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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1963'''.
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==Events==
*January – ''[[Novy Mir]]'' publishes "Matryona's Home", the first of three more stories by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] critical of the Soviet regime. They will be the last of his works to be published in the [[Soviet Union]] until [[1990 in literature|1990]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Problems of Communism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G44qAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA24|year=1965|publisher=Documentary Studies Section, International Information Administration|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[January 2]] – The [[Traverse Theatre]] opens in [[Edinburgh]].<ref>{{Cite book |author=Joyce McMillan |title=The Traverse Theatre Story 1963-1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYcqAAAAMAAJ |year=1988 |publisher=Methuen Drama |isbn=978-0-413-19250-9 |page=1}}</ref>
*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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbara-pym.org/AUA.html|title=An Unsuitable Attachment|publisher=Barbara Pym Society|access-date=2021-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406062350/http://www.barbara-pym.org/AUA.html|archive-date=2011-04-06|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[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.
*March/April – The [[Bologna Children's Book Fair]] is inaugurated.
*[[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.<ref>[[A. N. Wilson]] (2002) [1990]. ''C. S. Lewis: A Biography''. W. W. Norton. {{ISBN|0-393-32340-4}}.</ref>
*[[August 20]] – The [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] introduces its performance cycle of Shakespeare's [[Shakespearean history|history plays]] under the title ''[[The War of the Roses (Shakespeare)|The War of the Roses]]'', adapted and directed by [[John Barton (director)|John Barton]] and [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]] at the [[Royal Shakespeare Theatre]], [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].
*September – Publication in India of [[Bhalchandra Nemade]]'s ''[[Bildungsroman]]'', ''[[Kosala (novel)|Kosala]]'' ('Cocoon'), considered the first [[Existentialism|existentialist]] novel in [[Marathi literature]], written in the author's native village.<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Bhand |editor-first=Baba |title=Kosalabaddala: Bhalacandra Nemade Yancya Kadambarivarila Lekha, Parikshane, Tipa |trans-title=Articles on Marathi novel 'Kosalā' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cfo0AQAAIAAJ |year=1979 |publisher=Dhara Prakasana |location=Aurangabad |oclc=7174307 |language=mr}}</ref>
*[[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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=1876 |title=National Theatre: About the NT |access-date=2008-02-11}}</ref> Its first performance is with [[Peter O'Toole]] as [[Hamlet]], in London.<ref name=CBH>{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan |last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=420–421 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
*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)|Esquire]]'' magazine in the United States.
*[[November 17]] – Fictional hero [[8 Man]], created by science fiction writer [[Kazumasa Hirai (author)|Kazumasa Hirai]] and manga artist [[Jiro Kuwata]], appears in print for the first time.
*[[November 20]]–[[November 29|29]] – A [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] case in London over the rights in [[Ian Fleming]]'s [[James Bond (literary character)|James Bond]] novel ''[[Thunderball (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 (Anna Akhmatova)|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,<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2110281_2110282_2110290,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331003144/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2110281_2110282_2110290,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |journal=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |title=Top 10 Racy Novels |date=2012-03-28 |access-date=2013-04-18}}</ref> 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 (magazine)|Black Orpheus]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dubem Okafor|title=Meditations on African Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65Sl6W4Z5YsC&pg=PA181|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29866-0|pages=181}}</ref>

==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 (Bernhard novel)|Frost]]''
*[[John Bingham (author)|John Bingham]] – ''[[A Case of Libel]]''
*[[Heinrich Böll]] – ''[[The Clown (novel)|The Clown]] (Ansichten eines Clowns)''
*[[Pierre Boulle]] – ''[[Planet of the Apes (novel)|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 Line (novel)|The Limbo Line]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Burton|title=Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=24mEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|date=31 January 2018|publisher=Vernon Press|isbn=978-1-62273-290-6|pages=21}}</ref>
*[[John Dickson Carr]] – ''[[The Men Who Explained Miracles]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=S. T. Joshi|title=John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYAiXtKV5TEC&pg=PA167|year=1990|publisher=Popular Press|isbn=978-0-87972-477-1|pages=167}}</ref>
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[The Clocks]]''
*[[Julio Cortázar]] – ''[[Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)|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 (novel)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]''
**''[[Thrilling Cities]]''
*[[Jane Gaskell]] – ''[[The Serpent (novel)|The Serpent]]''
*[[Natalia Ginzburg]] – ''[[Family Sayings]]''
*[[Rumer Godden]] – ''The Battle of the Villa Fiorita''
*[[Winston Graham]] – ''[[The Grove of Eagles]]''
*[[Günter Grass]] – ''[[Dog Years (novel)|Dog Years]] (Hundejahre)''
*[[Georgette Heyer]] – ''[[False Colours (novel)|False Colours]]''
*[[Ismail Kadare]] – ''[[The General of the Dead Army (novel)|The General of the Dead Army]] (Gjenerali i Ushtrisë së vdekur)''
*[[James Kennaway]] 
** ''[[The Bells of Shoreditch]]''
** ''[[The Mindbenders (novel)|The Mindbenders]]''
*[[Damon Knight]] – ''[[First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time]]''
* [[Arthur La Bern]] – ''[[Brighton Belle (1963 novel)|Brighton Belle]]''
*[[John le Carré]] – ''[[The Spy who Came in from the Cold]]''
*[[J. M. G. Le Clézio]] – ''[[Le Procès-Verbal]]'' (''The Interrogation'')
*[[Primo Levi]] – ''[[The Truce|La tregua]]'' (''The Truce'', ''Reawakening'')
*[[Liu Yichang]] – ''Jiutu'' (酒徒, ''The Drunkard'', or ''The Alcoholic'')
*[[Mary McCarthy (author)|Mary McCarthy]] – ''[[The Group (novel)|The Group]]''
*[[John McGahern]] – ''[[The Barracks (novel)|The Barracks]]''
*[[Richard McKenna]] – ''[[The Sand Pebbles (novel)|The Sand Pebbles]]''
*[[Alistair MacLean]] – ''[[Ice Station Zebra (novel)|Ice Station Zebra]]''
*[[James A. Michener]] – ''[[Caravans (novel)|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 Means]]''<ref>{{Cite book |author=Caroline Merz |title=Post-War Literature: 1945 to the Present Day |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwrxPS6T-iAC&pg=PA30 |year=2003 |publisher=Evans Brothers |isbn=978-0-237-52258-2 |pages=30}}</ref>
*[[Richard Stark]] ([[Donald E. Westlake]]) – ''[[The Man With the Getaway Face]]''<ref>{{Cite book |author=Europa Publications |title=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA574 |year=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-1-85743-179-7 |pages=574}}</ref>
*[[Rex Stout]] – ''[[The Mother Hunt]]''
*[[Erwin Strittmatter]] – ''Ole Bienkopp''<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Therese Hörnigk |author2=Alexander Stephan |title=The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJhiCg4I5F8C&pg=PA347 |date=1 January 1997 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-0953-9 |pages=347}}</ref>
*[[Boris and Arkady Strugatsky]] – ''[[Far Rainbow|Dalyokaya Raduga]]''
*[[Walter Tevis]] – ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth (novel)|The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''
*[[Jim Thompson (writer)|Jim Thompson]] – ''[[The Grifters (novel)|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]] – ''[[The Ice Palace (novel)|Is-slottet]] (The Ice Palace)''
*[[Kurt Vonnegut]] – ''[[Cat's Cradle]]''
*[[Keith Waterhouse]] – ''[[Billy Liar]]''
*[[Charles Webb (author)|Charles Webb]] – ''[[The Graduate (novel)|The Graduate]]''
*[[David Weiss (novelist)|David Weiss]] – ''[[Naked Came I]]''
*[[Manly Wade Wellman]] – ''[[Who Fears the Devil?]]''
*[[Morris West]] – ''[[The Shoes of the Fisherman (novel)|The Shoes of the Fisherman]]''
*[[Christa Wolf]] – ''[[Der geteilte Himmel]]'' (''Divided Heaven'', ''They Divided the Sky'')

===Children and young people===
*[[Rev. W. Awdry]] – ''[[List of Railway Series Books#Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine|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|The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics]]''
*[[Clive King]] – ''[[Stig of the Dump]]''
*[[Madeleine L'Engle]] – ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] – ''[[A Book of Giants]]''
*[[Sterling North]] – ''[[Rascal (book)|Rascal]]''
*[[Peggy Parish]] – ''[[Amelia Bedelia (book)|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 (novel)|Storm Boy]]''

===Drama===
*[[Arthur Adamov]] – ''La Politique des restes'' (''The Politics of Rubbish'')
*[[Alan Ayckbourn]] – ''Mr. Whatnot''
*[[John Barton (director)|John Barton]] and [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]] (adapted from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]) – ''[[The War of the Roses (Shakespeare)|The War of the Roses]]''
*[[Samuel Beckett]] – ''[[Play (play)|Play]]'' (première in German as ''Spiel'')
*[[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 (play)|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 (play)|Alfie]]''
**''All in Good Time''
*[[Barry Reckord]] – ''Skyvers''
*[[Charles Wood (playwright)|Charles Wood]] – ''Cockade''
*[[Theatre Workshop]] – ''[[Oh, What a Lovely War!]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|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 (H. P. Lovecraft)|Collected Poems]]''
*[[Rosemary Tonks]] – ''Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Nelson Algren]] – ''Who Lost an American?'' (travel book)
*[[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 Engineers]]''
*[[Milovan Đilas]] – ''Montenegro''
*[[Richard P. Feynman]] – ''[[Six Easy Pieces]]''
*[[Robert Newton Flew]] (died 1962) – ''Jesus and His Way. A study of the ethics of the New Testament''
*[[Shelby Foote]] – ''[[The Civil War: A Narrative]] – Vol. 2: Fredicksburg to Meridian''
*[[Betty Friedan]] – ''[[The Feminine Mystique]]''
*[[W. L. Guttsman]] – ''The British Political Elite''
*[[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 (historian)|William H. McNeill]] – ''[[The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community]]''
*[[Jessica Mitford]] – ''[[The American Way of Death]]''
*[[Margaret Murray]] – ''My First Hundred Years'' (autobiography)
*[[Iris Origo]] – ''The World of [[Bernardino of Siena|San Bernardino]]''
*[[Stanisław Ossowski]] – ''Class Structure in the Social Consciousness'' (''Struktura klasowa w społecznej świadomości'', 1957)
*[[Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford|W. G. Runciman]] – ''Social Science and Political Theory''
*[[E. P. Thompson]] – ''[[The Making of the English Working Class]]''
*[[UNESCO]] – ''History of Mankind'' – Vol. 1

==Births==
*[[January 3]] – [[Alex Wheatle]], black British young adult fiction writer (died [[2025 in literature|2025]])
*[[January 11]] – [[Jan Arnald]] (Arne Dahl), Swedish novelist and critic<ref>{{cite book|author=Mitzi M. Brunsdale|title=Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvcWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA419|date=27 April 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2277-4|pages=419}}</ref>
*[[January 18]] – [[Peter Stamm]], Swiss writer, dramatist and journalist
*[[January 30]] – [[Thomas Brezina]], Austrian author<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thomasbrezina.com/privat/steckbrief/id21/?sid=e66fcbb8fe45691f77e11ad157322d68 |author=Thomas C. Brezina |title=Biografie: Eine ausführliche Biografie: Die Erfolgsgeschichte von Thomas C. Brezina |accessdate=2013-03-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130412000106/http://www.thomasbrezina.com/privat/steckbrief/id21/?sid=e66fcbb8fe45691f77e11ad157322d68 |archivedate=2013-04-12 }}</ref>  
*[[March 1]] – [[Miss Shangay Lily]], Spanish drag queen, writer, actor, and director (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*[[March 26]] – [[Natsuhiko Kyogoku]] (京極 夏彦), Japanese mystery writer
*[[April 27]] – [[Russell T Davies]], Welsh television writer<ref>{{cite book|author=Adam Pearson|title=101 Interesting Facts on Doctor Who: Learn About the Science-Fiction TV Show|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6O5BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP17|date=18 August 2014|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-910295-80-9|page=17}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Beate Grimsrud]], Norwegian novelist and playwright (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Beate Grimsrud |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Beate_Grimsrud|language=no|access-date=6 July 2012}}</ref>
*[[May 5]] – [[Scott Westerfeld]], American young-adult novelist
*[[May 24]] – [[Michael Chabon]], American author{{cn|date=March 2024}}
*[[May 26]] – [[Simon Armitage]], English poet, Poet Laureate of the UK<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.simonarmitage.com/biography/|title=Biography » Simon Armitage - The Official Website|website=www.simonarmitage.com}}</ref>
*[[June 8]] – [[Lutz Seiler]], German poet and novelist
*[[June 18]] – [[Adam Hargreaves]], children’s author{{cn|date=March 2024}}
*[[June 23]] – [[Liu Cixin]] (刘慈欣), Chinese speculative fiction writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?208409|title=Summary Bibliography: Cixin Liu|publisher=ISFDB}}</ref>
*[[June 25]] – [[Yann Martel]], Canadian author
*[[August 6]] – [[Xurxo Borrazás]], Spanish writer and translator{{cn|date=March 2024}}
*[[August 13]] – [[Valerie Plame]], American writer and spy novelist
*[[August 15]] – [[Jan Sonnergaard]], Danish short-story writer (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Bloom | first = Clive | title = Bestsellers: popular fiction since 1900 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-230-53688-3 | page=322}}</ref>
*[[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
*[[October 8]] – [[Nick Earls]], Australian novelist and children's writer
*[[October 20]] – [[Gisela Kozak]], Venezuelan writer and essayist<ref>{{Cite book|last=Parra|first=José Antonio|url=|title=Reflexiones: Angélica Gorodischer, Vol. 2|publisher=Ediciones Nuevo Espacio|year=2002|isbn=1-930879-34-2|editor-last=|location=New Jersey|pages=71–77|language=|chapter=«Gisela Kozak Rovero. Hacia una estética de lo efímero»}}</ref> 
*[[October 23]] – [[Gordon Korman]], Canadian-American children's and young adult author<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gordon-korman |title=Gordon Korman |last=Gardner |first=Suzanne  |date=January 5, 2012 |website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |publisher=Historica Canada |access-date=June 7, 2023}}</ref>
*[[October 25]] – [[Dominic Dromgoole]], English theatre director and writer
*[[November 12]] – [[Damon Galgut]], South African novelist and playwright<ref>{{cite news|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=2021-11-03|title=Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with ‘spectacular’ novel The Promise|language=en|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/damon-galgut-wins-booker-prize-the-promise|access-date=2021-11-03|archive-date=2021-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103200242/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/damon-galgut-wins-booker-prize-the-promise|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[December 23]] – [[Donna Tartt]], American novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=Jennifer Curry|title=World Authors, 2000-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqsjAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-1077-9|page=720}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**[[Jeff Abbott]], American genre novelist
**[[Joanna Briscoe]], English novelist<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Laurie Critchley |author2=Helen Windrath |title=Something to Savour: Food for Thought from Women Writers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eFIZi6qSpFwC |year=1996 |publisher=Women's Press |isbn=978-0-7043-4507-2 |page=81}}</ref>
**[[Don Paterson]], Scottish poet, writer and musician<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/don-paterson-interview |title=Don Paterson interview |date=27 July 2012 |author=J P O'Malley |website=The Spectator |access-date=4 July 2020}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 6]] – [[Stark Young]], teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic and essayist (b. [[1881 in literature|1881]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Pilkington | first = John | title = Stark Young | publisher = Twayne | location = Boston | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780805774030 |page=141}}</ref>
*[[January 8]] – [[Kay Sage]], American poet (suicide, born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Suther, Judith D.|title=A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist|location=Lincoln|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=1997|page=223}}</ref>
*[[January 13]] – [[Ramón Gómez de la Serna]], Spanish dramatist (born [[1888 in literature|1888]])
*[[January 14]] – [[Gustav Regler]], German Socialist novelist (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[January 29]] – [[Robert Frost]], American poet (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica | title=Robert Frost | url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035504/Robert-Frost | edition=Online | year=2008 | access-date=2008-12-21}}</ref>
*[[February 4]] – [[Brinsley MacNamara]] (John Weldon), Irish novelist and playwright (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])
*[[February 8]] – [[Ernst Glaeser]], German writer (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{cite web|ref={{harvid|Ernst Glaeser – hjp-medien}}|url=http://www.gg-online.de/html/ernst_glaeser.htm
 |title=Ernst Glaeser|publisher=hjp-medien - Alemannenstraße - 64521 Groß-Gerau|access-date=2015-06-20}}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – [[Sylvia Plath]], American poet and novelist (suicide, born [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sylvia Plath {{!}} Biography, Poems, Books, Death, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Plath |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[February 14]] – [[Hilda Vīka]], Latvian poet and novelist (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])
*[[February 18]] – [[Beppe Fenoglio]], Italian writer (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beppe-Fenoglio Beppe Fenoglio] on [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]</ref>
*[[February 24]] – [[Herbert Asbury]], American journalist and writer (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[March 4]] – [[William Carlos Williams]], American writer (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])<ref>{{Cite news |first=Phil |last=Casey |title=Poet Williams Dies of Stroke. Works in 40 Volumes Likened to Chekhov. |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/154181472.html?FMT=ABS |work=The Washington Post |date=1963-03-05 |access-date=2008-08-07 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=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= |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[March 11]]
**[[Deirdre Cash]] (Criena Rohan), Australian novelist (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
**[[James Lennox Kerr]] (Peter Dawlish, Gavin Douglas), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
*[[March 26]] – [[Jean Bruce]], French writer (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])
*[[March 29]] – [[Pola Gojawiczyńska]], Polish writer (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[April 14]] – [[Kodō Nomura]], Japanese novelist and music critic (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Christopher Hassall]], English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>[[John Wakeman]], [[Stanley Kunitz]], ''World Authors, 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors'' Wilson (publisher), 1975, page 619</ref>
*[[April 27]] – [[Lillian Barrett]], American novelist and playwright (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newport-mercury-obituary/96559791/|title=Miss Barrett, Author, Was 78|work=[[Newport Mercury]]|date= May 3, 1963|page= 3}}</ref>
*[[May 12]] – [[A. W. Tozer]], American religious writer and pastor (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])
*[[May 28]] – [[Ion Agârbiceanu]], Romanian writer and pastor (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[June 3]] – [[Nâzım Hikmet Ran]], Turkish poet, playwright and novelist (heart attack, born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[June 17]] – [[John Cowper Powys]], English novelist (born [[1872 in literature|1872]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Williams | first = Herbert | title = John Cowper Powys | publisher = Seren U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions | location = Bridgend, Wales, Chester Springs, PA | year = 1997 | isbn = 9781854111968 | page=156}}</ref>
*[[August 1]] – [[Theodore Roethke]], American poet (heart attack, born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Brennan | first = Elizabeth | title = Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners | publisher = Oryx Press | location = Phoenix, Ariz | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781573561112 | page=523}}</ref>
*[[August 14]] – [[Clifford Odets]], American dramatist (cancer, born [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Demastes | first = William | title = American playwrights, 1880-1945: a research and production sourcebook | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = Westport, Conn | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780313286384 | page=311}}</ref>
*[[August 27]] – [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], American writer, scholar and activist (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])<ref>[[David Levering Lewis|Lewis, David Levering]] (2009), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=BU4vH95YySgC W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography]'', Henry Holt and Co. Single volume edition, updated, of his 1994 and 2001 works. {{ISBN|978-0-8050-8769-7}}. Page 712</ref>
*[[September 3]] – [[Louis MacNeice]], Irish poet (pneumonia, born [[1907 in literature|1907]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Drakakis | first = John | title = British radio drama | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780521293839 | page=68}}</ref>
*[[September 9]] – [[Ernst Kantorowicz]], German historian (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[September 28]] – [[Marie Linde]], South African novelist (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])<ref>{{cite book|last=De Kock|first=Sita|title=Die Bosmans van Suid-Afrika, 1707-1965|location=Pretoria|publisher=Van Schaik|year=1968|oclc=814141210|language=AF|page=33}}</ref>
*[[October 11]] – [[Jean Cocteau]], French poet, novelist and short story writer (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Arnaud|first=Claude|year=2016|title=Jean Cocteau: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ejj2DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA513|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=513–|isbn=978-0-300-17057-3}}</ref>
*October – [[Jolán Földes]], Hungarian novelist and playwright (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[November 13]] – [[Margaret Murray]], Indian-born English archeologist and historian (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])
*[[November 22]]
**[[Mary Findlater]], Scottish novelist (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])
**[[Aldous Huxley]], English novelist (cancer, born [[1894 in literature|1894]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Chevalier | first = Tracy | title = Encyclopedia of the essay | publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers | location = London Chicago | year = 1997 | isbn = 9781884964305 | page=416}}</ref>
**[[C. S. Lewis]], Irish novelist and children's and religious writer (renal failure, born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{Cite book |title=C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet |last=McGrath |first=Alister |publisher=Tyndale House Publishers, Inc |year=2013 |page=358}}</ref>
*[[November 24]] – [[Martha Ostenso]], Norwegian-born Canadian novelist and screenwriter (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&q=ostenso|title=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada|editor-last=New|editor-first=William H.|date=2002|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9780802007612|pages=854–855|language=en}}</ref>
*[[December 25]] – [[Tristan Tzara]] (Samuel Rosenstock), Romanian-born French poet and essayist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Carruth | first = Gorton | title = The encyclopedia of world facts and dates | publisher = HarperCollins | location = New York | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780062700124 | page=827}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Poetry|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry]]: [[William Carlos Williams]]
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Hester Burton]], ''[[Time of Trial]]''
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Ian Hamilton (critic)|Ian Hamilton]], [[Stewart Conn]], [[Peter Griffith (poet)|Peter Griffith]], [[David Wevill]]
*[[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 (novel)|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 retire''<ref>{{cite book|title=French News: Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F50aAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19|year=1964|publisher=Cultural Services of the French Embassy|pages=19}}</ref>
*[[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==
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