1961 în literatură

Anul 1961 în literatură a implicat o serie de noi cărți și evenimente semnificative.

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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

Decese

• 19 octombrie: Mihail Sadoveanu (n. 1880

Premii

• Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură: Ivo Andric