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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]

July 10 – The first issue of Mad, edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by William M. Gaines' EC Comics, is published.

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.

Derek J. de Solla Price discovers 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

Fiction

Isaac Asimov

The Currents of Space
Foundation and Empire

H. E. Bates – Love for Lydia

John Bingham – My Name is Michael Sibley^[3]

Pearl S. Buck – The Hidden Flower

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)

John Dickson Carr

The Nine Wrong Answers
Behind the Crimson Blind (as Carter Dickson)

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
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

Jean Giono – The Malediction

Richard Gordon – Doctor in the House

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 (The House of Refuge or An Untouched House, novella)

Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan) – The Price of Salt

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

Bernard Malamud – The Natural

Ana Maria Matute – Fiesta al noroeste

Harry Mulisch – Archibald Strohalm

C. L. Moore – Judgment Night (science fiction short stories)

R. K. Narayan – The Financial Expert

Flannery O'Connor – Wise Blood

Vin Packer – Spring Fire

Anthony Powell – A Buyer's Market

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

Ellery Queen – The King is Dead

Lucien Rebatet – Les Deux étendards

Charles Shaw – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Howard Spring – The Houses in Between

John Steinbeck – East of Eden

Rex Stout

Triple Jeopardy
Prisoner's Base

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

Evelyn Waugh – Men at Arms

Hillary Waugh – Last Seen Wearing...

Angus Wilson – Hemlock and After

Frank Yerby – The Saracen Blade

Children and young people

Enid Blyton – Noddy and Big Ears

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)

Geoffrey Trease – The Crown of Violet (also Web of Traitors)

E. B. White – Charlotte's Web

Drama

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
Alice Childress – Gold Through the Trees
Noël Coward – Quadrille
Robertson Davies – A Masque of Aesop
Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi, first performance)
Charles Langbridge Morgan – The River Line
Terence Rattigan – The Deep Blue Sea
Dodie Smith – Letter from Paris
Ben Travers – Wild Horses

Poetry

Paul Celan – Poppy and Memory ({{lang-de|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

1. ^Andre Gide, The Immoralist (1902); commentary by Anais Aigner (1998). Retrieved 2012-12-02.
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/NewAmbassadorsTheatre.htm |title=New Ambassadors Theatre |work=arthurlloyd.co.uk |accessdate=2007-12-04 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109140822/http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/NewAmbassadorsTheatre.htm |archivedate=2007-11-09 |deadurl=yes |df=}}
3. ^{{cite book |first=H. R. F. |last=Keating |authorlink=H. R. F. Keating |title=Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction |location=London |publisher=Windward |year=1982 |isbn=0-7112-0249-4}}
4. ^{{cite book |last=Kerrel |first=Sorbel |year=2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apprbj4EA0gC&pg=PA212 |title=Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century |location=New York |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |page=212 |isbn=9781579583132}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/mistral-bibl.html |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 – Gabriela Mistral – Bibliography |publisher=Nobelprize.org |year=2011 |accessdate=2013-09-02}}
6. ^{{cite book |editor=Crotty, Patrick |title=Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology |location=Belfast |publisher=Blackstaff Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-85640-561-2}}

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