1949 in literature
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The year 1949 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Arthur C. Clarke becomes Assistant Editor of Science Abstracts.
- Bertrand Russell receives the Order of Merit.
- Jean-Paul Sartre completes his Les Chemins de la Liberté ("The Roads to Freedom") trilogy.
- A statue of folk poet Larin Paraske is erected in Helsinki.
[edit] New books
- Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm
- Miguel Ángel Asturias - Men of Maize
- Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph
- Elizabeth Bowen - The Heat of the Day
- Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
- Fredric Brown - The Screaming Mimi
- Pearl S. Buck - The Angry Wife
- Dorothy Bussy - Olivia (published anonymously)
- Taylor Caldwell - Let Love Come Last
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - A Graveyard To Let
- Agatha Christie - Crooked House
- Foster Fitzsimmons - Bright Leaf
- A. B. Guthrie, Jr. - The Way West
- John Hawkes - Cannibal
- Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind
- Shirley Jackson - The Lottery and Other Stories
- Alaric Jacob - Scenes from a Bourgeois Life
- Marghanita Laski - Little Boy Lost
- H. P. Lovecraft - Something About Cats and Other Pieces
- Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
- C. L. Moore - Beyond Earth's Gates
- John O'Hara - A Rage to Live
- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Ruth Park - Poor Man's Orange
- Karel Poláček - There Were Five of Us (Czech Bylo nás pět)
- Ellery Queen - Cat of Many Tails
- Harold Robbins - The Dream Merchants
- Jack Schaefer - Shane
- Anna Seghers - Die Toten Bleiben Jung
- Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice
- Rex Stout - Trouble in Triplicate
- Rex Stout - The Second Confession
- Edward Streeter - Father of the Bride
- Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee
- Mika Waltari - The Egyptian
- S. Fowler Wright - The Throne of Saturn
- Frank Yerby - Pride's Castle
[edit] New drama
- T. S. Eliot - The Cocktail Party
- Christopher Fry - The Lady's Not for Burning
- Jean Genet - Deathwatch (Haute Surveillance)
- Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
[edit] Poetry
- Carlos de Oliveira - Descida aos Infernos
[edit] Non-fiction
- Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
- Marc Bloch - Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
- Thomas B. Costain - The Conquering Family, also known as The Conquerors (First book in the Plantagenet Series, also known as The Pageant of England)
- John Gunther – Death Be Not Proud
- Margaret Mead - Male and Female
- Audie Murphy - To Hell and Back
- Finn Ronne - Antarctic Conquest
- Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue - The Royal Road To Card Magic
[edit] Births
- January 26 - Jonathan Carroll, American author of fantasy fiction
- February 4 - Mark D. Devlin, memoirist (d. 2005)
- March 26 - Patrick Süskind, German novelist
- April 11 - Dorothy Allison, novelist and campaigner
- June 5 - Ken Follett, novelist
- July 15 - Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
- August 3 - Peter Gutmann, journalist
- November 2 - Lois McMaster Bujold, American author of science fiction and fantasy
- October 5 - Peter Ackroyd, English author
- December 24 - Alberto Pérez-Gómez, architectural historian
- date unknown
- David Gilmour, novelist
- John Guy, historian and biographer
- John Harris, political author
- Jimmy McGovern, screenwriter
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, U.S. book publisher
- February 11 - Axel Munthe, Swedish author
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate
- June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author
- June 14 - Russell Doubleday, U.S. author and publisher
- August 16 - Margaret Mitchell, "Gone with the Wind" author
- September 19 - Will Cuppy, U.S. humorist
- December 7 - Rex Beach - U.S. author
- December 28 - Hervey Allen - U.S. author
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Emma Smith, The Far Cry
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Connell, W. E. Henley
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind
- Nobel Prize for literature - William Faulkner
- Premio Nadal: Jose Suárez Carreño, Las últimas horas
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum
