1959 in literature

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See also: 1958 in literature, other events of 1959, 1960 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

Events

• Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood.
• First appearance of Astérix the Gaul.
• Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School.
• Frank Herbert begins researching Dune.
• Frederik Pohl becomes editor of Galaxy magazine.
• Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française.

New books

• Advertisement for Myself - Norman Mailer
• Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler
• The Children of Gebelaawi - Naguib Mahfouz
• Children of the Wolf - Alfred Duggan
• Dear and Glorious Physician - Taylor Caldwell
• The Defeat of the Spanish Armada - Garett Mattingly
• Echo in the Skull - John Brunner
• Exodus - Leon Uris
• Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
• Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
• The Great Imposter - Robert Crichton
• The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
• Hawaii - James A. Michener
• Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
• The Magic Christian - Terry Southern
• The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
• Mountolive - Lawrence Durrell
• Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
• Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
• Night of the Big Heat - John Lymington
• Poor No More - Robert Ruark
• Psycho - Robert Bloch
• Rape of the Fair Country - Alexander Cordell
• The Same Door - John Updike
• Sink the Bismarck! aka The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck - C.S. Forester
• The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
• Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
• The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
• Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake
• The Ugly American - William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick

New drama

• Tennessee Williams - Sweet Bird of Youth

Non-fiction

• The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper

Births

• May 3 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
• October 31 - Neal Stephenson - science fiction writer
• R. A. Salvatore, science-fiction and fantasy author

Deaths

• February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, playwright, film writer
• March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American novelist.
• June 23 - Boris Vian, French novelist
• date unknown - Olga Knipper, widow of Anton Chekhov and star of many of his plays.

Awards

• Hugo Award - James Blish, A Case of Conscience
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Nobel Prize for literature: Salvatore Quasimodo
• 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 1928-1958fr:1959 en littérature

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