1957 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1957.

Events[]

  • January 10 – T. S. Eliot marries his secretary Valerie Fletcher, 30 years his junior, in a private church ceremony in London. His first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood, died in 1947.[1]
  • January 15 – The film Throne of Blood, a reworking of Macbeth by Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明), is released in Japan.
  • March – The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel as 'Dr. Seuss' as a more entertaining alternative to traditional literacy primers for children, is first published in a trade edition in the United States, initially selling an average of 12,000 copies a month, a figure which rises rapidly.[2]
  • March 13 – A 1950 Japanese translation of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sei Itō (伊藤整) is found on appeal to be obscene.
  • March 15 – Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature) is first published in Hungary as a literary magazine.
  • March 21 – C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham in a Christian ceremony at her bedside in the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, England.[3]
  • March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems (first published 1 November 1956) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on grounds of obscenity.[4] On October 3, in People v. Ferlinghetti, a subsequent prosecution of publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the city, the work is ruled not to be obscene.[5]
  • April – John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel Couples.[6]
  • June 2 – Joe Orton submits The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written with Kenneth Halliwell, to a publisher; it is rejected within three days and they give up working in partnership.[7]
  • July 1 – The opening performance is held at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival's Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, with its thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch.[8][9][10]
  • August 7 – Italo Calvino's letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party appears in l'Unità.
  • October – The first American Beat Generation (poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky) stay at the "Beat Hotel" (Hotel Rachou) in Paris.[11]
  • November 22 – Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago is first published, in Italian translation, by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan, having been rejected for publication in the Soviet Union.
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

  • Robert E. Howard – Always Comes Evening
  • Ted Hughes – The Hawk in the Rain
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Le ceneri di Gramsci
  • Octavio Paz – Piedra de Sol
  • Jibanananda Das – Rupasi Bangla
  • Robert Penn Warren – Promises: Poems, 1954–1956. Won National Book Award for Poetry – Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Abd al-Majīd Bin Jallūn – Fī al-Ṭufūla[25]
  • B. R. Ambedkar (died 1956) – The Buddha and His Dhamma[26]
  • G. E. M. Anscombe – Intention
  • Catherine Drinker Bowen – The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634) (winner, 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction)[27]
  • Gerald Brenan – South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village[28]
  • M. Đilas – The New Class
  • Will Durant – The Reformation. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Elisabeth Elliot – Through Gates of Splendor
  • Charles Evans – Kangchenjunga: The Untrodden Peak
  • Douglas Southall Freeman – George Washington: A Biography. Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Northrop Frye – Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
  • Louis M. Hacker – Alexander Hamilton in the American. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Bray Hammond – Banks and Politics in America. Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History
  • Gilbert Highet – Poets in a Landscape. Nominated for 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Richard Hoggart – The Uses of Literacy
  • Eric John Holmyard – Alchemy
  • Stuart Holroyd – Emergence from Chaos
  • Ernst Kantorowicz – The King's Two Bodies
  • Henry Kissinger – Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Primo Levi – If This Is a Man (Se Questo è un Uomo)
  • Art Linkletter – Kids Say the Darndest Things
  • Christopher Lloyd – The Mixed Border
  • Mary McCarthy – Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Tom Maschler (ed.) – Declaration (anthology)
  • Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley – The Untouchables
  • Iris Origo – The Merchant of Prato (life and commercial career of Francesco di Marco Datini)[29]
  • Walt Whitman Rostow & – A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Search for a Method (Questions de méthode)
  • David Schoenbrun – As France Goes. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
  • Rodolfo Walsh – Operación Masacre[30]
  • Ian Watt – The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
  • K. A. Wittfogel – Oriental Despotism

Births[]

  • January 7 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist
  • January 16 – Stella Tillyard, English writer and historian[citation needed]
  • January 22 – Francis Wheen, English journalist and author[citation needed]
  • January 27 – Frank Miller, American comic-book cartoonist and scriptwriter[31]
  • February 11 – Mitchell Symons, English writer and journalist
  • March 3 – Nicholas Shakespeare, English novelist and biographer[32]
  • March 7 – Robert Harris, English novelist and current-affairs writer[33]
  • March 23 – Ananda Devi, Mauritian francophone fiction writer and poet[34]
  • March 26 – Paul Morley, English music journalist
  • March 29 – Elizabeth Hand, American science fiction and fantasy writer
  • April 3
    • Rainer Karlsch, German historian
    • Unni Lindell, Norwegian novelist
  • May 13 – Koji Suzuki, Japanese author and screenwriter[35]
  • May 17 – Peter Høeg, Danish novelist[36]
  • May 23 – Craig Brown, English satirist
  • June 8 – Scott Adams, American satirist[37]
  • July 29 – Liam Davison, Australian novelist (died 2014 in air crash)
  • August 24 – Stephen Fry, English comedy performer, broadcast presenter and writer[38]
  • September 22 – Nick Cave, Australian author and musician
  • November 14 – Michael J. Fitzgerald, American technical writer
  • December 3 – Anne B. Ragde, Norwegian novelist
  • December 11 – William Joyce, American children's author
  • December 12 – Robert Lepage, Canadian playwright
  • unknown dates
    • Peter Armstrong, English poet and psychotherapist
    • John Doyle, Irish-born Canadian critic
    • Ana Santos Aramburo, Spanish national librarian
    • Melanie Rae Thon, American author

Deaths[]

  • January 10 – Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet (born 1889)[39]
  • January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (born 1878)[40]
  • January 19 – Barbu Lăzăreanu, Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (heart attack, born 1881)
  • February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867)[41]
  • March 9 – Rhoda Power, English children's writer and broadcaster (born 1890)
  • March 12 – John Middleton Murry, English critic (born 1889)[42]
  • March 28 – Christopher Morley, American journalist, novelist and poet (born 1890)
  • March 29 – Joyce Cary, Irish novelist (born 1888)
  • April 22 – Roy Campbell, South African poet and satirist (born 1901)[43]
  • June 17
    • May Edginton, English popular novelist (born 1883)
    • Dorothy Richardson, English novelist and journalist (born 1873)[44]
  • June 26
  • July 10 – Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist and essayist (born 1880)[47]
  • July 19 – Curzio Malaparte, Italian novelist, playwright, and journalist (cancer, born 1898)
  • July 21 – Kenneth Roberts, American historical novelist (born 1885)
  • July 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian novelist (born 1896)[48]
  • August 1 – Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (born 1877)[49]
  • August 21 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian writer (born 1879)
  • August 25 – Leo Perutz, Austrian-born novelist and mathematician (born 1882)
  • September 2 – William Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (born 1867)
  • September 12 – José Lins do Rego, Brazilian novelist (born 1901)[50]
  • September 22 – Oliver St. John Gogarty, Irish poet and memoirist (born 1878)[51]
  • October 25 – Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (born 1878)[52]
  • November 8 – Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (born 1901)
  • November 24 – Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, English historian and political scientist (born 1879)
  • December 15 – Mulshankar Mulani, Gujarati playwright (born 1867)
  • December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English crime novelist (born 1893)[53]
  • December 24 – Arturo Barea, Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer (born 1897)
  • December 25 – Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet and historian (born 1877)[54]

Awards[]

Notes[]

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

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