1950 in literature
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See also: 1949 in literature, other events of 1950, 1951 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Kazuo Shimada (1907-1996) wins the "Mystery Writer Of Japan" award for his book Shakai-bu Kisha (City Reporter).
- Jack Kerouac has his first novel published.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sent to a "special camp" for political prisoners in Kazakhstan
- Dalton Trumbo co-writes the script of Gun Crazy under the pseudonym Millard Kaufman because of his imprisonment for contempt of court.
New books
- Across the River and Into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
- The Adventurer - Mika Waltari
- Beetlecreek - William Demby
- Cabbagetown - Hugh Garner
- The Cardinal - Henry Morton Robinson
- The Child Who Never Grew - Pearl S. Buck
- The Disenchanted - Budd Schulberg
- The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli
- The Town and the City - Jack Kerouac
- Floodtide - Frank Yerby
- Florence Nightingale - Cecil Woodham-Smith
- The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- Joy Street - Frances Parkinson Keyes
- Jubilee Trail - Gwen Bristow
- Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
- The Liberal Imagination - Lionel Trilling
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
- The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi
- The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
- Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
- The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier
- Reading and Criticism - Raymond Williams
- Scenes from Provincial Life - William Cooper
- The Spanish Gardener - A.J. Cronin
- Star Money - Kathleen Winsor
- Summer In The Country - Edith Templeton
- La vida breve (A Brief Life) - Juan Carlos Onetti
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle - A. E. van Vogt
- The Wall - John Hersey
New drama
- Bertolt Brecht - The Tutor
- Christopher Fry - Venus Observed
- Kermit Hunter - Unto These Hills
- William Inge - Come Back, Little Sheba
- Eugène Ionesco - La cantatrice chauve
Non-fiction
- Roland Bainton - Here I Stand:A Life of Martin Luther
Births
- January 25 - Gloria Naylor, African American author
- February 11 - Mauri Kunnas, Finnish children’s author
- May 1 - Francis Briddick, English poet and lyrisist
- July - Zhang Kangkang, Chinese writer
- September 7 - Peggy Noonan, columnist, political writer
- September 20 - James Blaylock, American fantasy author
- October 17 - David Adams Richards, Canadian author
- October 27 - Fran Leibowitz, American writer
- Barbara Gowdy - Canadian novelist
- Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
Deaths
- January 21 – George Orwell, writer
- March 19 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
- May 6 - Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer known for chronicling the Chinese Civil War
- October 19 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
- November 2 - George Bernard Shaw
- November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, South Pacific
- Special Life Time Award: Francis Briddick
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen
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