1961 in literature
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See also: 1960 in literature, other events of 1961, 1962 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy is published.
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Scottish author Muriel Spark is published.
- V. S. Naipaul's book, A House for Mr. Biswas, is published.
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is published.
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
- Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
- A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
- James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
- The Long Revolution - Raymond Williams (non-fiction)
- Mila 18 - Leon Uris
- The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
- 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
- The Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
- The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
- This Sweet Sickness - Patricia Highsmith
- Thunderball - Ian Fleming
- 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty - Pat Boone
- Venusberg - Anthony Powell
- The Wall - John Hersey
- The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
- Zima Junction - Yevegeny Yevtushenko
Births
- February 21 - Chuck Palahniuk, author
- September 27 - Irvine Welsh, author
- December 30 - Douglas Coupland, author
- Greg Egan, author
Deaths
- January 10 - Dashiell Hammett, author
- January 21 - Blaise Cendrars, author
- July 2 - Ernest Hemingway, author
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Nobel Prize for literature - Ivo Andric
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tad Mosel, All The Way Home
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades