1948 in literature

1948 in literature

The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" (1948-1953) is published.
*A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC.

New books

*Jerzy Andrzejewski - "Ashes and Diamonds"
*Hervé Bazin - "Vipère au Poing"
*Henry Bellamann - "Parris Mitchell of King's Row"
*Pearl S. Buck - "Peony"
*Taylor Caldwell - "Melissa"
*Truman Capote - "Other Voices, Other Rooms"
*John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - "The Skeleton in the Clock"
*James Gould Cozzens - "Guard of Honor"
*Edmund Crispin - "Love Lies Bleeding"
*A. J. Cronin - "Shannon's Way"
*Osamu Dazai - "No Longer Human"
*L. Sprague de Camp - "Divide and Rule"
*L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - "The Carnelian Cube"
*August Derleth - "Not Long for this World"
*William Pène du Bois - "The Twenty-One Balloons"
*Lord Dunsany - "The Fourth Book of Jorkens"
*Howard Fast - "My Glorious Brothers"
*Henry Green - "Concluding"
*Graham Greene - "The Heart of the Matter"
*L.P. Hartley - "The Travelling Grave and Other Stories"
*Marguerite Henry - "King of the Wind"
*Georgette Heyer - "The Foundling"
*Zora Neale Hurston - "Seraph on the Suwanee"
*Aldous Huxley - "Ape and Essence"
*Anna Kavan - "The House of Sleep"
*Ross Lockridge, Jr. - "Raintree County"
*Norman Mailer - "The Naked and the Dead"
*Thomas Mann - "Joseph and His Brothers"
*W. Somerset Maugham - "Catalina"
*C. L. Moore - "The Mask of Circe"
*Hope Muntz - "The Golden Warrior"
*Zoe B. Oldenbourg - "The World Is Not Enough"
*Alan Paton - "Cry, the Beloved Country"
*Ellery Queen - "Ten Days' Wonder"
*Seabury Quinn - "Roads"
*Anya Seton - "The Hearth and the Eagle"
*Dr. Seuss - "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose"
*Irwin Shaw - "The Young Lions"
*Nevil Shute - "No Highway"
*Clark Ashton Smith - "Genius Loci and Other Tales"
*Dodie Smith - "I Capture the Castle"
*William Gardner Smith - "Last of the Conquerors"
*Rex Stout - "And Be a Villain"
*Gore Vidal - "The City and the Pillar"
*Donald Wandrei - "The Web of Easter Island"
*Stanley G. Weinbaum - "The Black Flame"
*Dorothy West - "The Living Is Easy"
*Thornton Wilder - "Ides of March"

New drama

*Robertson Davies - "Overlaid"
*Terence Rattigan - "The Browning Version"
*Jean-Paul Sartre - "Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands)"
*Samuel Beckett - "Waiting for Godot"

hort stories

*Shirley Jackson - "The Lottery" & "Charles"

Poetry

*Olga Kirsch - "Mure van die Hart"
*Derek Walcott - "25 Poems"

Non-fiction

*Isaac Asimov - "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"
*Robert Graves - "The White Goddess"
*Richard Hofstadter - "The American Political Tradition"
*A. A. Milne - "The Norman Church"
*Anthony Powell - "John Aubrey and His Friends"
*John Steinbeck - "A Russian Journal"

Births

* January 1 - Lynn Abbey, writer
* February 5 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
* February 28 - Mike Figgis, director, writer, composer
* February 29 - Patricia A. McKillip, author of fantasy and science fiction novels
* March 17 - William Gibson, writer
* April 4 - Dan Simmons, American author of science fiction, horror and fantasy
* April 28 - Terry Pratchett, English fantasy author
* September 20 - George R. R. Martin, fantasy writer
* October 17 - Robert Jordan, fantasy writer
* December 17- Roopesh Aakula, Great Recruiter

Deaths

*March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of "Raintree County"
*March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
*April 22 - Prosper Montagné, chef, author of "Larousse Gastronomique"
*July 3 - Phelps Putnam, American poet
*June 21 - Alice Brown, novelist, poet and dramatist
*July 5 - Georges Bernanos, novelist
*July 21 - J.-H. Rosny jeune, science fiction pioneer
*July 27 - Susan Glaspell, dramatist and novelist
*August 3 - Venetia Stanley, recipient of the Asquith letters
*August 19 - Frederick Philip Grove, novelist and essayist
*September 9 - Lajos Biró, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter
*December 13 - Michael Roberts, poet and critic

Awards

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Percy A. Scholes, "The Great Dr Burney"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: William Pene du Bois, "The Twenty-One Balloons"
* Nobel Prize for literature: Thomas Stearns Eliot
* Premio Nadal: Sebastián Juan Arbó, "Sobre las piedras grises"
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, "A Streetcar Named Desire"
* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James A. Michener - "Tales of the South Pacific"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden: "The Age of Anxiety"


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