1957 in literature
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The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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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.
- Copies of Howl are seized by customs officials. Later in the year, the publishers are acquitted of obscenity charges stemming from the incident.
[edit] New books
- Caridad Bravo Adams - Corazón salvaje
- Isaac Asimov
- John Braine - Room at the Top
- Fredric Brown - Rogue in Space
- Pearl S. Buck - Letter from Peking
- 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
- Christopher Landon - Ice Cold in Alex
- Primo Levi - If This Is a Man
- Meyer Levin - Compulsion
- H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth - The Survivor and Others
- Alistair MacLean - The Guns of Navarone
- Alistair MacLean - South by Java Head
- 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
- Elsa Morante - L'isola di Arturo
- Iris Murdoch - The Sandcastle
- Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin
- 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, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- 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
- Rex Stout
- Kay Thompson - Eloise in Paris
- Roger Vailland - La Loi
- Jack Vance - Big Planet
- Evelyn Waugh - The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
- Patrick White - Voss
- Angus Wilson - A Bit Off the Map
- Ivan Yefremov - Andromeda Nebula
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Endgame and Act Without Words I (first performed); All That Fall and From an Abandoned Work (first broadcast of both)
- Christopher Fry - The Dark is Light Enough
- Jean Genet - The Balcony
- Graham Greene - The Potting Shed
- William Inge - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Heiner Müller - The Correction
- John Osborne - The Entertainer and Epitaph for George Dillon
- Harold Pinter - The Dumb Waiter (written)
- N. F. Simpson - The Resounding Tinkle
- Tennessee Williams - Baby Doll and Orpheus Descending
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Elisabeth Elliot — Through Gates of Splendor
- 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
- Rodolfo Walsh — Operación Masacre
[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
- Melanie Rae Thon, author
[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
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Maurice Cranston, Life of John Locke
- Miles Franklin Award: Patrick White, Voss
- 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.
