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1960 in literature
See also: 1959 in literature, other events of 1960, 1961 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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.
New books
- Border Country - Raymond Williams
- Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
- The Chapman Report - Irving Wallace
- Clea - Lawrence Durrell
- Critique of Dialectical Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Don't Tell Alfred - Nancy Mitford
- For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming
- Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
- Hunters in a Narrow Street - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
- The Many Colored Coat - Morley Callaghan
- New Maps of Hell - Kingsley Amis (non-fiction)
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
- Take a Girl Like You - Kingsley Amis
- To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Torch - Wilder Penfield
- Truth and Method - Hans-Georg Gadamer
- The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor
- The White Stone - Carlo Coccioli
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - Henry Farrell
Births
- January 1 - Helen Fielding, author
- November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author
Deaths
- January 4 - Albert Camus
- January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
- January 14 - Ralph Chubb, poet
- January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston
- November 28 - Richard Wright, author
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold , Onion John
- Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
- 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
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