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Overview of the events of 1950 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1950.

Events

January 19 –Isaac Asimov's first full-length novel,Pebble in the Sky, is published in the United States byDoubleday.^[1]
January 26 – For thefilm noirGun Crazy, released on this day in the United States, co-writerDalton Trumbo is billed asMillard Kaufman, due to the former's inclusion on theHollywood blacklist. This year Trumbo serves 11 months in prison forContempt of Congress, in thefederal penitentiary inAshland, 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 inThe 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.^[2] He is released from hospital a few weeks later after a successful operation, but sufferskidney failure and dies at his home,Shaw's Corner (Ayot St Lawrence,Hertfordshire, England), aged 94.
October –Galaxy Science Fiction magazine launches in the United States.
October 2 – The daily comic stripPeanuts, byCharles M. Schulz, makes its debut in nine United States newspapers.
October 16 –C. S. Lewis's children's portal allegorical fantasy novelThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, illustrated byPauline Baynes, is published byGeoffrey Bles in London, first of the seven-bookThe Chronicles of Narnia.^[3]
December 20 – PoetT. S. Eliot expresses concerns about "the television habit" in a letter toThe Times (London).^[4]
unknown dates
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sent to a "special camp" for political prisoners inKazakhstan.^[5]
- The 13th–14th century Japaneseepic poemThe Tale of the Heike (平家物語) is retold in modern prose by thehistorical novelist Eiji Yoshikawa asShin Heike monogatari (New Tale of the Heike) and published inAsahi Weekly.
- Blackwell's opens the first specialist children's bookshop, inBroad Street, Oxford (England).^[6]
- Adrian Bell begins hisCountryman's Notebook column in theEastern Daily Press (England).^[7]

New books

Fiction

Reginald Arkell –Old Herbaceous (reissued 2002)
Isaac Asimov
- I, Robot (collected short stories)
- Pebble in the Sky
Georges Bataille –L'Abbé C
Nicolas Bentley –The Floating Dutchman
Georges Bernanos –Night Is Darkest
Ray Bradbury –The Martian Chronicles
Gwen Bristow –Jubilee Trail
Pearl S. Buck –The Child Who Never Grew
John Bude –Death Steals the Show
Victor Canning
- A Forest of Eyes
- Venetian Bird
John Dickson Carr
- The Bride of Newgate
- Night at the Mocking Widow (as Carter Dickson)^[8]
Alec Coppel –Mr. Denning Drives North
Peter Cheyney
- Dark Bahama
- Lady, Behave!
Agatha Christie
- A Murder Is Announced
- Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
Beverly Cleary –Henry Huggins
Catherine Cookson –Kate Hannigan^[9]
William Cooper –Scenes from Provincial Life^[9]
Edmund Crispin –Frequent Hearses
A. J. Cronin –The Spanish Gardener
L. Sprague de Camp andP. Schuyler Miller –Genus Homo
L. Sprague de Camp andFletcher Pratt –The Castle of Iron
Daphne du Maurier –The Parasites
Marguerite Duras –Un Barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt –The Judge and His Hangman (Der Richter und sein Henker)
Hans Fallada (died 1947) –The Drinker (Der Trinker; written 1944)
Jeffrey Farnol –The Ninth Earl
Ford Madox Ford (died 1939) –Parade's End (tetralogy first published together under this title)
James Fugaté (as James Barr) –Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel
Hugh Garner –Cabbagetown
Gaito Gazdanov –The Buddha's Return (Возвращение Будды,Vozvrashchenie Buddy, serialization completed)
Anthony Gilbert
- Murder Comes Home
- A Nice Cup of Tea
Frank Gilbreth, Jr. andErnestine Gilbreth Carey –Belles on Their Toes
Winston Graham –Night Without Stars
Vasily Grossman –Stalingrad
Giovannino 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
Anne Hocking –Death Disturbs Mr. Jefferson
Elizabeth Jane Howard –The Beautiful Visit
Robert E. Howard –Conan the Conqueror
Richard Hull –Invitation to an Inquest
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 (short stories)
Manuel Mujica Láinez –Misteriosa Buenos Aires (short stories)
Doris Lessing –The Grass Is Singing
Audrey Erskine Lindop –The Tall Headlines
E. C. R. Lorac –Accident by Design
Rose Macaulay –The World My Wilderness
Ross Macdonald –The Drowning Pool
Gladys Mitchell –Groaning Spinney
Roger Nimier –The Blue Hussar
Juan Carlos Onetti –La vida breve (A Brief Life)
Cesare Pavese –La Luna e i Falò
Mervyn Peake –Gormenghast
Pramoedya Ananta Toer –Perburuan (The Fugitive)
Kukrit Pramoj –Four Reigns (สี่แผ่นดิน,Si Phaen Din, serialized)
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
Samuel Shellabarger –The King's Cavalier
Nevil Shute –A Town Like Alice
Josef Škvorecký –Konec nylonového věku (The End of the Nylon Age)
John Steinbeck –Burning Bright
Rex Stout
- Three Doors to Death
- In the Best Families
Cecil Street
- Family Affairs
- The Two Graphs
- A Village Afraid
Julian Symons –The Thirty-First of February
Edith Templeton –Summer In The Country
Josephine Tey –To Love and Be Wise
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
Antonia White –The Lost Traveller
Kathleen Winsor –Star Money
Yasushi Inoue
- 黯い潮 (Kuroi ushio)
- その人の名は云えない (Sono hito no na ha ienai)
- 闘牛 (Tōgyū, The Bullfight)
Frank Yerby –Floodtide

Children and young people

Mabel Esther Allan
- Over the Sea to School
- A School in Danger
Rev. W. Awdry –Troublesome Engines (fifth inThe Railway Series of 42 books by him and his sonChristopher Awdry)
Leila Berg –The Adventures of Chunky (first in the Chunky series)
Joan Mary Wayne Brown as Mary Gervaise
- A Pony of Your Own
- Ponies and Holidays (first two in the Georgie series of ten books)
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 (first inThe Chronicles of Narnia series)
Elinor Lyon –The House in Hiding (first novel in Ian and Sovra series)
Katherine Milhous –The Egg Tree
Anne Parrish –The Story of Appleby Capple
Richard Scarry –First Book Ever
Dr. Seuss
James Thurber –The 13 Clocks

Drama

Arthur Adamov
- La Parodie
- L'Invasion
- La Grande et la Petite Manoeuvre
Bertolt Brecht –The Tutor (Der Hofmeister, adapted from Lenz)
Wynyard Browne –The Holly and the Ivy
Emilio Carballido –Rosalba y los Llaveros
Campbell Christie –His Excellency
John Dighton –Who Goes There!
Friedrich Dürrenmatt –Romulus the Great (Romulus der Große)
Christopher Fry –Venus Observed
Kermit Hunter –Unto These Hills
William Inge –Come Back, Little Sheba
Eugène Ionesco –The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice chauve)
Benn Levy –Return to Tyassi
Frederick Lonsdale –The Way Things Go
Roger MacDougall
- The Gentle Gunman
- To Dorothy, a Son
- Macadam and Eve
Esther McCracken –Cry Liberty
Colin Morris –Reluctant Heroes
Terence Rattigan –Who Is Sylvia?
Nelly Sachs –Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (verse)
C. P. Snow –View Over the Park
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 (ed.) –A Year of Grace
Ernst Gombrich –The Story of Art
Thor Heyerdahl –The Kon-Tiki Expedition
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 –Rommel: The Desert Fox

Births

January 5 –Valentina Tăzlăuanu, Moldovan essayist, journalist and theatre critic (died2020)
January 17 –Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
January 19 –Will Weaver, American author
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 (died2016)
February 11 –Mauri Kunnas, Finnish children's author
February 20 –Jean-Paul Dubois, French novelist and journalist
February 26:
- Irena Brežná, Slovak-Swiss writer, journalist and activist writing in German
- Adam Cornford, English poet and essayist
March 17 –Peter Robinson, British-born Canadian novelist (died2022)
March 19 –Kirsten Boie, German children's writer
March 23 –Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian novelist
April 20 –Steve Erickson, American novelist
May 1 –Aldino Muianga, Mozambican physician and writer
May 27 –Alex Gray, Scottish crime writer
June 21 –Anne Carson, Canadian poet and scholar
June 25 –Barbara Gowdy, Canadian novelist
July 3 –Zhang Kangkang (张抗抗), Chinese writer
July 22 –Susan Eloise Hinton, American novelist
August 9 –Nicole Tourneur, French novelist (died2011)
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
September 28 –Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopher^[10]
October 10 –Nora Roberts, American novelist
October 12 –Edward Bloor, American novelist
October 15 –Teresa Amy, Uruguayan poet and translator (died2017)
October 17 –David Adams Richards, Canadian author
October 18 –Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (died2006)
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
- Greg McGee, New Zealand playwright and crime fiction writer
- Candace Robb, American historical novelist^[11]

Deaths

January 5 –Basil Williams, English historian (born1867)
January 8 –Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian/American political economist (born1883)
January 21 –George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), English novelist (tuberculosis, born1903)^[12]
February 7 –D. K. Broster, English historical novelist (born1877)
February 13 –Rafael Sabatini, Italian-born English-language novelist (born1875)
February 24 –Irving Bacheller, American journalist and novelist (born1859)
March 5 –Edgar Lee Masters, American poet (born1868)
March 11 –Heinrich Mann, German novelist (born1871)
March 19 –Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (born1875)
March 22 –Emmanuel Mounier, French philosopher, journalist and theologian (born1905)
circaMarch 30 –Henric Streitman, Romanian essayist and journalist (born1870)^[13]
April 1 –F. O. Matthiessen, American historian and literary critic (born1902)
April 4 –Cuthbert Whitaker, English yearbook editor (born1873)^[14]
April 8 –Albert Ehrenstein, Austrian Expressionist poet (born1886)
April 27 –H. Bonciu, Romanian novelist, poet and translator (cancer, born1893)
May 6 –Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer (born1892)
May 8 –Cezaro Rossetti, Scottish-born Esperanto writer (born1901)
May 10 –Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (born1883)^[15]
May 11 –Alfred O. Andersson, English-born American journalist and newspaper publisher (born1874)
June 4 –George Cecil Ives, German-born English poet, writer and reformer (born1867)
June 14 –Katharine Glasier, English writer and socialist (born1867)
July 7 –Guy Gilpatric, American short story writer (suicide, born1896)
August 27 –Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (born1908)
September 6 –Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and science fiction writer (heart attack, born1886)
September 18 –Henrik Rytter, Norwegian dramatist, lyricist and translator (born1887)
October 9 –Nicolai Hartmann, German-Latvian philosopher (born1882)
October 19 –Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (heart attack, born1892)
October 31 –Herbert Kelly, English religious writer and cleric (born1860)
November 2 –George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and activist (born1856)
November 25 –Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author (born1873)
December 28 –Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Soviet short-story writer (born1887)
December 31 –Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and dramatist (born1903)
unknown dates
- Edith Escombe, English fiction writer and essayist (born1866)
- Helen Rowland, American journalist and humorist (born1875)

Awards

Carnegie Medal forchildren'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 ("City Reporter")
Newbery Medal:Marguerite de Angeli,The Door in the Wall
Newdigate Prize:John Bayley
Nobel Prize in 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 (firstAfrican American winner)

References

^Isaac Asimov (1957).Pebble in the Sky. Bantam Books.
^"George Bernard Shaw treated in Luton after tree fall".Dunstable Today. 2012-03-31. Archived fromthe original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved2013-04-11.
^"Lucy Barfield: The Real Lucy of Narnia".Into the Wardrobe. 27 May 2006. Retrieved2010-10-04.
^Asa Briggs (23 March 1995).The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume V: Competition. OUP Oxford. p. 57.ISBN 978-0-19-215964-9.
^Andrej Kodjak (1978).Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Twayne Publishers. pp. 11–18.ISBN 978-0-8057-6320-1.
^Graham, Malcolm (2014).On foot from Broad Street. Oxford Preservation Trust. p. 18.ISBN 978-0-9576797-1-9.
^Richard Hawking (22 April 2019).At The Field's Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside. Crowood. p. 211.ISBN 978-0-7198-2907-9.
^S. T. Joshi (1990).John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study. Popular Press. p. 182.ISBN 978-0-87972-477-1.
^^a ^bKynaston, David (2007).Austerity Britain 1945–1951. London: Bloomsbury.ISBN 978-0-7475-7985-4.
^Rosenstand, Nina (November 20, 2003).The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. McGraw-Hill.ISBN 9780767429108 – via Google Books.
^Michelle Kazensky (June 2007).The Writers Directory 2008. Thomson Gale. p. 1670.ISBN 978-1-55862-600-3.
^"George Orwell, Author, 46, Dead. British Writer, Acclaimed for His '1984' and 'Animal Farm,' is Victim of Tuberculosis. Two Novels Popular Here, Distaste for Imperialism".The New York Times. 22 January 1950.
^"H. St. Streitman, jurnalist-pensionar".Adevărul. 1950-03-31. p. 2.
^The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. April 1960. p. 570.
^"Belle da Costa Greene | American librarian and bibliographer".Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved13 July 2020.

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