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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1963.




Events


January – Novy Mir publishes "Matryona's Home", the first of three more stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn critical of the Soviet regime. They will be the last of his works to be published in the Soviet Union until 1990.
January 2 – The Traverse Theatre opens in Edinburgh.
February – English novelist Barbara Pym submits her seventh book, An Unsuitable Attachment, for publication. It is rejected by Tom Maschler at her regular publisher, Jonathan Cape, and by others. She will not have another novel published until 1977 and An Unsuitable Attachment does not appear until 1982, posthumously.
February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat about a month after her only novel, the semi-autobiographical The Bell Jar, appears and six days after writing her last poem, "Edge".
March – The Publications and Entertainments Act in South Africa enables the government to impose strict censorship. Des Troye's novel An Act of Immorality (an attack on miscegenation provisions in the country's Immorality Act) is among the first to be prohibited.
March/April – The Bologna Children's Book Fair is inaugurated.
March 19 – Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop premières the ensemble musical Oh, What a Lovely War! at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London.
May 17 – The first Galician Literature Day is held.
July 16 – A day after admission to the Acland Hospital in Oxford, C. S. Lewis suffers a heart attack. Though later discharged, he dies at home four months later.
August 20 – The Royal Shakespeare Company introduces its performance cycle of Shakespeare's history plays under the title The War of the Roses, adapted and directed by John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
September – Publication in India of Bhalchandra Nemade's Bildungsroman, Kosala ('Cocoon'), considered the first existentialist novel in Marathi literature, written in the author's native village.
October 21 – The first film from Merchant Ivory Productions is released: The Householder with a screenplay adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her own novel.
October 22 – The Royal National Theatre Company is newly formed in the U.K. under Artistic Director Laurence Olivier. Its first performance is with Peter O'Toole as Hamlet, in London.
November – Tom Wolfe's essay "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)..." is published in Esquire magazine in the United States.
November 17 – Fictional hero 8 Man, created by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata, appears in print for the first time.
November 20–29 – A High Court case in London over the rights in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Thunderball (1961) determines that future editions will be described as "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming".
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Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, an elegy on Soviet sufferings in the Great Purge, composed 1935–1961, is first published complete in book form, without her knowledge, in Munich.
The first modern publication by mainstream publishers in the U.K. and the United States of John Cleland's novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748–1749) causes it to be banned for obscenity in Massachusetts, triggering a court case by its publisher, and prosecution of a London retailer.
Leslie Charteris publishes his last collection of stories with Simon Templar: The Saint in the Sun. All subsequent Saint books will be ghost-written by others.
Grace Ogot's short story "A Year of Sacrifice" (later retitled "The Rains Came") is published in Black Orpheus.




New books






= Fiction

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J. G. Ballard
The Four-Dimensional Nightmare
Passport to Eternity
Simone de Beauvoir – Force of Circumstance (La Force des choses)
Thomas Bernhard – Frost
John Bingham – A Case of Libel
Heinrich Böll – The Clown (Ansichten eines Clowns)
Pierre Boulle – Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes)
Pearl S. Buck – The Living Reed
Anthony Burgess – Inside Mr. Enderby
Dino Buzzati – A Love Affair
Taylor Caldwell – Grandmother and the Priests
Morley Callaghan – That Summer in Paris
Victor Canning – The Limbo Line
John Dickson Carr – The Men Who Explained Miracles
Agatha Christie – The Clocks
Julio Cortázar – Hopscotch (Rayuela)
Oskar Davičo
Ćutnje (Silences)
Gladi (Hungers)
L. Sprague de Camp – A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales
L. Sprague de Camp (as editor) – Swords and Sorcery
Cecil Day-Lewis – The Deadly Joker
Len Deighton – Horse Under Water
August Derleth (as Stephen Grendon) – Mr. George and Other Odd Persons
Joan Didion – Run, River
J.P. Donleavy – A Singular Man
Daphne du Maurier – The Glass-Blowers
Nell Dunn – Up the Junction
John Fowles – The Collector
Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Thrilling Cities
Jane Gaskell – The Serpent
Natalia Ginzburg – Family Sayings
Winston Graham – The Grove of Eagles
Günter Grass – Dog Years (Hundejahre)
Georgette Heyer – False Colours
Ismail Kadare – The General of the Dead Army (Gjenerali i Ushtrisë së vdekur)
James Kennaway
The Bells of Shoreditch
The Mindbenders
Damon Knight – First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time
Arthur La Bern – Brighton Belle
John le Carré – The Spy who Came in from the Cold
J. M. G. Le Clézio – Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation)
Primo Levi – La tregua (The Truce, Reawakening)
Liu Yichang – Jiutu (酒徒, The Drunkard, or The Alcoholic)
Mary McCarthy – The Group
John McGahern – The Barracks
Richard McKenna – The Sand Pebbles
Alistair MacLean – Ice Station Zebra
James A. Michener – Caravans
Spike Milligan – Puckoon
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) – The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (午後の曳航, The Afternoon Towing)
Gladys Mitchell – Adders on the Heath
Emily Cheney Neville – It's Like This, Cat
John O'Hara – Elizabeth Appleton
Marcel Pagnol
The Water of the Hills (L'Eau des collines)
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
Živojin Pavlović – Krivudava reka (Curved River, short stories)
Sylvia Plath (as Victoria Lucas) – The Bell Jar
Laurens van der Post – The Seed and the Sower
Thomas Pynchon – V.
John Rechy – City of Night
Susan Sontag – Benefactor
Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender Means
Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake) – The Man With the Getaway Face
Rex Stout – The Mother Hunt
Erwin Strittmatter – Ole Bienkopp
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky – Dalyokaya Raduga
Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell to Earth
Jim Thompson – The Grifters
Rosemary Tonks – Opium Fogs
Mario Vargas Llosa – The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros)
Jack Vance – The Dragon Masters
Tarjei Vesaas – Is-slottet (The Ice Palace)
Kurt Vonnegut – Cat's Cradle
Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar
Charles Webb – The Graduate
David Weiss – Naked Came I
Manly Wade Wellman – Who Fears the Devil?
Morris West – The Shoes of the Fisherman
Christa Wolf – Der geteilte Himmel (Divided Heaven, They Divided the Sky)




= Children and young people

=
Rev. W. Awdry – Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine (eighteenth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry)
Nina Bawden – The Secret Passage
Norman Bridwell – Clifford the Big Red Dog (first in a series of 80 books)
Hester Burton – Time of Trial
Paul Gallico – The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked
Rumer Godden – Little Plum
Edward Gorey – The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Ted Hughes – How the Whale Became
Norton Juster – The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
Clive King – Stig of the Dump
Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time
Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Giants
Sterling North – Rascal
Peggy Parish – Amelia Bedelia
Bill Peet – The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky – The Cow Went Over The Mountain
Charles M. Schulz – Happiness Is a Warm Puppy
Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are
Dr. Seuss – Hop on Pop
Donald J. Sobol – Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (first in a series of 29 books)
Rosemary Sutcliff – Sword at Sunset
Colin Thiele – Storm Boy




= Drama

=
Arthur Adamov – La Politique des restes (The Politics of Rubbish)
Alan Ayckbourn – Mr. Whatnot
John Barton and Peter Hall (adapted from Shakespeare) – The War of the Roses
Samuel Beckett – Play (première in German as Spiel)
Emilio Carballido – ¡Silencio Pollos pelones, ya les van a echar su maíz!
René de Obaldia – Le Satyre de la Villette
Václav Havel – The Garden Party (Zahradní slavnost)
Rolf Hochhuth – The Deputy (Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel)
John Mortimer – A Voyage Round My Father (original radio version)
Bill Naughton
Alfie
All in Good Time
Barry Reckord – Skyvers
Charles Wood – Cockade
Theatre Workshop – Oh, What a Lovely War!




= Poetry

=

T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909–1962 (selected by author, published on 75th birthday)
Lionel Kearns – Songs of Circumstance
H. P. Lovecraft – Collected Poems
Rosemary Tonks – Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms




= Non-fiction

=
Nelson Algren – Who Lost an American? (travel book)
Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem
On Revolution
James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
Thomas B. Costain – William the Conqueror
L. Sprague de Camp – The Ancient Engineers
Milovan Đilas – Montenegro
Richard P. Feynman – Six Easy Pieces
Robert Newton Flew (died 1962) – Jesus and His Way. A study of the ethics of the New Testament
Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol. 2: Fredicksburg to Meridian
Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique
W. L. Guttsman – The British Political Elite
Jules Henry – Culture Against Man
Richard Hofstadter – Anti-intellectualism in American Life
C. L. R. James – Beyond a Boundary
Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail
H. P. Lovecraft – Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
William H. McNeill – The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
Jessica Mitford – The American Way of Death
Margaret Murray – My First Hundred Years (autobiography)
Iris Origo – The World of San Bernardino
Stanisław Ossowski – Class Structure in the Social Consciousness (Struktura klasowa w społecznej świadomości, 1957)
W. G. Runciman – Social Science and Political Theory
E. P. Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class
UNESCO – History of Mankind – Vol. 1




Births


January 3 – Alex Wheatle, black British young adult fiction writer
January 11 – Jan Arnald (Arne Dahl), Swedish novelist and critic
January 18 – Peter Stamm, Swiss writer, dramatist and journalist
January 30 – Thomas Brezina, Austrian author
March 1 – Miss Shangay Lily, Spanish drag queen, writer, actor, and director (died 2016)
March 26 – Natsuhiko Kyogoku (京極 夏彦), Japanese mystery writer
April 27 – Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer
April 28 – Beate Grimsrud, Norwegian novelist and playwright (died 2020)
May 5 – Scott Westerfeld, American young-adult novelist
May 24 – Michael Chabon, American author
May 26 – Simon Armitage, English poet, Poet Laureate of the UK
June 18 – Adam Hargreaves, children’s author
June 23 – Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), Chinese speculative fiction writer
June 25 – Yann Martel, Canadian author
August 6 – Xurxo Borrazás, Spanish writer and translator
August 13 – Valerie Plame, American writer and spy novelist
August 15 – Jan Sonnergaard, Danish short-story writer (died 2016)
September 2 – Thor Kunkel, German novelist
September 4 – Louise Doughty, English novelist and radio dramatist
September 6 – Alice Sebold, American novelist
September 12 – Michael McElhatton, Irish actor and writer
September 15 – Stephen C. Spiteri, Maltese military historian
October 8 – Nick Earls, Australian novelist and children's writer
October 20 – Gisela Kozak, Venezuelan writer and essayist
October 23 – Gordon Korman, Canadian-American children's and young adult author
October 25 – Dominic Dromgoole, English theatre director and writer
November 12 – Damon Galgut, South African novelist and playwright
December 23 – Donna Tartt, American novelist
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Jeff Abbott, American genre novelist
Joanna Briscoe, English novelist
Don Paterson, Scottish poet, writer and musician




Deaths


January 6 – Stark Young, teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic and essayist (b. 1881)
January 8 – Kay Sage, American poet (suicide, born 1898)
January 13 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish dramatist (born 1888)
January 14 – Gustav Regler, German Socialist novelist (born 1898)
January 29 – Robert Frost, American poet (born 1874)
February 4 – Brinsley MacNamara (John Weldon), Irish novelist and playwright (born 1890)
February 8 – Ernst Glaeser, German writer (born 1902)
February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (suicide, born 1932)
February 14 – Hilda Vīka, Latvian poet and novelist (born 1897)
February 18 – Beppe Fenoglio, Italian writer (born 1887)
February 24 – Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer (born 1889)
March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (born 1883)
March 11
Deirdre Cash (Criena Rohan), Australian novelist (born 1924)
James Lennox Kerr (Peter Dawlish, Gavin Douglas), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1899)
March 26 – Jean Bruce, French writer (born 1921)
March 29 – Pola Gojawiczyńska, Polish writer (born 1896)
April 14 – Kodō Nomura, Japanese novelist and music critic (born 1882)
April 25 – Christopher Hassall, English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet (born 1912)
April 27 – Lillian Barrett, American novelist and playwright (born 1884)
May 12 – A. W. Tozer, American religious writer and pastor (born 1897)
May 28 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer and pastor (born 1882)
June 3 – Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, playwright and novelist (heart attack, born 1892)
June 17 – John Cowper Powys, English novelist (born 1872)
August 1 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (heart attack, born 1908)
August 14 – Clifford Odets, American dramatist (cancer, born 1906)
August 27 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American writer, scholar and activist (born 1868)
September 3 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (pneumonia, born 1907)
September 9 – Ernst Kantorowicz, German historian (born 1895)
September 28 – Marie Linde, South African novelist (born 1894)
October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1889)
October – Jolán Földes, Hungarian novelist and playwright (born 1902)
November 13 – Margaret Murray, Indian-born English archeologist and historian (born 1863)
November 22
Mary Findlater, Scottish novelist (born 1866)
Aldous Huxley, English novelist (cancer, born 1894)
C. S. Lewis, Irish novelist and children's and religious writer (renal failure, born 1898)
December 25 – Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenstock), Romanian-born French poet and essayist (born 1896)




Awards


American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry: William Carlos Williams
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Hester Burton, Time of Trial
Eric Gregory Award: Ian Hamilton, Stewart Conn, Peter Griffith, David Wevill
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Gerda Charles, A Slanting Light
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Georgina Battiscombe, John Keble: A Study in Limitations
Miles Franklin Award: Sumner Locke Elliott, Careful, He Might Hear You
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Nobel Prize for literature – Giorgos Seferis
Premio Nadal: Manuel Mejía Vallejo, El día señalado
Prix Goncourt: Armand Lanoux, Quand la mer se retire
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner – The Reivers
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: William Plomer




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