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Everything about 1961 In Literature totally explainedThe 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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