1941 in literature
The year 1941 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
New drama
Poetry
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1941 in poetryBirths
- March 13 - Donella Meadows, Limits to Growth author
- April 10 - Paul Theroux, novelist and travel writer
- May 19 - Nora Ephron, novelist and screenwriter
- June 5 - Spalding Gray, screenwriter and dramatist
- June 27 - James P. Hogan, science fiction author
- July 12 - John Lahr, author and critic
- September 1 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet
- October 2 - John Sinclair, poet
- October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
- October 13 - John Snow, cricketer and poet
- October 25 - Anne Tyler, novelist
- October 27 - Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author and gay rights activist
- date unknown - Pepetela, novelist
- date unknown - Miles Kington, journalist
Deaths
- January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
- January 6 - F. R. Higgins, poet
- January 13 - James Joyce, writer (b. 1882)
- January 23 - John Oxenham, novelist and poet
- February 7 - Banjo Paterson, poet
- February 9 - Elizabeth von Arnim, novelist
- March 13 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, novelist and poet
- March 28 - Virginia Woolf, author (b. 1882)
- June 1 - Hugh Walpole, novelist
- June 15 - Evelyn Underhill, poet
- August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author (b. 1861)
- November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet
Awards