1952 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1952.

Events[]

  • February – The historical periodical Past & Present is launched in Oxford, U.K.
  • 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.[1]
  • March 3 – J. L. Carr takes over as Headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will later feature in his novel The Harpole Report.[2]
  • May – The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books by Pope Pius XII.[3]
  • July 10 – The first issue appears of Mad, 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.[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • unknown dates
    • The publisher Diogenes Verlag is founded in Zurich, Switzerland, by Daniel Keel.
    • The National Library of Burma is established in Rangoon.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1952 in poetry
  • Paul Celan – Poppy and Memory (German: Mohn und Gedächtnis)[7]
  • David Jones – The Anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing
  • Gabriela Mistral – Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacos[8]
  • Sean O Riordain – Eireaball Spideoige[9]

Non-fiction[]

  • Roland Bainton – The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
  • 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
  • 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 26 – T. A. Barron, American novelist
  • May 5 – Hafsat Abdulwaheed, Nigerian author and poet
  • 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 10 – Candice F. Ransom, American children's and young adult author
  • July 18 – Per Petterson, Norwegian novelist
  • August 28 – Rita Dove, American poet
  • 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

Deaths[]

  • January 22 – Roger Vitrac, French poet and dramatist (born 1899)
  • January 26 – Lodewijk van Deyssel, Dutch novelist (born 1864)
  • 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)
  • 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[]

References[]

  1. ^ Geoffrey Chaucer (2002). A Treatise on the Astrolabe. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-8061-3413-0.
  2. ^ Byron Rogers (1 December 2011). The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr. Aurum Press. pp. 106–8. ISBN 978-1-84513-813-4.
  3. ^ Andre Gide, The Immoralist (1902); commentary by Anais Aigner (1998). Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  4. ^ Bethany K. Dumas (1974). E. E. Cummings: a Remembrance of Miracles. Barnes & Noble. p. 43.
  5. ^ "New Ambassadors Theatre". arthurlloyd.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2007-12-04. Performances were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
  6. ^ Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.
  7. ^ Kerrel, Sorbel (2003). Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 212. ISBN 9781579583132.
  8. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 – Gabriela Mistral – Bibliography". Nobelprize.org. 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  9. ^ Crotty, Patrick, ed. (1995). Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0-85640-561-2.


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