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

Events

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
  • Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Raymond Chandler - Playback
  • James Clavell - The Fly
  • A. J. Cronin
  • L. Sprague de Camp - An Elephant for Aristotle
  • Patrick Dennis - Around the World with Auntie Mame
  • August Derleth
  • Lawrence Durrell - Balthazar
  • Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive
  • 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
  • Alberto Moravia - La ciociara
  • 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
  • Rex Stout - And Four to Go
  • Rex Stout - Champagne for One
  • 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-StraussStructural Anthropology
  • John SteinbeckOnce There Was A War
  • Raymond WilliamsCulture 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

    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 1954-1956Further Information

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