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The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" (1948-1953) is published.
- A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC.
New books
- Jerzy Andrzejewski - Ashes and Diamonds
- Hervé Bazin - Vipère au Poing
- Henry Bellamann - Parris Mitchell of King's Row
- Pearl S. Buck - Peony
- Taylor Caldwell - Melissa
- Truman Capote - Other Voices, Other Rooms
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Skeleton in the Clock
- James Gould Cozzens - Guard of Honor
- Edmund Crispin - Love Lies Bleeding
- A. J. Cronin - Shannon's Way
- Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
- L. Sprague de Camp - Divide and Rule
- L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - The Carnelian Cube
- August Derleth - Not Long for this World
- William Pène du Bois - The Twenty-One Balloons
- Lord Dunsany - The Fourth Book of Jorkens
- Howard Fast - My Glorious Brothers
- Henry Green - Concluding
- Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
- L.P. Hartley - The Travelling Grave and Other Stories
- Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind
- Georgette Heyer - The Foundling
- Zora Neale Hurston - Seraph on the Suwanee
- Aldous Huxley - Ape and Essence
- Anna Kavan - The House of Sleep
- Ross Lockridge, Jr. - Raintree County
- Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead
- Thomas Mann - Joseph and His Brothers
- W. Somerset Maugham - Catalina
- C. L. Moore - The Mask of Circe
- Zoe B. Oldenbourg - The World Is Not Enough
- Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
- Ellery Queen - Ten Days' Wonder
- Seabury Quinn - Roads
- Anya Seton - The Hearth and the Eagle
- Dr. Seuss - Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
- Irwin Shaw - The Young Lions
- Nevil Shute - No Highway
- B. F. Skinner - Walden Two
- Clark Ashton Smith - Genius Loci and Other Tales
- Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
- Rex Stout - And Be a Villain
- Gore Vidal - The City and the Pillar
- Donald Wandrei - The Web of Easter Island
- Stanley G. Weinbaum - The Black Flame
- Dorothy West - The Living Is Easy
- Thornton Wilder - Ides of March
New drama
- Bertolt Brecht - The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Robertson Davies - Overlaid
- Terence Rattigan - The Browning Version and Harlequinade
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Dirty Hands
Short stories
- Shirley Jackson - "The Lottery" & "Charles"
Poetry
- Olga Kirsch - Mure van die Hart
- Derek Walcott - 25 Poems
Non-fiction
- Isaac Asimov - The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline
- Robert Graves - The White Goddess
- Richard Hofstadter - The American Political Tradition
- A. A. Milne - The Norman Church
- Anthony Powell - John Aubrey and His Friends
- John Steinbeck - A Russian Journal
Births
- January 1 - Lynn Abbey, writer
- February 5 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
- February 28 - Mike Figgis, director, writer, composer
- February 29 - Patricia A. McKillip, author of fantasy and science fiction novels
- March 17 - William Gibson, writer
- April 4 - Dan Simmons, American author of science fiction, horror and fantasy
- April 28 - Terry Pratchett, English fantasy author
- September 20 - George R. R. Martin, fantasy writer
- October 17 - Robert Jordan, fantasy writer
Deaths
- March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
- March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- April 22 - Prosper Montagné, chef, author of Larousse Gastronomique
- July 3 - Phelps Putnam, American poet
- June 21 - Alice Brown, novelist, poet and dramatist
- July 5 - Georges Bernanos, novelist
- July 21 - J.-H. Rosny jeune, science fiction pioneer
- July 27 - Susan Glaspell, dramatist and novelist
- August 3 - Venetia Stanley, recipient of the Asquith letters
- August 19 - Frederick Philip Grove, novelist and essayist
- September 9 - Lajos Biró, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter
- December 13 - Michael Roberts, poet and critic
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr Burney
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: William Pene du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons
- Nobel Prize for literature: Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Premio Nadal: Sebastián Juan Arbó, Sobre las piedras grises
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. H. Auden: The Age of Anxiety
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