1964 in literature

none 1964 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1964. Events thumb|right|Minerva Mena in The House of Bernarda Alba January 10 – Federico García Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba, completed just before his assassination in 1936, receives its first performance in Spain.House of Bernarda Alba – Premiere in Madrid (Spanish). Accessed 27 November 2013. January 12 – The Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group open a four-week Theatre of Cruelty season at the LAMDA Theatre Club, London.The Theatre of Cruelty The Times London 1964-01-01 13 55897 January 23 – Arthur Miller's play After the Fall opens at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre Off-Broadway in New York City, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards and Kazan's wife Barbara Loden. A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over Miller's portrayal of his late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe. February 11 – A London retailer, in the case of R. v. Gold, is found guilty under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 of stocking a 1963 edition of John Cleland's novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748–1749). February 28 – The Dutch comic artist and writer Jan Cremer publishes his autobiographical novel I, Jan Cremer, which provokes controversy for its frank content and style and becomes a bestseller.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cremer_jan.htm Jan Cremer Lambiek Comiclopedia en 2019-07-26 2020-01-07 April 23 – Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to house its library and research facilities. April 29 – Peter Weiss's play with music Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, known as Marat/Sade) premières at the Schiller Theater in West Berlin. In August it receives its English-language première by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London at the Aldwych Theatre.Ambitious Example of Theatre of Cruelty The Times London 1964-08-21 11 56096 May – Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds. May 5 – W. H. Auden's preface to the anthology The Protestant Mystics describes the supernatural "Vision of Agape" he experienced in June 1933.Stan Smith The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden https://books.google.com/books?id=ltwN3MpcPIcC&pg=PA31 13 January 2005 Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-82713-3 31 May 6 – Joe Orton's black comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane premières at the New Arts Theatre in London with Dudley Sutton in the title rôle. May 29 – Le Théâtre du Soleil is established as a collective avant-garde stage ensemble by Ariane Mnouchkine, Philippe Léotard and fellow students of L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. It opens with Les Petits Bourgeois (adapted from Maxim Gorky's Мещане), at Théâtre Mouffetard.Chronologie des spectacles et des films du Théâtre du Soleil http://www.theatre-du-soleil.fr/thsol/a-propos-du-theatre-du-soleil,1/l-historique/chronologie-des-spectacles-du?lang=fr Théâtre du Soleil 2013-11-27 June 22 – Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court three decades after its publication in France, after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein, cites Jacobellis v. Ohio (decided the same day) and overrules state court findings that the book is obscene.Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein 378 U.S. 577 U.S. Supreme Court 22 June 1964 http://supreme.justia.com/us/378/577/ August 11 – Ian Fleming walks to the Royal St George's Golf Club near Sandwich, Kent, for lunch with friends, collapsing shortly afterward with a heart attack.Lycett Andrew Andrew Lycett Ian Fleming 1996 Phoenix London 978-1-85799-783-5 442 His last recorded words are an apology to the ambulance drivers: "I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don't know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days." Fleming dies next day. September – The Everyman Theatre opens in Liverpool, England. September 28 – Brian Friel's play Philadelphia, Here I Come! is premièred at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. October 22 – French author Jean Paul Sartre declines the Nobel Prize in Literature for literary and political reasons, explaining his belief that an author must not accept official awards from any institution.Sartre Explains Stand nytimes.com October 28 – The Wednesday Play is broadcast for the first time on BBC1 television, presenting original one-off contemporary social drama, mostly written for television.Jacob Leigh The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People https://books.google.com/books?id=BKwc4ltKdLgC&pg=PA183 2002 Wallflower Press 978-1-903364-31-4 183 New books Fiction Chinua Achebe – Arrow of God José Agustín – La Tumba Eric Ambler – A Kind of Anger Poul Anderson – Time and Stars Louis Auchincloss – The Rector of Justin J. G. Ballard – The Terminal Beach Simone de Beauvoir – A Very Easy Death (Une Mort très douce) Saul Bellow – Herzog Thomas Berger – Little Big Man Elizabeth Bowen – The Little Girls Leigh Brackett People of the Talisman The Secret of Sinharat Ray Bradbury – The Machineries of Joy John Braine – The Jealous God Richard Brautigan – A Confederate General From Big Sur John Brunner To Conquer Chaos The Whole Man Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Madman William S. Burroughs – Nova Express J. Ramsey Campbell – The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants Victor Canning – The Scorpio Letters John Dickson Carr – Most Secret Agatha Christie – A Caribbean Mystery Louis-Ferdinand Céline – London Bridge: Guignol's Band II A. J. Cronin – A Song of Sixpence Cecil Day-Lewis – The Sad Variety Len Deighton – Funeral in Berlin R. F. Delderfield – Too Few For Drums August Derleth (editor) – Over the Edge Michel Droit – Le Retour Ralph Ellison – Shadow and Act Ian Fleming – You Only Live Twice Max Frisch – Gantenbein Daniel F. Galouye – Simulacron-3 (Counterfeit World) William Golding – The Spire Richard Gordon – Nuts in May L. P. Hartley – The Brickfield Hartley Howard – Department K Bohumil Hrabal – Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) Carl Jacobi – Portraits in Moonlight B. S. Johnson – Albert Angelo Ken Kesey – Sometimes a Great Notion Richard E. Kim – The Martyred James Leasor – Passport to Oblivion Etienne Leroux – Een vir Azazel (One for Azazel, translated as One for the Devil) Liang Yusheng (梁羽生) – Datang Youxia Zhuan (大唐游俠傳) Clarice Lispector – The Passion According to G.H. (A paixão segundo G.H.) H. P. Lovecraft – At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels John D. MacDonald The Deep Blue Good-by A Purple Place For Dying The Quick Red Fox Ngaio Marsh – Dead Water James Mayo – Hammerhead Gladys Mitchell – Death of a Delft Blue Iris Murdoch – The Italian Girl Sterling North – Rascal Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (also known as James Ngigi) – Weep Not, Child Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎) – A Personal Matter (個人的な体験; Kojinteki na taiken) Anthony Powell – The Valley of Bones Mario Puzo – Fortunate Pilgrim Ellery Queen – And On the Eighth Day Jean Ray – Saint-Judas-de-la-nuit Ruth Rendell – From Doon With Death Karl Ristikivi – Imede saar Hubert Selby Jr. – Last Exit to Brooklyn Ryōtarō Shiba (司馬 遼太郎) – Moeyo Ken (燃えよ剣, Burn, O Sword) Howard Spring – Winds of the Day Clark Ashton Smith – Tales of Science and Sorcery Wilbur Smith – When the Lion Feeds Rex Stout Trio for Blunt Instruments A Right to Die Julian Symons – The End of Solomon Grundy Jim Thompson – Pop. 1280 Leon Uris – Armageddon Jack Vance The Houses of Iszm The Killing Machine Star King Gore Vidal – Julian Irving Wallace – The Man Raymond Williams – Second Generation Maia Wojciechowska – Shadow of a Bull Children and young people Lloyd Alexander – The Book of ThreeHahn 2015, p. 14 Rev. W. Awdry – Mountain Engines (nineteenth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Nina Bawden – On the Run (also Three on the Run) Christianna Brand – Nurse Matilda Hesba Fay Brinsmead – Pastures of the Blue Crane Jeff Brown – Flat Stanley Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryHahn 2015, p. 117 Louise Fitzhugh – Harriet the Spy Ian Fleming – Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car Rumer Godden – Home is the Sailor Irene Hunt – Across Five AprilsHahn 2015, p. 3 Ervin Lázár – A kisfiú meg az oroszlánok (The Little Boy and the Lions) Rhoda Levine – Harrison Loved His Umbrella Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Dwarfs J. P. Martin – Uncle (first in a series of six books) Jean Merrill – The Pushcart War Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Holiday Bill Peet Ella Randy's Dandy Lions Shel Silverstein – The Giving TreeHahn 2015, p. 232 Miriam Young – Miss Suzy Drama Ama Ata Aidoo – The Dilemma of a Ghost David Campton – Dead and Alive William Douglas Home – The Reluctant Peer Brian Friel – Philadelphia Here I Come! Girish Karnad – Tughlaq Robert Lowell – The Old Glory Arthur Miller After the Fall Incident At Vichy Joe Orton – Entertaining Mr Sloane Alexander Vampilov – Farewell in June Peter Weiss – Marat/Sade Poetry 1964 in poetry Joseph Payne Brennan – Nightmare Need Leonard Cohen – Flowers for Hitler Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – Husn-e-Ghazal (The Beauty of Ghazal) Philip Larkin – The Whitsun Weddings Oodgeroo Noonuccal – We are Going: Poems Ion Vinea – Ora fântânilor (The Hour of Fountains) Donald Wandrei – Poems for Midnight Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 (anthology) Non-fiction Nelson Algren – Conversations with Nelson Algren (interviews by H. E. F. Donohue) Eric Berne – Games People Play Allan Bloom with Harry V. Jaffa – Shakespeare's Politics L. Sprague de Camp Ancient Ruins and Archaeology (with Catherine Crook de Camp) Elephant Hilda Ellis Davidson – Gods and Myths of Northern Europe Aileen Fox – South West England (Ancient peoples and places series)Henrietta Quinnell, "Fox, Aileen Mary, Lady Fox (1907–2005)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2009) Retrieved 21 November 2017 Dick Gregory – Nigger: An Autobiography Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast Michael Holroyd – Hugh Kingsmill: A Critical Biography John F. Kennedy (k. 1963) – A Nation of Immigrants Martin Luther King Jr. – Why We Can't Wait Jan Kott – Shakespeare, Our Contemporary Violette Leduc – La Bâtarde Mao Zedong – Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (毛主席语录, Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) Herbert Marcuse – One-Dimensional Man Marshall McLuhan – Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Jürgen Moltmann – Theology of Hope (Theologie der Hoffnung) V. S. Naipaul – An Area of Darkness Sayyid Qutb – Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (معالم في الطريق, Milestones) Ayn Rand – The Virtue of Selfishness The Warren Commission – The Warren Report Evelyn Waugh – A Little Learning Births January 26 – Peter Braunstein, American journalist and playwright February 23 – Joseph O'Neill, Irish-born writer March 7 – Bret Easton Ellis, American novelist, screenwriter and short-story writerClifford Thompson H. W. Wilson World Authors 1990-1995 https://books.google.com/books?id=cWoYAAAAIAAJ 1999 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-0956-8 215 March 21 – Kaori Ekuni (江國 香織), Japanese novelist April 9 – Margaret Peterson Haddix, American children's author June 5 – Rick Riordan, American young-adult author June 7 – Petr Hruška, Czech poet June 11 – Dan Chaon, American novelist and short-story writer June 22 – Dan Brown, American novelist and mystery writer June 26 – Conor Kostick, Irish historian and children's author July 3 – Joanne Harris, English novelist July 7 – Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet July 16 – Anne Provoost, Flemish novelist and essayist August 22 – Diane Setterfield, British author September 9 – Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian novelist and short-story writer September 19 Patrick Marber, English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriterGraham Saunders Patrick Marber's Closer https://books.google.com/books?id=rKYaO9jCeUsC&pg=PA3 6 June 2013 A&C Black 978-1-4411-7104-7 3 Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (died 2005)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/27/guardianobituaries.books Yvonne Vera 27 April 2005 Helon Habila The Guardian 22 November 2023 September 25 Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Spanish novelist (died 2020) Gareth Thompson, English children's author December 12 – J. R. Moehringer, American journalist and ghostwriter December 26 – Elizabeth Kostova, American author December 29 – Christine Leunens, American-born Belgian-New Zealand novelist unknown dates Ros Barber, English novelist and poetCarole Buchan Reshape Whilst Damp: Prize-winning Stories by Women https://books.google.com/books?id=FexZAAAAMAAJ 2000 Serpent's Tail 978-1-85242-652-1 177 Ge Fei (格非, real name: Liu Yong, 刘勇), Chinese novelist Mai Jia (real name: Jiǎng Běnhǔ, 蒋本浒), Chinese novelistLaifong Leung Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers: Biography, Bibliography, and Critical Assessment https://books.google.com/books?id=KklnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT344 28 July 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-317-51618-7 344 Nell Zink, American novelist http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000313869&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=aace2b95731651c6350bd10f1d139d28 Contemporary Authors Online 2015 February 4, 2016 Biography in Context Gale Deaths January 17 – T. H. White, English novelist (heart condition, born 1906)Clark Layman Bruccoli Gale Cengage British Children's Writers, 1914-1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=QqERAQAAMAAJ 1996 Gale Research 978-0-8103-9355-4 314 February 1 – Sigge Stark (Signe Björnberg), Swedish writer (born 1896)Yvonne Leffler Sigge Stark: Sveriges mest produktiva, utskällda och lästa författare https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bokrecensioner/yvonne-leffler-sigge-stark-sveriges-mest-produktiva-utskallda-och-lasta-forfattare/ Dagens Nyheter 2021-06-13 Swedish 2015-05-11 live https://web.archive.org/web/20210613133550/https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bokrecensioner/yvonne-leffler-sigge-stark-sveriges-mest-produktiva-utskallda-och-lasta-forfattare/ 2021-06-13 February 3 – Clarence Irving Lewis, American philosopher (born 1883) February 15 – Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, French theologian (born 1877)Catholic School Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=bGhLAAAAYAAJ 1964 Bruce Publishing Company 19 February 25 – Grace Metalious (Marie Grace DeRepentigny), American novelist (cirrhosis of liver, born 1924)George C. Kohn The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal https://books.google.com/books?id=uzdWTBytwAIC&pg=PA314 2001 Infobase Publishing 978-1-4381-3022-4 314 March 1 – Davíð Stefánsson, Icelandic poet (born 1895)Patrick J. Stevens Icelandic Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=hsoUAQAAIAAJ 2004 Gale 978-0-7876-6830-3 29 March 17 – Păstorel Teodoreanu, Romanian poet and satirist (lung cancer, born 1894) March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish playwright, poet and writer (born 1923)Frances Stephens Theatre World Annual https://books.google.com/books?id=Yg3DWEjfAUEC 1964 Macmillan 165 March 30 – Nella Larsen, American novelist (born 1891) April 9 – Mihu Dragomir, Romanian poet, journalist and short story writer (heart attack, born 1919) April 14 – Rachel Carson, American environmentalist (breast cancer, born 1907)Carson, Rachel 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica 2010 April 18 – Ben Hecht, American screenwriter (born 1894) April 23 – Karl Polanyi (Károly Polányi), Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher (born 1886) April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (born 1882)David G. Pitt, "Pratt, Edwin John https://web.archive.org/web/20110215082539/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006453 2011-02-15 ," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1736. May 13 – Hamilton Basso, American novelist and journalist (born 1904) July 6 – Ion Vinea, Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist (cancer, born 1895) July 29 – Wanda Wasilewska, Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (heart disease, born 1905) August 3 – Flannery O'Connor, American essayist and fiction writer (born 1925) Gordon Sarah Flannery O'Connor December 8, 2015 Originally published July 10, 2002 New Georgia Encyclopedia Georgia Humanities Council http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/flannery-oconnor-1925-1964 May 13, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160314114535/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/flannery-oconnor-1925-1964 March 14, 2016 live August 5 – Moa Martinson, Swedish author (born 1890)Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature Springfield Merriam-Webster 1995 739 978-0-87779-042-6 August 12 – Ian Fleming, English spy thriller writer (heart attack, born 1908)20th Century Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=UdQ5AAAAMAAJ 1985 St. James Press 978-0-912289-19-9 220 August 17 – Mihai Ralea, Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (born 1896) September 5 – Angel Cruchaga Santa María, Chilean writer (born 1893)Cruchaga Santa Maria Angel La hora digna: antología poética Silva Acevedo Manuel Colección Premios nacionales de literatura 7 Editorial Universitaria Santiago de Chile 1996 98199495 September 6 – San Tiago Dantas, Brazilian journalist (born 1911) September 14 – Vasily Grossman, Soviet novelist (cancer, born 1905) September 18 – Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (born 1880)Sean O'Casey – Irish dramatist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sean-OCasey Encyclopedia Britannica 7 July 2017 en October 26 – Agnes Miegel, German author, journalist and poet (born 1879) c. November – Radu D. Rosetti, Romanian poet and playwright (born 1874)Horia Oprescu Un bătrîn poet a murit Gazeta Literară XI 46 7 1964 November 13 – Hadley Waters, American playwright (complications from a fall, born 1896)T. HADLEY WATERS (Published 1964) The New York Times 14 November 1964 https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/14/archives/t-hadley-waters.html November 21 – Leah Bodine Drake, American poet, editor and critic (cancer, born 1914) November 29 – Anne de Vries, Dutch novelist (born 1904) December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (born 1887) December 21 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (born 1880)http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/vanvechten/vvbio.html Portraits by Carl Van Vechten – Carl Van Vechten Biography American Memory Library of Congress 2010-03-09 Awards Nobel Prize in Literature – Jean-Paul Sartre (refused) Canada See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France Prix Goncourt: Georges Conchon, L'Etat sauvage Prix Médicis: Monique Wittig, L’Opoponax United Kingdom Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank Eric Gregory Award: Robert Nye, Ken Smith, Jean Symons, Ted Walker James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Frank Tuohy, The Ice Saints James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I. Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: R. S. Thomas United States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Lillian Hellman Hugo Award: Clifford D. Simak, Way Station Newbery Medal for children's literature: Emily Cheney Neville, It's Like This, Cat Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: At The End Of The Open Road Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Gabriel Marcel Miles Franklin Award: George Johnston, My Brother Jack Premio Nadal: Alfredo Martínez Garrido, El miedo y la esperanza Viareggio Prize: Giuseppe Berto, Il male oscuroGaetana Marrone Paolo Puppa Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA192 26 December 2006 Routledge 978-1-135-45530-9 192 Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 2nd References 30em External links Popular Books of 1964 at Goodreads Published 1964 Books at Goodreads 1964 Books at Goodreads