1949 in literature

See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Death of a Salesman, a play by Arthur Miller

New Books

• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth - Hermann L. Hunter
• King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry
• A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
• The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
• Beneath The Sky - Alfred Q. Jarrette
• Let Love Come Last - Taylor Caldwell
• The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
• Alien Land - Willard W. Savoy
• The Golden Sequence - Martha E. Von Almedingen
• Pride's Castle - Frank Yerby
• The Angry Wife - Pearl S. Buck
• Men of Maize - Miguel Angel Asturias
• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
• The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
• The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
• Shane - Jack Schaefer
• The Heat of the Day - Elixabeth Bowen
• Trouble with Harry - Jack Story
• Cannibal - John Hawkes

Deaths

• June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author
• April 24 - Willa Cather, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for literature - William Faulkner
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman