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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1949. ==Events== *January 11 - Bertolt Brecht's play ''Mother Courage and Her Children'' (''Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder'', 1939) is first performed in Germany, at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin with his wife Helene Weigel in the title role and staged with his ''Verfremdungseffekt'' ("distancing effect"). *February 10 - Arthur Miller's tragedy ''Death of a Salesman'' opens at the Morosco Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Lee J. Cobb in the title rôle of Willy Loman and runs for 742 performances. *March - Poet Pablo Neruda flees Chile over the Lilpela Pass through the Andes to Argentina on horseback carrying a manuscript of his ''Canto General''. *April 14 * *Roy Campbell punches Stephen Spender on the nose at a poetry reading in London. * *N'Ko alphabet devised by Solomana Kante as a writing system and literary language for the Manding languages of West Africa. *May - Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin settle at the Boat House, Laugharne in South Wales. *June 8 - George Orwell's dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' is published in London by Secker & Warburg. *June - Oxford University Dramatic Society production of Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' beside Worcester College lake, directed by Nevill Coghill. *Summer * *First Cheltenham Literature Festival held in England, making it the longest-running festival of its kind in the world. * *Street & Smith cease publication of all their pulp magazines in the United States. *October 5 - American writer Helene Hanff writes her first letter from New York City to the London antiquarian bookdealers Marks & Co in a correspondence which will eventually be collected as ''84, Charing Cross Road''. *October 13 - George Orwell marries Sonia Brownell while confined in University College Hospital, London, where he will die 3 months later. *Arthur C. Clarke becomes Assistant Editor of ''Science Abstracts''. *Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel ''The Well of Loneliness'', convicted of obscenity in the United Kingdom on first publication in 1928, is republished posthumously in the U.K. by Falcon Press with no legal challenge. *Jean-Paul Sartre completes his ''Les Chemins de la Liberté ("The Roads to Freedom")'' trilogy. *The Théâtre du Rideau Vert is founded in Montreal by Yvette Brind'Amour and Mercedes Palomino as the first professional French-language theatre in Canada. *A statue of folk poet Larin Paraske is erected in Helsinki. *Enid Blyton's children's books ''Little Noddy Goes to Toyland'', the first to introduce the title character; and ''The Secret Seven'', first in the eponymous series, are published in England. 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「1949 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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