Resultado da Busca
April 13 – The United Artists film version of Wuthering Heights, starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, is released. May – Jorge Luis Borges ' first short story in his later characteristic style, " Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote ", is published in the Buenos Aires literary magazine Sur. May 4 – James Joyce 's last work, Finnegans ...
August 18 – Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a 19-year-old poet of American paternity serving in Britain with the Royal Canadian Air Force, makes a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V from RAF Llandow in Wales, and then by September 3 completes the sonnet "High Flight" about the experience.
Robert Bloch – Psycho. Antoine Blondin – A Monkey in Winter (Un Singe en hiver) Heinrich Böll – Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Billard um halb zehn) Ray Bradbury – A Medicine for Melancholy. Jurij Brězan – Der Gymnasiast. John Brophy – The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.
Dylan Thomas is to be best man at the wedding of a friend and fellow Welsh poet, Vernon Watkins, in London, but fails to turn up. November 22 – The release in England of Laurence Olivier 's Henry V makes it the first work of Shakespeare to be filmed in colour.
L. Sprague de Camp (editor) – The Blade of Conan. Elizabeth Eisenstein – The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Peter Evans – The Music of Benjamin Britten. John Fowles – The Tree. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar – The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.
1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style." [1]
c. June 1 – The first volume of Winston Churchill 's The Second World War (1948–1953) is published. September 8 – Terence Rattigan 's one-act plays The Browning Version and Harlequinade are first performed at the Phoenix Theatre (London). September 17 – The Irish poet W. B. Yeats, who died at Menton, France, in 1939, is reburied at ...
