1957 in literature 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. January 15 – The film Throne of Blood , a reworking of Macbeth by Akira Kurosawa , 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. March 13 – A 1950 Japanese translation of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sei Itō is found on appeal to be obscene. March 15 – Élet és Irodalom 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. March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on grounds of obscenity . 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. April – John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts , the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel Couples . June 2 – Joe Orton submits The Last Days of SodomKenneth Halliwell , to a publisher; it is rejected with in three days and they give up working in partnership. 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 . August 7 – Italo Calvino's letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party appears in l'Unità . October – The first American Beat Generation stay at the "Beat Hotel" in Paris . 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 . Uncertain dates Fiction Abd al-majld ibn Jallun – Fī al-Ṭufūla Caridad Bravo Adams – Corazón salvaje Lars Ahlin – Natt i marknadstältet Isaac Asimov *Earth Is Room Enough *The Naked Sun John Bingham – Murder Off the Record 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 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 Daphne du Maurier – The Scapegoat Lawrence Durrell – Justine Shusaku Endo – The Sea and Poison Ian Fleming *The Diamond Smugglers *From Russia, with Love Janet Frame – Owls Do Cry Jean Giono – The Straw Man José Giovanni – The Break Martyn Goff – The Plaster Fabric Winston Graham – Greek Fire 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 Chin Yang Lee – The Flower Drum Song Meyer Levin – Compulsion H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Survivor and Others Compton Mackenzie – Rockets Galore Józef Mackiewicz – :pl:Kontra |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 Nancy Mitford – Voltaire in Love C. L. Moore – Doomsday Morning Elsa Morante – L'isola di Arturo Sławomir Mrożek – Słoń 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 Qu Bo – Tracks in the Snowy Forest Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged Robert Randall – The Shrouded Planet Alain Robbe-Grillet – La Jalousie Nevil Shute – On the Beach Robert Paul Smith – Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing Muriel Spark – The Comforters John Steinbeck – The Short Reign of Pippin IV Rex Stout *Three for the Chair *If Death Ever Slept Kay Thompson – Eloise in Paris Roger Vailland – La Loi Jack Vance – Big Planet Arved Viirlaid – Seitse kohtupäeva 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 Children and young people Gillian Avery – The Warden's Niece Narain Dixit – Khar Khar Mahadev Aileen Fisher – A Lantern in the Window Edward Gorey – The Doubtful Guest Éva Janikovszky – Csip-csup Tove Jansson – Moominland Midwinter Harold Keith – Rifles for Watie Elinor Lyon – Daughters of Aradale William Mayne – A Grass Rope Otfried Preußler – Die kleine Hexe Dr. Seuss *The Cat in the Hat *How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Pat Smythe – Jacqueline Rides for a Fall Virginia Sorensen – Miracles on Maple Hill 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 ; All That Fall and From an Abandoned Work Emilio Carballido – El censo Christopher Fry – The Dark is Light Enough Jean Genet – The Balcony Günter Grass – Flood Graham Greene – The Potting Shed William Inge – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Errol John – Moon on a Rainbow Shawl John Osborne *The Entertainer *Epitaph for George Dillon Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter N. F. Simpson – The Resounding Tinkle Wole Soyinka – The Invention Boris Vian – Les Bâtisseurs d'Empire 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 B. R. Ambedkar – The Buddha and His Dhamma G. E. M. Anscombe – Intention Catherine Drinker Bowen – The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke. Won 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction Gerald Brenan – South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village 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 . Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Biography . Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Northrop Frye – Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays 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 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 – Declaration Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley – The Untouchables Iris Origo – The Merchant of Prato 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 David Schoenbrun – As France Goes . Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction Rodolfo Walsh – Operación Masacre Ian Watt – The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding K. A. Wittfogel – Oriental Despotism Births January 16 – Stella Tillyard , English writer and historian January 22 – Francis Wheen , English journalist and author January 27 – Frank Miller , American comic-book cartoonist and scriptwriter February 11 – Mitchell Symons , English writer and journalist March 3 – Nicholas Shakespeare , English novelist and biographer March 7 – Robert Harris , English novelist and current-affairs writer March 23 – Ananda Devi , Mauritian francophone fiction writer and poet 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 17 – Peter Høeg , Danish novelist May 23 – Craig Brown , English satirist June 8 – Scott Adams , American satirist July 29 – Liam Davison , Australian novelist August 24 – Stephen Fry , English comedy performer, broadcast presenter and writer September 22 – Nick Cave , Australian author and musician November 14 – Michael J. Fitzgerald, American technical 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 *Melanie Rae Thon, American authorDeaths January 10 *Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet *Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet January 19 – Barbu Lăzăreanu , Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder , American author March 9 – Rhoda Power , English children's writer and broadcaster March 12 – John Middleton Murry , English critic March 28 – Christopher Morley , American journalist, novelist and poet March 29 – Joyce Cary , Irish novelist April 22 – Roy Campbell , South African poet and satirist June 17 *May Edginton, English popular novelist *Dorothy Richardson, English novelist and journalist June 27 – Malcolm Lowry , English novelist and poet July 19 – Curzio Malaparte , Italian novelist, playwright, and journalist July 21 – Kenneth Roberts , American historical novelist July 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian novelist August 25 – Leo Perutz , Austrian-born novelist and mathematician September 2 – William Craigie , Scottish lexicographer November 8 – Ernest Elmore , English crime writer and theatre director November 24 – Alfred Eckhard Zimmern , German-born English historian and political scientist December 15 – Mulshankar Mulani , Gujarati playwright December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English crime novelist December 24 – Arturo Barea , Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writerAwards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: William Mayne , A Grass Rope 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 Loi 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
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