1958 in literature

1958 in literature

The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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.

New books

*Chinua Achebe - "Things Fall Apart"
*Kingsley Amis - "I Like It Here"
*Jorge Amado - "Gabriela, Cravo e Canela" ("Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon")
*Thomas Berger - "Crazy in Berlin"
*James Blish - "A Case of Conscience"
*Joseph Payne Brennan - "Nine Horrors and a Dream"
*Algis Budrys
**"Man of Earth"
**"Who?"
*Truman Capote - "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
*Raymond Chandler - "Playback"
*A. J. Cronin
**"The Innkeeper's Wife"
**"The Northern Light"
*L. Sprague de Camp - "An Elephant for Aristotle"
*Patrick Dennis - "Around the World with Auntie Mame"
*August Derleth
**"The Mask of Cthulhu"
**"The Return of Solar Pons"
*Lawrence Durrell
**"Balthazar"
**"Mountolive"
*Ian Fleming - "Dr. No"
*Peter George - "Red Alert"
*Graham Greene - "Our Man in Havana"
*Cyril Hare - "He Should Have Died Hereafter"
*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)
*Ross Macdonald - "The Doomsters"
*Alberto Moravia - "La ciociara
*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"
*Terry Southern (as Maxwell Kenton) - "Candy"
*Rex Stout
**"And Four to Go"
**"Champagne for One"
*Robert Traver - "Anatomy of a Murder"
*Jack Vance - "The Languages of Pao"
*Rex Warner - "Young Caesar"
*Jerome Weidman - "The Enemy Camp"

New drama

*Samuel Beckett - "Krapp's Last Tape"
*Brendan Behan - "The Hostage" (English translation of Gaelic "An Giall")
*P. L. Deshpande - "Batatyachi Chaal"
*Harold Pinter - "The Caretaker"
*Dore Schary - "Sunrise at Campobello"
*Peter Shaffer - "Five Finger Exercise"
*Tennessee Williams - "Suddenly, Last Summer"

Poetry

*Eli Siegel - ""
*Clark Ashton Smith - "Spells and Philtres"

Non-fiction

*Brendan Behan - "Borstal Boy"
*Shelby Foote – " – 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 Steinbeck – "Once There Was A War"
*Raymond Williams – "Culture and Society 1780-1950"

Births

*April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, dub poet
*May - Roddy Doyle, novelist
*June 10 - James F. Conant, philosopher
*July 5 - Veronica Guerin, journalist
*"date unknown"
**Robert Antoni, novelist
**Lionel Fogarty, poet
**Flora Fraser, biographer
**Wayne Johnston, novelist
**Margaret Smith, poet

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

Awards

* 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"


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