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EVENTS

First English production of Bertolt Brecht 's '' The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui ''

Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the Systemic Functional Grammar model.

Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage.

William Golding spends a year as writer in residence at Hollins College, Virginia, USA.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Agony And The Ecstasy '' - Irving Stone

'' El Astillero '' (The Shipyard) - Juan Carlos Onetti

'' Call For The Dead '' - John Le Carré

'' The Carpetbaggers '' - Harold Robbins

'' Catch-22 '' - Joseph Heller

'' Daughter Of Silence '' - Morris West

'' The Fox In The Attic '' - Richard Hughes

" Fate Is The Hunter " - Ernest Gann

'' Franny And Zooey '' - J.D. Salinger

'' Le Front De L'art '' - Rose Valland

'' A House For Mr. Biswas '' - V. S. Naipaul

'' James And The Giant Peach '' - Roald Dahl

'' The Judas Tree '' - A.J. Cronin

'' The Long Revolution '' - Raymond Williams (non-fiction)

'' Mila 18 '' - Leon Uris

'' The Moviegoer '' - Walker Percy

'' No One Writes To The Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba)'' - Gabriel García Márquez

'' A Passion In Rome '' - Morley Callaghan

'' The Pawnbroker '' - Edward Lewis Wallant

'' The Phantom Tollbooth '' - Norton Juster

'' The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie '' - Muriel Spark

'' Resistance, Rebellion, And Death '' - Albert Camus

'' Revolutionary Road '' - Richard Yates

'' A Severed Head '' - Iris Murdoch

''Some of Your Blood'' - Theodore Sturgeon

'' The Stainless Steel Rat '' - Harry Harrison

'' The Stone Angel '' - Margaret Laurence

'' Stranger In A Strange Land '' - Robert A. Heinlein

'' This Sweet Sickness '' - Patricia Highsmith

'' Thunderball '' - Ian Fleming

'' 'Twixt Twelve And Twenty '' - Pat Boone

'' Venusberg '' - Anthony Powell

'' The Wall '' - John Hersey

'' The Wind From Nowhere '' - J. G. Ballard

'' The Winter Of Our Discontent '' - John Steinbeck

'' Zima Junction '' - Yevegeny Yevtushenko

NEW DRAMA

Samuel Beckett - ''Rough for Radio I and II''

Max Frisch - '' Andorra ''

Heiner Müller - ''Die Umsiedlerin'' (''The Resettler Woman'')

John Osborne - '' Luther ''

Neil Simon - '' Come Blow Your Horn ''

Tennessee Williams - '' The Night Of The Iguana ''

NON-FICTION

Jane Jacobs - '' The Death And Life Of Great American Cities ''

Marshall McLuhan - ''The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man''

Karl Popper - ''The Poverty of Historicism''

Bertrand Russell - ''Has Man a Future?''

'' Webster's Third New International Dictionary ''

Peter Wessel Zapffe - ''Indføring i litterær dramaturgi (Introduction to literary dramaturgy)''

BIRTHS

January 11 - Jasper Fforde , novelist

February 21 - Chuck Palahniuk , author

August 20 - Greg Egan , science fiction author

September 13 - Tom Holt , novelist

December 30 - Douglas Coupland , author

DEATHS

January 10 - Dashiell Hammett , author

January 21 - Blaise Cendrars , author

January 30 - Dorothy Thompson , influential journalist

June 2 - George S. Kaufman , dramatist and critic

July 2 - Ernest Hemingway , novelist

July 12 - Mazo De La Roche , novelist

September 27 - H.D. , poet, novelist and memoirist

November 2 - James Thurber , humorist

AWARDS

and Samuel Beckett

, ''Island of the Blue Dolphins''

Nobel Prize For Literature - Ivo Andric

, ''All The Way Home''

- '' To Kill A Mockingbird ''

: ''Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades''