1959 IN LITERATURE

The year '1959 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood.

★ First appearance of Astérix the Gaul.

★ Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School.

★ Frank Herbert begins researching ''Dune''.

★ Frederik Pohl becomes editor of ''Galaxy'' magazine.

★ Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française.

New books

★ Isaac Asimov - ''Nine Tomorrows''

★ Saul Bellow - ''Henderson the Rain King''

★ Robert Bloch - ''Psycho''

★ Ray Bradbury - ''A Medicine for Melancholy''

★ John Brunner

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★ ''Echo in the Skull''

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★ ''The World Swappers''

★ Algis Budrys - ''The Falling Torch''

★ William S. Burroughs - ''Naked Lunch''

★ Taylor Caldwell - ''Dear and Glorious Physician''

★ Richard Condon - ''The Manchurian Candidate''

★ Alexander Cordell - ''Rape of the Fair Country''

★ Robert Crichton - ''The Great Impostor''

★ Allen Drury - ''Advise and Consent''

★ Alfred Duggan - ''Children of the Wolf''

★ Gerald Durrell - ''My Family and Other Animals''

★ Lawrence Durrell - ''Mountolive''

★ Ian Fleming - ''Goldfinger''

★ Paul Gallico - ''Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris''

★ Günter Grass - ''The Tin Drum''

★ Robert A. Heinlein

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★ ''The Menace From Earth''

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★ ''Starship Troopers''

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★ ''The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag''

★ Shirley Jackson - ''The Haunting of Hill House''

★ William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick - ''The Ugly American''

★ H.P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands - ''The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces''

★ John Lymington - ''Night of the Big Heat''

★ Naguib Mahfouz - ''The Children of Gebelaawi''

★ Norman Mailer - ''Advertisement for Myself''

★ James A. Michener - ''Hawaii''

★ Mervyn Peake - ''Titus Alone''

★ Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett) - ''The Dawning Light''

★ Mordecai Richler - ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz''

★ Philip Roth - ''Goodbye, Columbus''

★ Robert Ruark - ''Poor No More''

★ Terry Southern - ''The Magic Christian''

★ John Updike - ''The Same Door''

★ Leon Uris - ''Exodus''

★ Kurt Vonnegut - ''The Sirens of Titan''

New drama

★ Tennessee Williams - ''Sweet Bird of Youth''

Non-fiction

★ Kenneth Anger - ''Hollywood Babylon''

★ Thomas B. Costain - ''The Three Edwards'' (Third book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''Engines''

★ August Derleth

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★ ''Some Notes on H.P. Lovecraft''

★ Savitri Devi - ''Impeachment of Man''

★ C. S. Forester - ''Sink the Bismarck!'' aka ''The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck''

★ Erving Goffman - ''The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life''

★ Garrett Mattingly - ''The Defeat of the Spanish Armada''

★ Karl Popper - ''The Logic of Scientific Discovery''

★ Cornelius Ryan - ''The Longest Day''

★ William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White - ''The Elements of Style''

Births

★ March 15 - Ben Okri, poet and novelist

★ March 18 - Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, novelist and critic

★ May 3 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author

★ October 31 - Neal Stephenson - science fiction writer

★ ''date unknown

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★ Paul Anderson, journalist

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★ Maurice Georges Dantec, science fiction author

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★ R. A. Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author

Deaths

★ January 3 - Edwin Muir, poet, novelist and translator

★ January 29 - Pauline Smith, novelist

★ February 22 - Percy F. Westerman, children's author

★ February 23 - Luis Palés Matos, poet

★ February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, playwright, film writer

★ March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American novelist

★ April 14 - Julien Josephson, screenwriter

★ May 18 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, explorer and memoirist

★ June 23 - Boris Vian, French novelist

★ June 30 - José Vasconcelos, political writer

★ September 18 - Benjamin Péret, poet

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Olga Knipper, widow of Anton Chekhov and star of many of his plays

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★ Alfred Schütz, philosopher and sociologist

Awards

★ Hugo Award - James Blish, ''A Case of Conscience''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, ''The Witch of Blackbird Pond''

★ Nobel Prize for literature: Salvatore Quasimodo

★ Premio Nadal: Ana María Matute, ''Primera memoria''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Archibald MacLeish, ''J. B.''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Lewis Taylor, ''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz, ''Selected Poems 1928-1958''

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford