This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1958.
Children and young people
Raymond Abrashkin & Jay Williams – Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine
Enid Blyton – Five Get into a Fix
Michael Bond – A Bear Called Paddington (introducing Paddington Bear)
C. S. Forester – Hornblower in the West Indies
Rumer Godden – The Greengage Summer
E. W. Hildick – Jim Starling (first of a series of seven)
A. A. Milne, Latin by Alexander Lenard – Winnie ille Pu
Elyne Mitchell – The Silver Brumby (first in the Silver Brumby series)
Philippa Pearce – Tom's Midnight Garden
Keith Robertson – Henry Reed Inc. (first in the Henry Reed series of five books)
Dr. Seuss – Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Elizabeth George Speare – The Witch of Blackbird Pond
William O. Steele – The Perilous Road
Catherine Storr – Marianne Dreams
Rosemary Sutcliff – Warrior Scarlet
Nigel Tranter – Spaniard's Isle
Henry Treece – The Children's Crusade
T. H. White – The Once and Future King
Samuel Beckett – Krapp's Last Tape
Brendan Behan – The Hostage
Bertolt Brecht – The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui, written 1941, first performed)
Refik Erduran – Bir Kilo Namus ("One Kilo Honesty")
Max Frisch – The Fire Raisers (Biedermann und die Brandstifter, first stage adaptation)
Jean Genet – The Blacks: A Clown Show (Les Nègres, clownerie, first published)
Ann Jellicoe – The Sport of My Mad Mother
Sławomir Mrożek – The Police (Policja)
Heiner Müller and Inge Müller
Die Korrektur (The Correction)
Der Lohndrücker (The Scab, first performed)
Mohan Rakesh – Ashadh Ka Ek Din (आषाढ़ का एक दिन, One Day in Ashadh)
Barry Reckord – Flesh to a Tiger
Elmer Rice – Cue for Passion
Peter Shaffer – Five Finger Exercise
N. F. Simpson – The Hole
Wole Soyinka – The Swamp Dwellers
Derek Walcott – Drums and Colours
Arnold Wesker – Chicken Soup with Barley (first performed)
Tennessee Williams – Suddenly, Last Summer
Ko Un – Hyondae Munhak
Eli Siegel – Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems
Clark Ashton Smith – Spells and Philtres
Octavio Paz – La estación violenta
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
Philip O'Connor – Memoirs of a Public Baby
John Maynard Smith – The Theory of Evolution
John Steinbeck – Once There Was A War
Raymond Williams – Culture and Society 1780–1950
April 6 – Graeme Base, English-born Australian children's author and illustrator
April 15 – Benjamin Zephaniah, English dub poet
May 8 – Roddy Doyle, Irish novelist
May 21 – Taku Ashibe (芦辺 拓), Japanese mystery novelist
May 22 – Wayne Johnston, Canadian novelist
June 10 – James F. Conant, American philosopher
June 16 – Isobelle Carmody, Australian science fiction, fantasy and children's writer
July 5 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (murdered 1996)
October 30 – Flora Fraser, English biographer
November 11 – Kathy Lette, Australian novelist, playwright and activist
November 24 – Gregory Doran, English theater director
December 10 - Cornelia Funke, German children's author
Unknown dates
Robert Antoni, West Indian novelist
Lionel Fogarty, indigenous Australian poet
Margaret Smith, American poet
Nega Mezlekia, Ethiopian writer
February 4 – Henry Kuttner, American science fiction author (born 1915)
February 6 – Charles Langbridge Morgan, English novelist and dramatist (born 1894)
March 15 – Michael Joseph, English publisher (born 1897)
March 17 – Margiad Evans, Anglo-Welsh writer and poet (born 1909)
March 21 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American science fiction writer (born 1923)
March 24 – Seumas O'Sullivan, Irish poet (born 1879)
April 7 – Elliot Paul, American writer (born 1892)
April 8 – Ethel Turner, English-born Australian novelist and children's author (born 1873)
May 5 – James Branch Cabell, American fantasy author (born 1879)
June 10 – Angelina Weld Grimké, African-American playwright and poet (born 1880)
June 28 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (born 1880)
August 6 – Geoffrey Willans, English novelist and comic writer (born 1911)
August 29 – Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (born 1897)
September 11 – Robert W. Service, English-born Canadian comic poet (born 1874)
October 24 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher (born 1873)
October 30 – Rose Macaulay, English novelist (born 1881)
November 9 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American activist and novelist (born 1879)
December 8 – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Ó Gaoithín), Irish seanchaí (traditional storyteller, born 1873)
December 20 – J. C. Squire, English writer and critic (born 1884)
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden
Hugo Award for Best Novel: Fritz Leiber, The Big Time
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney
Miles Franklin Award: Randolph Stow, To the Islands
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie
Newdigate prize: Jon Stallworthy
Nobel Prize in literature: Boris 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
1958 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
