1968 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1968.

Events[]

  • January 1 – Cecil Day-Lewis is announced as the new Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.[1]
  • March 28 – Glidrose Publications releases the James Bond novel, Colonel Sun by "Robert Markham" (a pseudonym for Kingsley Amis). Initially intended to relaunch the Bond book series after the death in 1964 of the character's creator, Ian Fleming, Colonel Sun ends up as the final book in the series, discounting a "biography" of Bond and a pair of film-script adaptations, until John Gardner revives it in 1981.
  • April – The American edition of Andrew Garve's thriller The Long Short Cut becomes the first book printed completely by electronic composition.[2][3]
  • May – The Action Theater in Munich is disbanded after its building is wrecked by one of its founders, jealous of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's growing power in the group.[4]
  • June 17 – Tom Stoppard's parodic comedy The Real Inspector Hound opens at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End, starring Richard Briers and Ronnie Barker.[5]
  • July 28 – Last Exit to Brooklyn is cleared of obscenity in the English appeal court. John Mortimer appears for the defence.[6] This is the last prosecution of a book under the U.K. Obscene Publications Acts.
  • August – Tom Wolfe's books The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pump House Gang are published on the same day. Both will become bestsellers and cement Wolfe's status as a leading social critic, chronicler of the counterculture of the 1960s, and practitioner of New Journalism.
  • September 26 – Theatres Act 1968 (royal assent July 26) ends censorship of the theater in the United Kingdom.[7][8]
  • October – Colin Spencer's comedy Spitting Image, one of the first plays with openly gay male leads, premières in London
  • October 31 – Alan Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, opens at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End under the direction of Patrick Garland, starring Sir John Gielgud, Paul Eddington and the playwright.
  • November – The English novelist Antony Burgess and his new wife Liana settle in Lija on Malta.[9]
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

  • Alan Bennett – Forty Years On
  • Hugo Claus – Vrijdag (Friday)
  • Mart Crowley – The Boys in the Band
  • Thomas Kilroy – The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche
  • Arthur Kopit – Indians
  • Colin Spencer – Spitting Image
  • Tom Stoppard – The Real Inspector Hound
  • Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司) – Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (書を捨てよ町へ出よう, Sho o Suteyo, Machi e Deyō)
  • Michel Tremblay – Les Belles-Sœurs[20]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1968 in poetry
  • Rod McKuen – Lonesome Cities
  • George Oppen – Of Being Numerous

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 30 – Rhoda Shipman, American comic book writer
  • March 23 – Mitch Cullin, American novelist
  • May 27 – Ekow Eshun, British Ghanaian writer, journalist and broadcaster
  • June 11 – Bryan Perro, Canadian author
  • July 6 – Tiit Aleksejev, Estonian novelist and playwright
  • September 14 – Shuichi Yoshida (吉田修), Japanese novelist
  • December 6 – Karl Ove Knausgård, Norwegian autobiographical novelist
  • December 31 – Junot Díaz, Dominican American novelist
  • unknown date – K. V. Johansen, Canadian children's author[23]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Yasunari Kawabata

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Altbach, Philip Gabriel; Hoshino, Edith S. (1995). International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-8153-0786-0.
  3. ^ Kane, Joseph Nathan (1997). Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History (5th ed.). The H.W. Wilson Company. p. 67. ISBN 0-8242-0930-3.
  4. ^ Elsaesser, Thomas (1996). Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject. Amsterdam University Press. p. 301. ISBN 90-5356-059-9.
  5. ^ Stephen Hu (1989). Tom Stoppard's Stagecraft. P. Lang. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-8204-0709-8.
  6. ^ Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature. London: Icon. pp. 283–4. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.
  7. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 978-1-85986-000-7.
  8. ^ Text of the Theatres Act 1968 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
  9. ^ "Going into Exile: Anthony Burgess in Malta". International Anthony Burgess Foundation. June 26, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  10. ^ Hallo, William W.; Van Dijk, J. J. A. (1968). The Exaltation of Inanna. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  11. ^ Christopher P. Stephens (1992). A Checklist of Dean R. Koontz. Ultramarine Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-89366-133-5.
  12. ^ Miranda H. Ferrara (2004). The Writers Directory: Vol. 1: A-L. 2004. St. James Press. p. 434. ISBN 978-1-55862-525-9.
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  20. ^ Lachance, François (2002), "Tremblay, Michel", glbtq.com, archived from the original on August 14, 2007, retrieved August 18, 2007
  21. ^ College Language Association (U.S.) (1977). CLA Journal. College Language Association. p. 556.
  22. ^ Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives. National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1990. p. 104.
  23. ^ Book Review Digest. H.W. Wilson Company. December 2001. p. 90.
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