Literature year 1956

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

• January 29th : Play The Visit of the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Schauspielhaus Zurich
• June 27th : Film adaptation : Moby Dick (Director: John Huston ) in the USA

New releases

• Angélique - Anne Golon
• Aniara - Harry Martinson
• The doctor from Stalingrad - Heinz G. Konsalik
• Climbing the Rum Doodle - William Ernest Bowman
• The Bridge on the Kwai - Pierre Boulle
• The Arkhangelsk bookseller - Georges Simenon
• The demons - Heimito von Doderer
• Diamond Fever - Ian Fleming
• Reception at the world - Heinrich Mann
• Endgame - Samuel Beckett
• An Episode of Sparrows - Rumer Godden
• Tell me, love (poem) - Ingeborg Bachmann
• The case - Albert Camus
• The Bienlein - Hergé case
• Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
• Hamlet or The Long Night comes to an end - Alfred Döblin
• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
• Hundred and one Dalmatians - Dodie Smith
• I, Libertine - Jean Parker Shepherd
• L'Impromptu de l'Alma ou Le caméléon du berger ( WP ) - Eugène Ionesco
• Little Aquarius - Otfried Preussler
• The art of loving - Erich Fromm
• The final fight - CS Lewis
• The Maiden Orchid - Pearl S. Buck
• Maigret experiences a defeat - Georges Simenon
• The man in the gray suit - Sloan Wilson
• The Minority Report (Short Story) - Philip K. Dick
• The night made of lead - Hans Henny Jahnn
• The network - Werner Bergengruen
• Noriko-san - Astrid Lindgren
• The breakdown - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• The key - Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
• The black obelisk - Erich Maria Remarque
• The Strange Story of Mr. C. - Richard Matheson
• The Seven Suns - Arthur C. Clarke
• Quiet days in Clichy - Henry Miller
• The South (narrative) - Jorge Luis Borges
• The Valley of Life - John Christopher
• The Temple Fire (OA) - Yukio Mishima
• Under the shadow of your wings - Jochen Klepper
• Reunion with Mrs. Oliver - Agatha Christie
• Moral Courage - John F. Kennedy

Born

• 0January 2nd : Maria Helleberg , Danish writer
• 0January 4th : Rajvinder Singh , German-speaking author of Indian origin
• January 20 : Axel Hacke , German journalist and writer
• January 20 : Georg Veit , German writer

• February 13 : Hans Eichhorn , Austrian poet and writer († 2020 )
• February 28 : Tessa Hadley , British writer

• 0March 7th : Andrea Levy , British writer († 2019 )
• March 12 : Ruth Ozeki , Japanese-American writer
• March 30th : Theo Breuer , German writer and editor

• 0April 3 : Susann Heenen-Wolff , German psychoanalyst and author
• April 12 : Yasuo Tanaka , Japanese writer and politician

• 0May 4 : David Guterson , American writer and journalist
• 0May 6 : Sujata Bhatt , Indian-born poet and translator (into English)
• May 14 : Erling Jepsen , Danish writer and playwright
• May 20 : Boris Akunin , Russian crime writer, Japanologist
• May 26th : Thomas Gunkel , German translator

• 0June 1 : Mircea Cărtărescu , Romanian writer
• 0June 1st : Petra Morsbach , German writer
• 0June 3 : Zé do Rock , German writer
• June 20 : Simone Klages , German children's book author and illustrator

• 0July 2 : Cynthia Kadohata , American writer
• 0July 3 : Hans-Hermann Sprado , German journalist and writer († 2014 )
• July 11th : Amitav Ghosh , Indian writer
• July 12th : Cathal Ó Searcaigh , Irish novelist, poet and playwright
• July 16 : Tony Kushner , American playwright and essayist
• July 21 : Michael Connelly , American writer

• 0August 8 : Peer Schröder , German poet and editor († 2019 )
• 0August 8 : Birgit Vanderbeke , German writer

• 0September 8 : Helmut Böttiger , German writer, literary critic and essayist
• September 12 : Esther Kinsky , German writer and translator
• September 15 : Sara Rai , Indian writer, translator and editor
• September 23 : Peter David , American writer
• September 28th : Antonio Soler , Spanish writer

• October 11 : Edoardo Albinati , Italian writer and translator
• October 16 : Linard Bardill , Swiss theologian, songwriter and writer

• 0November 5 : Leonid Uschkalow , Ukrainian literary scholar, writer and essayist († 2019 )
• 0November 9 : Kärt Hellerma , Estonian journalist, writer and critic

• December 18 : Thomas Ziegler , German science fiction writer († 2004 )
• December 26 : Christian Bieniek , German writer († 2005 )
• December 26 : David Sedaris , American writer and journalist
• December 28th : Burkhard Spinnen , German writer

Exact date unknown

• Geoffrey Bennington , American philosopher and man of letters
• Tom Drury , American writer
• Scholastique Mukasonga , Rwandan writer
• Jürgen Ritte , German translator, literary critic, essayist and literary scholar

Died

• January 29 : Henry L. Mencken , American writer, literary critic, columnist and satirist (* 1880 )
• January 31 : AA Milne , British writer (* 1882 )
• February 6 : Friederike Manner , Austrian writer and editor (* 1904 )
• February 10 : Otto Müller , German publisher (* 1901 )
• March 18 : Louis Bromfield , American writer (* 1896 )
• March 30 : EC Bentley , British writer (* 1875 )
• April 5 : Wilhelm Schussen , German writer (* 1874 )
• April 19 : Ernst Robert Curtius , scholar and Romanist (* 1886 )
• May 6 : Karl Schworm , author and local poet (* 1889 )
• May 10 : Adele Gerhard , German writer (* 1868 )
• May 13 : Alexander Fadejew , Soviet writer (* 1901 )
• June 7th : Julien Benda , French philosopher and writer (* 1867 )
• June 16 : Fritz Koch-Gotha , German illustrator and writer (* 1877 )
• June 19 : Lulu von Strauss and Torney , German poet and writer (* 1873 )
• June 22nd : Walter de la Mare , British poet and writer (* 1873 )
• July 7th : Gottfried Benn , German doctor, poet and essayist (* 1886 )
• July 11 : Werner Riegel , German poet and essayist (* 1925 )
• August 11th : Frieda von Richthofen , German writer and translator (* 1879 )
• August 14 : Bertolt Brecht , German writer (* 1898 )
• September 5 : Walther Hensel , German folk song researcher and folk song collector (* 1887 )
• September 12 : Hans Carossa , German poet and author (* 1878 )
• October 13 : Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı , Turkish poet (* 1910 )
• November 3 : August Winnig , trade unionist and ethnic writer (* 1878 )
• November 14th : Hans Roger Madol , German writer (* 1903 )
• December 25 : Robert Walser , German-speaking Swiss writer (* 1878 )

Prices

• Fontane Prize : Hans Scholz
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Reinhold Schneider
• Georg Büchner Prize : Karl Krolow
• Nobel Prize in Literature : Juan Ramón Jiménez
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Les racines du ciel (Eng: The Roots of Heaven ) by Romain Gary
• Yomiuri Literature Prize for Fiction: The Temple Fire by Yukio Mishima