1960 in literature
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See also: 1959 in literature, other events of 1960, 1961 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Lawrence Durrell publishes Clea, the final volume of the four-book collection titled The Alexandria Quartet that began in 1957.
- August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- Astounding magazine is renamed Analog.
- Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full credit for his work on the films Exodus and Spartacus.
- Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language, Lincos, intended for communication with alien life forms.
- Michael Foot relinquishes the editorship of Tribune to return to Parliament.
- Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
[edit] New books
- Chinua Achebe - No Longer at Ease
- Kingsley Amis - Take a Girl Like You
- Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
- Hamilton Basso - The Light Infantry Ball
- Morley Callaghan - The Many Colored Coat
- Carlo Coccioli - The White Stone
- Jean-Paul Desbiens - The Insolences of Brother Anonymous
- Lawrence Durrell - Clea
- Henry Farrell - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only
- Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- Vintilă Horia - Dieu est né en exil
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra - Hunters in a Narrow Street
- Hubert Lampo - De komst van Joachim Stiller ("The Coming of Joachim Stiller")
- Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
- Nancy Mitford - Don't Tell Alfred
- Alberto Moravia - La noia (The Empty Canvas)
- Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls
- Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
- Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Wilder Penfield - The Torch
- Anthony Powell - Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham
- Nevil Shute - Trustee from the Toolroom (published posthumously)
- Irving Wallace - The Chapman Report
- Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
- Raymond Williams - Border Country
[edit] New drama
- Jean Anouilh - Becket
- Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons
- Françoise Sagan - Château en Suède
- Wole Soyinka - A Dance of the Forests
[edit] Poetry
- Douglas Livingstone - The Skull in the Mud
- Jan Twardowski - Znaki ufności
[edit] Non-fiction
- Kingsley Amis – New Maps of Hell
- Albert Camus - Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
- Hans-Georg Gadamer – Truth and Method
- John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
- Helen Keller – Light in my Darkness
- Arthur Koestler – The Lotus and the Robot
- Jean-Paul Sartre – Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason)
- William L. Shirer – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Elie Wiesel – Night – (Previously published in French in 1958 as La Nuit)
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Helen Fielding, author
- April 28 - Ian Rankin, crime novelist
- May 21 - John O'Brien, novelist (d. 1994)
- July 13 - Ian Hislop, satirist
- November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author
- date unknown - Malcolm Pryce, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Albert Camus, novelist (car accident)
- January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
- January 14 - Ralph Chubb, poet
- January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston
- May 30 - Boris Pasternak, novelist and poet
- November 28 - Richard Wright, author
[edit] Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: E.B. White
- Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
- Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for 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
