Editing 1964 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1964'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 10]] – [[Federico García Lorca]]'s play ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'', completed just before his assassination in [[1936 in literature|1936]], receives its first performance in Spain.<ref>[http://www.madridteatro.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1223:la-casa-de-bernarda-alba-resena-1964-critica&catid=69:critica&Itemid=24 House of Bernarda Alba – Premiere in Madrid (Spanish)]. Accessed 27 November 2013.</ref>
*[[January 12]] – The [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] Experimental Group open a four-week [[Theatre of Cruelty]] season at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art|LAMDA Theatre Club]], London.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The Theatre of Cruelty |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=1964-01-01 |page=13 |issue=55897}}</ref>
*[[January 23]] – [[Arthur Miller]]'s play ''[[After the Fall (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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cremer_jan.htm |title=Jan Cremer |work=[[Lambiek]] Comiclopedia |language=en |date=2019-07-26 |access-date=2020-01-07}}</ref>
*[[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]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ambitious Example of Theatre of Cruelty |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=1964-08-21 |page=11 |issue=56096}}</ref>
*May – [[Michael Moorcock]] becomes editor of the science fiction magazine ''[[New Worlds (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.<ref name="Smith2005">{{Cite book |author=Stan Smith |title=The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltwN3MpcPIcC&pg=PA31 |date=13 January 2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-82713-3 |pages=31}}</ref>
*[[May 6]] – [[Joe Orton]]'s [[black comedy]] ''[[Entertaining Mr Sloane]]'' premières at the [[Arts Theatre|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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chronologie des spectacles et des films du Théâtre du Soleil |url=http://www.theatre-du-soleil.fr/thsol/a-propos-du-theatre-du-soleil,1/l-historique/chronologie-des-spectacles-du?lang=fr |publisher=Théâtre du Soleil |access-date=2013-11-27}}</ref>
*[[June 22]] – [[Henry Miller]]'s ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|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.<ref>{{Cite court |litigants=Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein |vol=378 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=577 |court=U.S. Supreme Court |date=22 June 1964 |url=http://supreme.justia.com/us/378/577/}}</ref>
*[[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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lycett |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Lycett |title=Ian Fleming |year=1996 |publisher=Phoenix |location=London |isbn=978-1-85799-783-5 |page=442}}</ref> 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, Liverpool|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.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/23/archives/sartre-explains-stand.html Sartre Explains Stand] nytimes.com</ref>
*[[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.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Jacob Leigh |title=The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKwc4ltKdLgC&pg=PA183 |year=2002 |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-31-4 |pages=183}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Chinua Achebe]] – ''[[Arrow of God]]''
*[[José Agustín]] – ''[[La Tumba (novel)|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 (novel)|Herzog]]''
*[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''[[Little Big Man (novel)|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 (novelist)|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 (anthology)|Over the Edge]]''
*[[Michel Droit]] – ''[[Le Retour (novel)|Le Retour]]''
*[[Ralph Ellison]] – ''[[Shadow and Act]]''
*[[Ian Fleming]] – ''[[You Only Live Twice (novel)|You Only Live Twice]]''
*[[Max Frisch]] – ''[[Gantenbein]]''
*[[Daniel F. Galouye]] – ''[[Simulacron-3]]'' (''Counterfeit World'')
*[[William Golding]] – ''[[The Spire]]''
*[[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]] – ''[[Nuts in May (novel)|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 Richard Jacobi|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 (novel)|Dead Water]]''
* [[Stephen Coulter|James Mayo]] – ''[[Hammerhead (novel)|Hammerhead]]''
*[[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[Death of a Delft Blue]]''
*[[Iris Murdoch]] – ''[[The Italian Girl]]''
*[[Sterling North]] – ''[[Rascal (book)|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 (author)|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 (writer)|Jim Thompson]] – [[Pop. 1280|''Pop. 1280'']]
*[[Leon Uris]] – ''[[Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin|Armageddon]]''
*[[Jack Vance]]
**''[[The Houses of Iszm]]''
**''[[The Killing Machine]]''
**''[[Star King]]''
*[[Gore Vidal]] – ''[[Julian (historical novel)|Julian]]''
*[[Irving Wallace]] – ''[[The Man (1964 novel)|The Man]]''
*[[Raymond Williams]] – ''[[Second Generation (1964 novel)|Second Generation]]''
*[[Maia Wojciechowska]] – ''[[Shadow of a Bull]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Lloyd Alexander]] – ''[[The Book of Three]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 14</ref>
*[[Rev. W. Awdry]] – ''[[List of Railway Series Books#Mountain Engines|Mountain Engines]]'' (nineteenth in ''[[The Railway Series]]'' of 42 books by him and his son [[Christopher Awdry]])
*[[Nina Bawden]] – ''[[On the Run (novel)|On the Run]]'' (also ''Three on the Run'')
*[[Christianna Brand]] – ''[[Nurse Matilda]]''
*[[Hesba Fay Brinsmead]] – ''[[Pastures of the Blue Crane]]''
*[[Jeff Brown (author)|Jeff Brown]] – ''[[Flat Stanley]]''
*[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 117</ref>
*[[Louise Fitzhugh]] – ''[[Harriet the Spy]]''
*[[Ian Fleming]] – ''[[Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car]]''
*[[Rumer Godden]] – ''Home is the Sailor''
*[[Irene Hunt]] – ''[[Across Five Aprils]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 3</ref>
*[[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 Tree]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 232</ref>
*[[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 (play)|After the Fall]]''
**''[[Incident At Vichy]]''
*[[Joe Orton]] – ''[[Entertaining Mr Sloane]]''
*[[Alexander Vampilov]] – ''[[Farewell in June]]''
*[[Peter Weiss]] – ''[[Marat/Sade]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main article|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 (book)|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 (book)|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 (science book)|Elephant]]''
*[[Hilda Ellis Davidson]] – ''Gods and Myths of Northern Europe''
*[[Aileen Fox]] – ''South West England'' (Ancient peoples and places series)<ref>Henrietta Quinnell, "Fox, Aileen Mary, Lady Fox (1907–2005)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2009) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/96247 Retrieved 21 November 2017]</ref>
*[[Dick Gregory]] – ''[[Nigger (1964 book)|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|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]]''
*[[Warren Commission|The Warren Commission]] – ''The Warren Report''
*[[Evelyn Waugh]] – ''[[A Little Learning (book)|A Little Learning]]''

==Births==
*[[January 26]] – [[Peter Braunstein]], American journalist and playwright
*[[February 23]] – [[Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964)|Joseph O'Neill]], Irish-born writer
*[[March 7]] – [[Bret Easton Ellis]], American novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer<ref>{{cite book|author1=Clifford Thompson|author2=H. W. Wilson|title=World Authors 1990-1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cWoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-0956-8|page=215}}</ref>
*[[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 (poet)|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 screenwriter<ref>{{cite book|author=Graham Saunders|title=Patrick Marber's Closer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKYaO9jCeUsC&pg=PA3|date=6 June 2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4411-7104-7|pages=3}}</ref>
** [[Yvonne Vera]], Zimbabwean novelist (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/27/guardianobituaries.books|title=Yvonne Vera|date=27 April 2005|author=Helon Habila|website=The Guardian|access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[September 25]]
** [[Carlos Ruiz Zafón]], Spanish novelist (died [[2020 in literature|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 poet<ref>{{cite book|author=Carole Buchan|title=Reshape Whilst Damp: Prize-winning Stories by Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FexZAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Serpent's Tail|isbn=978-1-85242-652-1|page=177}}</ref>
**[[Ge Fei (author)|Ge Fei]] (格非, real name: Liu Yong, 刘勇), Chinese novelist
**[[Mai Jia]] (real name: Jiǎng Běnhǔ, 蒋本浒), Chinese novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=Laifong Leung|title=Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers: Biography, Bibliography, and Critical Assessment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KklnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT344|date=28 July 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-51618-7|pages=344}}</ref>
**[[Nell Zink]], American novelist<ref>{{Cite web|url = 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|title = Contemporary Authors Online|date = 2015|access-date = February 4, 2016|website = Biography in Context|publisher = Gale}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 17]] – [[T. H. White]], English novelist (heart condition, born [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Clark Layman Bruccoli|author2=Gale Cengage|title=British Children's Writers, 1914-1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QqERAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-9355-4|page=314}}</ref>
*[[February 1]] – [[Sigge Stark]] (Signe Björnberg), Swedish writer (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite web|first=Yvonne|last=Leffler|title=Sigge Stark: Sveriges mest produktiva, utskällda och lästa författare|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bokrecensioner/yvonne-leffler-sigge-stark-sveriges-mest-produktiva-utskallda-och-lasta-forfattare/|website=[[Dagens Nyheter]]|access-date=2021-06-13|language=Swedish|date=2015-05-11|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613133550/https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bokrecensioner/yvonne-leffler-sigge-stark-sveriges-mest-produktiva-utskallda-och-lasta-forfattare/ |archive-date=2021-06-13 }}</ref>
*[[February 3]] – [[Clarence Irving Lewis]], American philosopher (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange]], French theologian (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Catholic School Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGhLAAAAYAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Bruce Publishing Company|page=19}}</ref>
*[[February 25]] – [[Grace Metalious]] (Marie Grace DeRepentigny), American novelist (cirrhosis of liver, born [[1924 in literature|1924]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George C. Kohn|title=The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uzdWTBytwAIC&pg=PA314|year=2001|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3022-4|pages=314}}</ref>
*[[March 1]] – [[Davíð Stefánsson]], Icelandic poet (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick J. Stevens|title=Icelandic Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hsoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-6830-3|page=29}}</ref>
*[[March 17]] – [[Păstorel Teodoreanu]], Romanian poet and satirist (lung cancer, born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[March 20]] – [[Brendan Behan]], Irish playwright, poet and writer (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frances Stephens|title=Theatre World Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yg3DWEjfAUEC|year=1964|publisher=Macmillan|page=165}}</ref>
*[[April 9]] – [[Mihu Dragomir]], Romanian poet, journalist and short story writer (heart attack, born [[1919 in literature|1919]])
*[[April 14]] – [[Rachel Carson]], American environmentalist (breast cancer, born [[1907 in literature|1907]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Carson, Rachel|year=2010|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|edition=2010}}</ref>
*[[April 18]] – [[Ben Hecht]], American screenwriter (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[April 23]] – [[Karl Polanyi]] (Károly Polányi), Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])
*[[April 26]] – [[E. J. Pratt]], Canadian poet (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])<ref>David G. Pitt, "[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006453 Pratt, Edwin John] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215082539/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006453 |date=2011-02-15 }}," ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1736.</ref>
*[[May 13]] – [[Hamilton Basso]], American novelist and journalist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[July 6]] – [[Ion Vinea]], Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist (cancer, born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[July 29]] – [[Wanda Wasilewska]], Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (heart disease, born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[August 3]] – [[Flannery O'Connor]], American essayist and fiction writer (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])<ref>  {{cite encyclopedia  |last = Gordon  |first = Sarah  |title = Flannery O'Connor  |date = December 8, 2015  |orig-year = Originally published July 10, 2002  |encyclopedia = [[New Georgia Encyclopedia]]  |publisher = Georgia Humanities Council  |url = http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/flannery-oconnor-1925-1964  |access-date = May 13, 2016  |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160314114535/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/flannery-oconnor-1925-1964  |archive-date = March 14, 2016  |url-status = live  }}</ref>
*[[August 5]] – [[Moa Martinson]], Swedish author (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|location=Springfield|publisher=Merriam-Webster|year=1995|page=739|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6}}</ref>
*[[August 12]] – [[Ian Fleming]], English spy thriller writer (heart attack, born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite book|title=20th Century Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UdQ5AAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-0-912289-19-9|page=220}}</ref>
*[[August 17]] – [[Mihai Ralea]], Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
* [[September 5]] – [[Angel Cruchaga Santa María]], Chilean writer (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Cruchaga Santa Maria |first=Angel |title=La hora digna: antología poética |editor-last=Silva Acevedo |editor-first=Manuel |series=Colección Premios nacionales de literatura |volume=7 |publisher=Editorial Universitaria |location=Santiago de Chile |year=1996 |lccn=98199495}}</ref>
*[[September 6]] – [[San Tiago Dantas]], Brazilian journalist (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[September 14]] – [[Vasily Grossman]], Soviet novelist (cancer, born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[September 18]] – [[Seán O'Casey]], Irish dramatist and memoirist (born [[1880 in literature|1880]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Sean O'Casey – Irish dramatist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sean-OCasey|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=7 July 2017|language=en}}</ref>
*[[October 26]] – [[Agnes Miegel]], German author, journalist and poet (born [[1879 in literature|1879]])
*c. November – [[Radu D. Rosetti]], Romanian poet and playwright (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])<ref>{{cite journal|first=Horia|last=Oprescu|title=Un bătrîn poet a murit|journal=Gazeta Literară|volume=XI|issue=46|page=7|year=1964}}</ref>
*[[November 21]] – [[Leah Bodine Drake]], American poet, editor and critic (cancer, born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Anne de Vries]], Dutch novelist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[December 9]] – Dame [[Edith Sitwell]], English poet and critic (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[December 21]] – [[Carl Van Vechten]], American writer and photographer (born [[1880 in literature|1880]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/vanvechten/vvbio.html |title=Portraits by Carl Van Vechten – Carl Van Vechten Biography |work=American Memory |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=2010-03-09}}</ref>

==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 (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Sheena Porter]], ''[[Nordy Bank]]''
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Robert Nye]], [[Ken Smith (poet)|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 Medals#Drama|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama]]: [[Lillian Hellman]]
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Clifford D. Simak]], ''[[Way Station (novel)|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===
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[George Johnston (novelist)|George Johnston]], ''[[My Brother Jack]]''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Alfredo Martínez Garrido]], ''El miedo y la esperanza''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Giuseppe Berto]], ''Il male oscuro''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gaetana Marrone|author2=Paolo Puppa|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA192|date=26 December 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45530-9|pages=192}}</ref>

==Notes==

* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

==References==
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