1955 in literature
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See also: 1954 in literature, other events of 1955, 1956 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- First issue of the "Guinness Book of Records" published.
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris. However, it took until 1958 to be published in United States.
- An article in the British Journal of Education is critical of the novels of Enid Blyton.
- Jean Cocteau is elected to both the ''Académie française and the Royal Academy of Belgium.
New books
- The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
- Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor
- Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
- Bath Tangle – Georgette Heyer
- Birdman of Alcatraz - Thomas E. Gaddis
- Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
- The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
- The Dragon in the Sea - Frank Herbert
- The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov
- The Genius and the Goddess - Aldous Huxley
- The Ginger Man - J. P. Donleavy
- Good Country People - Flannery O'Connor
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O'Connor
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore
- The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Sloan Wilson
- Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk
- Moonraker - Ian Fleming
- No Time for Sergeants - Mac Hyman
- Not As a Stranger - Morton Thompson
- Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
- The October Country - Ray Bradbury
- Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
- The Quiet American - Graham Greene
- Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Scuffy the Tugboat - Gertrude Crampton
- Something of Value - Robert Ruark
- That Uncertain Feeling - Kingsley Amis
- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago) - Gabriel García Márquez
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
- Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara
- The Tontine - Thomas B. Costain
- The Tree of Man - Patrick White
- Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein
New drama
Non-fiction
- Walter Lippmann - Essays in the Public Philosophy
- Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilisation
Births
- January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
- January 13 - Jay McInerney, writer
- February 8 - John Grisham, novelist
- June 13 - Larry Mike Garmon, novelist, short story writer
- June 20 - Tor Nørretranders, science author
- September 6 - Raymond Benson, novelist
- November 23 - Steven Brust, fantasy author
Deaths
- January 20 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist
- June 19 - Adrienne Monnier, French poet and publisher
- August 2 - Wallace Stevens, poet (b. 1879)
- August 12 - Thomas Mann
- September 20 - Robert Riskin, dramatist and screenwriter
- October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, philosopher
- date unknown - Constance Holme, novelist and dramatist
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Halldór Kiljan Laxness
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - A Fable
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems
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