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The year 1949 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Arthur C. Clarke becomes Assistant Editor of Science Abstracts.
Bertrand Russell receives the Order of Merit.
Jean-Paul Sartre completes his Les Chemins de la Liberté ("The Roads to Freedom") trilogy.
A statue of folk poet Larin Paraske is erected in Helsinki.

New books

Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm
Miguel Ángel Asturias - Men of Maize
Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph
Elizabeth Bowen - The Heat of the Day
Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
Fredric Brown - The Screaming Mimi
Pearl S. Buck - The Angry Wife
Dorothy Bussy - Olivia (published anonymously)
Taylor Caldwell - Let Love Come Last
John Dickson Carr
- Below Suspicion
- A Graveyard To Let (as by Carter Dickson)
Agatha Christie - Crooked House
Foster Fitzsimmons - Bright Leaf
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. - The Way West
John Hawkes - Cannibal
Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery and Other Stories
Alaric Jacob - Scenes from a Bourgeois Life
Marghanita Laski - Little Boy Lost
H. P. Lovecraft - Something About Cats and Other Pieces
Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
C. L. Moore - Beyond Earth's Gates
John O'Hara - A Rage to Live
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Ruth Park - Poor Man's Orange
Karel Poláček - There Were Five of Us (Czech Bylo nás pět)
Ellery Queen - Cat of Many Tails
Harold Robbins - The Dream Merchants
Jack Schaefer - Shane
Anna Seghers - Die Toten Bleiben Jung
Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice
Rex Stout - Trouble in Triplicate
Rex Stout - The Second Confession
Edward Streeter - Father of the Bride
Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee
Mika Waltari - The Egyptian
S. Fowler Wright - The Throne of Saturn
Frank Yerby - Pride's Castle

New drama

T. S. Eliot - The Cocktail Party
Christopher Fry - The Lady's Not for Burning
Jean Genet - Deathwatch (Haute Surveillance)
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman

Poetry

Carlos de Oliveira - Descida aos Infernos

Non-fiction

Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Marc Bloch - Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
John Dickson Carr - The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Thomas B. Costain - The Conquering Family, also known as The Conquerors (First book in the Plantagenet Series, also known as The Pageant of England)
John Gunther – Death Be Not Proud
Margaret Mead - Male and Female
Audie Murphy - To Hell and Back
Finn Ronne - Antarctic Conquest
Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue - The Royal Road To Card Magic

Births

January 12 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
January 26 - Jonathan Carroll, American author of fantasy fiction
February 4 - Mark D. Devlin, memoirist (d. 2005)
March 26 - Patrick Süskind, German novelist
April 11 - Dorothy Allison, novelist and campaigner
June 5 - Ken Follett, novelist
July 15 - Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
August 3 - Peter Gutmann, journalist
August 25 - Martin Amis, UK novelist and critic
November 2 - Lois McMaster Bujold, American author of science fiction and fantasy
October 5 - Peter Ackroyd, English author
December 24 - Alberto Pérez-Gómez, architectural historian
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- David Gilmour, novelist
- John Guy, historian and biographer
- John Harris, political author
- Jimmy McGovern, screenwriter

Deaths

January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, U.S. book publisher
February 11 - Axel Munthe, Swedish author
May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate
June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author
June 14 - Russell Doubleday, U.S. author and publisher
August 16 - Margaret Mitchell, "Gone with the Wind" author
September 19 - Will Cuppy, U.S. humorist
December 7 - Rex Beach - U.S. author
December 28 - Hervey Allen - U.S. author

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Emma Smith, The Far Cry
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Connell, W. E. Henley
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind
Nobel Prize for literature - William Faulkner
Premio Nadal: Jose Suárez Carreño, Las últimas horas
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum

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