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Overview of the events of 1963 in literature
Overview of the events of 1963 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1963 .
January – Novy Mir publishes "Matryona's Home", the first of three more stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn critical of the Soviet regime. They will be the last of his works to be published in the Soviet Union until 1990 .[1]
January 2 – The Traverse Theatre opens in Edinburgh .[2]
February – English novelist Barbara Pym submits her seventh book, An Unsuitable Attachment , for publication. It is rejected by Tom Maschler at her regular publisher, Jonathan Cape , and by others. She will not have another novel published until 1977 and An Unsuitable Attachment does not appear until 1982, posthumously.[3]
February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat about a month after her only novel, the semi-autobiographical The Bell Jar , appears and six days after writing her last poem, "Edge".
March – The Publications and Entertainments Act in South Africa enables the government to impose strict censorship . Des Troye's novel An Act of Immorality (an attack on miscegenation provisions in the country's Immorality Act ) is among the first to be prohibited.
March/April – The Bologna Children's Book Fair is inaugurated.
March 19 – Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Workshop premières the ensemble musical Oh, What a Lovely War! at the Theatre Royal Stratford East , London.
May 17 – The first Galician Literature Day is held.
July 16 – A day after admission to the Acland Hospital in Oxford, C. S. Lewis suffers a heart attack. Though later discharged, he dies at home four months later.[4]
August 20 – The Royal Shakespeare Company introduces its performance cycle of Shakespeare's history plays under the title The War of the Roses , adapted and directed by John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , Stratford-upon-Avon .
September – Publication in India of Bhalchandra Nemade 's Bildungsroman , Kosala ('Cocoon'), considered the first existentialist novel in Marathi literature , written in the author's native village.[5]
October 21 – The first film from Merchant Ivory Productions is released: The Householder with a screenplay adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her own novel.
October 22 – The Royal National Theatre Company is newly formed in the U.K. under Artistic Director Laurence Olivier .[6] Its first performance is with Peter O'Toole as Hamlet , in London.[7]
November – Tom Wolfe 's essay "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)..." is published in Esquire magazine in the United States.
November 17 – Fictional hero 8 Man , created by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata , appears in print for the first time.
November 20 –29 – A High Court case in London over the rights in Ian Fleming 's James Bond novel Thunderball (1961) determines that future editions will be described as "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory , Jack Whittingham , and Ian Fleming".
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Russian poet Anna Akhmatova 's Requiem , an elegy on Soviet sufferings in the Great Purge , composed 1935–1961, is first published complete in book form, without her knowledge, in Munich.
The first modern publication by mainstream publishers in the U.K. and the United States of John Cleland 's novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , 1748–1749) causes it to be banned for obscenity in Massachusetts, triggering a court case by its publisher,[8] and prosecution of a London retailer.
Leslie Charteris publishes his last collection of stories with Simon Templar : The Saint in the Sun . All subsequent Saint books will be ghost-written by others.
Grace Ogot 's short story "A Year of Sacrifice" (later retitled "The Rains Came") is published in Black Orpheus .[9]
New books [ edit ]
Fiction [ edit ]
Children and young people [ edit ]
Non-fiction [ edit ]
January 3 – Alex Wheatle , black British young adult fiction writer
January 11 – Jan Arnald (Arne Dahl), Swedish novelist and critic[15]
January 18 – Peter Stamm , Swiss writer, dramatist and journalist
January 30 – Thomas Brezina , Austrian author[16]
March 1 – Miss Shangay Lily , Spanish drag queen, writer, actor, and director (died 2016 )
March 26 – Natsuhiko Kyogoku (京極 夏彦), Japanese mystery writer
April 27 – Russell T Davies , Welsh television writer[17]
April 28 – Beate Grimsrud , Norwegian novelist and playwright (died 2020 )[18]
May 5 – Scott Westerfeld , American young-adult novelist
May 8 – Robin Jarvis , English novelist[citation needed ]
May 19 – Michael Symmons Roberts , English poet[citation needed ]
May 24 – Michael Chabon , American author[citation needed ]
May 26 – Simon Armitage , English poet laureate[19]
June 18 – Adam Hargreaves , children’s author[citation needed ]
June 23 – Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), Chinese speculative fiction writer[20]
June 25 – Yann Martel , Canadian author
August 6 – Xurxo Borrazás , Spanish writer and translator[citation needed ]
August 13 – Valerie Plame , American writer and spy novelist
August 15 – Jan Sonnergaard , Danish short-story writer (died 2016 )[21]
September 2 – Thor Kunkel , German novelist
September 4 – Louise Doughty , English novelist and radio dramatist
September 6 – Alice Sebold , American novelist
September 12 – Michael McElhatton , Irish actor and writer
September 15 – Stephen C. Spiteri , Maltese military historian
October 8 – Nick Earls , Australian novelist and children's writer
October 20 – Gisela Kozak , Venezuelan writer and essayist[22]
October 23 – Gordon Korman , Canadian-American children's and young adult author
October 25 – Dominic Dromgoole , English theatre director and writer
November 12 – Damon Galgut , South African novelist and playwright[23]
December 23 – Donna Tartt , American novelist[24]
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January 6 – Stark Young , teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic and essayist (b. 1881 )[27]
January 8 – Kay Sage , American poet (suicide, born 1898 )[28]
January 13 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna , Spanish dramatist (born 1888 )
January 14 – Gustav Regler , German Socialist novelist (born 1898 )
January 29 – Robert Frost , American poet (born 1874 )[29]
February 4 – Brinsley MacNamara (John Weldon), Irish novelist and playwright (born 1890 )
February 8 – Ernst Glaeser , German writer (born 1902 )[30]
February 11 – Sylvia Plath , American poet and novelist (suicide, born 1932 )[31]
February 14 – Hilda Vīka , Latvian poet and novelist (born 1897 )
February 18 – Beppe Fenoglio , Italian writer (born 1887 )[32]
February 24 – Herbert Asbury , American journalist and writer (born 1889 )
March 4 – William Carlos Williams , American writer (born 1883 )[33]
March 11
March 26 – Jean Bruce , French writer (born 1921 )
March 29 – Pola Gojawiczyńska , Polish writer (born 1896 )
April 14 – Kodō Nomura , Japanese novelist and music critic (born 1882 )
April 25 – Christopher Hassall , English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet (born 1912 )[34]
May 12 – A. W. Tozer , American religious writer and pastor (born 1897 )
May 28 – Ion Agârbiceanu , Romanian writer and pastor (born 1882 )
June 3 – Nâzım Hikmet Ran , Turkish poet, playwright and novelist (heart attack, born 1892 )
June 17 – John Cowper Powys , English novelist (born 1872 )[35]
August 1 – Theodore Roethke , American poet (heart attack, born 1908 )[36]
August 14 – Clifford Odets , American dramatist (cancer, born 1906 )[37]
August 27 – W. E. B. Du Bois , American writer, scholar and activist (born 1868 )[38]
September 3 – Louis MacNeice , Irish poet (pneumonia, born 1907 )[39]
September 9 – Ernst Kantorowicz , German historian (born 1895 )
September 28 – Marie Linde , South African novelist (born 1894 )[40]
October 11 – Jean Cocteau , French poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1889 )[41]
October – Jolán Földes , Hungarian novelist and playwright (born 1902 )
November 13 – Margaret Murray , Indian-born English archeologist and historian (born 1863 )
November 22
December 25 – Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenstock), Romanian-born French poet and essayist (born 1896 )[44]
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry : William Carlos Williams
Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Hester Burton , Time of Trial
Eric Gregory Award : Ian Hamilton , Stewart Conn , Peter Griffith , David Wevill
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Gerda Charles , A Slanting Light
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Georgina Battiscombe , John Keble : A Study in Limitations
Miles Franklin Award : Sumner Locke Elliott , Careful, He Might Hear You
Newbery Medal for children's literature : Madeleine L'Engle , A Wrinkle in Time
Nobel Prize for literature – Giorgos Seferis
Premio Nadal : Manuel Mejía Vallejo , El día señalado
Prix Goncourt : Armand Lanoux , Quand la mer se retire [45]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama : no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : William Faulkner – The Reivers
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : William Carlos Williams : Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : William Plomer
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