1963 in literature

none 1963 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1963. Events thumb|right|Illustration of The Bell Jar from The Cincinnati Post, June 12, 1971 January – Novy Mir publishes "Matryona's Home", the first of three more stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn which were critical of the Soviet regime. They will be the last of his works to be published in the Soviet Union until 1990.Problems of Communism https://books.google.com/books?id=G44qAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA24 1965 Documentary Studies Section, International Information Administration 2 January 2 – The Traverse Theatre opens in Edinburgh.Joyce McMillan The Traverse Theatre Story 1963-1988 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYcqAAAAMAAJ 1988 Methuen Drama 978-0-413-19250-9 1 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.http://www.barbara-pym.org/AUA.html An Unsuitable Attachment Barbara Pym Society 2021-04-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20110406062350/http://www.barbara-pym.org/AUA.html 2011-04-06 dead 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.Margreet de Lange  The Muzzled Muse: Literature and Censorship in South Africa. John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997 9789027222206 7 March/April – The Bologna Children's Book Fair is inaugurated.The Book Publishing Annual: Highlights, Analyses & Trends Book Division, R.R. Bowker Company in collaboration with the staff of Publishers Weekly 1984 9780835218733 99 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.A. N. Wilson (2002) [1990]. C. S. Lewis: A Biography. W. W. Norton. 0-393-32340-4. August 20 – The Royal Shakespeare Company introduces its performance cycle of Shakespeare's history plays under the title The Wars of the Roses, adapted and directed by John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Hobson Harold Harold Hobson 21 July 1963 The Wars of the Roses Review The Sunday Times 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.Bhand Baba Kosalabaddala: Bhalacandra Nemade Yancya Kadambarivarila Lekha, Parikshane, Tipa Articles on Marathi novel 'Kosalā' https://books.google.com/books?id=Cfo0AQAAIAAJ 1979 Dhara Prakasana Aurangabad 7174307 mr 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.http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=1876 National Theatre: About the NT 2008-02-11 Its first performance is with Peter O'Toole as Hamlet, in London.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 420–421 0-7126-5616-2 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". unknown dates 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,http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2110281_2110282_2110290,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120331003144/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2110281_2110282_2110290,00.html dead March 31, 2012 Time Top 10 Racy Novels 2012-03-28 2013-04-18 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.Dubem Okafor Meditations on African Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=65Sl6W4Z5YsC&pg=PA181 2001 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29866-0 181 New books Fiction J. G. Ballard The Four-Dimensional Nightmare Passport to Eternity Simone de Beauvoir – Force of Circumstance (La Force des choses) Thomas Bernhard – Frost John Bingham – A Case of Libel Heinrich Böll – The Clown (Ansichten eines Clowns) Pierre Boulle – Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) Pearl S. Buck – The Living Reed Anthony Burgess – Inside Mr. Enderby Dino Buzzati – A Love Affair Taylor Caldwell – Grandmother and the Priests Morley Callaghan – That Summer in Paris Victor Canning – The Limbo LineAlan Burton Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=24mEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 31 January 2018 Vernon Press 978-1-62273-290-6 21 John Dickson Carr – The Men Who Explained MiraclesS. T. Joshi John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study https://books.google.com/books?id=cYAiXtKV5TEC&pg=PA167 1990 Popular Press 978-0-87972-477-1 167 Agatha Christie – The Clocks Julio Cortázar – Hopscotch (Rayuela) Oskar Davičo Ćutnje (Silences) Gladi (Hungers) L. Sprague de Camp – A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales L. Sprague de Camp (as editor) – Swords and Sorcery Cecil Day-Lewis – The Deadly Joker Len Deighton – Horse Under Water August Derleth (as Stephen Grendon) – Mr. George and Other Odd Persons Joan Didion – Run, River J.P. Donleavy – A Singular Man Daphne du Maurier – The Glass-Blowers Nell Dunn – Up the Junction John Fowles – The Collector Ian Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service Thrilling Cities Jane Gaskell – The Serpent Natalia Ginzburg – Family Sayings Rumer Godden – The Battle of the Villa Fiorita Winston Graham – The Grove of Eagles Günter Grass – Dog Years (Hundejahre) Georgette Heyer – False Colours B. S. Johnson – Travelling People Ismail Kadare – The General of the Dead Army (Gjenerali i Ushtrisë së vdekur) James Kennaway The Bells of Shoreditch The Mindbenders Damon Knight – First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time Arthur La Bern – Brighton Belle John le Carré – The Spy who Came in from the Cold J. M. G. Le Clézio – The Interrogation Primo Levi – La tregua (The Truce, Reawakening) Liu Yichang – Jiutu (酒徒, The Drunkard, or The Alcoholic) Mary McCarthy – The Group John McGahern – The Barracks Richard McKenna – The Sand Pebbles Alistair MacLean – Ice Station Zebra James A. Michener – Caravans Spike Milligan – Puckoon Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) – The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (午後の曳航, The Afternoon Towing) Gladys Mitchell – Adders on the Heath Emily Cheney Neville – It's Like This, Cat John O'Hara – Elizabeth Appleton Marcel Pagnol The Water of the Hills (L'Eau des collines) Jean de Florette Manon des Sources Živojin Pavlović – Krivudava reka (Curved River, short stories) Sylvia Plath (as Victoria Lucas) – The Bell Jar Laurens van der Post – The Seed and the Sower Thomas Pynchon – V. John Rechy – City of Night Susan Sontag – Benefactor Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender MeansCaroline Merz Post-War Literature: 1945 to the Present Day https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwrxPS6T-iAC&pg=PA30 2003 Evans Brothers 978-0-237-52258-2 30 Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake) – The Man With the Getaway FaceEuropa Publications International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA574 2003 Psychology Press 978-1-85743-179-7 574 Rex Stout – The Mother Hunt Randolph Stow – Tourmalinehttp://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C401374 Austlit Tourmaline by Randolph StowRed Page Heritage of Dust: Randolph Stow’s wasteland The Bulletin 1963-07-06 85 4351 41 0007-4039 Erwin Strittmatter – Ole BienkoppTherese Hörnigk Alexander Stephan The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic https://books.google.com/books?id=dJhiCg4I5F8C&pg=PA347 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-8264-0953-9 347 Boris and Arkady Strugatsky – Dalyokaya Raduga Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell to Earth Jim Thompson – The Grifters Rosemary Tonks – Opium Fogs Mario Vargas Llosa – The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros) Jack Vance – The Dragon Masters Tarjei Vesaas – Is-slottet (The Ice Palace) Kurt Vonnegut – Cat's Cradle Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar Charles Webb – The Graduate David Weiss – Naked Came I Manly Wade Wellman – Who Fears the Devil? Morris West – The Shoes of the Fisherman Christa Wolf – Der geteilte Himmel (Divided Heaven, They Divided the Sky) Children and young people Rev. W. Awdry – Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine (eighteenth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Nina Bawden – The Secret Passage Norman Bridwell – Clifford the Big Red Dog (first in a series of 80 books) Hester Burton – Time of Trial Paul Gallico – The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked Rumer Godden – Little Plum Edward Gorey – The Gashlycrumb Tinies Ted Hughes – How the Whale Became Norton Juster – The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics Clive King – Stig of the Dump Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Giants Sterling North – Rascal Peggy Parish – Amelia Bedelia Bill Peet – The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky – The Cow Went Over The Mountain Charles M. Schulz – Happiness Is a Warm Puppy Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are Dr. Seuss – Hop on Pop Donald J. Sobol – Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (first in a series of 29 books) Rosemary Sutcliff – Sword at Sunset Colin Thiele – Storm Boy Drama Arthur Adamov – La Politique des restes (The Politics of Rubbish) Alan Ayckbourn – Mr. Whatnot John Barton and Peter Hall (adapted from Shakespeare) – The Wars of the Roses Samuel Beckett – Play (première in German as Spiel) Anita Rowe Block – Love and Kisseshttps://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-love-and-kiss/194865114/ Love and Kisses, Tale of Teeners and Elders George Oppenheimer Newsday December 19, 1963 2C Emilio Carballido – ¡Silencio Pollos pelones, ya les van a echar su maíz! René de Obaldia – Le Satyre de la Villette Václav Havel – The Garden Party (Zahradní slavnost) Rolf Hochhuth – The Deputy (Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel) John Mortimer – A Voyage Round My Father (original radio version) Bill Naughton Alfie All in Good Time Barry Reckord – Skyvers Charles Wood – Cockade Theatre Workshop – Oh, What a Lovely War! Poetry 1963 in poetry T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909–1962 (selected by author, published on 75th birthday) Lionel Kearns – Songs of Circumstance H. P. Lovecraft – Collected Poems Rosemary Tonks – Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms Non-fiction Hannah Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem On Revolution James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time Thomas B. Costain – William the Conqueror L. Sprague de Camp – The Ancient EngineersLaughlin Charlotte Daniel J. H. Levack De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography San Francisco Underwood/Miller 1983 23–24 831602 The Ancient Engineers Richard P. Feynman – Six Easy Pieces Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol. 2: Fredicksburg to Meridian Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique Jules Henry – Culture Against Man Richard Hofstadter – Anti-intellectualism in American Life C. L. R. James – Beyond a Boundary Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail H. P. Lovecraft – Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity William H. McNeill – The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community Jessica Mitford – The American Way of DeathZacharek Stephanie Review of The American Way of Death Revisited Salon 29 July 1998 http://www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1998/07/29sneaks.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071006115307/http://www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1998/07/29sneaks.html 2007-10-06 Margaret Murray – My First Hundred Years (autobiography)Drower Margaret S. Margaret Alice Murray Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists Getzel M. Cohen Martha Joukowsky 2004 109–141 Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 978-0-472-11372-9 https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundpi0000unse/page/109 Iris Origo – The World of San Bernardino Stanisław Ossowski – Class Structure in the Social Consciousness (Struktura klasowa w społecznej świadomości, 1957) W. G. Runciman – Social Science and Political Theory E. P. Thompson – The Making of the English Working ClassThompson Edward Palmer The Making of the English Working Class Victor Gollancz Ltd 1963 London, UK 848 1150606282 Births January 3 – Alex Wheatle, black British young adult fiction writer (died 2025) January 11 – Jan Arnald (Arne Dahl), Swedish novelist and criticMitzi M. Brunsdale Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967 https://books.google.com/books?id=EvcWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA419 27 April 2016 McFarland 978-1-4766-2277-4 419 January 18 – Peter Stamm, Swiss writer, dramatist and journalist January 30 – Thomas Brezina, Austrian authorhttp://www.thomasbrezina.com/privat/steckbrief/id21/?sid=e66fcbb8fe45691f77e11ad157322d68 Thomas C. Brezina Biografie: Eine ausführliche Biografie: Die Erfolgsgeschichte von Thomas C. Brezina 2013-03-15 dead https://archive.today/20130412000106/http://www.thomasbrezina.com/privat/steckbrief/id21/?sid=e66fcbb8fe45691f77e11ad157322d68 2013-04-12 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 writerAdam Pearson 101 Interesting Facts on Doctor Who: Learn About the Science-Fiction TV Show https://books.google.com/books?id=K6O5BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP17 18 August 2014 Andrews UK Limited 978-1-910295-80-9 17 April 28 – Beate Grimsrud, Norwegian novelist and playwright (died 2020)Beate Grimsrud Store norske leksikon Godal Anne Marit Anne Marit Godal Norsk nettleksikon Oslo https://www.snl.no/Beate_Grimsrud no 6 July 2012 May 5 – Scott Westerfeld, American young-adult novelist May 24 – Michael Chabon, American authorMarch 2024 May 26 – Simon Armitage, English poet, Poet Laureate of the UKhttps://www.simonarmitage.com/biography/ Biography » Simon Armitage - The Official Website www.simonarmitage.com June 8 – Lutz Seiler, German poet and novelist June 18 – Adam Hargreaves, children’s authorMarch 2024 June 23 – Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), Chinese speculative fiction writerhttps://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?208409 Summary Bibliography: Cixin Liu ISFDB June 25 – Yann Martel, Canadian author August 6 – Xurxo Borrazás, Spanish writer and translatorMarch 2024 August 13 – Valerie Plame, American writer and spy novelist August 15 – Jan Sonnergaard, Danish short-story writer (died 2016) Bloom Clive Bestsellers: popular fiction since 1900 Palgrave Macmillan Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York 2008 978-0-230-53688-3 322 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 September 17 – Rami Saari, Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic October 8 – Nick Earls, Australian novelist and children's writer October 20 – Gisela Kozak, Venezuelan writer and essayistParra José Antonio Reflexiones: Angélica Gorodischer, Vol. 2 Ediciones Nuevo Espacio 2002 1-930879-34-2 New Jersey 71–77 «Gisela Kozak Rovero. Hacia una estética de lo efímero» October 23 – Gordon Korman, Canadian-American children's and young adult authorhttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gordon-korman Gordon Korman Gardner Suzanne January 5, 2012 thecanadianencyclopedia.ca Historica Canada June 7, 2023 October 25 – Dominic Dromgoole, English theatre director and writer November 12 – Damon Galgut, South African novelist and playwrightFlood Alison 2021-11-03 Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with ‘spectacular’ novel The Promise en The Guardian London https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/damon-galgut-wins-booker-prize-the-promise 2021-11-03 2021-11-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20211103200242/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/damon-galgut-wins-booker-prize-the-promise live December 23 – Donna Tartt, American novelistJennifer Curry World Authors, 2000-2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=lqsjAQAAIAAJ 2007 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-1077-9 720 unknown dates Jeff Abbott, American genre novelist Joanna Briscoe, English novelistLaurie Critchley Helen Windrath Something to Savour: Food for Thought from Women Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=eFIZi6qSpFwC 1996 Women's Press 978-0-7043-4507-2 81 Don Paterson, Scottish poet, writer and musicianhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/don-paterson-interview Don Paterson interview 27 July 2012 J P O'Malley The Spectator 4 July 2020 Deaths January 6 – Stark Young, teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic and essayist (b. 1881) Pilkington John Stark Young Twayne Boston 1985 9780805774030 141 January 8 – Kay Sage, American poet (suicide, born 1898)Suther, Judith D. A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1997 223 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) Encyclopædia Britannica Robert Frost http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035504/Robert-Frost Online 2008 2008-12-21 February 4 – Brinsley MacNamara (John Weldon), Irish novelist and playwright (born 1890) February 8 – Ernst Glaeser, German writer (born 1902)Ernst Glaeser – hjp-medien https://www.gg-online.de/html/ernst_glaeser.htm Ernst Glaeser hjp-medien - Alemannenstraße - 64521 Groß-Gerau 2015-06-20 February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (suicide, born 1932)Sylvia Plath Biography, Poems, Books, Death, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Plath Encyclopedia Britannica 27 July 2021 en February 14 – Hilda Vīka, Latvian poet and novelist (born 1897) February 18 – Beppe Fenoglio, Italian writer (born 1887)Beppe Fenoglio on Encyclopædia Britannica February 24 – Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer (born 1889) March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (born 1883)Phil Casey Poet Williams Dies of Stroke. Works in 40 Volumes Likened to Chekhov. https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/154181472.html?FMT=ABS The Washington Post 1963-03-05 2008-08-07 2016-03-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082746/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/141897376.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=&type=historic&date=&author=&pub=&edition=&startpage=&desc= dead March 11 Deirdre Cash (Criena Rohan), Australian novelist (born 1924) James Lennox Kerr (Peter Dawlish, Gavin Douglas), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1899) 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)John Wakeman, Stanley Kunitz, World Authors, 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors Wilson (publisher), 1975, page 619 April 27 – Lillian Barrett, American novelist and playwright (born 1884)https://www.newspapers.com/article/newport-mercury-obituary/96559791/ Miss Barrett, Author, Was 78 Newport Mercury May 3, 1963 3 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) Williams Herbert John Cowper Powys Seren U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions Bridgend, Wales, Chester Springs, PA 1997 9781854111968 156 August 1 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (heart attack, born 1908) Brennan Elizabeth Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners Oryx Press Phoenix, Ariz 1999 9781573561112 523 August 14 – Clifford Odets, American dramatist (cancer, born 1906) Demastes William American playwrights, 1880-1945: a research and production sourcebook Greenwood Press Westport, Conn 1995 9780313286384 311 August 27 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American writer, scholar and activist (born 1868)Lewis, David Levering (2009), W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography, Henry Holt and Co. Single volume edition, updated, of his 1994 and 2001 works. 978-0-8050-8769-7. Page 712 September 3 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (pneumonia, born 1907) Drakakis John British radio drama Cambridge University Press Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York 1981 9780521293839 68 September 9 – Ernst Kantorowicz, German historian (born 1895)Lerner Robert E. Robert E. Lerner Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life 2017 Princeton University Press 10.2307/j.ctt21c4v3z j.ctt21c4v3z 9781400882922 1080549540 376,385 September 28 – Marie Linde, South African novelist (born 1894)De Kock Sita Die Bosmans van Suid-Afrika, 1707-1965 Pretoria Van Schaik 1968 814141210 AF 33 October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1889)Arnaud Claude 2016 Jean Cocteau: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=Ejj2DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA513 Yale University Press 513– 978-0-300-17057-3 October – Jolán Földes, Hungarian novelist and playwright (born 1902) November 13 – Margaret Murray, Indian-born English archeologist and historian (born 1863)Drower Margaret S. Margaret Alice Murray Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists Getzel M. Cohen Martha Joukowsky 2004 109–141 Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 978-0-472-11372-9 https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundpi0000unse/page/109 November 22 Mary Findlater, Scottish novelist (born 1865)Miller Jane Eldridge Findlater, Mary Williamina (1865–1963), novelist https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-58784 2020-07-28 2004 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/58784 978-0-19-861412-8 Aldous Huxley, English novelist (cancer, born 1894) Chevalier Tracy Encyclopedia of the essay Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers London Chicago 1997 9781884964305 416 C. S. Lewis, Irish novelist and children's and religious writer (renal failure, born 1898)C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet McGrath Alister Tyndale House Publishers, Inc 2013 358 November 24 – Martha Ostenso, Norwegian-born Canadian novelist and screenwriter (born 1900)https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&q=ostenso Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada New William H. 2002 University of Toronto Press 9780802007612 854–855 en December 25 – Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenstock), Romanian-born French poet and essayist (born 1896) Carruth Gorton The encyclopedia of world facts and dates HarperCollins New York 1993 9780062700124 827 Awards 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 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 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 in Literature – Giorgos Seferis Premio Nadal: Manuel Mejía Vallejo, El día señalado Prix Goncourt: Armand Lanoux, Quand la mer se retireFrench News: Books https://books.google.com/books?id=F50aAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 1964 Cultural Services of the French Embassy 19 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 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1963 at Goodreads Published 1963 Books at Goodreads 1963 Books at Goodreads