1952 in literature
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See also: 1951 in literature, other events of 1952, 1953 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.
- November 25 - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London.
- The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.
- Launch of the influential periodical, Past and Present.
- E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
- Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled Equatorie of the Planetis.
New books
- Adventures in Two Worlds - A.J. Cronin
- Arrow in the Blue - Arthur Koestler
- A Buyer's Market - Anthony Powell
- Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
- The Currents of Space - Isaac Asimov
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- La Formica Argentina - Italo Calvino
- Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
- Giant - Edna Ferber
- Go Tell it On The Mountain - James Baldwin
- The Gown of Glory - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
- Heaven and Earth - Carlo Coccioli
- The Hidden Flower - Pearl S. Buck
- The Houses in Between - Howard Spring
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Island of Desire - Edith Templeton
- Judgment Night - C. L. Moore
- Last Seen Wearing ... - Hillary Waugh
- A Many-splendoured Thing - Han Suyin
- Martha Quest - Doris Lessing
- The Game Is Up/Les jeux sont faits - Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Natural - Bernard Malamud
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale
- The Rolling Stones - Robert A. Heinlein
- The Saracen Blade - Frank Yerby
- The Silver Chalice - Thomas B. Costain
- The Small Miracle - Paul Gallico
- Steamboat Gothic - Frances Parkinson Keyes
- Vermeer - Lawrence Gowing
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis
New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
- Robertson Davies - A Masque of Aesop
- Charles Langbridge Morgan - The River Line
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Les jeux sont faits (The Game is Up)
Non-fiction
- Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudun; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Raymond Williams - Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Births
- February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist
- February 29 - Tim Powers, American fantasy author
- March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author
- Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, author of fantasy novels under the pennames Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm
Deaths
- February 7 - Norman Douglas, novelist
- February 13 - Josephine Tey, crime novelist
- February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author
- March 1 - Mariano Azuela, novelist, dramatist and critic
- May 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic
- June 1 - John Dewey, philosopher and psychologist
- August 9 - Jeffery Farnol, historical romance novelist
- September 29 – George Santayana, writer
- November 16 - Charles Maurras, poet
- November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
Awards
- National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
- Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
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