1952 in literature
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[edit] Events
- J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.
- November 25 - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London.
- The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.
- Launch of the influential periodical, Past and Present.
- E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
- Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled Equatorie of the Planetis.
[edit] New books
- Isaac Asimov
- Pearl S. Buck - The Hidden Flower
- Italo Calvino - La Formica Argentina
- Carlo Coccioli - Heaven and Earth
- Thomas B. Costain - The Silver Chalice
- A. J. Cronin - Adventures in Two Worlds
- August Derleth - Three Problems for Solar Pons
- August Derleth editor - Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
- David F. Dodge - To Catch a Thief
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- Edna Ferber - Giant
- Paul Gallico - The Small Miracle
- Han Suyin - A Many-splendoured Thing
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Rolling Stones
- Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
- Frances Parkinson Keyes - Steamboat Gothic
- David H. Keller - Tales from Underwood
- Arthur Koestler - Arrow in the Blue
- Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
- C. S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Bernard Malamud - The Natural
- Harry Mulisch - Archibald Strohalm
- C. L. Moore - Judgment Night
- R. K. Narayan - The Financial Expert
- Anthony Powell - A Buyer's Market
- Barbara Pym - Excellent Women
- Charles Shaw - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Howard Spring - The Houses in Between
- John Steinbeck - East of Eden
- Edith Templeton - Island of Desire
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull - The Gown of Glory
- Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard
- Hillary Waugh - Last Seen Wearing ...
- E. B. White - Charlotte's Web
- Frank Yerby - The Saracen Blade
[edit] New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
- Robertson Davies - A Masque of Aesop
- Charles Langbridge Morgan - The River Line
- Terence Rattigan - The Deep Blue Sea
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Les jeux sont faits (The Game is Up)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Roland Bainton – The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
- Dorothy Day – The Long Loneliness (autobiography)
- L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley – Lands Beyond
- Lawrence Gowing – Vermeer
- Aldous Huxley – The Devils of Loudun; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking
- Gwen Raverat – Period Piece
- Pierre Schaeffer – À la recherche d'une musique concrète
- Immanuel Velikovsky – Ages in Chaos
- J. M. Wallace-Hadrill – The Barbarian West, 400–1000
- Raymond Williams – Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
[edit] Births
- February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist
- February 29 - Tim Powers, American fantasy author
- March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author
- Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, author of fantasy novels under the pennames Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm
[edit] Deaths
- February 7 - Norman Douglas, novelist
- February 13 - Josephine Tey, crime novelist
- February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author
- March 1 - Mariano Azuela, novelist, dramatist and critic
- May 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic
- April 1 - Ferenc Molnár, dramatist and novelist
- June 1 - John Dewey, philosopher and psychologist
- July 1 - A. S. W. Rosenbach, book collector
- August 9 - Jeffery Farnol, historical romance novelist
- August 15 - Dora Diamant, lover of Franz Kafka
- September 29 – George Santayana, writer
- October 4 - Keith Murdoch, journalist, father of Rupert Murdoch
- November 4 - Gilbert Frankau, novelist
- November 13 - Margaret Wise Brown, children's author
- November 16 - Charles Maurras, poet
- November 18 - Paul Éluard, Surrealist poet
- November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
- December 6 - Cicely Hamilton, dramatist
- date unknown - H. J. Massingham, "ruralist" writer
- date unknown - Roger Vitrac, poet and dramatist
[edit] Awards
- Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg
- National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
- Newdigate prize: Donald Hall
- Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
- Premio Nadal: María Medio Estrada, Nosotros, los Rivero
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young