1961 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1961.

Events[]

  • January 24 – The American dramatist Arthur Miller and the film star Marilyn Monroe are granted a divorce in Mexico on grounds of incompatibility.[1]
  • February – Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address the event.[2]
  • March 15 – Hugh Wheeler's comedy Big Fish, Little Fish opens at the ANTA Theater in New York City, directed by Sir John Gielgud. It is one of the early Broadway plays to explore frankly the issue of male homosexuality.[3]
  • March 20 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, becomes the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and its company the Royal Shakespeare Company, with Peter Hall as director.[4]
  • May – Grove Press publishes Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the United States 27 years after its original publication in France. The book leads to one of many obscenity trials (Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein) that test American laws on pornography in the 1960s.
  • May 27 – The British bookseller WHSmith closes the last of its in-store circulating library branches.[5]
  • August 18 – The British magazine Tribune publishes a letter from playwright John Osborne beginning "Damn You, England..."[6]
  • September 8 – Publication of the science fiction novel series Perry Rhodan, der Erbe des Universums, originally written by K. H. Scheer and Walter Ernsting, is begun by Arthur Moewig Verlag in Germany in Romanhefte (partwork) format. It is then published every week, attaining more than 2880 issues and around two billion total copies sold worldwide by the end of 2016.[7]
  • September 14 – Novelist William Golding, having resigned a teaching post at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, sets off for the academic year 1961/1962 to teach at Hollins College, Virginia, United States.[8]
  • November 10 – Joseph Heller's satirical novel Catch-22 is first put on sale by Simon & Schuster in the United States, after favorable advance reviews in October. Heller has been working on the book since 1953, based on his experiences as a bombardier during World War II. Its title, which becomes a phrase referring to a no-win situation, had previously been Catch-18.[9][10]
  • unknown date – Michael Halliday publishes a seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.[11]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1961 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 8 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic crime novelist[30]
  • January 11 – Jasper Fforde, English fantasy novelist
  • January 12 – Simon Russell Beale, Malaysian-born English Shakespearean actor[31]
  • January 28 – Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer[32]
  • May 17 – Han Dong, Chinese poet and novelist
  • May 19 – Jennifer Armstrong, American children's author
  • May 22 – Andrea Dunbar, English playwright (died 1990)
  • June 9 – Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright
  • June 23 – David Leavitt, American novelist
  • June 24 – Rebecca Solnit, American writer and essayist
  • July 7 – Eric Jerome Dickey, American writer
  • July 10 – Carol Anne Davis, Scottish crime writer
  • July 18 – M.J. Alexander, American author and photographer
  • July – Richard Flanagan, Australian novelist
  • August 20 – Greg Egan, Australian science fiction author
  • September 13 – Tom Holt, English historical and comic novelist and poet
  • September 26 – Will Self, English novelist, political commentator and broadcaster
  • October 29 – Michael Gurr, Australian playwright (died 2017)
  • November 9 – Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
  • November 14 – Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (died 2007)
  • November 18 – Steven Moffat, Scottish TV writer
  • November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
  • November – Sarah Holland, English novelist, actress and singer
  • December 8 – Ann Coulter, American author[33]
  • November 20 – David Mills, American journalist and TV writer (died 2010)
  • December 23 – Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist and journalist
  • December 30 – Douglas Coupland, Canadian author[34]
  • unknown date – Winsome Pinnock, British playwright

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Kirk, Connie Ann (2004). Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-313-33214-2.
  3. ^ Senelick, Laurence (2013). Theatre Arts on Acting. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 113472375X.
  4. ^ "Key Dates". Royal Shakespeare Company. 2010. Archived from the original on 16 June 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  5. ^ British Librarianship and Information Science. Library Association. 1961. p. 228.
  6. ^ Luc Gilleman (4 February 2014). John Osborne: Vituperative Artist. Routledge. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-317-84281-1.
  7. ^ Imprimatur: Ein Jahrbuch Für Bücherfreunde (in German). Im Verlag der Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen. 2003. p. 186.
  8. ^ Carey, John (2009). William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies'. London: Faber. ISBN 9780571231638.
  9. ^ Bloom, Harold (2007). Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Infobase Publishing.
  10. ^ "What is Catch-22? And why does the book matter?". BBC News. 2002-03-12. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  11. ^ Halliday, M. A. K. (1961). "Categories of the theory of grammar". WORD. International Linguistic Association. 17 (3): 241–292.
  12. ^ Michael R. Collings (1 January 1986). Brian Aldiss. Wildside Press LLC. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-916732-74-5.
  13. ^ Norris J. Lacy; Geoffrey Ashe; Sandra Ness Ihle (5 September 2013). The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: New edition. Routledge. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-136-60633-5.
  14. ^ National Education. 1965. p. 166.
  15. ^ John Dickson Carr (1961). The Witch of the Low-tide: An Edwardian Melodrama. Harper.
  16. ^ Benjamin Mangrum (November 2018). Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism. Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-19-090937-6.
  17. ^ Randall Stevenson (1993). A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-century Novel in Britain. University Press of Kentucky. p. 91. ISBN 0-8131-0823-3.
  18. ^ James Kennaway (1 July 2010). Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: A James Kennaway Omnibus. Canongate Books. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-84767-494-4.
  19. ^ Sharon Rose Wilson (1993). Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-61703-424-4.
  20. ^ The Bookmark. New York State Library. 1961. p. 131.
  21. ^ Russell Kirk (1980). Modern Age. Foundation for Foreign Affairs. p. 74.
  22. ^ Anthony Boxill (1983). V.S. Naipaul's Fiction: In Quest of The Enemy. York Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-919966-34-5.
  23. ^ Dr. Paul Jordan (2006). The Author in the Office: Narrative Writing in Twentieth-century Argentina and Uruguay. Tamesis Books. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-85566-126-4.
  24. ^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 214.
  25. ^ Michael B. Snyder (2003). Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-313-31346-2.
  26. ^ H. Paul Varley (1984). Japanese Culture. University of Hawaii Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-8248-0927-0.
  27. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1969). Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. p. 184.
  28. ^ Christian Haase (2007). Pragmatic Peacemakers: Institutes of International Affairs and the Liberalization of West Germany 1945-73. Wissner-Verlag. p. 198. ISBN 978-3-89639-603-7.
  29. ^ Edmund Byrne (11 March 1992). Work, Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry. Temple University Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-87722-957-5.
  30. ^ "Arnaldur Indriðason". Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  31. ^ Richard Burt (2007). Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Greenwood Press. p. 745. ISBN 978-0-313-33118-3.
  32. ^ Contemporary Authors. Cengage Gale. August 2006. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-7876-7876-0.
  33. ^ Benjamin F. Shearer, ed. (September 2006). Home Front Heroes [Three Volumes]. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-313-04705-3.
  34. ^ Douglas Coupland (May 1993). Shampoo Planet. Simon and Schuster. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-671-75506-5.
  35. ^ Hellman, Lilian, Introduction to posthumous Hammett, Dashiell, The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Houghton Mifflin: 1962).
  36. ^ Collector's Quest. 1968. p. 38.
  37. ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 544. ISBN 978-0-19-512800-0.
  38. ^ Carolyn Wedin Sylvander (1981). Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer. Whitston Publishing Company. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-87875-196-9.
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  40. ^ "Peyami Safa (1899)- (15.06.1961)" (in Turkish). Biyografi. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
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