Literature year 1947

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Literature year 1947
Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller had his first Broadway hit with All My Sons .
Thomas Mann (1937)

Thomas Mann completes his work on the novel Doctor Faustus .
Robert Lowell (around 1965)

Robert Lowell receives the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Gide 1920

André Gide is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Anne Frank in 1940

Anne Frank : Anne Frank's diary is published for the first time.
Robert Penn Warren 1968

Robert Penn Warren receives the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Felix Timmermans

The Flemish writer and painter Felix Timmermans dies.
SK Neumann, caricature by František Gellner

The Czech poet Stanislav Kostka Neumann dies.
Ricarda Huch around 1930 photographed by Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski

Ricarda Huch dies at the age of 84 after a grueling journey that led from Jena across the sector border to Frankfurt.
Duncan Campbell Scott (1933)

Canadian poet and narrator Duncan Campbell Scott dies in Ottawa.

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drama

Opera

Nonfiction and autobiography

Periodicals

Anniversaries

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