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Everything about 1958 In Literature totally explainedThe 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-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
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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