1960 in literature
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See also: 1959 in literature, other events of 1960, 1961 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Lawrence Durrell publishes Clea, the final volume of the four-book collection titled The Alexandria Quartet that began in 1957.
- August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- Astounding magazine is renamed Analog.
- Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full credit for his work on the films Exodus and Spartacus.
- Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language, Lincos, intended for communication with alien life forms.
- Michael Foot relinquishes the editorship of Tribune to return to Parliament.
New books
- Kingsley Amis - Take a Girl Like You
- Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
- Morley Callaghan - The Many Colored Coat
- Carlo Coccioli - The White Stone
- Jean-Paul Desbiens - The Insolences of Brother Anonymous
- Lawrence Durrell - Clea
- Henry Farrell - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra - Hunters in a Narrow Street
- Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
- Nancy Mitford - Don't Tell Alfred
- Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
- Wilder Penfield - The Torch
- Anthony Powell - Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham
- Irving Wallace - The Chapman Report
- Raymond Williams - Border Country
New drama
- Jean Anouilh - Becket
- Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons
- Françoise Sagan - Château en Suède
- Wole Soyinka - A Dance of the Forests
Non-fiction
- Kingsley Amis - New Maps of Hell
- Hans-Georg Gadamer - Truth and Method
- Helen Keller - Light in my Darkness
- Arthur Koestler - The Lotus and the Robot
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason)
- William L. Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Elie Wiesel - Night
Births
- January 1 - Helen Fielding, author
- April 28 - Ian Rankin, crime novelist
- May 21 - John O'Brien, novelist (d. 1994)
- July 13 - Ian Hislop, satirist
- November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author
- date unknown - Malcolm Pryce, novelist
Deaths
- January 4 - Albert Camus, novelist (car accident)
- January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
- January 14 - Ralph Chubb, poet
- January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston
- May 30 - Boris Pasternak, novelist and poet
- November 28 - Richard Wright, author
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
- Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello!
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle
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