1955 in literature
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[edit] 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.
[edit] New books
- Kingsley Amis - That Uncertain Feeling
- Isaac Asimov
- Ray Bradbury - The October Country
- 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
- Graham Greene - The Quiet American
- Henri René Guieu
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
[edit] New drama
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
- January 13 - Jay McInerney, writer
- 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
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist
- 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
- date unknown - Constance Holme, novelist and dramatist
[edit] Awards
- Frost Medal: Leona Speyer
- 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
