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January 19 – Isaac Asimov's first full-length novel, Pebble in the Sky, is published in the United States by Doubleday. [1]January 26 – For the film noir Gun Crazy, released on this day in the United States, co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed as Millard Kaufman, due to the former's inclusion on the Hollywood blacklist.
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 ...
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".
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 ...
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]
The Bay Area-based philosopher and writer Alan Watts, in his autobiography, mentioned that by around 1960 or so "... something else was on the way, in religion, in music, in ethics and sexuality, in our attitudes to nature, and in our whole style of life", and described characteristics of a "Clear School" of poetry on whose roll he included ...
Lessing soon became a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing right through the century, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Her other works include a sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and a sequence of ...