Anul 1963 în literatură a implicat o serie de evenimente și cărți noi semnificative. Evenimente
Cărți noi J. G. Ballard The Four-Dimensional Nightmare Passport to Eternity Simone de Beauvoir – Force of Circumstance (La Force des choses) Thomas Bernhard – Frost Pierre Boulle – Planeta maimuțelor (La Planète des Singes) Pearl S. Buck – The Living Reed Anthony Burgess – Inside Mr. Enderby Dino Buzzati – A Love Affair Taylor Caldwell – Grandmother and the Priests Morley Callaghan – That Summer in Paris John Dickson Carr – The Men Who Explained Miracles Agatha Christie – The Clocks Julio Cortázar – Hopscotch (Rayuela) Oskar Davičo Ćutnje (Silences) Gladi (Hungers) L. Sprague de Camp – A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales L. Sprague de Camp (as editor) – Swords and Sorcery Len Deighton – Horse Under Water August Derleth (as Stephen Grendon) – Mr. George and Other Odd Persons J.P. Donleavy – A Singular Man Daphne du Maurier – The Glass-Blowers Nell Dunn – Up the Junction John Fowles – The Collector Ian Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service Thrilling Cities Jane Gaskell – The Serpent Günter Grass – Dog Years (Hundejahre) John Hawkes – Second Skin Georgette Heyer – False Colours Ismail Kadare – The General of the Dead Army (Gjenerali i Ushtrisë së vdekur) Damon Knight – First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time John le Carré – The Spy who Came in from the Cold J. M. G. Le Clézio – Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation) Primo Levi – La tregua (The Truce, Reawakening) Mary McCarthy – The Group John McGahern – The Barracks Richard McKenna – The Sand Pebbles Alistair MacLean – Ice Station Zebra James A. Michener – Caravans Spike Milligan – Puckoon Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) – The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Japanese title 午後の曳航, meaning The Afternoon Towing) Emily Cheney Neville – It's Like This, Cat John O'Hara – Elizabeth Appleton Marcel Pagnol The Water of the Hills (L'Eau des collines) Jean de Florette Manon des Sources Živojin Pavlović – Krivudava reka (Curved River, povestiri) Sylvia Plath (as Victoria Lucas) – The Bell Jar Laurens van der Post – The Seed and the Sower Thomas Pynchon – V. John Rechy – City of Night Susan Sontag – Benefactor Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender Means Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake) – The Man With the Getaway Face Rex Stout – The Mother Hunt Erwin Strittmatter – Ole Bienkopp Boris and Arkady Strugatsky – Dalyokaya Raduga Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell to Earth Jim Thompson – The Grifters Rosemary Tonks – Opium Fogs Mario Vargas Llosa – The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros) Jack Vance – The Dragon Masters Tarjei Vesaas – Is-slottet (The Ice Palace) Kurt Vonnegut – Cat's Cradle Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar Charles Webb – The Graduate David Weiss – Naked Came I Manly Wade Wellman – Who Fears the Devil? Morris West – The Shoes of the Fisherman Christa Wolf – Divided Heaven (Der geteilte Himmel)
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