1958 in literature
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See also: 1957 in literature, other events of 1958, 1959 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.
- First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published.
- Rumours of a library ban on Enid Blyton's books in New Zealand.
- Herbert Marcuse begins teaching at Brandeis University.
- Jack Kerouac writes and narrates the "beat" movie, Pull My Daisy.
- Ken Kesey is awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to enrol in the creative writing program at Stanford University.
- Mervyn Peake begins to develop Parkinson's Disease.
[edit] New books
- Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
- Kingsley Amis - I Like It Here
- Jorge Amado - Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon)
- Thomas Berger - Crazy in Berlin
- Joseph Payne Brennan - Nine Horrors and a Dream
- Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Raymond Chandler - Playback
- James Clavell - The Fly
- A. J. Cronin
- The Innkeeper's Wife
- The Northern Light
- L. Sprague de Camp - An Elephant for Aristotle
- Patrick Dennis - Around the World with Auntie Mame
- August Derleth
- Lawrence Durrell - Balthazar
- Edna Ferber - Ice Palace
- Ian Fleming - Dr. No
- Peter George - Red Alert
- Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
- Cyril Hare - He Should Have Died Hereafter
- Georgette Heyer - Venetia
- Maxwell Kenton - Candy
- Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
- Frances Parkinson Keyes - Victorine
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard (published posthumously)
- Mike McClintock - A Fly Went By
- Ross Macdonald - The Doomsters
- John O'Hara - From the Terrace
- Mary Renault - The King Must Die
- Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman
- Dr. Seuss - Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
- Robert Traver - Anatomy of a Murder
- Jack Vance - The Languages of Pao
- Rex Warner - Young Caesar
- Jerome Weidman - The Enemy Camp
- Helen White - Bird of Fire
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape
- Brendan Behan - The Hostage (English translation of Gaelic An Giall)
- P. L. Deshpande - Batatyachi Chaal
- Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
- Dore Schary - Sunrise at Campobello
- Peter Shaffer - Five Finger Exercise
- Tennessee Williams - Suddenly, Last Summer
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Brendan Behan - Borstal Boy
- Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
- John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society
- J. Edgar Hoover - Masters of Deceit
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Revisited
- Claude Lévi-Strauss – Structural Anthropology
- John Steinbeck – Once There Was A War
- Raymond Williams – Culture and Society 1780-1950
[edit] Births
- April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, dub poet
- May - Roddy Doyle, novelist
- June 10 - James F. Conant, philosopher
- July 5 - Veronica Guerin, journalist
- date unknown
- Robert Antoni, novelist
- Lionel Fogarty, poet
- Flora Fraser, biographer
- Wayne Johnston, novelist
- Margaret Smith, poet
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction author
- March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
- March 24 - Seamus O'Sullivan, poet
- April 7 - Elliot Paul, American writer
- May 5 - James Branch Cabell, fantasy fiction author
- June 28 - Alfred Noyes, poet
- September 11 - Robert W. Service, poet
- October 24 - George Edward Moore, philosopher
- October 30 - Rose Macaulay, novelist
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie
- Newdigate prize: Jon Stallworthy
- Nobel Prize for literature: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- Premio Nadal: J. Vidal Cadellans, No era de los nuestros
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Agee - A Death In The Family
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Promises: Poems 1954-1956
