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Overview of the events of 1964 in literature
Overview of the events of 1964 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1964 .
Events
January 10 –
Federico García Lorca 's play
The House of Bernarda Alba , completed just before his assassination in
1936 , receives its first performance in Spain.
[1]
January 12 – The
Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group open a four-week
Theatre of Cruelty season at the
LAMDA Theatre Club , London.
[2]
January 23 –
Arthur Miller 's play
After the Fall opens at the
ANTA Washington Square Theatre
Off-Broadway in New York City, directed by
Elia Kazan and starring
Jason Robards and Kazan's wife
Barbara Loden . A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over Miller's portrayal of his late ex-wife
Marilyn Monroe .
February 11 – A London retailer, in the case of R. v. Gold, is found guilty under section 3 of the
Obscene Publications Act 1959 of stocking a 1963 edition of
John Cleland 's novel
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , 1748–1749).
February 28 – The Dutch comic artist and writer
Jan Cremer publishes his autobiographical novel I, Jan Cremer , which provokes controversy for its frank content and style and becomes a bestseller.
[3]
April 23 –
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre in
Stratford-upon-Avon , England, to house its library and research facilities.
April 29 –
Peter Weiss 's play with music Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, known as
Marat/Sade ) premières at the
Schiller Theater in
West Berlin . In August it receives its English-language première by the
Royal Shakespeare Company in London at the
Aldwych Theatre .
[4]
May –
Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine
New Worlds .
May 5 –
W. H. Auden 's preface to the anthology The Protestant Mystics describes the supernatural "Vision of Agape" he experienced in June 1933.
[5]
May 6 –
Joe Orton 's
black comedy
Entertaining Mr Sloane premières at the
New Arts Theatre in London with
Dudley Sutton in the title rôle.
May 29 – Le
Théâtre du Soleil is established as a collective
avant-garde stage ensemble by
Ariane Mnouchkine ,
Philippe Léotard and fellow students of
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. It opens with Les Petits Bourgeois (adapted from
Maxim Gorky 's Мещане), at Théâtre Mouffetard.
[6]
June 22 –
Henry Miller 's
Tropic of Cancer is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court three decades after its publication in France, after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein , cites
Jacobellis v. Ohio (decided the same day) and overrules state court findings that the book is obscene.
[7]
August 11 –
Ian Fleming walks to the
Royal St George's Golf Club near
Sandwich, Kent , for lunch with friends, collapsing shortly afterward with a heart attack.
[8] His last recorded words are an apology to the ambulance drivers: "I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don't know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days." Fleming dies next day.
September – The
Everyman Theatre opens in
Liverpool , England.
September 28 –
Brian Friel 's play
Philadelphia, Here I Come! is premièred at the
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin .
October 28 –
The Wednesday Play is broadcast for the first time on
BBC1 television, presenting original one-off contemporary social drama, mostly written for television.
[9]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 26 –
Peter Braunstein , American journalist and playwright
February 23 –
Joseph O'Neill , Irish-born writer
March 7 –
Bret Easton Ellis , American novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer
[15]
March 21 –
Kaori Ekuni (江國 香織), Japanese novelist
April 9 –
Margaret Peterson Haddix , American children's author
June 5 –
Rick Riordan , American young-adult author
June 7 –
Petr Hruška , Czech poet
June 11 –
Dan Chaon , American novelist and short-story writer
June 22 –
Dan Brown , American novelist and mystery writer
June 26 –
Conor Kostick , Irish historian and children's author
July 3 –
Joanne Harris , English novelist
July 7 –
Karina Galvez , Ecuadorian poet
July 16 –
Anne Provoost , Flemish novelist and essayist
August 22 –
Diane Setterfield , British author
September 9 –
Aleksandar Hemon , Bosnian novelist and short-story writer
September 19
September 25
December 12 –
J. R. Moehringer , American journalist and ghostwriter
December 26 –
Elizabeth Kostova , American author
December 29 –
Christine Leunens , American-born Belgian-New Zealand novelist
unknown dates
Deaths
January 17 –
T. H. White , English novelist (heart condition, born
1906 )
[21]
February 1 –
Sigge Stark (Signe Björnberg), Swedish writer (born
1896 )
[22]
February 3 –
Clarence Irving Lewis , American philosopher (born
1883 )
February 15 –
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange , French theologian (born
1877 )
[23]
February 25 –
Grace Metalious (Marie Grace DeRepentigny), American novelist (cirrhosis of liver, born
1924 )
[24]
March 1 –
Davíð Stefánsson , Icelandic poet (born
1895 )
[25]
March 17 –
Păstorel Teodoreanu , Romanian poet and satirist (lung cancer, born
1894 )
March 20 –
Brendan Behan , Irish playwright, poet and writer (born
1923 )
[26]
April 9 –
Mihu Dragomir , Romanian poet, journalist and short story writer (heart attack, born
1919 )
April 14 –
Rachel Carson , American environmentalist (breast cancer, born
1907 )
[27]
April 18 –
Ben Hecht , American screenwriter (born
1894 )
April 23 –
Karl Polanyi (Károly Polányi), Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher (born
1886 )
April 26 –
E. J. Pratt , Canadian poet (born
1882 )
[28]
May 13 –
Hamilton Basso , American novelist and journalist (born
1904 )
July 6 –
Ion Vinea , Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist (cancer, born
1895 )
July 29 –
Wanda Wasilewska , Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (heart disease, born
1905 )
August 3 –
Flannery O'Connor , American essayist and fiction writer (born
1925 )
[29]
August 5 –
Moa Martinson , Swedish author (born
1890 )
[30]
August 12 –
Ian Fleming , English spy thriller writer (heart attack, born
1908 )
[31]
August 17 –
Mihai Ralea , Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (born
1896 )
September 5 –
Angel Cruchaga Santa María , Chilean writer (born
1893 )
[32]
September 6 –
San Tiago Dantas , Brazilian journalist (born
1911 )
September 14 –
Vasily Grossman , Soviet novelist (cancer, born
1905 )
September 18 –
Seán O'Casey , Irish dramatist and memoirist (born
1880 )
[33]
October 26 –
Agnes Miegel , German author, journalist and poet (born
1879 )
c. November –
Radu D. Rosetti , Romanian poet and playwright (born
1874 )
[34]
November 21 –
Leah Bodine Drake , American poet, editor and critic (cancer, born
1914 )
November 29 –
Anne de Vries , Dutch novelist (born
1904 )
December 9 – Dame
Edith Sitwell , English poet and critic (born
1887 )
December 21 –
Carl Van Vechten , American writer and photographer (born
1880 )
[35]
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
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^ "The Theatre of Cruelty".
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^
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^ "Ambitious Example of Theatre of Cruelty". The Times . No. 56096. London. 1964-08-21. p. 11.
^ Stan Smith (13 January 2005).
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^
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^ Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein ,
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^
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ISBN
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^ Hahn 2015, p. 117
^ Hahn 2015, p. 3
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^
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