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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1960.

Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?

–Mervyn Griffith-Jonesprosecuting in theLady Chatterley's Lovercase

Events[edit]

February–October –Astoundingmagazine is renamedAnalog.
Spring –August Derlethlaunches the poetry magazineHawk and Whippoorwillin the United States.
March 22–Joan Henry's playLook on Tempestsis premièred at theComedy Theatrein London'sWest End,as the first play dealing openly withhomosexualityto be passed for performance by theLord Chamberlainin Britain.^[1]^[2]
April 27–Harold Pinter's playThe Caretakeris premièred at theArts Theatre Clubin London's West End, transferring to theDuchess Theatrethe following month, where it runs for 444 performances before departing from London forBroadway,Pinter's first significant commercial success.^[3]^[4]Alan BatesandDonald Pleasencestar in the original production.
July 11–Harper Lee'sSouthern GothicBildungsromanTo Kill a Mockingbirdis published in the United States. She completes no later novel before her death in2016.
August 12–Green Eggs and Ham,byDr. 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–WelshpoetWaldo Williamsis imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).^[6]
October 3– TheLilly Libraryis opened on the campus ofIndiana University Bloomington,based on the collections ofJosiah K. Lilly Jr.
October 6andDecember 16–Dalton Trumbo,one of theHollywood Ten,receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the filmsSpartacusandExodus,released in the United States on these dates.
c. October –Vasily Grossmansubmits his novelLife and Fate(Жизнь и судьба) for publication, resulting in confiscation of the manuscript and all related material by theKGBin the Soviet Union.^[7]
November –Rita Rait-Kovaleva's Russian translation ofThe Catcher in the Ryeis published in the Soviet literary magazineInostrannaya LiteraturaasНад пропастью во ржи( "Over the Abyss in Rye" ).^[8]
November 2–R v Penguin Books Ltd:Penguin Booksis found not guilty ofobscenityfor publishingLady Chatterley's Loverin the United Kingdom.^[9]
November 8–Richard Wrightdelivers a polemical lecture, "The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States", to students and members of theAmerican Church in Paris,a few weeks before his death in the city from heart attack aged 52.^[10]
November 10–Lady Chatterley's Loversells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication in the U.K. since being banned in 1928.^[11]
November 17–Michael Footis re-elected to theParliament of the United Kingdomand relinquishes the editorship ofTribune.
November 19– American novelistNorman Mailer stabs his wife,the artistAdele Morales.^[12]
November 24–Raymond QueneaufoundsOulipoin France.
unknown dates
- Dutch mathematicianHans Freudenthalinvents theartificial language Lincos,intended forcommunication with extraterrestrial intelligence.^[13]
- Francophone African scholarDjibril Tamsir Nianepublishes the novelizationSoundjata, ou l'Epopée du Mandingin Paris, the first extended transcription of the 13th-centuryEpic of SundiatafromMandinkaoral tradition and its first translation into a Western language.^[14]

New books[edit]

Poetry[edit]

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 Ariès–Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life(L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime)
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 Frère 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 PauwelsandJacques 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. SmytheandM. M. Smythe–The New Nigerian Elite
W. T. Stace–The Teachings of the Mystics
Elie Wiesel–Night(La Nuit,1958)

Births[edit]

January 18–Mark Rylance,English actor and theater director
January 23–André 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 (died1994)
May 24-Eric Brown,British science fiction writer (died2023)
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 Thái,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 biographer

Deaths[edit]

January 4–Albert Camus,FrenchPied-Noirnovelist (car accident, born1913)
January 9–Elsie J. Oxenham(Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English girls' story writer (born1880)
January 12–Nevil Shute,English-born novelist (stroke, born1899)
January 14–Ralph Chubb,English poet, printer and artist (born1892)
January 28–Zora Neale Hurston,African-American anthropologist and author (born1891)
May 30–Boris Pasternak,Russian novelist, poet and translator (born1890)
July 27
- Leonora Eyles,English feminist writer and novelist (born1889)
- Ethel Lilian Voynich,Anglo-Irish novelist and composer (born1864)
July 28–Kassian Bogatyrets,Rusyn priest, politician and historian (born1868)
August 19–Frances Cornford,English poet (born1886)
August 29–Vicki Baum,Austrian-born novelist writing in German and English (born1888)
October 19–Hjalmar Dahl,Finnish journalist, translator and writer (born1891)^[19]
October 31–H. L. Davis,American fiction writer and poet (born1894)
November 20–Ya'akov Cohen,Russian-born Israeli poet (born1881)
November 28–Richard Wright,African-American novelist and poet (born1908)
December 26–Tetsuro Watsuji( cùng thập triết lang ), Japanese philosopher and historian of ideas (born1889)

Awards[edit]

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism:E. B. White
Carnegie Medalforchildren's literature:Ian Wolfran Cornwall,The Making of Man^[20]
Eric Gregory Award:Christopher Levenson
James Tait Black Memorial Prizefor fiction:Rex Warner,Imperial Caesar
James Tait Black Memorial Prizefor biography: CanonAdam Fox,The Life ofDean Inge
Kate Greenaway Medal:Gerald Rose,Old Winkle and the seagulls^[20]
Miles Franklin Award:Elizabeth O'Conner,The Irishman
Newbery Medalforchildren's literature:Joseph Krumgold,Onion John
Nobel Prize for literature:Saint-John Perse
Pulitzer Prize for Drama:Jerome Weidman,George Abbottfor book,Jerry Bockfor music, andSheldon Harnickfor 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

References[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 fromthe originalon 2012-01-25.Retrieved2010-10-30.
^Galens, David M., ed. (2000). "Overview:The Caretaker".Drama for Students.Literature Resource Center. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale.Retrieved2012-09-04.
^"The Caretaker– Première ".HaroldPinter.org.Retrieved2009-05-28.
^"All-Time Bestselling Children's Books".Publishers Weekly.2001-12-17. Archived fromthe originalon 2005-12-25.
^"Welsh Nationalist Sent to Prison".The Times.No. 54869. London. 1960-09-06. p. 6.
^Chandler, Robert (1985). Introduction toLife 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.Retrieved2015-06-18.
^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 Loversold out ".On This Day.BBC.1960-11-10.Archivedfrom the original on 2008-03-07.Retrieved2008-02-11.
^"Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party".The New York Times.1960-11-22.Retrieved2013-10-31.
^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 översättarlexikon (in Swedish)
^^a ^bLibrary Association (1956).Proceedings, Papers and Summaries of Discussions at the... Conference.p. 8.

[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)."London Sees Play of Type Formerly Banned".Los Angeles Times.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-01-25.Retrieved2010-10-30.

[3] Galens, David M., ed. (2000). "Overview:The Caretaker".Drama for Students.Literature Resource Center. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale.Retrieved2012-09-04.

[4] "The Caretaker– Première ".HaroldPinter.org.Retrieved2009-05-28.

[5] "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books".Publishers Weekly.2001-12-17. Archived fromthe originalon 2005-12-25.

[6] "Welsh Nationalist Sent to Prison".The Times.No. 54869. London. 1960-09-06. p. 6.

[7] Chandler, Robert (1985). Introduction toLife 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.Retrieved2015-06-18.

[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 Loversold out ".On This Day.BBC.1960-11-10.Archivedfrom the original on 2008-03-07.Retrieved2008-02-11.

[12] "Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party".The New York Times.1960-11-22.Retrieved2013-10-31.

[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)

[Association1956-20] Library Association (1956).Proceedings, Papers and Summaries of Discussions at the... Conference.p. 8.

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Events[edit]

New books[edit]

Fiction[edit]

Children and young people[edit]

Drama[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Awards[edit]

References[edit]