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The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Lawrence Durrell publishes Clea, the final volume of the four-book collection titled The Alexandria Quartet that began in 1957.
- August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- Astounding magazine is renamed Analog.
- Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full credit for his work on the films Exodus and Spartacus.
- Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language, Lincos, intended for communication with alien life forms.
- Michael Foot relinquishes the editorship of Tribune to return to Parliament.
- Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
New books
- Chinua Achebe - No Longer at Ease
- Kingsley Amis - Take a Girl Like You
- Poul Anderson - The High Crusade
- Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
- Hamilton Basso - The Light Infantry Ball
- Augusto Roa Bastos - Hijo de hombre
- Robert Bloch - Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares
- Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon
- Morley Callaghan - The Many Colored Coat
- Carlo Cassola - La ragazza di Bube
- L. Sprague de Camp
- L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - Wall of Serpents
- Jean-Paul Desbiens - The Insolences of Brother Anonymous
- Lawrence Durrell - Clea
- Henry Farrell - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only
- Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- Vintilă Horia - Dieu est né en exil
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra - Hunters in a Narrow Street
- Greye La Spina - Invaders from the Dark
- Hubert Lampo - De komst van Joachim Stiller ("The Coming of Joachim Stiller")
- Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
- John Masters - The Venus of Konpara
- Walter M. Miller – A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Nancy Mitford - Don't Tell Alfred
- Alberto Moravia - La noia (The Empty Canvas)
- Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls
- Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
- Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Wilder Penfield - The Torch
- Frederik Pohl - Drunkard's Walk
- Anthony Powell - Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- James H. Schmitz - Agent of Vega
- Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham
- Nevil Shute - Trustee from the Toolroom (published posthumously)
- Clark Ashton Smith - The Abominations of Yondo
- Muriel Spark - The Ballad of Peckham Rye
- Rex Stout
- John Updike - Rabbit, Run
- Irving Wallace - The Chapman Report
- Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
- Raymond Williams - Border Country
New drama
- Edward Albee - The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox (both first performed)
- Samuel Beckett - The Old Tune (first broadcast)
- Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons and The Tiger and the Horse
- Eugène Ionesco - Rhinoceros
- Harold Pinter - The Caretaker (first performed), The Room (first professional performance) and A Night Out (first broadcast)
- Terence Rattigan - Ross
- Wole Soyinka - A Dance of the Forests
- Tennessee Williams - Period of Adjustment
Poetry
- Douglas Livingstone - The Skull in the Mud
- Jan Twardowski - Znaki ufności
Non-fiction
- Joy Adamson – Born Free
- Kingsley Amis – New Maps of Hell
- Peg Bracken – The I Hate to Cook Book
- Albert Camus - Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
- Jean-Paul Desbiens - Les insolences du Frère Untel
- Hans-Georg Gadamer – Truth and Method
- John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
- Helen Keller – Light in my Darkness
- Arthur Koestler – The Lotus and the Robot
- Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier - Le Matin des Magiciens
- Jean-Paul Sartre – Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason)
- William L. Shirer – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Elie Wiesel – Night – (Previously published in French in 1958 as La Nuit)
Births
- January 1 - Helen Fielding, author
- April 28 - Ian Rankin, crime novelist
- May 21 - John O'Brien, novelist (d. 1994)
- July 13 - Ian Hislop, satirist
- November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author
- date unknown - Malcolm Pryce, novelist
Deaths
- January 4 - Albert Camus, novelist (car accident)
- January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
- January 14 - Ralph Chubb, poet
- January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston
- May 30 - Boris Pasternak, novelist and poet
- November 28 - Richard Wright, author
Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: E.B. White
- Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rex Warner , Imperial Caesar
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Canon Adam Fox, The Life of Dean Inge
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
- Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
- Premio Nadal: Ramiro Pinilla, Ciegas hormigas
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello!
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman
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