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Overview of the events of 1957 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1957 .
Events
January 10 –
T. S. Eliot marries his secretary
Valerie Fletcher , 30 years his junior, in a private church ceremony in London. His first wife,
Vivienne Haigh-Wood , died in 1947.
[1]
January 15 – The film
Throne of Blood , a reworking of
Macbeth by
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明), is released in Japan.
March –
The Cat in the Hat , written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel as '
Dr. Seuss ' as a more entertaining alternative to traditional literacy
primers for children, is first published in a trade edition in the United States, initially selling an average of 12,000 copies a month, a figure which rises rapidly.
[2]
March 13 – A 1950 Japanese translation of
D. H. Lawrence 's
Lady Chatterley's Lover by
Sei Itō (伊藤整) is found on appeal to be obscene.
March 15 –
Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature) is first published in Hungary as a literary magazine.
March 21 –
C. S. Lewis marries
Joy Gresham in a Christian ceremony at her bedside in the
Churchill Hospital , Oxford, England.
[3]
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 grounds of
obscenity .
[4] 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.
[5]
April –
John Updike moves to
Ipswich, Massachusetts , the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel
Couples .
[6]
June 2 –
Joe Orton submits The Last Days of Sodom , a novel jointly written with
Kenneth Halliwell , to a publisher; it is rejected within three days and they give up working in partnership.
[7]
July 1 – The opening performance is held at the
Stratford Shakespearean Festival 's Festival Theatre in
Stratford, Ontario , with its
thrust stage designed by
Tanya Moiseiwitsch .
[8]
[9]
[10]
July 19 – The largely
autobiographical novel
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by
Evelyn Waugh is published.
[11]
August 7 –
Italo Calvino 's letter of resignation from the
Italian Communist Party appears in
l'Unità .
October – The first American
Beat Generation (poets
Allen Ginsberg and
Peter Orlovsky ) stay at the "
Beat Hotel " (Hotel Rachou) in
Paris .
[12]
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 .
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 7 –
Nicholson Baker , American novelist
January 16 –
Stella Tillyard , English writer and historian[
citation needed ]
January 22 –
Francis Wheen , English journalist and author[
citation needed ]
January 27 –
Frank Miller , American comic-book cartoonist and scriptwriter
[33]
February 11 –
Mitchell Symons , English writer and journalist[
citation needed ]
February 15 –
Shahriar Mandanipour , Iranian writer[
citation needed ]
March 3 –
Nicholas Shakespeare , English novelist and biographer
[34]
March 7 –
Robert Harris , English novelist and current-affairs writer
[35]
March 20 –
John Grogan , American journalist and non-fiction writer[
citation needed ]
March 23 –
Ananda Devi , Mauritian francophone fiction writer and poet
[36]
March 26 –
Paul Morley , English music journalist
March 29 –
Elizabeth Hand , American science fiction and fantasy writer
April 3
May 13 –
Koji Suzuki , Japanese author and screenwriter
[37]
May 17 –
Peter Høeg , Danish novelist
[38]
May 23 –
Craig Brown , English satirist
June 8 –
Scott Adams , American satirist
[39]
July 12 –
Pino Quartullo , Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright[
citation needed ]
July 14 –
Andrew Nicholls , English-born Canadian screenwriter
July 29 –
Liam Davison , Australian novelist (died
2014 in air crash)
August 24 –
Stephen Fry , English comedy performer, broadcast presenter and writer
[40]
August 25 –
Simon McBurney , British actor, writer and theatre director
[41]
September 11 -
James McBride , American writer and musician
September 22 –
Nick Cave , Australian author and musician
October 9 –
Herman Brusselmans , Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist
[42]
October 28 -
Catherine Fisher , British poet and children's writer
December 3 –
Anne B. Ragde , Norwegian novelist
December 11 –
William Joyce , American children's author
December 12 –
Robert Lepage , Canadian playwright
unknown dates
Deaths
January 10 –
Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet (born
1889 )
[43]
January 13 –
A. E. Coppard , English short story writer and poet (born
1878 )
[44]
January 19 –
Barbu Lăzăreanu , Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (heart attack, born
1881 )
February 10 –
Laura Ingalls Wilder , American author (born
1867 )
[45]
March 7 –
Wyndham Lewis , British novelist (born
1882 )
March 9 –
Rhoda Power , English children's writer and broadcaster (born
1890 )
March 12 –
John Middleton Murry , English critic (born
1889 )
[46]
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 )
[47]
June 17
June 26
July 10
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 )
[53]
July 24 –
Sacha Guitry , Russian-born French playwright, actor and director (b.
1885 )
[54]
August 1 –
Rose Fyleman , English writer and poet (born
1877 )
[55]
August 21 –
Mait Metsanurk , Estonian writer (born
1879 )
August 25 –
Leo Perutz , Austrian-born novelist and mathematician (born
1882 )
September 2 –
William Craigie , Scottish lexicographer (born
1867 )
September 12 –
José Lins do Rego , Brazilian novelist (born
1901 )
[56]
September 22 –
Oliver St. John Gogarty , Irish poet and memoirist (born
1878 )
[57]
October 25 –
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany , Irish author (born
1878 )
[58]
October 26 –
Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek novelist (born
1883 )
November 8 –
Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (born
1901 )
November 24 –
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern , English historian and political scientist (born
1879 )
December 15 –
Mulshankar Mulani , Gujarati playwright (born
1867 )
December 17 –
Dorothy L. Sayers , English crime novelist (born
1893 )
[59]
December 24 –
Arturo Barea , Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer (born
1897 )
December 25 –
Stanley Vestal , American writer, poet and historian (born
1877 )
[60]
Awards
Notes
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ISBN
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La Repubblica .
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