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The year 1952, in literature involved some significant events and new literary publications.
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Events
- J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.
- November 25 - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London.
- The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.
- Launch of the influential periodical, Past and Present.
- E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.
- Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled Equatorie of the Planetis.
New books
- Isaac Asimov
- Pearl S. Buck - The Hidden Flower
- Italo Calvino - La Formica Argentina
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - Behind the Crimson Blind
- Brian Cleeve - The Far Hills
- Thomas B. Costain - The Silver Chalice
- A. J. Cronin - Adventures in Two Worlds
- August Derleth - Three Problems for Solar Pons
- August Derleth editor - Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
- David F. Dodge - To Catch a Thief
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- Edna Ferber - Giant
- Paul Gallico - The Small Miracle
- Han Suyin - A Many-splendoured Thing
- Robert A. Heinlein - The Rolling Stones
- Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
- Frances Parkinson Keyes - Steamboat Gothic
- David H. Keller - Tales from Underwood
- Arthur Koestler - Arrow in the Blue
- Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
- C. S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Bernard Malamud - The Natural
- Harry Mulisch - Archibald Strohalm
- C. L. Moore - Judgment Night
- R. K. Narayan - The Financial Expert
- Vin Packer - Spring Fire
- Anthony Powell - A Buyer's Market
- Barbara Pym - Excellent Women
- Ellery Queen - The King is Dead
- Charles Shaw - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Howard Spring - The Houses in Between
- John Steinbeck - East of Eden
- Rex Stout - Triple Jeopardy
- Rex Stout - Prisoner's Base
- Edith Templeton - The Island of Desire
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull - The Gown of Glory
- Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard
- Evelyn Waugh - Men at Arms
- Hillary Waugh - Last Seen Wearing ...
- E. B. White - Charlotte's Web
- Angus Wilson - Hemlock and After
- Frank Yerby - The Saracen Blade
New drama
- Robertson Davies - A Masque of Aesop
- Charles Langbridge Morgan - The River Line
- Terence Rattigan - The Deep Blue Sea
Non-fiction
- Roland Bainton – The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
- Dorothy Day – The Long Loneliness
- L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley – Lands Beyond
- Lawrence Gowing – Vermeer
- Aldous Huxley – The Devils of Loudun; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking
- Gwen Raverat – Period Piece
- P.R. Reid – The Colditz Story
- Pierre Schaeffer – In Search of a Concrete Music (À la Recherche d'une Musique Concrète)
- Immanuel Velikovsky – Ages in Chaos
- J. M. Wallace-Hadrill – The Barbarian West, 400–1000
- Raymond Williams – Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Births
- February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist
- February 29 - Tim Powers, American fantasy author
- March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author
- June 7 - Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 2006
- June 20 - Vikram Seth, Indian novelist
- date unknown - Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, author of fantasy novels under the pennames Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm
Deaths
- February 7 - Norman Douglas, novelist
- February 13 - Josephine Tey, crime novelist
- February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author
- March 1 - Mariano Azuela, novelist, dramatist and critic
- May 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic
- April 1 - Ferenc Molnár, dramatist and novelist
- June 1 - John Dewey, philosopher and psychologist
- July 1 - A. S. W. Rosenbach, book collector
- August 9 - Jeffery Farnol, historical romance novelist
- August 15 - Dora Diamant, lover of Franz Kafka
- September 29 – George Santayana, writer
- October 4 - Keith Murdoch, journalist, father of Rupert Murdoch
- November 4 - Gilbert Frankau, novelist
- November 13 - Margaret Wise Brown, children's author
- November 16 - Charles Maurras, poet
- November 18 - Paul Éluard, Surrealist poet
- November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
- December 6 - Cicely Hamilton, dramatist
- date unknown - H. J. Massingham, "ruralist" writer
- date unknown - Roger Vitrac, poet and dramatist
Awards
- Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin
- National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
- Newdigate prize: Donald Hall
- Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
- Premio Nadal: María Medio Estrada, Nosotros, los Rivero
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young
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