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The year
1949 in literature
involved some significant events and new books.
EVENTS
Arthur C. Clarke
becomes Assistant Editor of ''
Science Abstracts
''.
Bertrand Russell
receives the
Order Of Merit
.
Jean-Paul Sartre
completes his ''Les Chemins de la Liberté ("
The Roads To Freedom
")'' trilogy.
NEW BOOKS
Nelson Algren
- ''
The Man With The Golden Arm
''
Martha E. Von Almedingen
- ''
The Golden Sequence
''
Miguel Ángel Asturias
- ''
Men Of Maize
''
Jorge Luis Borges
- ''
The Aleph
''
Elizabeth Bowen
- ''
The Heat Of The Day
''
Paul Bowles
- ''
The Sheltering Sky
''
Fredric Brown
- ''
The Screaming Mimi
''
Pearl S. Buck
- ''
The Angry Wife
''
Dorothy Bussy
- ''Olivia'' (published anonymously)
Taylor Caldwell
- ''
Let Love Come Last
''
Agatha Christie
- ''
Crooked House
''
Foster Fitzsimmons
- ''
Bright Leaf
''
A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- ''
The Way West
''
John Hawkes
- ''
Cannibal
''
Marguerite Henry
- ''
King Of The Wind
''
Hermann L. Hunter
- ''
The Miracles Of The Red Altar Cloth
''
Alfred Q. Jarrette
- ''
Beneath The Sky
''
Franz Kafka
- ''
The Trial
''
Marghanika Laski
- ''
Little Boy Lost
''
H.P. Lovecraft
- ''
Something About Cats And Other Pieces
''
Nancy Mitford
- ''
Love In A Cold Climate
''
C. L. Moore
- ''
Beyond Earth's Gates
''
John O'Hara
- ''
A Rage To Live
''
George Orwell
- ''
Nineteen Eighty-Four
''
Ruth Park
- ''
Poor Man's Orange
''
Karel Poláček
- ''
There Were Five Of Us
'' (
Czech
''Bylo nás pět'')
Harold Robbins
- ''
The Dream Merchants
''
Willard W. Savoy
- ''
Alien Land
''
Jack Schaefer
- ''
Shane
''
Anna Seghers
- ''
Die Toten Bleiben Jung
''
Nevil Shute
- ''
A Town Like Alice
''
Jack Story
- ''
Trouble With Harry
''
Edward Streeter
- ''
Father Of The Bride
''
Gwyn Thomas
- ''
All Things Betray Thee
''
Mika Waltari
- ''
The Egyptian
''
S. Fowler Wright
- ''
The Throne Of Saturn
''
Frank Yerby
- ''
Pride's Castle
''
NEW DRAMA
T. S. Eliot
- ''
The Cocktail Party
''
Christopher Fry
- ''
The Lady's Not For Burning
''
Jean Genet
- ''
Haute Surveillance
''
Arthur Miller
- ''
Death Of A Salesman
''
POETRY
Carlos De Oliveira
- ''Descida aos Infernos''
NON-FICTION
Simone De Beauvoir
- ''
The Second Sex
''
Marc Bloch
- ''Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence Written in 1940''
Thomas B. Costain
- ''The Conquering Family'', also known as ''The Conquerors'' (First book in the Plantagenet Series, also known as The Pageant of England)
John Gunther
– ''
Death Be Not Proud
''
Margaret Mead
- ''
Male And Female
''
Audie Murphy
- ''
To Hell And Back
''
Finn Ronne
- ''
Antarctic Conquest
''
BIRTHS
January 26
-
Jonathan Carroll
,
American
Author
of
Fantasy Fiction
March 26
-
Patrick Süskind
, German novelist
April 11
-
Dorothy Allison
, novelist and campaigner
June 5
-
Ken Follett
, novelist
July 15
-
Richard Russo
, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
August 3
-
Peter Gutmann
, journalist
November 2
-
Lois McMaster Bujold
, American author of
Science Fiction
and
Fantasy
October 5
-
Peter Ackroyd
, English author
December 24
-
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
, architectural historian
''date unknown''
---
Mark D. Devlin
, memoirist
---
David Gilmour
, novelist
---
Juan Gonzalez
, investigative journalist
---
Bonnie Greer
, dramatist
---
John Guy
, historian and biographer
---
John Harris
, political author
---
Jimmy McGovern
, screenwriter
DEATHS
January 11
-
Nelson Doubleday
, U.S. book publisher
February 11
-
Axel Munthe
, Swedish author
May 6
-
Maurice Maeterlinck
, Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate
June 10
-
Sigrid Undset
, Nobel Prize winning author
June 14
-
Russell Doubleday
, U.S. author and publisher
August 16
-
Margaret Mitchell
, "Gone with the Wind" author
September 19
-
Will Cuppy
, U.S. humorist
December 7
-
Rex Beach
- U.S. author
December 28
-
Hervey Allen
- U.S. author
AWARDS
, ''King of the Wind''
Nobel Prize For Literature
-
William Faulkner
, ''Las últimas horas''
, ''Death of a Salesman''
, ''Guard of Honor''
, ''Terror and Decorum''