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1950
 
    
French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd       
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       
1950
 
    
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes his epic account of South America and its people, Canto general       
1951
 
    
German-born US philosopher Hannah Arendt links Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in The Origins of Totalitarianism       
1951
 
    
Catcher in the Rye is US author J.D. Salinger's immensely successful first novel       
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
 
    
US novelist Carson McCullers publishes a collection of stories, The Ballad of the Sad Caf&eacaute;