1959 in literature
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See also: 1958 in literature, other events of 1959, 1960 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood.
- First appearance of Astérix the Gaul.
- Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School.
- Frank Herbert begins researching Dune.
- Frederik Pohl becomes editor of Galaxy magazine.
- Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française.
[edit] New books
- Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King
- Robert Bloch - Psycho
- John Brunner - Echo in the Skull
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
- Taylor Caldwell - Dear and Glorious Physician
- Richard Condon - The Manchurian Candidate
- Alexander Cordell - Rape of the Fair Country
- Robert Crichton - The Great Impostor
- Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
- Alfred Duggan - Children of the Wolf
- Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals
- Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive
- Ian Fleming - Goldfinger
- Paul Gallico - Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
- Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
- Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
- Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
- William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick - The Ugly American
- John Lymington - Night of the Big Heat
- Naguib Mahfouz - The Children of Gebelaawi
- Norman Mailer - Advertisement for Myself
- James A. Michener - Hawaii
- Mervyn Peake - Titus Alone
- Mordecai Richler - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus
- Robert Ruark - Poor No More
- Terry Southern - The Magic Christian
- John Updike - The Same Door
- Leon Uris - Exodus
- Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
[edit] New drama
[edit] Non-fiction
- Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon
- Thomas B. Costain - The Three Edwards (Third book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
- Savitri Devi - Impeachment of Man
- C. S. Forester - Sink the Bismarck! aka The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck
- Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Garrett Mattingly - The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day
- William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White - The Elements of Style
[edit] Births
- March 15 - Ben Okri, poet and novelist
- March 18 - Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, novelist and critic
- May 3 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
- October 31 - Neal Stephenson - science fiction writer
- date unknown
- Paul Anderson, journalist
- Maurice Georges Dantec, science fiction author
- R. A. Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Edwin Muir, poet, novelist and translator
- January 29 - Pauline Smith, novelist
- February 22 - Percy F. Westerman, children's author
- February 23 - Luis Palés Matos, poet
- February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, playwright, film writer
- March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American novelist
- April 14 - Julien Josephson, screenwriter
- May 18 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, explorer and memoirist
- June 23 - Boris Vian, French novelist
- June 30 - José Vasconcelos, political writer
- September 18 - Benjamin Péret, poet
- date unknown
- Olga Knipper, widow of Anton Chekhov and star of many of his plays
- Alfred Schütz, philosopher and sociologist
[edit] Awards
- Hugo Award - James Blish, A Case of Conscience
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Nobel Prize for literature: Salvatore Quasimodo
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Archibald MacLeish, J. B.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford
