- 1951 in literature
The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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E. E. Cummings andRachel Carson are awardedGuggenheim Fellowship s.
*Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
*Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his "A Dance to the Music of Time " duodecalogy.
*Arthur C. Clarke publishes "The Sentinel", the story that will form the basis for the film "".
*First appearance of "Dennis the Menace" comic strip in "The Beano ".
*Janie Moore,C. S. Lewis 's adoptive mother, dies.
*James Clavell marries actress April Stride, who introduces him to the movie business.
*Joe Orton enters theRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art .New books
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Sholem Asch - "Moses"
*Isaac Asimov
**"Foundation"
**"The Stars Like Dust "
*Ray Bradbury - "The Illustrated Man "
*Gill Hunt - "Galactic Storm"
*Taylor Caldwell - "The Balance Wheel"
*Morley Callaghan - "The Loved and the Lost"
*Truman Capote - "The Grass Harp "
*Arthur C. Clarke - "Prelude to Space "
*Robertson Davies - "Tempest-Tost "
*L. Sprague de Camp
**"Rogue Queen "
**"The Undesired Princess "
*August Derleth - "The Memoirs of Solar Pons "
*Owen Dodson - "Boy at the Window"
*Daphne du Maurier - "My Cousin Rachel "
*Howard Fast - "Spartacus"
*Graham Greene - "The End of the Affair "
*Robert A. Heinlein - "The Puppet Masters "
*Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan) - "The Price of Salt "
*James Jones - "From Here to Eternity "
*Nikos Kazantzakis - "The Last Temptation of Christ "
*Louis L'Amour - "The Rustlers of the West Fork"
*C. S. Lewis - "Prince Caspian "
*John Masters - "Nightrunners of Bengal "
*James A. Michener - "Return to Paradise"
*Nancy Mitford - "The Blessing "
*Nicholas Monsarrat - "The Cruel Sea"
*Alberto Moravia - "The Conformist " ("Il conformista")
*Anthony Powell - "A Question of Upbringing "
*J. D. Salinger - "The Catcher in the Rye "
*Ooka Shohei - "Fires on the Plain "
*Vern Schneider - "The Teahouse of the August Moon"
*Cardinal Spellman - "The Foundling "
*John Steinbeck - "The Log from the Sea of Cortez "
*Rex Stout
**"Curtains for Three "
**"Murder by the Book "
*William Styron - "Lie Down in Darkness "
*Elizabeth Taylor - "A Game of Hide and Seek "
*Josephine Tey - "The Daughter of Time "
*John Wyndham - "The Day of the Triffids "
*Mika Waltari - "The Wanderer"
*Herman Wouk - "The Caine Mutiny "
*Frank Yerby - "A Woman Called Fancy"
*Marguerite Yourcenar - "Mémoires d'Hadrien "New drama
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A. A. Milne - "Before the Flood"
*Jean-Paul Sartre - "Le diable et le bon dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord )"
*John Van Druten - "I Am a Camera "
*Lawrence Riley - "Kin Hubbard"
*Tennessee Williams - "The Rose Tattoo "
*Peter Wessel Zapffe - "Den fortapte sønn , En dramatisk gjenfortælling (The lost son, a dramatic renarration)"Poetry
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Frank O'Hara - "A City Winter and Other Poems"
*Clark Ashton Smith - "The Dark Chateau "Non-fiction
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Rachel Carson - "The Sea Around Us "
*Nirad C. Chaudhuri - "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian "
*Thomas B. Costain - "The Magnificent Century" (Second book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England Series)
*Vladimir Nabokov - "Speak, Memory "Births
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August 20 -Greg Bear , American science fiction author
*August 24 -Orson Scott Card , American science fiction author
*September 20 -Javier Marías , Spanish novelist
*October 12 -Peter Flannery , English dramatist
*December 22 -Charles de Lint , Canadian fantasy author & Celtic folk musicianDeaths
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January 7 -René Guénon , French philosophical writer (b. 1886)
*February 7 -Sinclair Lewis , American novelist (b. 1885)
*February 13 -Lloyd C. Douglas , American author (b. 1877)
*February 19 -André Gide , French author (b. 1869)
*March 25 -Oscar Micheaux , African-American author & filmmaker (b. 1884)
*April 29 -Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian philosopher (b. 1889)
*June 11 -W. C. Sellar , Scottish humorist (b. 1898)
*August 14 -William Randolph Hearst , American newspaper tycoon (b. 1863)
*September 2 -Antoine Bibesco , Romanian dramatist (b. 1878)
*December 4 -Pedro Salinas , Spanish poet (b. 1891)
*December 10 -Algernon Blackwood , English writer (b. 1869)Awards
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Frost Medal :Wallace Stevens
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Chapman Mortimer , "Father Goose"
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Noel Annan , "Leslie Stephen"
*Newbery Medal :Elizabeth Yates , "Amos Fortune, Free Man "
*Nobel Prize in Literature :Pär Lagerkvist
*Premio Nadal : Luis Romero, "La noria"
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama : "no award given"
*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :Conrad Richter , "The Town "
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Carl Sandburg , "Complete Poems"
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