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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1955. ==Events== *April 16 - U.K. theatrical release of Sir Laurence Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's ''Richard III''. *July 10 - Jorge Luis Borges is appointed Director of the National Library of the Argentine Republic. *July 14 - Director Stephen Joseph establishes Britain's first theatre in the round at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, predecessor of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. *July 30 - English poet Philip Larkin, having taken up the post of University Librarian at the University of Hull at the beginning of the year, makes a train journey from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem ''The Whitsun Weddings''.〔Contrary to his later recollection of the event. 〕 His collection ''The Less Deceived'' is published at the end of the year. *August 3 - English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's play ''Waiting for Godot'', directed by Peter Hall, opens at the Arts Theatre, London. *August 27 - First hardback edition of ''The Guinness Book of Records'' published in London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://spyhunter007.com/spy_guinness_book_history.htm )〕 *September - ''Lolita'' by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris; however, it takes until 1958 to be published in the United States. *November - Frank Herbert's first novel, ''The Dragon in the Sea'', begins its 3-part serialization as ''Under Pressure'' in the monthly ''Astounding Science-Fiction''. *November 28 - Ray Lawler's ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' receives its stage première by the Union Theatre Repertory Company in Melbourne with the playwright in a leading rôle; this is influential as the first authentically naturalistic modern drama in the theatre of Australia. *Jean Cocteau is elected to both the ''Académie française'' (March 3; inducted October 20) and the ''Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique'' (January 8; inducted October 1). *An article in the ''British Journal of Education'' criticises the novels of Enid Blyton as formula fiction. *Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar performs Koodiyattam outside the temple for the first time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1955 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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