1950 in literature 1950 .Events January 19 – Isaac Asimov's first full-length novel, Pebble in the Sky , is published in the United States by Doubleday . January 26 – For the film noir Gun Crazy , released on this day in the United States, co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed as Millard Kaufman , due to the former's inclusion on the Hollywood blacklist . This year Trumbo serves 11 months in prison for Contempt of Congress , in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky . February – Jack Kerouac has his first novel, The Town and the City , published in the United States. April 8 – J. D. Salinger's wartime short story "For Esmé — with Love and Squalor" is published in The New Yorker . May 11 – Eugène Ionesco's first play, The Bald Soprano is first performed, in Paris. September 10 – George Bernard Shaw is taken to hospital after fracturing a hip falling out of a tree he was pruning. He is released from hospital a few weeks later after a successful operation, but suffers kidney failure and dies at his home, Shaw's Corner , aged 94. October – Galaxy Science Fiction magazine launches in the United States. October 2 – The daily comic strip Peanuts , by Charles M. Schulz, makes its debut in nine United States newspapers . October 16 – C. S. Lewis's novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , first of the seven-book The Chronicles of Narnia , is published in the UK. unknown dates *Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sent to a "special camp" for political prisoners in Kazakhstan . *The 13th–14th century Japanese epic poem The Tale of the Heike is retold in modern prose by the historical novelist Eiji Yoshikawa as Shin Heike monogatari and published in Asahi Weekly . *Blackwell's opens the first specialist children's bookshop, in Broad Street, Oxford . *Adrian Bell begins his Countryman's Notebook column in the Eastern Daily Press .New books Fiction Reginald Arkell – Old Herbaceous Isaac Asimov *I, Robot *Pebble in the Sky Georges Bataille – L'Abbé C Georges Bernanos – Night Is Darkest Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles Gwen Bristow – Jubilee Trail Pearl S. Buck – The Child Who Never Grew Victor Canning – Venetian Bird John Dickson Carr *The Bride of Newgate *Night at the Mocking Widow Agatha Christie *A Murder is Announced *Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Beverly Cleary – Henry Huggins Catherine Cookson – Kate Hannigan William Cooper – Scenes from Provincial Life A. J. Cronin – The Spanish Gardener L. Sprague de Camp and P. Schuyler Miller – Genus Homo L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – The Castle of Iron Daphne du Maurier – The Parasites Marguerite Duras – Un Barrage contre le Pacifique Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Judge and His Hangman Hans Fallada – The Drinker Ford Madox Ford – Parade's End James Fugaté – Hugh Garner – Cabbagetown Gaito Gazdanov – The Buddha's Return Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey – Belles on Their Toes Winston Graham – Night Without Stars Vasily Grossman – Stalingrad Giovanni Guareschi – The Little World of Don Camillo Frank Hardy – Power Without Glory Ernest Hemingway – Across the River and Into the Trees John Hersey – The Wall Robert Hichens – Beneath the Magic Patricia Highsmith – Strangers on a Train Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Beautiful Visit Robert E. Howard – Conan the Conqueror Hammond Innes – The Angry Mountain MacKinlay Kantor – Lee and Grant at Appomattox Margaret Kennedy – The Feast Jack Kerouac – The Town and the City Frances Parkinson Keyes – Joy Street Damon Knight – To Serve Man Manuel Mujica Láinez – Misteriosa Buenos Aires Doris Lessing – The Grass Is Singing Audrey Erskine Lindop – The Tall Headlines Rose Macaulay – The World My Wilderness Roger Nimier – The Blue Hussar Juan Carlos Onetti – La vida breve Cesare Pavese – La Luna e i Falò Mervyn Peake – Gormenghast Pramoedya Ananta Toer – Perburuan Kukrit Pramoj – Four Reigns Barbara Pym – Some Tame Gazelle Ellery Queen – Double, Double Conrad Richter – The Town Henry Morton Robinson – The Cardinal Cezaro Rossetti – Kredu min, sinjorino! Budd Schulberg – The Disenchanted Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice Josef Škvorecký – :cs:Konec nylonového věku|Konec nylonového věku John Steinbeck – Burning Bright Rex Stout *Three Doors to Death *In the Best Families Edith Templeton – Summer In The Country Tereska Torrès – Women's Barracks Boris Vian – L'Herbe rouge Gore Vidal – Dark Green, Bright Red A. E. van Vogt – The Voyage of the Space Beagle Mika Waltari – The Adventurer Evelyn Waugh – Helena Denton Welch – A Voice Through a Cloud Kathleen Winsor – Star Money Yasushi Inoue *黯い潮 *その人の名は云えない *闘牛 Frank Yerby – Floodtide Children and young people Mabel Esther Allan *Over the Sea to School *A School in Danger Leila Berg – The Adventures of Chunky Joan Mary Wayne Brown as Mary Gervaise *A Pony of Your Own *Ponies and Holidays Anthony Buckeridge – Jennings Goes to School Beverly Cleary – Henry Huggins C. S. Forester – Mr. Midshipman Hornblower William Glynne-Jones – Pennants on the Main C. S. Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Elinor Lyon – The House in Hiding Katherine Milhous – The Egg Tree Anne Parrish – The Story of Appleby Capple Richard Scarry – First Book Ever Dr. Seuss *If I Ran the Zoo *Gerald McBoing Boing *Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories James Thurber – The 13 Clocks Drama Arthur Adamov *La Parodie *L'Invasion *La Grande et la Petite Manoeuvre Bertolt Brecht – The Tutor Emilio Carballido – Rosalba y los Llaveros John Dighton – Who Goes There! Friedrich Dürrenmatt – Romulus the Great Christopher Fry – Venus Observed Hugh Hastings – Seagulls Over Sorrento Kermit Hunter – Unto These Hills William Inge – Come Back, Little Sheba Eugène Ionesco – The Bald Soprano Frederick Lonsdale – The Way Things Go Esther McCracken – Cry Liberty Terence Rattigan – Who Is Sylvia? Nelly Sachs – Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels John Steinbeck – Burning Bright Vernon Sylvaine – Will Any Gentleman? Poetry Leah Bodine Drake – A Hornbook for Witches Pablo Neruda – Canto General Stevie Smith – Not Waving but Drowning Non-fiction Roland Bainton – Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther Elizabeth David – A Book of Mediterranean Food Victor Gollancz – A Year of Grace Ernst Gombrich – The Story of Art Gurbachan Singh Talib – Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947 Thor Heyerdahl – Kon-Tiki Octavio Paz – The Labyrinth of Solitude Lionel Trilling – The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society Raymond Williams – Reading and Criticism Cecil Woodham-Smith – Florence Nightingale Desmond Young – Births January 17 – Luis López Nieves , Puerto Rican writer January 20 – Edward Hirsch , American poet January 22 – Paul Bew , Irish historian and academic January 24 – Benjamin Urrutia , Ecuadorian author and scholar January 25 – Gloria Naylor , African-American novelist and academic February 11 – Mauri Kunnas , Finnish children’s author February 20 – Jean-Paul Dubois , French novelist and journalist February 26 – Adam Cornford , English poet and essayist March 23 – Ahdaf Soueif , Egyptian novelist April 20 – Steve Erickson , American novelist June 21 – Anne Carson , Canadian poet and scholar June 25 – Barbara Gowdy , Canadian novelist July 3 – Zhang Kangkang , Chinese writer July 22 – Susan Eloise Hinton , American novelist August 9 – Nicole Tourneur , French novelist August 26 – Carl Deuker , American author September 7 – Peggy Noonan , American columnist, political writer September 16 – Henry Louis Gates , American literary critic September 20 – James Blaylock , American fantasy author October 10 – Nora Roberts , American novelist October 12 – Edward Bloor , American novelist October 15 – Teresa Amy , Uruguayan poet and translator October 17 – David Adams Richards , Canadian author October 18 – Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright October 27 – Fran Lebowitz , American writer November 3 – Massimo Mongai , Italian author November 4 – Charles Frazier , American novelist December 18 – Leonard Maltin , American film critic and historian December 20 – Sheenagh Pugh , English-born poet and novelist December 30 – Timothy Mo , Hong Kong British novelist unknown dates *Bandi, North Korean fiction writer *Candace Robb, American historical novelistDeaths January 5 – Basil Williams , English historian January 8 – Joseph Schumpeter , Austrian/American political economist January 21 – George Orwell , English novelist February 7 – D. K. Broster, English historical novelist February 13 – Rafael Sabatini , Italian-born English-language novelist February 24 – Irving Bacheller , American journalist and novelist March 5 – Edgar Lee Masters , American poet March 11 – Heinrich Mann , German novelist March 19 – Edgar Rice Burroughs , American author March 22 – Emmanuel Mounier , French philosopher, journalist and theologian April 1 – F. O. Matthiessen, American historian and literary critic April 4 – Cuthbert Whitaker , English yearbook editor April 8 – Albert Ehrenstein , Austrian Expressionist poet April 27 – H. Bonciu, Romanian novelist, poet and translator May 6 – Agnes Smedley , American journalist and writer May 8 – Cezaro Rossetti , Scottish-born Esperanto writer May 10 – Belle da Costa Greene , American librarian May 11 – Alfred O. Andersson, English-born American journalist and newspaper publisher June 4 – George Cecil Ives , German-born English poet, writer and reformer June 14 – Katharine Glasier , English writer and socialist July 7 – Guy Gilpatric , American short story writer August 27 – Cesare Pavese , Italian poet and novelist September 6 – Olaf Stapledon , English philosopher and science fiction writer September 18 – Henrik Rytter , Norwegian dramatist, lyricist and translator October 9 – Nicolai Hartmann , German-Latvian philosopher October 19 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet October 31 – Herbert Kelly , English religious writer and cleric November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and activist November 25 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author December 28 – Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky , Soviet short-story writer December 31 – Xavier Villaurrutia , Mexican poet and dramatist unknown dates *Edith Escombe, English fiction writer and essayist *Helen Rowland, American journalist and humoristAwards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Elfrida Vipont , The Lark on the Wing James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Robert Henriques , Through the Valley James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Cecil Woodham-Smith , Florence Nightingale Mystery Writer Of Japan – Kazuo Shimada , Shakai-bu Kisha Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite de Angeli , The Door in the Wall Newdigate prize: John Bayley Nobel Prize for Literature: Bertrand Russell Premio Nadal: Elena Quiroga , Viento del norte Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II , Joshua Logan , South Pacific Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks , Annie Allen
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