Overview of the events of 1949 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1949 .
Events
January 11 – Bertolt Brecht 's play Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder)Deutsches Theater in East Berlin , with his wife Helene Weigel in the title role and staged with his Verfremdungseffekt ("distancing effect "). This marks the origin of the Berliner Ensemble .January 19 – The Poe Toaster first appears, at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe .[ 1] January 31 – Late Night Serial , a pilot for the U.K. radio series Book at Bedtime BBC Light Programme with a reading of John Buchan 's novel The Three Hostages [ 2] February – Théâtre du Rideau Vert , the first professional French-language theatre in Canada, gives its first performance.[ 3]
February 10 – Arthur Miller 's tragedy Death of a Salesman Morosco Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Lee J. Cobb in the title rôle of Willy Loman . It will run for 742 performances.[ 4] February 19 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry, by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University .March – Poet Pablo Neruda flees Chile over the Lilpela Pass through the Andes to Argentina on horseback carrying a manuscript of his Canto General
April 14
May – Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin settle at the Boat House, Laugharne , in South Wales .
June 8 – George Orwell 's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four Secker & Warburg .June
Summer
September 26 – Samuel Putnam publishes his new translation of Don Quixote October – Publication begins in Italy of L'inferno di Topolino Dante 's Inferno Mickey Mouse with text and verse by Guido Martina .[ 9]
October 5 – American writer Helene Hanff writes her first letter from New York City to the London antiquarian book dealers Marks & Co , a correspondence eventually collected as 84, Charing Cross Road October 13 – George Orwell marries Sonia Brownell while confined in University College Hospital , London, where he will die three months later.[ 10] unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1
January 12 – Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹), Japanese novelistJanuary 16 – John Guy , Australian-born British historian and biographerJanuary 26 – Jonathan Carroll , American author of fantasy fiction January 27 – Ethan Mordden , American authorFebruary 4 – Mark D. Devlin , American memoirist (died 2005 )February 23 – César Aira , Argentinian writerMarch 22 – Brian Hanrahan , English journalist (died 2010 )[ 18] March 26 – Patrick Süskind , German novelistApril 11 – Dorothy Allison , American novelist and campaignerApril 25 – James Fenton , English journalist, poet, critic and academicMay 25 – Jamaica Kincaid , Antiguan-born novelistJune 5 – Ken Follett , English novelistJune 14 – Harry Turtledove , American novelistJune 21 – John Agard , Guyanese poetJuly 1 – Denis Johnson , American poet, novelist (Tree of Smoke Jesus' Son ") (died 2017 )[ 19] July 5 – Jill Murphy , English children's writer and illustrator (died 2021 )July 15 – Richard Russo , American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelistAugust 3 – Peter Gutmann , American journalistAugust 9 – Slavko Ćuruvija , Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher (died 1999 )August 17 – Julian Fellowes , English novelist and screenwriterAugust 25 – Martin Amis , English novelist and critic (died 2023 )September 10 – Bill O'Reilly , American political journalist and authorSeptember 13 – Linda Colley , English historianSeptember 19 – Jimmy McGovern , English screenwriterSeptember 26 – Jane Smiley , American novelistOctober 4 – Luis Sepúlveda , Chilean author and journalist (died 2020 )October 5 – Peter Ackroyd , English biographer, novelist and criticNovember 2 – Lois McMaster Bujold , American author of science fiction and fantasyNovember 24 – Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff , Danish philosopherDecember 6 – Élmer Mendoza , Mexican fiction writerDecember 9 – Eileen Myles , American poetDecember 22 – David Gilmour , Canadian novelistDecember 24 – Alberto Pérez-Gómez , Mexican-born architectural historian
Deaths
January 15 – Mary Lewis Langworthy , American pageant writer (born 1872 )January 21 – William Price Drury , English novelist, playwright and officer (born 1861 )February 1 – N. D. Cocea , Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (born 1880 )February 11 – Axel Munthe , Swedish autobiographer and psychiatrist (born 1857 )March 2
May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate (born 1862 )May 21 – Klaus Mann , German-born American novelist (overdose, born 1906 )June 10 – Sigrid Undset , Norwegian author and Nobel Laureate (born 1882 )[ 20] June 11 – Oton Župančič , Slovene poet, translator and dramatist (born 1878 )June 14 – Russell Doubleday , American author and publisher (born 1872 )July 2 – Elsa Bernstein (Ernst Rosmer), German dramatist (born 1866 )August 2 – Hermann Grab , Bohemian German-language novelist (born 1903 )August 8 – E. H. Young , English novelist (born 1880 )August 16 – Margaret Mitchell , American novelist (road accident, born 1900 )September 4 – Herbert Eulenberg , German poet and dramatist (born 1876 )September 6 – Lucien Descaves , French novelist (born 1861 )September 19
September 21 – Jorge Cáceres , Chilean poet and artist (born 1923 )October 20 – Jacques Copeau , French actor and dramatist (born 1879 )October 24
December 7 – Rex Beach , American author (born 1877 )December 12 – Harriet Ford , American actress and playwright (born 1863 )December 28 – Hervey Allen , American novelist (heart attack, born 1889 )
Awards
References
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^ Jon Gower (27 March 2014). "Library of Wales:All Things Betray Thee" . Wales Arts Review . Retrieved 28 September 2023 .^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542 ^ "Brian Hanrahan Obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2 January 2017 .^ Sandomir, Richard (26 May 2017). "Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67" . The New York Times . Retrieved 18 June 2017 . ^ Bliksrud, Liv (28 September 2014). "Sigrid Undset" . Nbl.snl.no . Retrieved 11 November 2017 .
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