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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1950. ==Events== *January 19 - Isaac Asimov's first full-length novel, ''Pebble in the Sky'', is published by Doubleday in the United States. *January 26 - Film noir ''Gun Crazy'' released in the United States. Co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed under Millard Kaufman's name because of the former's appearance on the Hollywood blacklist. This year Trumbo serves 11 months in prison for Contempt of Congress, in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky. *February - Jack Kerouac has his first novel, ''The Town and the City'', published in the United States. *April 8 - J. D. Salinger's wartime short story "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor" is published in ''The New Yorker''. *May 11 - Eugène Ionesco's first play, ''The Bald Soprano'', receives its stage première in Paris. *September 10 - George Bernard Shaw is admitted to hospital, having fractured a hip falling out of a tree he was pruning. He returns home a few weeks later following a successful operation but subsequently suffers renal failure and dies at his home, Shaw's Corner (Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England), aged 94. *October 16 - C. S. Lewis's novel ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', first of ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' series, is published in the UK. *Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sent to a "special camp" for political prisoners in Kazakhstan. *The 13th/14th century epic poem ''The Tale of the Heike'' is retold in modern Japanese prose by historical novelist Eiji Yoshikawa as ''Shin Heike monogatari'' ("New Tale of the Heike"), published in ''Asahi Weekly''. *Blackwell's open the first specialist children's bookshop, in Broad Street, Oxford (England). *Adrian Bell begins writing his ''Countryman’s Notebook'' column in the ''Eastern Daily Press''. 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「1950 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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