Anul 1961 în literatură a implicat o serie de noi cărți și evenimente semnificative. Evenimente
Cărți noi Brian Aldiss - The Primal Urge Poul Anderson - Three Hearts and Three Lions J. G. Ballard - The Wind From Nowhere Pat Boone - 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty J. L. Borges - Ficciones (The Garden of Forking Paths and Artifices translated by Anthony Bonner) Morley Callaghan - A Passion in Rome John Dickson Carr - The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama Agatha Christie The Pale Horse Double Sin and Other Stories A. J. Cronin - The Judas Tree Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach L. Sprague de Camp - The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate August Derleth - The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Cyprian Ekwensi - Jagua Nana Ian Fleming - Thunderball Ernest K. Gann - Fate Is the Hunter Gabriel García Márquez - No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) Winston Graham - Marnie Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Marlen Haushofer - The Wall Patricia Highsmith - This Sweet Sickness Richard Hughes -The Fox in the Attic Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel John le Carré - Call for the Dead H. P. Lovecraft - The Shunned House Iris Murdoch - A Severed Head V. S. Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas R. K. Narayan - The Man-Eater of Malgudi Juan Carlos Onetti - El astillero (The Shipyard) Walker Percy - The Moviegoer Harold Robbins - The Carpetbaggers J. D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey Leonardo Sciascia - Il giorno della civetta Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie John Steinbeck - The Winter of Our Discontent Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy Rex Stout - The Final Deduction Theodore Sturgeon - Some of Your Blood Leon Uris - Mila 18 Rose Valland - Le front de l'art Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night H. Russell Wakefield - Strayers from Sheol Edward Lewis Wallant - The Pawnbroker Morris West - Daughter of Silence Richard Yates -Revolutionary Road Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Zima Junction
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Decese 19 octombrie: Mihail Sadoveanu (n. 1880 Premii Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură: Ivo Andric