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1960 in literature

May 07, 2024

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1960.

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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

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Main article: 1960 in poetry

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  1. ^ De Jongh, Nicholas (1992). Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality on stage. Routledge. pp. 119–122. ISBN 0-415-03362-4.
  2. ^ Pouteau, Jacques (25 March 1960). . Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  3. ^ Galens, David M., ed. (2000). "Overview: The Caretaker". Drama for Students. Literature Resource Center. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  4. ^ "The Caretaker – Première". HaroldPinter.org. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  5. ^ . Publishers Weekly. 2001-12-17. Archived from the original on 2005-12-25.
  6. ^ "Welsh Nationalist Sent to Prison". The Times. No. 54869. London. 1960-09-06. p. 6.
  7. ^ Chandler, Robert (1985). Introduction to Life and Fate. New York Review of Books Classics. p. xv.
  8. ^ "Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' Resonated Behind Iron Curtain As Well". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
  9. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out". On This Day. BBC. 1960-11-10. from the original on 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
  12. ^ "Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party". The New York Times. 1960-11-22. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  13. ^ Semiotica. Mouton Publishers. 1995. p. 84.
  14. ^ Professor Emeritus Phyllis M Martin; Phyllis M. Martin; Patrick O'Meara (1995). Africa. Indiana University Press. p. 310. ISBN 0-253-20984-6.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780198715542.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Stamatis, Alexis (2007). Bar Flaubert. Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-900850-57-5.
  19. ^ Hjalmar Dahl – Svenskt översättarlexikon (in Swedish)
  20. ^ a b Library Association (1956). Proceedings, Papers and Summaries of Discussions at the ... Conference. p. 8.


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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1960 List of years in literature table 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 In poetry 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science 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 caseContents 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 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 premiered 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 premiered 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 Zhizn i sudba 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 Nad propastyu vo rzhi 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 Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence 13 Francophone African scholar Djibril Tamsir Niane publishes the novelization Soundjata ou l Epopee du Manding in Paris the first extended transcription of the 13th century Epic of Sundiata from Mandinka oral tradition and its first translation into a Western language 14 New books editFiction edit Chinua Achebe No Longer at Ease J R Ackerley We Think the World of You Kingsley Amis Take a Girl Like You Poul Anderson The High Crusade Lynne Reid Banks The L Shaped Room Stan Barstow A Kind of Loving John Barth The Sot Weed Factor Hamilton Basso The Light Infantry Ball H E Bates When the Green Woods Laugh Charles Beaumont Night Ride and Other Journeys Robert Bloch Pleasant Dreams Nightmares Algis Budrys Rogue Moon 15 Anthony Burgess The Doctor is Sick The Right to an Answer Morley Callaghan The Many Colored Coat John Dickson Carr In Spite of Thunder Carlo Cassola Bebo s Girl La ragazza di Bube Henry Cecil Alibi for a Judge Louis Ferdinand Celine North Nord Agatha Christie The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Barry Crump A Good Keen Man Roald Dahl Kiss Kiss short stories L Sprague de Camp The Bronze God of Rhodes The Glory That Was L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Wall of Serpents Carmen de Icaza The House Across the Street La casa de enfrente Philip K Dick Dr Futurity Vulcan s Hammer E L Doctorow Welcome to Hard Times Lawrence Durrell Clea final volume of The Alexandria Quartet begun 1957 Henry Farrell What Ever Happened to Baby Jane Gabriel Fielding Through Streets Broad and Narrow Ian Fleming For Your Eyes Only James Bond short stories Sarah Gainham The Silent Hostage Richard Gordon Doctor in Clover Graham Greene A Burnt Out Case Arthur Hailey In High Places Donald Hamilton Death of a Citizen Wilson Harris Palace of the Peacock James Leo Herlihy All Fall Down Hammond Innes The Doomed Oasis Michael Innes The New Sonia Wayward Greye La Spina Invaders from the Dark Jean Larteguy Les Centurions Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Clarice Lispector Family Ties Lacos de familia short story collection David Lodge The Picturegoers Ngaio Marsh False Scent John Masters The Venus of Konpara Richard Matheson The Beardless Warriors Judith Merrill The Tomorrow People Gladys Mitchell Say It with Flowers Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz Nancy Mitford Don t Tell Alfred Alberto Moravia La noia The Empty Canvas Edna O Brien The Country Girls Flannery O Connor The Violent Bear It Away Scott O Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins Wilder Penfield The Torch Frederik Pohl Drunkard s Walk Anthony Powell Casanova s Chinese Restaurant James H Schmitz Agent of Vega Nevil Shute died January 2 Trustee from the Toolroom Clark Ashton Smith The Abominations of Yondo Muriel Spark The Ballad of Peckham Rye Alan Sillitoe The General David Storey This Sporting Life Rex Stout Three at Wolfe s Door Too Many Clients William Styron Set This House on Fire Julian Symons The Progress of a Crime John Updike Rabbit Run Irving Wallace The Chapman Report John Edward Williams Butcher s Crossing Raymond Williams Border Country John Wyndham Trouble with Lichen Children and young people edit Joan Aiken The Kingdom and The Cave 16 Rev W Awdry The Twin Engines fifteenth in The Railway Series Hans Baumann Ich zog mit Hannibal I Marched with Hannibal 1961 Sheila Burnford The Incredible Journey P D Eastman Are You My Mother Alan Garner The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Jean Craighead George My Side of the Mountain Rumer Godden Candy Floss short story Elinor Lyon Cathie Runs Wild Scott O Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins Georges Prosper Remi as Herge Tintin au Tibet book publication Dr Seuss Green Eggs and Ham One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Barbara Sleigh The Kingdom of Carbonel Drama edit Edward Albee The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox first performances Samuel Beckett The Old Tune first broadcast Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons stage version and The Tiger and the Horse Marc Camoletti Boeing Boeing Henry Cecil and William Saroyan Settled Out of Court Noel Coward Waiting in the Wings Beverley Cross Strip the Willow Witold Gombrowicz The Marriage Slub first performance Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros Ira Levin Critic s Choice Stephen Lewis and Theatre Workshop Sparrers Can t Sing Bruce Mason The End of the Golden Weather Tad Mosel All the Way Home Harold Pinter The Caretaker first performed and published The Room first professional performance A Night Out first broadcast Terence Rattigan Ross Barry Reckord You in Your Small Corner Nelson Rodrigues Beijo no Asfalto The Asphalt Kiss Wole Soyinka A Dance of the Forests Gore Vidal The Best Man Maruxa Vilalta Los disorientados The Disoriented Ones Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall Billy Liar Orson Welles adaptation Chimes at Midnight Tennessee Williams Period of Adjustment Poetry edit Main article 1960 in poetry Douglas Livingstone The Skull in the Mud Sylvia Plath The Colossus and Other Poems Alan Sillitoe The Rats and other poems Non fiction edit Joy Adamson Born Free 17 Kingsley Amis New Maps of Hell Philippe Aries Centuries of Childhood A Social History of Family Life L Enfant et la vie familiale sous l Ancien Regime Peg Bracken The I Hate to Cook Book Albert Camus died January 4 Resistance Rebellion and Death selected essays Jean Paul Desbiens Les Insolences du Frere Untel The Insolences of Brother Anonymous Hans Georg Gadamer Truth and Method Wahrheit und Methode John Howard Griffin Black Like Me Helen Keller Light in my Darkness Arthur Koestler The Lotus and the Robot Jessica Mitford Hons and Rebels A S Neill Summerhill A Radical Approach to Child Rearing Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier The Morning of the Magicians Le Matin des magiciens R C Majumdar An Advanced History of India Jean Paul Sartre Critique of Dialectical Reason Critique de la raison dialectique William L Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich H H Smythe and M M Smythe The New Nigerian Elite W T Stace The Teachings of the Mystics Elie Wiesel Night La Nuit 1958 Births editJanuary 18 Mark Rylance English actor and theater director January 23 Andre 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 Thai Vietnamese author November 10 Neil Gaiman English author December 10 Kenneth Branagh Northern Irish actor and screenwriter unknown dates Malcolm Pryce Anglo Welsh detective novelist Alexis Stamatis Greek novelist playwright and poet 18 D J Taylor English literary critic and biographerDeaths editJanuary 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 Leonora Eyles English feminist writer and novelist born 1889 Ethel Lilian Voynich Anglo Irish novelist and composer born 1864 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 editAmerican 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 BetjemanReferences edit 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 Premiere 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 oversattarlexikon in Swedish a b Library Association 1956 Proceedings Papers and Summaries of Discussions at the Conference p 8 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1960 in literature amp oldid 1176155836, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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