1943 in literature

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

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.

January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
January 8 - Charles Murray, Bell Curve author
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 6 - Max Clifford, publicist
April 17 - Gwynne Dyer, 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 10 - Simon Jenkins, journalist
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
- Ebrahim Hussein, Swahili playwright
- L. E. Modesitt, Jr., fantasy and science fiction writer
- Sheila Rowbotham, feminist author

January 9 - R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian
March 10 - Laurence Binyon, poet and scholar
April 7 - Jovan Dučić, poet and diplomat (b. 1871)
April 30 - Beatrice Webb
May - Arthur Mee, editor of the Children's Encyclopaedia
June 28 - Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator (b. 1872)
August - Haig Acterian ("Mihail"), Fascist poet, dramatist, director and journalist (b. 1904) (missing in action)
August 22 - Virgilio Dávila, poet and politician (b. 1869)
August 24 - Simone Weil, philosopher
October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, controversial author (b. 1880)
December 22 - Beatrix Potter, children's author (b. 1866)
date unknown
- Ida Lee, Australian historian and poet (b. 1865)
- Guido Mazzoni, poet
date unknown - F. M. Cornford, poet