NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of years in literature

This page indexes the individual "year in literature" pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction...

History of Literature A stone tablet containing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry which attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/hearer/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Early Literature
Early Indian literature
Indian literature * Sanskrit literature
Chinese literature
Greek literature
Latin literature
Persian literature
Pahlavi literature * Persian literature
The Medieval Period
Matter of Rome * Matter of France * Matter of Britain * Medieval literature * Arabic literature * 13th century in literature * 14th century in literature
European Renaissance Literature
European Renaissance Literature * 15th century in literature
The early modern period
16th century in literature * 17th century in literature
European literature in the 18th century
1700s * 1710s * 1720s * 1730s * 1740s * 1750s * 1760s * 1770s * 1780s * 1790s * 1900s
Modern Literature, 19th century
1800s * 1810s * 1820s * 1830s * 1840s * 1850s * 1860s * 1870s * 1880s * 1890s * 1900s
Modern Literature, 20th century
Modernism
Structuralism * Deconstruction * Poststructuralism * Postmodernism * Post-Colonialism * Hypertext fiction
1900s * 1910s * 1920s * 1930s * 1940s * 1950s * 1960s * 1970s * 1980s * 1990s * 2000s
Modern Literature in Europe
European Literature
Modern Literature in the Americas
Argentine literature * Brazilian literature * Canadian literature * Colombian literature * Cuban literature * Jamaican literature * Mexican literature * Peruvian writers * Literature of the United States
Australasian Literature
Australian literature * New Zealand literature
Modern Asian Literature
Modern Asian Literature * Chinese literature * Indian literature * Pakistani literature * Tamil literature * Hindi literature * Urdu literature * Indian writing in English * Bengali literature * Marathi literature * Malayalam literature * Japanese literature * Vietnamese literature
African Literature
African literature * Nigerian literature * South African literature
Other topics
History of theater * History of science fiction * History of ideas * Intellectual history * Literature by nationality

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Literature in Sanskrit, one of Indias two oldest languages, and the basis of several modern languages in India. ... // Classical texts Main article: Chinese classic texts China has a wealth of classical literature, both poetry and prose, dating from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 B.C.) and including the Classics attributed to Confucius. ... At the moment this page contains a list of links. ... Latin literature, the body of written works in the Latin language, remains an enduring legacy of the culture of ancient Rome. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Persian literature (in Persian: ) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. ... According to the mediæval poet Jean Bodel, the Matter of Rome was the literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. ... The Matter of France is a body of mythology and legend that springs from the Old French medieval literature of the chansons de geste. ... Arthurian legend or the Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, especially those centering around King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. ... Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. ... Center For Arabic Culture (CAC) Christina Campo-Abdoun & Seifed-Din Abdoun http://cacac. ... See also: Pre 13th century in literature, other events of the 13th century, 14th century in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 13th century in literature, other events of the 14th century, 15th century in literature, list of years in literature. ... Renaissance literature is European literature, after the Dark Ages over an extended period, usually considered to be initiated by Petrarch at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, and sometimes taken to continue to the English Renaissance and into the seventeenth century. ... See also: 14th century in literature, other events of the 15th century, 16th century in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 16th century in literature, other events of the 17th century, 1700 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... 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This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes the progressive art and architecture, music, literature and design which emerged in the decades before 1914. ... Structuralism is a general approach in various academic disciplines that explores the interrelationships between fundamental elements of some kind, upon which some higher mental, linguistic, social, cultural etc structures are built, through which then meaning is produced within a particular person, system, culture. ... The term deconstruction was coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960s and is used in contemporary humanities and social sciences to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ways that meaning is constructed and understood by writers, texts, and readers. ... Post-structuralism is a body of work that followed in the wake of structuralism, and sought to understand the Western world as a network of structures, as in structuralism, but in which such structures are ordered primarily by local, shifting differences (as in deconstruction) rather than grand binary oppositions and... It has been suggested that postmodernity be merged into this article or section. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature found mostly online, characterized by non-linearity and reader interaction. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... Jorge Luis Borges Argentine literature is placed among the most important in Spanish language, with world-famous writers such as JosÃ© HernÃ¡ndez, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig, Julio CortÃ¡zar and Ernesto SÃ¡bato. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Mexican literature plays an important role in Mexican culture. ... This topic is considered to be an essential subject on Wikipedia. ... Australian literature in English began soon after the establishment of the country by Europeans. ... New Zealand claims as its own many writers, even those immigrants born overseas or those emigrants who have gone into exile. ... Pakistani literature, that is, the literature of Pakistan, as a distinct literature came into being when Pakistan gained its nationhooood as a sovereign state in 1947. ... Tamil literature is literature in the Tamil language which most prominently includes the contributions of the Tamil country (or Tamizhagam) history, a large part of which constitutes the modern state of Tamil Nadu and Kerala as well as some parts of Karnataka and Andra pradesh. ... Literature in Hindi, the language spoken by the majority of people in India. ... Urdu literature has a long and colorful history that is inextricably tied to the development of that very language, Urdu, in which it is written. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Indian English Literature. ... This article is about the Bengali language. ... Literature in Marathi. ... Literature written in Malayalam language. ... Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia. ... Vietnamese literature is literature, both oral and written, created by Vietnamese-speaking people. ... South Africa has a diverse literary history. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... This article is on science fiction literature. ... The history of ideas is a field of research in history and in related fields dealing with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. ... Intellectual history means either: the history of intellectuals, or: the history of the people who create, discuss, write about and in other ways propagate ideas. ...

2000s

2006 in literature
2005 in literature - Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
2004 in literature - Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
2003 in literature - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown; Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky; Roman Triptych (Meditation) - John Paul II
2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan; Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan
2001 in literature - Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi - Yann Martel
2000 in literature - The American Family Association begins a year-long attack on Robert Clark Young's novel, One of the Guys, in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Congress to defund the National Endowment for the Arts, In the wabe of the breath - Grazyna Miller

See also: 2005 in literature, other events of 2006, 2007 in literature, list of years in literature. ... // Events February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation. ... Cover of Chuck Palahniuks Haunted Haunted (2005, 404 pages) is a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk that was released on May 3, 2005. ... Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk (IPA: ) (born February 21, 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon. ... This article is about the book. ... Joanne Rowling OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing; her former students used to joke with her name calling her the Rolling Stone), is a British fiction writer. ... See also: 2003 in literature, other events of 2004, 2005 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The book cover Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1. ... Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. ... See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. ... For the film, see The Da Vinci Code (film). ... Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, best known for writing the controversial 2003 bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. ... Hegemony or Survival: Americas Quest for Global Dominance, published November 2003 is a book by Noam Chomsky, a macroscopic view of United States foreign policy from World War II to the post-Iraq War reconstruction. ... Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (b. ... Roman Triptych. ... Official papal image of John Paul II. His Holiness Pope John Paul II, né Karol Józef Wojtyła (born May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland), is the current Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church. ... See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Atonement (2001) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. ... Ian McEwan CBE, (born June 21, 1948), is a British novelist (sometimes nicknamed Ian Macabre because of the nature of his early work). ... Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World is a work of non-fiction based upon the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. ... Margaret Olwen MacMillan OC (born 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a historian and professor at the University of Toronto and is also Provost of Trinity College. ... See also: 2000 in literature, other events of 2001, 2002 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Red Pollard on Seabiscuit Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933â€”May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred race horse in the United States. ... Laura Hillenbrand born 1967 is the author of the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit. ... The cover of Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. ... Yann Martel Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author. ... See also: 1999 in literature, other events of 2000, 2001 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The American Family Association (AFA) is a conservative, fundamentalist Christian non-profit organization founded in 1977 by Rev. ... Robert Clark Young (born 1960) is an American author of novels, essays, and short stories. ... One of the Guys is an earnestly satirical and picaresque novel by Robert Clark Young, published in 1999, concerning the fantastical adventures of a man posing as a chaplain on a U.S. Navy ship which goes berserk and terrorizes a number of ports in the Far East before the... The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... Grazyna Miller (1957) is a poet born in Poland. ...

1990s

1999 in literature - Chocolat - Joanne Harris
1998 in literature - A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
1997 in literature - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
1996 in literature - Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt; Left Behind - Tim Lahaye, Jerry Jinkins
1995 in literature - The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
1994 in literature - The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
1993 in literature - The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
1992 in literature - The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
1991 in literature - Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
1990 in literature - Vertigo - W.G. Sebald

See also: 1998 in literature, other events of 1999, 2000 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris. ... Joanne MichÃ¨le Sylvie Harris (born July 3, 1964) is a British author. ... See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... A Man in Full is a novel by Tom Wolfe, published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Cover of the International edition, distributed in the Australia, Canada, India, Ireland and the United Kingdom Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is the first volume in a planned series of seven books written by British author J. K. Rowling, and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. ... Joanne Jo Rowling, OBE (born 31 July 1965[1]) is a British fiction writer who writes under the pen name of J. K. Rowling[2]. Rowling became famous as author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained international attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 300 million copies... See also: 1995 in literature, other events of 1996, 1997 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Cover of Angelas Ashes Angelas Ashes is a memoir by Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood. ... Frank McCourt (born August 19, 1930, New York City) is an Irish-American teacher and author. ... This is about the novel, for the Series see Left Behind (series) Left Behind: a Novel of the Earths Last Days is a novel in the series Left Behind, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. ... Timothy F. LaHaye (b. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Celestine Prophecy is a 1993 novel by James Redfield. ... James Redfield (born on March 19, 1950) is a novelist. ... See also: 1993 in literature, other events of 1994, 1995 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Stone Diaries is a 1993 novel by Carol Shields. ... Carol Shields, CC , OM , D.Litt. ... See also: 1992 in literature, other events of 1993, 1994 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Christmas Box is an American book written by Richard Paul Evans and self-published in 1993. ... Richard Paul Evans (born October 11, 1962 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author. ... See also: 1991 in literature, other events of 1992, 1993 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This article is on the book. ... Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC , MA , BA (born 12 September 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy Award winning film, The English Patient. ... See also: 1990 in literature, other events of 1991, 1992 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Such a Long Journey (1998) is a film based upon the novel Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry. ... Rohinton Mistry (born July 3, 1952) is considered to be one of the foremost authors of South Asian origin writing in English. ... See also: 1989 in literature, other events of 1990, 1991 in literature, list of years in literature. ... W. G. (Winifried Georg Maximilian) Sebald (18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu–14 December 2001, Norfolk, United Kingdom) was a German writer and academic. ...

1980s

1989 in literature - Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro; The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
1988 in literature - Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey; The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie, Curriculum - Grazyna Miller
1987 in literature - Beloved - Toni Morrison
1986 in literature - Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
1985 in literature - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
1984 in literature - White Noise - Don DeLillo
1983 in literature - On Wings of Eagles - Ken Follett
1982 in literature - The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1981 in literature - The Blue Bicycle - Régine Deforges
1980 in literature - Smiley's People - John le Carré

See also: 1988 in literature, other events of 1989, 1990 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Remains of the Day (1989) is the third novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. ... Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro (ã‚«ã‚ºã‚ªãƒ»ã‚¤ã‚·ã‚°ãƒ Kazuo Ishiguro, originally çŸ³é»’ä¸€é›„ Ishiguro Kazuo, born November 8, 1954) is a British author of Japanese origin. ... The Joy Luck Club DVD cover Spoiler warning: As the novel opens Jing-Mei June Woo has just lost her mother, Suyuan, to an aneurism. ... Amy Tan (Chinese: èšæ©ç¾Ž; pinyin: TÃ¡n Ä’nmÄ›i), an American writer, was born February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California several years after her parents immigrated to the U.S. from China. ... See also: 1987 in literature, other events of 1988, 1989 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize. ... Peter Carey (born February 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. ... The Satanic Verses cover The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdies fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. ... Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: , Hindi: on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born, ethnically Kashmiri, British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ... Grazyna Miller (1957) is a poet born in Poland. ... See also: 1986 in literature, other events of 1987, 1988 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Beloved cover Beloved is a 1987 novel by Toni Morrison about the legacy of slavery. ... for the Louisiana politician, see deLesseps Morrison, Jr. ... See also: 1985 in literature, other events of 1986, 1987 in literature, list of years in literature. ... In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of taxa. ... Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard (February 9, 1931 - February 12, 1989) was an Austrian playwright and novelist. ... See also: 1984 in literature, other events of 1985, 1986 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Cover of The Handmaids Tale The Handmaids Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. ... Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Peggy Atwood, CC (born November 18, 1939) is one of Canadaâ€™s most important contemporary writers. ... See also: 1983 in literature, other events of 1984, 1985 in literature, list of years in literature. ... For other uses of the term white noise, see white noise (disambiguation). ... Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ... See also: 1982 in literature, other events of 1983, 1984 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. ... See also: 1981 in literature, other events of 1982, 1983 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Color Purple book cover The Color Purple is a 1982 novel by Alice Walker which received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ... Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and feminist whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. ... See also: 1980 in literature, other events of 1981, 1982 in literature, list of years in literature. ... RÃ©gine Deforges (born on August 15, 1935) is a French author, editor, director, and playwright. ... See also: 1979 in literature, other events of 1980, 1981 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Smileys People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979, by Random House (ISBN 0394508432). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

1970s

1979 in literature - Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
1978 in literature - The World According to Garp - John Irving
1977 in literature - The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch
1976 in literature - Triton - Samuel R. Delany
1975 in literature - The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges
1974 in literature - Carrie - Stephen King
1973 in literature - Burr - Gore Vidal
1972 in literature - Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
1971 in literature - The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
1970 in literature - Deliverance - James Dickey

See also: 1978 in literature, other events of 1979, 1980 in literature, list of years in literature. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is the author of a number of books, is a former MP and was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and was later convicted of perjury. ... See also: 1977 in literature, other events of 1978, 1979 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The World According to Garp book cover The World According to Garp is a novel by John Irving. ... <Under Construction> // Career Irvings career began at the age of 26 with the publication of his first novel, Setting Free the Bears. ... See also: 1976 in literature, other events of 1977, 1978 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Categories: Literature stubs | 1977 books | Novels ... Dame Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 â€“ February 8, 1999) was an Irish born British writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Samuel Ray Chip Delany, Jr. ... See also: 1974 in literature, other events of 1975, 1976 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Book of Sand (El libro de arena) is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. ... Jorge Luis Borges (born August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; died June 14, 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. ... See also: 1973 in literature, other events of 1974, 1975 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Carrie. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. ... See also: 1972 in literature, other events of 1973, 1974 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Burr or Bur may refer to: In certain species of plants, burr is a seed or dry fruit in which the seeds bear hooks or teeth which attach themselves to fur or clothing of passing animals or people. ... Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925), known simply as Gore Vidal, is a well-known American writer of novels, plays, and essays and has been a public figure for over fifty years. ... See also: 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature. ... An illustration for the main theme of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ... Richard Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. ... See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Rosamunde Pilcher OBE (maiden name Scott, born 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, United Kingdom) is a British novelist. ... See also: 1969 in literature, other events of 1970, 1971 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Deliverance is a 1972 Warner Bros. ... James Dickey (February 2, 1923 â€“ January 19, 1997) was a popular United States poet and novelist. ...

1960s

1969 in literature - Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
1968 in literature - Airport - Arthur Hailey
1967 in literature - Wild Season - Allan W. Eckert
1966 in literature - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
1965 in literature - Herzog - Saul Bellow
1964 in literature - Little Big Man - Thomas Berger
1963 in literature - Planet of the Apes (La Planete des Singes) - Pierre Boulle
1962 in literature - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
1961 in literature - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
1960 in literature - To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

See also: 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Portnoys Complaint book cover Portnoys Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roths fourth and, to date, still most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (ribald, comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks. ... Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is a Jewish-American novelist. ... See also: 1967 in literature, other events of 1968, 1969 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Arthur Hailey (April 5, 1920 - November 24, 2004) was a British/Canadian/American/Bahamian novelist. ... See also: 1966 in literature, other events of 1967, 1968 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Allan W. Eckert (born January 30, American historian, naturalist and author Allan W. Eckert was born on January 30, 1931 in Buffalo, New York, and raised in the Chicago, Illinois area but has been a long-time resident of Ohio where he attended university. ... See also: 1965 in literature, other events of 1966, 1967 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Master and Margarita book cover. ... Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (Russian: ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ð¸Ð» ÐÑ„Ð°Ð½Ð°ÑÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð‘ÑƒÐ»Ð³Ð°ÐºÐ¾Ð²; May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1891, Kiev â€“ March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. ... See also: 1964 in literature, other events of 1965, 1966 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Herzog cover Herzog is a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow. ... Bellow as depicted in his Nobel diploma. ... See also: 1963 in literature, other events of 1964, 1965 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Little Big Man is a book and later, a movie in 1970. ... Thomas Louis Berger (born July 20, 1924) is a U.S. novelist. ... See also: 1962 in literature, other events of 1963, 1964 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Planet of the Apes is a novel by Pierre Boulle, originally published in 1963 in French as La PlanÃ¨te des Singes. ... Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 â€“ 30 January 1994) was a French novelist. ... See also: 1961 in literature, other events of 1962, 1963 in literature, list of years in literature. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1962) is a fiction novel by Ken Kesey. ... Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 â€“ November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and as a cultural figure whom some consider a link between the beat generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ... See also: 1960 in literature, other events of 1961, 1962 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Catch 22 can refer to: A book by Joseph Heller, or the movie based on the book; see Catch-22. ... (May 1, 1923 â€“ December 12, 1999) was an American satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic Catch-22. ... See also: 1959 in literature, other events of 1960, 1961 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Book cover artwork for To Kill a Mockingbird has taken many forms over the years which emphasize different symbolisms, themes and plot details from the novel. ... Nelly Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist, worst known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. ...

1950s

1959 in literature - In the Labyrinth - Alain Robbe-Grillet
1958 in literature - The Grass - Claude Simon
1957 in literature - On the Road - Jack Kerouac
1956 in literature - The Visit - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
1955 in literature - Tunnel in the Sky – Robert A. Heinlein
1954 in literature - Lord of the Flies - William Golding
1953 in literature - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel
1952 in literature - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett; Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
1951 in literature - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
1950 in literature - The Bald Soprano - Eugène Ionesco

See also: 1958 in literature, other events of 1959, 1960 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-) is a French writer and filmmaker, born in Brest, FinistÃ¨re, France into a family of engineers and scientists. ... ). Categories: Stub ... Claude Simon (10 October 1913 â€“ 6 July 2005) was the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature who in his novels combined the poets and the painters creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition. ... See also: 1956 in literature, other events of 1957, 1958 in literature, list of years in literature. ... On the Road is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Viking Press in 1957. ... Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts â€“ October 21, 1969, St. ... See also: 1955 in literature, other events of 1956, 1957 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Visit is the title of various English translations of Friedrich DÃ¼rrenmatts play Der Besuch der alten Dame (literally, The Visit of the Old Lady). It is probably the most well-known of his work, at least in the English-speaking world. ... Friedrich DÃ¼rrenmatt (January 5, 1921 â€“ December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. ... See also: 1954 in literature, other events of 1955, 1956 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert Heinlein and published in 1955. ... Heinlein autographing at the 1976 Worldcon Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 â€“ May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ... See also: 1953 in literature, other events of 1954, 1955 in literature, list of years in literature. ... A Lord of the Flies cover Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author William G. Golding. ... Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 â€“ June 19, 1993), British novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983) // Early life Golding was born on September 19, 1911 at St Columb Minor, a village near Newquay, Cornwall, England. ... See also: 1952 in literature, other events of 1953, 1954 in literature, list of years in literature. ... A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel by author Ian Fleming. ... Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 â€“ August 12, 1964) was an English author and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... See also: 1951 in literature, other events of 1952, 1953 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Waiting for Godot (sometimes subtitled: tragicomedy in 2 acts) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, written in the late 1940s and first published in 1952. ... Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 â€“ December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... Charlottes Web book cover Charlottes Web is a childrens book by acclaimed American author E. B. White, first published in 1952. ... Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985) was an American essayist, author, and noted prose stylist. ... See also: 1950 in literature, other events of 1951, 1952 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Catcher in the Rye book cover. ... Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age story that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ... See also: 1949 in literature, other events of 1950, 1951 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Bald Soprano also translated as the Bald Prima Donna (French:La Cantatrice Chauve) was the first play written by EugÃ¨ne Ionesco. ... EugÃ¨ne Ionesco EugÃ¨ne Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 â€“ March 29, 1994) was one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the absurd. ...

1940s

1949 in literature - Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
1948 in literature - Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
1947 in literature - The Diary of Anne Frank
1946 in literature - The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
1945 in literature - The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch
1944 in literature - Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
1943 in literature - Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot
1942 in literature - The Stranger - Albert Camus
1941 in literature - Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
1940 in literature - Native Son - Richard Wright

See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Nineteen Eighty-Four is a political novel which George Orwell wrote in opposition to totalitarianism. ... Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 â€“ January 21, 1950), much better known by the pen name George Orwell (pronounced ), was a British author and journalist. ... See also: 1947 in literature, other events of 1948, 1949 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Doktor Faustus is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, begun in 1943 and published in 1947 as . ... Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 â€“ August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist, and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual. ... -1... Cover of the diarys Definitive Edition, 1995. ... See also: 1945 in literature, other events of 1946, 1947 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene ONeill, which was later made into a TV movie in 1960 as well as a big screen motion picture in 1973, both by the same name. ... Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 â€“ November 27, 1953) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright. ... See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil) is a novel originally written in German by the Austrian author Hermann Broch. ... Hermann Broch (November 1, 1886 - May 30, 1951) was a 20th century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists. ... See also: 1943 in literature, other events of 1944, 1945 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. ... Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T. S. Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943 (ISBN 0156332256). ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... See also: 1941 in literature, other events of 1942, 1943 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Stranger, also translated as The Outsider, (the original French version is called LÉtranger) (1942) is a novel by Albert Camus. ... Albert Camus, in an undated publicity photograph. ... See also: 1940 in literature, other events of 1941, 1942 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Virginia Woolf (nÃ©e Stephen) (25 January 1882 â€“ 28 March 1941) was a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... See also: 1939 in literature, other events of 1940, 1941 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Native Son (1940) is a novel by African-American author Richard Wright. ... Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 â€“ November 28, 1960) was an African-American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. ...

1930s

1939 in literature - Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
1938 in literature - Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
1937 in literature - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
1936 in literature - Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1935 in literature - The Dog Beneath the Skin - W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
1934 in literature - I, Claudius - Robert Graves
1933 in literature - A Universal History of Infamy (to 1934) - Jorge Luis Borges
1932 in literature - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1931 in literature - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
1930 in literature - The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil

See also: 1938 in literature, other events of 1939, 1940 in literature, list of years in literature. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish name SÃ©amas Seoighe; 2 February 1882 â€“ 13 January 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... See also: 1937 in literature, other events of 1938, 1939 in literature, list of years in literature. ... For other uses, see Nausea (disambiguation). ... Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 â€“ April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... See also: 1936 in literature, other events of 1937, 1938 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck, first published in 1937, which tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression (1929-1939). ... John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 â€“ December 20, 1968) was an American writer of the 20th century. ... See also: 1935 in literature, other events of 1936, 1937 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Death on the Installment Plan, also translated as Death on Credit, (original French title: Mort Ã crÃ©dit) is an existential novel by author Louis-Ferdinand CÃ©line, published in 1936. ... Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (May 27, 1894 â€“ July 1, 1961) was a French writer and physician who wrote under the nom de plume CÃ©line. // Life He was born Louis-Ferdinand Destouches at Courbevoie in the Seine dÃ©partement (now Hauts-de-Seine). ... See also: 1934 in literature, other events of 1935, 1936 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Wystan Hugh Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) was an English poet. ... Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, 1904 â€“ January 4, 1986), Anglo-American novelist, was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, in the north west of England. ... See also: 1933 in literature, other events of 1934, 1935 in literature, list of years in literature. ... I, Claudius is a novel by Robert Graves, (ISBN 067972477X) first published in 1934, dealing sympathetically with the life of the Roman Emperor Claudius and the history of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Roman Empire, from Julius Caesars assassination in 44 BC to Caligulas assassination in 41 AD... Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 â€“ 7 December 1985) was an English scholar, poet, and novelist. ... See also: 1932 in literature, other events of 1933, 1934 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Jorge Luis Borges (born August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; died June 14, 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. ... See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Book cover of Brave New World. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 â€“ November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. ... See also: 1930 in literature, other events of 1931, 1932 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. ... Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: èµ›çç ; Pinyin: SÃ i ZhÄ“nzhÅ«) (June 26, 1892 â€“ March 6, 1973) was a prolific writer and Nobel Prize winner. ... See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Man without Qualities (German original title: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is a novel in three books by the Austrian novelist and essayist Robert Musil. ... Robert Musil (Klagenfurt, Austria, November 6, 1880 â€“ April 15, 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (in German, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), one of the most important modernist novels. ...

1920s

1929 in literature - Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
1928 in literature - Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
1927 in literature - In Search of Lost Time (final volume) - Marcel Proust
1926 in literature - The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway; Jose Ortega y Gasset completes The Revolt of the Masses
1925 in literature - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
1924 in literature - Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
1923 in literature - Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke
1922 in literature - Ulysses - James Joyce, The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot, Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse; Marcel Proust dies - In Search of Lost Time completed
1921 in literature - The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset
1920 in literature - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

See also: 1928 in literature, other events of 1929, 1930 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred DÃ¶blin, published in 1929. ... Alfred DÃ¶blin (August 10, 1878 â€“ June 26, 1957) was a German expressionist novelist, best known for Berlin Alexanderplatz. ... See also: 1927 in literature, other events of 1928, 1929 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Lady Chatterleys Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... See also: 1926 in literature, other events of 1927, 1928 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Marcel-Valentin-Louis-EugÃ¨ne-Georges Proust (July 10, 1871 â€“ November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French Ã€ la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work...