1951 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1951.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

— Opening lines of The Catcher in the Rye

Events[]

  • January 12 – Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis' so-called adoptive mother, dies.[1]
  • March – The American writer Flannery O'Connor leaves hospital after being diagnosed with lupus at the age of 25.[2]
  • March 12 – Hank Ketcham's U.S. Dennis the Menace appears for the first time in 16 United States newspapers.
  • March 17 – The homonymous U.K. Dennis the Menace comic strip first appears in the children's comic The Beano.
  • Spring – Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", which will form a basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and a subsequent novel, is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine 10 Story Fantasy.
  • May – Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he meets his lover and ultimate murderer Kenneth Halliwell.
  • June 18 – Frank Hardy is acquitted of criminal libel in the Australian state of Victoria over his self-published, 1950 roman à clef on corruption in Melbourne political life, Power Without Glory.[3]
  • July 16 – J. D. Salinger's coming-of-age story The Catcher in the Rye is published by Little, Brown and Company in New York City.
  • September 6 – William S. Burroughs shoots and kills his common-law wife Joan Vollmer, apparently by accident, in Mexico City.[4]
  • December 16 – Noël Coward leaves his home, White Cliffs, on the south coast of England, having sold it to Ian Fleming.[5]
  • unknown dates
    • E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. It is Cummings' second.[6]
    • Janet Frame's first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories, is published by the Caxton Press (New Zealand) (dated 1952) while the author is a patient in Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, Seacliff, New Zealand, scheduled for a lobotomy. It is awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award, at the time one of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prizes. This results in the cancellation of Frame's operation.[7]
    • Béla Hamvas completes his epic novel Karnevál. He is banned from publication in Hungary at the time, so that it will appear only in 1985, 17 years after his death.
    • The first novel in Anthony Powell's set of twelve, A Dance to the Music of Time, is published by Heinemann in the U.K.
    • The custom of performing medieval mystery plays is revived at York and Chester, England.[8]
  • The Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris is founded.[9]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

  • M. E. Atkinson – Castaway Camp (first in the Fricka series of five books)
  • Viola Bayley – The Dark Lantern
  • Margaret Biggs – The Blakes Come to Melling
  • Anne de Vries – Into the Darkness (De Duisternis in, first in the Journey Through the Night – Reis door de nacht – series of four books)
  • Eleanor Estes – Ginger Pye
  • Rumer Godden – The Mousewife
  • Cynthia Harnett – The Wool-Pack[13]
  • C. S. Lewis – Prince Caspian
  • Elinor Lyon – We Daren't Go A'Hunting
  • Gianni Rodari – l romanzo di Cipollino (The Adventures of the Little Onion)

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Non-fiction[]

  • Nelson Algren – Chicago: City on the Make (essay)
  • Lou Andreas-Salomé (died 1937) – Lebensrückblick (Looking Back)
  • Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Albert Camus – The Rebel (L'Homme révolté)
  • Rachel Carson – The Sea Around Us
  • Nirad C. Chaudhuri – The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
  • Wolfgang Clemen – The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery
  • Thomas B. Costain – The Magnificent Century (second book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
  • Daphne du Maurier (ed.) – The Young George du Maurier: a selection of his letters 1860–67
  • Jacquetta Hawkes
    • A Land
    • A Guide to the Prehistoric and Roman Monuments in England and Wales
  • Eric Hoffer – The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements
  • Karl Huber (executed 1943) – Leibniz
  • Dumas Malone – Jefferson and the Rights of Man
  • C. Wright Mills – White Collar: The American Middle Classes
  • Vladimir Nabokov – Speak, Memory
  • J. A. Schumpeter – Imperialism and Social Classes
  • Tran Duc Thao – Phénoménologie et matérialisme dialectique

Births[]

  • January 1 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
  • January 13 – Nigel Cox, New Zealand novelist
  • January 22 – Steve J. Spears, Australian actor, singer, and playwright (died 2007)
  • February 13 – Katja Lange-Müller, German novelist
  • February 17 – Jagadish Mohanty, Indian novelist (died 2013)
  • March 4 – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, South Korean-born novelist and artist (died 1982)
  • March 12 – Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet and children's writer
  • April 5 – Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canadian author[14]
  • April 19 – Pierre Lemaitre, French suspense novelist
  • May 3 – Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian novelist, essayist and TV presenter
  • May 9
    • Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet[15]
    • Joy Harjo, Native American poet
  • May 15 – David Almond, English writer for children and young adults
  • May 20 – Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist, writer and broadcaster (died 2020)[16]
  • May 21 – Al Franken, American comedian, actor, writer and politician
  • June 15 – Amir Barghashi, Iranian-born Swedish actor and dramatist[17]
  • June 22 – Rosario Murillo, Nicaraguan poet and political activist
  • June 29 – Don Rosa, American writer and artist of Disney comics
  • August 20 – Greg Bear, American science fiction writer[18]
  • August 24 – Orson Scott Card, American science fiction writer[19]
  • September 20 – Javier Marías, Spanish novelist[20]
  • September 29 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian novelist and cinema critic (suicide 1977)[21]
  • October 3 – Bernard Cooper, American writer
  • October 11 – Louise Rennison, English author and comedian (died 2016)[22]
  • October 12 – Peter Flannery, English dramatist[23]
  • October 17 – Clark Parent, Haitian novelist, musician and politician
  • December 6 – Tomson Highway, Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist and children's author
  • December 8 – Bill Bryson, American travel writer[24]
  • December 22 – Charles de Lint, Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician
  • Unknown dates
    • Mohammed Achaari, Moroccan writer[25]
    • Carol Birch, English novelist

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

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