Overview of the events of 1951 in literature
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. Salinger , opening lines of The Catcher in the Rye
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1951 .
January 12 – Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis ' so-called adoptive mother, dies.[ 1]
March – The American writer Flannery O'Connor leaves hospital after being diagnosed with lupus at the age of 25.[ 2]
March 12 – Hank Ketcham 's U.S. Dennis the Menace appears for the first time in 16 United States newspapers.
March 17 – The homonymous U.K. Dennis the Menace comic strip first appears in the children's comic The Beano .
Spring – Arthur C. Clarke 's short story "The Sentinel ", which will form a basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and a subsequent novel , is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine 10 Story Fantasy .
May – Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he meets his lover and ultimate murderer Kenneth Halliwell .
June 18 – Frank Hardy is acquitted of criminal libel in the Australian state of Victoria over his self-published 1950 roman à clef on corruption in Melbourne political life, Power Without Glory .[ 3]
July 16 – J. D. Salinger 's coming-of-age story The Catcher in the Rye is published by Little, Brown and Company in New York City.
September 6 – William S. Burroughs shoots and kills his common-law wife Joan Vollmer , apparently by accident, in Mexico City .[ 4]
December 16 – Noël Coward leaves his home, White Cliffs, on the south coast of England, having sold it to Ian Fleming .[ 5]
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E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships . It is Cummings' second.[ 6]
Janet Frame 's first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories , is published by the Caxton Press (New Zealand) (dated 1952) while the author is a patient in Seacliff Lunatic Asylum , Seacliff, New Zealand , scheduled for a lobotomy . It is awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award, at the time one of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prizes. This results in the cancellation of Frame's operation.[ 7]
Béla Hamvas completes his epic novel Karnevál . He is banned from publication in Hungary at the time, so that it will appear only in 1985 , 17 years after his death.
A Question of Upbringing , the first book in Anthony Powell 's twelve-novel series A Dance to the Music of Time , is published by Heinemann in the U.K.
The custom of performing medieval mystery plays is revived at York and Chester , England.[ 8]
The Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris is founded.[ 9]
Children and young people [ edit ]
January 1 – Ashfaq Hussain , Urdu poet
January 13 – Nigel Cox , New Zealand novelist
January 22 – Steve J. Spears , Australian actor, singer, and playwright (died 2007 )
February 13 – Katja Lange-Müller , German novelist
February 15 – Linda Grant , English novelist and journalist
February 17 – Jagadish Mohanty , Indian novelist (died 2013 )
March 4 – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha , South Korean-born novelist and artist (died 1982 )
March 12 – Susan Musgrave , Canadian poet and children's writer
March 17 - Lian Tanner , Australian children's writer
April 5 – Guy Vanderhaeghe , Canadian author[ 17]
April 16 – Ioan Mihai Cochinescu , Romanian novelist and essayist
April 19 – Pierre Lemaitre , French suspense novelist
May 3 – Tatyana Tolstaya , Russian novelist, essayist and TV presenter
May 9
May 15 – David Almond , English writer for children and young adults
May 20 – Christie Blatchford , Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist, writer and broadcaster (died 2020 )[ 19]
May 21 – Al Franken , American comedian, actor, writer and politician
June 5 – Suze Orman , American financial advisor, writer and television personality
June 15 – Amir Barghashi , Iranian-born Swedish actor and dramatist[ 20]
June 22 – Rosario Murillo , Nicaraguan poet and political activist
June 29 – Don Rosa , American writer and artist of Disney comics
August 20 – Greg Bear , American science fiction writer[ 21]
August 24 – Orson Scott Card , American science fiction writer[ 22]
September 14 – Volodymyr Melnykov , Ukrainian poet , writer , songwriter and composer [ 23]
September 15 – Jared Taylor , American author and journalist[ 24]
September 20 – Javier Marías , Spanish novelist[ 25]
September 29 – Andrés Caicedo , Colombian novelist and cinema critic (suicide 1977 )[ 26]
October 3 – Bernard Cooper , American writer
October 11 – Louise Rennison , English author and comedian (died 2016 )[ 27]
October 12 – Peter Flannery , English dramatist[ 28]
October 17 – Clark Parent , Haitian novelist, musician and politician
November 18 - Dennis Foon , Canadian playwright, screenwriter and novelist
December 6 – Tomson Highway , Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist and children's author[ 29]
December 8 – Bill Bryson , American travel writer[ 30]
December 20 – Peter May , Scottish novelist and television dramatist
December 22 – Charles de Lint , Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician
Unknown dates
January 6 – Maila Talvio , Finnish writer, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1871 )
January 7 – René Guénon , French philosophical writer (born 1886 )
January 10 – Sinclair Lewis , American novelist (born 1885 )
January 29 – James Bridie , Scottish dramatist (born 1888 )
February 13 – Lloyd C. Douglas , American author (born 1877 )
February 16 – Henri-René Lenormand , French dramatist (born 1882 )
February 19 – André Gide , French author (born 1869 )[ 32]
February 28 – Vsevolod Vishnevsky , Russian dramatist and screenwriter (born 1900 )
March 11 – János Zsupánek , Prekmurje Slovene poet and author (born 1861 )
March 25 – Oscar Micheaux , African American author, film director and producer (born 1884 )
April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu , Estonian poet and dramatist (born 1890 )[ 33]
April 9 – Sadegh Hedayat , Iranian-born novelist (born 1903 ; suicide)
April 12 - Henry De Vere Stacpoole . Irish author (born 1863 )
April 29 – Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian philosopher (born 1889 )
May 2 – Alphonse de Châteaubriant , French writer (born 1877 )
May 25 – Paula von Preradović , Austrian poet and writer (born 1887 )[ 34]
May 30 – Hermann Broch , Austrian writer (born 1886 )[ 35]
June 10 – Håkon Evjenth , Norwegian children's writer (born 1894 )
June 11 – W. C. Sellar , Scottish humorist (born 1898 )
August 14 – William Randolph Hearst , American newspaper tycoon (born 1863 )
August 18 – Richard Malden , English editor, classical and Biblical scholar, and ghost story writer (born 1879 )
August 31 – Abraham Cahan , American Jewish journalist and novelist (born 1860 )
September 2 – Antoine Bibesco , Romanian dramatist (born 1878 )[ 36]
September 7 – F. G. Loring , English writer and naval officer (born 1869 )
September 28 – Petre P. Negulescu , Romanian philosopher (born 1870 )
November 5 – I. C. Vissarion , Romanian novelist, dramatist, poet and science writer (born 1879 )
November 27 – Timrava (Božena Slančíková), Slovak novelist, short story writer and playwright (born 1867 )
December 4 – Pedro Salinas , Spanish poet (born 1891 )[ 37]
December 10 – Algernon Blackwood , English novelist and journalist (born 1869 )
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