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
Fiction
- Abd al-majld ibn Jallun – Fī al-Ṭufūla
- Caridad Bravo Adams – Corazón salvaje
- Isaac Asimov
- John Braine – Room at the Top
- Fredric Brown – Rogue in Space
- Pearl S. Buck – Letter from Peking
- Michel Butor – La Modification
- John Dickson Carr – Fire, Burn!
- John Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle
- Agatha Christie – 4.50 from Paddington
- Mark Clifton and Frank Riley – They'd Rather Be Right
- Ivy Compton-Burnett – A Father and His Fate
- Thomas B. Costain – Below the Salt
- James Gould Cozzens – By Love Possessed
- L. Sprague de Camp – Solomon's Stone
- Daphne du Maurier – The Scapegoat
- Lawrence Durrell – Justine
- Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) – The Sea and Poison (海と毒薬)
- Ian Fleming
- Janet Frame – Owls Do Cry
- Jean Giono – The Straw Man (Le Bonheur fou)
- José Giovanni – The Break (Le Trou)
- Martyn Goff – The Plaster Fabric
- Aldous Huxley – Collected Short Stories
- James Jones – Some Came Running
- Anna Kavan – Eagle's Nest
- Jack Kerouac – On the Road
- Frances Parkinson Keyes – Blue Camellia
- Christopher Landon – Ice Cold in Alex
- Halldór Laxness – The Fish Can Sing (Brekkukotsannáll)
- Meyer Levin – Compulsion
- H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Survivor and Others
- Józef Mackiewicz – Kontra
- Alistair MacLean
- Naguib Mahfouz – Sugar Street
- Bernard Malamud – The Assistant
- Richard Mason – The World of Suzie Wong
- James A. Michener – Rascals in Paradise
- Nancy Mitford – Voltaire in Love
- C. L. Moore – Doomsday Morning
- Elsa Morante – L'isola di Arturo
- Sławomir Mrożek – Słoń (The Elephant, short stories)
- Iris Murdoch – The Sandcastle
- Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
- Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp – The Return of Conan
- Marcel Pagnol – Le Château de ma mère
- Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago
- Anthony Powell – At Lady Molly's
- Qu Bo (曲波) – Tracks in the Snowy Forest (林海雪原)
- Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
- Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett) – The Shrouded Planet
- Alain Robbe-Grillet – La Jalousie
- Nevil Shute – On the Beach
- Georges Simenon – The Little Man from Archangel
- Robert Paul Smith – Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing
- Muriel Spark – The Comforters
- John Steinbeck – The Short Reign of Pippin IV
- Rex Stout
- Kay Thompson – Eloise in Paris
- Roger Vailland – La Loi
- Jack Vance – Big Planet
- Arved Viirlaid – Seitse kohtupäeva (Seven Days of Trial)
- Evelyn Waugh – The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
- Patrick White – Voss
- Angus Wilson – A Bit Off the Map
- John Wyndham – The Midwich Cuckoos
- Ivan Yefremov – Andromeda Nebula
Children and young people
- Gillian Avery – The Warden's Niece
- Aileen Fisher – A Lantern in the Window
- Edward Gorey – The Doubtful Guest
- Éva Janikovszky – Csip-csup (Piffling)
- Tove Jansson – Moominland Midwinter
- Harold Keith – Rifles for Watie
- William Mayne – A Grass Rope
- Otfried Preußler – Die kleine Hexe (The Little Witch)
- Dr. Seuss
- Pat Smythe – Jacqueline Rides for a Fall (first of the Three Jays series of seven books)
- Virginia Sorensen – Miracles on Maple Hill
- Elizabeth George Speare – Calico Captive
- Dare Wright – The Lonely Doll
Drama
- Samuel Beckett – Endgame and Act Without Words I (first performed); All That Fall and From an Abandoned Work (first broadcast of both)
- Christopher Fry – The Dark is Light Enough
- Jean Genet – The Balcony (Le Balcon)
- Günter Grass – Flood (Hochwasser)
- Graham Greene – The Potting Shed
- William Inge – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Errol John – Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
- John Osborne
- Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter (written)
- N. F. Simpson – The Resounding Tinkle
- Wole Soyinka – The Invention
- Boris Vian – Les Bâtisseurs d'Empire (The Empire Builders)
- Tennessee Williams
Poetry
- Robert E. Howard – Always Comes Evening
- Ted Hughes – The Hawk in the Rain
- Pier Paolo Pasolini – Le ceneri di Gramsci
- Octavio Paz – Piedra de Sol
Non-fiction
- Gerald Brenan – South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village
- Elisabeth Elliot – Through Gates of Splendor
- Northrop Frye – Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
- Richard Hoggart – The Uses of Literacy
- Eric John Holmyard – Alchemy
- Primo Levi – If This Is a Man (Se Questo è un Uomo)
- Art Linkletter – Kids Say the Darndest Things
- Christopher Lloyd – The Mixed Border
- Mary McCarthy – Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
- Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley – The Untouchables
- Jean-Paul Sartre – Existentialism and Human Emotions
- Rodolfo Walsh – Operación Masacre
- Ian Watt – The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
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.
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