1948 in literature

none 1948 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1948. Events January 6 – The poet Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding. Jones Derek Censorship : a world encyclopedia Routledge Abingdon 2015 9781136798641 1698 January 28 – A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC. February 5 – A private assembly of 50 major literary and artistic figures listens to a recording of Antonin Artaud's play Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu (To Have Done With the Judgment of God), whose broadcast on French radio three days earlier has been prohibited. February 17–November 24 – Venezuelan novelist Rómulo Gallegos serves as his country's first correctly elected President, until overthrown by the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état.Chin John J. https://books.google.com/books?id=WyScEAAAQBAJ Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups D'état Wright Joseph Carter David B. 2022-12-13 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-5381-2068-2 329, 440 enLott Leo B. 1956 Executive Power in Venezuela https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400067484/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 50 2 422–441 10.2307/1951677 0003-0554 1951677 143931136 subscription March 21 – Halldor Laxness's The Atom Station (Atómstöðin) sells out all copies on its first day of publication. May – Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1944) is first performed as a student production, in English, at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.University of South Carolina The Fortunes of German Writers in America: Studies in Literary Reception https://books.google.com/books?id=GmVYIZK59ysC&pg=PA241 1992 Univ of South Carolina Press 978-0-87249-786-3 241 This year also sees the première of Brecht's adaptation of Antigone, at the Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland, with Helene Weigel in the title rôle. May 4 – Sir Laurence Olivier's film of Shakespeare's Hamlet is shown. It will be the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. c. June 1 – The first volume of Winston Churchill's The Second World War (1948–1953) is published. September 8 – Terence Rattigan's one-act plays The Browning Version and Harlequinade are first performed at the Phoenix Theatre (London). September 17 – The Irish poet W. B. Yeats, who died at Menton, France, in 1939, is reburied at Drumcliffe, County Sligo, "Under bare Ben Bulben's head", having been moved from the original burial place, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the Irish Naval Service corvette LÉ Macha. His grave at Drumcliffe, with an epitaph from "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems ("Cast a cold Eye/On Life, on Death./Horseman, pass by"), becomes a place of literary pilgrimage. November 13 – Alice's Adventures Under Ground, the original manuscript of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, bought by a group of American Anglophiles in 1946, is presented by Luther H. Evans (Librarian of Congress) to the British Museum Library.'Alice's Adventures Under Ground', the original manuscript version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alices-adventures-under-ground-the-original-manuscript-version-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland British Library 2015-09-30Alice Comes Home The Times London 1948-11-15 5 51229 unknown dates The 20th and last edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is published by the Holy See.Allen Kent Harold Lancour Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 4 - Calligraphy to Church Libraries Taylor & Francis 1970 311 The London publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson is founded by George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson. The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Palatino serif typeface, designed by Hermann Zapf, is released by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. New books Fiction Ilse Aichinger – Die größere Hoffnung (The Greater Hope, translated as Herod's Children) Martha Albrand – After Midnight Jerzy Andrzejewski – Ashes and Diamonds Charlotte Armstrong – The Chocolate Cobweb Isaac Asimov – The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline (short story) Deming Stanley Experimental design : a chemometric approach Elsevier Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co Amsterdam New York New York, NY, U.S.A. 1987 9780080868301 63 Nigel Balchin – The Borgia Testament René Barjavel – Le Diable l'emporte Alexander Baron – From the City, From the Plough Hervé Bazin – Viper in the Fist (Vipère au Poing) Henry Bellamann – Parris Mitchell of King's Row Elizabeth Bowen – The Heat of the Day Christianna Brand – Death of Jezebel Jocelyn Brooke The Military Orchid The Scapegoat Pearl S. Buck – Peony Gerald Butler – Slippery Hitch Taylor Caldwell – Melissa Victor Canning – Panther's Moon Truman Capote – Other Voices, Other Rooms Al Capp – The Life and Times of the Shmoo John Dickson Carr (as Carter Dickson) – The Skeleton in the Clock John Paddy Carstairs – Solid! Said the Earl Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Celestial Plot (La trama celeste) (short stories) Willa Cather (died 1947) – The Old Beauty and Others (short stories, including "The Best Years") Peter Cheyney – Dark Wanton Agatha Christie Taken at the Flood The Rose and the Yew Tree (as by Mary Westmacott) The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories James Gould Cozzens – Guard of Honor Edmund Crispin Buried for Pleasure Love Lies Bleeding A. J. Cronin – Shannon's Way Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human L. Sprague de Camp – Divide and Rule L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – The Carnelian Cube August Derleth – Not Long for this World Lord Dunsany – The Fourth Book of Jorkens Howard Fast – My Glorious Brothers William Faulkner – Intruder in the Dust Gaito Gazdanov – The Specter of Alexander Wolf (serialization completed) Jon Godden – The House by the Sea F. L. Green – Mist on the Waters Henry Green – Concluding Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter Giovannino Guareschi – Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo (The Little World of Don Camillo) Hella Haasse (anonymously) – Oeroeg L. P. Hartley – The Travelling Grave and Other Stories Marguerite Henry – King of the Wind Georgette Heyer – The Foundling Zora Neale Hurston – Seraph on the Suwanee Aldous Huxley – Ape and Essence Hammond Innes – Maddon's Rock Shirley Jackson The Road Through the Wall "The Lottery" (short story) "Charles" (short story) Anna Kavan – The House of Sleep Patrick Kavanagh – Tarry Flynn Yasunari Kawabata – Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, completed version) Arthur La Bern – Paper Orchid Halldór Laxness – The Atom Station Alexander Lernet-Holenia – The Count of Saint Germain Audrey Erskine Lindop – Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry Ross Lockridge Jr. – Raintree County E. C. R. Lorac Death Before Dinner Part for a Poisoner Edgar Lustgarten – Blondie Iscariot Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead Thomas Mann – Joseph and His Brothers Leopoldo Marechal – Adam Buenosayres Ana María Matute – Los Abel W. Somerset Maugham – Catalina Gladys Mitchell – The Dancing Druids C. L. Moore – The Mask of Circe Alan Moorehead – The Rage of the Vulture Zoe B. Oldenbourg – The World Is Not Enough Alan Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country Ellery Queen – Ten Days' Wonder Seabury Quinn – Roads Anya Seton – The Hearth and the Eagle Irwin Shaw – The Young Lions Nevil Shute – No Highway B. F. Skinner – Walden Two Clark Ashton Smith – Genius Loci and Other Tales Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle William Gardner Smith – Last of the Conquerors Howard Spring – There Is No Armour Robert Standish – Elephant Walk Rex Stout – And Be a Villain Cecil Street The Paper Bag The Telephone Call Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar – A Mind at Peace (Huzur, serial publication) Josephine Tey – The Franchise Affair Gore Vidal – The City and the Pillar Mika Waltari – The Adventurer (Mikael Karvajalka) Donald Wandrei – The Web of Easter Island Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One Stanley G. Weinbaum – The Black Flame Dorothy West – The Living is Easy Thornton Wilder – The Ides of March Brock Williams – Uncle Willie and the Bicycle Shop Herman Wouk – City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder Frank Yerby – The Golden Hawk Children and young people Bertil Almqvist – Barna Hedenhös: bilder från stenåldern (The Hedenhös Family: Pictures from the Stone Age) Rev. W. Awdry – James the Red Engine (third in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Hans Fischer – Pitschi. Das Kätzchen, das immer etwas anderes wollte. Eine traurige Geschichte, die aber gut aufhört Antonia Forest – Autumn Term (first in the Marlow series of ten books) Ruth Stiles Gannett – My Father's Dragon Robert A. Heinlein - "Space Cadet" Marguerite Henry – King of the Wind (Newbery Medal) Lorna Hill – Marjorie and Co. (first in the Marjorie series of six books) Tove Jansson – Trollkarlens hatt (The Magician's Hat, translated as Finn Family Moomintroll) Astrid Lindgren – Pippi in the South Seas (Pippi Långstrump i Söderhavet) Dr. Seuss – Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose Rosemary Tonks – On Wooden Wings: The Adventures of Webster Geoffrey Trease – The Hills of Varna (also as Shadow of the Hawk) Elfrida Vipont – The Lark in the Moon Drama Bertolt Brecht – Antigone, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti, first performed) Robertson Davies – Overlaid Witold Gombrowicz – The Marriage (first published, in Spanish translation) Kenneth Horne – A Lady Mislaid Margaret Kennedy – Happy with Either Junji Kinoshita – Yūzuru (Twilight Crane) Dudley Leslie and J. Lee Thompson – The Human Touch J.B. Priestley –Home Is Tomorrow Terence Rattigan – The Browning Version and Harlequinade Jean-Paul Sartre – Dirty Hands (Les Mains sales) Vernon Sylvaine - One Wild Oat John Van Druten – Make Way for Lucia Arthur Watkyn – For Better, for Worse Kerala women's Malayalam collective – Thozhil Kendrathilekku (To the Workplace!) Poetry Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947) – Chharpatra (ছাড়পত্র, "Certificate") Olga Kirsch – Mure van die Hart Derek Walcott – 25 Poems Non-fiction Winston Churchill – The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, vol. 1) T. S. Eliot – Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Robert Graves – The White Goddess Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey – Cheaper by the Dozen Richard Hofstadter – The American Political Tradition F. R. Leavis – The Great Tradition Betty MacDonald – The Plague and I Dumas Malone – Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson the Virginian Thomas Merton – The Seven Storey Mountain A. A. Milne – The Norman Church Anthony Powell – John Aubrey and His Friends Paul Samuelson – Economics John Steinbeck (photographs by Robert Capa) – A Russian Journal Births January 1 – Lynn Abbey (Marilyn Lorraine Abbey), American writer January 2 – Joyce Wadler, American writer and memoirist January 20 – Nigel Williams, English author, playwright and screenwriter February 3 – Henning Mankell, Swedish crime novelist, children's author and dramatist (died 2015)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/05/henning-mankell Henning Mankell Obituary 5 October 2015 Andrew Brown The Guardian 3 October 2022 February 5 – Christopher Guest, English-American writer, actor and director February 15 – Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist February 19 – Clive Sinclair, English short-story writer February 28 – Mike Figgis, English writer, director and composer February 29 Hermione Lee, English biographer Patricia A. McKillip, American fantasy and science fiction novel author (died 2022) March 4 – James Ellroy, American crime fiction author March 17 – William Gibson, American-born speculative novelist March 28 – Iman Budhi Santosa, Indonesian poet April 4 – Dan Simmons, American science fiction and horror writer (died 2026) April 21 – Clare Boylan, Irish novelist (died 2006)McDonnell Jane Obituary: Clare Boylan https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/may/20/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries the Guardian 11 October 2018 en 19 May 2006 April 28 – Terry Pratchett, English comic fantasy author (died 2015)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/12/terry-pratchett Sir Terry Pratchett Obituary Christopher Priest 2017-09-17 2015-03-12 The Guardian London May 31 – Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient June 14 – Laurence Yep, American author June 16 – F. van Dixhoorn, Dutch poet June 21 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish fantasy author June 30 – Wolf Erlbruch, German children's book illustrator and writer (died 2022)Edward B. Marks For a Better World: Posters from the United Nations https://books.google.com/books?id=plh40x5FC-IC&pg=PA147 2000 Pomegranate 978-0-7649-1340-2 147 July 22 – Susan Eloise Hinton, American young-adult author August 2 – Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2013) August 8 – Miranda Seymour, English novelist and biographer August 24 – Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish writer August 28 – Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction writer (died 2019)Holland Steve Vonda N McIntyre obituary Steve Holland https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/04/vonda-mcintyre-obituary The Guardian 4 April 2019 4 April 2019 August 29 – Nick Darke, Cornish playwright (died 2005) September 2 – Manfred Böckl, German novelist and writer of popular history (died 2026) September 16 – Julia Donaldson, English author and children's writer September 20 – George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Martin), American fantasy author October 5 – Zoran Živković, Serbian author and academic October 6 – Zakes Mda (Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda), South African novelist, poet and playwright October 9 – Ciaran Carson, Northern Irish poet and novelist October 17 – Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr), American fantasy author (died 2007)https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/books/18jordan.html James O. Rigney Jr., Who Wrote as Robert Jordan, Dies at 58 September 18, 2007 Margalit Fox New York Times October 3, 2022 October 18 – Ntozake Shange (Paulette L. Williams), African American playwright, poet and novelist (died 2018) November 18 – Frances Fyfield, English jurist and crime writer December 2 – T. C. Boyle, American novelist December 7 – Gertrud Leutenegger, Swiss novelist and poet (died 2025) December 20 – Abdulrazak Gurnah, Zanzibar-born novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient unknown dates Ibrahim al-Koni, Libyan novelistDavid Damrosch The Longman Anthology of World Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=TRvuAAAAMAAJ 2004 Longman 978-0-321-05536-1 739 Suzanne Robert, French Canadian novelist (died 2007) Edward Rutherfurd (Francis Edward Wintle), English novelist Deaths January 2 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893) Smith Verity Encyclopedia of Latin American literature Fitzroy Dearborn London 1996 9781135314248 429 January 21 – Eraclie Sterian, Romanian science writer and playwright (born 1872) March 6 – Ross Lockridge Jr., American author (suicide, born 1914) March 10 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American novelist (killed in fire, born 1900)Milford Nancy Nancy Milford Zelda: A Biography https://archive.org/details/zeldabiography0000milf registration 1970 Harper & Row New York 382–383 April 22 – Prosper Montagné, French chef and food author (born 1865) May 5 – Sextil Pușcariu, Romanian linguist, philologist and journalist (heart failure, born 1877) May 20 – Victor Ido, Dutch East Indian journalist, novelist and dramatist (born 1869) May 22 – Claude McKay, Jamaican American writer (born 1889) June 13 - Dazai Osamu, Japanese writer (born 1909) June 16 – Holbrook Jackson, English journalist, writer, publisher and bibliophile (born 1874) June 21 – Alice Brown, American novelist, poet and dramatist (born 1857) July 3 – Phelps Putnam, American poet (born 1894) July 4 – Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian fiction writer, particularly for children (born 1882) July 5 – Georges Bernanos, French novelist (born 1888) Sollars Michael The Facts on File companion to the world novel : 1900 to the present Facts On File New York 2008 9781438108360 73 July 21 – J.-H. Rosny jeune (Séraphin Justin François Boex), French science fiction writer (born 1859) July 27 – Susan Glaspell, American dramatist and novelist (born 1876) August 3 – Venetia Stanley, English correspondent (cancer, born 1887) August 19 – Frederick Philip Grove, German-born Canadian novelist and essayist (born 1879) August 25 – Gordon Bottomley, English poet, writer of verse drama (born 1874) September 8 – Thomas Mofolo, Sotho novelist (born 1876) September 9 – Lajos Bíró, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1880) Vazzana Eugene Silent film necrology McFarland Jefferson, N.C 2001 9780786410590 48 September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian writer (born 1881) October 12 – Alfred Kerr, German theatre critic (suicide, born 1867) December 13 – Michael Roberts, English poet and critic (born 1902) Awards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Richard Armstrong, Sea Change James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr Burney Newbery Medal for children's literature: William Pene du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons Nobel Prize in Literature: Thomas Stearns Eliot Premio Nadal: Sebastián Juan Arbó, Sobre las piedras grises Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James A. Michener – Tales of the South Pacific Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden: The Age of Anxiety References 30em External links Popular Books of 1948 at Goodreads Published 1948 Books at Goodreads 1948 Books at Goodreads