1949 in literature
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See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature.
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
- The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
- Alien Land - Willard W. Savoy
- The Angry Wife - Pearl S. Buck
- Beneath The Sky - Alfred Q. Jarrette
- Beyond Earth's Gates - C. L. Moore
- Bright Leaf - Foster Fitzsimmons
- Cannibal - John Hawkes
- Crooked House - Agatha Christie
- The Dream Merchants - Harold Robbins
- The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
- Father of the Bride - Edward Streeter
- The Golden Sequence - Martha E. Von Almedingen
- The Heat of the Day - Elixabeth Bowen
- King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry
- Let Love Come Last - Taylor Caldwell
- Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
- The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
- Men of Maize - Miguel Ángel Asturias
- The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth - Hermann L. Hunter
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- Pride's Castle - Frank Yerby
- A Rage To Live - John O'Hara
- The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
- To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy
- Shane - Jack Schaefer
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- Trouble with Harry - Jack Story
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
Non-fiction
- 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
Births
- January 26 - Jonathan Carroll, American author of fantasy fiction
- November 2 - Lois McMaster Bujold, American author of science fiction and fantasy
Deaths
- January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, U.S. book publisher
- February 11 - Axel Munthe, Swedish author
- April 24 - Willa Cather, author
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet & playwright
- 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
- 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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