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- January 10 – T. S. Eliot marries his secretary Valerie Fletcher, 30 years his junior, in a private church ceremony in London. His first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood, died in 1947.[1]
- January 15 – The film Throne of Blood, a reworking of Macbeth by Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明), is released in Japan.
- March – The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel as 'Dr. Seuss' as a more entertaining alternative to traditional literacy primers for children, is first published in a trade edition in the United States, initially selling an average of 12,000 copies a month, a figure which rises rapidly.[2]
- March 13 – A 1950 Japanese translation of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sei Itō (伊藤整) is found on appeal to be obscene.
- March 15 – Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature) is first published in Hungary as a literary magazine.
- March 21 – C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham in a Christian ceremony at her bedside in the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, England.[3]
- March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems (first published 1 November 1956) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on grounds of obscenity.[4] On October 3, in People v. Ferlinghetti, a subsequent prosecution of publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the city, the work is ruled not to be obscene.[5]
- April – John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel Couples.[6]
- June 2 – Joe Orton submits The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written with Kenneth Halliwell, to a publisher; it is rejected within three days and they give up working in partnership.[7]
- July 1 – The opening performance is held at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival's Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, with its thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch.[8][9][10]
- July 19 – The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh is published.[11]
- August 7 – Italo Calvino's letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party appears in l'Unità.
- October – The first American Beat Generation (poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky) stay at the "Beat Hotel" (Hotel Rachou) in Paris.[12]
- November 22 – Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago is first published, in Italian translation, by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan, having been rejected for publication in the Soviet Union.
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Children and young people
- January 7 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist
- January 16 – Stella Tillyard, English writer and historian[citation needed]
- January 22 – Francis Wheen, English journalist and author[citation needed]
- January 27 – Frank Miller, American comic-book cartoonist and scriptwriter[33]
- February 11 – Mitchell Symons, English writer and journalist[citation needed]
- February 15 – Shahriar Mandanipour, Iranian writer[citation needed]
- March 3 – Nicholas Shakespeare, English novelist and biographer[34]
- March 7 – Robert Harris, English novelist and current-affairs writer[35]
- March 20 – John Grogan, American journalist and non-fiction writer[citation needed]
- March 23 – Ananda Devi, Mauritian francophone fiction writer and poet[36]
- March 26 – Paul Morley, English music journalist
- March 29 – Elizabeth Hand, American science fiction and fantasy writer
- April 3
- May 13 – Koji Suzuki, Japanese author and screenwriter[37]
- May 17 – Peter Høeg, Danish novelist[38]
- May 23 – Craig Brown, English satirist
- June 8 – Scott Adams, American satirist[39]
- July 12 – Pino Quartullo, Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright[citation needed]
- July 14 – Andrew Nicholls, English-born Canadian screenwriter
- July 29 – Liam Davison, Australian novelist (died 2014 in air crash)
- August 24 – Stephen Fry, English comedy performer, broadcast presenter and writer[40]
- August 25 – Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre director[41]
- September 11 - James McBride, American writer and musician
- September 22 – Nick Cave, Australian author and musician
- October 9 – Herman Brusselmans, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist[42]
- October 28 - Catherine Fisher, British poet and children's writer
- December 3 – Anne B. Ragde, Norwegian novelist
- December 11 – William Joyce, American children's author
- December 12 – Robert Lepage, Canadian playwright
- unknown dates
- January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (born 1889)[43]
- January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (born 1878)[44]
- January 19 – Barbu Lăzăreanu, Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (heart attack, born 1881)
- February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867)[45]
- March 7 – Wyndham Lewis, British novelist (born 1882)
- March 9 – Rhoda Power, English children's writer and broadcaster (born 1890)
- March 12 – John Middleton Murry, English critic (born 1889)[46]
- March 28 – Christopher Morley, American journalist, novelist and poet (born 1890)
- March 29 – Joyce Cary, Irish novelist (born 1888)
- April 22 – Roy Campbell, South African poet and satirist (born 1901)[47]
- June 17
- June 26
- July 10
- July 19 – Curzio Malaparte, Italian novelist, playwright, and journalist (cancer, born 1898)
- July 21 – Kenneth Roberts, American historical novelist (born 1885)
- July 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian novelist (born 1896)[53]
- July 24 – Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French playwright, actor and director (b. 1885)[54]
- August 1 – Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (born 1877)[55]
- August 21 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian writer (born 1879)
- August 25 – Leo Perutz, Austrian-born novelist and mathematician (born 1882)
- September 2 – William Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (born 1867)
- September 12 – José Lins do Rego, Brazilian novelist (born 1901)[56]
- September 22 – Oliver St. John Gogarty, Irish poet and memoirist (born 1878)[57]
- October 25 – Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (born 1878)[58]
- October 26 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek novelist (born 1883)
- November 8 – Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (born 1901)
- November 24 – Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, English historian and political scientist (born 1879)
- December 15 – Mulshankar Mulani, Gujarati playwright (born 1867)
- December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English crime novelist (born 1893)[59]
- December 24 – Arturo Barea, Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer (born 1897)
- December 25 – Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet and historian (born 1877)[60]
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French News. Published and distributed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 1957. p. 18.