1959 in literature
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See also: 1958 in literature, other events of 1959, 1960 in literature, list of years in literature.
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 Impostor - 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
Non-fiction
- The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper
- The Three Edwards - Thomas B. Costain (Third book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
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 1928-1958
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