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Overview of the events of 1962 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1962 .
Events
January 7 – In an article in
The New York Times Book Review ,
Gore Vidal calls
Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist".
[1]
February 17 –
Arthur Miller marries the photographer
Inge Morath .
[2]
February 28 –
F. R. Leavis delivers the Richmond lecture Two Cultures? The Significance of
C. P. Snow at
Downing College, Cambridge , which arouses controversy.
[3]
[4]
May 11 – The
Finnish Ministry of Education forbids the import and distribution of eight children's books (including
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ), published by Kynäbaari, because of the poor quality and clandestine abridgement of the translations.
[5]
May –
Joe Orton and
Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books in London.
June 5 –
Marvel Comics publishes Amazing Fantasy #15, featuring the debut of its
Spider-Man feature by
Stan Lee and
Steve Ditko . The Amazing Spider-Man periodical series begins publication in December.
June 30 – The works of
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.
July – The General Law Amendment Act in
South Africa denies
freedom of speech to opposition activists and writers.
September –
Ted Hughes and
Sylvia Plath separate.
[6] From the beginning of the following month, Plath experiences a burst of creativity, writing in the last few months of her life most of the poems on which her reputation will rest. They include many that will appear in
Ariel and Winter Trees . On October 31, Heinemann in London publish The Colossus which will be the only collection of her poems published in her lifetime under her own name. In December she moves to a London flat in a house where
W. B. Yeats lived as a boy.
November –
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's
novella
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (
Russian : Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича , Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha ), the author's semi-autobiographical account of life in the
gulag , is published in
Novy Mir in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the
Soviet Union 's
Stalinist past.
December –
L. Frank Baum 's short story "
The Tiger's Eye " appears for the first time nearly 60 after it was written.
December 4 – A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction takes place between
Kingsley Amis ,
C. S. Lewis and
Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 17 –
Sebastian Junger , American novelist, journalist and documentary film-maker
January 29 –
Olga Tokarczuk , Polish fiction writer and poet
February 8 –
Malorie Blackman , English writer for young adults and children
February 21
March 27 –
John O'Farrell , English writer of fiction and non-fiction, comedy scriptwriter and political campaigner
March 30 –
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子), Japanese novelist and essayist
March 31 –
Michal Viewegh , Czech fiction writer
April 2 –
Mark Shulman , American children's author
April 6 –
Javier Cercas , Spanish novelist and academic
April 13 –
Chris Riddell , South African-born English children's book illustrator
April 22 –
B. Jeyamohan , Tamil novelist
May 11 -
Amir Hamed , Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator (died
2017 )
May 12 –
Yang Hongying (楊紅櫻), Chinese children's author
May 17 –
Lise Lyng Falkenberg , Danish novelist and biographer
May 19 –
Jonathan Dee , American novelist
June 12 –
Jordan Peterson , Canadian clinical psychologist and writer
July 30 –
Lavinia Greenlaw , English poet and novelist
August 3 –
Abdo Khal , Saudi Arabian writer
August 10 –
Suzanne Collins , American novelist and television writer
August 16 –
Christian Cameron , American-born Canadian writer
August 27 –
Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson), Icelandic novelist and poet
September 22 -
Nuzo Onoh , British-Nigerian writer
October 11 –
Anne Enright , Irish novelist
October 19 –
Tracy Chevalier , American historical novelist
October 28 –
Mark Haddon , English novelist and poet
November 4 -
Rick Yancey , American young-adult writer
November 12
December 17 –
Jan Bondeson , Swedish non-fiction writer
Deaths
January 17 –
Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet (heart attack, born
1905 )
[9]
January 20 –
Robinson Jeffers , American poet (born
1887 )
[10]
January 24 –
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar , Turkish novelist and essayist (born
1901 )
February 16 –
Frank Prewett , Canadian poet (born
1893 )
[11]
February 24 –
Hu Shih (胡適), Chinese Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and language reformer (born
1891 )
March 3 –
Pierre Benoit , French novelist (born
1886 )
[12]
March 16 –
Dora Adele Shoemaker , American poet, playwright, educator (born
1873 )
March 20 –
C. Wright Mills , American sociologist (born
1916 )
April 1 –
Michel de Ghelderode , Belgian playwright (born
1898 )
[13]
April 24 –
Emilio Prados , Spanish poet and editor (born
1899 )
May 3 —
Helen Dortch Longstreet , American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (born
1863 )
May 24 –
E. M. W. Tillyard , English literary scholar (born
1889 )
May 13 –
Constantin Gane , Romanian biographer and historical novelist (torture, born
1885 )
May 26 –
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson , English poet (born
1878 )
[14]
June 2 –
Vita Sackville-West , English poet and gardener (born
1892 )
[15]
June 27 –
Paul Viiding , Estonian poet and critic (born
1904 )
July 6 –
William Faulkner , American novelist and Nobel laureate (born
1897 )
[16]
July 8 –
Georges Bataille , French writer (cerebral arteriosclerosis, born 1897)
[17]
July 21 –
G. M. Trevelyan , English historian (born
1876 )
July 27 –
Richard Aldington , English poet and novelist (born
1892 )
August 9 –
Hermann Hesse , German-born Swiss novelist, poet and painter (born
1877 )
[18]
September 3 –
E. E. Cummings , American poet (born
1894 )
[19]
September 21 –
Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩), Chinese dramatist (born 1889)
September 22 –
Jean-René Huguenin , French novelist and literary critic (born in
1936 )
[20]
September 23 –
Patrick Hamilton , English dramatist (liver and kidney failure, born
1904 )
November 6 –
Howard R. Garis , American children's fiction writer (born
1873 )
November 17 –
Sandu Tudor , Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (stroke and possibly torture, born
1896 )
December 3 – Dame
Mary Gilmore , Australian poet and journalist (born
1865 )
December 12 –
Felix Aderca , Romanian novelist, critic, poet and journalist (cancer, born
1891 )
December 18 –
Garrett Mattingly , American historian (born
1900 )
[21]
December –
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth , English working class novelist and campaigner (born
1886 )
Awards
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction :
William Faulkner
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Pauline Clarke ,
The Twelve and the Genii
Eric Gregory Award :
Donald Thomas ,
James Simmons ,
Brian Johnson ,
Jenny Joseph
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Ronald Hardy , Act of Destruction
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Meriol Trevor , Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud and Newman: Light in Winter
Miles Franklin Award :
Thea Astley ,
The Well Dressed Explorer and
George Turner ,
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
Newbery Medal for
children's literature :
Elizabeth George Speare ,
The Bronze Bow
Newdigate Prize :
Stanley Johnson
Nobel Prize for Literature :
John Steinbeck
Premio Nadal :
José María Mendiola , Muerte por fusilamiento
Pulitzer Prize for Drama :
Frank Loesser ,
Abe Burrows ,
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :
Edwin O'Connor ,
The Edge of Sadness
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
Alan Dugan , Poems
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :
Christopher Fry
References
^
"The Satiric World of Evelyn Waugh" . Retrieved 18 April 2013.
^
Obituary, retrieved 27 December 2019.
^ Published in
The Spectator (London) March 9.
Gerhardi, William (1962-03-16).
"Sir Charles Snow, Dr. F. R. Leavis and the Two Cultures" . The Spectator : 9.
^ Kimball, Roger (1994).
"The Two Cultures' Today: On the C. P. Snow–F. R. Leavis Controversy" . The New Criterion . 12 (6): 10.
^
Ennakkoratkaisu KKO 1967-II-10. (A retrospective abstract of the whole process by The
Supreme Court of Finland , February 6, 1967. In Finnish.)
^ Kirk, Connie Ann (2004).
Sylvia Plath: A Biography . p. xx.
^ Oliver Balch (22 August 2019).
"Richard Booth obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 30 June 2020 .
^
Jewish Observer and Middle East Review . William Samuel & Company Limited. July 1975.
^ Roy Temple House (1963).
Books Abroad . University of Oklahoma. p. 163.
^ Robinson Jeffers; Tim Hunt (2001).
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers . Stanford University Press. p. 6.
ISBN
978-0-8047-4108-8 .
^
Profiles in Canadian Literature . Dundurn. 1986. p. 61.
ISBN
978-1-55002-001-4 .
^
The Illustrated London News . Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1962. p. 381.
^ Paul F. State (27 July 2004).
Historical Dictionary of Brussels . Scarecrow Press. p. 125.
ISBN
978-0-8108-6555-6 .
^
Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields . Gale Research Company. 1999. p. 157.
ISBN
978-0-7876-2674-7 .
^ Nigel Nicolson (28 June 2018).
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919–1962 . Orion. p. 371.
ISBN
978-1-4746-1086-5 .
^ Gene D. Phillips (1988).
Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation . Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 184.
ISBN
978-1-57233-166-2 .
^ Benjamin Noys (20 May 2000).
Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction . Pluto Press. p. 13.
ISBN
978-0-7453-1587-4 .
^ Ingo Cornils (2009).
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse . Camden House. p. 6.
ISBN
978-1-57113-330-4 .
^ Jay Parini (2004).
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature . Oxford University Press. p. 345.
ISBN
978-0-19-515653-9 .
^
French News: Books . Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 1965. p. 18.
^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999).
Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 571.
ISBN
978-1-57356-111-2 .