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The year 1955 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 Awards

Events

First issue of the "Guinness Book of Records" published.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris. However, it took until 1958 to be published in United States.
An article in the British Journal of Education is critical of the novels of Enid Blyton.
Jean Cocteau is elected to both the Académie française and the Royal Academy of Belgium.

New books

Kingsley Amis - That Uncertain Feeling
Isaac Asimov
- The End of Eternity
- The Martian Way and Other Stories
Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
Ray Bradbury - The October Country
John Dickson Carr - Captain Cut-Throat
Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock
Arthur C. Clarke - Earthlight
Thomas B. Costain - The Tontine
Gertrude Crampton - Scuffy the Tugboat
Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame
J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man
Ian Fleming - Moonraker
Franquin - La corne de rhinocéros
William Gaddis - The Recognitions
William Golding - The Inheritors
Graham Greene - The Quiet American
Henri René Guieu
- L'Agonie du Verre
- Commandos de l'Espace
Robert A. Heinlein - Tunnel in the Sky
Frank Herbert - The Dragon in the Sea
Georgette Heyer - Bath Tangle
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - Tales of Conan
Mac Hyman - No Time for Sergeants
Aldous Huxley - The Genius and the Goddess
MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville
Nikos Kazantzakis - Greek edition of The Last Temptation of Christ (Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός)
Yasar Kemal - Memed, My Hawk
C. S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
Alistair Maclean - HMS Ulysses
Gabriel García Márquez - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago)
Brian Moore -The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Flannery O'Connor
- Good Country People
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Marco Denevi - Rosaura a las 10
John O'Hara - Ten North Frederick
Anthony Powell - The Acceptance World
Barbara Pym - Less than Angels
Robert Ruark - Something of Value
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Françoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Satan in Goray
Thomas Sterling - The Evil of the Day
Rex Stout - Before Midnight
Morton Thompson - Not As a Stranger
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King
Patrick White - The Tree of Man
Leonard Wibberley - The Mouse That Roared
Sloan Wilson - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Herman Wouk - Marjorie Morningstar
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids

New drama

Bertolt Brecht - Trumpets and Drums
William Inge - Bus Stop
Eugène Ionesco - Jack, or The Submission and The New Tenant
Arthur Miller - A View from the Bridge (first version) and A Memory of Two Mondays
Jean-Paul Sartre - Nekrassov
Thornton Wilder - The Matchmaker and A Life in the Sun
Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Non-fiction

James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son
Thomas E. Gaddis - Birdman of Alcatraz
The Guinness Book of Records, 1st edition
Walter Lippmann - Essays in the Public Philosophy
Walter Lord - A Night to Remember
Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilisation
RAND - A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
Meher Baba - God Speaks

Births

January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
January 13 - Jay McInerney, writer
February 2 - Leszek Engelking, poet, short story writer, essayist and translator
February 8 - John Grisham, novelist
June 13 - Larry Mike Garmon, novelist, short story writer
June 20 - Tor Nørretranders, science author
September 6 - Raymond Benson, novelist
November 23 - Steven Brust, fantasy author
date not listed
- Max Lucado, American writer on Christian religious themes

Deaths

January 20 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist
June 17 - Constance Holme, English novelist and dramatist (b. 1880)
June 19 - Adrienne Monnier, French poet and publisher
August 2 - Wallace Stevens, poet (b. 1879)
August 12 - Thomas Mann
September 20 - Robert Riskin, dramatist and screenwriter
October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, philosopher

Awards

Frost Medal: Leona Speyer
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Thomas Gray
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School
Nobel Prize for Literature: Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Premio Nadal: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, El Jarama
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - A Fable
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ruth Pitter

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