1951 in literature
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See also: 1950 in literature, other events of 1951, 1952 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- E. E. Cummings is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
- Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy.
- Arthur C. Clarke writes The Sentinel, an unpublished story that will form the basis for 2001.
- First appearance of Dennis the Menace in The Beano.
- Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's adoptive mother, dies.
- James Clavell marries actress, April Stride, who introduces him to the movie business.
- Joe Orton enters RADA.
New books
- The Balance Wheel - Taylor Caldwell
- The Blessing - Nancy Mitford
- Boy at the Window - Owen Dodson
- The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
- The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
- The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- The Foundling - Cardinal Spellman
- From Here to Eternity - James Jones
- Galactic Storm - Gill Hunt
- Lie Down In Darkness - William Styron
- Log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck
- The Loved and the Lost - Morley Callaghan
- Mémoires d'Hadrien - Marguerite Yourcenar
- Moses - Sholem Asch
- My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
- Prince Caspian - C. S. Lewis
- The Puppet Masters - Robert A. Heinlein
- A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
- Return to Paradise - James A. Michener
- The Rustlers of the West Fork - Louis L'Amour
- Spartacus - Howard Fast
- The Stars Like Dust - Isaac Asimov
- Tempest-Tost - Robertson Davies
- The Wanderer - Mika Waltari
- A Woman Called Fancy - Frank Yerby
- The Magnificent Century - Thomas B. Costain (Second book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England Series; non-fiction)
New drama
- A. A. Milne - Before the Flood
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Le diable et le bon dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord)
- Tennessee Williams - The Rose Tattoo
- Peter Wessel Zapffe - Den fortapte sønn, En dramatisk gjenfortælling (The lost son, a dramatic renarration)
Births
- August 20 - Greg Bear, science fiction author
- August 24 - Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
- September 20 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist
- October 12 - Peter Flannery, dramatist
- December 22 - Charles de Lint, Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician
Deaths
- January 7 - René Guénon, philosophical writer
- February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist
- February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author
- February 19 - André Gide, author
- March 14 - Algernon Blackwood, writer
- March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American, author & filmmaker
- April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- June 11 - W. C. Sellar, humorist (1066 and All That)
- August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper tycoon
- September 2 - Antoine Bibesco, dramatist
- December 4 - Pedro Salinas, poet
- December 10 - Algernon Blackwood, short story author
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Conrad Richter, The Town
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems
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