1952 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1952.

Events

February – Launch of the influential historical periodical Past & Present.
May – The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books by Pope Pius XII.^[1]
August 12 – Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, including several writers.
September 6 – Universal Copyright Convention adopted at Geneva.
October 17 – Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is published in French as En attendant Godot by Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris.
November 25 – Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London at the New Ambassadors Theatre. It will still be running in London sixty years later, having transferred next door to St Martin's Theatre in 1974.^[2]
E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard University.
Discovery by Derek J. de Solla Price of a lost medieval scientific work entitled Equatorie of the Planetis, initially attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer.
J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.
The publisher Diogenes Verlag is founded in Zurich by Daniel Keel.
The National Library of Burma is established in Rangoon.

New books

Poetry

Paul Celan – Poppy and Memory (German: Mohn und Gedächtnis)^[4]
David Jones – The Anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing
Gabriela Mistral – Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacos^[5]
Sean O Riordain – Eireaball Spideoige^[6]

Non-fiction

Roland Bainton – The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley – Lands Beyond
Dorothy Day – The Long Loneliness
Lawrence Gowing – Vermeer
Heinrich Harrer – Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama (Seven Years in Tibet, 1954)
Aldous Huxley
- The Devils of Loudun
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Maurice Nicoll – Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky
Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking
Gwen Raverat – Period Piece
P. R. Reid – The Colditz Story
Jean-Paul Sartre – Saint Genet, comédien et martyr
Pierre Schaeffer – In Search of a Concrete Music (À la Recherche d'une Musique Concrète)
F. Sherwood Taylor – The Alchemists
Paul Tillich – Courage To Be
Immanuel Velikovsky – Ages in Chaos
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill – The Barbarian West, 400–1000
Raymond Williams – Drama from Ibsen to Eliot

Births

January 4 – Michele Wallace, American feminist author
January 12 – Walter Mosley, American novelist
January 21 – Louis Menand, American author and academic
February 10 – Gail Rebuck, English publisher
February 19
- Ryū Murakami (村上龍), Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker
- Amy Tan, American novelist
February 29 – Tim Powers, American fantasy author
March 5 – Robin Hobb (Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, Megan Lindholm), American fantasy author
March 7 – William Boyd, Gold Coast-born Scottish novelist and screenwriter
March 11 – Douglas Adams, English science fiction author (died 2001)
March 13 – Ágnes Rapai, Hungarian poet, writer and translator
May 5 – Hafsat Abdulwaheed, Nigerian author and poet
June 7 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate
June 20
- Vince Gotera, American poet and critic
- Vikram Seth, Indian novelist
June 29 – Breece D'J Pancake (Breece Dexter Pancake), American short story writer (suicide 1979)
July 3 – Rohinton Mistry, Indian-born Canadian novelist
July 18 – Per Petterson, Norwegian novelist
August 28 – Rita Dove, American poet
October 18 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese author
November 15 – Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian and author
November 21 – Pedro Lemebel, Chilean novelist
December 19 – Sean O'Brien, English poet
Unknown dates
- Hoda Barakat, Lebanese novelist
- Menna Elfyn, Welsh poet and playwright writing in Welsh
- Mick Inkpen, English children's writer and illustrator

Deaths

January 22 – Roger Vitrac, French poet and dramatist (born 1899)
February 7 – Norman Douglas, Austrian-born Scottish novelist (born 1868)
February 13 – Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh), Scottish crime novelist (born 1896)
February 19 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1859)
March 1
- Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist, dramatist and critic (born 1873)
- Masao Kume (久米正雄), Japanese playwright, novelist and haiku poet (born 1891)
March 27 – Ioan A. Bassarabescu, Romanian short story writer and politician (born 1870)
April 1 – Ferenc Molnár (Ferenc Neumann), Hungarian dramatist and novelist (born 1878)
May 17 – Paul Bujor, Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (born 1862)
May 26 – Eugene Jolas, American/French writer, literary translator and critic (born 1894)
June 1 – John Dewey, American philosopher and psychologist (born 1859)
July 1 – A. S. W. Rosenbach, American book collector (born 1876)
July 8 – August Alle, Estonian writer (born 1890)
August 9 – Jeffery Farnol, English historical novelist (born 1878)
August 22 – H. J. Massingham, English countryside writer (born 1888)
September 26 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, poet and novelist writing in English (born 1863)
October 4 – Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist (born 1885)
October 6 – Teffi (Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya), Russian humorist (born 1872)
November 3 – Louis Verneuil, French playwright (suicide, born 1893)
November 4 – Gilbert Frankau, English novelist (born 1884)
November 13 – Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (embolism, born 1910)
November 16 – Charles Maurras, French poet and critic (born 1868)
November 18 – Paul Éluard, French surrealist poet (heart attack, born 1895)
November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet (born 1893)
December 6 – Cicely Hamilton, English dramatist and suffragist (born 1872)

Awards

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mary Norton, The Borrowers
Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin
National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
Newdigate prize: Donald Hall
Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
Premio Nadal: María Medio Estrada, Nosotros, los Rivero
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young

References

^ Andre Gide, The Immoralist (1902); commentary by Anais Aigner (1998). Retrieved 2012-12-02.
^ "New Ambassadors Theatre". arthurlloyd.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2007-12-04. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.
^ Kerrel, Sorbel (2003). Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 212. ISBN 9781579583132.
^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 – Gabriela Mistral – Bibliography". Nobelprize.org. 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
^ Crotty, Patrick, ed. (1995). Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0-85640-561-2.

[1] Andre Gide, The Immoralist (1902); commentary by Anais Aigner (1998). Retrieved 2012-12-02.

[2] "New Ambassadors Theatre". arthurlloyd.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2007-12-04. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[3] Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.

[4] Kerrel, Sorbel (2003). Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 212. ISBN 9781579583132.

[5] "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 – Gabriela Mistral – Bibliography". Nobelprize.org. 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-02.

[6] Crotty, Patrick, ed. (1995). Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0-85640-561-2.

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Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

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