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| 1951 |
| | | British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US author Ralph Ellison publishes his first novel, Invisible Man, a Kafkaesque account of a black immigrant's life in New York | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea, about an epic struggle between an aged Cuban fisherman and a gigantic marlin | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh publishes Men at Arms, the first novel in the Sword of Honour trilogy based on his wartime experiences | |
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| 1952 |
| | | In his novel East of Eden John Steinbeck develops the biblical theme of Cain and Abel in a family saga set in California | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Saul Bellow publishes The Adventures of Augie March, a novel about the experiences of a young Chicago Jew | |
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| 1953 |
| | | English author L.P. Hartley sets his novel The Go-Between in the summer of 1900 | |
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| 1953 |
| | | James Bond, agent 007, has a licence to kill in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US author James Baldwin publishes his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, set in Harlem | |
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