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The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

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
  • R. K. Narayan - The Man-Eater of Malgudi
  • 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
  • Rex Stout - The Final Deduction
  • Theodore Sturgeon - Some of Your Blood
  • Leon Uris - Mila 18
  • Rose Valland - Le front de l'art
  • H. Russell Wakefield - Strayers from Sheol
  • Edward Lewis Wallant - The Pawnbroker
  • Morris West - Daughter of Silence
  • Richard Yates -Revolutionary Road
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Zima Junction

    New drama

  • Samuel Beckett - Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio 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

    Poetry

  • August Derleth editor - Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

    Non-fiction

  • L. Sprague de Camp
  • Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Marshall McLuhan -
  • 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)

    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

    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

    Awards

  • Eric Gregory Award: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Hill
  • Formentor Prize: Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Jennifer Dawson, The Ha-Ha
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: M. K. Ashby, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe
  • 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

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