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Overview of the events of 1959 in literature
Overview of the events of 1959 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1959 .
Events
January 31 –
Sandu Tudor begins a 40-year sentence at
Jilava Prison for "conspiracy against social order" and "intense activity against the working class", as meted out by a
Romanian communist tribunal. He will die in
1962 at
Aiud prison , possibly from torture.
[1]
April 30 –
Bertolt Brecht 's
Saint Joan of the Stockyards receives its stage première. It was originally performed on radio in 1932.
May 7 – Scientist and novelist
C. P. Snow delivers in the
Senate House, University of Cambridge a
Rede Lecture on
The Two Cultures , to do with a perceived breakdown of communication between the
sciences and
humanities . It is later published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution .
May 28 – The
Mermaid Theatre opens in the
City of London .
July 21 –
D. H. Lawrence 's
Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of three books whose bans are overturned in court with assistance from the lawyer
Charles Rembar in the United States, the others being
Tropic of Cancer and
Fanny Hill .
[2] The book, published in 1928, legally circulates in the U.S. after a 31-year obscenity ban.
July 29 – The U.K.
Obscene Publications Act becomes law, coming into force on August 29. It requires a work to be seen as a whole, permitting a "public good" defence against a prosecution for obscenity, and making prosecutions for
obscene libel difficult.
September –
Anthony Burgess , teaching in
Brunei , suffers a breakdown and is forced to return to the UK, where he becomes a full-time novelist.
[3]
October 29 –
Astérix the Gaul makes a first appearance in the first regular issue of the
comic magazine
Pilote .
[4]
November 11 – In the United States, the short film
Pull My Daisy is released, adapted from an unperformed play by
Jack Kerouac ,
Beat Generation , and narrated by him. It stars poets
Allen Ginsberg ,
Peter Orlovsky and
Gregory Corso .
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
January 8 –
Ovidiu Pecican , Romanian writer and poet
January 9 –
Rigoberta Menchú , Guatemalan writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner
January 20 –
R. A. Salvatore , American science fiction and fantasy author
January 28 –
Megan McDonald , American children's author
February 2 –
Jari Tervo , Finnish author
March 11 –
Dejan Stojanović , Serbian-American poet and essayist
March 15 –
Ben Okri , Nigerian poet and novelist
March 18 –
Frédéric-Yves Jeannet , French-born writer in French and Spanish
April 15 –
Emma Thompson , English actress and screenwriter
April 30 –
Alessandro Barbero , Italian historian, novelist and essayist
c.
May 1 –
Yasmina Reza , French novelist and dramatist
May 3 –
Ben Elton , English comedian, novelist and screenwriter
[11]
May 13 –
Zeruya Shalev , Israeli novelist
June 12 –
Hilary McKay , English children's writer
June 13 –
Maurice G. Dantec , French science fiction author
July 19 –
Vigdis Hjorth , Norwegian novelist
August 6 –
Deborah Levy , South African-born British writer
August 17 –
Jonathan Franzen , American essayist and novelist
August 27 –
Jeanette Winterson , English novelist
September 9 –
Matti Rönkä , Finnish television journalist and novelist
September 29
October 1 –
Brian P. Cleary , American humorist, author and poet
October 7 –
Steven Erikson , Canadian novelist and fantasy author
October 31 –
Neal Stephenson , American science fiction writer
[12]
November 1 –
Susanna Clarke , English novelist
November 22 –
Christoph Klimke , German writer
December 20 –
Sandra Cisneros , Mexican-born American author
unknown dates
Deaths
January 3 –
Edwin Muir , Scottish poet, novelist and translator (born
1887 )
[13]
January 14 –
G. D. H. Cole , English political theorist, economist and historian (born
1889 )
[14]
January 26 –
Margaret Elizabeth Egan , American librarian (born
1905 )
January 29 –
Pauline Smith , South African novelist (born
1882 )
February 20 –
Laurence Housman , English playwright and writer (born
1865 )
February 22 –
Percy F. Westerman , English children's author (born
1876 )
February 23 –
Luis Palés Matos , Puerto Rican poet (heart failure) (born
1898 )
[15]
February 28 –
Maxwell Anderson , American playwright and film writer (born
1888 )
March 4 –
W. W. Greg , English literary scholar (born
1875 )
March 17 –
Galaktion Tabidze (Galaktioni), Georgian poet (suicide, born
1892 )
[16]
March 26 –
Raymond Chandler , American crime writer (born
1888 )
April 12 –
James Gleason , American actor, playwright and screenwriter (born
1882 )
April 14 –
Julien Josephson , American screenwriter (born
1881 )
April 16 –
Ramón Armando Rodríguez , Venezuelan writer (born
1895 )
May 18 –
Apsley Cherry-Garrard , English memoirist and explorer (born
1886 )
May 20 –
Alfred Schütz , Austrian philosopher and sociologist (born
1899 )
June 1 –
Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (born
1883 )
June 23 –
Boris Vian , French novelist (heart attack, born
1920 )
June 30 –
José Vasconcelos , Mexican poet and political writer (born
1882 )
July 3 –
Johan Bojer , Norwegian novelist (born
1872 )
July 26 –
Manuel Altolaguirre , Spanish poet, editor and publisher (car accident, born
1905 )
August 8 –
Emil František Burian , Czech poet, journalist and playwright (born
1904 )
September 5 –
Marta Rădulescu , Romanian novelist and poet (born
1912 )
September 14 –
Laxmi Prasad Devkota , Nepali poet, playwright, and novelist (born
1909 )
September 18 –
Benjamin Péret , French poet (born
1899 )
October 12 –
Arnolt Bronnen , Austrian playwright and director (born
1895 )
November 29 –
Hans Henny Jahnn , German playwright and novelist (born
1894 )
[17]
December 2 –
Giuseppe Zucca , Italian screenwriter (born
1887 )
Awards
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Rosemary Sutcliff ,
The Lantern Bearers
Hugo Award for Best Novel :
James Blish ,
A Case of Conscience
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Morris West , The Devil's Advocate
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Christopher Hassall ,
Edward Marsh
Miles Franklin Award :
Vance Palmer ,
The Big Fellow
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
Prix Goncourt :
André Schwarz-Bart ,
Le dernier des Justes
[18]
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
References
^ Diaconescu, Ioana (2006).
"Sandu Tudor și gruparea 'Rugul Aprins' " .
România Literară (in Romanian) (43). Archived from
the original on 2016-03-04.
^
Grove Press, Inc. v. Christenberry, 175 F. Supp. 488 (SDNY 1959) , 21 July 1959.
^ Tim Kindseth (6 June 2010).
"Anthony Burgess's Take on Brunei" . TIME magazine. Retrieved 13 December 2020 .
^
"Les BD oubliées D'Astérix" . BDoubliées (in French). Retrieved 2013-10-03 .
^ Sarah Lyall (January 26, 2012).
"Which is cooler: To accept a knighthood from the queen, or to turn one down?" . New York Times . Retrieved December 13, 2020 .
^ Scot Peacock (September 2001).
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series . Cengage Gale. p. 93.
ISBN
978-0-7876-4608-0 .
^ John Cusatis (2010).
Research Guide to American Literature . Infobase Publishing. p. 81.
ISBN
978-1-4381-3405-5 .
^
France . French Embassy, Press and Information Division. 1971. p. 17.
^ Janet Davies (15 January 2014).
The Welsh Language: A History . University of Wales Press. p. 153.
ISBN
978-1-78316-020-4 .
^ Sanders, Vicki (Autumn 1988). "Dancing and the Dark Soul of Japan: An Aesthetic Analysis of "Butō" ". Asian Theatre Journal . 5 (2): 148.
JSTOR
25161489 .
^
"Ben Elton" . British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 2020-11-13 .
^
Fisher, Lawrence M. (April 17, 1994).
"SOUND BYTES; Orwell – Class of 1994" . The New York Times .
Archived from the original on December 6, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2010 .
^
"Edwin Muir 1887-1959" . Scottish Poetry Library . Retrieved 17 April 2023 .
^ "G. D. H. Cole". The Times . London. 15 January 1959.
^ Poets, Academy of American.
"About Luis Palés Matos | Academy of American Poets" . poets.org . Retrieved 13 October 2020 .
^
Rayfield, Donald (2000),
The Literature of Georgia: A History , pp. 251–4.
Routledge ,
ISBN
0-7007-1163-5
^ Aldrich, Robert; Wotherspoon, Garry, eds. (2002).
Who's who in gay and lesbian history : from antiquity to World War II . London: Routledge.
ISBN
0415159822 .
OCLC
50479290 .
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[1] [
permanent dead link ] January 22, 1961 St. Petersburg Times