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Overview of the events of 1947 in literature
Overview of the events of 1947 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1947 .
Events
January – The English
actor-manager
Geoffrey Kendal arrives in British India with his touring repertory theatre company "Shakespeareana." It will perform Shakespeare in towns and villages there for several decades.
[1]
January 29 –
Arthur Miller 's play
All My Sons opens at the
Coronet Theater in
New York , directed by
Elia Kazan and starring
Ed Begley , as the writer's first
Broadway success.
February 17 – On the death of
Montserrat -born British fantasy fiction writer
M. P. Shiel aged 81 in
Chichester , his supposed title to the
Kingdom of Redonda passes to the London poet
John Gawsworth .
March –
Landfall , a literary magazine, is founded by
Charles Brasch and first published by
Caxton Press (New Zealand) . It will become the country's longest-established literary journal.
April
April 6 – The
1st Tony Awards for excellence in live American theater are awarded at the
Waldorf Astoria New York .
April 24 – American novelist
Willa Cather dies aged 73 of a
cerebral hemorrhage in her home at 570
Park Avenue in
Manhattan .
[2] On her death, her long-time domestic partner, magazine editor
Edith Lewis , destroys the uncompleted manuscript of Cather's historical novel
Hard Punishments according to the author's instructions.
[3]
May –
Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
[4]
May/June – The English novelist
T. H. White buys a house in
Saint Anne, Alderney in the
Channel Islands , where he will spend the rest of his life.
June – Publication begins of
Vice Versa magazine in
Los Angeles , the first known periodical for
lesbians , edited by '
Lisa Ben '.
June 24 –
Kenneth Arnold
claims to have seen nine
flying saucers near
Mount Rainier ,
Washington , starting a wave of enthusiasm in
science fiction
writers and
scientists .
June 25 – Most of
The Diary of a Young Girl by
Anne Frank is first published as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 ("The Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944") in
Amsterdam , two years after its writer's death in
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .
July
August 24 – The first
Edinburgh Festival of the Arts opens in Scotland.
[7]
September – The German literary association
Group 47 forms.
September 12 – The American novelist
John Dos Passos is involved in an automobile accident that kills his wife and costs him the sight in one eye.
November –
Muriel Spark becomes editor of
Poetry Review in London from this month's issue.
November 24 –
Dalton Trumbo refuses to testify before the
McCarthyite
House Un-American Activities Committee .
Ring Lardner, Jr. attends, but refuses to answer questions. The
United States House of Representatives votes 346–17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against all the "
Hollywood Ten "
screenwriters and directors who refuse to cooperate with the Committee over allegations of
communist influences in the movie business. The ten are
blacklisted by the
Hollywood
movie studios the following day.
[8]
December 23 –
Tennessee Williams ' play
A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the
Ethel Barrymore Theatre on
Broadway in New York City, directed by
Elia Kazan . It stars
Jessica Tandy and
Marlon Brando in his first major stage rôle.
Uncertain dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 14 –
Richard Laymon , American suspense novelist (died
2001 )
February 3 –
Paul Auster , American novelist
February 9 –
Eamon Duffy , Irish church historian and academic
March 22 –
James Patterson , American novelist and short story writer
April 3 –
Srikrishna Alanahalli , Indian novelist and poet (died
1989 )
April 12 –
Tom Clancy , American novelist (died
2013 )
April 18 –
Kathy Acker (Karen Lehmann), American novelist and poet (died
1997 )
April 24 –
Astrid Roemer ,
Suriname -born Dutch novelist, poet and playwright
April 28 –
Humayun Azad , Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist (died
2004 )
May 10 –
Thomas Tessier , American writer of horror novels and short stories
May 12 –
Catherine Yronwode , American author and illustrator
May 27 –
Felix Dennis , English publisher and poet (died
2014 )
[14]
June 5 –
David Hare , English playwright
June 19 –
Salman Rushdie , Indian novelist writing in English
June 22 –
Octavia E. Butler , American science fiction writer (died
2006 )
July 2 –
Jürg Amann , Swiss dramatist (died
2013 )
July 18 –
Dermot Healy , Irish novelist and poet (died
2014 )
July 23 –
Gardner Dozois , American science fiction author and editor (died
2018 )
August 14 -
Danielle Steel , American romance novelist
[15]
August 23 –
Willy Russell , English dramatist
September 8 –
Marianne Wiggins , American novelist
September 21 –
Stephen King , American novelist
October 14 –
Tomás de Mattos , Uruguayan writer and librarian (died
2016 )
October 19 –
Giorgio Cavazzano , Italian comics artist and illustrator
October 26 –
Trevor Joyce , Irish poet
[16]
November 6 –
Michelle Magorian , English children's author
November 14 –
P. J. O'Rourke , American political satirist and journalist (died
2022 )
[17]
November 28 –
Gustav Hasford , American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief (died
1993 )
December 26 –
Jean Echenoz , French novelist
unknown dates
Deaths
January 19 –
Manuel Machado , Spanish poet (born
1874 )
February 1 –
J. D. Beresford , English short-story writer (born
1873 )
February 4 –
Margaret Cameron , American novelist, humorist, playwright, non-fiction writer (born
1867 )
February 5 –
Hans Fallada , German novelist (born
1893 )
February 11 –
E. M. Hull , English romance novelist (born
1880 )
February 15 –
Margaret Marshall Saunders , Canadian author (born
1861 )
March 12 –
Winston Churchill , American novelist (born
1871 )
March 13 –
Angela Brazil , English school-story writer for girls (born
1868 )
April 24 –
Willa Cather , American novelist (born
1873 )
April 30 –
Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper), English poet (suicide, born
1883 )
[21]
May 21
June 6 –
James Agate , English author and critic (born
1877 )
June 17 –
Maxwell Perkins , American literary editor (born
1884 )
August 5 –
Herbert Asquith , English poet and novelist (born
1881 )
August 30 –
Jessie Wilson Manning , American author and lecturer (born
1855 )
September 25 –
Afevork Ghevre Jesus , Ethiopian author writing in
Amharic (born
1868 )
September 26 –
Hugh Lofting , English-born children's writer (born
1886 )
September 15 –
Richard Le Gallienne , English writer and poet (born
1866 )
October 13
November 12 –
Baroness Orczy (Emma Orczy), Hungarian novelist writing in English (born
1865 )
November 14 –
Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes , Anglo-French novelist and biographer writing in English (born
1868 )
November 20 –
Wolfgang Borchert , German author and playwright (liver failure, born
1921 )
December 7 –
Tristan Bernard , French playwright and novelist (born
1866 )
December 15 –
Arthur Machen , Welsh journalist, novelist and short-story writer (born
1863 )
December 30 –
Alfred North Whitehead , English mathematician and philosopher (born
1861 )
Awards
References
^ Singh, Kuldip (1998-06-15).
"Obituary: Geoffrey Kendal" .
The Independent . London.
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2013-12-11 .
^
"Author of Lost Lady Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for Writing One of Ours " .
The New York Times . 1947-04-25. Retrieved 2014-01-18 .
^ Homestead, Melissa (2011). The encyclopedia of twentieth-century fiction . Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 490.
ISBN
9781405192446 .
^ Dorothy Parker (1996).
The Uncollected Dorothy Parker . Duckworth. p. 54.
ISBN
978-0-7156-2937-6 .
^ Jack Kerouac (2004).
Jack Kerouac's On the Road . Infobase Publishing. p. 183.
ISBN
978-0-7910-7581-4 .
^ Christopher Conti; James Gourley (17 March 2014).
Literature as Translation/Translation as Literature . Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 17.
ISBN
978-1-4438-5768-0 .
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 396–397.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
Waldorf Statement .
^
Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E. (3 March 2015).
Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett . Columbia University Press. p. 343.
ISBN
978-0-231-53892-3 .
^
"Malcolm Lowry British Novelist" . Encyclopaedia Britannica . Retrieved 2019-06-01 .
^ McDermott, John (16 January 1989).
Kingsley Amis: An English Moralist . Springer. p. 190.
ISBN
978-1-349-19687-6 .
^ Treat, John Whittier (1996).
Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb . University of Chicago Press. pp. 189–197.
ISBN
9780226811789 .
^ Graff, Gerald (1980).
Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. pp.
87–111 .
ISBN
9780226306018 .
^
"Felix Dennis Obituary" . The Telegraph . Retrieved 2 January 2017 .
^ Paul T. Hellmann (2006). Historical Gazetteer of the United States . Taylor & Francis. p. 780.
ISBN
9781135948597 .
^ British and Irish Poets: A Biographical Dictionary, 449–2006 , Ed. William Stewart. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007, p. 209.
^ Clifford, Tyler (2022-02-15).
"P.J. O'Rourke, renowned political satirist and journalist, dies age 74" .
Reuters .
^
Catalan Writing . Institució des Lletres Catalanes. 1990. p. 89.
^ Samuel L. Leiter (2007).
Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre: A-N . Greenwood Press. p. 452.
ISBN
978-0-313-33530-3 .
^
"Borka Pavićević has passed away" . CZKD . 30 June 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2020 .
^
The Literary Cemetery.
^
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947" . www.nobelprize.org . Retrieved 29 December 2016 .