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The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
February 19 - Censorship: The State of Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
After five years as an English Teacher, Frederick Buechner moves to New York to become a full time writer.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
April 13 - The face of popular literature is transformed with the publication of Ian Fleming\'s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale.
Ronald Harwood becomes Sir Donald Wolfit\'s dresser.
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" publishes his final Sir Henry Merrivale mystery novel.
Ian Fleming\'s James Bond was first brought into the world in Casino Royale.

New books

Sholom Aleichem - Adventures of Mottel the Cantor\'s Son
Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
Zealia Bishop - The Curse of Yig
Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Golden Apples of the Sun
Gwendolyn Brooks - Maud Martha
William S. Burroughs - Junkie
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Cavalier\'s Cup
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
Arthur C. Clarke
- Against the Fall of Night
- Childhood\'s End
Beverly Cleary - Otis Spofford
Ivy Compton-Burnett - The Present and the Past
A. J. Cronin - Beyond This Place
L. Sprague de Camp
- The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
- Sprague de Camp\'s New Anthology of Science Fiction
- The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - Tales from Gavagan\'s Bar
Lloyd C. Douglas - The Robe
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
Ernest K. Gann - The High and the Mighty
Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
Mark Harris - The Southpaw
James Hilton - Time and Time Again
Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying
C. S. Lewis - The Silver Chair
James A. Michener - The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Zoe B. Oldenbourg - The Cornerstone
Mervyn Peake - Mr Pye
Ellery Queen - The Scarlet Letters
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Sojourner
Annemarie Selinko - Désirée
Samuel Shellabarger - Lord Vanity
Wilmar H. Shiras - Children of the Atom
Rex Stout - The Golden Spiders
Leon Uris - Battle Cry
Boris Vian - Heartsnatcher
A. E. van Vogt - The Universe Maker
Ben Ames Williams - The Unconquered
John Wyndham - The Kraken Wakes

New drama

Arthur Adamov - Le Professeur Taranne
Agatha Christie - Witness for the Prosecution
Max Frisch - Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Fire Raisers)
Witold Gombrowicz - Ślub (The Wedding)
Arthur Miller - The Crucible

Short stories

Roald Dahl - "Nunc Dimittis"

Poetry

Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse

Non-fiction

George Dangerfield - The Era of Good Feelings (Bancroft Prize)
L. Sprague de Camp - Science-Fiction Handbook
G. R. Elton - The Tudor Revolution in Government
Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet
Nancy Mitford - Madame de Pompadour

Births

February 10 - John Shirley, science fiction and horror writer
March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author
March 25 - John Tierney, New York Times journalist
April 3 - Pieter Aspe, author of the "Inspector Van In" novels
May 19 - Victoria Wood, comedienne and writer
July 14 - Bent Lorentzen, novelist
July 29 - Frank McGuinness, dramatist and poet
August 10 - Mark Doty, poet
September 23 - Nicholas Witchell, TV journalist
November 5 - Joyce Maynard, memoirist and former lover of J. D. Salinger
date unknown
- Pat Cadigan, science fiction author
- George Dyson, science historian
- Peter Robinson, poet

Deaths

April 4 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author
April 9 - C. E. M. Joad, philosopher
April 24 - Alfred Vierkandt, sociologist
June 5 - Moelona, novelist and translator
June 25 - Richard Jebb, journalist
July 6 - Julia de Burgos, poet
July 16 - Hilaire Belloc, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer
August 30 - Maurice Nicoll, psychologist
November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
November 27 - Eugene O\'Neill, playwright
November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
date unknown
- Idris Davies, poet
- Gordon Hall Gerould, philologist
- Alice Milligan, poet
- T. F. Powys, novelist, brother of John Cowper Powys
- Eirik Vandvik, classicist and translator

Awards

National Book Award for Fiction: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Christopher Award: Marie Killilea, Karen
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Carola Oman, Sir John Moore
Newbery Medal for children\'s literature: Ann Nolan Clark, Secret of the Andes
Nobel Prize for Literature: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Premio Nadal: Luisa Forrellad, Siempre en capilla
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: William Inge, Picnic
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917-1952
King\'s Gold Medal for Poetry: Arthur Waley

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