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* [[January 22]] - ''[[The Crucible]]'', a drama by [[Arthur Miller]], opens on [[Broadway]]. |
* [[January 22]] - ''[[The Crucible]]'', a drama by [[Arthur Miller]], opens on [[Broadway]]. |
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* [[February 19]] - [[Censorship]]: [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] approves the first [[literature]] censorship board in the [[United States]]. |
* [[February 19]] - [[Censorship]]: [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] approves the first [[literature]] censorship board in the [[United States]]. |
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Revision as of 20:01, 23 March 2003
See also: 1952 in literature, other events of 1953, 1954 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
- February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
New Books
Births
Deaths
- November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
- November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
- November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917-1952