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1950
 
    
The Family Moskat, about a Jewish family in Warsaw, is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer's books to be published in English       
1950
 
    
C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe       
1950
 
    
British author Doris Lessing publishes her first novel, The Grass is Singing       
1951
 
    
British author John Wyndham creates a dark fantasy in his novel The Day of the Triffids       
1951
 
     
A Question of Upbringing begins Antony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time'        
1951
 
    
British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England       
1952
 
     
Evelyn Waugh publishes Men at Arms, the first novel in the Sword of Honour trilogy based on his wartime experiences        
1953
 
    
English author L.P. Hartley sets his novel The Go-Between in the summer of 1900       
1953
 
     
James Bond, agent 007, has a licence to kill in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale        
1954
 
     
Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood, is broadcast on BBC radio, with Richard Burton as narrator