1962 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1962.

Events

January 7 – In an article in The New York Times Book Review, Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist".

February 17 – Arthur Miller marries photographer Inge Morath.

May – Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books in London.

June 30 – The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.

July – General Law Amendment Act in South Africa removes freedom of speech from opposition activists and writers.

September – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate. Beginning the following month, Plath experiences a great burst of creativity, writing most of the poems on which her reputation will rest in what will be the last few months of her life, including many which will be published in Ariel and Winter Trees. In December she moves to a London flat in a house in which W. B. Yeats had lived as a boy.

November – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha), the author's semi-autobiographical account of life in the gulag, is published in Novy Mir in an unprecededented acknowledgement of the Soviet Union's Stalinist past.

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