1952 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

Events

• J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.
• November 25 - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London.
• The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.
• Launch of the influential periodical, Past and Present.
• E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
• Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled Equatorie of the Planetis.

New books

• Adventures in Two Worlds - A.J. Cronin
• Arrow in the Blue - Arthur Koestler
• A Buyer's Market - Anthony Powell
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• The Currents of Space - Isaac Asimov
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• La Formica Argentina - Italo Calvino
• Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
• Giant - Edna Ferber
• Go Tell it On The Mountain - James Baldwin
• The Gown of Glory - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• Heaven and Earth - Carlo Coccioli
• The Hidden Flower - Pearl S. Buck
• The Houses in Between - Howard Spring
• The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• Island of Desire - Edith Templeton
• Judgment Night - C. L. Moore
• Last Seen Wearing ... - Hillary Waugh
• A Many-splendoured Thing - Han Suyin
• Martha Quest - Doris Lessing
• The Natural - Bernard Malamud
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale
• The Rolling Stones - Robert A. Heinlein
• The Saracen Blade - Frank Yerby
• The Silver Chalice - Thomas B. Costain
• The Small Miracle - Paul Gallico
• Steamboat Gothic - Frances Parkinson Keyes
• Vermeer - Lawrence Gowing
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis

New drama

• Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
• Robertson Davies - A Masque of Aesop
• Jean-Paul Sartre - Les jeux sont faits (The Game is Up)

Non-fiction

• Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudun; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• Raymond Williams - Drama from Ibsen to Eliot

Births

• February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist
• February 29 - Tim Powers, American fantasy author
• March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author
• Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, author of fantasy novels under the pennames Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm

Deaths

• February 7 - Norman Douglas, novelist
• February 13 - Josephine Tey, crime novelist
• February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author
• March 1 - Mariano Azuela, novelist, dramatist and critic
• May 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic
• June 1 - John Dewey, philosopher and psychologist
• August 9 - Jeffery Farnol, historical romance novelist
• September 29 – George Santayana, writer
• November 16 - Charles Maurras, poet
• November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet

Awards

• National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
• Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poemsfr:1952 en littérature

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