1962 in literature explained
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.
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New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
See main article: article and 1962 in 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
- Chuck Palahniuk, American novelist and journalist
- David Foster Wallace, American novelist and essayist (died 2008)
- 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
- Neal Shusterman, American children's author and poet
- Naomi Wolf, American writer and activist
- 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
Donald Thomas, James Simmons, Brian Johnson, Jenny Joseph
Thea Astley, The Well Dressed Explorer and George Turner, The Cupboard Under the Stairs
Stanley Johnson
John Steinbeck
José María Mendiola, Muerte por fusilamiento
Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness
Alan Dugan, Poems
Christopher Fry
Notes and References
- https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/waugh-battle.html "The Satiric World of Evelyn Waugh"
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383341/Inge-Morath.html Obituary, retrieved 27 December 2019.
- Published in The Spectator (London) March 9.Gerhardi . William . William Gerhardie . Sir Charles Snow, Dr. F. R. Leavis and the Two Cultures . The Spectator . 1962-03-16 . 9.
- Kimball . Roger . 1994 . The Two Cultures' Today: On the C. P. Snow–F. R. Leavis Controversy . The New Criterion . 12 . 6 . 10.
- http://www.mlang.name/arkisto/KKO-1967-II-10.html Ennakkoratkaisu KKO 1967-II-10.
- Book: Kirk, Connie Ann . Sylvia Plath: A Biography . 2004 . xx.
- Web site: Richard Booth obituary. Oliver Balch. 22 August 2019. The Guardian. 30 June 2020.
- Book: Jewish Observer and Middle East Review. July 1975. William Samuel & Company Limited.
- Book: Roy Temple House. Books Abroad. 1963. University of Oklahoma. 163.
- Book: Robinson Jeffers. Tim Hunt. The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. 2001. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-4108-8. 6.
- Book: Profiles in Canadian Literature. 1986. Dundurn. 978-1-55002-001-4. 61.
- Book: The Illustrated London News. 1962. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 381.
- Book: Paul F. State. Historical Dictionary of Brussels. 27 July 2004. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-6555-6. 125.
- Book: Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields. 1999. Gale Research Company. 978-0-7876-2674-7. 157.
- Book: Nigel Nicolson. Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919–1962. 28 June 2018. Orion. 978-1-4746-1086-5. 371.
- Book: Gene D. Phillips. Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation. 1988. Univ. of Tennessee Press. 978-1-57233-166-2. 184.
- Book: Benjamin Noys. Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction. 20 May 2000. Pluto Press. 978-0-7453-1587-4. 13.
- Book: Ingo Cornils. A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse. 2009. Camden House. 978-1-57113-330-4. 6.
- Book: Jay Parini. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-515653-9. 345.
- Book: French News: Books. 1965. Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 18.
- Book: Elizabeth A. Brennan. Elizabeth C. Clarage. Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. 1999. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-1-57356-111-2. 571.