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EVENTS

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

Jack Kerouac has his first novel published.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sent to a "special camp" for political prisoners in Kazakhstan

Dalton Trumbo co-writes the script of ''Gun Crazy'' under the pseudonym Millard Kaufman because of his imprisonment for contempt of court.

NEW BOOKS

'' Across The River And Into The Trees '' - Ernest Hemingway

'' The Adventurer '' - Mika Waltari

'' Beetlecreek '' - William Demby

'' Cabbagetown '' - Hugh Garner

'' The Cardinal '' - Henry Morton Robinson

'' The Child Who Never Grew '' - Pearl S. Buck

'' The Disenchanted '' - Budd Schulberg

'' The Door In The Wall '' - Marguerite De Angeli

'' The Town And The City '' - Jack Kerouac

'' Floodtide '' - Frank Yerby

'' Florence Nightingale '' - Cecil Woodham-Smith

'' The Grass Is Singing '' - Doris Lessing

'' I, Robot '' - Isaac Asimov

'' Joy Street '' - Frances Parkinson Keyes

'' Jubilee Trail '' - Gwen Bristow

'' Kon-Tiki '' - Thor Heyerdahl

'' The Liberal Imagination '' - Lionel Trilling

'' The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe '' - C. S. Lewis

'' The Little World Of Don Camillo '' - Giovanni Guareschi

'' The Martian Chronicles '' - Ray Bradbury

'' Parade's End '' - Ford Madox Ford

'' The Parasites '' - Daphne Du Maurier

'' Reading And Criticism '' - Raymond Williams

'' Scenes From Provincial Life '' - William Cooper

'' The Spanish Gardener '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Star Money '' - Kathleen Winsor

'' Summer In The Country '' - Edith Templeton

'' La Vida Breve '' (A Brief Life) - Juan Carlos Onetti

'' The Voyage Of The Space Beagle '' - A. E. Van Vogt

'' The Wall '' - John Hersey

NEW DRAMA

Bertolt Brecht - ''The Tutor''

Christopher Fry - ''Venus Observed''

Kermit Hunter - '' Unto These Hills ''

William Inge - '' Come Back, Little Sheba ''

Eugène Ionesco - '' La Cantatrice Chauve ''

BIRTHS

January 25 - Gloria Naylor , African American author

February 11 - Mauri Kunnas , Finnish children’s author

May 1 - Francis Briddick , English poet and lyrisist

July - Zhang Kangkang , Chinese writer

September 7 - Peggy Noonan , columnist, political writer

September 20 - James Blaylock , American Fantasy author

October 17 - David Adams Richards , Canadian author

October 27 - Fran Leibowitz , American writer

Barbara Gowdy - Canadian novelist

Susan Eloise Hinton , American author

DEATHS

January 21 – George Orwell , writer

March 19 – Edgar Rice Burroughs , author

May 6 - Agnes Smedley , American journalist and writer known for chronicling the Chinese Civil War

October 19 - Edna St. Vincent Millay , poet

November 2 - George Bernard Shaw

November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen , Danish author

AWARDS

, ''The Door in the Wall''

, Oscar Hammerstein II , Joshua Logan , ''South Pacific''

, ''The Way West''

, ''Annie Allen''