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 Macbeth Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明), is released in Japan.March – The Cat in the Hat 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 Sei Itō (伊藤整) is found on appeal to be obscene.March 15 – Élet és Irodalom 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 1956 ) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on grounds of obscenity .[ 4] 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 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 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 novelistJanuary 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 journalistMarch 29 – Elizabeth Hand , American science fiction and fantasy writerApril 3
May 13 – Koji Suzuki , Japanese author and screenwriter[ 37] May 17 – Peter Høeg , Danish novelist[ 38] May 23 – Craig Brown , English satiristJune 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 screenwriterJuly 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 musicianSeptember 22 – Nick Cave , Australian author and musicianOctober 9 – Herman Brusselmans , Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist[ 42] October 28 - Catherine Fisher , British poet and children's writerDecember 3 – Anne B. Ragde , Norwegian novelistDecember 11 – William Joyce , American children's authorDecember 12 – Robert Lepage , Canadian playwrightunknown 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
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
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