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1956 in literature
See also:
1955 in literature
,
other events of 1956
,
1957 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
Writing under the pseudonym of
Emile Ajar
, author
Romain Gary
becomes the only person to ever win the
Prix Goncourt
twice.
Finished in 1952,
Egyptian
author
Naguib Mahfouz
's
Cairo Trilogy[?]
(
Palace Walk
,
Palace of Desire
,
Sugar Street
), is first published.
New Books
Andersonville
-
MacKinlay Kantor[?]
Aniara
(poetry) -
Harry Martinson
Auntie Mame
-
Patrick Dennis[?]
Boon Island[?]
-
Kenneth Roberts[?]
Cairo Trilogy[?]
-
Naguib Mahfouz
A Certain Smile[?]
-
Françoise Sagan[?]
Diamonds Are Forever
-
Ian Fleming
Don't Go Near the Water[?]
-
William Brinkley[?]
Eloise[?]
-
Kay Thompson[?]
The Fall
(
La Chute
) -
Albert Camus
Heike Story[?]
-
Yoshikawa Eiji[?]
Howl and Other Poems[?]
-
Allen Ginsberg
The Last Battle[?]
-
C. S. Lewis
The Last Hurrah[?]
-
Edwin O'Connor[?]
The Last of the Wine[?]
-
Mary Renault
The Mandarins[?]
-
Simone de Beauvoir
Minority Report
-
Philip K. Dick
Misty of Chincoteague[?]
-
Marguerite Henry[?]
The Mysterious North[?]
-
Pierre Berton
The Nun's Story
-
Kathryn Hulme
Palace Walk[?]
-
Naguib Mahfouz
Peyton Place
-
Grace Metalious[?]
Les racines du ciel[?]
-
Romain Gary
Seize the Day[?]
-
Saul Bellow
The Sweet Science[?]
-
A. J. Liebling[?]
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold[?]
-
C. S. Lewis
The Tribe That Lost Its Head[?]
-
Nicholas Monsarrat[?]
The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster[?]
-
Norman Mailer
Births
June 9
-
Patricia Cornwell
Deaths
January 31
-
A.A. Milne
Awards
Newberry Medal
for
children's literature
:
Jean Lee Latham[?]
,
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Nobel Prize for literature
: Juan Ramón Jiménez
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
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