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The 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 Further Information

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