1961 in literature
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See also: 1960 in literature, other events of 1961, 1962 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.
- Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage.
- William Golding spends a year as writer in residence at Hollins College, Virginia, USA.
New books
- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
- El astillero (The Shipyard) - Juan Carlos Onetti
- Call for the Dead - John le Carré
- The Carpetbaggers - Harold Robbins
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Daughter of Silence - Morris West
- The Fox in the Attic - Richard Hughes
- Fate Is the Hunter - Ernest Gann
- Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
- Le front de l'art - Rose Valland
- A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
- James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
- The Judas Tree - A.J. Cronin
- The Long Revolution - Raymond Williams (non-fiction)
- Mila 18 - Leon Uris
- The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
- No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) - Gabriel García Márquez
- A Passion in Rome - Morley Callaghan
- The Pawnbroker - Edward Lewis Wallant
- The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
- Resistance, Rebellion, and Death - Albert Camus
- Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
- A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
- Some of Your Blood - Theodore Sturgeon
- The Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
- The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
- This Sweet Sickness - Patricia Highsmith
- Thunderball - Ian Fleming
- 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty - Pat Boone
- Venusberg - Anthony Powell
- The Wall - John Hersey
- The Wind From Nowhere - J. G. Ballard
- The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
- Zima Junction - Yevegeny Yevtushenko
New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Rough for Radio I and II
- Max Frisch - Andorra
- Heiner Müller - Die Umsiedlerin (The Resettler Woman)
- John Osborne - Luther
- Neil Simon - Come Blow Your Horn
- Tennessee Williams - The Night of the Iguana
Non-fiction
- Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
- Karl Popper - The Poverty of Historicism
- Bertrand Russell - Has Man a Future?
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary
- Peter Wessel Zapffe - Indføring i litterær dramaturgi (Introduction to literary dramaturgy)
Births
- January 11 - Jasper Fforde, novelist
- February 21 - Chuck Palahniuk, author
- August 20 - Greg Egan, science fiction author
- September 13 - Tom Holt, novelist
- December 30 - Douglas Coupland, author
Deaths
- January 10 - Dashiell Hammett, author
- January 21 - Blaise Cendrars, author
- January 30 - Dorothy Thompson, influential journalist
- June 2 - George S. Kaufman, dramatist and critic
- July 2 - Ernest Hemingway, novelist
- July 12 - Mazo de la Roche, novelist
- September 27 - H.D., poet, novelist and memoirist
- November 2 - James Thurber, humorist
Awards
- Formentor Prize: Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett
- Lorne Pierce Medal: Robertson Davies
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Nobel Prize for literature - Ivo Andric
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tad Mosel, All The Way Home
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
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