1954 in literature

none 1954 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1954. Events January – Kingsley Amis's first novel, the comic campus novel Lucky Jim, is published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in London.Zachary Leader On Modern British Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=tVnVkO8jdvsC&pg=PA62 2002 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-924933-6 62 January 7 – The Georgetown–IBM experiment is the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, held in New York at the IBM head office. January 25 – Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood is first broadcast in the U.K. on the BBC Third Programme, two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as "First Voice". February – The London Magazine is revived as a literary magazine, with John Lehmann as editor. March 31 – A. L. Zissu is sentenced in Bucharest to life imprisonment for "conspiring against the social order". This has been a focal point in the anti-Zionist clampdown in Communist Romania.Glass Hildrun Rotman Liviu Crăciun Camelia Vasiliu Ana-Gabriela Noi perspective în istoriografia evreilor din România Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania & Editura Hasefer Bucharest 2010 166 Câteva note despre activitatea lui Avram L. Zissu May 29 – The rediscovered and restored early 17th-century Corral de comedias de Almagro in Spain is re-inaugurated with a play by Calderon de la Barca.Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia CXCVIII iii 2001 Madrid 352–546 https://books.google.com/books?id=kkC4xH3-mZoC&pg=PA534 1460620 es. 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 – In the Parker–Hulme murder case, the 15-year-old Julia Hulme, a future writer of English historical detective fiction as Anne Perry, takes part in the murder of her best friend's mother in Christchurch, New Zealand. July 29 – The first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring – is published in London by George Allen & Unwin. The Two Towers follows on November 11 and publication will be completed in 1955. By 2007, 150 million copies will have been sold worldwide.Vit Wagner https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/203389 Tolkien proves he's still the king Toronto Star 2007-04-16 2014-06-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20110309035210/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/203389 2011-03-09 dead September 1 – Lawrence Quincy Mumford becomes the U.S. Librarian of Congress. September 17 – William Golding's first novel, the allegorical dystopian Lord of the Flies, is published by Faber and Faber in London. September 22 – Terence Rattigan's two linked plays Separate Tables are first performed, at St James's Theatre, London. October 30 – John Updike's first story for The New Yorker, "Friends from Philadelphia", is published. He graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert, and begins a year's Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at England's University of Oxford. November 19 – Brendan Behan's first play, The Quare Fellow is premièred at the Pike Theatre, Dublin. unknown date – Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible (1932, found in San Jose library), which will influence him greatly. New books Fiction Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim Poul Anderson – The Broken Sword Thomas Armstrong – Pilling Always Pays Isaac Asimov – The Caves of Steel Hamilton Basso – The View from Pompey's Head John Bingham – The Third Skin Boileau-Narcejac – The Living and the Dead (D'entre les morts) Lucy M. Boston – Yew Hall Pierre Boulle – The Bridge over the River Kwai (Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï) Taylor Caldwell – Never Victorious, Never Defeated Victor Canning – Castle Minerva John Dickson Carr The Third Bullet and Other Stories The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (with Adrian Conan Doyle) Henry Cecil – According to the Evidence Agatha Christie – Destination Unknown Robertson Davies – Leaven of Malice Cecil Day-Lewis – The Whisper in the Gloom Simone de Beauvoir – The Mandarins (Les Mandarins) Daphne du Maurier – Mary Anne Ian Fleming – Live and Let Die Max Frisch – I'm Not Stiller (Stiller) Anthony Gilbert – Snake in the Grass William Golding – Lord of the Flies Richard Gordon – The Captain's Table Walter Greenwood – What Everybody Wants James Hadley Chase – The Sucker Punch Cyril Hare – That Yew Tree's Shade Joan Henry – Yield to the Night Hergé – Explorers on the Moon (On a marché sur la Lune) Hwang Sun-won – The Descendants of Cain (카인의 후예) Mac Hyman – No Time for Sergeants Hammond Innes – The Strange Land Michael Innes – Appleby Talking Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution: a comedy Elizabeth Jenkins – The Tortoise and the Hare Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) – The Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto; serialization concludes) Frances Parkinson Keyes – The Royal Box Kalki Krishnamurthy Amara Thara Ponniyin Selvan (பொன்னியின் செல்வன், "The Son of Ponni"; publication concludes) Manuel Mujica Láinez – La casa (The House) George Lamming – The Emigrants Jacques Laurent – Mata Hari's Daughter Camara Laye – Le Regard du roi Ira Levin – A Kiss Before Dying Astrid Lindgren – Mio, My Son E. C. R. Lorac Let Well Alone Shroud of Darkness Ross Macdonald – Find a Victim Compton Mackenzie – Ben Nevis Goes East Kamala Markandaya – Nectar in a Sieve John Masters – Bhowani Junction Richard Matheson – I Am Legend John Metcalfe – The Feasting Dead James A. Michener – Sayonara Paul Morand – Hecate and Her Dogs Alberto Moravia – Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) Iris Murdoch – Under the Net Louis Pauwels – L'Amour monstre J. B. Priestley – The Magicians Maurice Procter – Hell Is a City Marcel Proust – Jean Sauteuil (posthumously published) Ellery Queen – The Glass Village Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos) – Story of O (Histoire d'O) Mordecai Richler – The Acrobats Lillian Roth – I'll Cry Tomorrow Françoise Sagan – Bonjour Tristesse<ref>No. 41 in [[Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century|Le Monde'''s 100 Books of the Century]]. http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=46796 Écrivains et choix sentimentaux Josyane Savigneau Josyane Savigneau Le Monde Paris 1999-10-15</ref> Ahmed Sefrioui – La Boîte à merveillesAnya Seton – KatherineMargit Söderholm – Clouds Over HellestaJohn Steinbeck – Sweet ThursdayIrving Stone – Love Is EternalRex StoutThe Black MountainThree Men OutEdward Streeter – Mr. Hobbs Takes a VacationJulian Symons – The Narrowing CircleAhmet Hamdi Tanpınar – Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (The Time Regulation Institute) Morton Thompson – Not as a StrangerJ. R. R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingThe Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersAmos Tutuola – My Life in the Bush of GhostsTarjei Vesaas – Spring NightGore Vidal – MessiahDouglass Wallop – The Year the Yankees Lost the PennantMonique Watteau – La Colère végétaleVaughan Wilkins – Fanfare for a WitchFrank Yerby Benton's Row Bride of LibertyChildren and young people Rev. W. Awdry – Edward the Blue Engine (ninth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Viola Bayley – Paris Adventure (first in the Adventure series of 16 books) Lucy M. Boston – The Children of Green Knowe (first in the Green Knowe series of six books) Eleanor Cameron – The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom PlanetMeindert DeJong – The Wheel on the School (illustrated by Maurice Sendak) Rumer Godden – Impunity Jane: The Story of a Pocket DollJoseph Krumgold – ...And Now MiguelC. S. Lewis – The Horse and His BoyDr. Seuss – Horton Hears a Who!Rosemary Sutcliff – The Eagle of the NinthHenry TreeceLegions of the EagleThe Eagles Have FlownRonald Welch – Knight CrusaderDrama Tawfiq al-Hakim – El Aydi El Na'mah (Soft Hands) Brendan Behan – The Quare Fellow Dharamvir Bharati – Andha Yug (The Blind Age) Agatha Christie - Spider’s Web William Douglas Home – The Manor of Northstead Peter Jones – The Party Spirit Saunders Lewis – Siwan Ronald Millar – Waiting for Gillian Hugh Mills – The Little Glass Clock Terence Rattigan – Separate Tables Reginald Rose – Twelve Angry Men (original version as live teleplay) Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood (radio play) Thornton Wilder – The Matchmaker Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Poetry Tomas Tranströmer – 17 Poems (17 dikter)Non-fiction Gordon Allport – The Nature of PrejudiceL. Sprague de Camp – Lost ContinentsRodney Collin – The Theory of Celestial InfluenceAlbert Einstein – Ideas and OpinionsGerald Gardner – Witchcraft TodayAldous Huxley – The Doors of PerceptionArthur Koestler – The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932–40D. R. Matthews – The Social Background of Political Decision-MakersMervyn Peake – Figures of SpeechMihai Ralea – Caracterul antiștiințific și antiuman al psihologiei americane (The Anti-Science and Anti-Humanity Nature of American Psychology) A. J. P. Taylor – The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918Alice B. Toklas – The Alice B. Toklas CookbookWilliam Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. – Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (collected essays including "The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy", cowritten with Monroe Beardsley)Leitch, Vincent B. Cain, William E. Finke, Laurie A. Johnson, Barbara E. McGowan, John Williams, Jeffrey J. William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism New York W. W. Norton & Co 2001 1371–1374 Barbara WoodhouseDog Training my WayTalking to Animals (autobiography) Births January 5 – László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter January 15 – Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer January 29 – Oprah Winfrey, American actress and talk show host January – Cao Wenxuan (曹文軒), Chinese children's book writer and academic February 2 – Moniza Alvi, Pakistani-British poet and writer February 16 – Iain Banks, Scottish science-fiction writer (died 2013) March 4 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer May 6 – Nicholas Crane, English writer, geographer and broadcaster March 16 – S. A. Griffin, American actor and poet March 20 Christoph Ransmayr, Austrian writer Louis Sachar, American children's author April 14 – Bruce Sterling, American science-fiction writer May 5 – Hamid Ismailov, Uzbek writer May 23 – Anja Snellman, Finnish writer June 6 – Cynthia Rylant, American children's author and poet June 28 – A. A. Gill, British journalist and critic (died 2016) July 17 – J. Michael Straczynski, American author July 26 - Michael Grant, American young-adult fiction writer August 1 – James Gleick, American non-fiction author August 15 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet and academic August 17 – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Russian-Irish writer September 14 – Mikey Smith, Jamaican dub poet (killed 1983) November 8 – Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born English novelist and Nobel laureate November 10 – Marlene van Niekerk, South African novelist November 11 – Mary Gaitskill, American novelist, essayist and short story writer November 12 – Christopher Pike (Kevin Christopher McFadden), American children's author December 2 – Ibrahim Nasrallah, Jordanian/Palestinian poet and novelist December 3 – Grace Andreacchi, American author December 7 – Mark Hofmann, American rare book dealer, forger and murderer December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, American writerunknown datesEsther Delisle, French Canadian author and historian Roma Tearne (Roma Chrysostom), Sri Lankan novelist and artist 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 Juan Álvarez, Argentinian historian (born 1878) Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author (born 1875) Cicely Fox Smith, English poet and nautical writer (born 1882) 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)Stanley Kunitz Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. Supplement https://books.google.com/books?id=d9_TAAAAMAAJ 1955 H. W. Wilson 353 Awards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Ronald Welch, Knight CrusaderPeter Hunt International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=7doBUwzbWh4C&pg=PA367 2 September 2003 Routledge 978-1-134-87993-9 367 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Carl Jacob Burckhardt James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Fiction: C. P. Snow, The New Men and The MastersBiography: Keith Feiling, Warren HastingsNewbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, ...And Now MiguelNobel Prize for Literature: Ernest Miller Hemingway Premio Nadal: Francisco Alcántara, La muerte sienta bien a VillalobosPrix Goncourt: Simone de Beauvoir, Les mandarinsSusan Weiner Professor Susan Weiner, MS Rdn Cde Cdn Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945-1968 https://books.google.com/books?id=fAbxF0fYsrkC&pg=PA215 9 May 2001 JHU Press 978-0-8018-6539-8 215 Pulitzer Prize: Drama: John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August MoonFiction: no award givenPoetry: Theodore Roethke: TheWakingQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson Hugo Award: Best Novella: James Blish, A Case of Conscience'' References 30em External links Popular Books of 1954 at Goodreads Published 1954 Books at Goodreads 1954 Books at Goodreads