1943 in literature
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See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] 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.
- FBI places Richard Wright under surveillance.
- Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.
[edit] New books
- Sholem Asch - The Apostle
- Henry Bellamann - Victoria Grandolet
- 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
- 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
- Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
- Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- H. G. Wells - Crux Ansata
- Chancellor Williams - The Raven
- Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House and other stories (published anonymously)
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse edited by T. S. Eliot
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Awards
- Frost Medal: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 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 Teeth
