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Overview of the events of 1959 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1959 .
January 31 – Sandu Tudor begins a 40-year sentence at Jilava Prison for "conspiracy against social order" and "intense activity against the working class", as meted out by a Romanian communist tribunal. He will die in 1962 at Aiud prison , possibly from torture.[1]
April 30 – Bertolt Brecht 's Saint Joan of the Stockyards
May 7 – Scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers in the Senate House, University of Cambridge a Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures sciences and humanities . It is later published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution .
May 28 – The Mermaid Theatre opens in the City of London .
July 21 – D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley's Lover Charles Rembar in the United States, the others being Tropic of Cancer Fanny Hill [2]
July 29 – The U.K. Obscene Publications Act becomes law, coming into force on August 29. It requires a work to be seen as a whole, permitting a "public good" defence against a prosecution for obscenity, and making prosecutions for obscene libel difficult.
September – Anthony Burgess , teaching in Brunei , suffers a breakdown and is forced to return to the UK, where he becomes a full-time novelist.[3]
October 29 – Astérix the Gaul makes a first appearance in the first regular issue of the comic magazine Pilote [4]
November 11 – In the United States, the short film Pull My Daisy Jack Kerouac , Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg , Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso .
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January 8 – Ovidiu Pecican , Romanian writer and poet
January 9 – Rigoberta Menchú , Guatemalan writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner
January 20 – R. A. Salvatore , American science fiction and fantasy author
January 28 – Megan McDonald , American children's author
February 2 – Jari Tervo , Finnish author
March 11 – Dejan Stojanović , Serbian-American poet and essayist
March 15 – Ben Okri , Nigerian poet and novelist
March 18 – Frédéric-Yves Jeannet , French-born writer in French and Spanish
April 15 – Emma Thompson , English actress and screenwriter
April 30 – Alessandro Barbero , Italian historian, novelist and essayist
c. May 1 – Yasmina Reza , French novelist and dramatist
May 3 – Ben Elton , English comedian, novelist and screenwriter[11]
May 13 – Zeruya Shalev , Israeli novelist
June 12 – Hilary McKay , English children's writer
June 13 – Maurice G. Dantec , French science fiction author
July 19 – Vigdis Hjorth , Norwegian novelist
August 6 – Deborah Levy , South African-born British writer
August 17 – Jonathan Franzen , American essayist and novelist
August 27 – Jeanette Winterson , English novelist
September 9 – Matti Rönkä , Finnish television journalist and novelist
September 29
October 1 – Brian P. Cleary , American humorist, author and poet
October 7 – Steven Erikson , Canadian novelist and fantasy author
October 31 – Neal Stephenson , American science fiction writer[12]
November 1 – Susanna Clarke , English novelist
November 22 – Christoph Klimke , German writer
December 20 – Sandra Cisneros , Mexican-born American author
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January 3 – Edwin Muir , Scottish poet, novelist and translator (born 1887 )[13]
January 14 – G. D. H. Cole , English political theorist, economist and historian (born 1889 )[14]
January 26 – Margaret Elizabeth Egan , American librarian (born 1905 )
January 29 – Pauline Smith , South African novelist (born 1882 )
February 20 – Laurence Housman , English playwright and writer (born 1865 )
February 22 – Percy F. Westerman , English children's author (born 1876 )
February 23 – Luis Palés Matos , Puerto Rican poet (heart failure) (born 1898 )[15]
February 28 – Maxwell Anderson , American playwright and film writer (born 1888 )
March 4 – W. W. Greg , English literary scholar (born 1875 )
March 17 – Galaktion Tabidze (Galaktioni), Georgian poet (suicide, born 1892 )[16]
March 26 – Raymond Chandler , American crime writer (born 1888 )
April 12 – James Gleason , American actor, playwright and screenwriter (born 1882 )
April 14 – Julien Josephson , American screenwriter (born 1881 )
April 16 – Ramón Armando Rodríguez , Venezuelan writer (born 1895 )
May 15 – Jeanne de Flandreysy , French writer (born 1874 )
May 18 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard , English memoirist and explorer (born 1886 )
May 20 – Alfred Schütz , Austrian philosopher and sociologist (born 1899 )
May 30 – Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz , Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet (born 1898 )
June 1 – Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (born 1883 )
June 23 – Boris Vian , French novelist (heart attack, born 1920 )
June 30 – José Vasconcelos , Mexican poet and political writer (born 1882 )
July 3 – Johan Bojer , Norwegian novelist (born 1872 )
July 26 – Manuel Altolaguirre , Spanish poet, editor and publisher (car accident, born 1905 )
August 8 – Emil František Burian , Czech poet, journalist and playwright (born 1904 )
September 5 – Marta Rădulescu , Romanian novelist and poet (born 1912 )
September 14 – Laxmi Prasad Devkota , Nepali poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1909 )
September 18 – Benjamin Péret , French poet (born 1899 )
October 12 – Arnolt Bronnen , Austrian playwright and director (born 1895 )
November 29 – Hans Henny Jahnn , German playwright and novelist (born 1894 )[17]
December 2 – Giuseppe Zucca , Italian screenwriter (born 1887 )
Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Rosemary Sutcliff , The Lantern Bearers
Hugo Award for Best Novel : James Blish , A Case of Conscience
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Morris West , The Devil's Advocate
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Christopher Hassall , Edward Marsh
Miles Franklin Award : Vance Palmer , The Big Fellow
Newbery Medal for children's literature : Elizabeth George Speare , The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Nobel Prize for literature : Salvatore Quasimodo
Premio Nadal : Ana María Matute , Primera memoria
Prix Goncourt : André Schwarz-Bart , Le dernier des Justes [18]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Archibald MacLeish , J. B.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Robert Lewis Taylor , The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Stanley Kunitz , Selected Poems 1928-1958
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Francis Cornford
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^ "Les BD oubliées D'Astérix" . BDoubliées (in French). Retrieved 2013-10-03 .
^ Sarah Lyall (January 26, 2012). "Which is cooler: To accept a knighthood from the queen, or to turn one down?" . New York Times . Retrieved December 13, 2020 .
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^ John Cusatis (2010). Research Guide to American Literature ISBN 978-1-4381-3405-5
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^ "Edwin Muir 1887-1959" . Scottish Poetry Library . Retrieved 17 April 2023 .
^ "G. D. H. Cole". The Times . London. 15 January 1959.
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