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Nobel Prize in Literature: Bertrand Russell; Premio Nadal: Elena Quiroga, Viento del norte; Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, South Pacific; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen (first African American winner)
August 27 – Cesare Pavese (born 1908) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator October 19 – Edna St. Vincent Millay , 58 (born 1892 ), of a heart attack; September 17 – Hoshino Tenchi 星野天知 (born 1862 ), Meiji period poet and martial arts master; a co-founder of Bungakukai literary magazine; 8th Grand Master and a ...
1950 literary awards ... 1950 poems (3 P) 1950 in poetry (2 C) S. 1950 short stories (1 C, 59 P) Pages in category "1950 in literature" The following 2 pages are in ...
The Movement produced two anthologies, Poets of the 1950s (edited by D. J. Enright, published in Japan, 1955) and New Lines (edited by Robert Conquest, 1956).Conquest, who edited the New Lines anthology, described the connection between the poets as "little more than a negative determination to avoid bad principles".
1950s literary awards (10 C) B. 1950s books (18 C, 6 P) ... 1950s in poetry (10 C) Pages in category "1950s in literature"
American poetry that emerged in the late 1950s, often brutally, exposes the self as part of an aesthetic of the beauty and power of human frailty [117] Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Alicia Ostriker: Village Prose: A movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that cultivated nostalgia of rural life [118]
poetry, drama American Academy of Arts and Letters: 18 Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970) United Kingdom: novel, short story, drama, essays, biography, literary criticism English PEN Centre 19 Robert Graves (1895–1985) United Kingdom: history, novel, poetry, literary criticism, essays Harry Martinson (1904–1978) 20 Graham Greene (1904–1991)
August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets. November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s begins at Downing College, University of Cambridge: Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends – Tony Davis and Neil Morris – dissatisfied with the way poetry has been read ...