1964 in literature
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See also: 1963 in literature, other events of 1964, 1965 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Armageddon - Leon Uris
- The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968 - William Manchester
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- The Farm Book - Jan Pfloog
- Fortunate Pilgrim - Mario Puzo
- Funeral in Berlin - Len Deighton
- Herzog - Saul Bellow
- The Jealous God - John Braine
- Flowers for Hitler - Leonard Cohen
- Julian - Gore Vidal
- Little Big Man - Thomas Berger
- The Luzhin Defense - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Man - Irving Wallace
- The Martyred - Richard E. Kim
- A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
- One-Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse
- A Purple Place For Dying - John D. MacDonald
- Rascal - Sterling North
- The Rector of Justin - Louis Auchincloss
- Second Generation - Raymond Williams
- Shadow and Act - Ralph Ellison
- Shadow of a Bull - Maia Wojciechowska
- A Song of Six Pence - A.J. Cronin
- The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell
- When the Lion Feeds - Wilbur Smith
- Why We Can't Wait - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- You Only Live Twice - Ian Fleming
- The Splendid Belt of Mr. Big - Sara Bulette
Births
- March 7 - Bret Easton Ellis, author
- July 3 - Joanne Harris, author
Deaths
- January 17 - T.H. White, author
- February 3 - Clarence Irving Lewis, philosopher
- February 25 - Grace Metalious, writer Peyton Place
- April 14 - Rachel Carson, environmentalist author
- April 18 - Ben Hecht, screenwriter
- August 3 - Flannery O'Connor
- August 12 - Ian Fleming, James Bond author
- September 18 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist
- December 21 - Carl Van Vechten
Awards
- See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award: Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Emily Cheney Neville, It's Like This, Cat
- Nobel Prize for literature - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Prix Goncourt: Georges Conchon, L'Etat sauvage
- Prix Médicis: Monique Wittig, L'Opoponax
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: At The End Of The Open Road
- Viareggio Prize: Giuseppe Berto, Il male oscuropl:Rok 1964 w literaturze