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The year 1952, in literature involved some significant events and new literary publications.

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

Events

J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.
November 25 - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London.
The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.
Launch of the influential periodical, Past and Present.
E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled Equatorie of the Planetis.

New books

Isaac Asimov
- The Currents of Space
- Foundation and Empire
Pearl S. Buck - The Hidden Flower
Italo Calvino - La Formica Argentina
John Dickson Carr
- The Nine Wrong Answers
- Behind the Crimson Blind (as by Carter Dickson)
Agatha Christie
- Mrs McGinty's Dead
- They Do It with Mirrors
- A Daughter's a Daughter (as by Mary Westmacott)
Brian Cleeve - The Far Hills
Thomas B. Costain - The Silver Chalice
A. J. Cronin - Adventures in Two Worlds
August Derleth - Three Problems for Solar Pons
August Derleth editor - Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
David F. Dodge - To Catch a Thief
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Edna Ferber - Giant
Paul Gallico - The Small Miracle
Han Suyin - A Many-splendoured Thing
Robert A. Heinlein - The Rolling Stones
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan) - The Price of Salt
Frances Parkinson Keyes - Steamboat Gothic
David H. Keller - Tales from Underwood
Arthur Koestler - Arrow in the Blue
Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
C. S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Bernard Malamud - The Natural
Harry Mulisch - Archibald Strohalm
C. L. Moore - Judgment Night
R. K. Narayan - The Financial Expert
Vin Packer - Spring Fire
Anthony Powell - A Buyer's Market
Barbara Pym - Excellent Women
Ellery Queen - The King is Dead
Charles Shaw - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Howard Spring - The Houses in Between
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Rex Stout - Triple Jeopardy
Rex Stout - Prisoner's Base
Edith Templeton - The Island of Desire
Agnes Sligh Turnbull - The Gown of Glory
Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Evelyn Waugh - Men at Arms
Hillary Waugh - Last Seen Wearing ...
E. B. White - Charlotte's Web
Angus Wilson - Hemlock and After
Frank Yerby - The Saracen Blade

New drama

Robertson Davies - A Masque of Aesop
Charles Langbridge Morgan - The River Line
Terence Rattigan - The Deep Blue Sea

Non-fiction

Roland Bainton – The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
Dorothy Day – The Long Loneliness
L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley – Lands Beyond
Lawrence Gowing – Vermeer
Aldous Huxley – The Devils of Loudun; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking
Gwen Raverat – Period Piece
P.R. Reid – The Colditz Story
Pierre Schaeffer – In Search of a Concrete Music (À la Recherche d'une Musique Concrète)
Immanuel Velikovsky – Ages in Chaos
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill – The Barbarian West, 400–1000
Raymond Williams – Drama from Ibsen to Eliot

Births

February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist
February 29 - Tim Powers, American fantasy author
March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author
June 7 - Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 2006
June 20 - Vikram Seth, Indian novelist
date unknown - Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, author of fantasy novels under the pennames Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm

Deaths

February 7 - Norman Douglas, novelist
February 13 - Josephine Tey, crime novelist
February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author
March 1 - Mariano Azuela, novelist, dramatist and critic
May 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic
April 1 - Ferenc Molnár, dramatist and novelist
June 1 - John Dewey, philosopher and psychologist
July 1 - A. S. W. Rosenbach, book collector
August 9 - Jeffery Farnol, historical romance novelist
August 15 - Dora Diamant, lover of Franz Kafka
September 29 – George Santayana, writer
October 4 - Keith Murdoch, journalist, father of Rupert Murdoch
November 4 - Gilbert Frankau, novelist
November 13 - Margaret Wise Brown, children's author
November 16 - Charles Maurras, poet
November 18 - Paul Éluard, Surrealist poet
November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
December 6 - Cicely Hamilton, dramatist
date unknown - H. J. Massingham, "ruralist" writer
date unknown - Roger Vitrac, poet and dramatist

Awards

Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin
National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
Newdigate prize: Donald Hall
Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
Premio Nadal: María Medio Estrada, Nosotros, los Rivero
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young

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