1960 in literature

1960 in literature
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The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Lawrence Durrell publishes Clea, the final volume of the four-book collection titled The Alexandria Quartet that began in 1957.
August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
Astounding magazine is renamed Analog.
Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full credit for his work on the films Exodus and Spartacus.
Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language, Lincos, intended for communication with alien life forms.
Michael Foot relinquishes the editorship of Tribune to return to Parliament.
Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).

New books

Chinua Achebe - No Longer at Ease
Kingsley Amis - Take a Girl Like You
Poul Anderson - The High Crusade
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
Hamilton Basso - The Light Infantry Ball
Augusto Roa Bastos - Hijo de hombre
Robert Bloch - Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares
Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon
Morley Callaghan - The Many Colored Coat
Carlo Cassola - La ragazza di Bube
L. Sprague de Camp
- The Bronze God of Rhodes
- The Glory That Was
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - Wall of Serpents
Jean-Paul Desbiens - The Insolences of Brother Anonymous
Lawrence Durrell - Clea
Henry Farrell - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only
Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Vintilă Horia - Dieu est né en exil
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra - Hunters in a Narrow Street
Greye La Spina - Invaders from the Dark
Hubert Lampo - De komst van Joachim Stiller ("The Coming of Joachim Stiller")
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
John Masters - The Venus of Konpara
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
Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham
Nevil Shute - Trustee from the Toolroom (published posthumously)
Clark Ashton Smith - The Abominations of Yondo
Muriel Spark - The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Rex Stout
- Three at Wolfe's Door
- Too Many Clients
John Updike - Rabbit, Run
Irving Wallace - The Chapman Report
Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
Raymond Williams - Border Country

New drama

Edward Albee - The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox (both first performed)
Samuel Beckett - The Old Tune (first broadcast)
Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons and The Tiger and the Horse
Eugène Ionesco - Rhinoceros
Harold Pinter - The Caretaker (first performed), The Room (first professional performance) and A Night Out (first broadcast)
Terence Rattigan - Ross
Wole Soyinka - A Dance of the Forests
Tennessee Williams - Period of Adjustment

Poetry

Main article: 1960 in poetry

Douglas Livingstone - The Skull in the Mud
Jan Twardowski - Znaki ufności

Non-fiction

Joy Adamson – Born Free
Kingsley Amis – New Maps of Hell
Peg Bracken – The I Hate to Cook Book
Albert Camus - Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Jean-Paul Desbiens - Les insolences du Frère Untel
Hans-Georg Gadamer – Truth and Method
John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
Helen Keller – Light in my Darkness
Arthur Koestler – The Lotus and the Robot
Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier - Le Matin des Magiciens
Jean-Paul Sartre – Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason)
William L. Shirer – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Elie Wiesel – Night – (Previously published in French in 1958 as La Nuit)

Births

January 1 - Helen Fielding, author
April 28 - Ian Rankin, crime novelist
May 21 - John O'Brien, novelist (d. 1994)
July 13 - Ian Hislop, satirist
November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author
date unknown - Malcolm Pryce, novelist

Deaths

January 4 - Albert Camus, novelist (car accident)
January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
January 14 - Ralph Chubb, poet
January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston
May 30 - Boris Pasternak, novelist and poet
November 28 - Richard Wright, author

Awards

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: E.B. White
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
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
Premio Nadal: Ramiro Pinilla, Ciegas hormigas
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

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