1950 IN LITERATURE

The year '1950 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Kazuo Shimada (1907-1996) wins the "Mystery Writer Of Japan" award for his book ''Shakai-bu Kisha'' (''City Reporter'').

★ Jack Kerouac has his first novel published.

★ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sent to a "special camp" for political prisoners in Kazakhstan

★ Dalton Trumbo co-writes the script of ''Gun Crazy'' under the pseudonym Millard Kaufman because of his imprisonment for contempt of court.

★ Adrian Bell begins writing his ''Countryman’s Notebook'' column in the ''Eastern Daily Press''.

New books

★ Marguerite de Angeli - ''The Door in the Wall''

★ Isaac Asimov - ''I, Robot''

★ Ray Bradbury - ''The Martian Chronicles''

★ Gwen Bristow - ''Jubilee Trail''

★ Pearl S. Buck - ''The Child Who Never Grew''

★ William Cooper - ''Scenes from Provincial Life''

★ A. J. Cronin - ''The Spanish Gardener''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and P. Schuyler Miller - ''Genus Homo''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - ''The Castle of Iron''

★ William Demby - ''Beetlecreek''

★ Daphne du Maurier - ''The Parasites''

★ Ford Madox Ford - ''Parade's End''

★ Hugh Garner - ''Cabbagetown''

★ Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - ''Belles on Their Toes''

★ Giovanni Guareschi - ''The Little World of Don Camillo''

★ Frank Hardy - ''Power Without Glory''

★ Ernest Hemingway - ''Across the River and Into the Trees''

★ John Hersey - ''The Wall''

★ Robert E. Howard - ''Conan the Conqueror''

★ Jack Kerouac - ''The Town and the City''

★ Frances Parkinson Keyes - ''Joy Street''

★ Doris Lessing - ''The Grass Is Singing''

★ C. S. Lewis - ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''

★ Juan Carlos Onetti - ''La vida breve (A Brief Life)''

★ Cesare Pavese - ''La luna e i falò''

★ Barbara Pym - ''Some Tame Gazelle''

★ Henry Morton Robinson - ''The Cardinal''

★ Cezaro Rossetti - ''Kredu min, sinjorino!''

★ Budd Schulberg - ''The Disenchanted''

★ Edith Templeton - ''Summer In The Country''

★ James Thurber - ''The 13 Clocks''

★ A. E. van Vogt - ''The Voyage of the Space Beagle''

★ Mika Waltari - ''The Adventurer''

★ Kathleen Winsor - ''Star Money''

★ Frank Yerby - ''Floodtide''

New drama

★ Bertolt Brecht - ''The Tutor''

★ Christopher Fry - ''Venus Observed''

★ Kermit Hunter - ''Unto These Hills''

★ William Inge - ''Come Back, Little Sheba''

★ Eugène Ionesco - ''La cantatrice chauve''

Poetry

★ Leah Bodine Drake - ''A Hornbook for Witches''

★ Pablo Neruda - ''Canto General''

Non-fiction

★ Roland Bainton - ''Here I Stand:A Life of Martin Luther''

★ E. H. Gombrich - ''The Story of Art''

★ Thor Heyerdahl - ''Kon-Tiki''

★ Lionel Trilling - ''The Liberal Imagination''

★ Raymond Williams - ''Reading and Criticism''

★ Cecil Woodham-Smith - ''Florence Nightingale''

Births

★ January 25 - Gloria Naylor, African American author

★ February 11 - Mauri Kunnas, Finnish children’s author

★ May 1 - Francis Briddick, English poet and lyrist

★ July - Zhang Kangkang, Chinese writer

★ September 7 - Peggy Noonan, columnist, political writer

★ September 20 - James Blaylock, American fantasy author

★ October 17 - David Adams Richards, Canadian author

★ October 27 - Fran Leibowitz, American writer

★ Barbara Gowdy - Canadian novelist

★ Susan Eloise Hinton, American author

Deaths

★ January 5 - Basil Williams, historian

★ January 21 – George Orwell, novelist

★ February 13 - Rafael Sabatini, novelist

★ March 19 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, ''Tarzan'' author

★ May 6 - Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer known for chronicling the Chinese Civil War

★ May 11 - Alfred O. Andersson, newspaper publisher

★ May 13 - F. E. Compton, publisher of reference books

★ September 6 - Olaf Stapledon, philosopher and science-fiction author

★ October 9 - Nicolai Hartmann, philosopher

★ October 19 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet

★ November 2 - George Bernard Shaw

★ November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author

★ December 28 - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, short-story writer

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Mooney, Orkney historian

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★ Cezaro Rossetti, Esperanto writer

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★ Helen Rowland, journalist and humorist

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★ Xavier Villaurrutia, poet and dramatist

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★ Cuthbert Whitaker, editor of ''Whitaker's Almanack''

Awards

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite de Angeli, ''The Door in the Wall''

★ Newdigate prize: John Bayley

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell

★ Premio Nadal: Elena Quiroga, ''Viento norte'’

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, ''South Pacific''

★ Special Life Time Award: Francis Briddick

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie, Jr., ''The Way West''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, ''Annie Allen''