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The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

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

[edit] Events

Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice.
Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley.
Aldous Huxley marries author Laura Archera.
C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham.
Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street), is first published.
First book in the long-running 87th Precinct series, Cop Hater, is first published, written by Ed McBain
Nineteen-year-old Hunter S. Thompson is arrested for robbery.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Moorcock becomes editor of Tarzan Adventures.
Jorge Luis Borges becomes a professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires.
Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

[edit] New books

Kingsley Amis - That Uncertain Feeling
Poul Anderson - Planet of No Return
Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
Saul Bellow - Seize the Day
Pierre Berton - The Mysterious North
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination (as Tiger! Tiger!)
Anthony Burgess - Time for a Tiger
Pearl S. Buck - Imperial Woman
Albert Camus - The Fall (La Chute)
Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars
A. J. Cronin
- A Thing of Beauty
- Crusader's Tomb
Philip K. Dick
- The Man Who Japed
- Minority Report
Gordon R. Dickson
- Alien From Arcturus
- Mankind on the Run
Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals
Ian Fleming - Diamonds Are Forever
Romain Gary - Les racines du ciel
William Golding - Pincher Martin
Henri René Guieu - Les Monstres du Néant
Mark Harris - Bang the Drum Slowly
Marguerite Henry - Misty of Chincoteague
Frank Herbert - The Dragon in the Sea
Georgette Heyer - Sprig Muslin
Kathryn Hulme - The Nun's Story
C. S. Lewis
- The Last Battle
- Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Rose Macaulay - The Towers of Trebizond
Ed McBain - Cop Hater
Naguib Mahfouz
- Cairo Trilogy
- Palace Walk
Grace Metalious - Peyton Place
Nicholas Monsarrat - The Tribe That Lost Its Head
Farley Mowat - Lost in the Barrens
Agnar Mykle - Song of the Red Ruby
Edwin O'Connor - The Last Hurrah
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Ragazzi di vita
Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
Mary Renault - The Last of the Wine
Kenneth Roberts - Boon Island
João Guimarães Rosa - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Grande Sertão: Veredas)
Françoise Sagan - A Certain Smile
Samuel Selvon - The Lonely Londoners
Irwin Shaw - Lucy Crown
Khushwant Singh - Train to Pakistan
Rex Stout - Might as Well Be Dead
Rex Stout - Three Witnesses
Kay Thompson - Eloise
A. E. van Vogt - The Wizard of Linn
P. G. Wodehouse - French Leave
Eiji Yoshikawa - Heike Story

[edit] New drama

[edit] Poetry

Aniara - Harry Martinson
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

[edit] Non-fiction

[edit] Births

January 2 - Storm Constantine
March 23 - Steven Saylor, historical novelist
May 4 - David Guterson, journalist and novelist
May 20 - Boris Akunin, novelist and essayist
June 9 - Patricia Cornwell, crime novelist
October 9 - Robert Reed, science fiction author
October 13 - Chris Carter, screenwriter
November 26 - John McCarthy, journalist and kidnap victim
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- James Belich, historian
- Amy Gerstler, poet
- Alexander Jablokov, American writer and novelist
- Jack Womack, novelist

[edit] Deaths

January 14 - Sheila Kaye-Smith, novelist
January 31 - A.A. Milne, dramatist and children's author
March 30 - Edmund Clerihew Bentley, novelist and inventor of the clerihew
May 20 - Max Beerbohm, humorist
June 22 - Walter de la Mare, poet
July 8 - Giovanni Papini, essayist, poet, novelist
August 14 - Bertolt Brecht, dramatist
September 6 - Michael Ventris, linguist
December 13 - Arthur Grimble, travel writer
December 25 - Robert Walser, novelist

[edit] Awards

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
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 Les racines du ciel
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Albert Hackett, 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

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