1957 in literature
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See also: 1956 in literature, other events of 1957, 1958 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960.
- Dorothy Parker begins writing book reviews for Esquire.
- E. E. Cummings receives a special citation from the National Book Award Committee for his Poems, 1923-1954.
- Italo Calvino resigns from the Communist Party. His famous letter of resignation is published in L'Unità.
- John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his novel, Couples.
- The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, is rejected. As a result they give up working in partnership.
- Malcolm Muggeridge is replaced by Bernard Hollowood as editor of Punch magazine.
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New books
- At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell
- The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Below the Salt - Thomas B. Costain
- Blue Camellia - Frances Parkinson Keyes
- By Love Possessed - James Gould Cozzens
- The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
- Collected Short Stories - Aldous Huxley
- The Comforters - Muriel Spark
- Compulsion - Meyer Levin
- The Diamond Smugglers - Ian Fleming
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Doomsday Morning - C. L. Moore
- Eagle's Nest - Anna Kavan
- Eloise in Paris - Kay Thompson
- From Russia with Love - Ian Fleming
- The Guns of Navarone - Alistair MacLean
- Justine - Lawrence Durrell
- Kids Say the Darndest Things! - Art Linkletter
- La Loi - Roger Vailland
- On the Beach - Nevil Shute
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Rascals in Paradise - James A. Michener
- The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier
- The Short Reign of Pippin IV - John Steinbeck
- Some Came Running - James Jones
- Sugar Street - Naguib Mahfouz
- Voltaire in Love - Nancy Mitford
- The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
- Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing - Robert Paul Smith
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New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Endgame
- Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey Into Night
- John Osborne - The Entertainer
- Mervyn Peake - The Wit to Woo
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Non-fiction
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Births
- May 17 - Peter Høeg, novelist
- May 23 - Craig Brown, satirist
- June 8 - Scott Adams, satirist
- August 24 - Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, television presenter and novelist
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Deaths
- February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
- March 12 - John Middleton Murry, critic
- March 28 - Christopher Morley, journalist, novelist and poet
- March 29 - Joyce Cary, author
- April 22 - Roy Campbell, poet
- June 17 - Dorothy Richardson, novelist
- June 27 - Malcolm Lowry, author
- September 2 - William Craigie, lexicographer
- December 17 - Dorothy L. Sayers, crime novelist
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Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Street
- Nobel Prize for literature: Albert Camus
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: Things of This Worldfr:1957 en littérature