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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1968. ==Events== * January 1 – Cecil Day-Lewis is announced as the new Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. * March 28 – Glidrose Publications releases the James Bond novel, ''Colonel Sun'' by "Robert Markham" (a pseudonym for Kingsley Amis). Initially intended as a relaunch of the Bond book series following the death in 1964 of the character's creator, Ian Fleming, ''Colonel Sun'' instead ends up being the final book of the series (discounting a "biography" of Bond and a pair of film script adaptations) until John Gardner revives the literary James Bond in 1981. * April – The United States edition of Andrew Garve's thriller ''The Long Short Cut'' becomes the first book printed completely using electronic composition. * May – The Action Theater in Munich is disbanded after its theater is wrecked by one of its founders, jealous of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's growing power within the group. * June 17 – Tom Stoppard's parody ''The Real Inspector Hound'' opens at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End, starring Richard Briers and Ronnie Barker. * July – ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is cleared of obscenity in the English appeal court. * August – Tom Wolfe's books ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'' and ''The Pump House Gang'' are published on the same day. Both go on to become best-sellers and cement Wolfe's status as one of the generation's leading social critics, chroniclers of the counterculture of the 1960s and practitioners of New Journalism. * September 26 – Theatres Act 1968 ends censorship of the theatre in the United Kingdom.〔.〕 * October 31 – Alan Bennett's first stage play, ''Forty Years On'', opens at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End, under the direction of Patrick Garland and starring Sir John Gielgud, Paul Eddington and the playwright. * Dean R. Koontz's first novel, ''Star Quest'', is published. * N. Scott Momaday's novel ''House Made of Dawn'' is published, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and initiating the Native American Renaissance. * The Arvon Foundation is established by young poets John Fairfax and John Moat in the UK to promote creative writing. 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「1968 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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