1956 in literature
Literature 1956 More events
Events
- JANUARY 28: theater opera by Emil František Burian of the fair in Prague
- JANUARY 29: play The Visit of the Old Lady of Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Schauspielhaus Zurich
- JUNE 27: Literary Adaptation: Moby Dick ( Director: John Huston ) in the USA
- The demons Heimito of Doderer
- Reception in the world, Heinrich Mann
- Man does not live by bread alone, Vladimir Dudinzew
- Minority Report, Philip K. Dick short story
- Endgame, Samuel Beckett
Born
- January 4: Rajvinder Singh, author
- January 20: Axel Hacke, German journalist and writer
- January 20: Georg Veit, German writer
- March 30: Theo Breuer, German writer and editor
- April 4: Yasuo Tanaka, Japanese writer and politician
- May 4: David Guterson, author and journalist
- May 20: Boris Akunin, Russian mystery writer, japanologist
- June 3: Zé do Rock, German writer
- 20 June: Simone Klages, German children's author and illustrator
- JULY 21: Michael Connelly, American writer
- August 8: Birgit Vanderbeke, German writer
- September 23: Peter David, American writer
- October 16: Linard Bardill, Swiss theologian, songwriter and writer
- DECEMBER 18: Thomas Ziegler, German science fiction writer († 2004)
- 26th December: Christian Bieniek, German writer († 2005)
- DECEMBER 26: David Sedaris, American writer and journalist
- December 28: Burkhard spiders, German writer
Died
- January 31: AA Milne, English author (* 1882)
- FEBRUARY 10: Otto Müller, German publisher (* 1901)
- MARCH 18: Louis Bromfield, American writer (* 1896)
- March 30: EC Bentley, British writer (* 1875)
- April 19: Ernst Robert Curtius, scholar and linguist (* 1886)
- May 6: Charles Schworm, author and local poet (* 1889)
- May 10: Adele Gerhard, German writer (* 1868)
- MAY 13: Alexander Fadeev, Soviet writer (* 1901)
- June 7: Julien Benda, French philosopher and writer (* 1867)
- JUNE 16: Fritz Koch -Gotha, German illustrator and writer (* 1877)
- June 19: Lulu Strauss and Torney, German poet and writer (* 1873)
- June 22: Walter de la Mare, English poet and author (* 1873)
- July 7: Werner Riegel, German poet and essayist ( b. 1925 )
- July 7: Gottfried Benn, German physician, poet and essayist (* 1886)
- August 11: Frieda von Richthofen, German writer and translator (* 1879)
- August 14: Bertolt Brecht, German writer (* 1898)
- September 5: Walther Hensel, German folk song researcher and collector of folk songs (* 1887)
- September 12: Hans Carossa, German poet and author ( b. 1878 )
- November 3: August winnig, trade unionists and folkish writer ( b. 1878 )
- December 25: Robert Walser, German-speaking Swiss writer ( b. 1878 )
Prices
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Reinhold Schneider
- Georg Büchner Prize: Karl Krolow
- Hanseatic Goethe Prize: Walter Gropius
- Fontane Prize: Hans Scholz
- Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary: The roots of heaven