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Overview of the events of 1965 in literature
Overview of the events of 1965 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1965 .
You never heard such silence
Events
February 10 – Soviet fiction writers
Yuli Daniel and
Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings.
February 20 – While Soviet author and translator
Valery Tarsis is abroad, the
Soviet Union negates his citizenship.
March 26 –
Harold Pinter 's play
The Homecoming receives its world première at the
New Theatre, Cardiff , from the
Royal Shakespeare Company under
Peter Hall .
[1] Its London première follows on
June 3 at the
Aldwych Theatre , with
Vivien Merchant , Pinter's wife at this time, appearing. It also appears in print this year.
May 26 – The world première of
A High Wind in Jamaica , a film from
Richard Hughes 's
1929 novel , featuring the future novelist
Martin Amis , son of
Kingsley Amis , as a teenage actor.
June 11 –
International Poetry Incarnation , a
performance poetry event, takes place at London's
Royal Albert Hall before an audience of 7,000, with members of the
Beat Generation featuring.
Adrian Mitchell reads "To Whom It May Concern".
June 17 – The London première of
Frank Marcus ' farce
The Killing of Sister George (at the
Duke of York's Theatre ) is among the first mainstream British plays with
lesbian characters.
Beryl Reid plays the title rôle. It has been previewed in April at the
Bristol Old Vic .
[2]
June 19 –
J. D. Salinger 's novella "
Hapworth 16, 1924 " takes up most of an issue of
The New Yorker magazine dated today.
[3] It will be the last of his works published before his death in
2010 .
[4]
June 30 – The English novelists
Kingsley Amis and
Elizabeth Jane Howard marry at
Marylebone
register office in London, as his second marriage and her third.
[5]
[6]
November 10 – Chinese critic
Yao Wenyuan publishes a review of a
Beijing Opera production of
Wu Han 's
Hai Rui Dismissed from Office in the Shanghai daily newspaper
Wenhui Bao , claiming the drama to be counter-revolutionary, a starting point for the
Cultural Revolution in China.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
February 1 –
Louise Welsh , British writer of psychological thrillers
February 20 –
Philip Hensher , English fiction writer, critic and editor
March 4
March 30 –
Piers Morgan , English journalist and editor
May 14 -
Eoin Colfer , Irish children's books author
June 2 –
Sean Stewart , American-Canadian author
June 22 – Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria, Indonesian lecturer and writer
July 7 –
Zoë Heller , English novelist
July 31 –
J. K. Rowling , English children's novelist
August 1 –
Sam Mendes , English theatre and film director
September 29 –
Nikolaj Frobenius , Norwegian novelist
October 23 –
Augusten Burroughs , American memoirist
November 28 –
Erwin Mortier , Belgian poet, novelist and translator writing in Flemish/Dutch
November 29 –
Lauren Child , English children's fiction writer and illustrator
December 14 –
Helle Helle , Danish novelist
December 31 –
Nicholas Sparks , American novelist
unknown dates
Deaths
January 4 –
T. S. Eliot , American-born English poet and dramatist (born
1888 )
January 12 –
Lorraine Hansberry , American journalist and dramatist (cancer, born
1930 )
March 13 –
Fan S. Noli , Albanian bishop and poet (born
1882 )
May 3 –
Howard Spring , Welsh-born novelist and writer (born
1889 )
May 5 –
Edgar Mittelholzer , Guyanese-born novelist (suicide, born
1909 )
May 19 –
Maria Dąbrowska , Polish novelist, essayist and playwright (born
1889 )
June 5
June 13 –
Martin Buber , Austrian-born Jewish philosopher (born
1878 )
July 8 –
Thomas Sigismund Stribling , American novelist (born
1881 )
July 9 –
Jacques Audiberti , French Absurdist dramatist, poet and novelist (born
1899 )
July 28 –
Rampo Edogawa (江戸川 乱歩, Taro Hirai), Japanese author and critic (born
1894 )
July 30 –
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎), Japanese novelist (born
1888 )
July 31 –
John Metcalfe , English novelist and short story writer (born
1891 )
August 1 –
Percy Lubbock , English essayist, critic and biographer (born
1879 )
August 6 –
Aksel Sandemose , Danish novelist (born
1899 )
August 8 –
Shirley Jackson , American horror novelist and short story writer (born
1916 )
August 17 –
Jack Spicer , American poet (alcohol-related, born
1925 )
September 17 –
John Davy Hayward , English literary editor and bibliophile (born
1905 )
October 8 –
Thomas B. Costain , Canadian popular historian (born
1885 )
October 15 –
Randall Jarrell , American poet (road accident, born
1914 )
October 30 –
Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. , American historian (born
1888 )
November 8 –
Dorothy Kilgallen , American journalist (alcohol/drug overdose, born
1913 )
November 20 –
Katharine Anthony , American biographer (born
1877 )
November 24 –
Betty Miller , Irish-born Jewish writer (born
1910 )
December 16 –
W. Somerset Maugham English novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born
1874 )
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Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
References