Events
- July 30 - Philip Larkin makes a train journey from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings.
- August 27 - First hardback edition of The Guinness Book of Records published in London.
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris; however, it takes until 1958 to be published in the United States.
- An article in the British Journal of Education criticises the novels of Enid Blyton as formula fiction.
- Jean Cocteau is elected to both the Académie française and the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.
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