1955 in literature
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The year 1955 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- July 30 - Philip Larkin makes a train journey from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings.[1]
- August 27 - First harback issue of The Guinness Book of Records published in London.[2]
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris; however, it takes until 1958 to be published in the United States.
- An article in the British Journal of Education criticises the novels of Enid Blyton as formula fiction.[3]
- Jean Cocteau is elected to both the Académie française and the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.
[edit] New prose fiction
- Kingsley Amis - That Uncertain Feeling
- Isaac Asimov
- Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
- Ray Bradbury - The October Country
- John Dickson Carr - Captain Cut-Throat
- Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock
- Arthur C. Clarke - Earthlight
- Thomas B. Costain - The Tontine
- Gertrude Crampton - Scuffy the Tugboat
- Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame
- J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Once a Greek
- Ian Fleming - Moonraker
- Franquin - La corne de rhinocéros
- William Gaddis - The Recognitions
- William Golding - The Inheritors
- Graham Greene - The Quiet American
- Henri René Guieu
- Robert A. Heinlein - Tunnel in the Sky
- Frank Herbert - The Dragon in the Sea
- Georgette Heyer - Bath Tangle
- Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - Tales of Conan
- Mac Hyman - No Time for Sergeants
- Aldous Huxley - The Genius and the Goddess
- MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville
- Nikos Kazantzakis - Greek edition of The Last Temptation of Christ (Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός)
- Yasar Kemal - Memed, My Hawk
- C. S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
- Alistair Maclean - HMS Ulysses
- Gabriel García Márquez - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago)
- J. J. Marric's - Gideon's Day
- Brian Moore -The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
- Flannery O'Connor
- Marco Denevi - Rosaura a las 10
- John O'Hara - Ten North Frederick
- Anthony Powell - The Acceptance World
- Marin Preda - Moromeții, vol. i
- Barbara Pym - Less than Angels
- Robert Ruark - Something of Value
- Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
- Françoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - Satan in Goray
- Thomas Sterling - The Evil of the Day
- Rex Stout - Before Midnight
- Morton Thompson - Not As a Stranger
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King
- Patrick White - The Tree of Man
- Leonard Wibberley - The Mouse That Roared
- Sloan Wilson - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- Herman Wouk - Marjorie Morningstar
- John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (English language version)
- Bertolt Brecht - Trumpets and Drums
- William Inge - Bus Stop
- Eugène Ionesco - Jack, or The Submission and The New Tenant
- Arthur Miller - A View from the Bridge (first version) and A Memory of Two Mondays
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Nekrassov
- Thornton Wilder - The Matchmaker and A Life in the Sun
- Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
[edit] Non-fiction
- James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son
- Ivan Bunin - About Chekhov
- Thomas E. Gaddis - Birdman of Alcatraz
- The Guinness Book of Records, 1st edition
- Walter Lippmann - Essays in the Public Philosophy
- Walter Lord - A Night to Remember
- Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilisation
- RAND - A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
- Meher Baba - God Speaks
- Robert Graves - The Greek Myths
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
- January 13 - Jay McInerney, writer
- February 2 - Leszek Engelking, poet, short story writer, essayist and translator
- February 8 - John Grisham, novelist
- June 13 - Larry Mike Garmon, novelist, short story writer
- June 16 - J. Jill Robinson, writer of short stories, creative nonfiction
- June 20 - Tor Nørretranders, science author
- September 6 - Raymond Benson, novelist
- November 23 - Steven Brust, fantasy author
- date not listed
- Max Lucado, American writer on Christian religious themes
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, American poet, essayist, novelist (born 1892)
- June 17 - Constance Holme, English novelist and dramatist (born 1880)
- June 19 - Adrienne Monnier, French poet and publisher (born 1892)
- August 2 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (born 1879)
- August 12 - Thomas Mann, German novelist (born 1875)
- September 20 - Robert Riskin, American dramatist and screenwriter (born 1897)
- October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (born 1883)
[edit] Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom
- Frost Medal: Leona Speyer
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Thomas Gray
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Halldór Kiljan Laxness
- Premio Nadal: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, El Jarama
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - A Fable
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ruth Pitter
[edit] References
- ^ Contrary to his later recollection of the event. Burnett, Archie, ed. (2012). The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin. London: Faber. p. 411. ISBN 978-0-572-24006-7.
- ^ "Guinness Book History 1950 - Present". http://spyhunter007.com/spy_guinness_book_history.htm. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
- ^ Druce, Robert (1992). "Chapter 4". This Day Our Daily Fictions: an enquiry into the multi-million bestseller status of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming. Costerus, n.s. vol.84. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 9051834012.
