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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1947. ==Events== *January - English actor-manager Geoffrey Kendal arrives in India with his touring repertory theatre company "Shakespeareana" which will perform Shakespeare in towns and villages across the country for several decades. *January 29 - Arthur Miller's play ''All My Sons'' opens at the Coronet Theatre in New York directed by Elia Kazan and starring Ed Begley, the writer's first Broadway success. *April * *The opening night of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's first play, ''Es steht geschrieben'' ("It Is Written") provokes fights amongst the audience. * *Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Qumran Caves becomes public. *April 6 - The 1st Tony Awards for excellence in live American theatre are awarded at the Waldorf Astoria New York. *May/June - English novelist T. H. White buys a house in Saint Anne, Alderney in the Channel Islands where he will spend the remainder of his life. *June - Publication begins of ''Vice Versa'' in Los Angeles, the first known periodical published for lesbians, edited by 'Lisa Ben'. *June 24 - Kenneth Arnold claims to have seen nine flying saucers near Mount Rainier, Washington, starting a huge amount of enthusiasm in science fiction writers and scientists. *June 25 - ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' by Anne Frank is published for the first time as ''Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944'' ("The Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944") in Amsterdam, two years after the writer's death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. *August 24 - First Edinburgh Festival of the Arts opens in Scotland. *September - The German literary association Group 47 forms. *September 12 - American novelist John Dos Passos is in an automobile accident that kills his wife and costs him the sight in one eye. *November 24 - McCarthyism: Dalton Trumbo refuses to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Ring Lardner, Jr., attends, but refuses to answer any questions. The United States House of Representatives votes 346 – 17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against all the "Hollywood Ten" screenwriters and directors who have refused to co-operate with the Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day.〔Waldorf Statement.〕 *December 23 - Tennessee Williams' play ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway in New York directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando in his first major stage rôle. *Woody Guthrie completes his novel ''House of Earth''; it will not be published until 2013. *Jack Kerouac makes the journey which he will later chronicle in his book ''On the Road''. *Séamus Ó Néill's novel ''Tonn Tuile'' is the first book published by Irish language publisher Sáirséal agus Dill in Dublin. *Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time. *Pramoedya Ananta Toer begins a 2-year imprisonment by the Dutch authorities in Jakarta for his support for the Indonesian National Revolution, during which he begins to write his first major novel, ''Perburuan'' ("The Fugitive", 1950). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1947 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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