1961 in literature
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[edit] Events
- First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.
- Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage.
- William Golding spends a year as writer in residence at Hollins College, Virginia, USA.
[edit] New books
- Brian Aldiss - The Primal Urge
- Poul Anderson - Three Hearts and Three Lions
- J. G. Ballard - The Wind From Nowhere
- Pat Boone - 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty
- Morley Callaghan - A Passion in Rome
- A. J. Cronin - The Judas Tree
- Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
- L. Sprague de Camp - The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
- August Derleth - The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
- Ian Fleming - Thunderball
- Ernest K. Gann - Fate Is the Hunter
- Winston Graham - Marnie
- Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat
- Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
- Joseph Heller - Catch-22
- John Hersey - The Wall
- Patricia Highsmith - This Sweet Sickness
- Richard Hughes -The Fox in the Attic
- Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
- Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel
- John le Carré - Call for the Dead
- H.P. Lovecraft - The Shunned House
- Gabriel García Márquez - No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba)
- Iris Murdoch - A Severed Head
- V. S. Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas
- Juan Carlos Onetti - El astillero (The Shipyard)
- Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
- Harold Robbins - The Carpetbaggers
- J. D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
- Leonardo Sciascia - Il giorno della civetta
- Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- John Steinbeck - The Winter of Our Discontent
- Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Theodore Sturgeon - Some of Your Blood
- Morris West - Daughter of Silence
- Rose Valland - Le front de l'art
- Leon Uris - Mila 18
- H. Russell Wakefield - Strayers from Sheol
- Edward Lewis Wallant - The Pawnbroker
- Richard Yates -Revolutionary Road
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Zima Junction
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Rough for Radio I and II
- Henry Denker - A Far Country
- Max Frisch - Andorra
- Heiner Müller - Die Umsiedlerin (The Resettler Woman)
- John Osborne - Luther
- Neil Simon - Come Blow Your Horn
- Tennessee Williams - The Night of the Iguana
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
- Karl Popper - The Poverty of Historicism
- Bertrand Russell - Has Man a Future?
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary
- Raymond Williams - The Long Revolution
- Peter Wessel Zapffe - Indføring i litterær dramaturgi (Introduction to literary dramaturgy)
[edit] Births
- January 11 - Jasper Fforde, novelist
- February 21 - Chuck Palahniuk, author
- August 20 - Greg Egan, science fiction author
- September 13 - Tom Holt, novelist
- December 30 - Douglas Coupland, author
[edit] Deaths
- January 10 - Dashiell Hammett, author
- January 21 - Blaise Cendrars, author
- January 30 - Dorothy Thompson, influential journalist
- June 2 - George S. Kaufman, dramatist and critic
- July 2 - Ernest Hemingway, novelist
- July 12 - Mazo de la Roche, novelist
- September 27 - H.D., poet, novelist and memoirist
- November 2 - James Thurber, humorist
[edit] Awards
- Eric Gregory Award: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Hill
- Formentor Prize: Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett
- Lorne Pierce Medal: Robertson Davies
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Nobel Prize for literature - Ivo Andric
- Premio Nadal: Juan Antonio Payno, El curso
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tad Mosel, All the Way Home
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
