Literature year 1952
◄◄ | ◄ | 1948 | Literature year 1952 | 1956
Overview of the literary
years Further events
| Literature year 1952 | |
|---|---|
| Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premieres. | Carl Sandburg is awarded the Frost Medal. |
| Two more crime novels by Agatha Christie are published . | The works of André Gide are on the Index librorum prohibitorum set. |
| The Japanese lyric poet Kambara Ariake dies. | William Boyd is born. |
Events
- February 7th : The novel Tauben im Gras by Wolfgang Koeppen appears.
- February 17th : World premiere of the lyrical drama Boulevard Solitude by Hans Werner Henze at the State Theater in Hanover .
- February: Launch of the British historical journal Past & Present
- May: The works of André Gide are presented by Pope Pius XII. placed on the index librorum prohibitorum .
- June 10 : The 1952 Goethe Prize is awarded to the playwright Carl Zuckmayer .
- August 16 : Pig or not pig , another novel by PG Wodehouse with the absent-minded Lord Emsworth as protagonist, appears for the first time as a sequel in the American magazine Collier's Weekly .
- September 4 : Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea appears.
- September 6 : The Universal Copyright Convention (Universal Copyright Convention) is in Geneva decided
- October 17 : Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot is first published . The piece appears in French as En attendant Godot
- November 25th - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London at the New Ambassadors Theater.
- The Diogenes Verlag is by Daniel Keel founded in Zurich.
- Snow on Kilimanjaro , the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1932 story Snow on Kilimanjaro , is coming to cinemas.
Literary prizes
- Carnegie Medal : Mary Norton , The Borrowers ( Eng . Die Borgmännchen , 1955; also Die Borger , 1994)
- De Gyldne Laurbær : Karen Blixen
- Frost Medal : Carl Sandburg
- Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt : Carl Zuckmayer
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Evelyn Waugh , Sword of Honor
- National Book Award / Novel: James Jones , For All Eternity
- National Book Award / Non-fiction: Rachel Carson , The Sea around us (Wunder des Meeres)
- National Book Award / Poetry: Marianne Moore , Collected poems
- Pulitzer Prize / Fiction: Herman Wouk , The Caine Was Her Destiny
- Nobel Prize in Literature : François Mauriac
First appearances
Fiction
- Isaac Asimov - I, the Robot
- Ingeborg Bachmann - I also lived in Arcadia
- Agatha Christie :
- Roald Dahl - My Lady Love, My Dove
- Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man
- Natalia Ginzburg - Tutti i nostri ieri
- Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet
- Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
- Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan) - The Price of Salt
- Elly Jannes - Elle Kari
- Ernst Jünger - Visit to Godenholm
- Nikos Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation
- Wolfgang Koeppen - pigeons in the grass
- Halldór Laxness - Gerpla
- CS Lewis - The Journey on the Dawn
- Thomas Mann - praise of impermanence
- Daphne du Maurier - My cousin Rachel
- Benno Pludra - The boys from tent thirteen
- Barbara Pym - Excellent women
- Erich Maria Remarque - The spark of life
- John Steinbeck - Beyond Eden
- Eduard Vilde - Riots in Machtra (dEA)
- EB White - Wilbur and Charlotte
- PG Wodehouse : Pig or not pig
drama
Friedrich Dürrenmatt at the presentation of the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essay Writing in 1989 in Bonn
- Jean Anouilh - Jeanne or The Lark (L'Alouette)
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The marriage of Mr. Mississippi
Poetry
Non-fiction
Picture book and fairy tale
- Tove Jansson - Hur gick det sen? Boken om Mymlan, Moomintrollet och Lilla My
- Astrid Lindgren - There are no robbers in the forest (fairy tale collection)
- Astrid Lindgren - Gathering August and other children (fairy tale collection)
Birthdays
First half of the year
- January 4th : Michele Wallace , American writer
- January 11 : Diana Gabaldon , American contemporary writer
- January 12 : Florian Havemann , German writer, painter and composer
- January 12 : Walter Mosley , American author
- January 25 : Malan Marnersdóttir , first feminist Faroese literary scholar
- February 6 : Viktor Giacobbo , Swiss author, cabaret artist, presenter and actor
- February 6 : Christian Mähr , Austrian editor and writer
- February 10 : Gail Rebuck , British publisher
- February 13 : Irene Dische , German-American writer
- February 15 : Hans Kruppa , German writer
- February 19 : Amy Tan , American writer
- February 29 : Tim Powers , American science fiction writer
- March 5 : Robin Hobb , American writer
- March 7th : William Boyd , Scottish writer
- March 11 : Douglas Adams , British science fiction writer († 2001 )
- April 15 : Ragnar Hovland , Norwegian writer and translator
- April 17 : Ernest Wichner , German writer
- April 19 : László F. Földényi , Hungarian essayist, literary critic and translator
- April 23 : Esther Dischereit , German writer
- April 29 : Carl Friedman , Dutch writer
- May 3 : Ruth W. Lingenfelser , German poet
- May 17th : Eva Schmidt , Austrian writer
- June 7th : Orhan Pamuk , Turkish journalist, writer and Nobel Prize winner
- June 17th : Franz Böni , Swiss writer
- June 20 : Vikram Seth , Indian writer and poet
Second half of the year
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- July 3 : Rohinton Mistry , Indo-Canadian writer
- July 6 : Hilary Mantel , British writer
- July 18 : Per Petterson , Norwegian writer
- July 21 : Peter Schoenen , German teacher, writer and non-fiction author († 2014 )
- July 23 : Wolfgang Neuhaus , German translator from English
- July 29th : Susanne Amatosero , German painter, theater and radio play author and director
- August 1 : Zoran Đinđić , Serbian politician and writer († 2003 )
- August 6 : Christoph Biemann , German author, director and television presenter
- August 7 : Bettina Szrama , German author
- August 8 : Jostein Gaarder , Norwegian writer
- August 9 : Hubert Haensel , German writer
- August 10 : Jerzy Pilch , Polish writer († 2020 )
- August 12 : Hans-Ulrich Treichel , German writer
- August 22nd : Hans Otfried Dittmer , German writer and publisher
- August 27 : Undine Gruenter , German writer († 2002 )
- August 28 : Rita Dove , American poet
- September 8 : Ioanna Karystiani , Greek writer
- September 14 : Martyn Burke , Canadian writer, screenwriter, and director
- September 22nd : Lutz Rathenow , German poet and prose writer
- October 3 : Wolfgang Burger , German crime writer
- October 5th : Hermes Phettberg , Austrian artist, actor, author and talk show host
- October 6 : Matthew Sweeney , Irish poet and children's book author († 2018 )
- October 22 : Yoshiki Tanaka , Japanese writer
- October 23 : Antjie Krog , South African poet, writer and journalist
- October 24 : David Weber , American science fiction and fantasy writer
- October 26 : Andrew Motion , British poet, novelist and biographer
- November 15 : Rick Atkinson , American journalist, historian, and non-fiction author
- November 21 : Pedro Lemebel , Chilean writer
- November 26th : Jan Philipp Reemtsma , German writer and publicist
- December 3 : Nikolaus Stingl , German literary translator
- December 12 : Helen Dunmore , British writer († 2017 )
- December 13 : Jean Rouaud , French writer
- December 24 : Kevin Killian , American author, poet, playwright and editor († 2019 )
- December 25th : Dorothea Grünzweig , German poet, essayist and translator
Exact date unknown
- Hoda Barakat , Lebanese writer
- William Finnegan , American journalist and writer
- Stephen Gregory , British writer
- Celil Oker , Turkish crime novelist († 2019)
Died
First half of the year
Ferenc Molnár, February 16, 1941, photographer Carl Van Vechten
- January 22nd : Roger Vitrac , French writer and playwright (* 1899)
- February 3 : Kambara Ariake , Japanese writer (* 1876 )
- February 7th : Norman Douglas , Scottish writer (* 1868 )
- February 10 : Macedonio Fernández , Argentine writer (* 1874 )
- February 13 : Josephine Tey , Scottish crime writer (* 1868 )
- February 12 : Ernst Zahn , Swiss writer (* 1867 )
- February 13 : Alfred Einstein , German musicologist and music critic (* 1880 )
- February 19 : Knut Hamsun , Norwegian writer (* 1859 )
- February 25 : Saitō Mokichi , Japanese poet and essayist (* 1882 )
- March 1 : Mariano Azuela , Mexican writer (* 1873 )
- March 1 : Kume Masao , Japanese writer (* 1891 )
- March 9 : Alexandra Kollontai , Russian revolutionary, diplomat and writer (* 1872 )
- April 1 : Ferenc Molnár , Hungarian writer and journalist (* 1878 )
- April 15 : Bruno Barilli , Italian composer, journalist and writer (* 1880 )
- May 26 - Eugene Jolas , American writer and translator (* 1894 )
- June 1 - John Dewey , American philosopher (* 1859 )
Second half of the year
- July 1 : Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach , American antiquarian and bibliophile (* 1876 )
- July 3 : Wilhelm Schmidtbonn , German writer (* 1876 )
- July 8 : Karl Jakob Hirsch , German artist and writer (* 1892 )
- July 8 : August Alle , Estonian writer (* 1876 )
- July 31 : Clara Viebig , German narrator (* 1860 )
- July 31 : Waldemar Bonsels , German writer (* 1880 )
- August 15 : Jesse Thoor , German writer (* 1905 )
- September 1 : Kosugi Tengai , Japanese writer (* 1865 )
- September 11th : Robert Lauterborn , German hydrobiologist, zoologist, botanist and science historian (* 1869 )
- September 17th : Fred Sauer , Austrian actor, director and screenwriter (* 1886 )
- September 26 : George Santayana , American philosopher and writer (* 1863 )
- October 3 : Alfred Neumann , German writer (* 1895 )
- October 27 : Ludwig Fahrenkrog , German poet and painter (* 1867 )
- November 16 : Charles Maurras , French writer and political publicist (* 1862 )
- November 18 : Paul Éluard , French lyric poet, one of the most famous poets of surrealism (* 1895 )
- November 28 : Ota Wićaz , Sorbian literary and cultural historian and writer (* 1874 )
- December 1 : Wilhelm Speyer , German writer (* 1887 )
- December 4 : Giuseppe Antonio Borgese , Italian critic, essayist and writer (* 1882 )
- December 6th : Cicely Hamilton , British writer and playwright (* 1872 )
- December 20 : Heinrich Lilienfein , German writer and Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation (* 1879 )
- December 20 : Ivan Olbracht , Czech writer, publicist, journalist and translator (* 1882 )