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Overview of the events of 1951 in literature
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that
David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. Salinger , opening lines of
The Catcher in the Rye
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1951 .
Events
January 12 – Janie Moore,
C. S. Lewis ' so-called adoptive mother, dies.
[1]
March – The American writer
Flannery O'Connor leaves hospital after being diagnosed with
lupus at the age of 25.
[2]
March 12 –
Hank Ketcham 's U.S.
Dennis the Menace appears for the first time in 16 United States newspapers.
March 17 – The homonymous U.K.
Dennis the Menace comic strip first appears in the children's comic
The Beano .
Spring –
Arthur C. Clarke 's short story "
The Sentinel ", which will form a basis for the film
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and a subsequent
novel , is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine
10 Story Fantasy .
May –
Joe Orton enters the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he meets his lover and ultimate murderer
Kenneth Halliwell .
June 18 –
Frank Hardy is acquitted of
criminal libel in the Australian state of Victoria over his self-published
1950
roman à clef on corruption in
Melbourne political life,
Power Without Glory .
[3]
July 16 –
J. D. Salinger 's
coming-of-age story
The Catcher in the Rye is published by
Little, Brown and Company in New York City.
September 6 –
William S. Burroughs shoots and kills his common-law wife
Joan Vollmer , apparently by accident, in
Mexico City .
[4]
December 16 –
Noël Coward leaves his home, White Cliffs, on the south coast of England, having sold it to
Ian Fleming .
[5]
unknown dates
E. E. Cummings and
Rachel Carson are awarded
Guggenheim Fellowships . It is Cummings' second.
[6]
Janet Frame 's first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories , is published by the
Caxton Press (New Zealand) (dated 1952) while the author is a patient in
Seacliff Lunatic Asylum ,
Seacliff, New Zealand , scheduled for a
lobotomy . It is awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award, at the time one of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prizes. This results in the cancellation of Frame's operation.
[7]
Béla Hamvas completes his epic novel Karnevál . He is banned from publication in Hungary at the time, so that it will appear only in
1985 , 17 years after his death.
A Question of Upbringing , the first book in
Anthony Powell 's twelve-novel series
A Dance to the Music of Time , is published by
Heinemann in the U.K.
The custom of performing medieval
mystery plays is revived at
York and
Chester , England.
[8]
The
Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris is founded.
[9]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
Ashfaq Hussain , Urdu poet
January 13 –
Nigel Cox , New Zealand novelist
January 22 –
Steve J. Spears , Australian actor, singer, and playwright (died
2007 )
February 13 –
Katja Lange-Müller , German novelist
February 17 –
Jagadish Mohanty , Indian novelist (died
2013 )
March 4 –
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha , South Korean-born novelist and artist (died
1982 )
March 12 –
Susan Musgrave , Canadian poet and children's writer
March 17 -
Lian Tanner , Australian children's writer
April 5 –
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Canadian author
[17]
April 16 –
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu , Romanian novelist and essayist
April 19 –
Pierre Lemaitre , French suspense novelist
May 3 –
Tatyana Tolstaya , Russian novelist, essayist and TV presenter
May 9
May 15 –
David Almond , English writer for children and young adults
May 20 –
Christie Blatchford , Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist, writer and broadcaster (died
2020 )
[19]
May 21 –
Al Franken , American comedian, actor, writer and politician
June 5 –
Suze Orman , American financial advisor, writer and television personality
June 15 –
Amir Barghashi , Iranian-born Swedish actor and dramatist
[20]
June 22 –
Rosario Murillo , Nicaraguan poet and political activist
June 29 –
Don Rosa , American writer and artist of Disney comics
August 20 –
Greg Bear , American science fiction writer
[21]
August 24 –
Orson Scott Card , American science fiction writer
[22]
September 14 –
Volodymyr Melnykov ,
Ukrainian
poet ,
writer ,
songwriter and
composer
[23]
September 15 –
Jared Taylor , American author and journalist
[24]
September 20 –
Javier Marías , Spanish novelist
[25]
September 29 –
Andrés Caicedo , Colombian novelist and cinema critic (suicide
1977 )
[26]
October 3 –
Bernard Cooper , American writer
October 11 –
Louise Rennison , English author and comedian (died
2016 )
[27]
October 12 –
Peter Flannery , English dramatist
[28]
October 17 –
Clark Parent , Haitian novelist, musician and politician
November 18 -
Dennis Foon , Canadian playwright, screenwriter and novelist
December 6 –
Tomson Highway , Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist and children's author
[29]
December 8 –
Bill Bryson , American travel writer
[30]
December 20 –
Peter May , Scottish novelist and television dramatist
December 22 –
Charles de Lint , Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician
Unknown dates
Deaths
January 6 –
Maila Talvio , Finnish writer, nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Literature (born
1871 )
January 7 –
René Guénon , French philosophical writer (born
1886 )
January 10 –
Sinclair Lewis , American novelist (born
1885 )
January 29 –
James Bridie , Scottish dramatist (born
1888 )
February 13 –
Lloyd C. Douglas , American author (born
1877 )
February 16 –
Henri-René Lenormand , French dramatist (born
1882 )
February 19 –
André Gide , French author (born
1869 )
[32]
February 28 –
Vsevolod Vishnevsky , Russian dramatist and screenwriter (born
1900 )
March 11 –
János Zsupánek ,
Prekmurje Slovene poet and author (born
1861 )
March 25 –
Oscar Micheaux , African American author, film director and producer (born
1884 )
April 3 –
Henrik Visnapuu , Estonian poet and dramatist (born
1890 )
[33]
April 9 –
Sadegh Hedayat , Iranian-born novelist (born
1903 ; suicide)
April 12 -
Henry De Vere Stacpoole . Irish author (born
1863 )
April 29 –
Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian philosopher (born
1889 )
May 2 –
Alphonse de Châteaubriant , French writer (born
1877 )
May 25 –
Paula von Preradović , Austrian poet and writer (born
1887 )
[34]
May 30 –
Hermann Broch , Austrian writer (born
1886 )
[35]
June 10 –
Håkon Evjenth , Norwegian children's writer (born
1894 )
June 11 –
W. C. Sellar , Scottish humorist (born
1898 )
August 14 –
William Randolph Hearst , American newspaper tycoon (born
1863 )
August 18 –
Richard Malden , English editor, classical and Biblical scholar, and ghost story writer (born
1879 )
August 31 –
Abraham Cahan , American Jewish journalist and novelist (born
1860 )
September 2 –
Antoine Bibesco , Romanian dramatist (born
1878 )
[36]
September 7 –
F. G. Loring , English writer and naval officer (born
1869 )
September 28 –
Petre P. Negulescu , Romanian philosopher (born
1870 )
November 5 –
I. C. Vissarion , Romanian novelist, dramatist, poet and science writer (born
1879 )
November 27 –
Timrava (Božena Slančíková), Slovak novelist, short story writer and playwright (born
1867 )
December 4 –
Pedro Salinas , Spanish poet (born
1891 )
[37]
December 10 –
Algernon Blackwood , English novelist and journalist (born
1869 )
Awards
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
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