1956 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1956.

Events[]

  • c. January – The first book in Ed McBain's long-running 87th Precinct police procedural series, Cop Hater, is published in the United States under Evan Hunter's new pseudonym.
  • February 2 – Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical Long Day's Journey into Night (completed in 1942) receives a posthumous world première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, in Swedish (Lång dags färd mot natt), directed by Bengt Ekerot and starring Lars Hanson. Its Broadway debut at the Helen Hayes Theatre on November 7 follows an American première at the Shubert Theatre (New Haven).[1]
  • February 25 – The English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England.[2]
  • March 11 – The U.S. release of Sir Laurence Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's Richard III plays simultaneously on NBC network television and as afternoon matinée screenings in movie theaters. Its TV audience is put at 25–40 million – almost certainly the largest to date for a Shakespeare production.[3]
  • March 19 – The widowed English author Aldous Huxley marries the Italian-American film-maker and author Laura Archera at a drive-in wedding chapel in Yuma, Arizona.[4]
  • April 23 – The British author C. S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham have a civil marriage at Oxford register office.[5]
  • May 8 – The first performance of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger is given by the newly formed English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London.[6][7] Alan Bates has his first major role as Cliff. The press release describes Osborne as one of the angry young men of the time, a phrase used on July 26 in a Daily Express headline.
  • June 16 – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry at St George the Martyr, Holborn in the London Borough of Camden.
  • June 21 – Playwright Arthur Miller appears before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C.
  • June 26 and August 23 – Books published by the discredited psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich are burned in the United States under a court injunction.
  • June – Nineteen-year-old Hunter S. Thompson is arrested as an accessory to robbery.
  • June 29 – Arthur Miller marries Marilyn Monroe in White Plains, New York.
  • July – After pleas by Israeli diplomats, the Romanian communist regime releases A. L. Zissu, formally sentenced to life imprisonment in 1954.[8] Zissu emigrates to Israel, where he dies on September 6.[9]
  • July 4 – The National Library of Scotland's first purpose-built premises open in Edinburgh.[10]
  • July 8 – The drama series Armchair Theatre, produced by ABC Television for the ITV network in the United Kingdom, begins a twelve-year run.
  • August 14 – Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley at Oxford register office.
  • September 14 – Harold Pinter marries Vivien Merchant in a civil ceremony at Bournemouth, after they meet while touring in repertory theatre.
  • October – The Ladder becomes the first nationally distributed lesbian magazine in the United States.
  • November 1 – Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, a signal work of the Beat Generation, is published by City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.
  • December
    • J. G. Ballard's first professional publications, the science fiction short stories "Escapement" and "Prima Belladonna", appear in this month's issues of New Worlds and Science Fantasy respectively.[11]
    • Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.
  • December 3 – The author Romain Gary wins the Prix Goncourt for Les Racines du ciel. He would later become the only person to win the prize twice, publishing La Vie devant soi under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975.
  • unknown dates
    • Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street), is first published.[12]
    • Sixteen-year-old Michael Moorcock becomes editor of Tarzan Adventures.
    • Jorge Luis Borges becomes a professor of English and American literature at the University of Buenos Aires.[13]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

  • Allen Ginsberg – Howl
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh – The Unicorn and Other Poems
  • Harry Martinson – Aniara
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko – Stantsiia Zima (Станция Зима, Zima Station, translated as Winter Station)

Non-fiction[]

  • Peter Frederick Anson – The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion[19]
  • John G. Bennett – Dramatic Universe
  • Peter M. Blau – Bureaucracy in Modern Society
  • Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals
  • Margery Fish – We Made a Garden
  • Georges Friedmann – Le travail en miettes (The Anatomy of Work)
  • Carl Gustav Jung – Mysterium Coniunctionis
  • A. J. Liebling – The Sweet Science
  • Norman Mailer – The White Negro
  • Karl Mannheim – Essays on the Sociology of Culture
  • C. Wright Mills – The Power Elite
  • Octavio Paz – El arco y la lira
  • Lobsang Rampa – The Third Eye
  • Irving Stone – Men to Match My Mountains (Account of the opening of the American Old West, 1840–1900)
  • John Strachey – Contemporary Capitalism

Births[]

  • January 2 – Storm Constantine, British science fiction and fantasy author
  • January 4 – Sarojini Sahoo, Indian journalist, author, and poet
  • January 8 – Jack Womack, American novelist
  • January 10 – Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish novelist
  • January 21 – Ian McMillan, English poet
  • March 7 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (died 2019)[20]
  • March 12 – Ruth Ozeki, American novelist and filmmaker
  • March 23 – Steven Saylor, American historical novelist
  • April 29 – Alexander Jablokov, American writer and novelist[21]
  • May 4 – David Guterson, American journalist and novelist
  • May 18 – John Godber, English dramatist
  • May 20 – Boris Akunin, Russian novelist and essayist
  • June 9 – Patricia Cornwell, American crime novelist
  • July 4 – Éric Neuhoff, French novelist
  • July 11 – Amitav Ghosh, Bengali Indian novelist
  • October 9 – Robert Reed, American science fiction author
  • October 13 – Chris Carter, American screenwriter
  • October 18 – Lucy Ellmann, Anglo-American novelist
  • November 11 – Tim Pears, English novelist
  • November 20 – Elena Gremina, Russian dramatist (died 2018)
  • November 26 – John McCarthy, English journalist and hostage
  • December 22 – Percival Everett, American writer and novelist
  • unknown dates

Deaths[]

  • January 13 – Wickham Steed, English journalist, editor and historian (born 1871)
  • January 14 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English novelist (born 1887)
  • January 29 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and English language scholar (born 1880)
  • January 31 – A. A. Milne, English children's author, novelist and dramatist (born 1882)
  • March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English novelist and inventor of the clerihew (born 1875)
  • May 15 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American theologian and poet (born 1872)
  • May 20 – Max Beerbohm, English humorist (born 1872)
  • May 22 – Ion Călugăru, Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist (born 1902)
  • June 22 – Walter de la Mare, English poet (born 1873)
  • June 24 – Nicos Nicolaides, Greek writer (born 1884)
  • July 8 – Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet and novelist (born 1881)
  • August 14 – Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist (born 1898)
  • September 6
    • Michael Ventris, English linguistic scholar (born 1922)
    • A. L. Zissu, Romanian novelist and Zionist leader (born 1888)
  • October 30 – Pío Baroja, Spanish novelist (born 1872)
  • December 6 - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution of India (born 1891)
  • December 13 – Arthur Grimble, Hong Kong-born English travel writer (born 1888)
  • December 25 – Robert Walser, Swiss novelist and poet writing in German (born 1878)

Awards[]

Notes[]

  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References[]

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  2. ^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. London; New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
  3. ^ "Richard III Review". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 2006-07-08.
  4. ^ Huxley, Laura (1969). This Timeless Moment. ISBN 0-89087-968-0.
  5. ^ 42, St Giles'. Hooper, Walter (1998-06-23). C. S. Lewis: A Complete Guide to His Life and Works. p. 79. ISBN 9780060638801. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
  6. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  7. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  8. ^ Nastasă, Lucian (2003). "Studiu introductiv". In Andreescu, Andreea; Nastasă, Lucian; Varga, Andrea (eds.). Minorități etnoculturale. Mărturii documentare. Evreii din România (1945–1965). Cluj-Napoca: Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center. p. 30.
  9. ^ Glass, Hildrun (2010). "Câteva note despre activitatea lui Avram L. Zissu". In Rotman, Liviu; Crăciun, Camelia; Vasiliu, Ana-Gabriela (eds.). Noi perspective în istoriografia evreilor din România. Bucharest: Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania & Editura Hasefer. pp. 166–167.
  10. ^ "Bute Collection for Scotland: Library Opening by The Queen". The Times. No. 53575. London. 1956-07-05. p. 12.
  11. ^ Weber, Bruce (2009-04-21). "J. G Ballard, Novelist, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-10-15.
  12. ^ Ed. Mohit K. Ray (September 2007). The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 336. ISBN 978-81-269-0832-5.
  13. ^ Adrian Lennon (1992). Jorge Luis Borges. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-7910-1236-9.
  14. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 410
  15. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 526
  16. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 528
  17. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 541
  18. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 545
  19. ^ *The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1956. LCCN 56000287.
  20. ^ Innes, Lyn (15 February 2019). "Andrea Levy obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  21. ^ Contemporary Authors. Gale Research Company. 1994. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-8103-5552-1.
  22. ^ Tony Kellman (1992). Crossing Water: Contemporary Poetry of the English-speaking Caribbean. Greenfield Review Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-912678-85-6.
  23. ^ Roger Robinson; Nelson Wattie (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-19-558348-9.
  24. ^ Catherine Cucinella; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (2002). Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-313-31783-5.
  25. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 660


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