June – J. P. Donleavy's novel The Ginger Man is published in Paris by Olympia Press, but he is angered when he finds they have produced it under their imprint for pornography, 'The Traveller's Companion Series'.[1] It is prohibited in both the author's adoptive and native countries, the Republic of Ireland and the United States, for obscenity. Set in postwar Dublin it features the character Sebastian Dangerfield.
The American speculative fiction author Charles Beaumont's short story "The Crooked Man", depicting a homosexual society where heterosexuality is persecuted, is published in Playboy magazine after being rejected by Esquire.
An article in the British Journal of Education criticises Enid Blyton's novels as formulaic.[4]
Violette Leduc's novel Ravages is issued in France but the publisher, Éditions Gallimard, suppresses the opening section depicting a semi-autobiographical lesbian awakening, which will be published as a novella, Thérèse et Isabelle, in 1966.[10]
^Contrary to his later recollection of the event. Burnett, Archie, ed. (2012). The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin. London: Faber. p. 411. ISBN978-0-571-24006-7.
^Brioude, Mireille (2007). "Violette Leduc du mythe à la mystification". In Günther, Renate; Michallat, Wendy (eds.). Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture. Durham Modern Languages Series. Durham University. pp. 103–120. ISBN9780907310624.
^Monnier, Adrienne; McDougall, Richard (1996) [1976]. The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. p. 64. ISBN978-0-8032-8227-8.