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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1954. ==Events== *January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system held in New York at the head office of IBM. *January 25 – First broadcast of Dylan Thomas's radio play ''Under Milk Wood'', two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as 'First Voice', on the BBC Third Programme in the United Kingdom. *February – The title ''The London Magazine'' is revived under the editorship of John Lehmann as a literary magazine. *May 29 – The newly rediscovered and restored early 17th century Corral de comedias de Almagro in Spain is reinaugurated with the performance of a play by Calderon de la Barca.〔 .〕 *June 16 – The first public celebration of "Bloomsday" takes place in Dublin: writers Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin travel in a horse-drawn coach stopping at numerous bars to retrace the steps of the characters from James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses''. *June 22 – Parker–Hulme murder case: 15-year-old Julia Hulme, the future writer of English historical detective fiction Anne Perry, participates in the murder of her best friend's mother in Christchurch, New Zealand. *July – Publication of the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic high fantasy novel ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', by George Allen & Unwin in London. ''The Two Towers'' follows on November 11 and publication is completed in 1955. By 2007, 150 million copies will have been sold worldwide. *September 1 – Lawrence Quincy Mumford takes up the post of Librarian of Congress in the United States. *September 22 – Terence Rattigan's two linked one-act plays ''Separate Tables'' have their première at St James's Theatre, London. *November 19 – Brendan Behan's first play, ''The Quare Fellow'', premières at the Pike Theatre, Dublin. *Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's ''A Buddhist Bible'' (1932, found in San Jose library) which will influence him greatly. *John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert. This summer he travels on a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to spend a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in the University of Oxford (England). His first short story for ''The New Yorker'', "Friends from Philadelphia", is published on October 30. 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「1954 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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