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1957 in literature

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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1957.

Contents

Events

  • January 15 – Release in Japan of the film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth.
  • March 13 – A 1950 translation of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sei Itō is found on appeal in Japan to be obscene.
  • March 21 – C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham in a Christian ceremony at her bedside in the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, England.
  • 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 the grounds of obscenity. 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.
  • April – John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel Couples.
  • July 1 – Opening performance at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival's Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, with its thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch.
  • August 7 – Italo Calvino's letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party appears in l'Unità.
  • 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.
  • First American writers of the Beat Generation (poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky) stay at the "Beat Hotel" (Hotel Rachou) in Paris, France.
  • Lawrence Durrell publishes his novel Justine, the first of The Alexandria Quartet. The last volume 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 in the United States for his Poems, 1923–1954.
  • 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.
  • Three new neo-Grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Style of graphic design.

    • Fiction

  • Abd al-majld ibn Jallun – Fī al-Ṭufūla
  • Caridad Bravo Adams – Corazón salvaje
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Earth Is Room Enough
  • The Naked Sun
  • John Braine – Room at the Top
  • Fredric Brown – Rogue in Space
  • Pearl S. Buck – Letter from Peking
  • Michel Butor – La Modification
  • John Dickson Carr – Fire, Burn!
  • John Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle
  • Agatha Christie – 4.50 from Paddington
  • Mark Clifton and Frank Riley – They'd Rather Be Right
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett – A Father and His Fate
  • 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
  • Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) – The Sea and Poison (海と毒薬)
  • Ian Fleming
  • The Diamond Smugglers
  • From Russia, with Love
  • Janet Frame – Owls Do Cry
  • Jean Giono – The Straw Man (Le Bonheur fou)
  • José Giovanni – The Break (Le Trou)
  • Martyn Goff – The Plaster Fabric
  • Bill Hopkins – The Divine and the Decay
  • 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
  • Halldór Laxness – The Fish Can Sing (Brekkukotsannáll)
  • Meyer Levin – Compulsion
  • H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Survivor and Others
  • Józef Mackiewicz – Kontra
  • Alistair MacLean
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • 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
  • Sławomir Mrożek – Słoń (The Elephant, short stories)
  • 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
  • Qu Bo (曲波) – Tracks in the Snowy Forest (林海雪原)
  • Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
  • Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett) – The Shrouded Planet
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet – La Jalousie
  • Nevil Shute – On the Beach
  • Georges Simenon – The Little Man from Archangel
  • 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
  • Three for the Chair
  • If Death Ever Slept
  • Kay Thompson – Eloise in Paris
  • Roger Vailland – La Loi
  • Jack Vance – Big Planet
  • Arved Viirlaid – Seitse kohtupäeva (Seven Days of Trial)
  • Evelyn Waugh – The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
  • Patrick White – Voss
  • Angus Wilson – A Bit Off the Map
  • John Wyndham – The Midwich Cuckoos
  • Ivan Yefremov – Andromeda Nebula

    • Children and young people

  • Gillian Avery – The Warden's Niece
  • Aileen Fisher – A Lantern in the Window
  • Edward Gorey – The Doubtful Guest
  • Éva Janikovszky – Csip-csup (Piffling)
  • Tove Jansson – Moominland Midwinter
  • Harold Keith – Rifles for Watie
  • William Mayne – A Grass Rope
  • Otfried Preußler – Die kleine Hexe (The Little Witch)
  • Dr. Seuss
  • The Cat in the Hat
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  • Pat Smythe – Jacqueline Rides for a Fall (first of the Three Jays series of seven books)
  • Virginia Sorensen – Miracles on Maple Hill
  • Elizabeth George Speare – Calico Captive
  • Dare Wright – The Lonely Doll

    • Drama

  • Samuel Beckett – Endgame and Act Without Words I (first performed); All That Fall and From an Abandoned Work (first broadcast of both)
  • Emilio Carballido – El censo
  • Christopher Fry – The Dark is Light Enough
  • Jean Genet – The Balcony (Le Balcon)
  • Günter Grass – Flood (Hochwasser)
  • Graham Greene – The Potting Shed
  • William Inge – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Errol John – Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
  • John Osborne
  • The Entertainer
  • Epitaph for George Dillon
  • Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter (written)
  • N. F. Simpson – The Resounding Tinkle
  • Wole Soyinka – The Invention
  • Boris Vian – Les Bâtisseurs d'Empire (The Empire Builders)
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Baby Doll
  • Orpheus Descending

    • 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

    • Non-fiction

  • Gerald Brenan – South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village
  • Declaration (anthology)
  • Elisabeth Elliot – Through Gates of Splendor
  • Northrop Frye – Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
  • Richard Hoggart – The Uses of Literacy
  • Eric John Holmyard – Alchemy
  • Stuart Holroyd – Emergence from Chaos
  • 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
  • Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley – The Untouchables
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Existentialism and Human Emotions
  • Rodolfo Walsh – Operación Masacre
  • Ian Watt – The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

    • Births

  • January 16 – Stella Tillyard, English writer and historian
  • January 22 – Francis Wheen, English journalist and author
  • February 11 – Mitchell Symons, English writer and journalist
  • March 7 – Robert Harris, English novelist and current-affairs writer
  • March 23 – Ananda Devi, Mauritian francophone fiction writer and poet
  • March 26 – Paul Morley, English music journalist
  • April 3 – Rainer Karlsch, German historian
  • May 17 – Peter Høeg, Danish novelist
  • May 23 – Craig Brown, English satirist
  • June 8 – Scott Adams, American satirist
  • July 29 – Liam Davison, Australian novelist (air crash, died 2014)
  • August 24 – Stephen Fry, English comedian, television presenter and novelist
  • 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
  • Melanie Rae Thon, American author

    • Deaths

  • January 10 – Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet (born 1889)
  • January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (born 1878)
  • January 19 – Barbu Lăzăreanu, Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (born 1881)
  • February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867)
  • March 9 – Rhoda Power, English children's writer and broadcaster (born 1890)
  • March 12 – John Middleton Murry, English critic (born 1889)
  • 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)
  • June 17 – Dorothy Richardson, English novelist and journalist (born 1873)
  • June 27 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (born 1909)
  • 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)
  • September 2 – William Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (born 1867)
  • November 8 – Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (born 1901)
  • November 24 – Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, German-born English historian and political scientist (born 1879)
  • December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English crime novelist (born 1893)
  • December 24 – Arturo Barea, Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer (born 1897)

    • Awards

  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: William Mayne, A Grass Rope
  • 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

    • References

    1957 in literature Wikipedia
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