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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Overview of the events of 1952 in literature</div> <table class="infobox"> <tbody><tr> <th style="font-size:larger;"> <table style="width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; width:15%;"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_years_in_literature" title="List of years in literature">List of years in literature</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; width:15%;">(<a href="/wiki/Table_of_years_in_literature" title="Table of years in literature">table</a>) </td></tr></tbody></table> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/1950_in_literature" title="1950 in literature">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_in_literature" title="1951 in literature">1951</a></li> <li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1952</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_in_literature" title="1953 in literature">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_in_literature" title="1954 in literature">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_in_literature" title="1955 in literature">1955</a><br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_in_literature" title="1956 in literature">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_in_literature" title="1957 in literature">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_in_literature" title="1958 in literature">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_in_literature" title="1959 in literature">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_in_literature" title="1960 in literature">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_in_literature" title="1961 in literature">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_in_literature" title="1962 in literature">1962</a> <a href="/wiki/Category:Literature_by_year" title="Category:Literature by year">…</a></li></ul> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="border-top:1px #aaa solid; padding-bottom:0;text-align:center;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">In poetry</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/1949_in_poetry" title="1949 in poetry">1949</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1950_in_poetry" title="1950 in poetry">1950</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1951_in_poetry" title="1951 in poetry">1951</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1952_in_poetry" title="1952 in poetry">1952</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1953_in_poetry" title="1953 in poetry">1953</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1954_in_poetry" title="1954 in poetry">1954</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1955_in_poetry" title="1955 in poetry">1955</a></dd></dl> </div> 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U.K.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_29" title="February 29">February 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price" title="Derek J. de Solla Price">Derek J. de Solla Price</a> reveals his discovery of a lost medieval scientific work entitled <i>Equatorie of the Planetis</i>, initially attributed to <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>, in the Times Literary Supplement.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/J._L._Carr" title="J. L. Carr">J. L. Carr</a> takes over as Headmaster of Highfields Primary School, <a href="/wiki/Kettering" title="Kettering">Kettering</a>, which will later feature in his novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Harpole_Report" title="The Harpole Report">The Harpole Report</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rogers2011_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rogers2011-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>May – The works of <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide" title="André Gide">André Gide</a> are placed on the Catholic Church's <a href="/wiki/Index_of_Forbidden_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Index of Forbidden Books">Index of Forbidden Books</a> by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII" title="Pope Pius XII">Pope Pius XII</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – The first issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Mad_(magazine)" title="Mad (magazine)">Mad</a></i> appears, edited by <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Kurtzman" title="Harvey Kurtzman">Harvey Kurtzman</a> and published by <a href="/wiki/William_M._Gaines" class="mw-redirect" title="William M. Gaines">William M. Gaines</a>' <a href="/wiki/EC_Comics" title="EC Comics">EC Comics</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">August 12</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets" title="Night of the Murdered Poets">Night of the Murdered Poets</a> brings the execution of 13 Soviet Jews in <a href="/wiki/Lubyanka_Prison" class="mw-redirect" title="Lubyanka Prison">Lubyanka Prison</a>, Moscow, including several writers.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Universal_Copyright_Convention" title="Universal Copyright Convention">Universal Copyright Convention</a> is adopted at <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/Waiting_For_Godot" class="mw-redirect" title="Waiting For Godot">Waiting For Godot</a></i> is published in Paris as <i>En attendant Godot</i> by <a href="/wiki/Les_%C3%89ditions_de_Minuit" title="Les Éditions de Minuit">Les Éditions de Minuit</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">October 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a> delivers the first of his <a href="/wiki/Charles_Eliot_Norton" title="Charles Eliot Norton">Charles Eliot Norton</a> lectures at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_25" title="November 25">November 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mousetrap" title="The Mousetrap">The Mousetrap</a></i> opens at the <a href="/wiki/Ambassadors_Theatre_(London)" title="Ambassadors Theatre (London)">New Ambassadors Theatre</a>, London. It will still be running as of 2021, next door at <a href="/wiki/St_Martin%27s_Theatre" title="St Martin's Theatre">St Martin's Theatre</a> from 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>unknown dates</i> <ul><li>The publisher <a href="/wiki/Diogenes_Verlag" title="Diogenes Verlag">Diogenes Verlag</a> is founded in <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a>, Switzerland, by Daniel Keel.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Myanmar" title="National Library of Myanmar">National Library of Burma</a> is established in <a href="/wiki/Rangoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangoon">Rangoon</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_books">New books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: New books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margery_Allingham" title="Margery Allingham">Margery Allingham</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tiger_in_the_Smoke" title="The Tiger in the Smoke">The Tiger in the Smoke</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Armstrong_(writer)" title="Anthony Armstrong (writer)">Anthony Armstrong</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/He_Was_Found_in_the_Road" title="He Was Found in the Road">He Was Found in the Road</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Armstrong_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Armstrong (author)">Thomas Armstrong</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Adam_Brunskill" title="Adam Brunskill">Adam Brunskill</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Currents_of_Space" title="The Currents of Space">The Currents of Space</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Foundation_and_Empire" title="Foundation and Empire">Foundation and Empire</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._E._Bates" title="H. E. Bates">H. E. Bates</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Love_for_Lydia" title="Love for Lydia">Love for Lydia</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margot_Bennett_(writer)" title="Margot Bennett (writer)">Margot Bennett</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Widow_of_Bath" title="The Widow of Bath">The Widow of Bath</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bingham,_7th_Baron_Clanmorris" title="John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris">John Bingham</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/My_Name_Is_Michael_Sibley" title="My Name Is Michael Sibley">My Name Is Michael Sibley</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianna_Brand" title="Christianna Brand">Christianna Brand</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/London_Particular" title="London Particular">London Particular</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck" title="Pearl S. Buck">Pearl S. Buck</a> – <i>The Hidden Flower</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bude" class="mw-redirect" title="John Bude">John Bude</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_on_the_Riviera" title="Death on the Riviera">Death on the Riviera</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/When_the_Case_Was_Opened" title="When the Case Was Opened">When the Case Was Opened</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Bunin" title="Ivan Bunin">Ivan Bunin</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_of_Arseniev" title="The Life of Arseniev">The Life of Arseniev</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italo_Calvino" title="Italo Calvino">Italo Calvino</a> <ul><li><i>The Argentine Ant</i> (<i>La Formica Argentina</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cloven_Viscount" title="The Cloven Viscount">The Cloven Viscount</a></i> (<i>l visconte dimezzato</i>, first of the <i><a href="/wiki/Our_Ancestors" class="mw-redirect" title="Our Ancestors">Our Ancestors</a></i> trilogy)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Canning" title="Victor Canning">Victor Canning</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_House_of_the_Seven_Flies" title="The House of the Seven Flies">The House of the Seven Flies</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dickson_Carr" title="John Dickson Carr">John Dickson Carr</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Nine_Wrong_Answers" title="The Nine Wrong Answers">The Nine Wrong Answers</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Behind_the_Crimson_Blind" title="Behind the Crimson Blind">Behind the Crimson Blind</a></i> (as Carter Dickson)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cecil_Leon" title="Henry Cecil Leon">Henry Cecil</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/No_Bail_for_the_Judge" title="No Bail for the Judge">No Bail for the Judge</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line" title="Louis-Ferdinand Céline">Louis-Ferdinand Céline</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Fable_for_Another_Time" title="Fable for Another Time">Fable for Another Time</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mrs_McGinty%27s_Dead" title="Mrs McGinty's Dead">Mrs McGinty's Dead</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/They_Do_It_with_Mirrors" title="They Do It with Mirrors">They Do It with Mirrors</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Daughter%27s_a_Daughter" title="A Daughter's a Daughter">A Daughter's a Daughter</a></i> (as Mary Westmacott)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cleeve" title="Brian Cleeve">Brian Cleeve</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Far_Hills" title="The Far Hills">The Far Hills</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branko_%C4%86opi%C4%87" title="Branko Ćopić">Branko Ćopić</a> – <i>Prolom</i> (The Break-out)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_B._Costain" title="Thomas B. Costain">Thomas B. Costain</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Silver_Chalice" title="The Silver Chalice">The Silver Chalice</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._J._Cronin" title="A. J. Cronin">A. J. Cronin</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Adventures_in_Two_Worlds" title="Adventures in Two Worlds">Adventures in Two Worlds</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Derleth" title="August Derleth">August Derleth</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Problems_for_Solar_Pons" title="Three Problems for Solar Pons">Three Problems for Solar Pons</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Night%27s_Yawning_Peal:_A_Ghostly_Company" title="Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company">Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company</a></i> (as editor)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_F._Dodge" class="mw-redirect" title="David F. Dodge">David F. Dodge</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/To_Catch_a_Thief_(novel)" title="To Catch a Thief (novel)">To Catch a Thief</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Dutourd" title="Jean Dutourd">Jean Dutourd</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_Butter" title="The Best Butter">The Best Butter</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Ellison" title="Ralph Ellison">Ralph Ellison</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Invisible_Man" title="Invisible Man">Invisible Man</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Farnol" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeffrey Farnol">Jeffrey Farnol</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Waif_of_the_River" title="Waif of the River">Waif of the River</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edna_Ferber" title="Edna Ferber">Edna Ferber</a> – <i>Giant</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._S._Forester" title="C. S. Forester">C. S. Forester</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Hornblower" title="Lieutenant Hornblower">Lieutenant Hornblower</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Gallico" title="Paul Gallico">Paul Gallico</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Small_Miracle" class="mw-redirect" title="The Small Miracle">The Small Miracle</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Gilbert_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Gilbert (author)">Anthony Gilbert</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Miss_Pinnegar_Disappears" title="Miss Pinnegar Disappears">Miss Pinnegar Disappears</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Gilbert" title="Michael Gilbert">Michael Gilbert</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Death_in_Captivity" title="Death in Captivity">Death in Captivity</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Giono" title="Jean Giono">Jean Giono</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Malediction" title="The Malediction">The Malediction</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Gordon_(English_author)" title="Richard Gordon (English author)">Richard Gordon</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_in_the_House_(novel)" title="Doctor in the House (novel)">Doctor in the House</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Graham" title="Winston Graham">Winston Graham</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_Is_a_Woman_(novel)" title="Fortune Is a Woman (novel)">Fortune Is a Woman</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Greenwood" title="Walter Greenwood">Walter Greenwood</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/So_Brief_the_Spring" title="So Brief the Spring">So Brief the Spring</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Grierson" title="Edward Grierson">Edward Grierson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Reputation_for_a_Song" title="Reputation for a Song">Reputation for a Song</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Grossman" title="Vasily Grossman">Vasily Grossman</a> – <i>Stalingrad</i> («Сталингра́д»)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Suyin" title="Han Suyin">Han Suyin</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Many-Splendoured_Thing" title="A Many-Splendoured Thing">A Many-Splendoured Thing</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_(novel)" title="The Rolling Stones (novel)">The Rolling Stones</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea" title="The Old Man and the Sea">The Old Man and the Sea</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willem_Frederik_Hermans" title="Willem Frederik Hermans">Willem Frederik Hermans</a> – <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Het_behouden_huis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Het behouden huis (page does not exist)">Het behouden huis</a><sup class="noprint" style="font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_behouden_huis_(novelle)" class="extiw" title="nl:Het behouden huis (novelle)">nl</a>]</sup></i> (The House of Refuge or An Untouched House, novella)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith" title="Patricia Highsmith">Patricia Highsmith</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Price_of_Salt" title="The Price of Salt">The Price of Salt</a></i> (as Claire Morgan)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_B._Hughes" title="Dorothy B. Hughes">Dorothy B. Hughes</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Davidian_Report" title="The Davidian Report">The Davidian Report</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammond_Innes" title="Hammond Innes">Hammond Innes</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Campbell%27s_Kingdom_(novel)" title="Campbell's Kingdom (novel)">Campbell's Kingdom</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Innes" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Innes">Michael Innes</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Private_View" title="A Private View">A Private View</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger" title="Ernst Jünger">Ernst Jünger</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Visit_to_Godenholm" title="Visit to Godenholm">Visit to Godenholm</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Parkinson_Keyes" title="Frances Parkinson Keyes">Frances Parkinson Keyes</a> – <i>Steamboat Gothic</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_H._Keller" title="David H. Keller">David H. Keller</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Underwood" title="Tales from Underwood">Tales from Underwood</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Koestler" title="Arthur Koestler">Arthur Koestler</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Arrow_in_the_Blue" title="Arrow in the Blue">Arrow in the Blue</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness" title="Halldór Laxness">Halldór Laxness</a> – Gerpla</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Lessing" title="Doris Lessing">Doris Lessing</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Martha_Quest" title="Martha Quest">Martha Quest</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._C._R._Lorac" title="E. C. R. Lorac">E. C. R. Lorac</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Crossed_Skis" title="Crossed Skis">Crossed Skis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_(novel)" title="The Dog It Was That Died (novel)">The Dog It Was That Died</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Mill-Race" title="Murder in the Mill-Race">Murder in the Mill-Race</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Lustgarten" title="Edgar Lustgarten">Edgar Lustgarten</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Game_for_Three_Losers_(novel)" title="Game for Three Losers (novel)">Game for Three Losers</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ross_Macdonald" title="Ross Macdonald">Ross Macdonald</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ivory_Grin" title="The Ivory Grin">The Ivory Grin</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compton_Mackenzie" title="Compton Mackenzie">Compton Mackenzie</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rival_Monster" title="The Rival Monster">The Rival Monster</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Malamud" title="Bernard Malamud">Bernard Malamud</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Natural" title="The Natural">The Natural</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Mankowitz" title="Wolf Mankowitz">Wolf Mankowitz</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Make_Me_an_Offer_(novel)" title="Make Me an Offer (novel)">Make Me an Offer</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ana_Maria_Matute" class="mw-redirect" title="Ana Maria Matute">Ana Maria Matute</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Fiesta_al_noroeste" title="Fiesta al noroeste">Fiesta al noroeste</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gladys_Mitchell" title="Gladys Mitchell">Gladys Mitchell</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Echoing_Strangers" title="The Echoing Strangers">The Echoing Strangers</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Mulisch" title="Harry Mulisch">Harry Mulisch</a> – <i>Archibald Strohalm</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._L._Moore" title="C. L. Moore">C. L. Moore</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Judgment_Night_(collection)" title="Judgment Night (collection)">Judgment Night</a></i> (science fiction short stories)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._K._Narayan" title="R. K. Narayan">R. K. Narayan</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Financial_Expert" title="The Financial Expert">The Financial Expert</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian" title="Patrick O'Brian">Patrick O'Brian</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Testimonies_(novel)" title="Testimonies (novel)">Testimonies</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor" title="Flannery O'Connor">Flannery O'Connor</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Wise_Blood" title="Wise Blood">Wise Blood</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vin_Packer" class="mw-redirect" title="Vin Packer">Vin Packer</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Spring_Fire" title="Spring Fire">Spring Fire</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Powell" title="Anthony Powell">Anthony Powell</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Buyer%27s_Market" title="A Buyer's Market">A Buyer's Market</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Procter" title="Maurice Procter">Maurice Procter</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Rich_Is_the_Treasure" title="Rich Is the Treasure">Rich Is the Treasure</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Pudney" title="John Pudney">John Pudney</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Net_(novel)" title="The Net (novel)">The Net</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Pym" title="Barbara Pym">Barbara Pym</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Excellent_Women" title="Excellent Women">Excellent Women</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellery_Queen" title="Ellery Queen">Ellery Queen</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_King_is_Dead_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The King is Dead (novel)">The King is Dead</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucien_Rebatet" title="Lucien Rebatet">Lucien Rebatet</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Deux_%C3%A9tendards" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Deux étendards">Les Deux étendards</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rhode" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rhode">John Rhode</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Death_in_Wellington_Road" title="Death in Wellington Road">Death in Wellington Road</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Scott-James" title="Anne Scott-James">Anne Scott-James</a> – <i>In the Mink</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Shaw_(writer)" title="Charles Shaw (writer)">Charles Shaw</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_Knows,_Mr._Allison_(novel)" title="Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (novel)">Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)" title="East of Eden (novel)">East of Eden</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rex_Stout" title="Rex Stout">Rex Stout</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Triple_Jeopardy" title="Triple Jeopardy">Triple Jeopardy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prisoner%27s_Base" title="Prisoner's Base">Prisoner's Base</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noel_Streatfeild" title="Noel Streatfeild">Noel Streatfeild</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Aunt_Clara_(novel)" title="Aunt Clara (novel)">Aunt Clara</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._C._Swinburne" class="mw-redirect" title="A. C. Swinburne">A. C. Swinburne</a> (died 1909) – <i><a href="/wiki/Lesbia_Brandon" title="Lesbia Brandon">Lesbia Brandon</a></i> (completed c.1868)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Templeton" title="Edith Templeton">Edith Templeton</a> – <i>The Island of Desire</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(writer)" title="Jim Thompson (writer)">Jim Thompson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Killer_Inside_Me" title="The Killer Inside Me">The Killer Inside Me</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Sligh_Turnbull" title="Agnes Sligh Turnbull">Agnes Sligh Turnbull</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gown_of_Glory" title="The Gown of Glory">The Gown of Glory</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amos_Tutuola" title="Amos Tutuola">Amos Tutuola</a> – <i>The Palm-Wine Drunkard</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachchidananda_Vatsyayan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sachchidananda Vatsyayan">Sachchidananda Vatsyayan</a> (Agyeya) – <i>Nadi ke dweep</i> (Islands in the stream)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Bruller" title="Jean Bruller">Vercors</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Animaux_d%C3%A9natur%C3%A9s" title="Les Animaux dénaturés">Les Animaux dénaturés</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arved_Viirlaid" title="Arved Viirlaid">Arved Viirlaid</a> – <span title="Estonian-language text"><i lang="et">Ristideta hauad</i></span> (Graves Without Crosses)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)" title="Player Piano (novel)">Player Piano</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Henry_Aubrey-Fletcher,_6th_Baronet" title="Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet">Henry Wade</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Be_Kind_to_the_Killer" title="Be Kind to the Killer">Be Kind to the Killer</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh" title="Evelyn Waugh">Evelyn Waugh</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Men_at_Arms_(Evelyn_Waugh)" class="mw-redirect" title="Men at Arms (Evelyn Waugh)">Men at Arms</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillary_Waugh" title="Hillary Waugh">Hillary Waugh</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Seen_Wearing_..._(Hillary_Waugh_novel)" title="Last Seen Wearing ... (Hillary Waugh novel)">Last Seen Wearing...</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaughan_Wilkins" title="Vaughan Wilkins">Vaughan Wilkins</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/A_King_Reluctant" title="A King Reluctant">A King Reluctant</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonia_White" title="Antonia White">Antonia White</a> – <i>The Sugar House</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_Wilson" title="Angus Wilson">Angus Wilson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Hemlock_and_After" title="Hemlock and After">Hemlock and After</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Yerby" title="Frank Yerby">Frank Yerby</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Saracen_Blade_(novel)" title="The Saracen Blade (novel)">The Saracen Blade</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children_and_young_people">Children and young people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Children and young people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rev._W._Awdry" class="mw-redirect" title="Rev. W. Awdry">Rev. W. Awdry</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_Railway_Series_Books#Toby_the_Tram_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Railway Series Books">Toby the Tram Engine</a></i> (seventh in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Railway_Series" title="The Railway Series">The Railway Series</a></i> of 42 books by him and his son <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Awdry" title="Christopher Awdry">Christopher Awdry</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enid_Blyton" title="Enid Blyton">Enid Blyton</a> – <i>Noddy and Big Ears</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hough" title="Richard Hough">Bruce Carter</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Into_a_Strange_Lost_World" title="Into a Strange Lost World">The Perilous Descent (Into a Strange Lost World)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Dalgliesh" title="Alice Dalgliesh">Alice Dalgliesh</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bears_on_Hemlock_Mountain" title="The Bears on Hemlock Mountain">The Bears on Hemlock Mountain</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Edwards_(children%27s_writer)" title="Dorothy Edwards (children's writer)">Dorothy Edwards</a> – <i>My Naughty Little Sister. Stories from "Listen With Mother"</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rumer_Godden" title="Rumer Godden">Rumer Godden</a> – <i>Mouse House</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader" title="The Voyage of the Dawn Treader">The Voyage of the Dawn Treader</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eloise_Jarvis_McGraw" title="Eloise Jarvis McGraw">Eloise Jarvis McGraw</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Moccasin_Trail" title="Moccasin Trail">Moccasin Trail</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farley_Mowat" title="Farley Mowat">Farley Mowat</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/People_of_the_Deer" title="People of the Deer">People of the Deer</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Norton_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Norton (author)">Mary Norton</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Borrowers" title="The Borrowers">The Borrowers</a></i> (first in the eponymous series of 6 books)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhoda_Power" title="Rhoda Power">Rhoda Power</a> – <i>Redcap Runs Away</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Matthew_Scott" title="William Matthew Scott">William Matthew Scott</a> – <i>The Cherrys of River House</i> (first in The Cherrys series of 14 books)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Slobodkin" title="Louis Slobodkin">Louis Slobodkin</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Space_Ship_Under_the_Apple_Tree" title="The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree">The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Trease" title="Geoffrey Trease">Geoffrey Trease</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Crown_of_Violet" class="mw-redirect" title="The Crown of Violet">The Crown of Violet</a></i> (also <i>Web of Traitors</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White">E. B. White</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Charlotte's Web">Charlotte's Web</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drama">Drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rodney_Ackland" title="Rodney Ackland">Rodney Ackland</a> – <i>The Pink Room</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Anouilh" title="Jean Anouilh">Jean Anouilh</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lark_(play)" title="The Lark (play)">The Lark</a></i> (<i>L'Alouette</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Waltz_of_the_Toreadors" title="The Waltz of the Toreadors">The Waltz of the Toreadors</a></i> (<i>La Valse des toréadors</i>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacinto_Benavente" title="Jacinto Benavente">Jacinto Benavente</a> – <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ha_llegado_Don_Juan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ha llegado Don Juan (page does not exist)">Ha llegado Don Juan</a><sup class="noprint" style="font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_llegado_Don_Juan" class="extiw" title="es:Ha llegado Don Juan">es</a>]</sup></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Childress" title="Alice Childress">Alice Childress</a> – <i>Gold Through the Trees</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mousetrap" title="The Mousetrap">The Mousetrap</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Clements_(actor)" title="John Clements (actor)">John Clements</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Happy_Marriage" title="The Happy Marriage">The Happy Marriage</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Quadrille_(play)" title="Quadrille (play)">Quadrille</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constance_Cox" title="Constance Cox">Constance Cox</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_Arthur_Savile%27s_Crime_(play)" title="Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (play)">Lord Arthur Savile's Crime</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_Davies" title="Robertson Davies">Robertson Davies</a> – <i>A Masque of Aesop</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_de_Montherlant" title="Henry de Montherlant">Henry de Montherlant</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/La_Ville_dont_le_prince_est_un_enfant_(play)" title="La Ville dont le prince est un enfant (play)">La Ville dont le prince est un enfant</a></i> (The City Whose Prince is a Child; first performance in first published version)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_D%C3%BCrrenmatt" title="Friedrich Dürrenmatt">Friedrich Dürrenmatt</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Mr._Mississippi_(play)" title="The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (play)">The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi</a></i> (<i>Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi</i>, first performance)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Green_(screenwriter)" title="Janet Green (screenwriter)">Janet Green</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Murder_Mistaken" title="Murder Mistaken">Murder Mistaken</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Clayton_Hutton" title="Michael Clayton Hutton">Michael Clayton Hutton</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Dead_Secret_(play)" title="Dead Secret (play)">Dead Secret</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Jones_(actor)" title="Peter Jones (actor)">Peter Jones</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Madness_(play)" title="Sweet Madness (play)">Sweet Madness</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kramm" title="Joseph Kramm">Joseph Kramm</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shrike_(play)" title="The Shrike (play)">The Shrike</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Langbridge_Morgan" title="Charles Langbridge Morgan">Charles Langbridge Morgan</a> – <i>The River Line</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Linklater" title="Eric Linklater">Eric Linklater</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mortimer_Touch" title="The Mortimer Touch">The Mortimer Touch</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_MacDougall" title="Roger MacDougall">Roger MacDougall</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Escapade_(play)" title="Escapade (play)">Escapade</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Massey" title="Raymond Massey">Raymond Massey</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Hanging_Judge_(play)" title="Hanging Judge (play)">Hanging Judge</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Langbridge_Morgan" title="Charles Langbridge Morgan">Charles Morgan</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_River_Line_(play)" title="The River Line (play)">The River Line</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Peterson_(writer)" title="Ralph Peterson (writer)">Ralph Peterson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Square_Ring_(play)" title="The Square Ring (play)">The Square Ring</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._B._Priestley" title="J. B. Priestley">J. B. Priestley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jacquetta_Hawkes" title="Jacquetta Hawkes">Jacquetta Hawkes</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Dragon%27s_Mouth_(play)" title="Dragon's Mouth (play)">Dragon's Mouth</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terence_Rattigan" title="Terence Rattigan">Terence Rattigan</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deep_Blue_Sea_(play)" title="The Deep Blue Sea (play)">The Deep Blue Sea</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodie_Smith" title="Dodie Smith">Dodie Smith</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Letter_from_Paris" title="Letter from Paris">Letter from Paris</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Travers" title="Ben Travers">Ben Travers</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Wild_Horses_(play)" title="Wild Horses (play)">Wild Horses</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Verner" title="Gerald Verner">Gerald Verner</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Meet_Mr._Callaghan_(play)" title="Meet Mr. Callaghan (play)">Meet Mr. Callaghan</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Van_Druten" title="John Van Druten">John Van Druten</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/I%27ve_Got_Sixpence" title="I've Got Sixpence">I've Got Sixpence</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Watkyn" title="Arthur Watkyn">Arthur Watkyn</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Moonraker_(play)" title="The Moonraker (play)">The Moonraker</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1952_in_poetry" title="1952 in poetry">1952 in poetry</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Celan" title="Paul Celan">Paul Celan</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Poppy_and_Memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Poppy and Memory">Poppy and Memory</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Mohn und Gedächtnis</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Jones (poet)">David Jones</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Anathemata" title="The Anathemata">The Anathemata</a>: fragments of an attempted writing</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral" title="Gabriela Mistral">Gabriela Mistral</a> – <i>Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacos</i><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_O_Riordain" class="mw-redirect" title="Sean O Riordain">Sean O Riordain</a> – <i>Eireaball Spideoige</i><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roland_Bainton" title="Roland Bainton">Roland Bainton</a> – <i>The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp" title="L. Sprague de Camp">L. Sprague de Camp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Willy_Ley" title="Willy Ley">Willy Ley</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Lands_Beyond" title="Lands Beyond">Lands Beyond</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Day" title="Dorothy Day">Dorothy Day</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Loneliness" title="The Long Loneliness">The Long Loneliness</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Gowing" title="Lawrence Gowing">Lawrence Gowing</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Vermeer" class="mw-redirect" title="Vermeer">Vermeer</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Harrer" title="Heinrich Harrer">Heinrich Harrer</a> – <i>Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama</i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet" title="Seven Years in Tibet">Seven Years in Tibet</a></i>, 1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devils_of_Loudun" title="The Devils of Loudun">The Devils of Loudun</a></i></li> <li><i>Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepherd_Mead" title="Shepherd Mead">Shepherd Mead</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/How_to_Succeed_in_Business_Without_Really_Trying_(book)" title="How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (book)">How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Nicoll" title="Maurice Nicoll">Maurice Nicoll</a> – <i>Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale" title="Norman Vincent Peale">Norman Vincent Peale</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Positive_Thinking" title="The Power of Positive Thinking">The Power of Positive Thinking</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwen_Raverat" title="Gwen Raverat">Gwen Raverat</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Period_Piece_(book)" title="Period Piece (book)">Period Piece</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Reid" title="Pat Reid">P. R. Reid</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Colditz_Story" title="The Colditz Story">The Colditz Story</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Genet" title="Saint Genet">Saint Genet</a>, comédien et martyr</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer" title="Pierre Schaeffer">Pierre Schaeffer</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/In_Search_of_a_Concrete_Music" title="In Search of a Concrete Music">In Search of a Concrete Music</a> (À la Recherche d'une Musique Concrète)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._Sherwood_Taylor" title="F. Sherwood Taylor">F. Sherwood Taylor</a> – <i>The Alchemists</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Tillich" title="Paul Tillich">Paul Tillich</a> – <i>Courage To Be</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky" title="Immanuel Velikovsky">Immanuel Velikovsky</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Ages_in_Chaos" title="Ages in Chaos">Ages in Chaos</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Wallace-Hadrill" title="J. M. Wallace-Hadrill">J. M. Wallace-Hadrill</a> – <i>The Barbarian West, 400–1000</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Williams" title="Raymond Williams">Raymond Williams</a> – <i>Drama from Ibsen to Eliot</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_4" title="January 4">January 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Michele_Wallace" title="Michele Wallace">Michele Wallace</a>, American feminist author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_12" title="January 12">January 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Walter_Mosley" title="Walter Mosley">Walter Mosley</a>, American novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_21" title="January 21">January 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Louis_Menand" title="Louis Menand">Louis Menand</a>, American author and academic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_10" title="February 10">February 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gail_Rebuck" title="Gail Rebuck">Gail Rebuck</a>, English publisher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_19" title="February 19">February 19</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ry%C5%AB_Murakami" title="Ryū Murakami">Ryū Murakami</a> (村上龍), Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Tan" title="Amy Tan">Amy Tan</a>, American novelist</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_29" title="February 29">February 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Powers" title="Tim Powers">Tim Powers</a>, American fantasy author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hobb" title="Robin Hobb">Robin Hobb</a> (Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, Megan Lindholm), American fantasy author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_Boyd_(writer)" title="William Boyd (writer)">William Boyd</a>, Gold Coast-born Scottish novelist and screenwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_11" title="March 11">March 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a>, English science fiction author (died <a href="/wiki/2001_in_literature" title="2001 in literature">2001</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/%C3%81gnes_Rapai" title="Ágnes Rapai">Ágnes Rapai</a>, Hungarian poet, writer and translator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a>, American science fiction author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/T._A._Barron" title="T. A. Barron">T. A. Barron</a>, American novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hafsat_Abdulwaheed" title="Hafsat Abdulwaheed">Hafsat Abdulwaheed</a>, Nigerian author and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_31" title="May 31">May 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Carole_Achache" title="Carole Achache">Carole Achache</a>, French writer, photographer and actress (died <a href="/wiki/2016_in_literature" title="2016 in literature">2016</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_4" title="June 4">June 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dambudzo_Marechera" title="Dambudzo Marechera">Dambudzo Marechera</a>, Zimbabwean writer (died <a href="/wiki/1987_in_literature" title="1987 in literature">1987</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk" title="Orhan Pamuk">Orhan Pamuk</a>, Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vince_Gotera" title="Vince Gotera">Vince Gotera</a>, American poet and critic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Seth" title="Vikram Seth">Vikram Seth</a>, Indian novelist</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">June 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Breece_D%27J_Pancake" title="Breece D'J Pancake">Breece D'J Pancake</a> (Breece Dexter Pancake), American short story writer (suicide <a href="/wiki/1979_in_literature" title="1979 in literature">1979</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_3" title="July 3">July 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rohinton_Mistry" title="Rohinton Mistry">Rohinton Mistry</a>, Indian-born Canadian novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_6" title="July 6">July 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Mantel" title="Hilary Mantel">Hilary Mantel</a>, English novelist (died <a href="/wiki/2022_in_literature" title="2022 in literature">2022</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Candice_F._Ransom" title="Candice F. Ransom">Candice F. Ransom</a>, American children's and young-adult author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_18" title="July 18">July 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Per_Petterson" title="Per Petterson">Per Petterson</a>, Norwegian novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_28" title="August 28">August 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rita_Dove" title="Rita Dove">Rita Dove</a>, American poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_29" title="September 29">September 29</a> - <a href="/wiki/Pete_Hautman" title="Pete Hautman">Pete Hautman</a>, American young-adult novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_18" title="October 18">October 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/B%E1%BA%A3o_Ninh" title="Bảo Ninh">Bảo Ninh</a>, Vietnamese author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rick_Atkinson" title="Rick Atkinson">Rick Atkinson</a>, American journalist, historian and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">November 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Lemebel" title="Pedro Lemebel">Pedro Lemebel</a>, Chilean novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_19" title="December 19">December 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sean_O%27Brien_(writer)" title="Sean O'Brien (writer)">Sean O'Brien</a>, English poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_22" title="December 22">December 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mick_Inkpen" title="Mick Inkpen">Mick Inkpen</a>, English children's writer and illustrator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_28" title="December 28">December 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hemant_Shesh" title="Hemant Shesh">Hemant Shesh</a>, Indian Hindi writer<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_22" title="January 22">January 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Roger_Vitrac" title="Roger Vitrac">Roger Vitrac</a>, French poet and dramatist (born <a href="/wiki/1899_in_literature" title="1899 in literature">1899</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_26" title="January 26">January 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lodewijk_van_Deyssel" title="Lodewijk van Deyssel">Lodewijk van Deyssel</a>, Dutch novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1864_in_literature" title="1864 in literature">1864</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_28" title="January 28">January 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Constantin_Batzaria" title="Nicolae Constantin Batzaria">Nicolae Constantin Batzaria</a>, Ottoman-born Romanian humorist, novelist, editor, and journalist (spinal cancer, born <a href="/wiki/1874_in_literature" title="1874 in literature">1874</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Norman_Douglas" title="Norman Douglas">Norman Douglas</a>, Austrian-born Scottish novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1868_in_literature" title="1868 in literature">1868</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Josephine_Tey" title="Josephine Tey">Josephine Tey</a> (Elizabeth MacKintosh), Scottish crime novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1896_in_literature" title="1896 in literature">1896</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_19" title="February 19">February 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Knut_Hamsun" title="Knut Hamsun">Knut Hamsun</a>, Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureate (born <a href="/wiki/1859_in_literature" title="1859 in literature">1859</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mariano_Azuela" title="Mariano Azuela">Mariano Azuela</a>, Mexican novelist, dramatist and critic (born <a href="/wiki/1873_in_literature" title="1873 in literature">1873</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masao_Kume" title="Masao Kume">Masao Kume</a> (久米正雄), Japanese playwright, novelist and haiku poet (born <a href="/wiki/1891_in_literature" title="1891 in literature">1891</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ioan_A._Bassarabescu" title="Ioan A. Bassarabescu">Ioan A. Bassarabescu</a>, Romanian short story writer and politician (born <a href="/wiki/1870_in_literature" title="1870 in literature">1870</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_1" title="April 1">April 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Moln%C3%A1r" title="Ferenc Molnár">Ferenc Molnár</a> (Ferenc Neumann), Hungarian dramatist and novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1878_in_literature" title="1878 in literature">1878</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_30" title="April 30">April 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Tzigara-Samurca%C8%99" title="Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș">Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș</a> – Romanian art historian, ethnographer and journalist (born <a href="/wiki/1872_in_literature" title="1872 in literature">1872</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_17" title="May 17">May 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Bujor" title="Paul Bujor">Paul Bujor</a>, Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (born <a href="/wiki/1862_in_literature" title="1862 in literature">1862</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Jolas" title="Eugene Jolas">Eugene Jolas</a>, American/French writer, literary translator and critic (born <a href="/wiki/1894_in_literature" title="1894 in literature">1894</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, American philosopher and psychologist (born <a href="/wiki/1859_in_literature" title="1859 in literature">1859</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_1" title="July 1">July 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/A._S._W._Rosenbach" title="A. S. W. Rosenbach">A. S. W. Rosenbach</a>, American book collector (born <a href="/wiki/1876_in_literature" title="1876 in literature">1876</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_8" title="July 8">July 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/August_Alle" title="August Alle">August Alle</a>, Estonian writer (born <a href="/wiki/1890_in_literature" title="1890 in literature">1890</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_9" title="August 9">August 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Farnol" title="Jeffery Farnol">Jeffery Farnol</a>, English historical novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1878_in_literature" title="1878 in literature">1878</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_22" title="August 22">August 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/H._J._Massingham" title="H. J. Massingham">H. J. Massingham</a>, English countryside writer (born <a href="/wiki/1888_in_literature" title="1888 in literature">1888</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_26" title="September 26">September 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Santayana" title="George Santayana">George Santayana</a>, Spanish philosopher, poet and novelist writing in English (born <a href="/wiki/1863_in_literature" title="1863 in literature">1863</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_4" title="October 4">October 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Keith_Murdoch" title="Keith Murdoch">Keith Murdoch</a>, Australian journalist (born <a href="/wiki/1885_in_literature" title="1885 in literature">1885</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">October 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Teffi" class="mw-redirect" title="Teffi">Teffi</a> (Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya), Russian humorist (born <a href="/wiki/1872_in_literature" title="1872 in literature">1872</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_3" title="November 3">November 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Louis_Verneuil" title="Louis Verneuil">Louis Verneuil</a>, French playwright (suicide, born <a href="/wiki/1893_in_literature" title="1893 in literature">1893</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_4" title="November 4">November 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Frankau" title="Gilbert Frankau">Gilbert Frankau</a>, English novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1884_in_literature" title="1884 in literature">1884</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_13" title="November 13">November 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Wise_Brown" title="Margaret Wise Brown">Margaret Wise Brown</a>, American children's author (embolism, born <a href="/wiki/1910_in_literature" title="1910 in literature">1910</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_16" title="November 16">November 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Maurras" title="Charles Maurras">Charles Maurras</a>, French poet and critic (born <a href="/wiki/1868_in_literature" title="1868 in literature">1868</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_18" title="November 18">November 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Paul_%C3%89luard" title="Paul Éluard">Paul Éluard</a>, French surrealist poet (heart attack, born <a href="/wiki/1895_in_literature" title="1895 in literature">1895</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">November 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Aaro_Hellaakoski" title="Aaro Hellaakoski">Aaro Hellaakoski</a>, Finnish poet (born <a href="/wiki/1893_in_literature" title="1893 in literature">1893</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_6" title="December 6">December 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cicely_Hamilton" title="Cicely Hamilton">Cicely Hamilton</a>, English dramatist and suffragist (born <a href="/wiki/1872_in_literature" title="1872 in literature">1872</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a> for <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mary_Norton_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Norton (author)">Mary Norton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Borrowers" title="The Borrowers">The Borrowers</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frost_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Frost Medal">Frost Medal</a>: <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sandburg" title="Carl Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> for fiction: <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh" title="Evelyn Waugh">Evelyn Waugh</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sword_of_Honour" title="Sword of Honour">Men at Arms</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> for biography: <a href="/wiki/G._M._Young" title="G. M. Young">G. M. Young</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_Jones_(author)" title="James Jones (author)">James Jones</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/From_Here_to_Eternity" title="From Here to Eternity">From Here to Eternity</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newbery_Medal" title="Newbery Medal">Newbery Medal</a> for <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Estes" title="Eleanor Estes">Eleanor Estes</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ginger_Pye" title="Ginger Pye">Ginger Pye</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newdigate_prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Newdigate prize">Newdigate prize</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Hall" title="Donald Hall">Donald Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize for Literature">Nobel Prize for Literature</a>: <a href="/wiki/Francois_Mauriac" class="mw-redirect" title="Francois Mauriac">François Mauriac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premio_Nadal" title="Premio Nadal">Premio Nadal</a>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mar%C3%ADa_Medio_Estrada&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="María Medio Estrada (page does not exist)">María Medio Estrada</a>, <i>Nosotros, los Rivero</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama" title="Pulitzer Prize for Drama">Pulitzer Prize for Drama</a>: <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kramm" title="Joseph Kramm">Joseph Kramm</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shrike_(play)" title="The Shrike (play)">The Shrike</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for Fiction">Pulitzer Prize for Fiction</a>: <a href="/wiki/Herman_Wouk" title="Herman Wouk">Herman Wouk</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny" title="The Caine Mutiny">The Caine Mutiny</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry" title="Pulitzer Prize for Poetry">Pulitzer Prize for Poetry</a>: <a href="/wiki/Marianne_Moore" title="Marianne Moore">Marianne Moore</a>, <i>Collected Poems</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Gold_Medal_for_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry">King's Gold Medal for Poetry</a>: <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Young_(poet,_born_1885)" title="Andrew Young (poet, born 1885)">Andrew Young</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Fiction" title="National Book Award for Fiction">National Book Award for Fiction</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_Jones_(author)" title="James Jones (author)">James Jones</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/From_Here_to_Eternity" title="From Here to Eternity">From Here to Eternity</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_in_literature&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGeoffrey_Chaucer2002" class="citation book cs1">Geoffrey Chaucer (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lLzYeLIhMdgC&pg=PA344"><i>A Treatise on the Astrolabe</i></a>. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 344. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8061-3413-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8061-3413-0"><bdi>978-0-8061-3413-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Treatise+on+the+Astrolabe&rft.pages=344&rft.pub=University+of+Oklahoma+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-8061-3413-0&rft.au=Geoffrey+Chaucer&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlLzYeLIhMdgC%26pg%3DPA344&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1952+in+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rogers2011-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Rogers2011_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFByron_Rogers2011" class="citation book cs1">Byron Rogers (1 December 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EDDBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT108"><i>The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr</i></a>. Aurum Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">106–</span>8. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84513-813-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84513-813-4"><bdi>978-1-84513-813-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Last+Englishman%3A+The+Life+of+J.L.+Carr&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E106-%3C%2Fspan%3E8&rft.pub=Aurum+Press&rft.date=2011-12-01&rft.isbn=978-1-84513-813-4&rft.au=Byron+Rogers&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DEDDBAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT108&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1952+in+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.angelfire.com/pa/anaisaigner/gide.html">Andre Gide, <i>The Immoralist</i> (1902); commentary by Anais Aigner (1998). Retrieved 12 February 2012.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBethany_K._Dumas1974" class="citation book cs1">Bethany K. Dumas (1974). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=u2euAAAAIAAJ"><i>E. E. Cummings: a Remembrance of Miracles</i></a>. Barnes & Noble. p. 43.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=E.+E.+Cummings%3A+a+Remembrance+of+Miracles&rft.pages=43&rft.pub=Barnes+%26+Noble&rft.date=1974&rft.au=Bethany+K.+Dumas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Du2euAAAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1952+in+literature" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071109140822/http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/NewAmbassadorsTheatre.htm">"New Ambassadors Theatre"</a>. <i>arthurlloyd.co.uk</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/NewAmbassadorsTheatre.htm">the original</a> on 2007-11-09<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-12-04</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=arthurlloyd.co.uk&rft.atitle=New+Ambassadors+Theatre&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arthurlloyd.co.uk%2FNewAmbassadorsTheatre.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1952+in+literature" class="Z3988"></span> Performances were suspended during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKeating1982" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/H._R._F._Keating" title="H. R. F. Keating">Keating, H. R. F.</a> (1982). <i>Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction</i>. 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