1948 in literature
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See also: 1947 in literature, other events of 1948, 1949 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" (1948–1953) is published.
- A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC.
[edit] New books
- Jerzy Andrzejewski - Ashes and Diamonds
- Hervé Bazin - Vipère au Poing
- Henry Bellamann - Parris Mitchell of King's Row
- Taylor Caldwell - Melissa (novel)
- James Gould Cozzens - Guard of Honor
- A. J. Cronin - Shannon's Way
- Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
- William Pène du Bois - The Twenty-One Balloons
- Howard Fast - My Glorious Brothers
- Henry Green - Concluding
- Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
- Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind
- Georgette Heyer - The Foundling
- Zora Neale Hurston - Seraph On The Sewanee
- Aldous Huxley - Ape and Essence
- Anna Kavan - The House of Sleep
- Ross Lockridge, Jr. - Raintree County
- Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead
- Thomas Mann - Joseph and His Brothers
- W. Somerset Maugham - Catalina
- C. L. Moore - The Mask of Circe
- Hope Muntz - The Golden Warrior
- Zoe B. Oldenbourg - The World is Not Enough
- Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
- Anya Seton - The Hearth and the Eagle
- Dr. Seuss - Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
- Irwin Shaw - The Young Lions
- Nevil Shute - No Highway
- Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
- William Gardner Smith - Last Of The Conquerors
- Gore Vidal - The City and the Pillar
- Dorothy West - The Living Is Easy
- Thornton Wilder - Ides of March
[edit] New drama
- Robertson Davies - Overlaid
- Terence Rattigan - The Browning Version
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands)
[edit] Short stories
[edit] Poetry
- Olga Kirsch - Mure van die Hart
- Derek Walcott - 25 Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Isaac Asimov - The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline
- Robert Graves - The White Goddess
- Richard Hofstadter - The American Political Tradition
- A. A. Milne - The Norman Church
- Anthony Powell - John Aubrey and His Friends
- John Steinbeck - A Russian Journal
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Lynn Abbey, writer
- February 5 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
- February 28 - Mike Figgis, director, writer, composer
- February 29 - Patricia A. McKillip, author of fantasy and science fiction novels
- March 17 - William Gibson, writer
- April 4 - Dan Simmons, American author of science fiction, horror and fantasy
- April 28 - Terry Pratchett, English fantasy author
- September 20 - George R. R. Martin, fantasy writer
- October 17 - Robert Jordan, fantasy writer
[edit] Deaths
- March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
- March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- April 22 - Prosper Montagné, chef, author of Larousse Gastronomique
- June 21 - Alice Brown, novelist, poet and dramatist
- July 5 - Georges Bernanos, novelist
- July 21 - J.-H. Rosny jeune, science fiction pioneer
- July 27 - Susan Glaspell, dramatist and novelist
- August 3 - Venetia Stanley, recipient of the Asquith letters
- August 19 - Frederick Philip Grove, novelist and essayist
- September 9 - Lajos Biró, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter
- December 13 - Michael Roberts, poet and critic
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: William Pene du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons
- Nobel Prize for literature: Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden: The Age of Anxiety
