The first publication ofMikhail Bulgakov's novelThe Master and Margarita («Ма́стер и Маргари́та»), in the form left at the author's death in1940, concludes in the magazineMoskva, although censored portions circulate only insamizdat in theSoviet Union. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris.
August 9 – The English playwrightJoe Orton (aged 34) is battered to death by his partner,Kenneth Halliwell, who commits suicide in their north London home shortly after.[3] Orton has completed work on a film script,Up Against It, forThe Beatles (unproduced).
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