List of events associated with the literature that occurred in 1959 .
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Content
Events
- In Cuba , Fidel Castro comes to power as a result of a revolution .
- Asterix appears for the first time, a comic character from French comics, first published in the journal Pilot.
- Frank Herbert is starting to create a cycle of Dune novels.
- French screenwriter and playwright Marcel Achard becomes a member of the French Academy .
- The novel by David Herbert Lawrence "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ( Eng. Lady Chatterley's Lover , 1928 ) is first published in the United States after thirty years of prohibition.
- “The Story of a Nun,” a screen version of the eponymous bestseller of 1956 by Catherine S. Halmi, is coming out.
Awards
International
- Nobel Prize in Literature - Salvatore Quasimodo , " For lyrical poetry, which with classical vivacity expresses the tragic experience of our time ."
- Hugo Award - James Blish , for the novel "The Case of Conscience" ( eng. A Case of Conscience )
Israel
- Israeli State Prize for Hebrew Literature:
- Sameh Izhar ;
- Ezra Fleisher .
Spain
- Nadal Award - Ana Maria Matute "Primera memoria"
USSR
- Lenin Prize in Literature:
- Mukhtar Auezov , for the novel "The Path of Abai";
- Alexander Dovzhenko , for the literary film script "Poem of the Sea";
- Nikolai Pogodin , for the dramatic trilogy “The Man with a Gun”, “The Kremlin Chimes”, “The Third Pathetic”
United States
- Pulitzer Prize in the artwork category written by American writer — Robert Lewis Taylor , Jammy MacFieres's Travels
- Pulitzer Prize in the category of drama for the theater - Archibald McLeish for the play “JB”
- Pulitzer Prize in the category of poetry - Stanley Kunitz, "Selected Poems of 1928-1958"
France
- Goncourt Prize - Andre Schwarz-Barth " The Last of the Righteous "
- Medici Prize - Claude Mauriac , " Le Dîner en ville "
- Renodo Prize - Albert Palle ( fr. Albert Palle ), " L'Expérience "
- Femina Prize - Bernard Privat ( Fr. Bernard Privat ), " Au pied du mur "
- Pheneon Prize - Armand Gatti (play "Black Fish")
Books
Novels
- Billie the Liar - a novel by Keith Waterhouse
- " Goldfinger " - Jan Fleming 's novel about the adventures of agent James Bond
- " Naked Breakfast " - a novel by William Burroughs
- "Tin Drum" - Günter Grass debut novel
- “ Borrowed Life ” - a novel by Erich Maria Remarque
- "Martero" - a novel by Natalie Sarrot
- "The Cat among the Pigeons " - a novel by Agatha Christie
- " The Ghost House on the Hill " - a novel by Shirley Jackson
- “The Spin of the Earth” - Grigory Baklanov's novel in the genre of village prose
- "Compose Yourself" - Rex Stout 's novel from the series about Nero Wolfe
- "The Sirens of Titan " - a novel by Kurt Vonnegut
- “The Perfect Pig Poster, or Memoirs of the Economic Adviser of Minna Karlsson-Kananen” - a satirical novel by Martti Larni
- “ Raised virgin soil ” - the second volume of the novel by M. A. Sholokhov was published
- “The Gilded Age ” - first published satirical novel by Mark Twain
- “We only dream of peace” - VN Sobko's novel
- "Psycho" - a novel by Robert Bloch
- " Eden " - a novel by Stanislav Lem
- “Fair in the poorhouse” - the debut novel of John Updike
- "Henderson, Lord of the Rain" - a novel by Saul Bellow
Tale
- “Alyosha Pepper in the country of the homunculi” - a fantastic story by Sergey Zemaitis
Short Prose
- "Under the Sun" - a collection of stories by Yuri Trifonov
- The Bruise Remedy - Ray Bradbury Storybook
- "Farewell, Columbus" - a collection of stories by Philip Roth
- "Secret Weapon" - a collection of short stories by Julio Cortazar
Plays
- “The Recluses of Altona” - a play by Jean-Paul Sartre
- “Irkutsk Story” - a play by Alexei Arbuzov
- “Night sky” - play by Alexander Gladkov
- "Sweet Bird of Youth" - a play by Tennessee Williams
Poetry
- "About the different differences." Poems and short stories by Sergey Baruzdin
- "Masters" - a poem by Andrei Voznesensky
Literature
Publicism
- "The Militarist and Industrial Revolution" - an essay by Fritz Sternberg
- "The Last Nine Days of Bismarck" ( Eng. The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck ) - the book of Cecil Scott Forester
Born
- January 20 - Robert Salvatore , American science fiction writer.
- February 2 - Jari Tervo, Finnish writer and poet.
- February 24 - Katie Arnoldi ( Eng. Katie Arnoldi ), American writer, former bodybuilder.
- February 24 - Stefano Bortolucci ( Italian. Stefano Bortolussi ), Italian writer, poet and translator.
- February 24 - Mon Santiso ( isp. Mon Santiso ), Spanish and Galician journalist, TV host and actor.
- February 24 - Owen Gleiberman ( English Owen Gleiberman ), American film critic .
- March 5 - Marianna Tsoi , writer, music producer, wife of rock musician Viktor Tsoi .
- March 15 - Ben Okri , English writer, of Nigerian descent.
- March 18 - Luc Besson , French film director, writer and screenwriter, author of a series of novels about Arthur .
- July 16 - Alexander Chernitsky , a publicist writer, author of over 30 books for children and adults.
- August 10 - Vyacheslav Ivanovich Degtev , writer.
- August 27 - Janet Winterson , English writer
- September 26 - Ilya Kormiltsev , Russian poet, translator, music and literary critic.
- October 31 - Neil Stephenson , American science fiction writer.
Died
- January 7 - Lavrenyov, Boris Andreevich , Russian writer.
- February 28 - Maxwell Anderson , American playwright and theorist of the theater (b. 1888 ).
- March 22 - Olga Knipper-Chekhov , actress, wife of A.P. Chekhov (b. 1868 ).
- March 26 - Raymond Chandler , American writer, author of detectives (b. 1888 ).
- April 17 - Boris Nikolaevich Shiryayev , Russian writer, prose writer of the “second wave” (b. 1887 ).
- May 20 - Alfred Schütz , Austrian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1899 ).
- June 7 - Petras Vaichiunas , Lithuanian poet and playwright.
- June 23 - Boris Vian , French prose writer, poet, jazz musician (b. 1920 ).