1957 in literature
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See also: 1956 in literature, other events of 1957, 1958 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Lawrence Durrell publishes the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960.
- Dorothy Parker begins writing book reviews for Esquire.
- E. E. Cummings receives a special citation from the National Book Award Committee for his Poems, 1923-1954.
- Italo Calvino resigns from the Communist Party. His famous letter of resignation is published in L'Unità.
- John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his novel, Couples.
- The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, is rejected. As a result they give up working in partnership.
- Malcolm Muggeridge is replaced by Bernard Hollowood as editor of Punch magazine.
[edit] New books
- Caridad Bravo Adams - Corazón salvaje
- John Braine - Room at the Top
- Michel Butor - La Modification
- John Cheever - The Wapshot Chronicle
- Mark Clifton & Frank Riley - They'd Rather Be Right
- Thomas B. Costain - Below the Salt
- James Gould Cozzens - By Love Possessed
- L. Sprague de Camp - Solomon's Stone
- Daphne du Maurier - The Scapegoat
- Lawrence Durrell - Justine
- Ian Fleming
- Aldous Huxley - Collected Short Stories
- James Jones - Some Came Running
- Anna Kavan - Eagle's Nest
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road
- Frances Parkinson Keyes - Blue Camellia
- Meyer Levin - Compulsion
- H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth - The Survivor and Others
- Alistair MacLean - The Guns of Navarone
- Naguib Mahfouz - Sugar Street
- Bernard Malamud - The Assistant
- Richard Mason - The World of Suzie Wong
- James A. Michener - Rascals in Paradise
- Nancy Mitford - Voltaire in Love
- C. L. Moore - Doomsday Morning
- Iris Murdoch - The Sandcastle
- Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp - The Return of Conan
- Marcel Pagnol - Le Château de ma mère
- Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
- Anthony Powell - At Lady Molly's
- Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
- Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett) - The Shrouded Planet
- Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat
- Nevil Shute - On the Beach
- Robert Paul Smith - Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing
- Muriel Spark - The Comforters
- John Steinbeck - The Short Reign of Pippin IV
- Kay Thompson - Eloise in Paris
- Roger Vailland - La Loi
- Jack Vance - Big Planet
- Ivan Yefremov - Andromeda Nebula
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Endgame
- Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey Into Night
- John Osborne
- Mervyn Peake - The Wit to Woo
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Northrop Frye - Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
- Richard Hoggart - The Uses of Literacy
- Primo Levi - If This Is a Man (Se Questo è un Uomo)
- Art Linkletter - Kids Say the Darndest Things!
- Mary McCarthy - Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
- Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley - The Untouchables
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Human Emotions
[edit] Births
- March 26 - Paul Morley, music journalist
- May 17 - Peter Høeg, novelist
- May 23 - Craig Brown, satirist
- June 8 - Scott Adams, satirist
- August 24 - Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, television presenter and novelist
- September 22 - Nick Cave, musician and author
- December 11 - William Joyce, children's author
- date unknown
- John Doyle, critic
- Rainer Karlsch, historian
- Mitchell Symons, journalist
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
- March 12 - John Middleton Murry, critic
- March 28 - Christopher Morley, journalist, novelist and poet
- March 29 - Joyce Cary, author
- April 22 - Roy Campbell, poet
- June 17 - Dorothy Richardson, novelist
- June 27 - Malcolm Lowry, author
- September 2 - William Craigie, lexicographer
- December 17 - Dorothy L. Sayers, crime novelist
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Hill
- Nobel Prize for literature: Albert Camus
- Premio Nadal: Carmen Martín Gaite, Entre visillos
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: Things of This World
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Siegfried Sassoon
[edit] See Also
1956 in literature, other events of 1957, 1958 in literature, list of years in literature.
