1947 in literature
Events
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June 21st: Final rupture Communist graft surrealist and .
- Creation with Paris of the review African Presence and the SAC ( African Company of Culture ) by a group of intellectuals brought together around the Senegalese Alioune Diop.
- Foundation with London of the review Panafrica by the Abyssinian T.R. Makonnen. The colonial authorities of Eastern Africa proclaim it seditious and prohibit the sale of it.
- Beginning of the Book of pocket.
Tests
- January: What the literature , of Jean-Paul Sartre.
- December: the imaginary Museum , of Andre Malraux.
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Marcel Pagnol, Notes on the laughter .
- Justice for the Madagascans , of Pierre Stibbe, addressed “to all the victims of colonialism”.
Novels
- Mars: Raymond Queneau publishes Exercices of style .
- April: Boris Vian, the Scum of the days .
- December: Publication in France of Tropic of Cancer , Henry Miller.
- Jean Giono, a king without entertainment
- Boris Vian, the Fall in Beijing
- John Steinbeck, the Pearl (The Pearl)
- Claude Aveline, the Subscriber of the line U
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the German novelist Thomas Mann publishes Doctor Faustus .
Theater
- April 19th: Jean Genet, Good the
- June 17th: the evil runs , part of Jacques Audiberti.
- September 4th: Jean Vilar creates the Festival of Avignon. Within the framework of the Week of art in Avignon, Jean Vilar and Maurice Cazeneuve present three dramatic settings in scene.
- October 11th: the Lawsuit , part of Kafka adapted by Andre Gide and Jean-Louis Barrault.
- December 3rd: The part a tram named Désir of Tennessee Williams takes the poster with Broadway with Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy.
Rewards
- June 13rd: Albert Camus receives the price of criticisms for the Plague .
- October 23rd: The French writer André Gide receives the Nobel Prize of literature.
- February 1st: Canadian the Gabrielle Roy receives in Paris the Fémina price, for Bonheur of occasion , it is the first Canadian writer to receive a French literary Grand Prix.
- the Italian writer Ennio Flaiano gains the Prix Strega the year even of the creation of the price, for its novel Tempo di uccidere .
- Price Goncourt: Jean-Louis Curtis for Forests of the night .
- Price Renaudot: Jean Cayrol for I will live the love of the others .
- Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy: Philippe Hériat for Family Boussardel .
- Price of the Quay of the Goldsmiths: Jean Hallier for a certain Mister .
- Paul Claudel between with the French Academy.
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See the list of the Price of the General governor 1947.
Principal births
- June 19th: Salman Rushdie, British writer of Indian origin, author of the “ satanic Verses ”.
- March 29th: Geert van Istendael, Belgian writer
- September 21st: Stephen King, American writer
- December 11th: Marc Quaghebeur, Belgian writer
- December 27th: Abdallah Naaman, writer, historian and Lebanese academic
Principal deaths
- December 7th, Paris: Tristan Bernard, writer.
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