1943 in literature

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

Events

January 4 - Thomas Mann completes writing Joseph der Ernährer in California, last of the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) on which he began work in December 1926.
February 4 - Première of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan) at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland with Leonard Steckel directing.^[1]
March - Publication in New York of exiled French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's self-illustrated children's novella The Little Prince, the all-time best-selling book originated in French.
September - George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune.
September 9 - Première of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei, 1939) at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland with Leonard Steckel directing and playing the title rôle.
December - Philip Larkin, having graduated from the University of Oxford, obtains his first post as a librarian (at Wellington, Shropshire).
Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Publication of a new comprehensive edition of Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke, the "Große Stuttgarter Ausgabe"), begins.
Jack Kerouac transfers from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy where he serves eight days of active duty and is honorably discharged on psychiatric grounds. In New York City, he, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg become friends.
Tristan Bernard is released from the Drancy internment camp.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States places Richard Wright under surveillance.

New books

Sholem Asch - The Apostle
Marcel Aymé - Le passe-muraille
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer - Premalekhanam
Henry Bellamann - Victoria Grandolet
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
John Dickson Carr (as Carter Dickson) - She Died A Lady
Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake
Colette - Le Képi
Roald Dahl - The Gremlins
Simone de Beauvoir - She Came to Stay (L'Invitée)
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle - The Man on Horseback (L'homme à cheval)
Howard Fast - Citizen Tom Paine
C. S. Forester - The Ship
Carlo Emilio Gadda - Gli anni
Jean Genet (anonymously) - Notre Dame des Fleurs
Robert Graves - Claudius the God
Elizabeth Janet Gray - Adam of the Road
Graham Greene - Ministry of Fear
Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
Aleksander Kamiński - Kamienie na szaniec
C.S. Lewis - Perelandra
Clarice Lispector - Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do coração selvagem)
H. P. Lovecraft - Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Naguib Mahfouz - Rhadopis of Nubia
C. L. Moore - Earth's Last Citadel
Robert Musil (posthumously) - The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, publication concludes, uncompleted)
Kate O'Brien - The Last of Summer
E. Phillips Oppenheim - Mr. Mirakel
Roger Peyrefitte - Les amitiés particulières
Ellery Queen - There Was an Old Woman
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Arthur Ransome - The Picts And The Martyrs
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Antal Szerb - The Queen's Necklace (A királyné nyaklánca)
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- Going, Going, Gone
- Proof of the Pudding
- File for Record (as by Alice Tilton)
Kylie Tennant - Ride on Stranger
H. G. Wells - Crux Ansata
Chancellor Williams - The Raven
Virginia Woolf (posthumously) - A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

New drama

Bertolt Brecht
- The Good Person of Szechwan
- Life of Galileo
Albert Camus - The Misunderstanding
Moss Hart - Winged Victory
Fritz Hochwälder - Das Heilige Experiment ("The Holy Experiment", "The Strong Are Lonely")
Elena Miramova - Dark Eyes
Armijn Pane - Kami, Perempuan
Nelson Rodrigues - Vestido de Noiva ("The Wedding Dress")
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Flies

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

Georges Bataille - L'expérience intérieure
Julius Evola - The Doctrine of Awakening (La dottrina del risveglio)
C. S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
Reinhold Niebuhr - The Nature and Destiny of Man
Martin Noth - Uberlieferungsgeschischtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament
Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique)
William Foote Whyte - Street Corner Society
Stephan Zweig (posthumously) - The World of Yesterday (first English edition)

Births

January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
January 8 - Charles Murray, American Bell Curve author
January 11 - Jim Hightower, American radio host, author
February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, German journalist and writer
February 18 - Graeme Garden, British writer, comedian, actor
February 22 - Terry Eagleton, British Marxist critic
March 26 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
April 6 - Max Clifford, English publicist
April 17 - Gwynne Dyer, Canadian journalist
April 30 - Paul Jennings, English-born Australian children's author
May 5 - Michael Palin, English comedy writer and television personality
May 7 - Peter Carey, Australian Booker Prize-winning novelist
May 8 - Pat Barker, English Booker Prize-winning novelist
June 10 - Simon Jenkins, English journalist
June 15 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch East Indian-born Happy Hooker author
July 16 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (died 1990)
October 9 - L. E. Modesitt, Jr., American fantasy and science fiction writer
November 5 - Sam Shepard, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, writer, actor
November 12 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and dramatist
December 9 - Joanna Trollope, English novelist
date unknown
- Ebrahim Hussein, Swahili playwright
- Sheila Rowbotham, English feminist author

Deaths

January 3 - F. M. Cornford, English poet (born 1874)
January 9 - R. G. Collingwood, English philosopher and historian (born 1889)
March 10 - Laurence Binyon, English poet and scholar (born 1869)
March 13 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (born 1898)
April 7 - Jovan Dučić, Herzegovinian Serb poet and diplomat (born 1871)
April 30 - Beatrice Webb, English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer (born 1858)
May 27 - Arthur Mee, English editor of the Children's Encyclopaedia (born 1875)
June 28 - Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator (born 1872)
c. August 8 - Haig Acterian ("Mihail"), Romanian fascist poet, dramatist, director and journalist (born 1904) (missing in action)
August 22 - Virgilio Dávila, Puerto Rican poet and politician (born 1869)
August 24 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (born 1909)
October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, English lesbian author (born 1880)^[2]
December 22 - Beatrix Potter, English children's author (born 1866)
date unknown
- Ida Lee, Australian historian and poet (born 1865)
- Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet (born 1859)

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

References

↑ Willett, John. 1967. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. Third rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1977. ISBN 0-413-34360-X, p51
↑ Glagow, Joanne (2002). "Hall, Radclyffe". glbtq.com. Retrieved 2007-11-05.

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