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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1963. ==Events== *January 2 - Traverse Theatre opens in Edinburgh. *February 11 - American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat during the cold winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom about a month after publication of her only novel, the semi-autobiographical ''The Bell Jar'' and six days after writing her last poem, "Edge". *March 19 - Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop premières the ensemble musical play ''Oh, What a Lovely War!'' at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. *May 17 - First Galician Literature Day. *July 16 - A day after being admitted to the Acland Hospital in Oxford, C. S. Lewis suffers a heart attack; although later discharged, he dies four months later, at home in Oxford.〔Wilson, A. N. (2002) (). ''C. S. Lewis: A Biography''. W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-32340-4.〕 *August 20 - The Royal Shakespeare Company introduces its performance cycle of Shakespeare's history plays under the title ''The War of the Roses'', adapted and directed by John Barton and Peter Hall, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. *October 21 - Release of the first film from Merchant Ivory Productions, ''The Householder'' with screenplay adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her own novel. *October 22 - The National Theatre Company in the United Kingdom, newly formed under artistic director Laurence Olivier,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Theatre : About the NT )〕 gives its first performance, with Peter O'Toole as Hamlet, in London. *November 17 - Fictional hero 8 Man, created by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata, appears in print for the first time. *''Novy Mir'' publishes three further short stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn critical of the Soviet regime, including "Matryona's Home"; they will be the last of his works to be published in the Soviet Union until 1990. *First modern publication by mainstream publishers in both Britain and the United States of John Cleland's novel ''Fanny Hill'' (''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', 1748-9). The book is banned for obscenity in Massachusetts, triggering a court case by its publisher, and a London retailer is prosecuted. *Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", ''The Saint in the Sun'' (he first wrote about the character in 1928). After this, all future Saint books will be ghost-written by other authors, though Charteris will continue in an editorial capacity until the series ends in 1983. *Grace Ogot's short story "A Year of Sacrifice" (later retitled "The Rains Came") is published in ''Black Orpheus''. *English novelist Anthony Burgess begins an affair with Italian translator Liana Johnson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1963 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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