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Contents
1
Events
2
New books
2.1
Fiction
2.2
Children and young people
2.3
Drama
2.4
Poetry
2.5
Non-fiction
3
Births
4
Deaths
5
Awards
6
References
Events
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February – The historical periodical
Past & Present
is launched in Oxford, U.K.
February 29
–
Derek J. de Solla Price
reveals his discovery of a lost medieval scientific work entitled
Equatorie of the Planetis
, initially attributed to
Geoffrey Chaucer
, in the Times Literary Supplement.
[
1
]
March 3
–
J. L. Carr
takes over as Headmaster of Highfields Primary School,
Kettering
, which will later feature in his novel
The Harpole Report
.
[
2
]
May – The works of
André Gide
are placed on the Catholic Church's
Index of Forbidden Books
by
Pope Pius XII
.
[
3
]
July 10
– The first issue of
Mad
appears, edited by
Harvey Kurtzman
and published by
William M. Gaines
'
EC Comics
.
August 12
– The
Night of the Murdered Poets
brings the execution of 13 Soviet Jews in
Lubyanka Prison
, Moscow, including several writers.
September 6
– The
Universal Copyright Convention
is adopted at
Geneva
.
October 17
–
Samuel Beckett
's play
Waiting For Godot
is published in Paris as
En attendant Godot
by
Les Éditions de Minuit
.
October 28
–
E. E. Cummings
delivers the first of his
Charles Eliot Norton
lectures at
Harvard University
.
[
4
]
November 25
–
Agatha Christie
's play
The Mousetrap
opens at the
New Ambassadors Theatre
, London. It will still be running as of 2021, next door at
St Martin's Theatre
from 1974.
[
5
]
unknown dates
The publisher
Diogenes Verlag
is founded in
Zürich
, Switzerland, by Daniel Keel.
The
National Library of Burma
is established in
Rangoon
.
New books
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Fiction
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Margery Allingham
–
The Tiger in the Smoke
Anthony Armstrong
–
He Was Found in the Road
Thomas Armstrong
–
Adam Brunskill
Isaac Asimov
The Currents of Space
Foundation and Empire
H. E. Bates
–
Love for Lydia
Margot Bennett
–
The Widow of Bath
John Bingham
–
My Name Is Michael Sibley
[
6
]
Christianna Brand
–
London Particular
Pearl S. Buck
–
The Hidden Flower
John Bude
Death on the Riviera
When the Case Was Opened
Ivan Bunin
–
The Life of Arseniev
Italo Calvino
The Argentine Ant
(
La Formica Argentina
)
The Cloven Viscount
(
l visconte dimezzato
, first of the
Our Ancestors
trilogy)
Victor Canning
–
The House of the Seven Flies
John Dickson Carr
The Nine Wrong Answers
Behind the Crimson Blind
(as Carter Dickson)
Henry Cecil
–
No Bail for the Judge
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
–
Fable for Another Time
Agatha Christie
Mrs McGinty's Dead
They Do It with Mirrors
A Daughter's a Daughter
(as Mary Westmacott)
Brian Cleeve
–
The Far Hills
Branko Ćopić
–
Prolom
(The Break-out)
Thomas B. Costain
–
The Silver Chalice
A. J. Cronin
–
Adventures in Two Worlds
August Derleth
Three Problems for Solar Pons
Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
(as editor)
David F. Dodge
–
To Catch a Thief
Jean Dutourd
–
The Best Butter
Ralph Ellison
–
Invisible Man
Edna Ferber
–
Giant
C. S. Forester
–
Lieutenant Hornblower
Paul Gallico
–
The Small Miracle
Anthony Gilbert
–
Miss Pinnegar Disappears
Michael Gilbert
–
Death in Captivity
Jean Giono
–
The Malediction
Richard Gordon
–
Doctor in the House
Winston Graham
–
Fortune Is a Woman
Walter Greenwood
–
So Brief the Spring
Edward Grierson
–
Reputation for a Song
Vasily Grossman
–
Stalingrad
(«Сталингра́д»)
Han Suyin
–
A Many-Splendoured Thing
Robert A. Heinlein
–
The Rolling Stones
Ernest Hemingway
–
The Old Man and the Sea
Willem Frederik Hermans
–
Het behouden huis
[
nl
]
(The House of Refuge or An Untouched House, novella)
Patricia Highsmith
–
The Price of Salt
(as Claire Morgan)
Dorothy B. Hughes
–
The Davidian Report
Hammond Innes
–
Campbell's Kingdom
Michael Innes
–
A Private View
Ernst Jünger
–
Visit to Godenholm
Frances Parkinson Keyes
–
Steamboat Gothic
David H. Keller
–
Tales from Underwood
Arthur Koestler
–
Arrow in the Blue
Halldór Laxness
– Gerpla
Doris Lessing
–
Martha Quest
E. C. R. Lorac
Crossed Skis
The Dog It Was That Died
Murder in the Mill-Race
Ross Macdonald
–
The Ivory Grin
Compton Mackenzie
–
The Rival Monster
Bernard Malamud
–
The Natural
Wolf Mankowitz
–
Make Me an Offer
Ana Maria Matute
–
Fiesta al noroeste
Gladys Mitchell
–
The Echoing Strangers
Harry Mulisch
–
Archibald Strohalm
C. L. Moore
–
Judgment Night
(science fiction short stories)
R. K. Narayan
–
The Financial Expert
Patrick O'Brian
–
Testimonies
Flannery O'Connor
–
Wise Blood
Vin Packer
–
Spring Fire
Anthony Powell
–
A Buyer's Market
Maurice Procter
–
Rich Is the Treasure
John Pudney
–
The Net
Barbara Pym
–
Excellent Women
Ellery Queen
–
The King is Dead
Lucien Rebatet
–
Les Deux étendards
John Rhode
–
Death in Wellington Road
Anne Scott-James
–
In the Mink
Charles Shaw
–
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
John Steinbeck
–
East of Eden
Rex Stout
Triple Jeopardy
Prisoner's Base
Noel Streatfeild
–
Aunt Clara
A. C. Swinburne
(died 1909) –
Lesbia Brandon
(completed c.1868)
Edith Templeton
–
The Island of Desire
Jim Thompson
–
The Killer Inside Me
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
–
The Gown of Glory
Amos Tutuola
–
The Palm-Wine Drunkard
Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
(Agyeya) –
Nadi ke dweep
(Islands in the stream)
Vercors
–
Les Animaux dénaturés
Arved Viirlaid
–
Ristideta hauad
(Graves Without Crosses)
Kurt Vonnegut
–
Player Piano
Henry Wade
–
Be Kind to the Killer
Evelyn Waugh
–
Men at Arms
Hillary Waugh
–
Last Seen Wearing...
Vaughan Wilkins
–
A King Reluctant
Antonia White
–
The Sugar House
Angus Wilson
–
Hemlock and After
Frank Yerby
–
The Saracen Blade
Children and young people
edit
Rev. W. Awdry
–
Toby the Tram Engine
(seventh in
The Railway Series
of 42 books by him and his son
Christopher Awdry
)
Enid Blyton
–
Noddy and Big Ears
Bruce Carter
–
The Perilous Descent (Into a Strange Lost World)
Alice Dalgliesh
–
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Dorothy Edwards
–
My Naughty Little Sister. Stories from "Listen With Mother"
Rumer Godden
–
Mouse House
C. S. Lewis
–
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
–
Moccasin Trail
Farley Mowat
–
People of the Deer
Mary Norton
–
The Borrowers
(first in the eponymous series of 6 books)
Rhoda Power
–
Redcap Runs Away
William Matthew Scott
–
The Cherrys of River House
(first in The Cherrys series of 14 books)
Louis Slobodkin
–
The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree
Geoffrey Trease
–
The Crown of Violet
(also
Web of Traitors
)
E. B. White
–
Charlotte's Web
Drama
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Rodney Ackland
–
The Pink Room
Jean Anouilh
The Lark
(
L'Alouette
)
The Waltz of the Toreadors
(
La Valse des toréadors
)
Jacinto Benavente
–
Ha llegado Don Juan
[
es
]
Alice Childress
–
Gold Through the Trees
Noël Coward
–
Quadrille
Constance Cox
–
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Robertson Davies
–
A Masque of Aesop
Henry de Montherlant
–
La Ville dont le prince est un enfant
(The City Whose Prince is a Child; first performance in first published version)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
–
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi
(
Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi
, first performance)
Joseph Kramm
–
The Shrike
Charles Langbridge Morgan
–
The River Line
Eric Linklater
–
The Mortimer Touch
Roger MacDougall
–
Escapade
J. B. Priestley
and
Jacquetta Hawkes
–
Dragon's Mouth
Terence Rattigan
–
The Deep Blue Sea
Dodie Smith
–
Letter from Paris
Ben Travers
–
Wild Horses
John Van Druten
–
I've Got Sixpence
Arthur Watkyn
–
The Moonraker
Poetry
edit
Main article:
1952 in poetry
Paul Celan
–
Poppy and Memory
(
German
:
Mohn und Gedächtnis
)
[
7
]
David Jones
–
The Anathemata
: fragments of an attempted writing
Gabriela Mistral
–
Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacos
[
8
]
Sean O Riordain
–
Eireaball Spideoige
[
9
]
Non-fiction
edit
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
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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
March 23
–
Kim Stanley Robinson
, American science fiction author
March 26
–
T. A. Barron
, American novelist
May 5
–
Hafsat Abdulwaheed
, Nigerian author and poet
May 31
–
Carole Achache
, French writer, photographer and actress (died
2016
)
[
10
]
June 4
–
Dambudzo Marechera
, Zimbabwean writer (died
1987
)
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 6
–
Hilary Mantel
, English novelist (died
2022
)
[
11
]
July 10
–
Candice F. Ransom
, American children's and young-adult author
July 18
–
Per Petterson
, Norwegian novelist
August 28
–
Rita Dove
, American poet
September 29
-
Pete Hautman
, American young-adult novelist
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
December 22
–
Mick Inkpen
, English children's writer and illustrator
December 28
–
Hemant Shesh
, Indian Hindi writer
[
12
]
Deaths
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January 22
–
Roger Vitrac
, French poet and dramatist (born
1899
)
January 26
–
Lodewijk van Deyssel
, Dutch novelist (born
1864
)
January 28
–
Nicolae Constantin Batzaria
, Ottoman-born Romanian humorist, novelist, editor, and journalist (spinal cancer, born
1874
)
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
)
April 30
–
Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș
– Romanian art historian, ethnographer and journalist (born
1872
)
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
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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
National Book Award for Fiction
:
James Jones
–
From Here to Eternity
References
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe
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ISBN
978-0-8061-3413-0
.
^
Byron Rogers (1 December 2011).
The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr
. Aurum Press. pp. 106–8.
ISBN
978-1-84513-813-4
.
^
Andre Gide,
The Immoralist
(1902); commentary by Anais Aigner (1998). Retrieved 12 February 2012.
^
Bethany K. Dumas (1974).
E. E. Cummings: a Remembrance of Miracles
. Barnes & Noble. p. 43.
^
"New Ambassadors Theatre"
.
arthurlloyd.co.uk
. Archived from
the original
on 2007-11-09
. Retrieved
2007-12-04
.
Performances were suspended during the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
.
^
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
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ISBN
9781579583132
.
^
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 – Gabriela Mistral – Bibliography"
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.
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Crotty, Patrick, ed. (1995).
Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology
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ISBN
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.
^
"Achache, Carole (1952-....)"
.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
(in French)
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1 December
2023
.
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Knight, Lucy (23 September 2022).
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.
The Guardian
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23 September
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"हेमंत शेष को बिरला फाउंडेशन के बिहारी पुरस्कार"
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Dainik Jagran
(in Hindi). Jagran Prakashan Ltd
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8 September
2011
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