1945 in literature

1945 in literature

The year 1945 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*November 1 - The magazine "Ebony" is published for the first time.
*Noel Coward's short play, "Still Life", is adapted to become the film, "Brief Encounter".
*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
*The novelist Colette becomes president of the Académie Goncourt.
*Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
*André Malraux is appointed minister of information by French President Charles de Gaulle.

New books

*Ivo Andric – "The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini Ćuprija)"
*Rev. W. V. Awdry – "The Three Railway Engines"
*Frans Gunnar Bengtsson - "The Long Ships (Röde Orm)"
*Robert Bloch - "The Opener of the Way"
*Hermann Broch - "The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil)"
*Gwendolyn Brooks – "A Street in Bronzeville"
*Taylor Caldwell – "The Wide House"
*John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - "The Curse of the Bronze Lamp"
*Vera Caspary – "Bedelia"
*Colette – "Gigi"
*Thomas B. Costain – "The Black Rose"
*Gertrude Crampton – "Tootle"
*August Derleth
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** "Something Near"
*Varian Fry – "Surrender on Demand"
*Henry Green – "Loving"
*Ruth Krauss - "The Carrot Seed"
*Margery Lawrence – "Number Seven, Queer Street"
*Robert Lawson – "Rabbit Hill"
*J. Sheridan Le Fanu – "Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories"
*Carlo Levi - "Christ Stopped at Eboli
*C. S. Lewis – "That Hideous Strength"
*H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – "The Lurker at the Threshold"
*Hugh MacLennan – "Two Solitudes"
*Norman Mailer – "The Naked and the Dead"
*Nancy Mitford – "The Pursuit of Love"
*George Orwell – "Animal Farm"
*Gabrielle Roy – "Bonheur d'occasion" ("The Tin Flute")
*Jean-Paul Sartre – "The Age of Reason"
*Elizabeth Smart – "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"
*John Steinbeck – "Cannery Row"
*James Thurber – "The Thurber Carnival" (anthology)
*Elio Vittorini – "Uomini e no"
*Mika Waltari – "The Egyptian"
*Evangeline Walton – "Witch House"
*Evelyn Waugh – "Brideshead Revisited"
*E. B. White – "Stuart Little"
*Odella Phelps Wood – "High Ground"
*Cornell Woolrich – "Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
*Richard Wright – "Black Boy"

New drama

*Bertolt Brecht – "Caucasian Chalk Circle"
*Mary Chase – "Harvey"
*Arthur Laurents – "Home of the Brave"

Poetry

*Idris Davies - "Tonypandy and other poems"

Non-fiction

*R. G. Collingwood – "The Idea of Nature"
*Arthur Koestler – "The Yogi and the Commissar and other essays"
*Betty MacDonald – "The Egg and I"
*Karl Popper – "The Open Society and Its Enemies"
*Bertrand Russell – "A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day"
*Ernesto Sábato - "Uno y el Universo (One and the Universe)"
*Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. – "The Age of Jackson"

Births

* January 3 - David Starkey, historian
* January 30 - Michael Dorris, author (+ 1997)
* March 19 - Jim Turner, editor (+ 1999)
* April 2 - Anne Waldman, poet
* April 27 - August Wilson, playwright
* April 30 - Annie Dillard
* July 9 - Dean R. Koontz, novelist
* September 1 Scott Spencer novelist
* October 15 - John Murrell, dramatist
* December 17 - Jacqueline Wilson, best-selling children's author
* Raymond E. Feist, American fantasy author
* "date unknown" - Robert Gray, poet
* "date unknown" - Shiva Naipaul, novelist

Deaths

* January 13 - Margaret Deland, novelist
* January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, poet (* 1869)
* March 12 - Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
* March 20 - Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
* April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (* 1906, murdered by German Nationalsozialists)
* May 15 - Charles Williams, British author
* July 13 - Alla Nazimova, actress, scriptwriter and producer
* August 20 - Alexander Roda Roda, novelist
* August 26 - Franz Werfel, German language writer
* October 8 - Felix Salten, author of "Bambi"
* November 21 - Robert Benchley, humorist
* December 4 - Arthur Morrison, writer
* December 28 - Theodore Dreiser, author
* "date unknown" - Charles Gilman Norris, novelist
* "date unknown" - Charles Maurice Donnay, dramatist

Awards

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. A. G. Strong, "Travellers"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: D. S. MacColl, "Philip Wilson Steer"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert Lawson, "Rabbit Hill"
* Nobel Prize for literature: Gabriela Mistral
* Premio Nadal: José Félix Tapia, "La luna ha entrado en casa"
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Mary Chase, "Harvey"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Karl Shapiro, "V-Letter and Other Poems"
* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Hersey, "A Bell for Adano"


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