1951 in literature
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The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
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- E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
- 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- Arthur C. Clarke writes The Sentinel, an unpublished story that will form the basis for 2001.
- First appearance of Dennis the Menace 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 RADA.
[edit] New books
- Sholem Asch - Moses
- Isaac Asimov
- 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
- 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 J. Sneider - The Teahouse of the August Moon
- Cardinal Spellman - The Foundling
- John Steinbeck - The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- Rex Stout - Curtains for Three
- Rex Stout - 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
[edit] New drama
- 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)
[edit] Poetry
- Frank O'Hara - A City Winter and Other Poems
- Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Chateau
[edit] Non-fiction
- 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
[edit] Births
- August 20 - Greg Bear, science fiction author
- August 24 - Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
- September 20 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist
- October 12 - Peter Flannery, dramatist
- December 22 - Charles de Lint, Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - René Guénon, philosophical writer
- February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist
- February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author
- February 19 - André Gide, author
- March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American, author & filmmaker
- April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- June 11 - W. C. Sellar, humorist (1066 and All That)
- August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper tycoon
- September 2 - Antoine Bibesco, dramatist
- December 4 - Pedro Salinas, poet
- December 10 - Algernon Blackwood, short story author
[edit] Awards
- 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 for children's literature: Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Pär Fabian 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
