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The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.
Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage.
William Golding spends a year as writer in residence at Hollins College, Virginia, USA.
In 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 tested American laws on pornography in the 1960s.

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
John Dickson Carr - The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama
Agatha Christie
- The Pale Horse
- Double Sin and Other Stories
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
Marlen Haushofer - 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
Jean Genet - The Screens
Heiner Müller - Die Umsiedlerin (The Resettler Woman)
John Osborne - Luther
Neil Simon - Come Blow Your Horn
Tennessee Williams - The Night of the Iguana

Poetry

Main article: 1961 in poetry

August Derleth editor - Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

Non-fiction

L. Sprague de Camp
- The Heroic Age of American Invention
- Man And Power
Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
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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