This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1966.
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... | |||
Events
edit- February
- TheNottingham-based chain of pharmacy storesBoots UK closes the last of its circulating "Booklovers' Library" branches.[1]
- Managers of theRoyal Court Theatre in London are convicted of presenting an unlicenced play, last November's premiere ofEdward Bond'sSaved. This prosecution is considered influential in the abolition of theTheatres Act 1843 under which it is brought.[2]
- February 1 – Chinese playwrightTian Han is attacked for his historical playXie Yaohuan (1961),[3] an opening salvo in theCultural Revolution.[4]
- February 10 – AuthorJacqueline Susann has her first novel,Valley of the Dolls, published. From a friend she obtains a list of the bookstores on whose sales figuresThe New York Times relies for its bestseller list. She then uses her own money to buy large quantities of her book at these stores, causing it to head the list.Valley of the Dolls incidentally comes to rank amongthe best-selling novels of all time.
- February 13 – Following theSinyavsky–Daniel trial, dissident writersYuli Daniel andAndrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity".[5]
- March 9 –J. R. R. Tolkien writes toRoger Verhulst expressing concerns about a proposed book about him byW. H. Auden, saying, "I regard such things as premature impertinences.... I cannot believe that they have a usefulness to justify the distaste and irritation given to the victim," but adding: "I owe Mr. Auden a debt of gratitude for the generosity with which he has supported and encouraged me since the first appearance ofThe Lord of the Rings."[6]
- March 21 – In a landmark obscenity case,Memoirs v. Massachusetts, theSupreme Court of the United States rules that the hitherto banned novelFanny Hill (John Cleland'sMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,1749) does not meet theRoth Standard for obscenity.
- April 14 –Noël Coward'sA Song at Twilight, his only play to deal openly with homosexuality, premieres in London.[7]
- By June –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn completes his semi-autobiographical novelCancer Ward («Раковый Корпус»,Rakovy Korpus) and sends the manuscript to the Russian literary magazineNovy Mir. The editor, Tvardosky, equivocates and requests cuts, so Solzhenitsyn arranges for it be distributed assamizdat, then to be discussed at a meeting in Moscow of the Central Writers' Club on November 17.[8]
- June 14 – TheRoman Curia abolishes theIndex Librorum Prohibitorum of books banned by the Catholic Church, after 427 years.
- June 16 –Blackwell's opens the 930 m2 Norrington Room in their main bookshop inBroad Street, Oxford.[9]
- June 23 –Octopussy and The Living Daylights appears as the final collection ofJames Bond short stories by the character's creator,Ian Fleming, who died in1964.
- July 24 – American poet and criticFrank O'Hara is hit by adune buggy onFire Island beach.[10] He dies of his injuries the following day.
- August 24 –Tom Stoppard'stragicomedyRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is first played, at theEdinburgh Festival Fringe. Despite small audiences, Stoppard's reputation is made by a review by Ronald Bryden inThe Observer.[11]
- September 8 – The firstUNESCOInternational Literacy Day is celebrated.
- September 9 –New Beacon Books, the first Caribbean publishing house in England, releases its first title,Foundations byJohn La Rose.[12]
- October 21 –Jacques Derrida delivers a lecture,La Structure, le signe et le jeu dans le discours des sciences humaines,[13] to astructuralism colloquium atJohns Hopkins University, giving international prominence to his work onliterary theory.
- November 3–4 – The1966 flood of the Arno inFlorence causes severe damage to libraries, including theNational Central Library andGabinetto Vieusseux.
- November 28 –Truman Capote'sBlack and White Ball ("The Party of the Century") is held in New York City. The guest of honor,The Washington Post publisherKatharine Graham, later says: "Truman called me up that summer and said, 'I think you need cheering up. And I'm going to give you a ball.'...I was...sort of baffled....I felt a little bit like Truman was going to give the ball anyway and that I was part of the props."[14]
- December –Moskva magazine begins the first publication ofMikhail Bulgakov's novelThe Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та), begun in1928 but left incomplete on the author's death in1940. It appears in two parts with portions omitted or altered.
- unknown date – The first modern revival of a play byBhāsa,Madhyamavyayoga, directed byShanta Gandhi, is performed in aHindi translation.[15]
New books
editFiction
edit- Chinua Achebe –A Man of the People
- Robert H. Adleman (with Col. George Walton) –The Devil's Brigade
- Lloyd Alexander –The Castle of Llyr
- Elechi Amadi –The Concubine
- Kingsley Amis –The Anti-Death League
- Isaac Asimov –Fantastic Voyage
- Margaret Atwood
- Louis Auchincloss –The Embezzler
- Nigel Balchin –In the Absence of Mrs. Petersen
- J. G. Ballard
- Henry Bauchau –La Déchirure
- John Bingham –The Double Agent
- Paul Bowles –Up Above the World
- Ray Bradbury –S Is for Space
- Victor Canning –Doubled in Diamonds
- John Dickson Carr –Panic in Box C
- Angela Carter –Shadow Dance
- Agatha Christie –Third Girl
- James Clavell –Tai-Pan
- Robert Crichton –The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- Cecil Day-Lewis –The Morning after Death
- August Derleth andMark Schorer –Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People
- Philip K. Dick
- Allen Drury –Capable of Honor
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt –Der Meteor
- Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) –Silence (沈黙, Chinmoku)
- Ian Fleming –Octopussy and The Living Daylights
- John Fowles –The Magus
- L.P. Hartley –The Betrayal
- Robert A. Heinlein –The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Aidan Higgins –Langrishe, Go Down
- Robert E. Howard andL. Sprague de Camp –Conan the Adventurer
- Michael Innes –The Bloody Wood
- Daniel Keyes –Flowers for Algernon
- Anatoly Kuznetsov –Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel («Бабий яр. Роман-документ»)
- Arthur La Bern –Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square
- J. M. G. Le Clézio –Le Déluge
- Violette Leduc –Thérèse et Isabelle
- José Lezama Lima –Paradiso
- Audrey Erskine Lindop –I Start Counting[16]
- H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands –The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces
- John D. MacDonald –One Fearful Yellow Eye
- Compton Mackenzie –Paper Lives
- Alistair MacLean –When Eight Bells Toll
- Larry McMurtry –Last Picture Show
- Bernard Malamud –The Fixer
- Marga Minco –Een leeg huis (An empty house)
- Gladys Mitchell –The Croaking Raven
- Grace Ogot –The Promised Land
- Anthony Powell –The Soldier's Art
- J. B. Priestley –Salt Is Leaving[17]
- Thomas Pynchon –The Crying of Lot 49
- Seabury Quinn –Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder
- Gerard Reve –Nader tot U (Nearer to Thee)
- Jean Rhys –Wide Sargasso Sea[18]
- Karl Ristikivi –Rõõmulaul
- Tayeb Salih –Season of Migration to the North (موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال,Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl)
- Giorgio Scerbanenco
- Leonardo Sciascia –A ciascuno il suo
- Paul Scott –The Jewel in the Crown
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn –Cancer Ward
- Adela Rogers St. Johns –Tell No Man
- Krishna Sobti –Mitro Marjani (To Hell with you Mitro!)
- Rex Stout –Death of a Doxy
- Jacqueline Susann –Valley of the Dolls
- Leslie Thomas –The Virgin Soldiers
- Roderick Thorp –The Detective
- Jack Vance –The Eyes of the Overworld
- Mario Vargas Llosa –The Green House (La Casa Verde)
- Patrick White –The Solid Mandala
- Roger Zelazny
Children and young people
edit- Chinua Achebe –Chike and the River[19]
- Rev. W. Awdry –Main Line Engines (twenty-first inThe Railway Series of 42 books)
- Nina Bawden –The Witch's Daughter
- Roald Dahl –The Magic Finger
- Leon Garfield –Devil-in-the-Fog
- Charles Keeping –Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
- Clive King –The 22 Letters
- Ruth Park
- The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School
- The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Snow
- Bill Peet
- Capyboppy
- Farewell to Shady Glade
- Otfried Preußler –The Little Ghost
- Tomi Ungerer –Moon Man
- Eduard Uspensky –Crocodile Gena and His Friends («Крокодил Гена и его друзья»)
- Jill Paton Walsh –Hengest's Tale
Drama
edit- Edward Albee –A Delicate Balance
- Noël Coward –Suite in Three Keys (A Song at Twilight,Shadows of the Evening andCome Into the Garden, Maud)
- Barbara Garson –MacBird!
- Günter Grass –The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand)
- Gwenlyn Parry –Saer Doliau (Doll Doctor)
- Tom Stoppard –Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Zdeněk Svěrák,Jiří Šebánek andLadislav Smoljak –Akt (The Nude, introducing the Czech fictional characterJára Cimrman)
- Luis Valdez –Quinta Temporada
Poetry
editMain article:1966 in poetry
Non-fiction
edit- Geoffrey Blainey –The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, volume 1.
- Truman Capote –In Cold Blood (non-fiction novel - book publication)
- William Crossing (died 1928) –The Dartmoor Worker (anthology)
- L. Sprague de Camp andCatherine Crook de Camp –Spirits, Stars, and Spells
- Edward Jay Epstein –Inquest
- Margery Fish –An All the Year Garden
- Michel Foucault –The Order of Things (Les Mots et les choses: une archéologie des sciences humaines)
- Jon andRumer Godden –Two Under the Indian Sun
- Ernst H. Gombrich –Norm and Form. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance
- A. E. Hotchner –PapaHemingway
- P. J. Kavanagh –The Perfect Stranger
- Mark Lane –Rush to Judgment
- Alasdair MacIntyre –A Short History of Ethics
- Nancy Mitford –TheSun King
- María Moliner –Diccionario de uso del español
- Anaïs Nin –The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume I: 1931–1934
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. –A Thousand Days
- Hunter S. Thompson –Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
- Frances Yates –The Art of Memory
Births
edit- February 14 –Alex Scarrow, British novelist
- February 24 –Alain Mabanckou, Francophone Congolese novelist
- March 4 –Dav Pilkey, American author and illustrator
- March 5 –Mark Z. Danielewski, American fiction author
- April 12 –Jim Duffy, Irish political writer
- April 15 –Cressida Cowell, English children's writer
- April 20 –David Chalmers, Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist
- April 26 –Natasha Trethewey, American poet
- July 4 –Brian Selznick, American children's writer and illustrator
- July 21 –Sarah Waters, Welsh novelist
- September 24 –Rhys Hughes, Welsh short-story writer
- October 7 –Sherman Alexie, Native-American poet and fiction writer
- October 19 –David Vann, Alaskan-born fiction writer and sailor
- November 17 –Jane Holland (Victoria Lamb, etc.), English poet and novelist
- November 22 –Mónica Montañés, Venezuelan screenwriter and journalist[20]
- November 30 –David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter[21]
- December 27 –Chris Abani, Nigerian poet and novelist
- December 29 –Christian Kracht, Swiss novelist and journalist
- unknown date –Helen Zahavi, English novelist and translator
Deaths
edit- January 18 –Kathleen Norris, American novelist (born1880)[22]
- February 5 –Louisa Martindale, British physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (born1872)[23]
- February 12 –Elio Vittorini, Italian novelist (born1908)
- February 25 –Victor Kravchenko, Soviet writer (born1905)[24]
- March 10 –Frank O'Connor, Irish short-story writer (born1903)[25]
- April 1 –Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien), Irish satirist (heart attack, born1911)
- April 2 –C. S. Forester, English historical novelist (born1899)
- April 10 (Easter Day) –Evelyn Waugh, English novelist, biographer and travel writer (heart failure, born1903)
- April 13 –Georges Duhamel, French novelist (born1884)
- May 7 –Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish aphorist and poet (born1909)
- June 7
- Yoshishige Abe, Japanese philosopher and politician (born1883)
- Jean Arp, Alsatian poet, sculptor and painter (born1886)
- June 10 –Henry Treece, English children's historical novelist and poet (born1911)
- June 30 –Margery Allingham, English crime novelist (born1904)[26]
- July 19 –Vladimir Cavarnali, Bessarabian-born Romanian poet, editor, and journalist (born1910)
- July 20 –Anne Beffort, Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (born1880)
- July 25 –Frank O'Hara, American poet (ruptured liver, born1926)
- August 2 or 3 –Tristan Klingsor (Léon Leclère), Frenchfantaisiste poet, painter and musician (born1874)
- August 6 –Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger), American science fiction author (heart attack, born1913)
- August 12 –Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet (cancer, born1923)
- September 3 –Fu Lei, Chinese translator (born1908)
- September 14 –Dorothy Whipple, English novelist and children's writer (born1893)
- September 25 –Mina Loy, English-born poet and artist (born1882)
- September 28 –André Breton, French Surrealist poet and author (born1896)
- October 30 –Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (born1906)
- November 26 –Siegfried Kracauer, German journalist and critic (born1889)
- December 23 –Heimito von Doderer, Austrian author (born1896)[27]
Awards
edit- Alfaguara Prize:Manuel Vicent,Pascua y naranjas
- Cholmondeley Award:Ted Walker,Stevie Smith
- Eric Gregory Award:Robin Fulton,Seamus Heaney,Hugo Williams
- See1966 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award:Frank Herbert,Dune andRoger Zelazny,...And Call Me Conrad
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Christine Brooke-Rose,Such, andAidan Higgins,Langrishe, Go Down
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Geoffrey Keynes,The Life ofWilliam Harvey
- Miles Franklin Award:Peter Mathers,Trap
- Nebula Award (first):Samuel R. Delany,Babel–17 andDaniel Keyes,Flowers for Algernon
- Newbery Medal forchildren's literature:Elizabeth Borton de Treviño,I, Juan de Pareja
- Nobel Prize in Literature:Shmuel Yosef Agnon,Nelly Sachs
- Premio Nadal:Vicente Soto,La zancada
- Prix Goncourt:Edmonde Charles-Roux,Oublier Palerme
- Prix Médicis:Marie-Claire Blais,Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama:no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:Katherine Anne Porter,Collected Stories
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:Richard Eberhart,Selected Poems
- Viareggio Prize:Alfonso Gatto, La storia delle vittime
References
edit- ^"Boots Booklovers Library".Information Science Today. March 28, 2011. Archived fromthe original on October 15, 2014. RetrievedOctober 25, 2014.
- ^Costa, Maddy (2011-10-09)."Edward Bond's Saved: 'We didn't set out to shock'".The Guardian. London.
- ^"Xie Yaohuan is a Big Poisonous Weed" (田汉的《谢瑶环》是一棵大毒草Tián Hàn de Xiè Yáohuán Shì yī kē Dà Dúcǎo).People's Daily.
- ^Wagner, Rudolf G. (1990).The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies. University of California Press. p. 80.ISBN 978-0-520-05954-2.
- ^Juviler, Peter H. (1998).Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. p. 38.ISBN 978-0-8122-3418-3.
- ^"Letter to Roger Verhulst (9 March 1966)", Tolkien Gateway.
- ^"Noël Coward's Skeleton Feast".The Times. London. 15 April 1966. p. 16.
- ^Pearce, Joseph (2011).Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile. Ignatius Press. pp. 184ff.
- ^Graham, Rigby (Winter 1966). "Two views of the Norrington Room".The Private Library.7 (4):84–6.
- ^Belanger, Craig. "Frank O'Hara." Frank O'Hara (2005): 1. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. May 12, 2011.
- ^Dugdale, John (2016-08-28). "From squib to superstar".The Guardian. London. p. 5 (Review).
- ^"Foundations (1966)".George Padmore Institute.
- ^"Structure, Sign, Play".hydra.humanities.uci.edu. Retrieved2021-05-12.
- ^George Plimpton (1997).Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. New York, Doubleday.ISBN 0-385-23249-7, p. 248.
- ^Ananda Lal; Reader in English Ananda Lal (2004).The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre. Oxford University Press. p. 345.ISBN 978-0-19-564446-3.
- ^Vinson, James.Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982. Page=253
- ^Klein, Holger.J.B. Priestley's Fiction. Peter Lang, 2002. Page 318
- ^Lacayo, Richard (16 October 2005)."Time magazine list of All-Time 100 Novels".Time. Archived fromthe original on 22 October 2005. Retrieved2 January 2011.
- ^Hahn, Daniel (2015).The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 2–3.ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
- ^Falcón, Dubraska (2012-11-19)."Mónica Montañés: "El escritor necesita la distancia"".eluniversal.com. Retrieved2016-10-16.
- ^Armstrong, Neil (2024-04-23)."One Day author David Nicholls on writing the British love story that's left the world heartbroken". BBC. Retrieved2024-05-11.
- ^"Kathleen Norris Obituary".The New York Times. RetrievedJuly 15, 2024.
- ^"Martindale, Louisa, (died 5 Feb. 1966), Hon. Consulting Surgeon, Marie Curie Hospital, London; Hon. Consulting Surgeon, New Sussex Hospital, Brighton; Past President Medical Women's International Association; Past President of the Medical Women's Federation",Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 2007-12-01,doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u51610
- ^Kern, G. (2007)The Kravchenko Case: One Man's War on Stalin, Enigma Books,ISBN 978-1-929631-73-5
- ^Frank O'Connor (1999).My Father's Son. Syracuse University Press. p. 7.ISBN 9780815605645.
- ^Jessica Mann (1981).Deadlier Than the Male: An Investigation Into Feminine Crime Writing. David & Charles. p. 209.ISBN 9780715378779.
- ^Austrian Information. Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General. 1996. p. 5.