1960 in literature

1960 in literature

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

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). ¤ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ $ ₫ ₯ € ₠ ₣ ƒ ₴ ₭ ₤ ℳ ₥ ₦ № ₧ ₰ £ ៛ ₨ ₪ ৳ ₮ ₩ ¥ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ m² m³ Characters: Á á Ć ć É é Í í Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ó ó Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ú ú Ý ý Ź ź À à È è Ì ì Ò ò Ù ù Â â Ĉ ĉ Ê ê Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Î î Ĵ ĵ

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 - ""
*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"
*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

*Jean Anouilh - "Becket"
*Robert Bolt - "A Man for All Seasons"
*Françoise Sagan - "Château en Suède"
*Wole Soyinka - "A Dance of the Forests"

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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