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1953 in literature

May 02, 2024

Events from the year 1953 in literature .

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  1. ^ Lawrence Graver (27 May 2004). Beckett: Waiting for Godot. Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-521-54938-7.
  2. ^ Thomas S. Hischak (2017). 100 Greatest American Plays. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 92. ISBN 9781442256064.
  3. ^ Allen, Jamie (1999-05-06). "The Top 100? 100 best novels list draws heavy dose of criticism". CNN.
  4. ^ Mounier-Kuhn, Angélique (2014-08-08). "L'asphyxie d'Émile Zola". Le Temps. pp. 8–9.
  5. ^ Hugh McLeave (2001). A Moment of Truth: The Life of Zola. Bitingduck Press LLC. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-917990-32-8.
  6. ^ 345 U.S. 41 (1953).
  7. ^ "Fine For "Persistently Importuning"". The Times. No. 52759. London. 22 October 1953. p. 5. Described on the charge sheet as a clerk
  8. ^ Stanley J. Kunitz (1955). Twentieth Century Authors. p. 315.
  9. ^ Ronald Harwood (2007). Ronald Harwood's Adaptations: From Other Works Into Films. Guerilla. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-9554943-0-7.
  10. ^ Frank Northen Magill (1989). Cyclopedia of World Authors II. Salem Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-89356-513-8.
  11. ^ O'Toole, Fintan (2011-01-01). "The Fantastic Flann O'Brien". The Irish Times. Dublin. Retrieved 2011-10-02. A combination of his gradually deepening alcoholism and his habit of making derogatory remarks about senior politicians in his newspaper columns led to his forced retirement from the civil service in 1953. (He departed, recalled a colleague, "in a final fanfare of f***s".)
  12. ^ Princeton University (1954). The President's Report. p. 40.
  13. ^ Tempo: Indonesia's Weekly News Magazine. Arsa Raya Perdana. 2006. p. 42.
  14. ^ "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards" 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, Canada Council. Web, February 10, 2011

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Events from the year 1953 in literature List of years in literature table 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 In poetry 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science Contents 1 Events 2 New books 2 1 Fiction 2 2 Children and young people 2 3 Drama 2 4 Poetry 2 5 Non fiction 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards 6 ReferencesEvents editJanuary 5 Waiting For Godot a play by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett has its first public stage performance in French as En attendant Godot at the Theatre de Babylone de fi fr in Paris 1 Beckett s novel The Unnamable is also published in French this year January 22 The Crucible a historical drama by Arthur Miller written as an allegory of McCarthyism opens on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre 2 February 19 The State of Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States April 13 The face of popular literature changes with the publication of Ian Fleming s novel Casino Royale introducing the British spy character James Bond May The semi autobiographical Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin is published In 2001 it will be named as one of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century by the editors of the American Modern Library 3 June 17 Bertolt Brecht continues uninterrupted with rehearsals for the first production of Erwin Strittmatter s Katzgraben Szenen aus dem Bauernleben with the Berliner Ensemble during the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany The incident inspires Gunter Grass s Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising 1966 July 13 The first Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada opens in Stratford Ontario September French journalist Jean Borel s article Zola a t il ete assassine in the September October edition of Liberation suggests that Emile Zola s death in 1902 was not accidental 4 5 September 9 The Supreme Court decision in Rumely v United States affirms that indirect lobbying in the United States by distribution of books intended to influence opinion is a public good and not subject to regulation by Congress 6 October The literary magazine Encounter begins publication in London under the editorship of the American political journalist Irving Kristol and the English poet Stephen Spender with covert sponsorship by the Central Intelligence Agency October 21 Shortly after being knighted the English actor Sir John Gielgud is convicted of persistently importuning male persons for an immoral purpose cottaging in Chelsea London 7 November 5 Dylan Thomas on a poetry reading tour of the United States is admitted to St Vincent s Hospital Manhattan in a coma which continues until his death on November 9 Early versions of his play for voices Under Milk Wood have been given in the United States this year but it is not broadcast in its final form until 1954 December The American novelist Howard Fast is awarded the Stalin Peace Prize 8 unknown dates Ronald Harwood joins Sir Donald Wolfit s theatre company and becomes his dresser 9 John Dickson Carr s final Sir Henry Merrivale mystery novel writing as Carter Dickson is published After five years as an English teacher Frederick Buechner moves to New York City to become a full time writer 10 Federico Garcia Lorca s Obras Completas Complete Works are published in Spain as a prohibition on his work is lifted there Brian O Nolan is obliged to retire from a senior post in the Civil Service of the Republic of Ireland on grounds of alcoholism and impoliteness to senior politicians 11 City Lights Bookstore is established in San Francisco by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D Martin New books editFiction edit Ilse Aichinger Der Gefesselte The Bound Man short stories Sholom Aleichem Adventures of Mottel the Cantor s Son translation Phyllis Shand Allfrey The Orchid House Eric Ambler The Schirmer Inheritance Mulk Raj Anand The Private Life of an Indian Prince Isaac Asimov Second Foundation Nigel Balchin Private Interests Sundry Creditors James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March published in September Nicolas Bentley Third Party Risk Alfred Bester The Demolished Man John Bingham Five Roundabouts to Heaven Zealia Bishop The Curse of Yig Heinrich Boll And Never Said a Word Und sagte kein einziges Wort Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 published in October The Golden Apples of the Sun Gwendolyn Brooks Maud Martha John Bude Twice Dead William S Burroughs as William Lee Junkie John Dickson Carr as Carter Dickson The Cavalier s Cup Max Catto A Prize of Gold Henry Cecil Natural Causes Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye James Hadley Chase I ll Bury My Dead Agatha Christie After the Funeral A Pocket Full of Rye Arthur C Clarke Against the Fall of Night Childhood s End Beverly Cleary Otis Spofford Ivy Compton Burnett The Present and the Past Edmund Crispin Beware of the Trains A J Cronin Beyond This Place Roald Dahl Someone Like You short stories including Nunc Dimittis Cecil Day Lewis The Dreadful Hollow L Sprague de Camp The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens Sprague de Camp s New Anthology of Science Fiction The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Tales from Gavagan s Bar Lloyd C Douglas The Robe originally published in 1942 Islwyn Ffowc Elis Cysgod y Cryman Shadow of the Sickle Ian Fleming Casino Royale C S Forester Hornblower and the Atropos Ernest K Gann The High and the Mighty Anthony Gilbert Footsteps Behind Me Rumer Godden Kingfishers Catch Fire Richard Gordon Doctor at Sea Davis Grubb The Night of the Hunter Mark Harris The Southpaw L P Hartley The Go Between James Hilton Time and Time Again Shirley Jackson Life Among the Savages David Karp One Margaret Kennedy Troy Chimneys Wolfgang Koeppen Das Treibhaus The Hothouse Camara Laye L Enfant noir Rosamond Lehmann The Echoing Grove Ira Levin A Kiss Before Dying Audrey Erskine Lindop The Singer Not the Song Eric Linklater The House of Gair E C R Lorac Crook O Lune Murder as a Fine Art Virgilio Rodriguez Macal Carazamba Angus MacVicar The Lost Planet Wolf Mankowitz A Kid for Two Farthings Ngaio Marsh Spinsters in Jeopardy James A Michener The Bridges at Toko ri Gladys Mitchell Merlin s Furlong Roger Nimier Nothing to Make a Fuss About Flannery O Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find short story Zoe B Oldenbourg The Cornerstone Alan Paton Too Late the Phalarope Mervyn Peake Mr Pye Barbara Pym Jane and Prudence Ellery Queen The Scarlet Letters Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Sojourner Mary Renault The Charioteer Karl Ristikivi Hingede oo The Night of Souls Alain Robbe Grillet Les Gommes The Erasers Juan Rulfo El Llano en llamas The Burning Plain short stories J D Salinger Nine Stories Samuel Shellabarger Lord Vanity Wilmar H Shiras Children of the Atom Howard Spring A Sunset Touch Rex Stout The Golden Spiders Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human Julian Symons The Broken Penny Jim Thompson Savage Night Leon Uris Battle Cry Boris Vian Heartsnatcher A E van Vogt The Universe Maker Henry Wade Too Soon to Die John Wain Hurry on Down Evelyn Waugh Love Among the Ruins Dennis Wheatley Curtain of Fear Dorothy Whipple Someone at a Distance Ben Ames Williams The Unconquered John Wyndham The Kraken Wakes Frank Yerby The Devil s Laughter Children and young people edit Rev W Awdry Gordon the Big Engine eighth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry Viola Bayley White Holiday Bruce Carter Speed Six Roger Lancelyn Green King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table C S Lewis The Silver Chair fourth in The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books Elinor Lyon Run Away Home Joan Phipson Good Luck to the Rider Joan G Robinson Teddy Robinson Miriam Schlein When Will the World Be Mine non fiction Geoffrey Willans illustrated by Ronald Searle Down with Skool A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents first in the Nigel Molesworth series of four books Drama edit Arthur Adamov Professor Taranne Le Professeur Taranne Robert Anderson Tea and Sympathy Alex Atkinson Four Winds Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot En attendant Godot Mary Hayley Bell The Uninvited Guest Ugo Betti The Fugitive La Fuggitiva premiered posthumously Peter Blackmore Down Came a Blackbird Wynyard Browne A Question of Fact Agatha Christie Witness for the Prosecution Campbell Christie and Dorothy Christie Carrington V C R F Delderfield The Orchard Walls Max Frisch The Fire Raisers Biedermann und die Brandstifter originally for radio Witold Gombrowicz The Marriage Slub Polish version published Kenneth Horne Trial and Error N C Hunter A Day by the Sea William Inge Picnic Arthur Miller The Crucible Erwin Strittmatter Katzgraben Vernon Sylvaine As Long as They re Happy Emlyn Williams Someone Waiting Poetry edit The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse edited by John Heath Stubbs and David Wright Non fiction edit George Dangerfield The Era of Good Feelings Bancroft Prize L Sprague de Camp Science Fiction Handbook M Dena Gardiner The Principles of Exercise Therapy Gerald Durrell The Overloaded Ark Lawrence Durrell Reflections on a Marine Venus Geoffrey Elton The Tudor Revolution in Government Heinrich Harrer Seven Years in Tibet Clarence C Hulley Alaska 1741 1953 Czeslaw Milosz The Captive Mind Nancy Mitford Madame de Pompadour Roger Peyrefitte Les Cles de saint Pierre The Keys of St Peter K M Panikkar Asia and Western Dominance Sebastian Snow My Amazon Adventure R W Southern The Making of the Middle Ages John Summerson Architecture in Britain 1530 1830 Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical InvestigationsBirths editJanuary 7 Dionne Brand Canadian poet February 5 Giannina Braschi Puerto Rican born poet and novelist February 6 Kaoru Takamura Japanese novelist February 10 John Shirley American science fiction and horror writer February 18 Peter Robinson English poet March 12 Carl Hiaasen American journalist and novelist March 25 John Tierney American journalist March 26 George Dyson American science historian April 3 Pieter Aspe Pierre Aspelag Belgian crime writer Sandra Boynton American humorist and children s writer April 20 Sebastian Faulks English novelist April 23 Roberto Bolano Chilean born fiction writer died 2003 May 10 Christopher Paul Curtis American children s writer May 12 Neil Astley English author poet and academic May 19 Victoria Wood English comedian and writer died 2016 July 9 Thomas Ligotti American horror writer July 29 Frank McGuinness Irish dramatist poet and novelist August 1 Howard Kurtz American journalist and author August 10 Mark Doty American poet and memoirist August 17 Korrie Layun Rampan Indonesian writer died 2015 September 5 Herman Koch Dutch fiction writer and actor September 10 Pat Cadigan American science fiction author September 23 Nicholas Witchell English television journalist November 5 Joyce Maynard American memoirist and fiction writer November 18 Alan Moore English comic book and graphic novel scriptwriter November 29 Janet McNaughton Canadian young adult fiction writer December 15 Doug Lucie English dramatist unknown date Gary Taylor American Shakespearean scholar citation needed Deaths editApril 4 Rachilde Marguerite Vallette Eymery French author born 1860 April 6 Idris Davies Welsh poet in Welsh and English abdominal cancer born 1905 April 9 C E M Joad English philosopher and broadcaster born 1891 April 10 Gordon Hall Gerould American philologist born 1877 12 April 13 Alice Milligan Irish poet born 1865 April 24 Alfred Vierkandt German sociologist born 1867 June 5 Moelona Welsh language novelist and translator born 1877 June 25 Richard Jebb English journalist born 1874 June 30 Elsa Beskow Swedish children s author and illustrator born 1874 July 6 Julia de Burgos Puerto Rican poet in Spanish pneumonia born 1914 July 16 Hilaire Belloc English humorous poet essayist and travel writer born 1870 August 12 J H M Abbott Australian novelist and poet born 1874 August 30 Maurice Nicoll English psychiatrist and writer on psychology born 1884 September 19 Eirik Vandvik Norwegian classicist and translator born 1904 November 8 Ivan Bunin Russian born writer and Nobel laureate born 1870 John van Melle South African author born 1887 November 9 Dylan Thomas Welsh poet and author pneumonia born 1914 November 27 Eugene O Neill American playwright born 1888 T F Powys English novelist born 1875 November 30 Francis Picabia French poet and painter 1879 December 8 Claude Scudamore Jarvis English colonial governor writer Arabist and naturalist born 1879 December 26 Lulah Ragsdale American poet novelist and actor born 1861 probable Tan Khoen Swie Indonesian publisher 13 Awards editCarnegie Medal for children s literature Edward Osmond A Valley Grows Up Christopher Award Marie Killilea Karen Governor General s Award for Poetry or Drama Douglas LePan The Net and the Sword 14 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction Margaret Kennedy Troy Chimneys James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography Carola Oman Sir John Moore National Book Award for Fiction Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Newbery Medal for children s literature Ann Nolan Clark Secret of the Andes Nobel Prize for Literature Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Premio Nadal Luisa Forrellad Siempre en capilla Pulitzer Prize for Drama William Inge Picnic Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems 1917 1952 Queen s Gold Medal for Poetry Arthur WaleyReferences edit Lawrence Graver 27 May 2004 Beckett Waiting for Godot Cambridge University Press p 70 ISBN 978 0 521 54938 7 Thomas S Hischak 2017 100 Greatest American Plays Rowman amp Littlefield p 92 ISBN 9781442256064 Allen Jamie 1999 05 06 The Top 100 100 best novels list draws heavy dose of criticism CNN Mounier Kuhn Angelique 2014 08 08 L asphyxie d Emile Zola Le Temps pp 8 9 Hugh McLeave 2001 A Moment of Truth The Life of Zola Bitingduck Press LLC p 247 ISBN 978 0 917990 32 8 345 U S 41 1953 Fine For Persistently Importuning The Times No 52759 London 22 October 1953 p 5 Described on the charge sheet as a clerk Stanley J Kunitz 1955 Twentieth Century Authors p 315 Ronald Harwood 2007 Ronald Harwood s Adaptations From Other Works Into Films Guerilla p 53 ISBN 978 0 9554943 0 7 Frank Northen Magill 1989 Cyclopedia of World Authors II Salem Press p 272 ISBN 978 0 89356 513 8 O Toole Fintan 2011 01 01 The Fantastic Flann O Brien The Irish Times Dublin Retrieved 2011 10 02 A combination of his gradually deepening alcoholism and his habit of making derogatory remarks about senior politicians in his newspaper columns led to his forced retirement from the civil service in 1953 He departed recalled a colleague in a final fanfare of f s Princeton University 1954 The President s Report p 40 Tempo Indonesia s Weekly News Magazine Arsa Raya Perdana 2006 p 42 Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General s Literary Awards Archived 2011 05 14 at the Wayback Machine Canada Council Web February 10 2011 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1953 in literature amp oldid 1212446753, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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