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Overview of the events of 1954 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1954 .
Events January – Kingsley Amis 's first novel, the comic campus novel Lucky Jim Victor Gollancz Ltd in London.
January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment : the first public demonstration of a machine translation system held in New York at the head office of IBM.January 25 – First broadcast of Dylan Thomas 's radio play Under Milk Wood Richard Burton as "First Voice", on the BBC Third Programme in the United Kingdom.February – The title The London Magazine John Lehmann as a literary magazine .
March 31 – In Bucharest , A. L. Zissu is sentenced to life imprisonment for "conspiring against the social order"; a focal point of the anti-Zionist clampdown in Communist Romania .[1] May 29 – The newly rediscovered and restored early 17th century Corral de comedias de Almagro in Spain is reinaugurated with the performance of a play by Calderon de la Barca .[2] June 16 – The first public celebration of "Bloomsday " takes place in Dublin : writers Flann O'Brien , Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin travel in a horse-drawn coach stopping at numerous bars to retrace the steps of the characters from James Joyce 's novel Ulysses June 22 – Parker–Hulme murder case : 15-year-old Julia Hulme, the future writer of English historical detective fiction Anne Perry , participates in the murder of her best friend's mother in Christchurch , New Zealand.July – Publication of the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien 's epic high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers 1955 . By 2007, 150 million copies will have been sold worldwide.[3]
September 1 – Lawrence Quincy Mumford takes up the post of Librarian of Congress in the United States.September 17 – William Golding 's first published novel, the allegorical dystopian fiction Lord of the Flies Faber and Faber in London.September 22 – Terence Rattigan 's two linked one-act plays Separate Tables St James's Theatre , London.November 19 – Brendan Behan 's first play, The Quare Fellow Pike Theatre , Dublin.Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard 's A Buddhist Bible (1932, found in San Jose library) which will influence him greatly.John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert . This summer he travels on a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to spend a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in the University of Oxford (England). His first short story for The New Yorker New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 5 – László Krasznahorkai , Hungarian novelist and screenwriterJanuary 15 – Jose Dalisay, Jr. , Filipino writerJanuary 29 – Oprah Winfrey , American actress and talk show hostJanuary – Cao Wenxuan (曹文軒), Chinese children's book writer and academic
February 2 – Moniza Alvi , Pakistani-British poet and writerMarch 4 – Irina Ratushinskaya , Russian writerMay 6 – Nicholas Crane , English writer, geographer and broadcasterMarch 16 – S. A. Griffin , American actor and poetMarch 20 – Louis Sachar , American children's authorApril 14 – Bruce Sterling , American science-fiction writerMay 5 – Hamid Ismailov , Uzbek writerMay 23 – Anja Snellman , Finnish writerJune 6 – Cynthia Rylant , American children's author and poetJune 28 – A. A. Gill , British journalist and critic (died 2016 )July 17 – J. Michael Straczynski , American authorAugust 1 – James Gleick , American non-fiction authorAugust 15 – Mary Jo Salter , American poet and academicAugust 17 – Anatoly Kudryavitsky , Russian-Irish writerSeptember 14 – Mikey Smith , Jamaican dub poet (killed 1983 )November 8 – Kazuo Ishiguro , Japanese-born English novelist and Nobel laureateNovember 10 – Marlene van Niekerk , South African novelistNovember 11 – Mary Gaitskill , American novelist, essayist and short story writerNovember 12 – Christopher Pike (Kevin Christopher McFadden), American children's authorDecember 3 – Grace Andreacchi , American authorDecember 7 – Mark Hofmann , American rare book dealer, forger and murdererDecember 20 – Sandra Cisneros , American writerUnknown dates
Deaths January 1 – Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich), English poet, biographer and politician (born 1890 )January 21 – E. K. Chambers , English literary scholar (born 1866 )January 25 – M. N. Roy , Indian philosopher and politician (born 1887 )February 2 – Hella Wuolijoki , Estonian-born Finnish writer (born 1886 )February 6 – Maxwell Bodenheim , American poet and novelist (born 1892 ; murdered)March 28 – Francis Brett Young , English novelist and poet (born 1884 )April 8
April 19 – Russell Davenport , American journalist and publisher (born 1899 )May 3 – Earnest Hooton , American writer on anthropology (born 1887 )June 18 – Constantin Beldie , Romanian literary promoter and memoirist (born 1887 )July 13 – Grantland Rice , American sportswriter (born 1880 )July 14 – Jacinto Benavente , Spanish dramatist and Nobel laureate (born 1866 )August 2 – Julián Padrón , Venezuelan novelist, journalist and lawyer (born 1910 )August 3 – Colette , French novelist (born 1873 )September 19 – Miles Franklin , Australian novelist (born 1879 )September 29 – W. J. Gruffydd , Welsh-language journal editor (born 1881 )October 22 – Oswald de Andrade , Brazilian poet and polemicist (born 1890 )November 17 – Ludovic Dauș , Romanian novelist and dramatist (born 1873 )December 6 – Lucien Tesnière , French grammarian (born 1893 )December 20 – James Hilton , English novelist (born 1900 )Awards References
^ Glass, Hildrun (2010). "Câteva note despre activitatea lui Avram L. Zissu". In Rotman, Liviu; Crăciun, Camelia; Vasiliu, Ana-Gabriela (eds.). Noi perspective în istoriografia evreilor din România . Bucharest: Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania & Editura Hasefer. p. 166. ^ Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia OCLC 1460620 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )Template:Es icon .^ Wagner, Vit (2007-04-16). "Tolkien proves he's still the king" . Toronto Star . Retrieved 2014-06-04 . ^ No. 41 in Le Monde' s 100 Books of the CenturySavigneau, Josyane (1999-10-15). "Écrivains et choix sentimentaux" . Le Monde
^ 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.
