1948 in literature
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See also: 1947 in literature, other events of 1948, 1949 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- November 4 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" (1948–1953) is published.
- A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC.
New books
- ''Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
- Catalina - W. Somerset Maugham
- Concluding - Henry Green
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- The Foundling – Georgette Heyer
- The Golden Warrior - Hope Muntz
- Guard of Honor - James Gould Cozzens
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- The Hearth and the Eagle - Anya Seton
- The House of Sleep - Anna Kavan
- Ides of March - Thornton Wilder
- John Aubrey and His Friends - Anthony Powell
- Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
- Last Of The Conquerors - William Gardner Smith
- The Living Is Easy - Dorothy West
- The Mask of Circe - C. L. Moore
- Melissa (novel) - Taylor Caldwell
- My Glorious Brothers - Howard Fast
- The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
- Parris Mitchell of King's Row - Henry Bellamann
- Raintree County - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
- Seraph On The Sewanee - Zora Neale Hurston
- Shannon's Way - A.J. Cronin
- Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose - Dr. Seuss
- The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pène du Bois
- The White Goddess - Robert Graves
- The World is Not Enough - Zoe B. Oldenbourg
- The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw
New drama
- Robertson Davies - Overlaid
- Terence Rattigan - The Browning Version
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands)
Short stories
Non-fiction
- A Russian Journal - John Steinbeck
- The American Political Tradition - Richard Hofstadter
- The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline - Isaac Asimov
- The Norman Church - A. A. Milne
Births
- January 1 - Lynn Abbey, writer
- February 5 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
- February 28 - Mike Figgis, director, writer, composer
- February 29 - Patricia A. McKillip, author of fantasy and science fiction novels
- March 17 - William Gibson, writer
- April 4 - Dan Simmons, American author of science fiction, horror and fantasy
- April 28 - Terry Pratchett, English fantasy author
- September 20 - George R. R. Martin, fantasy writer
- October 17 - Robert Jordan, fantasy writer
Deaths
- March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
- March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- April 22 - Prosper Montagné, chef, author of Larousse Gastronomique
- June 21 - Alice Brown, novelist, poet and dramatist
- July 5 - Georges Bernanos, novelist
- July 21 - J.-H. Rosny jeune, science fiction pioneer
- July 27 - Susan Glaspell, dramatist and novelist
- August 3 - Venetia Stanley, recipient of the Asquith letters
- August 19 - Frederick Philip Grove, novelist and essayist
- September 9 - Lajos Biró, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter
- December 13 - Michael Roberts, poet and critic
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: William Pene du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons
- Nobel Prize for literature: Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden: The Age of Anxiety
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