1959 in literature 1959 .Events January 31 – Sandu Tudor begins a 40-year sentence at Jilava prison for "conspiracy against social order" and "intense activity against the working class", as meted out by a Romanian communist tribunal. He will die in 1962 at Aiud prison , possibly from torture. April 30 – Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards receives its stage première. It was originally performed on radio in 1932. May 7 – Scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers in the Senate House, University of Cambridge a Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures humanities . It is later published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution . May 28 – The Mermaid Theatre opens in the City of London . July 21 – D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of three books whose bans are overturned in court with assistance from the lawyer Charles Rembar in the United States, the others being Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill . The book, published in 1928, legally circulates in the U.S. after a 31-year obscenity ban. July 29 – The U.K. Obscene Publications Act becomes law, coming into force on August 29. It requires a work to be seen as a whole, permitting a "public good" defence against a prosecution for obscenity, and making prosecutions for obscene libel difficult. October 29 – Astérix the Gaul makes a first appearance in the first regular issue of the comic magazine Pilote . November 11 – In the United States, the short film Pull My Daisy is released, adapted from an unperformed play by Jack Kerouac , Beat Generation and narrated by him. It stars poets Allen Ginsberg , Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso . Uncertain dates Anthony Burgess is invalided home to England from a teaching post in Brunei and becomes a full-time novelist. Aldous Huxley turns down a knighthood . Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School. Frank Herbert begins researching Dune . Frederik Pohl becomes an editor of the American science fiction magazine Galaxy . Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française . Literature Wales is established as The Academi. The first butoh performance, Kinjiki by Tatsumi Hijikata , is played at a dance festival in Japan. It is based on the novel of that name by Yukio Mishima and explores the taboos of male homosexuality and pedophilia .New books Fiction Isaac Asimov – Nine Tomorrows Saul Bellow – Henderson the Rain King Robert Bloch – Psycho Antoine Blondin – A Monkey in Winter Heinrich Böll – Billiards at Half-Past Nine Ray Bradbury – A Medicine for Melancholy Jurij Brězan – Der Gymnasiast John Brunner *Echo in the Skull *The World Swappers Algis Budrys – The Falling Torch William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch Taylor Caldwell – Dear and Glorious Physician John Dickson Carr – Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama James Hadley Chase – The World in My Pocket Agatha Christie – Cat Among the Pigeons Ivy Compton-Burnett – A Heritage and Its History Richard Condon – The Manchurian Candidate Alexander Cordell – Rape of the Fair Country Julio Cortázar – Las armas secretas Richard Crichton – The Great Impostor Allen Drury – Advise and Consent Alfred Duggan – Children of the Wolf Jane Duncan – My Friends the Miss Boyds Shusaku Endo – Wonderful Fool William Faulkner – The Mansion Ian Fleming – Goldfinger Paul Gallico – Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris William Golding – Free Fall Günter Grass – The Tin Drum Vasily Grossman – Life and Fate Robert A. Heinlein *The Menace From Earth *Starship Troopers *The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag Dorothy Hewett – Bobbin Up Hwang Sun-won – "Rain Shower" Jabra Ibrahim Jabra – Tammūz fī al-Madīnah Shirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House Uwe Johnson – Mutmassungen über Jakob John Knowles – A Separate Peace H. P. Lovecraft etc. – The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces John Lymington – Night of the Big Heat John D. MacDonald *Deadly Welcome *The Beach Girls *The Crossroads Ross Macdonald – The Galton Case Colin MacInnes – Absolute Beginners Compton Mackenzie – The Lunatic Republic Alistair MacLean *The Last Frontier *Night Without End Naguib Mahfouz – Children of Gebelaawi Norman Mailer – Advertisements for Myself James A. Michener – Hawaii V.S. Naipaul – Miguel Street Mervyn Peake – Titus Alone David Piper – Trial by Battle Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro Robert Randall – The Dawning Light Mordecai Richler – The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Kate Roberts – Te yn y grug Philip Roth – Goodbye, Columbus Robert Ruark – Poor No More Nathalie Sarraute – Le Planétarium André Schwarz-Bart – The Last of the Just Mary Shelley – Mathilda Alan Sillitoe – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Aimée Sommerfelt – The Road to Agra Terry Southern – The Magic Christian Howard Spring – All the Day Long Rex Stout – Plot It Yourself John Updike – The Same Door Kurt Vonnegut – The Sirens of Titan Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar Sheila Watson – The Double Hook Children and young people Bruce Carter – Four Wheel Drift René Goscinny – Le petit Nicolas Joseph Krumgold – Onion John Spike Milligan – Silly Verse for Kids Bill Peet *Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure *Goliath II Dr. Seuss – Happy Birthday to You! Margery Sharp – The Rescuers Drama Edward Albee *The Death of Bessie Smith *The Zoo Story Jean Anouilh – Becket John Arden – Serjeant Musgrave's Dance Alan Ayckbourn – The Square Cat Samuel Beckett – Embers Bertolt Brecht – Saint Joan of the Stockyards Albert Camus – The Possessed Beverley Cross – One More River Refik Erduran – Cengiz Han’ın Bisikleti Jack Gelber – The Connection Jean Genet – The Blacks: A Clown Show Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun Eugène Ionesco – The Killer Harold Pinter – The Caretaker Zofia Posmysz – Pasażerka z kabiny 45 Jean-Paul Sartre – The Condemned of Altona N. F. Simpson – One Way Pendulum Wole Soyinka – The Lion and the Jewel Arnold Wesker *Roots *The Kitchen Tennessee Williams – Sweet Bird of Youth Egon Wolff – Parejas de trapo Zhou Xinfang with Xu Siyan – Hai Rui Submits His MemorialNon-fiction Kenneth Anger – Hollywood Babylon L. Sprague de Camp – Engines August Derleth * *Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft Savitri Devi – Impeachment of Man G. H. Dury – The Face of the Earth C. S. Forester – Sink the Bismarck! Georges Friedmann – Signal d'une troisième voie? Erving Goffman – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Laurie Lee – Cider With Rosie Miguel León-Portilla – Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista Garrett Mattingly – The Defeat of the Spanish Armada Czesław Miłosz – Rodzinna Europa Iona and Peter Opie – The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren James Pope-Hennessy – Queen Mary 1867–1953 Karl Popper – The Logic of Scientific Discovery Cornelius Ryan – The Longest Day William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White – The Elements of Style Wilfred Thesiger – Arabian Sands Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger – Social Science and Social Pathology Births January 8 – Ovidiu Pecican , Romanian writer and poet January 9 – Rigoberta Menchú , Guatemalan writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner January 20 – R. A. Salvatore, American science fiction and fantasy author January 28 – Megan McDonald , American children's author February 2 – Jari Tervo , Finnish author March 11 – Dejan Stojanović , Serbian-American poet and essayist March 15 – Ben Okri , Nigerian poet and novelist March 18 – Frédéric-Yves Jeannet , French-born writer in French and Spanish April 15 – Emma Thompson , English actress and screenwriter April 30 – Alessandro Barbero , Italian historian, novelist and essayist c. May 1 – Yasmina Reza , French novelist and dramatist May 3 – Ben Elton , English comedian, novelist and screenwriter May 13 – Zeruya Shalev , Israeli novelist June 12 – Hilary McKay , English children's writer June 13 – Maurice G. Dantec, French science fiction author July 19 – Vigdis Hjorth , Norwegian novelist August 27 – Jeanette Winterson , English novelist September 9 – Matti Rönkä , Finnish television journalist and novelist September 29 *Jon Fosse, Norwegian fiction writer, playwright and poet *Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer October 1 – Brian P. Cleary, American humorist, author and poet October 31 – Neal Stephenson , American science fiction writer November 1 – Susanna Clarke , English novelist November 22 – Christoph Klimke , German writer December 20 – Sandra Cisneros , Mexican-born American authorDeaths January 3 – Edwin Muir , Scottish poet, novelist and translator January 14 – G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist, economist and historian January 29 – Pauline Smith , South African novelist February 20 – Laurence Housman , English playwright and writer February 22 – Percy F. Westerman, English children's author February 23 – Luis Palés Matos , Puerto Rican poet February 28 – Maxwell Anderson , American playwright and film writer March 4 – W. W. Greg, English literary scholar March 17 – Galaktion Tabidze , Georgian poet March 26 – Raymond Chandler , American crime writer April 14 – Julien Josephson , American screenwriter May 18 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard , English memoirist and explorer May 20 – Alfred Schütz , Austrian philosopher and sociologist June 1 – Sax Rohmer , English novelist June 23 – Boris Vian , French novelist June 30 – José Vasconcelos , Mexican poet and political writer July 3 – Johan Bojer , Norwegian novelist July 26 – Manuel Altolaguirre , Spanish poet, editor and publisher August 8 – Emil František Burian , Czech poet, journalist and playwright September 14 – Laxmi Prasad Devkota , Nepali poet, playwright, and novelist September 18 – Benjamin Péret , French poet and Surrealist October 12 – Arnolt Bronnen , Austrian playwright and directorAwards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Rosemary Sutcliff , The Lantern Bearers Hugo Award for Best Novel: James Blish , A Case of Conscience James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Morris West , The Devil's Advocate James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Christopher Hassall , Edward Marsh Miles Franklin Award: Vance Palmer , The Big Fellow Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare , The Witch of Blackbird Pond Nobel Prize for literature: Salvatore Quasimodo Premio Nadal: Ana María Matute , Primera memoria Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Archibald MacLeish , J. B. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Lewis Taylor , The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz , Selected Poems 1928-1958 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford
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