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Overview of the events of 1956 in literature
Overview of the events of 1956 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1956 .
Events
c. January – The first book in
Ed McBain 's long-running
87th Precinct
police procedural series,
Cop Hater , is published in the United States under Evan Hunter's new pseudonym.
[1]
February 2 –
Eugene O'Neill 's semi-autobiographical
Long Day's Journey into Night (completed in
1942 ) receives a posthumous world première at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre ,
Stockholm , in Swedish (Lång dags färd mot natt ), directed by
Bengt Ekerot and starring
Lars Hanson . Its
Broadway debut at the
Helen Hayes Theatre on
November 7 follows an American première at the
Shubert Theatre (New Haven) .
[2]
February 25 – The English poet
Ted Hughes and American poet
Sylvia Plath meet in
Cambridge , England.
[3]
March 11 – The U.S. release of Sir
Laurence Olivier 's film version of Shakespeare's
Richard III plays simultaneously on
NBC network television and as afternoon matinée screenings in movie theaters. Its TV audience is put at 25–40 million – almost certainly the largest to date for a Shakespeare production.
[4]
March 19 – The widowed English author
Aldous Huxley marries the Italian-American film-maker and author
Laura Archera at a drive-in wedding chapel in
Yuma, Arizona .
[5]
April 23 – The British author
C. S. Lewis and American poet
Joy Gresham have a
civil marriage at Oxford
register office .
[6]
May 8 – The first performance of
John Osborne 's play
Look Back in Anger is given by the newly formed English Stage Company at the
Royal Court Theatre in London.
[7]
[8]
Alan Bates has his first major role as Cliff. The press release describes Osborne as one of the
angry young men of the time, a phrase used on July 26 in a
Daily Express headline.
June 16 – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry at
St George the Martyr, Holborn in the
London Borough of Camden .
June 21 – Playwright
Arthur Miller appears before the
House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C.
June 26 and
August 23 – Books published by the discredited psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Reich are burned in the United States under a court injunction.
June – Nineteen-year-old
Hunter S. Thompson is arrested as an
accessory to robbery.
June 29 –
Arthur Miller marries
Marilyn Monroe in
White Plains, New York .
July – After pleas by Israeli diplomats, the
Romanian communist regime releases
A. L. Zissu , formally sentenced to life imprisonment in
1954 .
[9] Zissu emigrates to Israel, where he dies on
September 6 .
[10]
July 4 – The
National Library of Scotland 's first purpose-built premises open in
Edinburgh .
[11]
July 8 – The drama series
Armchair Theatre , produced by
ABC Weekend TV for the
ITV network in the United Kingdom, begins a twelve-year run.
August 14 –
Iris Murdoch marries
John Bayley at Oxford register office.
September 14 –
Harold Pinter marries
Vivien Merchant in a civil ceremony at
Bournemouth , after they meet while touring in
repertory theatre .
October –
The Ladder becomes the first nationally distributed
lesbian magazine in the United States.
November 1 –
Allen Ginsberg 's
Howl and Other Poems , a signal work of the
Beat Generation , is published by
City Lights Bookstore in
San Francisco .
December
December 3 – The author
Romain Gary wins the
Prix Goncourt for
Les Racines du ciel . He would later become the only person to win the prize twice, publishing
La Vie devant soi under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 2 –
Storm Constantine , British science fiction and fantasy author
January 4 –
Sarojini Sahoo , Indian journalist, author, and poet
January 8 –
Jack Womack , American novelist
January 10 –
Antonio Muñoz Molina , Spanish novelist
January 21 –
Ian McMillan , English poet
[25]
January 14 –
Ronan Bennett , Northern Irish novelist
February 20 –
François Bréda , Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist (died
2018 )
February 26 –
Michel Houellebecq , French novelist
March 3 –
Frank Giroud , French comics writer (died
2018 )
[26]
March 7 –
Andrea Levy , English novelist (died
2019 )
[27]
March 12 –
Ruth Ozeki , American novelist and filmmaker
March 20
March 23 –
Steven Saylor , American historical novelist
April 7 –
Christopher Darden , African-American attorney, author, actor and lecturer
[28]
April 12 –
Yasuo Tanaka , Japanese novelist and politician
April 29 –
Alexander Jablokov , American writer and novelist
[29]
May 4 –
David Guterson , American journalist and novelist
May 9 –
Cindy Lovell , American educator and writer
May 18 –
John Godber , English dramatist
May 20
June 9 –
Patricia Cornwell , American crime novelist
June 25 –
Anthony Bourdain , American chef, writer and television personality (died
2018 )
[31]
June 26 –
Davide Ferrario , Italian film director, screenwriter and author
June 29 –
Richard Summerbell , Canadian mycologist, author and songwriter
July 2 –
Cynthia Kadohata , Japanese-American children's writer
July 4 –
Éric Neuhoff , French novelist
July 11 –
Amitav Ghosh , Bengali Indian novelist
[32]
September 6 –
Mai Yamani , Saudi Arabian independent scholar, author and anthropologist
October 9 –
Robert Reed , American science fiction author
October 13 –
Chris Carter , American screenwriter
October 16 -
Meg Rosoff , American-British children's and young-adult writer
October 18 –
Lucy Ellmann , Anglo-American novelist
October 21 –
Carrie Fisher , American actress and novelist (died
2016 )
[33]
November 11 –
Tim Pears , English novelist
November 20 –
Elena Gremina , Russian dramatist (died
2018 )
November 26 –
John McCarthy , English journalist and hostage
December 22 –
Percival Everett , American writer and novelist
unknown dates
Deaths
January 13 –
Wickham Steed , English journalist, editor and historian (born
1871 )
January 14 –
Sheila Kaye-Smith , English novelist (born
1887 )
January 29 –
H. L. Mencken , American journalist and English language scholar (born
1880 )
January 31 –
A. A. Milne , English children's author, novelist and dramatist (born
1882 )
March 30 –
Edmund Clerihew Bentley , English novelist and inventor of the
clerihew (born
1875 )
April 22 –
Otto Roth , Hungarian Romanian politician, journalist, and literary promoter (born
1884 )
May 15 –
Arthur Talmage Abernethy , American theologian and poet (born
1872 )
May 20 –
Max Beerbohm , English humorist (born
1872 )
May 22 –
Ion Călugăru , Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist (born
1902 )
June 7 –
Julien Benda , French philosopher and novelist (born
1867 )
[37]
June 22 –
Walter de la Mare , English poet (born
1873 )
[38]
June 24 –
Nicos Nicolaides , Greek writer (born
1884 )
July 7 –
Gottfried Benn , German poet and essayist (born
1886 )
July 8 –
Giovanni Papini , Italian essayist, poet and novelist (born
1881 )
August 14 –
Bertolt Brecht , German dramatist (born
1898 )
September 6
September 12 –
Hans Carossa , German novelist and poet (born
1878 )
October 30 –
Pío Baroja , Spanish novelist (born
1872 )
December 6 -
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , the principal architect of the Constitution of India (born
1891 )
December 13 –
Arthur Grimble , Hong Kong-born English travel writer (born
1888 )
December 25 –
Robert Walser , Swiss novelist and poet writing in German (born
1878 )
Awards
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
C. S. Lewis ,
The Last Battle
[39]
Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis (first award):
Roger Duvoisin and
Louise Fatio ,
Happy Lion (Der glückliche Löwe );
Astrid Lindgren ,
Mio, My Son ; and Kurt Lütgen, Kein Winter für Wölfe ("Two Against the Arctic: Story of a Restless Life between Greenland and Alaska")
Duff Cooper Prize :
Alan Moorehead , Gallipoli
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Rose Macaulay ,
The Towers of Trebizond
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
St John Greer Ervine ,
George Bernard Shaw
Madan Puraskar (first award):
Satya Mohan Joshi ,
Hamro Lok Sanskriti ;
Chittaranjan Nepali , Janaral Bhimsen Thapa Ra Tatkalin Nepal ; and
Bala Ram Joshi , Adhikbibhav Sthirbidhoot Utpadhak
Newbery Medal for
children's literature :
Jean Lee Latham ,
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Nobel Prize for literature :
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Premio Nadal :
José Luis Martín Descalzo ,
La frontera de Dios
Prix Goncourt :
Romain Gary for
The Roots of Heaven
Pulitzer Prize for Drama :
Albert Hackett and
Frances Goodrich , Diary of Anne Frank
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :
MacKinlay Kantor ,
Andersonville
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
Elizabeth Bishop , Poems – North & South
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :
Edmund Blunden
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
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