1958 in literature
Events
- June: First number of the International situationnist.
- Second Congress of the Writers and black Artists in Rome (SAC).
Tests
- the Russian writer Alexandre Soljenitsyne starts to write the Gulag Archipelago which will be published in 1973
- Structural anthropology , of Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Poetry
- Publication of Western Reaches ( Talisman Close ) first collection of poetry of Leonard Nathan.
Novels
- February:
- the Trade of living , of Cesare Pavese, is published in France (posthumous).
- the novelist Marguerite Duras publishes Moderato cantabile .
- Mars: History of eternity , of Jorge Shine Borges, is published in France.
- May 18th: the Lion , of Joseph Kessel.
- July: Doctor Jivago of Boris Pasternak
- September: Rest of the warrior , novel of Christiane Rochefort
- October: Simone de Beauvoir publishes Mémoires of an arranged young girl .
- November: The French writer Louis Aragon publishes the Holy Week .
- Julien Gracq, a balcony in forest
- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany
- the most limpid area , novel of Carlos Fuentes (Mexico).
- posthumous Publication of the Memories , news of Vigny.
- posthumous Publication of the Cheetah , chronicle of the sicilian life at the time of the Risorgimento , of Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957), written starting from 1955.
Theater
- June: the Negros , of Jean Genet.
Rewards
- April 1st: The Prix Médicis is founded by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux.
- October 23rd: Boris Pasternak obtains the Nobel Prize of literature for its novel Doctor Jivago but under the Soviet pressure of the authorities it must give up receiving it.
- Price Goncourt: Francis Walder for Saint-Germain or the negotiation .
- Price Renaudot: Edouard Glissant for the Crack .
- Price Femina: Francoise Mallet-Joris for celestial Empire .
- Price Médicis: Claude Ollier for the Setting in scene .
- Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy: Henri Queffélec for a kingdom under the sea .
- Interallied Price: Bertrand Poirot-Delpech for the Goof .
- Price of the Quay of the Goldsmiths: Andre Gillois for 125, rue Montmartre .
- Price of the populist novel: Rene Rembauville for the Shop of the eternal regrets .
- See the list of the Price of the General governor 1958.
Principal births
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Principal deaths
- May 26th: Francis Carco, French writer.
- May 29th: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet (° 1881).
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