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Everything about 1953 In Literature totally explainedThe year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
Sholom Aleichem - Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son
Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
Zealia Bishop - The Curse of Yig
Ray Bradbury
Gwendolyn Brooks - Maud Martha
William S. Burroughs - Junkie
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Cavalier's Cup
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
Arthur C. Clarke
Beverly Cleary - Otis Spofford
Ivy Compton-Burnett - The Present and the Past
A. J. Cronin - Beyond This Place
L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - Tales from Gavagan's Bar
Lloyd C. Douglas - The Robe
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
Ernest K. Gann - The High and the Mighty
Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
Mark Harris - The Southpaw
James Hilton - Time and Time Again
Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying
C. S. Lewis - The Silver Chair
James A. Michener - The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Zoe B. Oldenbourg - The Cornerstone
Mervyn Peake - Mr Pye
Ellery Queen - The Scarlet Letters
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Sojourner
Annemarie Selinko - Désirée
Samuel Shellabarger - Lord Vanity
Wilmar H. Shiras - Children of the Atom
Rex Stout - The Golden Spiders
Leon Uris - Battle Cry
Boris Vian - Heartsnatcher
A. E. van Vogt - The Universe Maker
Ben Ames Williams - The Unconquered
John Wyndham - The Kraken Wakes
New drama
Arthur Adamov - Le Professeur Taranne
Agatha Christie - Witness for the Prosecution
Max Frisch - Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Fire Raisers)
Witold Gombrowicz - Ślub (The Wedding)
Arthur Miller - The Crucible
Short stories
Roald Dahl - "Nunc Dimittis"
Poetry
Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
Non-fiction
George Dangerfield - The Era of Good Feelings (Bancroft Prize)
L. Sprague de Camp - Science-Fiction Handbook
G. R. Elton - The Tudor Revolution in Government
Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet
Nancy Mitford - Madame de Pompadour
Births
February 10 - John Shirley, science fiction and horror writer
March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author
March 25 - John Tierney, New York Times journalist
April 3 - Pieter Aspe, author of the "Inspector Van In" novels
May 19 - Victoria Wood, comedienne and writer
July 14 - Bent Lorentzen, novelist
July 29 - Frank McGuinness, dramatist and poet
August 10 - Mark Doty, poet
September 23 - Nicholas Witchell, TV journalist
November 5 - Joyce Maynard, memoirist and former lover of J. D. Salinger
date unknown
Deaths
April 4 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author
April 9 - C. E. M. Joad, philosopher
April 24 - Alfred Vierkandt, sociologist
June 5 - Moelona, novelist and translator
June 25 - Richard Jebb, journalist
July 6 - Julia de Burgos, poet
July 16 - Hilaire Belloc, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer
August 30 - Maurice Nicoll, psychologist
November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright
November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
date unknown
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Christopher Award: Marie Killilea, Karen
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Carola Oman, Sir John Moore
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ann Nolan Clark, Secret of the Andes
Nobel Prize for Literature: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Premio Nadal: Luisa Forrellad, Siempre en capilla
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: William Inge, Picnic
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917-1952
King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Arthur Waley
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