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1966 in literature

October 21, 2023

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1966.

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  1. ^ . Information Science Today. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
  2. ^ Costa, Maddy (2011-10-09). "Edward Bond's Saved: 'We didn't set out to shock'". The Guardian. London.
  3. ^ "Letter to Roger Verhulst (9 March 1966)", Tolkien Gateway.
  4. ^ Pearce, Joseph (2011). Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile. Ignatius Press. pp. 184ff.
  5. ^ Graham, Rigby (Winter 1966). "Two views of the Norrington Room". The Private Library. 7 (4): 84–6.
  6. ^ Belanger, Craig. "Frank O'Hara." Frank O'Hara (2005): 1. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. May 12, 2011.
  7. ^ Dugdale, John (2016-08-28). "From squib to superstar". The Guardian. London. p. 5 (Review).
  8. ^ "Foundations (1966)". George Padmore Institute.
  9. ^ "Structure, Sign, Play". hydra.humanities.uci.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  10. ^ George Plimpton (1997). Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. New York, Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-23249-7, p. 248.
  11. ^ Ananda Lal; Reader in English Ananda Lal (2004). The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre. Oxford University Press. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-19-564446-3.
  12. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
  13. ^ Dubraska Falcón (19 November 2012). "Mónica Montañés: "El escritor necesita la distancia"". eluniversal.com. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  14. ^ Austrian Information. Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General. 1996. p. 5.

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1966 List of years in literature table 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 In poetry 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969Art 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 Poetry 2 5 Non fiction 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards 6 ReferencesEvents EditFebruary The Nottingham based chain of pharmacy stores Boots UK closes the last of its circulating Booklovers Library branches 1 Managers of the Royal Court Theatre in London are convicted of presenting an unlicenced play last November s premiere of Edward Bond s Saved This prosecution is considered influential in the abolition of the Theatres Act 1843 under which it is brought 2 February 10 Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel Valley of the Dolls published From a friend she obtains a list of the bookstores on whose sales figures The New York Times relies for its bestseller list She then uses her own money to buy large quantities of her book at these stores causing it to head the list Valley of the Dolls incidentally comes to rank among the best selling novels of all time February 14 Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for anti Soviet activity March 9 J R R Tolkien writes to Roger Verhulst expressing concerns about a proposed book about him by W H Auden saying I regard such things as premature impertinences I cannot believe that they have a usefulness to justify the distaste and irritation given to the victim but adding I owe Mr Auden a debt of gratitude for the generosity with which he has supported and encouraged me since the first appearance of The Lord of the Rings 3 March 21 In a landmark obscenity case Memoirs v Massachusetts the Supreme Court of the United States rules that the hitherto banned novel Fanny Hill John Cleland s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 1749 does not meet the Roth Standard for obscenity By June Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn completes his semi autobiographical novel Cancer Ward Rakovyj Korpus Rakovy Korpus and sends the manuscript to the Russian literary magazine Novy Mir The editor Tvardosky equivocates and requests cuts so Solzhenitsyn arranges for it be distributed as samizdat then to be discussed at a meeting in Moscow of the Central Writers Club on November 17 4 June 14 The Roman Curia abolishes the Index Librorum Prohibitorum of books banned by the Catholic Church after 427 years June 16 Blackwell s opens the 930 m2 Norrington Room in their main bookshop in Broad Street Oxford 5 June 23 Octopussy and The Living Daylights appears as the final collection of James Bond short stories by the character s creator Ian Fleming who died in 1964 July 24 American poet and critic Frank O Hara is hit by a dune buggy on Fire Island beach 6 He dies of his injuries the following day August 24 Tom Stoppard s tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is first played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Despite small audiences Stoppard s reputation is made by a review by Ronald Bryden in The Observer 7 September 8 The first UNESCO International Literacy Day is celebrated September 9 New Beacon Books the first Caribbean publishing house in England releases its first title Foundations by John La Rose 8 October 21 Jacques Derrida delivers a lecture La Structure le signe et le jeu dans le discours des sciences humaines 9 to a structuralism colloquium at Johns Hopkins University giving international prominence to his work on literary theory November 3 4 The 1966 flood of the Arno in Florence causes severe damage to libraries including the National Central Library and Gabinetto Vieusseux November 28 Truman Capote s Black and White Ball The Party of the Century is held in New York City The guest of honor The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham later says Truman called me up that summer and said I think you need cheering up And I m going to give you a ball I was sort of baffled I felt a little bit like Truman was going to give the ball anyway and that I was part of the props 10 December Moskva magazine begins the first publication of Mikhail Bulgakov s novel The Master and Margarita Ma ster i Margari ta begun in 1928 but left incomplete on the author s death in 1940 It appears in two parts with portions omitted or altered unknown date The first modern revival of a play by Bhasa Madhyamavyayoga directed by Shanta Gandhi is performed in a Hindi translation 11 New books EditFiction Edit Chinua Achebe A Man of the People Robert H Adleman with Col George Walton The Devil s Brigade Lloyd Alexander The Castle of Llyr Elechi Amadi The Concubine Kingsley Amis The Anti Death League Isaac Asimov Fantastic Voyage Margaret Atwood The Circle Game Expeditions Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein Louis Auchincloss The Embezzler Nigel Balchin In the Absence of Mrs Petersen J G Ballard The Crystal World The Impossible Man Henry Bauchau La Dechirure John Bingham The Double Agent Paul Bowles Up Above the World Ray Bradbury S Is for Space Victor Canning Doubled in Diamonds John Dickson Carr Panic in Box C Angela Carter Shadow Dance Agatha Christie Third Girl James Clavell Tai Pan Robert Crichton The Secret of Santa Vittoria Cecil Day Lewis The Morning after Death August Derleth and Mark Schorer Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People Philip K Dick The Crack in Space Now Wait for Last Year The Unteleported Man Allen Drury Capable of Honor Friedrich Durrenmatt Der Meteor Shusaku Endo 遠藤 周作 Silence 沈黙 Chinmoku Ian Fleming Octopussy and The Living Daylights John Fowles The Magus L P Hartley The Betrayal Robert A Heinlein The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Aidan Higgins Langrishe Go Down Robert E Howard and L Sprague de Camp Conan the Adventurer Michael Innes The Bloody Wood Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon Anatoly Kuznetsov Babi Yar A Document in the Form of a Novel Babij yar Roman dokument Arthur La Bern Goodbye Piccadilly Farewell Leicester Square J M G Le Clezio Le Deluge Violette Leduc Therese et Isabelle Jose Lezama Lima Paradiso Audrey Erskine Lindop I Start Counting H P Lovecraft and Divers Hands The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces John D MacDonald One Fearful Yellow Eye Compton Mackenzie Paper Lives Alistair MacLean When Eight Bells Toll Larry McMurtry Last Picture Show Bernard Malamud The Fixer Marga Minco Een leeg huis An empty house Gladys Mitchell The Croaking Raven Grace Ogot The Promised Land Anthony Powell The Soldier s Art J B Priestley Salt Is Leaving Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 Seabury Quinn Carnacki the Ghost Finder Gerard Reve Nader tot U Nearer to Thee Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Karl Ristikivi Roomulaul Tayeb Salih Season of Migration to the North موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال Mawsim al Hijrah ila al Shamal Giorgio Scerbanenco A Private Venus Traitors to All Leonardo Sciascia A ciascuno il suo Paul Scott The Jewel in the Crown Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward Adela Rogers St Johns Tell No Man Krishna Sobti Mitro Marjani To Hell with you Mitro Rex Stout Death of a Doxy William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls Leslie Thomas The Virgin Soldiers Roderick Thorp The Detective Jack Vance The Eyes of the Overworld Mario Vargas Llosa The Green House La Casa Verde Patrick White The Solid Mandala Roger Zelazny The Dream Master This ImmortalChildren and young people Edit Chinua Achebe Chike and the River 12 Rev W Awdry Main Line Engines twenty first in The Railway Series of 42 books Nina Bawden The Witch s Daughter Roald Dahl The Magic Finger Leon Garfield Devil in the Fog Charles Keeping Charley Charlotte and the Golden Canary Clive King The 22 Letters Ruth Park The Muddle Headed Wombat at School The Muddle Headed Wombat in the Snow Bill Peet Capyboppy Farewell to Shady Glade Otfried Preussler The Little Ghost Tomi Ungerer Moon Man Eduard Uspensky Crocodile Gena and His Friends Krokodil Gena i ego druzya Jill Paton Walsh Hengest s TaleDrama Edit Edward Albee A Delicate Balance Barbara Garson MacBird Gunter Grass The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand Gwenlyn Parry Saer Doliau Doll Doctor Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Zdenek Sverak Jiri Sebanek and Ladislav Smoljak Akt The Nude introducing the Czech fictional character Jara Cimrman Luis Valdez Quinta TemporadaPoetry Edit Main article 1966 in poetry Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist Anne Sexton Live or DieNon fiction Edit Geoffrey Blainey The Tyranny of Distance How Distance Shaped Australia s History Dictionary of Canadian Biography volume 1 Truman Capote In Cold Blood non fiction novel book publication William Crossing died 1928 The Dartmoor Worker anthology L Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp Spirits Stars and Spells Edward Jay Epstein Inquest Margery Fish An All the Year Garden Michel Foucault The Order of Things Les Mots et les choses une archeologie des sciences humaines Ernst H Gombrich Norm and Form Studies in the Art of the Renaissance A E Hotchner Papa Hemingway P J Kavanagh The Perfect Stranger Mark Lane Rush to Judgment Alasdair MacIntyre A Short History of Ethics Nancy Mitford The Sun King Maria Moliner Diccionario de uso del espanol Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin Volume I 1931 1934 Arthur M Schlesinger Jr A Thousand Days Hunter S Thompson Hell s Angels The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Frances Yates The Art of MemoryBirths EditFebruary 14 Alex Scarrow British novelist February 24 Alain Mabanckou Francophone Congolese novelist March 4 Dav Pilkey American author and illustrator March 5 Mark Z Danielewski American fiction author April 12 Jim Duffy Irish political writer April 15 Cressida Cowell English children s writer April 20 David Chalmers Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist April 26 Natasha Trethewey American poet July 4 Brian Selznick American children s writer and illustrator July 21 Sarah Waters Welsh novelist September 24 Rhys Hughes Welsh short story writer October 7 Sherman Alexie Native American poet and fiction writer October 19 David Vann Alaskan born fiction writer and sailor November 17 Jane Holland Victoria Lamb etc English poet and novelist November 22 Monica Montanes Venezuelan screenwriter and journalist 13 December 27 Chris Abani Nigerian poet and novelist December 29 Christian Kracht Swiss novelist and journalist unknown date Helen Zahavi English novelist and translatorDeaths EditJanuary 18 Kathleen Norris American novelist born 1880 February 12 Elio Vittorini Italian novelist born 1908 March 10 Frank O Connor Irish short story writer born 1903 April 1 Brian O Nolan Flann O Brien Irish satirist heart attack born 1911 April 2 C S Forester English historical novelist born 1899 April 10 Easter Day Evelyn Waugh English novelist biographer and travel writer heart failure born 1903 April 13 Georges Duhamel French novelist born 1884 May 7 Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Polish aphorist and poet born 1909 June 7 Yoshishige Abe Japanese philosopher and politician born 1883 Jean Arp Alsatian poet sculptor and painter born 1886 June 10 Henry Treece English children s historical novelist and poet born 1911 June 30 Margery Allingham English crime novelist born 1904 July 20 Anne Beffort Luxembourg literary writer and biographer born 1880 Vladimir Cavarnali Bessarabian born Romanian poet editor and journalist born 1910 July 25 Frank O Hara American poet ruptured liver born 1926 August 2 or 3 Tristan Klingsor Leon Leclere French fantaisiste poet painter and musician born 1874 August 6 Cordwainer Smith Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger American science fiction author heart attack born 1913 August 12 Artur Alliksaar Estonian poet cancer born 1923 September 3 Fu Lei Chinese translator born 1908 September 14 Dorothy Whipple English novelist and children s writer born 1893 September 25 Mina Loy English born poet and artist born 1882 September 28 Andre Breton French Surrealist poet and author born 1896 October 30 Yorgos Theotokas Greek novelist born 1906 November 26 Siegfried Kracauer German journalist and critic born 1889 December 23 Heimito von Doderer Austrian author born 1896 14 Awards EditAlfaguara Prize Manuel Vicent Pascua y naranjas Cholmondeley Award Ted Walker Stevie Smith Eric Gregory Award Robin Fulton Seamus Heaney Hugo Williams See 1966 Governor General s Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards Hugo Award Frank Herbert Dune and Roger Zelazny And Call Me Conrad James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction Christine Brooke Rose Such and Aidan Higgins Langrishe Go Down James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography Geoffrey Keynes The Life of William Harvey Miles Franklin Award Peter Mathers Trap Nebula Award first Samuel R Delany Babel 17 and Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon Newbery Medal for children s literature Elizabeth Borton de Trevino I Juan de Pareja Nobel Prize in Literature Shmuel Yosef Agnon Nelly Sachs Premio Nadal Vicente Soto La zancada Prix Goncourt Edmonde Charles Roux Oublier Palerme Prix Medicis Marie Claire Blais Une saison dans la vie d Emmanuel Pulitzer Prize for Drama no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Richard Eberhart Selected Poems Viareggio Prize Alfonso Gatto La storia delle vittimeReferences Edit Boots Booklovers Library Information Science Today March 28 2011 Archived from the original on October 15 2014 Retrieved October 25 2014 Costa Maddy 2011 10 09 Edward Bond s Saved We didn t set out to shock The Guardian London Letter to Roger Verhulst 9 March 1966 Tolkien Gateway Pearce Joseph 2011 Solzhenitsyn A Soul in Exile Ignatius Press pp 184ff Graham Rigby Winter 1966 Two views of the Norrington Room The Private Library 7 4 84 6 Belanger Craig Frank O Hara Frank O Hara 2005 1 MasterFILE Premier EBSCO Web May 12 2011 Dugdale John 2016 08 28 From squib to superstar The Guardian London p 5 Review Foundations 1966 George Padmore Institute Structure Sign Play hydra humanities uci edu Retrieved 2021 05 12 George Plimpton 1997 Truman Capote In Which Various Friends Enemies Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career New York Doubleday ISBN 0 385 23249 7 p 248 Ananda Lal Reader in English Ananda Lal 2004 The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre Oxford University Press p 345 ISBN 978 0 19 564446 3 Hahn Daniel 2015 The Oxford Companion to Children s Literature 2nd ed New York Oxford University Press pp 2 3 ISBN 978 0 19 871554 2 Dubraska Falcon 19 November 2012 Monica Montanes El escritor necesita la distancia eluniversal com Retrieved 16 October 2016 Austrian Information Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General 1996 p 5 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1966 in literature amp oldid 1177823370, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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