1963 in literature
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[edit] Events
- First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.
- Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", The Saint in the Sun (he first wrote about the character in 1928). After this, all future Saint books would be ghost written by other authors, though Charteris would continue in an editorial capacity until the series ends in 1983.
[edit] New books
- Pierre Boulle - Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes)
- Taylor Caldwell - Gradmother and the Priests
- Morley Callaghan - That Summer in Paris
- Len Deighton - Horse Under Water
- Daphne du Maurier - The Glass-Blowers
- John Fowles - The Collector
- Ian Fleming
- John Hawkes - Second Skin
- Georgette Heyer - False Colours
- John le Carré - The Spy who Came in from the Cold
- Primo Levi - La tregua (The Truce/Reawakening)
- Mary McCarthy - The Group
- Richard McKenna - The Sand Pebbles
- Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Giants
- James A. Michener - Caravans
- Emily Cheney Neville - It's Like This, Cat
- John O'Hara - Elizabeth Appleton
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
- Thomas Pynchon - V.
- John Rechy - City of Night
- Charles M. Schulz - Happiness Is a Warm Puppy
- Susan Sontag - Benefactor
- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Dalyokaya Raduga
- Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword at Sunset
- Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell to Earth
- Tarjei Vesaas - The Ice Castle
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
- David Weiss - Naked Came I
- Morris West - The Shoes of the Fisherman
[edit] New drama
- Václav Havel - The Garden Party
[edit] Non-fiction
- Thomas B. Costain - William the Conqueror
- Richard P. Feynman - Six Easy Pieces
- Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 2: Fredicksburg to Meridian
- William H. McNeill - The Rise of the West
- E. P. Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class
[edit] Poetry
- T. S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962 - Comprehensive volume of Eliot's poetry, selected by the author, published on his 75th birthday, September 26, 1963.
- Lionel Kearns - Songs of Circumstance
[edit] Births
- June 25 - Yann Martel, author
- date unknown
- Jeff Abbott, novelist
- Russell T. Davies, television writer
- Alice Sebold, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Kay Sage, poet
- January 29 - Robert Frost, poet
- February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
- March 4 - William Carlos Williams, writer
- May 12 - Aiden Wilson Tozer, religious writer
- June 17 - John Cowper Powys, novelist
- August 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist
- August 27 - W. E. B. Du Bois, writer/civil rights
- September 3 - Louis MacNeice, poet
- November 22
- Aldous Huxley, novelist
- C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor
- December 25 - Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist
- date unknown - Theodore Roethke, American poet
[edit] Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, William Carlos Williams
- Eric Gregory Award: Ian Hamilton, Stewart Conn, Peter Griffith, David Wevill
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
- Nobel Prize for literature - Giorgos Seferis
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - The Reivers
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Breughel
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: William Plomerfr:1963 en littérature
