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yinclude>*Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht

was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
 - The Tutor
The Tutor (Brecht)

The Tutor is an adaptation by the twentieth-century Germany dramatist Bertolt Brecht of an eighteenth-century play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz....






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The year 1950 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

  • Kazuo Shimada (1907-1996) wins the "Mystery Writer Of Japan" award for his book Shakai-bu Kisha (City Reporter).
  • Jack Kerouac
    Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
     has his first novel published.
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
     is sent to a "special camp" for political prisoners in Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan

    Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....
  • Dalton Trumbo
    Dalton Trumbo

    Dalton Trumbo was an United States screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry....
     co-writes the script of Gun Crazy under the pseudonym Millard Kaufman because of his imprisonment for contempt of court.
  • Adrian Bell
    Adrian Bell

    Adrian Mark Bell was an English journalist and farmer, best known as the first compiler of The Times crossword....
     begins writing his Countryman’s Notebook column in the Eastern Daily Press
    Eastern Daily Press

    The Eastern Daily Press, commonly referred to as the EDP, is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, and northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, United Kingdom....
    .


New books

  • Marguerite de Angeli
    Marguerite de Angeli

    Marguerite de Angeli was a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall....
     - The Door in the Wall
    The Door in the Wall

    The Door in the Wall is a 1949 novel by Marguerite de Angeli that received the Newbery Medal for excellence in United States children's literature in 1950....
  • Isaac Asimov
    Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov , was a Russian-born United States author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books....
     - I, Robot
    I, Robot

    I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies....
  • Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury

    Ray Douglas Bradbury is an United States literature, fantasy, Horror fiction, science fiction, and mystery writer.Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury is widely considered one of the greatest and most popular American writers of speculative fiction of the twentieth century....
     - The Martian Chronicles
    The Martian Chronicles

    The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists....
  • Gwen Bristow
    Gwen Bristow

    Gwen Bristow was an United States author and journalist.Bristow became interested in writing while reporting junior high school functions for her local newspaper....
     - Jubilee Trail
    Jubilee Trail

    Jubilee Trail is a novel written by Gwen Bristow, copyrighted in 1950. It follows the adventures of two strong women in the mid-1800s as they travel across the United States to the then-Mexican territory of California....
  • Pearl S. Buck
    Pearl S. Buck

    Pearl Sydenstricker Buck also known as Sai Zhen Zhu , was a prolific United States sinologist and Pulitzer Prize for the Novel American writer....
     - The Child Who Never Grew
  • John Dickson Carr
    John Dickson Carr

    John Dickson Carr was an United States author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn....
     writing as "Carter Dickson" - Night at the Mocking Widow
    Night at the Mocking Widow

    Night at the Mocking Widow is a mystery novel by the United States writer John Dickson Carr , who published it under the name of Carter Dickson....
  • William Cooper
    William Cooper (novelist)

    Harry Summerfield Hoff was an English novelist, writing under the name William Cooper....
     - Scenes from Provincial Life
  • A. J. Cronin
    A. J. Cronin

    Archibald Joseph Cronin was a Scotland novelist, dramatist and writer of non-fiction who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century....
     - The Spanish Gardener
    The Spanish Gardener

    The Spanish Gardener is a 1950 in literature novel by A. J. Cronin which tells the story of a British diplomat, Harrington Brande, who is posted to Catalonia, Spain after his marriage collapses....
  • L. Sprague de Camp
    L. Sprague de Camp

    Lyon Sprague de Camp, was an USA science fiction authors and fantasy authors and biographer. In a writing career spanning sixty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors....
     and P. Schuyler Miller
    P. Schuyler Miller

    Peter Schuyler Miller was an United States science fiction writer and critic....
     - Genus Homo
    Genus Homo (novel)

    Genus Homo is a science fiction novel by L. Sprague de Camp and P. Schuyler Miller. It was first published in the science fiction magazine Super Science Stories for March, 1944, and subsequently published in book form in hardcover by Fantasy Press in 1950 and in paperback by Berkley Books in 1961....
  • L. Sprague de Camp
    L. Sprague de Camp

    Lyon Sprague de Camp, was an USA science fiction authors and fantasy authors and biographer. In a writing career spanning sixty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors....
     and Fletcher Pratt
    Fletcher Pratt

    Murray Fletcher Pratt was a science fiction and fantasy writer; he was also well-known as a writer on naval history and on the American Civil War....
     - The Castle of Iron
    The Castle of Iron

    The Castle of Iron is a fantasy novel written by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the second volume in their Harold Shea series....
  • William Demby - Beetlecreek
  • Daphne du Maurier
    Daphne du Maurier

    Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning Order of the British Empire was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca , which won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1941, Jamaica Inn , and her short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now....
     - The Parasites
    The Parasites

    The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1950.In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family....
  • Ford Madox Ford
    Ford Madox Ford

    Ford Madox Ford was an English people novelist, poet, critic and Literary editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature....
     - Parade's End
    Parade's End

    Parade's End is a tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. It is set in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, a life vividly depicted in the novels....
  • Hugh Garner
    Hugh Garner

    Hugh Garner was a Canada novelist.Born in Batley, Yorkshire, England, Garner came to Canada in 1919 with his parents, and was raised in Toronto, Ontario....
     - Cabbagetown
    Cabbagetown

    There are two neighborhoods named Cabbagetown:*Cabbagetown , Canada*Cabbagetown , USA*Cabbagetown , a novel by Hugh Garner about Cabbagetown in Toronto...
  • Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
    Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

    Ernestine Gilbreth Carey was an United Statesn author....
     - Belles on Their Toes
    Belles on Their Toes

    Belles on Their Toes is a 1950 novel written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. This book was the follow up to the 1948 book Cheaper by the Dozen which covered the period before Frank Gilbreth died....
  • Giovanni Guareschi - The Little World of Don Camillo
  • Frank Hardy
    Frank Hardy

    Frank Hardy was a left-wing novelist and writer from Australia. He was also a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book The Unlucky Australians in 1968....
     - Power Without Glory
    Power Without Glory

    Power Without Glory is a 1950 novel written by Australian writer Frank Hardy. The work was originally self-published, and later adapted into a mini-series by the Australian Broadcasting Commission ....
  • Ernest Hemingway
    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, France, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation"....
     - Across the River and Into the Trees
    Across the River and Into the Trees

    Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by Ernest Hemingway. The title is derived from the last words of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson....
  • John Hersey
    John Hersey

    John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States writer and journalism considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage....
     - The Wall
  • Robert E. Howard
    Robert E. Howard

    This article is about writer Robert E. Howard. For the Medal of Honor recipient, try Robert L. Howard.Robert Ervin Howard was an United States author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres....
     - Conan the Conqueror
  • Jack Kerouac
    Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
     - The Town and the City
    The Town and the City

    The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the first major work published by Kerouac, who later became famous for his second novel On the Road ....
  • Frances Parkinson Keyes
    Frances Parkinson Keyes

    Frances Parkinson Keyes was an United States author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs....
     - Joy Street
  • Doris Lessing
    Doris Lessing

    Doris May Lessing Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is a Zimbabwe-United Kingdom writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook....
     - The Grass Is Singing
    The Grass Is Singing

    The Grass Is Singing is the first novel, published in 1950 in literature, by United Kingdom Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Rhodesia , in southern Africa, during the late 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and blacks in that country ....
  • C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
     - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy fiction novel for children by C. S. Lewis. Written in 1950 in literature and set in approximately 1940, it is the first-published book of The Chronicles of Narnia and is the best known book of the series....
  • Rose Macaulay
    Rose Macaulay

    Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, Order of the British Empire , affectionately known as Emilie, was an England novelist. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biographies and travel writing....
     - The World My Wilderness
    The World My Wilderness

    The World My Wilderness is a novel published in 1950 by the England novelist, biographer and traveller Rose Macaulay , the last but one of her novels....
  • Juan Carlos Onetti
    Juan Carlos Onetti

    Juan Carlos Onetti was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.A high school drop-out, Onetti's first novel, El pozo, published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time....
     - La vida breve
    La vida breve

    La vida breve is an opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish libretto by Carlos Fern?ndez-Shaw. The first performance was given at the Casino Municipale in Nice in 1913....
     (A Brief Life)
  • Cesare Pavese
    Cesare Pavese

    Cesare Pavese was an Italy poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country....
     - La luna e i falò
  • Barbara Pym
    Barbara Pym

    Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an England novelist....
     - Some Tame Gazelle
    Some Tame Gazelle

    Some Tame Gazelle is Barbara Pym's d?but novel, first published in 1950. It is considered a remarkable first novel, because of the way in which the youthful Pym - who began the book while a student at Oxford before World War II - imagined herself into the situation of a middle-aged spinster, living with her sister in the country....
  • Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen

    File:Ellery Queen NYWTS.jpgEllery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee , to write detective fiction....
     - Double, Double
    Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel)

    Double, Double is a novel that was published in 1949 by Ellery Queen. It is a Mystery novel set in the imaginary New England town of Wrightsville, USA....
  • Conrad Richter
    Conrad Richter

    Conrad Michael Richter was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning United States novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier....
     - The Town
    The Town

    The Town is a novel written by Conrad Richter in 1950 in literature. It is the third installment of his Awakening Land trilogy, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951....
  • Henry Morton Robinson
    Henry Morton Robinson

    Henry Morton Robinson was an United States novelist, best known for his 1950 in literature novel The Cardinal , detailing the life of Stephen Fermoyle, a young American priest who eventually becomes a Prince of the Church....
     - The Cardinal
    The Cardinal

    The Cardinal is a 1963 in film film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
  • Cezaro Rossetti
    Cezaro Rossetti

    Cezaro Rossetti was a Scottish Esperanto writer.Of Italian-Swiss derivation, he was born in Glasgow and lived in Britain. Together with his younger brother, Reto Rossetti, he learned Esperanto in 1928....
     - Kredu min, sinjorino!
    Kredu min, sinjorino!

    Kredu min, sinjorino! is the title of a novel originally written in Esperanto by Cezaro Rossetti. It is listed in William Auld's and was published for the first time in 1950, the same year in which Rossetti died....
  • Budd Schulberg
    Budd Schulberg

    Budd Schulberg is an United States screenwriter,novelist and sports writer.Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, he was Hollywood "royalty", the son of B.P....
     - The Disenchanted
  • Rex Stout
    Rex Stout

    Rex Todhunter Stout was an United States crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 to 1975 ....
     - Three Doors to Death
    Three Doors to Death

    Three Doors to Death is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1950 — itself collected in the omnibus volume Five of a Kind ....
  • Rex Stout
    Rex Stout

    Rex Todhunter Stout was an United States crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 to 1975 ....
     - In the Best Families
    In the Best Families

    In the Best Families is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1950. The story was collected in the omnibus volumes Five of a Kind and Triple Zeck ....
  • Edith Templeton
    Edith Templeton

    Edith Templeton was a novelist, who also wrote under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook.She was educated at the French lyc?e in Prague and left the city in 1938 to marry an Englishman....
     - Summer In The Country
  • James Thurber
    James Thurber

    James Grover Thurber was an United States author, cartoonist and celebrated wit.Thurber was best known for his contributions to The New Yorker magazine....
     - The 13 Clocks
    The 13 Clocks

    The Thirteen Clocks is a fantasy tale written by James Thurber in 1950 in Bermuda, while he was completing one of his other novels. It is written in a unique cadenced style, in which a mysterious prince must complete a seemingly impossible task to free a maiden from the clutches of an evil duke....
  • A. E. van Vogt
    A. E. van Vogt

    Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canada-born science fiction author who was one of the most prolific and complex writers of the mid-twentieth century "Golden Age of Science Fiction" of the genre....
     - The Voyage of the Space Beagle
    The Voyage of the Space Beagle

    The Voyage of the Space Beagle is a classic novel of science fiction by A. E. van Vogt in the space opera subgenre.The novel is a "fixup" compilation of four previously published SF stories:...
  • Mika Waltari
    Mika Waltari

    Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finland historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian ....
     - The Adventurer
  • Evelyn Waugh
    Evelyn Waugh

    Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was a United Kingdom writer, best known for such darkly humorous and Satire novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop , A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catho...
     - Helena
    Helena (1950 novel)

    Helena, published in 1950 in literature, is the sole historical novel of Evelyn Waugh.It follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified....
  • Kathleen Winsor
    Kathleen Winsor

    Kathleen Winsor was an United States author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber ....
     - Star Money
  • Frank Yerby
    Frank Yerby

    Frank Garvin Yerby was an African American List of historical novelists. He is best known as the first African American to write a best-selling novel and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation....
     - Floodtide
    Floodtide

    Floodtide is a 1949 in film British romantic drama film directed by Frederick Wilson and starring Gordon Jackson , Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jimmy Logan, Elizabeth Sellars and Arthur Lowe....


New drama

*Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht

was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
 - The Tutor
The Tutor (Brecht)

The Tutor is an adaptation by the twentieth-century Germany dramatist Bertolt Brecht of an eighteenth-century play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz....
  • Christopher Fry
    Christopher Fry

    Christopher Fry was a England playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s....
     - Venus Observed
  • Kermit Hunter
    Kermit Hunter

    Kermit Houston Hunter United States playwright known primarily for writing outdoor drama.Born in McDowell County, West Virginia, West Virginia in 1910, Hunter went on to Ohio State University where he graduated in 1931....
     - Unto These Hills
    Unto These Hills

    Unto These Hills is an outdoor historical drama staged annually at the 2800-seat Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, North Carolina. It is the third oldest outdoor historical drama in the United States, after The Lost Colony in Manteo, North Carolina, and the second- longest-running outdoor drama in the United States....
  • William Inge
    William Inge

    William Motter Inge was an United States playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations....
     - Come Back, Little Sheba
    Come Back, Little Sheba (play)

    Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1950 in literature#New drama play by the American dramatist William Inge. The play was Inge's first, written while he was a teacher at Washington University in St....
  • Eugène Ionesco
    Eugène Ionesco

    Eug?ne Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu , was a Romanian and France playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd....
     - The Bald Soprano
    The Bald Soprano

    The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna is the first Play written by Eug?ne Ionesco. Nicolas Bataille directed the premiere on May 11 1950 at the Th??tre des Noctambules, Paris....


Poetry

  • Leah Bodine Drake
    Leah Bodine Drake

    Leah Bodine Drake was an United States poet, editor and critic....
     - A Hornbook for Witches
    A Hornbook for Witches

    A Hornbook for Witches is a collection of poems by Leah Bodine Drake. It was released in 1950 in literature and was the author's first book and her only collection published by Arkham House....
  • Pablo Neruda
    Pablo Neruda

    Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftal? Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation....
     - Canto General
    Canto General

    Canto General is Pablo Neruda tenth book of poems. It was first published in Mexico in 1950, by Talleres Gr?ficos de la Naci?n. Neruda began to compose it in 1938....


Non-fiction

  • Roland Bainton
    Roland Bainton

    Roland Herbert Bainton was an English church historian....
     - Here I Stand:A Life of Martin Luther
  • E. H. Gombrich - The Story of Art
    The Story of Art

    The Story of Art is an introduction to art, written by E. H. Gombrich.First published in 1950, it is widely regarded both as a seminal work of criticism, and as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts....
  • Thor Heyerdahl
    Thor Heyerdahl

    Thor Heyerdahl was a Norway ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands....
     - Kon-Tiki
    Kon-Tiki

    Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norway explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesia....
  • Lionel Trilling
    Lionel Trilling

    Lionel Trilling was an American literary critic, author, and teacher, who was a member of The New York Intellectuals and contributor to the Partisan Review; although he did not establish a school of literary criticism, he is one of the great U.S....
     - The Liberal Imagination
  • Raymond Williams
    Raymond Williams

    Raymond Henry Williams was a Wales academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts....
     - Reading and Criticism
  • Cecil Woodham-Smith
    Cecil Woodham-Smith

    Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith was a United Kingdom historian and biographer. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era....
     - Florence Nightingale
    Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale, Order of Merit , Royal Red Cross , who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician....


Births

  • January 25 - Gloria Naylor
    Gloria Naylor

    Gloria Naylor is an African American novelist. Her novel The Women of Brewster Place was adapted into a The Women of Brewster Place of the same name by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions....
    , African American
    African American

    African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
     author
  • February 11 - Mauri Kunnas
    Mauri Kunnas

    Mauri Tapio Kunnas is a Finland cartoonist and children's author.Kunnas matriculation in 1969 and graduated from the Finnish Academy of Arts as a graphic designer in 1975....
    , Finnish
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
     children’s author
  • May 1 - Francis Briddick, English
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
     poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
     and lyrist
  • July - Zhang Kangkang
    Zhang Kangkang

    Zhang Kangkang is a China writer.She is married to fellow writer L? Jiamin, who attained international fame with his 2004 novel Wolf Totem....
    , Chinese writer
  • September 7 - Peggy Noonan
    Peggy Noonan

    Peggy Noonan is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture, a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan....
    , columnist, political writer
  • September 20 - James Blaylock
    James Blaylock

    James Paul Blaylock is an United States Fantasy fiction author.Blaylock is noted for his distinctive style. He writes in a humorous way: His characters never walk, they clump along, or when someone complains that flight is impossible, the other characters agree and show him why he's right....
    , American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     fantasy author
  • October 17 - David Adams Richards
    David Adams Richards

    David Adams Richards is a Canada novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet.Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Richards left St....
    , Canadian
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     author
  • October 27 - Fran Leibowitz, American writer
  • Barbara Gowdy
    Barbara Gowdy

    Barbara Gowdy, Order of Canada is a Canada novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto....
     - Canadian novelist
  • Susan Eloise Hinton, American author


Deaths

  • January 5 - Basil Williams
    Basil Williams

    Basil Williams OBE , was an England historian.Williams was born in London, the son of a barrister. He was educated at Marlborough College and then read Classics at New College, Oxford....
    , historian
  • January 21 – George Orwell
    George Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....
    , novelist
  • February 13 - Rafael Sabatini
    Rafael Sabatini

    Rafael Sabatini was an Italy/United Kingdom writer of novels of romance novel and adventure novel....
    , novelist
  • March 19 – Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Edgar Rice Burroughs was an United States author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter , although he produced works in many genres....
    , Tarzan author
  • May 6 - Agnes Smedley
    Agnes Smedley

    Agnes Smedley was an United States journalist and writer known for her sympathetic chronicling of the Chinese revolution. During World War I she worked in the United States for the independence of India from Great Britain, receiving financial support from the government of Germany, and for many years worked for or with the Comintern, promoti...
    , American journalist and writer known for chronicling the Chinese Civil War
    Chinese Civil War

    The Chinese Civil War or , which lasted from April 1927 to May 1950, was a civil war in China between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party ....
  • May 11 - Alfred O. Andersson
    Alfred O. Andersson

    Alfred Oscar Andersson was the publisher of the Dallas Dispatchand, briefly, of the Dallas Dispatch-Journal, daily afternoon newspapers of general circulation published in Dallas, Texas....
    , newspaper publisher
  • May 13 - F. E. Compton
    F. E. Compton

    Frank Elbert Compton was a publisher of encyclopedias and other reference works. He spent his career in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois, United States...
    , publisher of reference books
  • September 6 - Olaf Stapledon
    Olaf Stapledon

    William Olaf Stapledon was a United Kingdom philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction....
    , philosopher and science-fiction author
  • October 9 - Nicolai Hartmann
    Nicolai Hartmann

    Nicolai Hartmann was a Germany philosophy....
    , philosopher
  • October 19 - Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyric poetry and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, Bohemianism lifestyle and her many love affairs....
    , poet
  • November 2 - George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
  • November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
    Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

    Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen, was a Denmark author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century....
    , Danish author
  • December 28 - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
    Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

    Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky was an ethnically Polish Ukrainian-born Russophone short-story writer who described himself as being "known only for being unknown" and the bulk of whose writings was published posthumously....
    , short-story writer
  • date unknown
    • John Mooney
      John Mooney (historian)

      John Mooney was a Scotland historian. He was a founder of the Orkney Antiquarian Society....
      , Orkney historian
    • Cezaro Rossetti
      Cezaro Rossetti

      Cezaro Rossetti was a Scottish Esperanto writer.Of Italian-Swiss derivation, he was born in Glasgow and lived in Britain. Together with his younger brother, Reto Rossetti, he learned Esperanto in 1928....
      , Esperanto writer
    • Helen Rowland
      Helen Rowland

      Helen Rowland was a very quotable United States journalist and humorist....
      , journalist and humorist
    • Xavier Villaurrutia
      Xavier Villaurrutia

      Xavier Villaurrutia y Gonz?lez was a Mexican poet and playwright, whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas, called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poes?a y teatro completos published in 1953....
      , poet and dramatist
    • Cuthbert Whitaker
      Cuthbert Whitaker

      Sir Cuthbert Wilfred Whitaker was editor of Whitaker's Almanack. He held the position for fifty-five years, succeeding his father Joseph Whitaker when he died in 1895, and was in turn succeeded by a nephew on his death....
      , editor of Whitaker's Almanack


Awards

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    James Tait Black Memorial Prize

    Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards....
     for fiction: Robert Henriques
    Robert Henriques

    Robert David Quixano Henriques was a United Kingdom writer, broadcaster and farmer. He gained modest renown for two award-winning novels and two biographies of Jewish business tycoons, published during the middle part of the 20th century....
    , Through the Valley
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    James Tait Black Memorial Prize

    Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards....
     for biography: Cecil Woodham-Smith
    Cecil Woodham-Smith

    Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith was a United Kingdom historian and biographer. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era....
    , Florence Nightingale
    Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale, Order of Merit , Royal Red Cross , who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician....
  • Newbery Medal
    Newbery Medal

    The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association ....
     for children's literature
    Children's literature

    Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres....
    : Marguerite de Angeli
    Marguerite de Angeli

    Marguerite de Angeli was a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall....
    , The Door in the Wall
    The Door in the Wall

    The Door in the Wall is a 1949 novel by Marguerite de Angeli that received the Newbery Medal for excellence in United States children's literature in 1950....
  • Newdigate prize
    Newdigate prize

    Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize is awarded to students of the University of Oxford for Best Composition in English language verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years....
    : John Bayley
    John Bayley

    Professor John Bayley Order of British Empire, British Academy, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom literary critic and writer....
  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
    Bertrand Russell

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, Order of Merit , Fellow of the Royal Society , was a British people philosopher, mathematical logic, mathematician, historian, advocate for social reform, and pacifism....
  • Premio Nadal
    Premio Nadal

    Premio Nadal is a Spain literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino. It has been awarded every year on January 6 since 1944....
    : Elena Quiroga
    Elena Quiroga

    Elena Quiroga de la V?lgoma , was a Spanish writer and winner of the Premio Nadal. She was born in Santander, Cantabria and grew up on her father's estate in O Barco de Valdeorras, Ourense ....
    , Viento norte'’
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama

    The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year....
    : Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
    , Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
    , Joshua Logan
    Joshua Logan

    Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American Theatre director and film director and writer....
    ,     South Pacific
  • Special Life Time Award: Francis Briddick
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

    The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life....
    : A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
    A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

    Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. was an United States novelist, historian, and literature historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his The Way West....
    ,     The Way West
    The Way West

    The Way West is a western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr., published in 1949. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950. The book became the basis for a The Way West starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark....
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards were presented in 1918 in poetry and 1919 in poetry....
    : Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Brooks

    Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985....
    ,     Annie Allen
    Annie Allen

    Annie Allen is a book of poetry published by noted African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks which was published in 1949, and for which she received the Pulitzer Prize....