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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1951. ==Events== *January - American writer Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus at age 25. *January 12 - Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's "adoptive mother", dies.〔(History of Headington, Oxford. Accessed 8 January 2013. )〕 *March 12 - Hank Ketcham's ''Dennis the Menace'' appears for the first time in 16 United States newspapers. *March 17 - First appearance of ''Dennis the Menace'' comic strip in ''The Beano'' (U.K.) *Spring - Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", which will form a basis for the film ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) and subsequent novel, is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine ''10 Story Fantasy''. *May - Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where he meets his lover and eventual murderer Kenneth Halliwell. *September 6 - William S. Burroughs shoots and kills his common-law wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City. *E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. *Janet Frame's first book, ''The Lagoon and Other Stories'', is published by the Caxton Press (New Zealand) (dated 1952) while the author is a patient in Seacliff Lunatic Asylum at Seacliff, New Zealand. It is awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award, at this time one of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prizes, resulting in the cancellation of Frame's scheduled lobotomy. *Béla Hamvas completes his epic novel ''Karnevál''. Because he is at this time prohibited from publishing by the regime in Hungary, it will not be published until 1985, 17 years after his death. *Frank Hardy is tried and cleared of criminal libel in Australia for his self-published ''roman à clef'' about corruption in Melbourne life, ''Power Without Glory'' (1950). *Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' duodecalogy. *Performance of medieval mystery plays revived at York and Chester in England. *Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris founded. 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「1951 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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