1954 in literature
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The year 1954 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events[edit]
- Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.
- John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert.
- Lawrence Quincy Mumford becomes Librarian of Congress.
New books[edit]
- Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim
- Poul Anderson – The Broken Sword
- Isaac Asimov – The Caves of Steel
- James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Hamilton Basso – The View from Pompey's Head
- Simone de Beauvoir – The Mandarins
- Pierre Boulle – The Bridge on the River Kwai (Le pont de la rivière Kwai)
- Taylor Caldwell – Never Victorious, Never Defeated
- John Dickson Carr
- The Third Bullet and Other Stories
- The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (with Adrian Conan Doyle)
- Agatha Christie – Destination Unknown
- Robertson Davies – Leaven of Malice
- Daphne du Maurier – Mary Anne
- Ian Fleming – Live and Let Die
- Max Frisch - I'm Not Stiller
- William Golding – Lord of the Flies
- Hergé – Explorers on the Moon
- Mac Hyman – No Time for Sergeants
- Yasunari Kawabata - The Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto)
- Frances Parkinson Keyes – The Royal Box
- C. S. Lewis – The Horse and His Boy
- Astrid Lindgren – Mio, My Son
- Kamala Markandaya – Nectar in a Sieve
- John Masters – Bhowani Junction
- Richard Matheson – I Am Legend
- John Metcalfe – The Feasting Dead
- James A. Michener – Sayonara
- Alberto Moravia – Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon)
- Iris Murdoch – Under the Net
- J. B. Priestley – The Magicians
- Marcel Proust – Jean Sauteuil (posthumously published)
- Ellery Queen – The Glass Village
- Pauline Réage – Histoire d'O (Story of O)
- Mordecai Richler – The Acrobats
- Anya Seton – Katherine
- Dr. Seuss – Horton Hears a Who!
- John Steinbeck – Sweet Thursday
- Irving Stone – Love Is Eternal
- Rex Stout
- Edward Streeter – Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
- Morton Thompson – Not as a Stranger
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Amos Tutuola – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
- Frank Yerby – Benton's Row
New drama[edit]
- Brendan Behan – The Quare Fellow
- Saunders Lewis – Siwan
- Terence Rattigan – Separate Tables
- Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood
- Thornton Wilder – The Matchmaker
- Dharamvir Bharati – Andha Yug (The Blind Age)
Non-fiction[edit]
- L. Sprague de Camp – Lost Continents
- Albert Einstein – Ideas and Opinions
- Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception
- Arthur Koestler – The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932–40
- Mervyn Peake – Figures of Speech
- William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (collected essays including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley).[1]
Births[edit]
- January 15 – Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer
- January 29 – Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher
- March 4 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer
- March 16 - S. A. Griffin, American actor and poet
- March 20 – Louis Sachar, American author
- April 14 – Bruce Sterling, American science-fiction writer
- June 28 – A. A. Gill, journalist and critic
- July 17 - J. Michael Straczynski, American author
- August 1 - James Gleick, an American non-fiction author
- August 17 – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Russian-Irish writer
- November – Christopher Pike, children's author
- November 8 - Kazuo Ishiguro, novelist
- December 3 – Grace Andreacchi, American author
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American writer
- date unknown - Esther Delisle, Quebec author and historian
Deaths[edit]
- January 1 – Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich), poet, biographer and politician (born 1890)
- January 25 – M. N. Roy, philosopher and politician (born 1887)
- March 28 – Francis Brett Young, novelist and poet (born 1884)
- April 8
- Juan Álvarez, historian (born 1878)
- Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author (born 1875)
- April 19 – Russell Davenport, journalist and publisher (born 1899)
- May 3 – Earnest Hooton, popular writer on anthropology (born 1887)
- July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
- August 3 – Colette, French novelist (born 1873)
- September 19 – Miles Franklin, novelist (born 1879)
- September 29 – W. J. Gruffydd, editor of Welsh-language journal Y Llenor (Literature) (born 1881)
- December 6 – Lucien Tesnière, grammarian (born 1893)
- December 20 – James Hilton, English novelist (born 1900)
Awards[edit]
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Ronald Welch, Knight Crusader
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. P. Snow, The New Men and The Masters
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Keith Feiling, Warren Hastings
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, ...And Now Miguel
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- Premio Nadal: Francisco Alcántara, La muerte sienta bien a Villalobos
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Theodore Roethke: TheWaking
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson
References[edit]
- ^ Leitch, Vincent B.; Cain, William E.; Finke, Laurie A.; Johnson, Barbara E.; McGowan, John; Williams, Jeffrey J. (2001). "William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley". In Leitch, Vincent B. (ed). The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. pp. 1371–1374.
