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The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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

Events

August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.
First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published.
Rumours of a library ban on Enid Blyton's books in New Zealand.
Herbert Marcuse begins teaching at Brandeis University.
Jack Kerouac writes and narrates the "beat" movie, Pull My Daisy.
Ken Kesey is awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to enrol in the creative writing program at Stanford University.
Mervyn Peake begins to develop Parkinson's Disease.

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
- Man of Earth
- Who?
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
John Dickson Carr - The Dead Man's Knock
Raymond Chandler - Playback
Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence
A. J. Cronin
- The Innkeeper's Wife
- The Northern Light
L. Sprague de Camp - An Elephant for Aristotle
Patrick Dennis - Around the World with Auntie Mame
August Derleth
- The Mask of Cthulhu
- The Return of Solar Pons
Lawrence Durrell
- Balthazar
- Mountolive
Ian Fleming - Dr. No
Peter George - Red Alert
Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
Cyril Hare - He Should Have Died Hereafter
Marlen Haushofer - We Murder Stella
Georgette Heyer - Venetia
Harold L. Humes - The Underground City
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Frances Parkinson Keyes - Victorine
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard (published posthumously)
Ross Macdonald - The Doomsters
Alberto Moravia - La ciociara
Kenzaburō Ōe - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Mary Renault - The King Must Die
Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman
Dr. Seuss - Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Terry Southern (as Maxwell Kenton) - Candy
Rex Stout
- And Four to Go
- Champagne for One
Robert Traver - Anatomy of a Murder
Jack Vance - The Languages of Pao
Rex Warner - Young Caesar
Jerome Weidman - The Enemy Camp

New drama

Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape
Brendan Behan - The Hostage
Max Frisch - The Fire Raisers and Phiipp Hotz's Fury
Jean Genet - The Blacks (first published)
Elmer Rice - Cue for Passion
Peter Shaffer - Five Finger Exercise
N. F. Simpson - The Hole
Arnold Wesker - Chicken Soup with Barley (first performed)
Tennessee Williams - Suddenly, Last Summer

Poetry

Eli Siegel - Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems
Clark Ashton Smith - Spells and Philtres

Non-fiction

Brendan Behan - Borstal Boy
Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – 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
- Robert Antoni, novelist
- Lionel Fogarty, poet
- Flora Fraser, biographer
- Wayne Johnston, novelist
- Margaret Smith, poet

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 1954-1956

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