1958 in literature
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The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.
- First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published.
- Rumours of a library ban on Enid Blyton's books in New Zealand.
- Herbert Marcuse begins teaching at Brandeis University.
- Jack Kerouac writes and narrates the "beat" movie, Pull My Daisy.
- Ken Kesey is awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to enrol in the creative writing program at Stanford University.
- Mervyn Peake begins to develop Parkinson's Disease.
[edit] New books
- Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
- Kingsley Amis - I Like It Here
- Jorge Amado - Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon)
- H. E. Bates - The Darling Buds of May
- Thomas Berger - Crazy in Berlin
- James Blish - A Case of Conscience
- Joseph Payne Brennan - Nine Horrors and a Dream
- Algis Budrys
- Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
- John Dickson Carr - The Dead Man's Knock
- Raymond Chandler - Playback
- Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence
- Richard Condon - The Oldest Confession
- A. J. Cronin
- L. Sprague de Camp - An Elephant for Aristotle
- Patrick Dennis - Around the World with Auntie Mame
- August Derleth
- Lawrence Durrell
- Ian Fleming - Dr. No
- Peter George - Red Alert
- Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
- Cyril Hare - He Should Have Died Hereafter
- Marlen Haushofer - We Murder Stella
- Georgette Heyer - Venetia
- Harold L. Humes - The Underground City
- Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
- Frances Parkinson Keyes - Victorine
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard (published posthumously)
- John D. MacDonald - The Executioners
- Ross Macdonald - The Doomsters
- Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes
- Alberto Moravia - La ciociara
- R. K. Narayan - The Guide
- Kenzaburō Ōe - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
- Mary Renault - The King Must Die
- Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman
- Dr. Seuss - Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
- Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Terry Southern (as Maxwell Kenton) - Candy
- Rex Stout
- Robert Traver - Anatomy of a Murder
- Jack Vance - The Languages of Pao
- Rex Warner - Young Caesar
- Jerome Weidman - The Enemy Camp
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape
- Brendan Behan - The Hostage
- Max Frisch - The Fire Raisers and Phiipp Hotz's Fury
- Jean Genet - The Blacks (first published)
- Elmer Rice - Cue for Passion
- Peter Shaffer - Five Finger Exercise
- N. F. Simpson - The Hole
- Arnold Wesker - Chicken Soup with Barley (first performed)
- Tennessee Williams - Suddenly, Last Summer
- Mohan Rakesh - Ashadh Ka Ek Din
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- 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
- John Maynard Smith - The Theory of Evolution
- John Steinbeck – Once There Was A War
- Raymond Williams – Culture and Society 1780-1950
[edit] Births
- April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, dub poet
- May - Roddy Doyle, novelist
- June 10 - James F. Conant, philosopher
- July 5 - Veronica Guerin, journalist (died 1996)
- date unknown
- Robert Antoni, novelist
- Lionel Fogarty, poet
- Flora Fraser, biographer
- Wayne Johnston, novelist
- Margaret Smith, poet
- Nega Mezlekia, Ethiopian writer
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction author
- March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
- March 24 - Seamus O'Sullivan, poet
- April 7 - Elliot Paul, American writer
- May 5 - James Branch Cabell, fantasy fiction author
- June 28 - Alfred Noyes, poet
- September 11 - Robert W. Service, poet
- October 24 - George Edward Moore, philosopher
- October 30 - Rose Macaulay, novelist
[edit] Awards
- 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 for literature: Boris Leonidovich 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
