1949 in literature
See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Death of a Salesman, a play by Arthur Miller
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles is published.
- June 8 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
New books
- The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
- Alien Land - Willard W. Savoy
- The Angry Wife - Pearl S. Buck
- Beneath The Sky - Alfred Q. Jarrette
- Beyond Earth's Gates - C. L. Moore
- Cannibal - John Hawkes
- Crooked House - Agatha Christie
- The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
- The Golden Sequence - Martha E. Von Almedingen
- The Heat of the Day - Elixabeth Bowen
- King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry
- Let Love Come Last - Taylor Caldwell
- Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
- Male and Female - Margaret Mead
- The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
- Men of Maize - Miguel Angel Asturias
- The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth - Hermann L. Hunter
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- Pride's Castle - Frank Yerby
- A Rage To Live - John O'Hara
- The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
- To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy
- Shane - Jack Schaefer
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- Trouble with Harry - Jack Story
Births
- January 26 - Jonathan Carroll, American author of fantasy fiction
- November 2 - Lois McMaster Bujold, American author of science fiction and fantasy
Deaths
- January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, U.S. book publisher
- February 11 - Axel Munthe, Swedish author
- April 24 - Willa Cather, author
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet & playwright
- June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author
- June 14 - Russell Doubleday, U.S. author and publisher
- September 19 - Will Cuppy, U.S. humorist
- December 28 - Hervey Allen - U.S. author
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind
- Nobel Prize for literature - William Faulkner
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum