King Rat is a 1962 novel by James Clavell and the author's literary debut.
 Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch, and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore—a description informed by Clavell's own three-year experience as a prisoner in the notorious Changi Prison camp.
 One of the major characters, Peter Marlowe, is based upon Clavell's younger self.
Children of Their City (Swedish: Barn av sin stad ) is a 1962 novel by Swedish author Per Anders Fogelström.
 It is the second novel of the "City" novels.
The Ticket That Exploded is a 1962 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Olympia Press and later by Grove Press in 1967.
 Together with "The Soft Machine" and "Nova Express" it is part of a trilogy, referred to as "The Nova Trilogy", created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method.
 The novel is an anarchic tale concerning mind control by psychic, electronic, sexual, pharmaceutical, subliminal, and other means.
 Passages from the other two books and even from this book show up in rearranged form and are often repeated.
 This work is significant for fans of Burroughs, in that it describes his idea of language as a virus and his philosophy of the cut-up technique.
 Also, it features the cut-up technique being used by characters within the story.
 "The Ticket That Exploded" lays the groundwork for Burroughs' ideas of social revolution through technology, which he would later detail in his book-length essay "The Electronic Revolution".
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac.
 It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
 The novel departs from Kerouac's previous fictionalized autobiographical series in that the character Duluoz is shown as a popular, published author.
 The Subterraneans also mentions Kerouac's (Leo Percepied) status as an author, and in fact even mentions how some of the bohemians of New York are beginning to talk in slang derived from his writing.
 Kerouac's previous novels are restricted to depicting Kerouac's days as a bohemian traveller.
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey ( ; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure.
 He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Pierrot le Fou (] , French for "Pierrot the madman") is a 1965 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina.
 The film is based on the 1962 novel "Obsession" by Lionel White.
 It was Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature film, released between "Alphaville" and "Masculin, féminin".
 The film was the 15th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 1,310,580 admissions in France.
 The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Tyne O'Connell (full name Clementyne Rose O'Connell) is an English author born in Windsor, who lives and works in Mayfair, London.
 Mayfair serves as a backdrop for much of her contemporary women's fiction, including "Making The A list" (Headline Review, 1999) and "Sex With The Ex" (Red Dress Ink UK, 2004).
 She has written for publications such as "Ms.", "Elle UK" and "Journal".
 Her short stories appear in "Girls' Night Out" and "Kid's Night In".
 She is a contributor to "Holiday Goddess".
 O'Connell is The Eccentrics Club's (whose patron is HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), "Most Eccentric Thinker of the Year" 2015.
 <br><br>Bloomsbury USA published a compilation of O'Connell's YA fiction 'Royal Match' and 'Royal Mess' in 2012 to coincide with the Royal Wedding.
 Soon after O'Connell was diagnosed with a brain tumour and began writing her history of eccentricity as a quintessential aspect of the British and Irish character.
 CNN Style in its documentary 'The Adorned' describes O'Connell "The Mayfair-based author and socialite seems to have been torn straight from the pages of an Evelyn Waugh novel; with her cut-glass accent, perma-fixed tiara and layers of pearls.
Thalavattam (Malayalam: താളവട്ടം) is a 1986 Malayalam drama film written and directed by Priyadarshan and starring Mohanlal, M. G. Soman and Karthika.
 It was remade in Hindi as "Kyon Ki" in 2005 by Priyadarshan himself.
 The film was also remade in Tamil in 1988 by Robert-Rajasekhar as "Manasukkul Mathappu" with Prabhu and Saranya playing the lead.
 The story is based on the 1962 novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopian alternative history television series produced by Amazon Studios, Scott Free Productions, Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions and Big Light Productions.
 The series is loosely based on the 1962 novel of the same name by science fiction author Philip K. Dick.
 In the series' alternate version of 1962 America, the Axis powers have won World War II and divided the United States into the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States.
 The series follows characters whose destinies intertwine after coming into contact with a series of propaganda films that show a vastly different history from that of their own.
Zofia Posmysz (born 23 August 1923) is a Polish author.
 In 1942 she was arrested by the Gestapo on suspicion of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.
 She survived the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps and afterwards gained a position with Polish national radio.
 She is the author of several works including the 1959 radio play "The Passenger in Cabin 45", which was adapted into her 1962 novel "Passenger", and into a television play and film "The Passenger".
 Composer Mieczysław Weinberg used the story as the basis for his 1968 opera "The Passenger".

Question: The film "Thalavattam" is based on a 1962 novel by an author born in what year?
Answer: 1935