1958 in literature

This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1958.

Events

January 7 – Tennessee Williams' one-act plays Suddenly, Last Summer and Something Unspoken première off-Broadway.

March 29 – Stage première of Max Frisch's dark comedy Biedermann und die Brandstifter (known in English as The Fire Raisers) at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

April 28 – Première of Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in England.

May 19 – London début of Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party at the Lyric Opera House (Hammersmith). It closes after a week but its reputation is saved by a review by Harold Hobson in The Sunday Times on May 25.

May 27 – 19-year-old Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey is staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. Littlewood has received the script with a covering letter stating "A fortnight ago I didn't know the theatre existed".

Spring/Summer – London publishers Faber introduce their paper covered editions, including T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, J. W. Dunne's An Experiment with Time and the first of several science fiction anthologies edited by Edmund Crispin, all with covers designed by Berthold Wolpe based on the Albertus typeface.

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