This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1964 .
January 10 – Federico García Lorca 's play The House of Bernarda Alba 1936 , receives its first performance in Spain.[1] January 12 – The Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group open a four-week Theatre of Cruelty season at the LAMDA Theatre Club , London.[2] January 23 – Arthur Miller 's play After the Fall ANTA Washington Square Theatre Off-Broadway in New York City, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards and Kazan's wife Barbara Loden . A semi-autobiographical work, it arouses controversy over Miller's portrayal of his late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe .February 11 – A London retailer, in the case of R. v. Gold, is found guilty under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 of stocking a 1963 edition of John Cleland 's novel Fanny Hill Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , 1748–1749).February 28 – The Dutch comic artist and writer Jan Cremer publishes his autobiographical novel I, Jan Cremer , which provokes controversy for its frank content and style and becomes a bestseller.[3] April 23 – Shakespeare Birthplace Trust opens the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon , England, to house its library and research facilities.April 29 – Peter Weiss 's play with music Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, known as Marat/Sade Schiller Theater in West Berlin . In August it receives its English-language première by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London at the Aldwych Theatre .[4] May – Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds
May 5 – W. H. Auden 's preface to the anthology The Protestant Mystics describes the supernatural "Vision of Agape" he experienced in June 1933.[5] May 6 – Joe Orton 's black comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane New Arts Theatre in London with Dudley Sutton in the title rôle.May 29 – Le Théâtre du Soleil is established as a collective avant-garde stage ensemble by Ariane Mnouchkine , Philippe Léotard and fellow students of L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. It opens with Les Petits Bourgeois (adapted from Maxim Gorky 's Мещане), at Théâtre Mouffetard.[6] June 22 – Henry Miller 's Tropic of Cancer Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein , cites Jacobellis v. Ohio [7] August 11 – Ian Fleming walks to the Royal St George's Golf Club near Sandwich, Kent , for lunch with friends, collapsing shortly afterward with a heart attack.[8] September – The Everyman Theatre opens in Liverpool , England.
September 28 – Brian Friel 's play Philadelphia, Here I Come! Gaiety Theatre, Dublin .October 28 – The Wednesday Play BBC1 television, presenting original one-off contemporary social drama, mostly written for television.[9]
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January 26 – Peter Braunstein , American journalist and playwrightFebruary 23 – Joseph O'Neill , Irish-born writerMarch 7 – Bret Easton Ellis , American novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer[15] March 21 – Kaori Ekuni (江國 香織), Japanese novelistApril 9 – Margaret Peterson Haddix , American children's authorJune 5 – Rick Riordan , American young-adult authorJune 7 – Petr Hruška , Czech poetJune 11 – Dan Chaon , American novelist and short-story writerJune 22 – Dan Brown , American novelist and mystery writerJune 26 – Conor Kostick , Irish historian and children's authorJuly 3 – Joanne Harris , English novelistJuly 7 – Karina Galvez , Ecuadorian poetJuly 16 – Anne Provoost , Flemish novelist and essayistAugust 22 – Diane Setterfield , British authorSeptember 9 – Aleksandar Hemon , Bosnian novelist and short-story writerSeptember 19 – Patrick Marber , English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter[16] September 25
December 12 – J. R. Moehringer , American journalist and ghostwriterDecember 26 – Elizabeth Kostova , American authorDecember 29 – Christine Leunens , American-born Belgian-New Zealand novelistunknown dates
January 17 – T. H. White , English novelist (heart condition, born 1906 )[20] February 1 – Sigge Stark (Signe Björnberg), Swedish writer (born 1896 )[21] February 3 – Clarence Irving Lewis , American philosopher (born 1883 )February 15 – Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange , French theologian (born 1877 )[22] February 25 – Grace Metalious (Marie Grace DeRepentigny), American novelist (cirrhosis of liver, born 1924 )[23] March 1 – Davíð Stefánsson , Icelandic poet (born 1895 )[24] March 17 – Păstorel Teodoreanu , Romanian poet and satirist (lung cancer, born 1894 )March 20 – Brendan Behan , Irish playwright, poet and writer (born 1923 )[25] April 14 – Rachel Carson , American environmentalist (breast cancer, born 1907 )[26] April 18 – Ben Hecht , American screenwriter (born 1894 )April 23 – Karl Polanyi (Károly Polányi), Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher (born 1886 )May 13 – Hamilton Basso , American novelist and journalist (born 1904 )July 6 – Ion Vinea , Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist (cancer, born 1895 )July 29 – Wanda Wasilewska , Polish Soviet novelist and journalist (heart disease, born 1905 )August 3 – Flannery O'Connor , American essayist and fiction writer (born 1925 )[27] August 5 – Moa Martinson , Swedish author (born 1890 )[28] August 12 – Ian Fleming , English spy thriller writer (heart attack, born 1908 )[29] August 17 – Mihai Ralea , Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (born 1896 )September 5 – Angel Cruchaga Santa María , Chilean writer (born 1893 )[30] September 6 – San Tiago Dantas , Brazilian journalist (born 1911 )September 14 – Vasily Grossman , Soviet novelist (cancer, born 1905 )September 18 – Seán O'Casey , Irish dramatist and memoirist (born 1880 )[31] October 26 – Agnes Miegel , German author, journalist and poet (born 1879 )c. November – Radu D. Rosetti , Romanian poet and playwright (born 1874 )[32]
November 21 – Leah Bodine Drake , American poet, editor and critic (cancer, born 1914 )November 29 – Anne de Vries , Dutch novelist (born 1904 )December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell , English poet and critic (born 1887 )December 21 – Carl Van Vechten , American writer and photographer (born 1880 )[33]
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
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