This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1554.
Events January 25 – Missionary, writer and poet José de Anchieta is one of the founders of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.Lawrence, Rachel (January 2010). Alyse Dar. ed. Brazil (Seventh ed.). Apa Publications GmbH & Co. / Discovery Channel. pp. 183. unknown date – Publication of Menno Simons'
New books Prose Matteo Bandello Novelle Prima Parte Edmund Bonner – Profitable and Necessary Doctryne Charles Estienne – Praedium Rusticum Johannes Magnus – Historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus (History of all Kings of Goths and Swedes) Tepetlaoztoc Codex Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous) Adrianus Turnebus's edition of Corpus Hermeticum Approximate year: Título de Totonicapán (anonymous Kʼicheʼ language document)
Poetry Anacreontea (Greek poems of 1st century BC – 6th century AD, published for first time by Henri Estienne)
Births March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French Huguenot noblewoman, mathematician, poet, playwright and translator (died 1631) October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet (died 1594) November 11 – Luis de la Puente, Spanish theologian (died 1624) November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English soldier and poet (died 1586) Unknown date – Anrakuan Sakuden, Japanese poet (died 1642) probable – Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (died 1618)
Deaths January 16 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish scholar, writer and printer (born c. 1480) April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (born 1523) June 24 – Feliciano de Silva, Spanish writer (born c. 1491) September 8 – Johann Wild, German Bible commentator (born 1497)
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