1951 in literature
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The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events [edit]
- January 12 - Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's "adoptive mother", dies.[1]
- March 12- Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace appears for the first time in 16 US newspapers.
- March 17 - First appearance of Dennis the Menace comic strip in The Beano.
- E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
- Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
- Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy.
- Arthur C. Clarke publishes "The Sentinel", the story that will form the basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
New prose fiction [edit]
- Sholem Asch - Moses
- Isaac Asimov
- Samuel Beckett - Molloy
- Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
- Gill Hunt - Galactic Storm
- Taylor Caldwell - The Balance Wheel
- Morley Callaghan - The Loved and the Lost
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Truman Capote - The Grass Harp
- John Dickson Carr - The Devil in Velvet
- Agatha Christie
- Arthur C. Clarke - Prelude to Space
- Robertson Davies - Tempest-Tost
- August Derleth - The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- Owen Dodson - Boy at the Window
- Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Suspicion
- Howard Fast - Spartacus
- Per Anders Fogelström - Sommaren med Monika
- Henri René Guieu - Le Pionnier de l'atome
- Graham Greene - The End of the Affair
- John Hawkes - The Beetle Leg
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters
- James Jones - From Here to Eternity
- Nikos Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation of Christ
- A. M. Klein - The Second Scroll
- Louis L'Amour - The Rustlers of the West Fork
- C. S. Lewis - Prince Caspian
- John Masters - Nightrunners of Bengal
- François Mauriac - Le Sagouin
- James A. Michener - Return to Paradise
- Nancy Mitford - The Blessing
- Nicholas Monsarrat - The Cruel Sea
- Alberto Moravia - The Conformist (Il conformista)
- John O'Hara - Butterfield 8
- Anthony Powell - A Question of Upbringing
- J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
- Ooka Shohei - Fires on the Plain
- Vern Schneider - The Teahouse of the August Moon
- Cardinal Spellman - The Foundling
- John Steinbeck - The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- Rex Stout
- William Styron - Lie Down in Darkness
- Elizabeth Taylor - A Game of Hide and Seek
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Diplomatic Corpse
- Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time
- Anne de Tourville - Jabadao
- Mika Waltari - The Wanderer
- Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
- John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
- Frank Yerby - A Woman Called Fancy
- Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
New drama [edit]
- Eugène Ionesco - La Leçon
- A. A. Milne - Before the Flood
- Lawrence Riley - Kin Hubbard
- Jean-Paul Sartre - The Devil and the Good Lord
- John Van Druten - I Am a Camera
- Tennessee Williams - The Rose Tattoo
Poetry [edit]
- Frank O'Hara - A City Winter and Other Poems
- Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Chateau
Non-fiction [edit]
- Rachel Carson - The Sea Around Us
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri - The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
- Thomas B. Costain - The Magnificent Century (Second book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England Series)
- Dumas Malone - Jefferson and the Rights of Man
- Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory
- Lou Andreas-Salomé - Lebensrückblick (posthumously published)
Births [edit]
- January 1 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
- January 13 - Nigel Cox, New Zealand novelist
- February 13 - Katja Lange-Müller, German novelist
- March 4 - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, South Korean-born novelist and artist (died 1982)
- March 12 – Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet and children's writer
- April 5 - Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canadian author
- May 3 - Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian novelist, essayist and TV presenter
- May 9 - Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet
- Joy Harjo, Native American poet
- June 15 - Amir Barghashi, Iranian-born Swedish actor and dramatist[2]
- June 22 - Rosario Murillo, Nicaraguan poet and political activist
- August 20 - Greg Bear, American science-fiction author
- August 24 - Orson Scott Card, American science-fiction author
- September 20 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist
- October 3 - Bernard Cooper, American writer
- October 12 - Peter Flannery, English dramatist
- October 17 - Clark Parent, Haitian novelist, musician and politician
- December 5 - Tomson Highway, Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist and children's author
- December 6 – Tomson Highway, Canadian writer
- December 8 - Bill Bryson, American travel writer
- December 22 - Charles de Lint, Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician
- date unknown - Jagadish Mohanty, Indian novelist
Deaths [edit]
- January 7 - René Guénon, French philosophical writer (born 1886)
- January 29 - James Bridie, Scottish dramatist (born 1888)
- February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, American novelist (born 1885)
- February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (born 1877)
- February 16 - Henri-René Lenormand, French dramatist (born 1882)
- February 19 - André Gide, French author (born 1869)
- February 28 - Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Russian dramatist and screenwriter (born 1900)
- March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker (born 1884)
- April 3 - Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist (born 1890)
- April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (born 1889)
- June 11 - W. C. Sellar, Scottish humorist (born 1898)
- August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper tycoon (born 1863)
- September 2 - Antoine Bibesco, Romanian dramatist (born 1878)
- December 4 - Pedro Salinas, Spanish poet (born 1891)
- December 10 - Algernon Blackwood, English novelist and journalist (born 1869)
Awards [edit]
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Harnett, The Wool-Pack
- Frost Medal: Wallace Stevens
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Chapman Mortimer, Father Goose
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Noel Annan, Leslie Stephen
- Newbery Medal: Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Pär Lagerkvist
- Premio Nadal: Luis Romero, La noria
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Conrad Richter, The Town
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems
References [edit]
- ^ History of Headington, Oxford. Accessed 8 January 2013
- ^ "Amir Barghashi" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
