1958 IN LITERATURE

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

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

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

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★ ''Man of Earth''

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★ ''Who?''

★ Truman Capote - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''

★ Raymond Chandler - ''Playback''

★ James Clavell - ''The Fly''

★ A. J. Cronin

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★ ''The Innkeeper's Wife''

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★ ''The Northern Light''

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''An Elephant for Aristotle''

★ Patrick Dennis - ''Around the World with Auntie Mame''

★ August Derleth

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★ ''The Mask of Cthulhu''

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★ ''The Return of Solar Pons''

★ Lawrence Durrell - ''Balthazar''

★ Edna Ferber - ''Ice Palace''

★ 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''

★ Maxwell Kenton - ''Candy''

★ Jack Kerouac - ''The Dharma Bums''

★ Frances Parkinson Keyes - ''Victorine''

★ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - ''The Leopard'' (published posthumously)

★ Mike McClintock - ''A Fly Went By''

★ Ross Macdonald - ''The Doomsters''

★ John O'Hara - ''From the Terrace''

★ Mary Renault - ''The King Must Die''

★ Anya Seton - ''The Winthrop Woman''

★ Dr. Seuss - ''Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories''

★ Robert Traver - ''Anatomy of a Murder''

★ Jack Vance - ''The Languages of Pao''

★ Rex Warner - ''Young Caesar''

★ Jerome Weidman - ''The Enemy Camp''

★ Helen White - ''Bird of Fire''

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''

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★ Robert Antoni, novelist

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★ Lionel Fogarty, poet

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★ Flora Fraser, biographer

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★ Wayne Johnston, novelist

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★ 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

★ 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''