1943 in literature

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The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune.
Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Jack Kerouac joins the US Navy.
C. S. Lewis makes a series of radio broadcasts that will be adapted as Mere Christianity.
Tristan Bernard is released from the Drancy deportation camp.
The FBI places Richard Wright under surveillance.
Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.

New books

Sholem Asch - The Apostle
Henry Bellamann - Victoria Grandolet
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - She Died A Lady
Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake
Agatha Christie - Towards Zero
Colette - Le Képi
Roald Dahl - Gremlins
Howard Fast - Citizen Tom Paine
C. S. Forester - The Ship
Robert Graves - Claudius the God
Elizabeth Janet Gray - Adam of the Road
Graham Greene - Ministry of Fear
H. P. Lovecraft - Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Naguib Mahfouz - Rhadopis of Nubia
C. L. Moore - Earth's Last Citadel
Kate O'Brien - The Last of Summer
Carl Offord - The White Face
E. Phillips Oppenheim - Mr. Mirakel
Roger Peyrefitte - Les amitiés particulières
Ellery Queen - There Was an Old Woman
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Kylie Tennant - Ride on Stranger
H. G. Wells - Crux Ansata
Chancellor Williams - The Raven
Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (published anonymously)

New drama

Bertolt Brecht - Life of Galileo and The Good Person of Szechwan
Thornton Wilder - The Skin of Our Teeth

Poetry

A Choice of Kipling's Verse edited by T. S. Eliot

Non-fiction

Julius Evola - The Doctrine of Awakening
C. S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
Reinhold Niebuhr - The Nature and Destiny of Man
Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness
Stephan Zweig - World of Yesterday.

Births

January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer
February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor
February 22 - Terry Eagleton, critic
March 26 - Bob Woodward, journalist
April 30 - Paul Jennings, children's author
May 5 - Michael Palin, comedy writer and television personality
May 7 - Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning novelist
May 8 - Pat Barker, Booker Prize-winning novelist
June 15 - Xaviera Hollander, Happy Hooker author
July 16 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990)
November 5 - Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, writer, actor
November 12 - Wallace Shawn, actor and dramatist
December 9 - Joanna Trollope, novelist
date unknown - L. E. Modesitt, Jr., fantasy and science fiction writer
date unknown - Gwynne Dyer, journalist
date unknown - Max Clifford, publicist
date unknown - Simon Jenkins, journalist
date unknown - Charles Murray, Bell Curve author
date unknown - Sheila Rowbotham, feminist author
date unknown - Christopher Priest, science fiction author

Deaths

January 9 - R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian
March 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar
April 30 - Beatrice Webb
May - Arthur Mee, editor of the Children's Encyclopaedia
August 24 - Simone Weil, philosopher
October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, controversial author
December 22 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author
date unknown - Guido Mazzoni, poet
date unknown - F. M. Cornford, poet

Awards

Frost Medal: Edna St. Vincent Millay
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Mary Lavin, Tales from Bective Bridge
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. G. Coulton, Fourscore Years
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Janet Gray, Adam of the Road
Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Witness Tree
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth

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