1957 in literature

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

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.^[1]
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.^[2] 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.^[3]
April – John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel Couples.^[4]
July 1 – Opening performance at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival's Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, with its thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch.^[5]^[6]^[7]
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.

New books

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

^ Edwards, Bruce L. (2007). C.S. Lewis: An examined life. books.google.com. p. 287. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
^ Rehlaender, Jamie L. (2015-04-28). "A Howl of Free Expression: the 1957 Howl Obscenity Trial and Sexual Liberation". Young Historians Conference. Portland State University. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
^ King, Lydia Hailman (2007-10-03). "'Howl' obscenity prosecution still echoes 50 years later". Nashville: First Amendment Center. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
^ De Bellis, Jack. The John Updike Encyclopedia. p. 470.
^ "The Stratford Story". Stratford Festival. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
^ Guthrie, Tyrone (1959). A Life in the Theatre. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-86287-381-3.
^ Hunter, Martin (2001). Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-363-3.

[1] Edwards, Bruce L. (2007). C.S. Lewis: An examined life. books.google.com. p. 287. Retrieved 2012-05-17.

[2] Rehlaender, Jamie L. (2015-04-28). "A Howl of Free Expression: the 1957 Howl Obscenity Trial and Sexual Liberation". Young Historians Conference. Portland State University. Retrieved 2015-09-29.

[3] King, Lydia Hailman (2007-10-03). "'Howl' obscenity prosecution still echoes 50 years later". Nashville: First Amendment Center. Retrieved 2015-09-29.

[4] De Bellis, Jack. The John Updike Encyclopedia. p. 470.

[5] "The Stratford Story". Stratford Festival. Retrieved 2014-02-25.

[6] Guthrie, Tyrone (1959). A Life in the Theatre. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-86287-381-3.

[7] Hunter, Martin (2001). Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-363-3.

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Poetry

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Births

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