1956 In Literature

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 .

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 ''.

NEW BOOKS

'' A Thing Of Beauty '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Boon Island '' - Kenneth Roberts

'' Boy In Darkness '' - Mervyn Peake

'' Cairo Trilogy '' - Naguib Mahfouz

'' A Certain Smile '' - Françoise Sagan

'' Cop Hater '' - Ed McBain

'' Crusader's Tomb '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Diamonds Are Forever '' - Ian Fleming

'' Don't Go Near The Water '' - William Brinkley

'' Eloise '' - Kay Thompson

'' The Fall '' (''La Chute'') - Albert Camus

'' Heike Story '' - Eiji Yoshikawa

'' The Last Battle '' - C. S. Lewis

'' The Last Hurrah '' - Edwin O'Connor

'' The Last Of The Wine '' - Mary Renault

'' Lucy Crown '' - Irwin Shaw

'' The Mandarins '' - Simone De Beauvoir

'' Minority Report '' - Philip K. Dick

'' Misty Of Chincoteague '' - Marguerite Henry

'' My Family And Other Animals '' - Gerald Durrell

'' The Mysterious North '' - Pierre Berton

'' The Naked Sun '' - Isaac Asimov

'' The Nun's Story '' - Kathryn Hulme

'' Palace Walk '' - Naguib Mahfouz

'' Peyton Place '' - Grace Metalious

'' Pincher Martin '' - William Golding

'' Les Racines Du Ciel '' - Romain Gary

'' Seize The Day '' - Saul Bellow

'' The Sweet Science '' - A. J. Liebling

'''' - C. S. Lewis

'' The Tribe That Lost Its Head '' - Nicholas Monsarrat

'''' - Norman Mailer

'' The Wizard Of Linn '' - A. E. Van Vogt

NEW DRAMA

Patrick Dennis - '' Auntie Mame ''

Jean Genet - ''Le balcon ( The Balcony )''

Hugh Leonard - ''The Big Birthday Suit''

Saunders Lewis - '' Siwan (play) ''

John Osborne - '' Look Back In Anger ''

POETRY

'' Aniara '' - Harry Martinson

'' Howl And Other Poems '' - Allen Ginsberg

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

''date unknown'' - James Belich , historian

''date unknown'' - Amy Gerstler , poet

''date unknown'' - Jack Womack , novelist

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

AWARDS

, ''Carry On, Mr. Bowditch''

Nobel Prize For Literature : Juan Ramón Jiménez

for ''Les racines du ciel''

, Frances Goodrich , ''Diary of Anne Frank''

- ''Andersonville''

: ''Poems - North & South''

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