Collected Short Fiction Part 2

Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

1959.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Burroughs: Naked Lunch.

Bellow: Henderson the Rain King.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Castro seizes power in Cuba.

1960.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Updike: Rabbit, Run.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Sixty-seven demonstrators killed at Sharpeville, South Africa. Belgian Congo becomes independent.

1961.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: A House for Mr Biswas.

LITERARY CONTEXT: h.e.l.ler: Catch-22.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: John F. Kennedy elected US President. Erection of Berlin Wall. South Africa excluded from Commonwealth. ANC banned. Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in s.p.a.ce.

1962.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: The Middle Pa.s.sage.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Nabokov: Pale Fire.

Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the

Life of Ivan Denisovich.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Cuban missile crisis. Trinidad and Tobago become independent within the British Commonwealth. Commonwealth Immigrants Act. Algeria granted independence by France.

1963.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: Mr Stone and the Knights Companion.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: a.s.sa.s.sination of John F. Kennedy.

1964.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: An Area of Darkness.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Khrushchev deposed and replaced by Brezhnev.

1965.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: IndiaPakistan war.

1966.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Rhys: Wide Sarga.s.so Sea.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Mao launches Cultural Revolution in China. Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minster of India.

1967.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: A Flag on the Island: The Mimic Men.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: ArabIsraeli Six-Day War. Civil war in Nigeria (Biafra).

1968.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Student unrest in US and throughout Europe. Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. a.s.sa.s.sination of Martin Luther King. Nixon US President.

1969.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: The Loss of El Dorado.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Resignation of de Gaulle in France. Americans land first man on the moon.

1970.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Black Power revolt in Trinidad.

1971.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: In a Free State. (Wins Booker Prize.) LITERARY CONTEXT: Updike: Rabbit Redux.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Formation of Bangladesh.

1972.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: The Overcrowded Barrac.o.o.n.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: President Amin expels Asians from Uganda. First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

1973.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow.

Greene: The Honorary Consul.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: ArabIsraeli War.

1974.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Resignation of Nixon following Watergate scandal.

1975.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: Guerrillas.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Levi: The Periodic Table.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: End of Vietnam War; exodus of the 'Boat People' begins. State of Emergency declared in India (to 1977). Guerrilla armies come to power in Angola and Mozambique. USSR and Western powers sign Helsinki Agreement.

1976.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Trinidad and Tobago become an independent republic.

1977.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: India: A Wounded Civilization.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Morrison: Song of Solomon.

1979.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: A Bend in the River.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Calvino: If on a winter's night a traveler.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Margaret Thatcher first woman Prime Minister in UK.Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT-2 arms limitation treaty. Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Iranian revolution; American hostage crisis.

1980.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: The Return of Eva Peron (with The Killings in Trinidad).

LITERARY CONTEXT: Burgess: Earthly Powers.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: An independent Zimbabwe formed.

1981.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: Among the Believers.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Rushdie: Midnight's Children.

1982.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Falklands War.

1983.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: Honorary Fellow, University College, Oxford.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Narayan: A Tiger for Malgudi.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Reagan proposes 'Star Wars'.

1984.

AUTHOR'S LIFE: Finding the Centre.

HISTORICAL EVENTS: Famine in Ethiopia. Indira Gandhi a.s.sa.s.sinated.

1985.

LITERARY CONTEXT: Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera.