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The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, originally performed on radio in 1932.
- Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood.
- First appearance of Astérix the Gaul.
- Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School.
- Frank Herbert begins researching Dune.
- Frederik Pohl becomes editor of Galaxy magazine.
- Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française.
- D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover (1928) legally circulates in the U.S. after a 31 year obscenity ban. (See Grove Press, Inc. v. Christenberry)
New books
- Isaac Asimov - Nine Tomorrows
- Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King
- Robert Bloch - Psycho
- Ray Bradbury - A Medicine for Melancholy
- John Brunner
- Algis Budrys - The Falling Torch
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
- Taylor Caldwell - Dear and Glorious Physician
- Ivy Compton-Burnett - A Heritage and Its History
- Richard Condon - The Manchurian Candidate
- Alexander Cordell - Rape of the Fair Country
- Julio Cortázar - Las armas secretas (short stories)
- Richard Crichton - The Great Impostor
- Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
- Alfred Duggan - Children of the Wolf
- Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals
- Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive
- Ian Fleming - Goldfinger
- Paul Gallico - Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
- William Golding - Free Fall
- Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
- William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick - The Ugly American
- H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands - The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces
- John Lymington - Night of the Big Heat
- Naguib Mahfouz - The Children of Gebelaawi
- Norman Mailer - Advertisement for Myself
- James A. Michener - Hawaii
- Mervyn Peake - Titus Alone
- Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett) - The Dawning Light
- Mordecai Richler - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus
- Robert Ruark - Poor No More
- Terry Southern - The Magic Christian
- Rex Stout - Plot It Yourself
- John Updike - The Same Door
- Leon Uris - Exodus
- Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
New drama
- John Arden - Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
- William Gibson - The Miracle Worker
- Eugène Ionesco - Rhinoceros
- Tennessee Williams - Sweet Bird of Youth
Non-fiction
- Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon
- Thomas B. Costain - The Three Edwards (Third book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
- L. Sprague de Camp - Engines
- August Derleth
- Savitri Devi - Impeachment of Man
- C. S. Forester - Sink the Bismarck! aka The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck
- Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Miguel León-Portilla - Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista
- Garrett Mattingly - The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day
- William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White - The Elements of Style
Births
- March 15 - Ben Okri, poet and novelist
- March 18 - Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, novelist and critic
- May 3 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
- October 31 - Neal Stephenson - science fiction writer
- date unknown
- Paul Anderson, journalist
- Maurice Georges Dantec, science fiction author
- R. A. Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author
Deaths
- January 3 - Edwin Muir, poet, novelist and translator
- January 29 - Pauline Smith, novelist
- February 22 - Percy F. Westerman, children's author
- February 23 - Luis Palés Matos, poet
- February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, playwright, film writer
- March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American novelist
- April 14 - Julien Josephson, screenwriter
- May 18 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, explorer and memoirist
- June 23 - Boris Vian, French novelist
- June 30 - José Vasconcelos, political writer
- September 18 - Benjamin Péret, poet
- date unknown
- Olga Knipper, widow of Anton Chekhov and star of many of his plays
- Alfred Schütz, philosopher and sociologist
Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: James Blish, A Case of Conscience
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Morris West, The Devil's Advocate
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh
- Miles Franklin Award: Vance Palmer, The Big Fellow
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Nobel Prize for literature: Salvatore Quasimodo
- Premio Nadal: Ana María Matute, Primera memoria
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Archibald MacLeish, J. B.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Francis Cornford