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

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Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

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.

New books

★ Nelson Algren - ''The Man with the Golden Arm''

★ Martha E. Von Almedingen - ''The Golden Sequence''

★ 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''

★ Agatha Christie - ''Crooked House''

★ Foster Fitzsimmons - ''Bright Leaf''

★ A. B. Guthrie, Jr. - ''The Way West''

★ John Hawkes - ''Cannibal''

★ Marguerite Henry - ''King of the Wind''

★ Hermann L. Hunter - ''The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth''

★ Alfred Q. Jarrette - ''Beneath the Sky''

★ Franz Kafka - ''The Trial''

★ Marghanika 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'')

★ Harold Robbins - ''The Dream Merchants''

★ Willard W. Savoy - ''Alien Land''

★ Jack Schaefer - ''Shane''

★ Anna Seghers - ''Die Toten Bleiben Jung''

★ Nevil Shute - ''A Town Like Alice''

★ Jack Story - ''Trouble with Harry''

★ 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 - ''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''

★ 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''

Births

★ January 26 - Jonathan Carroll, American author of fantasy fiction

★ 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

★ 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

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Mark D. Devlin, memoirist

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★ David Gilmour, novelist

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★ Juan Gonzalez, investigative journalist

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★ Bonnie Greer, dramatist

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★ John Guy, historian and biographer

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★ John Harris, political author

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★ 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

★ 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''