Books - 1961 in literature

Events

• First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
• Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.
• Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage.
• William Golding spends a year as writer in residence at Hollins College, Virginia, USA.

New books

• The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
• El astillero (The Shipyard) - Juan Carlos Onetti
• Call for the Dead - John le Carré
• The Carpetbaggers
  - Harold Robbins
• Catch-22
  - Joseph Heller
• Daughter of Silence - Morris West
• The Fox in the Attic - Richard Hughes
• "Fate is the Hunter" - Ernest Gann
• Franny and Zooey
  - J.D. Salinger
• Le front de l'art - Rose Valland
• A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
• James and the Giant Peach
  - Roald Dahl
• The Judas Tree - A.J. Cronin
• The Long Revolution - Raymond Williams (non-fiction)
• Mila 18
  - Leon Uris
• The Moviegoer
  - Walker Percy
• No One Writes to the Colonel
  (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) - Gabriel García Márquez
• A Passion in Rome - Morley Callaghan
• The Pawnbroker
  - Edward Lewis Wallant
• The Phantom Tollbooth
  - Norton Juster
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  - Muriel Spark
• Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
  - Albert Camus
• Revolutionary Road
  - Richard Yates
• A Severed Head
  - Iris Murdoch
• Some of Your Blood - Theodore Sturgeon
• The Stainless Steel Rat
  - Harry Harrison
• The Stone Angel
  - Margaret Laurence
• Stranger in a Strange Land
  - Robert A. Heinlein
• This Sweet Sickness
  - Patricia Highsmith
• Thunderball
  - Ian Fleming
• 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty - Pat Boone
• Venusberg - Anthony Powell
• The Wall - John Hersey
• The Wind From Nowhere
  - J. G. Ballard
• The Winter of Our Discontent
  - John Steinbeck
• Zima Junction - Yevegeny Yevtushenko

New drama

• Samuel Beckett - Rough for Radio I and II
• Max Frisch - Andorra
• Heiner Müller - Die Umsiedlerin (The Resettler Woman)
• John Osborne - Luther
• Neil Simon - Come Blow Your Horn
• Tennessee Williams - The Night of the Iguana

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