This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1957.
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
1957 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
