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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1960. ==Events== *February–October – ''Astounding'' magazine is renamed ''Analog''. *Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, ''Hawk and Whippoorwill'' in the United States. *March 22 – Joan Henry's play ''Look on Tempests'' is premièred at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, the first play dealing openly with homosexuality to be passed for performance by the Lord Chamberlain in Britain. *April 27 – Harold Pinter's play ''The Caretaker'' is premièred at the Arts Theatre Club in London's West End, transferring to the Duchess Theatre the following month, where it runs for 444 performances before departing London for Broadway, Pinter's first significant commercial success.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Caretaker'' – Première )〕 Alan Bates and Donald Pleasence star in the original production. *July 11 – Harper Lee's Southern Gothic ''Bildungsroman'' ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is published in the United States. *September 5 – Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending). *October 3 – The Lilly Library is opened on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington, based on the collections of Josiah K. Lilly, Jr. *October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films ''Spartacus'' and ''Exodus'', released in the United States on these dates. *c. October – Vasily Grossman submits his novel ''Life and Fate'' (''Жизнь и судьба'') for publication, resulting in confiscation of the manuscript and all related material by the KGB in the Soviet Union.〔Chandler, Robert (1985). Introduction to ''Life and Fate''. New York Review of Books Classics. p. xv.〕 *November – Rita Rait-Kovaleva's Russian translation of ''The Catcher in the Rye'' is published in the Soviet literary magazine ''Inostrannaya Literatura'' as ''Над пропастью во ржи'' ("Over the Abyss in Rye").〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' Resonated Behind Iron Curtain As Well )〕 *November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' case in the United Kingdom. *November 8 – Richard Wright delivers a polemical lecture, "The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States", to students and members of the American Church in Paris, a few weeks before his death. *November 10 – ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication in the U.K. since being banned in 1928. *November 17 – Michael Foot is re-elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and relinquishes the editorship of ''Tribune''. *November 19 – American novelist Norman Mailer stabs his wife, the artist Adele Morales. *November 24 Raymond Queneau founds Oulipo in France. *Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos, intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1960 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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