Overview of the events of 1948 in literature
The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1948 .
Events
January 6 – The poet Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding.[ 1] January 28 – A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC .February 5 – A private assembly of 50 major literary and artistic figures listens to a recording of Antonin Artaud 's play Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu (To Have Done With the Judgment of God), whose broadcast on French radio three days earlier has been prohibited.February 17 –November 24 – Venezuelan novelist Rómulo Gallegos serves as his country's first correctly elected President , until overthrown in a military coup.March 21 – Halldor Laxness 's The Atom Station (Atómstöðin)May – Bertolt Brecht 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1944 ) is first performed as a student production, in English, at Carleton College , Northfield, Minnesota .[ 2] Antigone Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland, with Helene Weigel in the title rôle.
May 4 – Sir Laurence Olivier 's film of Shakespeare's Hamlet Academy Award for Best Picture .c. June 1 – The first volume of Winston Churchill 's The Second World War
September 8 – Terence Rattigan 's one-act plays The Browning Version Harlequinade Phoenix Theatre (London) .September 17 – The Irish poet W. B. Yeats , who died at Menton , France, in 1939 , is reburied at Drumcliffe, County Sligo , "Under bare Ben Bulben 's head", having been moved from the original burial place, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin , on the Irish Naval Service corvette LÉ Macha . His grave at Drumcliffe, with an epitaph from "Under Ben Bulben ", one of his final poems ("Cast a cold Eye/On Life, on Death./Horseman, pass by"), becomes a place of literary pilgrimage.November 13 – Alice's Adventures Under Ground , the original manuscript of Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Luther H. Evans (Librarian of Congress ) to the British Museum Library .[ 3] [ 4] unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – Lynn Abbey (Marilyn Lorraine Abbey), American writerJanuary 2 – Joyce Wadler , American writer and memoiristJanuary 20 – Nigel Williams , English author, playwright and screenwriterFebruary 3 – Henning Mankell , Swedish crime novelist, children's author and dramatist (died 2015 )[ 7] February 5 – Christopher Guest , English-American writer, actor and directorFebruary 15 – Art Spiegelman , American cartoonistFebruary 19 – Clive Sinclair , English short-story writerFebruary 28 – Mike Figgis , English writer, director and composerFebruary 29
March 4 – James Ellroy , American crime fiction authorMarch 17 – William Gibson , American-born speculative novelistMarch 28 – Iman Budhi Santosa , Indonesian poetApril 4 – Patricia A. McKillip , American science fiction, horror and fantasy authorApril 21 – Clare Boylan , Irish novelist (died 2006 )[ 8] April 28 – Terry Pratchett , English comic fantasy author (died 2015 )[ 9] May 31 – Svetlana Alexievich , Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize in Literature recipientJune 14 – Laurence Yep , American authorJune 16 – F. van Dixhoorn , Dutch poetJune 21 – Andrzej Sapkowski , Polish fantasy authorJuly 22 – Susan Eloise Hinton , American young-adult authorAugust 2 – Snoo Wilson , English playwright and screenwriter (died 2013 )August 8 – Miranda Seymour , English novelist and biographerAugust 24 – Alexander McCall Smith , Scottish writerAugust 28 – Vonda N. McIntyre , American science fiction writer (died 2019 )[ 10] August 29 – Nick Darke , Cornish playwright (died 2005 )September 2 – Manfred Böckl , German novelist and writer of popular historySeptember 16 – Julia Donaldson , English author and children's writerSeptember 20 – George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Martin), American fantasy authorOctober 5 – Zoran Živković , Serbian author and academicOctober 6 – Zakes Mda (Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda), South African novelist, poet and playwrightOctober 9 – Ciaran Carson , Northern Irish poet and novelistOctober 17 – Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr), American fantasy author (died 2007 )[ 11] October 18 – Ntozake Shange (Paulette L. Williams), African American playwright, poet and novelist (died 2018 )December 20 – Abdulrazak Gurnah , Zanzibar-born novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature recipientunknown dates
Deaths
January 2 – Vicente Huidobro , Chilean poet (b. 1893 )[ 14] March 6 – Ross Lockridge Jr. , American author (suicide, born 1914 )March 10 – Zelda Fitzgerald , American novelist (killed in fire, born 1900 )[ 15] April 22 – Prosper Montagné , French chef and food author (born 1865 )May 5 – Sextil Pușcariu , Romanian linguist, philologist and journalist (heart failure, born 1877 )May 20 – Victor Ido , Dutch East Indian journalist, novelist and dramatist (born 1869 )May 22 – Claude McKay , Jamaican American writer (born 1889 )June 16 – Holbrook Jackson , English journalist, writer, publisher and bibliophile (born 1874 )June 21 – Alice Brown , American novelist, poet and dramatist (born 1857 )July 3 – Phelps Putnam , American poet (born 1894 )July 4 – Monteiro Lobato , Brazilian fiction writer, particularly for children (born 1882 )July 5 – Georges Bernanos , French novelist (born 1888 )[ 16] July 21 – J.-H. Rosny jeune (Séraphin Justin François Boex), French science fiction writer (born 1859 )July 27 – Susan Glaspell , American dramatist and novelist (born 1876 )August 3 – Venetia Stanley , English correspondent (cancer, born 1887 )August 19 – Frederick Philip Grove , German-born Canadian novelist and essayist (born 1879 )August 25 – Gordon Bottomley , English poet, writer of verse drama (born 1874 )September 8 – Thomas Mofolo , Sotho novelist (born 1876 )September 9 – Lajos Bíró , Hungarian novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1880 )[ 17] September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin , Maldivian writer (born 1881 )October 12 – Alfred Kerr , German theatre critic (suicide, born 1867 )December 13 – Michael Roberts , English poet and critic (born 1902 )unknown date – Eraclie Sterian , Romanian science writer and playwright (born 1872 )
Awards
References
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