1950 in literature
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See also: 1949 in literature, other events of 1950, 1951 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] New books
- Marguerite de Angeli - The Door in the Wall
- Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
- Gwen Bristow - Jubilee Trail
- Pearl S. Buck - The Child Who Never Grew
- William Cooper - Scenes from Provincial Life
- A. J. Cronin - The Spanish Gardener
- William Demby - Beetlecreek
- Daphne du Maurier - The Parasites
- Ford Madox Ford - Parade's End
- Hugh Garner - Cabbagetown
- Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - Belles on Their Toes
- Giovanni Guareschi - The Little World of Don Camillo
- Frank Hardy - Power Without Glory
- Ernest Hemingway - Across the River and Into the Trees
- John Hersey - The Wall
- Jack Kerouac - The Town and the City
- Frances Parkinson Keyes - Joy Street
- Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing
- C. S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Juan Carlos Onetti - La vida breve (A Brief Life)
- Henry Morton Robinson - The Cardinal
- Cezaro Rossetti - Kredu min, sinjorino!
- Budd Schulberg - The Disenchanted
- Edith Templeton - Summer In The Country
- James Thurber - The 13 Clocks
- A. E. van Vogt - The Voyage of the Space Beagle
- Mika Waltari - The Adventurer
- Kathleen Winsor - Star Money
- Frank Yerby - Floodtide
[edit] 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
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Roland Bainton - Here I Stand:A Life of Martin Luther
- E. H. Gombrich - The Story of Art
- Thor Heyerdahl - Kon-Tiki
- Lionel Trilling - The Liberal Imagination
- Raymond Williams - Reading and Criticism
- Cecil Woodham-Smith - Florence Nightingale
[edit] Births
- January 25 - Gloria Naylor, African American author
- February 11 - Mauri Kunnas, Finnish children’s author
- May 1 - Francis Briddick, English poet and lyrist
- 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
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Basil Williams, historian
- January 21 – George Orwell, novelist
- February 13 - Rafael Sabatini, novelist
- March 19 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan author
- May 6 - Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer known for chronicling the Chinese Civil War
- May 11 - Alfred O. Andersson, newspaper publisher
- May 13 - F. E. Compton, publisher of reference books
- September 6 - Olaf Stapledon, philosopher and science-fiction author
- October 9 - Nicolai Hartmann, philosopher
- October 19 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
- November 2 - George Bernard Shaw
- November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author
- December 28 - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, short-story writer
- date unknown
- John Mooney, Orkney historian
- Cezaro Rossetti, Esperanto writer
- Helen Rowland, journalist and humorist
- Xavier Villaurrutia, poet and dramatist
- Cuthbert Whitaker, editor of Whitaker's Almanack
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, South Pacific
- Special Life Time Award: Francis Briddick
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen
