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Overview of the events of 1948 in literature
Overview of the events of 1948 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 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) sells out all copies on its first day of publication.
May –
Bertolt Brecht 's
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (
1944 ) is first performed as a student production, in English, at
Carleton College ,
Northfield, Minnesota .
[2] This year also sees the première of Brecht's adaptation of
Antigone , at the
Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland, with
Helene Weigel in the title rôle.
May 4 – Sir
Laurence Olivier 's film of Shakespeare's
Hamlet is shown. It will be the first British film to win the
Academy Award for Best Picture .
c.
June 1 – The first volume of
Winston Churchill 's
The Second World War (1948–1953) is published.
September 8 –
Terence Rattigan 's
one-act plays
The Browning Version and
Harlequinade are first performed at the
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 , bought by a group of American Anglophiles in 1946, is presented by
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 writer
January 2 –
Joyce Wadler , American writer and memoirist
January 20 –
Nigel Williams , English author, playwright and screenwriter
February 3 –
Henning Mankell , Swedish crime novelist, children's author and dramatist (died
2015 )
[7]
February 5 –
Christopher Guest , English-American writer, actor and director
February 15 –
Art Spiegelman , American cartoonist
February 19 –
Clive Sinclair , English short-story writer
February 28 –
Mike Figgis , English writer, director and composer
February 29
March 4 –
James Ellroy , American crime fiction author
March 17 –
William Gibson , American-born speculative novelist
March 28 –
Iman Budhi Santosa , Indonesian poet
April 4 –
Patricia A. McKillip , American science fiction, horror and fantasy author
April 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 recipient
June 14 –
Laurence Yep , American author
June 16 –
F. van Dixhoorn , Dutch poet
June 21 –
Andrzej Sapkowski , Polish fantasy author
July 22 –
Susan Eloise Hinton , American young-adult author
August 2 –
Snoo Wilson , English playwright and screenwriter (died
2013 )
August 8 –
Miranda Seymour , English novelist and biographer
August 24 –
Alexander McCall Smith , Scottish writer
August 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 history
September 16 –
Julia Donaldson , English author and children's writer
September 20 –
George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Martin), American fantasy author
October 5 –
Zoran Živković , Serbian author and academic
October 6 –
Zakes Mda (Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda), South African novelist, poet and playwright
October 9 –
Ciaran Carson , Northern Irish poet and novelist
October 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 recipient
unknown 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
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ISBN
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" 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground', the original manuscript version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" . British Library. Retrieved 2015-09-30 .
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"Sir Terry Pratchett Obituary" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2017-09-17 .
^ Holland, Steve (4 April 2019).
"Vonda N McIntyre obituary | Steve Holland" . The Guardian . Retrieved 4 April 2019 .
^ Margalit Fox (September 18, 2007).
"James O. Rigney Jr., Who Wrote as Robert Jordan, Dies at 58" . New York Times . Retrieved October 3, 2022 .
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ISBN
978-0-7649-1340-2 .
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ISBN
978-0-321-05536-1 .
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