1951 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

Events

• E. E. Cummings is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
• Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
• Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy.
• Arthur C. Clarke writes The Sentinel, an unpublished story that will form the basis for 2001.
• First appearance of Dennis the Menace in The Beano.
• Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's adoptive mother, dies.
• James Clavell marries actress, April Stride, who introduces him to the movie business.
• Joe Orton enters RADA.

New books

• The Balance Wheel - Taylor Caldwell
• The Blessing - Nancy Mitford
• Boy at the Window - Owen Dodson
• The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
• The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
• The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• The Foundling - Cardinal Spellman
• From Here to Eternity - James Jones
• Galactic Storm - Gill Hunt
• Lie Down In Darkness - William Styron
• Log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck
• The Loved and the Lost - Morley Callaghan
• Mémoires d'Hadrien - Marguerite Yourcenar
• Moses - Sholem Asch
• My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
• Prince Caspian - C. S. Lewis
• The Puppet Masters - Robert A. Heinlein
• A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
• Return to Paradise - James A. Michener
• The Rustlers of the West Fork - Louis L'Amour
• Spartacus - Howard Fast
• The Stars Like Dust - Isaac Asimov
• Tempest-Tost - Robertson Davies
• The Wanderer - Mika Waltari
• A Woman Called Fancy - Frank Yerby

New drama

• A. A. Milne - Before the Flood
• Jean-Paul Sartre - Le diable et le bon dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord)
• Tennessee Williams - The Rose Tattoo
• Peter Wessel Zapffe - Den fortapte sønn, En dramatisk gjenfortælling (The lost son, a dramatic renarration)

Births

• August 20 - Greg Bear, science fiction author
• August 24 - Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
• September 20 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist
• December 22 - Charles de Lint, Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician

Deaths

• January 7 - René Guénon, philosophical writer
• February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist
• February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author
• February 19 - André Gide, author
• March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer
• March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American, author & filmmaker
• April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
• June 11 - W. C. Sellar, humorist (1066 and All That)
• August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper tycoon
• September 2 - Antoine Bibesco, dramatist
• December 4 - Pedro Salinas, poet
• December 10 - Algernon Blackwood, short story author

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Conrad Richter, The Town
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Sandburg, Complete Poemsfr:1951 en littérature

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