1957 in literature

none July 2020 1957 literature poetry 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.John Xiros Cooper The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot https://books.google.com/books?id=XqmNjQzhwV4C&pg=PA20 14 September 2006 Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-45790-3 20 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.Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel Morgan Judith Neil Random House New York 1995 0-679-41686-2 registration https://archive.org/details/drseussmrgeisel00morg 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.https://books.google.com/books?id=8OskozFVBMYC&pg=PA287book C.S. Lewis: An examined life Edwards Bruce L. 2007 287 9780275991173 2012-05-17 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.Jamie L. Rehlaender A Howl of Free Expression: the 1957 Howl Obscenity Trial and Sexual Liberation 2015-04-28 Young Historians Conference https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2015/oralpres/1 Portland State University 2015-09-29 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.'Howl' obscenity prosecution still echoes 50 years later First Amendment Center Nashville 2007-10-03 2015-09-29 Lydia Hailman King http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/%E2%80%98howl%E2%80%99-obscenity-prosecution-still-echoes-50-years-later https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013256/http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/%E2%80%98howl%E2%80%99-obscenity-prosecution-still-echoes-50-years-later 2015-09-24 dead April – John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel Couples.https://books.google.com/books?id=DitBYezE3CUC&dq=john+updike+ipswich+1958&pg=PA470 Jack De Bellis The John Updike Encyclopedia 2000 470 9780313299049 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.Arthur Burke Laughter in the Dark: The Plays of Joe Orton https://books.google.com/books?id=pX4hAQAAIAAJ 2001 Greenwich Exchange 978-1-871551-56-3 13 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.The Stratford Story http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/about/history.aspx?id=8217 Stratford Festival 2014-02-25 https://archive.today/20140126114811/http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/about/history.aspx?id=8217 2014-01-26 deadTyrone Guthrie Tyrone Guthrie 1959 1987 A Life in the Theatre https://archive.org/details/lifeintheatre00guth registration McGraw Hill 978-0-86287-381-3Martin Hunter Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty https://archive.org/details/romancingbardstr0000hunt registration Toronto Dundurn Press 2001 978-1-55002-363-3 July 19 – The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh is published.Selina Hastings (writer) Hastings Selina Evelyn Waugh: A Biography Sinclair-Stevenson London 1994 1-85619-223-7 567 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.Steven Watson The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ou4pAQAAMAAJ 1998 Pantheon Books 978-0-375-70153-5 273 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 Justine, the first novel in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, is published.Walton Beacham Suzanne Niemeyer Popular World Fiction, 1900-present: Do-La https://books.google.com/books?id=kWcqAQAAIAAJ 1987 Beacham Publishing 978-0-933833-08-1 481 The last will be published in 1960. Dorothy Parker begins writing book reviews for Esquire. E. E. Cummings gains a special citation from the National Book Award Committee in the United States for his Poems, 1923–1954.Norman Friedman E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=8MrHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 1 December 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press 978-1-4214-3568-8 11 Malcolm Muggeridge is replaced by Bernard Hollowood as editor of the British Punch magazine.Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=xC_bAAAAMAAJ 1980 Royal Society of Arts 387 The Harry Ransom Center for research in the humanities is founded in the University of Texas at Austin by Harry Ransom.The APHA Newsletter: A Publication of the American Printing History Association https://books.google.com/books?id=abQgAQAAMAAJ 1991 The Association 18 John Sandoe opens a bookshop in Chelsea, London. Noh is inscribed as an Intangible Cultural Property (Japan). Three neo-Grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (Max Miedinger) and Univers (Adrian Frutiger); which will influence the International Typographic Style of graphic design.Philip B. Meggs Rob Carter Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces https://books.google.com/books?id=AHq-uK6F-PUC&pg=PA139 15 December 1993 John Wiley & Sons 978-0-471-28429-1 139 New books Fiction Caridad Bravo Adams – Corazón salvaje James Agee – A Death in the Family Lars Ahlin – Natt i marknadstältet (Night in the Market Tent) Isaac Asimov Earth Is Room Enough The Naked Sun John Bingham – Murder Off the Record Ray Bradbury – Dandelion Wine 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! Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Castle to Castle (D'un château l'autre) 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 Freeman Wills Crofts – Anything to Declare? Cecil Day-Lewis – End of Chapter Daphne du Maurier – The Scapegoat Lawrence Durrell – Justine Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) – The Sea and Poison (海と毒薬) Ian Fleming The Diamond Smugglers From Russia, with Love Janet Frame – Owls Do Cry Sarah Gainham The Cold Dark Night The Mythmaker Jean Giono – The Straw Man (Le Bonheur fou) José Giovanni – The Break (Le Trou) Martyn Goff – The Plaster Fabric Richard Gordon – Doctor in Love Winston Graham – Greek Fire L.P. Hartley – The Hireling Bill Hopkins – The Divine and the Decay 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) Chin Yang Lee – The Flower Drum Song Meyer Levin – Compulsion H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Survivor and Others John D. MacDonald – The Executioners Compton Mackenzie – Rockets Galore Józef Mackiewicz – Kontra Alistair MacLean The Guns of Navarone South by Java Head Naguib Mahfouz – Sugar Street Bernard Malamud – The Assistant Richard Mason – The World of Suzie Wong James A. Michener – Rascals in Paradise Gladys Mitchell – The Twenty-Third Man 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 Maurice Procter – The Midnight Plumber 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 Douglas Rutherford – The Long Echo Nevil Shute – On the Beach Robert Paul Smith – Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing Muriel Spark – The Comforters Howard Spring – Time and the Hour John Steinbeck – The Short Reign of Pippin IV Rex Stout Three for the Chair If Death Ever Slept Julian Symons – The Colour of Murder Elizabeth Taylor – Angel Kay Thompson – Eloise in Paris Roger Vailland – La Loi Jack Vance – Big Planet Arved Viirlaid – Seitse kohtupäeva (Seven Days of Trial) Henry Wade – The Litmore Snatch 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 Frank Yerby – Fairoaks Children and young people Mabel Esther Allan – Ballet for DrinaHahn 2015, p. 20 Gillian Avery – The Warden's NieceHahn 2015, p. 43 Rev. W. Awdry – The Eight Famous Engines (twelfth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Narain Dixit – Khar Khar Mahadev (serialized)Hunt Peter International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature 2 August 2004 Routledge 978-1-134-43684-2 1080 https://books.google.com/books?id=t1RsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1080 en Aileen Fisher – A Lantern in the Window Edward Gorey – The Doubtful Guest Éva Janikovszky – Csip-csup (Piffling) Tove Jansson – Moominland Midwinter (Trollvinter) Harold Keith – Rifles for WatieHahn 2015, p. 321 Elinor Lyon – Daughters of Aradale William Mayne – A Grass RopeHahn 2015, p. 382 Otfried Preußler – Die kleine Hexe (The Little Witch)International P.E.N Bulletin of Selected Books https://books.google.com/books?id=Jay5AAAAIAAJ 1966 76 Dr. Seuss The Cat in the HatHahn 2015, p. 528 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!Tim Stafford Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom: Comic Books, Film, Television and Picture Narratives https://books.google.com/books?id=GUBZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176 22 July 2010 Routledge 978-1-136-93678-4 176 Pat Smythe – Jacqueline Rides for a Fall (first of the Three Jays series of seven books) Elizabeth George Speare – Calico Captive Tomi Ungerer – The Mellops Go Flying 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) Dorothy and Michael Blankfort – Monique Emilio Carballido – El censo William Douglas Home – The Iron Duchess Christopher Fry – The Dark is Light Enough Jean Genet – The Balcony (Le Balcon) Günter Grass – Flood (Hochwasser) Graham Greene – The Potting Shed Michael Clayton Hutton – Silver Wedding William Inge – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Errol John – Moon on a Rainbow Shawl Bernard Kops – The Hamlet of Stepney Green John Osborne The Entertainer Epitaph for George Dillon Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter (written) N. F. Simpson – A Resounding Tinkle Wole Soyinka – The Invention Boris Vian – Les Bâtisseurs d'Empire (The Empire Builders) Tennessee Williams Baby Doll Orpheus Descending 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 Jibanananda Das – Rupasi Bangla Robert Penn Warren – Promises: Poems, 1954–1956. Won National Book Award for Poetry – Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Non-fiction Abdelmajid Benjelloun – Fī l-Ṭufūlahttps://brill.com/view/journals/phen/6/1-2/article-p179_7.xml Al-Tuhāmī al-Wazzānī's Embodied Reading of Morocco's Nahḍa Brill January 9, 2022 B. R. Ambedkar (died 1956) – The Buddha and His DhammaBabasheb Ambedkar B. R. Ambedkar 1979 1957 The Buddha and His Dhamma Dr. Babasheb Ambedkar, writings and speeches 11 Education Department Government of Maharashtra http://drambedkarwritings.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/Volume_11.pdf 2021-03-22 G. E. M. Anscombe – Intention Catherine Drinker Bowen – The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634). Wins 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction Smith David Sir Edward Coke and the reformation of the laws: religion, politics and jurisprudence, 1578-1616 Cambridge University Press Cambridge, United Kingdom 2014 9781107069299 1 Gerald Brenan – South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village Speake Jennifer Jennifer Speake Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia Fitzroy Dearborn New York 2003 9781579584405 1119 M. Đilas – The New Class Will Durant – The Reformation. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Elisabeth Elliot – Through Gates of Splendor Charles Evans – Kangchenjunga: The Untrodden Peak Douglas Southall Freeman – George Washington: A Biography. Wins 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Biography; nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Northrop Frye – Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd – Plats du jour, illustrated by David Gentleman Louis M. Hacker – Alexander Hamilton in the American. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Bray Hammond – Banks and Politics in America. Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History Gilbert Highet – Poets in a Landscape. Nominated for 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction Richard Hoggart – The Uses of Literacy Eric John Holmyard – Alchemy Stuart Holroyd – Emergence from Chaos Ernst Kantorowicz – The King's Two Bodies Henry Kissinger – Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction 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. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Tom Maschler (ed.) – Declaration (anthology) Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley – The Untouchables Iris Origo – The Merchant of Prato (life and commercial career of Francesco di Marco Datini) Crabb Ann The merchant of Prato's wife: Margherita Datini and her world, 1360-1423 University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 2015 9780472119493 267 Walt Whitman Rostow & Max F. Milliken – A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Jean-Paul Sartre – Search for a Method (Questions de méthode) David Schoenbrun – As France Goes. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Rodolfo Walsh – Operación Masacre Podalsky Laura Specular city: transforming culture, consumption, and space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973 Temple University Press Philadelphia 2004 9781566399487 23 Ian Watt – The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding Alan Watts – The Way of ZenAmerica's Alternative Religions Timothy Miller State University of New York Press 1995 978-1438430935 https://archive.org/details/americasalternat00mill registration 164 K. A. Wittfogel – Oriental Despotism Births January 7 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist January 16 – Stella Tillyard, English writer and historianNovember 2021 January 22 – Francis Wheen, English journalist and authorNovember 2021 January 27 – Frank Miller, American comic-book cartoonist and scriptwriter Comics Buyer's Guide 1650 Comics Industry Birthdays 107 February 2009 Iola, Wisconsin February 11 – Mitchell Symons, English writer and journalistJune 2024 February 15 – Shahriar Mandanipour, Iranian writerJune 2024 March 3 – Nicholas Shakespeare, English novelist and biographerPeople of Today Debrett's Peerage Limited 2006 1468 March 7 – Robert Harris, English novelist and current-affairs writer LastName FirstName Chase's calendar of events 2021 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months Rowman & Littlefield Lanham, Maryland 2020 9781641434249 164 March 20 – John Grogan, American journalist and non-fiction writerJune 2024 March 23 – Ananda Devi, Mauritian francophone fiction writer and poethttp://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/languages/french/ananda-devi Ananda Devi The Institute of Modern Languages Research 9 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20150109172230/http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/languages/french/ananda-devi 2015-01-09 dead March 26 – Paul Morley, English music journalist March 29 – Elizabeth Hand, American science fiction and fantasy writer April 3 Rainer Karlsch, German historian Unni Lindell, Norwegian novelist May 13 – Koji Suzuki, Japanese author and screenwriterDenis Meikle The Ring Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=ARIcAQAAIAAJ 2005 Titan 978-1-84576-001-4 14 May 17 – Peter Høeg, Danish novelistGale, Cengage Learning A Study Guide for Peter Hoeg's "Journey Into A Dark Heart" https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1y_DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 2003 Gale, Cengage Learning 978-1-4103-5022-0 5 May 23 – Craig Brown, English satirist June 8 – Scott Adams, American satirist (died 2026) Chase's Calendar of Events 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months Bernan Press 2018 9781641432641 315 July 12 – Pino Quartullo, Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwrightJune 2024 July 14 – Andrew Nicholls, English-born Canadian screenwriter July 29 – Liam Davison, Australian novelist (died 2014 in air crash) August 23 – Melanie Rae Thon, American fiction writer August 24 – Stephen Fry, English comedy performer, broadcast presenter and writer Rubinstein W. D. The Palgrave dictionary of Anglo-Jewish history Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke 2011 9781403939104 307 August 25 – Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre directorPlaybill Vault's Today in Theatre History: August 25 https://playbill.com/article/playbill-vaults-today-in-theatre-history-august-25-com-107870 Playbill 8 June 2023 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 columnisthttps://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12075031c Notice de personne "Brusselmans, Herman (1957-....)" Person notice "Brusselmans, Herman (1957-....)" Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 12 March 2008 27 May 2023 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 Peter Armstrong, English poet and psychotherapist John Doyle, Irish-born Canadian critic Ana Santos Aramburo, Spanish national librarian Deaths January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (born 1889)Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier The Walking Geography of Gabriela Mistral Marjorie Agosín Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler Athens Ohio University Press 2003 270 978-0-89680-230-8 January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (born 1878) Riggs Thomas Reference guide to short fiction St. James Press Detroit 1999 9781558622227 162 January 19 – Barbu Lăzăreanu, Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (heart attack, born 1881) February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867)Associated Press Laura I. Wilder, Author, Dies at 90. Writer of the 'Little House' Series for Children Was an Ex-Newspaper Editor. Wrote First Book at 65 https://www.nytimes.com/1957/02/12/archives/laura-i-wilder-author-dies-at-90-writer-of-the-little-house-series.html The New York Times February 12, 1957 October 24, 2012 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)Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century British Literary Biographers Gale Research 1995 168 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)Anna and Teresa Campbell (2011), Remembering Roy Campbell: The Memoirs of His Daughters Anna and Tess, Winged Lion Press. Edited by Judith Lütge Coullie. Preface by Joseph Pearce. Page 1. June 17 May Edginton, English popular novelist (born 1883) Dorothy Richardson, English novelist and journalist (born 1873)Gloria G. Fromm Dorothy Richardson: A Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=hChbAAAAMAAJ 1977 University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-00631-9 394 June 26 Alfred Döblin, German novelist (born 1878) Sandford John Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture Routledge London New York 1999 9781136816031 155 Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (born 1909)Slide Anthony Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film 2004 Scarecrow Press 978-0810850163 65 July 10 Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist and essayist (born 1880)The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century Taylor & Francis 2004 86 9781135456078 Julia Boynton Green, American author and poet (born 1861)Mrs. Julia B. Green Dies https://www.newspapers.com/image/1603992/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen 22 January 2019 Newspapers.com Redlands Daily Facts 12 July 1957 5 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)https://palermo.repubblica.it/societa/2017/07/23/news/l_ultima_beffa_al_gattopardo_sulla_lapide_c_e_una_data_di_morte_sbagliata-171456343 "L'ultima beffa al "Gattopardo", sulla lapide c'è una data di morte sbagliata" - The latest joke at the Leopard, on the tombstone is a wrong death date Giusi Spica 23 July 2017 La Repubblica July 24 – Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French playwright, actor and director (b. 1885) Morley Sheridan 1986 The Great Stage Stars London Angus & Robertson 0816014019 registration https://archive.org/details/greatstagestarsd0000morl 153 August 1 – Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (born 1877)Hay Ann G. Fyleman, Rose (Amy) D.L. Kirkpatrick Twentieth-century Children's Writers London Macmillan 1978 978-0-33323-414-3 485 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)Carlos Solé Maria Isabel Abreu Latin American Writers. Scribner 1989 909 September 22 – Oliver St. John Gogarty, Irish poet and memoirist (born 1878) Lyons J. B. Oliver St. John Gogarty Bucknell University Press Lewisburg Pa 1976 9780838713594 12 October 25 – Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (born 1878)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-John-Moreton-Drax-Plunkett-18th-Baron-of-Dunsany Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany Irish dramatist Encyclopædia Britannica 12 July 2017 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)Dorothy Sayers, Author, Dies at 64 https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/15/home/sayers-obit.html The New York Times 19 December 1957 31 August 2012 December 24 – Arturo Barea, Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer (born 1897) December 25 – Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet and historian (born 1877) Thrapp Dan Encyclopedia of frontier biography : in three volumes University of Nebraska Press Lincoln 1991 9780803294189 217 Awards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: William Mayne, A Grass RopeHahn 2015, p. 660 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Thornton Wilder 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 Prix Goncourt: Roger Vailland, La LoiFrench News https://books.google.com/books?id=L76XXSsmK_0C&pg=RA1-PP28 1957 Published and distributed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy 18 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 Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. 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