This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1952.
Children and young people
Enid Blyton – Noddy and Big Ears
Alice Dalgliesh – The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Dorothy Edwards – My Naughty Little Sister. Stories from "Listen With Mother"
C. S. Forester – Lieutenant Hornblower
Rumer Godden – Mouse House
C. S. Lewis – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Eloise Jarvis McGraw – Moccasin Trail
Farley Mowat – People of the Deer
Mary Norton – The Borrowers
Rhoda Power – Redcap Runs Away
William Matthew Scott – The Cherrys of River House (first in The Cherrys series of 14 books)
Geoffrey Trease – The Crown of Violet (also Web of Traitors)
E. B. White – Charlotte's Web
Rodney Ackland – The Pink Room
Jean Anouilh – The Lark (L'Alouette)
Jacinto Benavente – Ha llegado Don Juan
Alice Childress – Gold Through the Trees
Robertson Davies – A Masque of Aesop
Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi, first performance)
Charles Langbridge Morgan – The River Line
Terence Rattigan – The Deep Blue Sea
Paul Celan – Poppy and Memory (German: Mohn und Gedächtnis)
David Jones – The Anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing
Gabriela Mistral – Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacos
Sean O Riordain – Eireaball Spideoige
Roland Bainton – The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley – Lands Beyond
Dorothy Day – The Long Loneliness
Lawrence Gowing – Vermeer
Heinrich Harrer – Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama (Seven Years in Tibet, 1954)
Aldous Huxley
The Devils of Loudun
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Maurice Nicoll – Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky
Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking
Gwen Raverat – Period Piece
P. R. Reid – The Colditz Story
Jean-Paul Sartre – Saint Genet, comédien et martyr
Pierre Schaeffer – In Search of a Concrete Music (À la Recherche d'une Musique Concrète)
F. Sherwood Taylor – The Alchemists
Paul Tillich – Courage To Be
Immanuel Velikovsky – Ages in Chaos
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill – The Barbarian West, 400–1000
Raymond Williams – Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
January 4 – Michele Wallace, American feminist author
January 12 – Walter Mosley, American novelist
January 21 – Louis Menand, American author and academic
February 10 – Gail Rebuck, English publisher
February 19
Ryū Murakami (村上 龍), Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker
Amy Tan, American novelist
February 29 – Tim Powers, American fantasy author
March 5 – Robin Hobb (Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, Megan Lindholm), American fantasy author
March 7 – William Boyd, Gold Coast-born Scottish novelist and screenwriter
March 11 – Douglas Adams, English science fiction author (died 2001)
March 13 – Ágnes Rapai, Hungarian poet, writer and translator
May 5 – Hafsat Abdulwaheed, Nigerian author and poet
June 7 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate
June 20 – Vikram Seth, Indian novelist
June 29 – Breece D'J Pancake (Breece Dexter Pancake), American short story writer (suicide 1979)
July 3 – Rohinton Mistry, Indian-born Canadian novelist
July 18 – Per Petterson, Norwegian novelist
August 28 – Rita Dove, American poet
October 18 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese author
November 15 – Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian and author
November 21 – Pedro Lemebel, Chilean novelist
December 19 – Sean O'Brien, English poet
Unknown dates
Hoda Barakat, Lebanese novelist
Mick Inkpen, English children's writer and illustrator
January 22 – Roger Vitrac, French poet and dramatist (born 1899)
February 7 – Norman Douglas, Austrian-born Scottish novelist (born 1868)
February 13 – Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh), Scottish crime novelist (born 1896)
February 19 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1859)
March 1
Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist, dramatist and critic (born 1873)
Masao Kume (久米 正雄), Japanese playwright, novelist and haiku poet (born 1891)
March 27 – Ioan A. Bassarabescu, Romanian short story writer and politician (born 1870)
April 1 – Ferenc Molnár (Ferenc Neumann), Hungarian dramatist and novelist (born 1878)
May 17 – Paul Bujor, Romanian politician, zoologist and short story writer (born 1862)
May 26 – Eugene Jolas, American/French writer, literary translator and critic (born 1894)
June 1 – John Dewey, American philosopher and psychologist (born 1859)
July 1 – A. S. W. Rosenbach, American book collector (born 1876)
July 8 – August Alle, Estonian writer (born 1890)
August 9 – Jeffery Farnol, English historical novelist (born 1878)
August 22 – H. J. Massingham, English countryside writer (born 1888)
September 26 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, poet and novelist writing in English (born 1863)
October 4 – Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist (born 1885)
October 6 – Teffi (Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya), Russian humorist (born 1872)
November 3 – Louis Verneuil, French playwright (suicide, born 1893)
November 4 – Gilbert Frankau, English novelist (born 1884)
November 13 – Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (embolism, born 1910)
November 16 – Charles Maurras, French poet and critic (born 1868)
November 18 – Paul Éluard, French surrealist poet (heart attack, born 1895)
November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet (born 1893)
December 6 – Cicely Hamilton, English dramatist and suffragist (born 1872)
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mary Norton, The Borrowers
Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin
National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
Newdigate prize: Donald Hall
Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
Premio Nadal: María Medio Estrada, Nosotros, los Rivero
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young
1952 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
