1943 in literature

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Contents 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.
• CIA and FBI place Richard Wright under surveillance.
• Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.

New books

• Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray
• The Apostle - Sholem Asch
• Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast
• Claudius the God - Robert Graves
• Crux Ansata - H. G. Wells
• Earth's Last Citadel - C. L. Moore
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• Gremlins - Roald Dahl
• A Haunted House and other stories - Virginia Woolf (published anonymously)
• Le Képi - Colette
• The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
• The Last of Summer - Kate O'Brien
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold Niebuhr
• Mr. Mirakel - E. Phillips Oppenheim
• The Ship - C.S. Forester
• The Raven - Chancellor Williams
• Rhadopis of Nubia - Naguib Mahfouz
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
• Towards Zero - Agatha Christie
• Victoria Grandolet - Henry Bellamann
• The White Face - Carl Offord

New drama

• Thornton Wilder - The Skin of Our Teeth

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

• Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness

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
• 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

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Janet Elizabeth 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 Teethfr:1943 en littérature

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