1952 in literature

none 1952 literature poetry thumb|right|Samuel Beckett in 1977 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1952. Events February – The historical periodical Past & Present is launched in Oxford, England. 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.Geoffrey Chaucer A Treatise on the Astrolabe https://books.google.com/books?id=lLzYeLIhMdgC&pg=PA344 2002 University of Oklahoma Press 978-0-8061-3413-0 344 March 3 – J. L. Carr takes over as Headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will later feature in his novel The Harpole Report.Byron Rogers The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr https://books.google.com/books?id=EDDBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT108 1 December 2011 Aurum Press 978-1-84513-813-4 106–8 May – The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books by Pope Pius XII.Andre Gide, The Immoralist (1902); commentary by Anais Aigner (1998). Retrieved 12 February 2012. 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.Bethany K. Dumas E. E. Cummings: a Remembrance of Miracles https://books.google.com/books?id=u2euAAAAIAAJ 1974 Barnes & Noble 43 978-0-06-491822-0 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.http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/NewAmbassadorsTheatre.htm New Ambassadors Theatre arthurlloyd.co.uk 2007-12-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20071109140822/http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/NewAmbassadorsTheatre.htm 2007-11-09 dead Performances were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. 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 Fiction 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 SibleyH. R. F. Keating H. R. F. Keating Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction London Windward 1982 0-7112-0249-4 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 Jeffrey Farnol – Waif of the River 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 Het behouden huis (novelle) (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 Edgar Lustgarten – Game for Three Losers 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 – et 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... Antonia White – The Sugar House Vaughan Wilkins – A King Reluctant Angus Wilson – Hemlock and After Frank Yerby – The Saracen Blade Children and young people 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 Rodney Ackland – The Pink Room Jean Anouilh The Lark (L'Alouette) The Waltz of the Toreadors (La Valse des toréadors) Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot Jacinto Benavente – Ha llegado Don Juan es Alice Childress – Gold Through the Trees Agatha Christie – The Mousetrap John Clements – The Happy Marriage 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) Janet Green – Murder Mistaken Michael Clayton Hutton – Dead Secret Peter Jones – Sweet Madness Joseph Kramm – The Shrike Charles Langbridge Morgan – The River Line Eric Linklater – The Mortimer Touch Roger MacDougall – Escapade Raymond Massey – Hanging Judge Charles Morgan – The River Line Ralph Peterson – The Square Ring J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes – Dragon's Mouth Terence Rattigan – The Deep Blue Sea Dodie Smith – Letter from Paris Ben Travers – Wild Horses Gerald Verner – Meet Mr. Callaghan John Van Druten – I've Got Sixpence Arthur Watkyn – The Moonraker Poetry 1952 in poetry Paul Celan – Poppy and Memory (de Mohn und Gedächtnis)Kerrel Sorbel 2003 https://books.google.com/books?id=apprbj4EA0gC&pg=PA212 Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century New York Fitzroy Dearborn 212 9781579583132 David Jones – The Anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing Gabriela Mistral – Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacoshttp://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/mistral-bibl.html The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 – Gabriela Mistral – Bibliography Nobelprize.org 2011 2013-09-02 Sean O Riordain – Eireaball SpideoigeCrotty, Patrick Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology Belfast Blackstaff Press 1995 0-85640-561-2 registration https://archive.org/details/modernirishpoetr00crot Non-fiction Roland Bainton – The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century John Bowlby – Maternal Care and Mental Health 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 Shepherd Mead – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 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 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)Achache, Carole (1952-....) https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14406672c 1 December 2023 Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 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)Hilary Mantel, celebrated author of Wolf Hall, dies aged 70 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/23/hilary-mantel-author-wolf-hall-dies The Guardian Lucy Knight 23 September 2022 en 23 September 2022 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 5 – Clive Barker, British writer 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 writerhttp://in.jagran.yahoo.com/sahitya/?page=article&articleid=2403&category=7 हेमंत शेष को बिरला फाउंडेशन के बिहारी पुरस्कार Dainik Jagran Jagran Prakashan Ltd Hindi 8 September 2011 23 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120323154917/http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/sahitya/?page=article&articleid=2403&category=7 dead Deaths 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 Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mary Norton, The Borrowers Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Romano Guardini 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 30em External links Popular Books of 1952 at Goodreads Published 1952 Books at Goodreads 1952 Books at Goodreads