Engines August Derleth Arkham House The First 20 Years Some Notes on H P Lovecraft Savitri Devi Impeachment of Man G H Dury The Face of the Earth C S Forester Sink the Bismarck also as The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck Georges Friedmann Signal d une troisieme voie Erving Goffman The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Laurie Lee Cider With Rosie Miguel Leon Portilla Vision de los vencidos Relaciones indigenas de la conquista Garrett Mattingly The Defeat of the Spanish Armada Czeslaw Milosz Rodzinna Europa Native Realm Iona and Peter Opie The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren James Pope Hennessy Queen Mary 1867 1953 Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery Cornelius Ryan The Longest Day William Strunk Jr and E B White The Elements of Style Wilfred Thesiger Arabian Sands Barbara Wootton Baroness Wootton of Abinger with V G Seal and R Chambers Social Science and Social PathologyBirths editJanuary 8 Ovidiu Pecican Romanian writer and poet January 9 Rigoberta Menchu Guatemalan writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner January 20 R A Salvatore American science fiction and fantasy author January 28 Megan McDonald American children s author February 2 Jari Tervo Finnish author March 11 Dejan Stojanovic Serbian American poet and essayist March 15 Ben Okri Nigerian poet and novelist March 18 Frederic Yves Jeannet French born writer in French and Spanish April 15 Emma Thompson English actress and screenwriter April 30 Alessandro Barbero Italian historian novelist and essayist c May 1 Yasmina Reza French novelist and dramatist May 3 Ben Elton English comedian novelist and screenwriter 11 May 13 Zeruya Shalev Israeli novelist June 12 Hilary McKay English children s writer June 13 Maurice G Dantec French science fiction author July 19 Vigdis Hjorth Norwegian novelist August 6 Deborah Levy South African born British writer August 17 Jonathan Franzen American essayist and novelist August 27 Jeanette Winterson English novelist September 9 Matti Ronka Finnish television journalist and novelist September 29 Jon Fosse Norwegian fiction writer playwright and poet Benjamin Sehene Rwandan writer October 1 Brian P Cleary American humorist author and poet October 7 Steven Erikson Canadian novelist and fantasy author October 31 Neal Stephenson American science fiction writer 12 November 1 Susanna Clarke English novelist November 22 Christoph Klimke German writer December 20 Sandra Cisneros Mexican born American author unknown dates Moira Young Canadian children s novelistDeaths editJanuary 3 Edwin Muir Scottish poet novelist and translator born 1887 13 January 14 G D H Cole English political theorist economist and historian born 1889 14 January 26 Margaret Elizabeth Egan American librarian born 1905 January 29 Pauline Smith South African novelist born 1882 February 20 Laurence Housman English playwright and writer born 1865 February 22 Percy F Westerman English children s author born 1876 February 23 Luis Pales Matos Puerto Rican poet heart failure born 1898 15 February 28 Maxwell Anderson American playwright and film writer born 1888 March 4 W W Greg English literary scholar born 1875 March 17 Galaktion Tabidze Galaktioni Georgian poet suicide born 1892 16 March 26 Raymond Chandler American crime writer born 1888 April 12 James Gleason American actor playwright and screenwriter born 1882 April 14 Julien Josephson American screenwriter born 1881 April 16 Ramon Armando Rodriguez Venezuelan writer born 1895 May 18 Apsley Cherry Garrard English memoirist and explorer born 1886 May 20 Alfred Schutz Austrian philosopher and sociologist born 1899 June 1 Sax Rohmer Arthur Henry Ward English novelist born 1883 June 23 Boris Vian French novelist heart attack born 1920 June 30 Jose Vasconcelos Mexican poet and political writer born 1882 July 3 Johan Bojer Norwegian novelist born 1872 July 26 Manuel Altolaguirre Spanish poet editor and publisher car accident born 1905 August 8 Emil Frantisek Burian Czech poet journalist and playwright born 1904 September 5 Marta Rădulescu Romanian novelist and poet born 1912 September 14 Laxmi Prasad Devkota Nepali poet playwright and novelist born 1909 September 18 Benjamin Peret French poet born 1899 October 12 Arnolt Bronnen Austrian playwright and director born 1895 November 29 Hans Henny Jahnn German playwright and novelist born 1894 17 December 2 Giuseppe Zucca Italian screenwriter born 1887 Awards editCarnegie Medal for children s literature Rosemary Sutcliff The Lantern Bearers Hugo Award for Best Novel James Blish A Case of Conscience James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction Morris West The Devil s Advocate James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography Christopher Hassall Edward Marsh Miles Franklin Award Vance Palmer The Big Fellow Newbery Medal for children s literature Elizabeth George Speare The Witch of Blackbird Pond Nobel Prize for literature Salvatore Quasimodo Premio Nadal Ana Maria Matute Primera memoria Prix Goncourt Andre Schwarz Bart Le dernier des Justes 18 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Archibald MacLeish J B Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Robert Lewis Taylor The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Stanley Kunitz Selected Poems 1928 1958 Queen s Gold Medal for Poetry Francis CornfordReferences edit Diaconescu Ioana 2006 Sandu Tudor și gruparea Rugul Aprins Romania Literară in Romanian 43 Archived from the original on 2016 03 04 Grove Press Inc v Christenberry 175 F Supp 488 SDNY 1959 21 July 1959 Tim Kindseth 6 June 2010 Anthony Burgess s Take on Brunei TIME magazine Retrieved 13 December 2020 Les BD oubliees D Asterix BDoubliees in French Retrieved 2013 10 03 Sarah Lyall January 26 2012 Which is cooler To accept a knighthood from the queen or to turn one down New York Times Retrieved December 13 2020 Scot Peacock September 2001 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Cengage Gale p 93 ISBN 978 0 7876 4608 0 John Cusatis 2010 Research Guide to American Literature Infobase Publishing p 81 ISBN 978 1 4381 3405 5 France French Embassy Press and Information Division 1971 p 17 Janet Davies 15 January 2014 The Welsh Language A History University of Wales Press p 153 ISBN 978 1 78316 020 4 Sanders Vicki Autumn 1988 Dancing and the Dark Soul of Japan An Aesthetic Analysis of Butō Asian Theatre Journal 5 2 148 JSTOR 25161489 Ben Elton British Comedy Guide Retrieved 2020 11 13 Fisher Lawrence M April 17 1994 SOUND BYTES Orwell Class of 1994 The New York Times Archived from the original on December 6 2012 Retrieved December 13 2010 Edwin Muir 1887 1959 Scottish Poetry Library Retrieved 17 April 2023 G D H Cole The Times London 15 January 1959 Poets Academy of American About Luis Pales Matos Academy of American Poets poets org Retrieved 13 October 2020 Rayfield Donald 2000 The Literature of Georgia A History pp 251 4 Routledge ISBN 0 7007 1163 5 Aldrich Robert Wotherspoon Garry eds 2002 Who s who in gay and lesbian history from antiquity to World War II London Routledge ISBN 0415159822 OCLC 50479290 1 permanent dead link January 22 1961 St Petersburg Times Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1959 in literature amp oldid 1219753185, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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