1947 in literature
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The year 1947 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- The Diary of Anne Frank is published for the first time.
- Jack Kerouac makes the journey which he will later chronicle in his book On the Road.
- Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
- Dalton Trumbo refuses to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Ring Lardner, Jr., attends, but refuses to answer any questions.
- Kenneth Arnold witnesses nine Flying saucers, starting a huge amount of enthuisiasm in science fiction writers and scientists.
[edit] New prose fiction
- Cynthia Asquith - This Mortal Coil
- Carolyn Sherwin Bailey - Miss Hickory
- François Boyer - Les Jeux Inconnus
- Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival (debut book)
- Margaret Wise Brown - Goodnight Moon
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Foreign Legion
- Italo Calvino - The Path to the Nest of Spiders
- Albert Camus - The Plague (La Peste)
- John Dickson Carr
- Agatha Christie - The Labours of Hercules
- Thomas B. Costain - The Moneyman
- Jean Genet - Querelle de Brest
- Robert A. Heinlein - Rocket Ship Galileo
- William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder
- Carl Jacobi - Revelations in Black
- Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
- Fritz Leiber, Jr. - Night's Black Agents
- Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
- Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
- Gabriel García Márquez - Eyes of a Blue Dog
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Creatures of Circumstance
- Theatre
- Oscar Micheaux - Masquerade, a Historical Novel
- James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
- W.O. Mitchell - Who Has Seen the Wind?
- Alberto Moravia - The Woman of Rome (La Romana)
- Willard Motley - Knock On Any Door
- Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister
- Cesare Pavese - Il compagno
- Arthur Ransome - Great Northern?
- Michael Sadleir - Forlorn Sunset
- Samuel Shellabarger - Prince of Foxes
- Mickey Spillane - I, the Jury
- John Steinbeck - The Pearl
- Rex Stout - Too Many Women
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor - The Iron Clew (as by Alice Tilton)
- Philip Toynbee - Tea with Mrs Goodman
- Boris Vian
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (as Vernon Sullivan)
- Froth on the Daydream
- Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One & Scott-King's Modern Europe
- Jack Williamson - With Folded Hands
[edit] New drama
- Jean Anouilh - Invitation to the Castle
- Jean Genet - The Maids
- Arthur Miller - All My Sons
- Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
[edit] Poetry
- Kingsley Amis - Bright November
- August Derleth editor - Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
- Abba Kovner - Ad Lo-Or ("Until No-Light")
[edit] Non-fiction
- Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment.
- Emil Brunner - The Divine Imperative.
- L. Sprague de Camp - The Evolution of Naval Weapons.
- Bernard DeVoto - Across the Wide Missouri.
- Walter Lippmann - The Cold War.
- George Orwell - Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool.
- Samuel Putnam - Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation.
[edit] Births
- February 3 - Paul Auster, novelist
- April 12 - Tom Clancy, novelist
- June 19 - Salman Rushdie, author
- September 21 - Stephen King, author
- October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
[edit] Deaths
- February 1 - J. D. Beresford, short story writer
- February 15 - Margaret Marshall Saunders, Canadian author
- March 12 - Winston Churchill, American novelist
- April 24 - Willa Cather
- September 25 - Afawarq Gabra Iyasus, Ethiopian author and linguist
- November 12 - Baroness Orczy, "Scarlet Pimpernel" author
- December 7 - Tristan Bernard - French writer and lawyer
- December 15 - Arthur Machen, journalist, novelist and short story writer
- date unknown - Anna Wickham, poet
[edit] Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Walter de la Mare, Collected Stories for Children
- Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rev. C. C. E. Raven, English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory
- Nobel Prize for literature: André Gide
- Premio Nadal: Miguel Delibes, La sombra del ciprés es alargada
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell: Lord Weary's Castle
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
