1942 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1942.

Events[]

  • January 1 – The U.K. Book Production War Economy Agreement comes into force.[1]
  • February 20 – Jean Bruller's novella Le Silence de la mer (Silence of the Sea), about resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, is issued clandestinely as the first publication of Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris, under the pseudonym "Vercors". A hundred copies are distributed from late summer; the rest are destroyed by the occupying authorities.[2]
  • February 22 – The Austrian-born novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte are found dead of a barbiturate overdose in their home in Petrópolis, Brazil, leaving notes indicating despair at the future of European civilization. The manuscript of Zweig's autobiography The World of Yesterday, posted to his publisher a day earlier, is first published in Stockholm later in the year as Die Welt von Gestern.[3]
  • March – Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are introduced in his short story "Runaround", published in Astounding Science-Fiction.
  • March 1 – The Canadian novelist Robertson Davies begins a 13-year spell as editor of the Peterborough Examiner in Ontario.
  • March 28 – The Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital, having scrawled his last verse on the wall.
  • April 29 – The newspaper Asia Raja is first published in the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation; it will publish a number of literary works.
  • May – The German novelist Thomas Mann moves to California.
  • May 4 – The French novelist André Gide moves to Tunis.
  • May 8 – The English novelist David Garnett marries as his second wife, the painter and writer Angelica Bell, daughter of Garnett's lover Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
  • June 4 – The film Mrs. Miniver is released, for which the novelist James Hilton will share an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) on 4 March 1943.
  • June 12 – Anne Frank, on her 13th birthday, makes the first entry in her new diary in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
  • August – The French Resistance unit to which expatriate Irish writer Samuel Beckett belongs is betrayed. He has to flee from occupied Paris on foot to Roussillon, Vaucluse in south-eastern France, where he continues work on his novel Watt.
  • August 9 – The New York Times launches the national version of its influential New York Times Best Seller list.[4]
  • Autumn – Vasily Grossman attends the Battle of Stalingrad as a reporter for the Soviet Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. The experience later governs his novels Stalingrad («Сталингра́д», original Russian publication 1952) and Life and Fate («Жизнь и судьба», completed 1959).
  • October – The English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein, against orders.[5]
  • November 19 – The Polish Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz is shot dead by a Gestapo officer, while walking through the "Aryan quarter" of his home town, Drohobych.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

  • BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) – The Little Grey Men
  • Enid Blyton
  • Eleanor Estes – The Middle Moffat
  • Janette Sebring Lowrey – The Poky Little Puppy
  • Diana Ross – The Little Red Engine Gets a Name (first in the Little Red Engine series of nine books)
  • David Severn – Rick Afire
  • Solomon Simon – Di Helden fun Khelm (The Heroes of Chełm)
  • Hildegarde Swift – The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
  • Elizabeth Gray Vining (as Elizabeth Janet Gray) – Adam of the Road
  • Ursula Moray Williams – Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat

Drama[]

Poetry[]

  • Morwenna Donnelly – Beauty and Ashes
  • T. S. Eliot – Little Gidding
  • Patrick Kavanagh – The Great Hunger
  • Saint-John Perse – Exil

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 7 – Božin Pavlovski, Macedonian-Australian author
  • January 9 – Enrique Estrázulas, Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, and diplomat (died 2016)
  • January 19 – Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet, playwright and politician
  • January 31 – Derek Jarman, English film director, writer and diarist (died 1994)[13]
  • February 1 – Terry Jones, Welsh comedic actor and writer (died 2020)[14]
  • February – David Williamson, Australian playwright
  • March 2 – John Irving, American novelist and screenwriter[15]
  • March 28 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist
  • April 1 – Samuel R. Delany, American novelist, essayist and critic[16]
  • April 4 – Kitty Kelley, American biographer and journalist
  • April 20 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish novelist and journalist
  • May 6 – Ariel Dorfman, Argentine/Chilean novelist, playwright and essayist[17]
  • May 11 – Rachel Billington, English author[18]
  • June 25 – Michel Tremblay, French Canadian novelist and playwright
  • August 2 – Isabel Allende, Chilean novelist[19]
  • August 7 – Garrison Keillor, American humorous writer and broadcaster[20]
  • September 1 – António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist and physician
  • October 16 – Joseph Bruchac, Native American author
  • October 20
    • Bob Graham, Australian children's writer and illustrator
    • Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer (d. 2018)[21]
  • October 23
    • Michael Crichton, American writer and director (died 2008)[22]
    • Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet and scholar
  • October 24 – Frank Delaney, Irish-born novelist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2017)[23]
  • November 8 – Fernando Sorrentino, Argentine writer.[24]
  • November 19 – Sharon Olds, American poet
  • November 24 – Craig Thomas, Welsh novelist (died 2011)[25]
  • December 6 – Peter Handke, Austrian novelist and playwright
  • unknown date – Ghada al-Samman, Syrian writer[26]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Bruller, Jean (1967). La Bataille du silence.
  3. ^ Davis, Darién J.; Marshall, Oliver, eds. (2010). Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 41. Laurent Seksik's 2010 novel Les Derniers Jours de Stefan Zweig is set at this time.
  4. ^ Ralph E. Hanson (2005). Mass Communication: Living in a Media World. McGraw-Hill. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-07-234177-5.
  5. ^ Armor. U.S. Armor Association. 1997. p. 9.
  6. ^ Wisconsin Library Bulletin. Division of Library Services, Department of Public Instruction. 1943. p. 28.
  7. ^ Lawrence Phillips (2004). The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-century Literary Representations of London. Rodopi. p. 85. ISBN 90-420-1663-9.
  8. ^ Pierre-Louis Rey (1991). L'Étranger (1942).: Camus : analyse critique. Hatier.
  9. ^ Sonja Hilzinger (2004). Anna Seghers, Das siebte Kreuz. P. Reclam. ISBN 978-3-15-016042-8.
  10. ^ Joseph Arditti (1977). Orchid Biology, Reviews and Perspectives. Comstock Pub. Associates. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-88192-170-0.
  11. ^ Jonathan Judaken; Robert Bernasconi (2012). Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context. Columbia University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-231-14774-3.
  12. ^ Eric Shanes (22 December 2011). Dalí. Parkstone International. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-78160-588-2.
  13. ^ Tony Peake, Derek Jarman: A Biography (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1999), pp. 12–13.
  14. ^ Stolworthy, Jacob. "Terry Jones death: Monty Python star and Life of Brian director dies, aged 77". The Independent.
  15. ^ Jay Parini (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9.
  16. ^ Jessie Carney Smith (1999). Notable Black American Men. Gale Research. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-7876-0763-0.
  17. ^ Vineta Colby; H. W. Wilson (1995). World Authors, 1985-1990. H.W. Wilson. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-8242-0875-2.
  18. ^ Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press. 1991. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-55862-036-0.
  19. ^ Tim McNeese (2006). Isabel Allende. Infobase Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4381-0680-9.
  20. ^ Judith Yaross Lee (1991). Garrison Keillor. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-61703-399-5.
  21. ^ "Arto Paasilinna 20.4.1942–15.10.2018" (in Finnish). WSOY. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
  22. ^ Paul T. Hellmann (14 February 2006). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge. p. 278. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
  23. ^ Jennifer Curry (2007). World Authors, 2000-2005. H.W. Wilson. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-8242-1077-9.
  24. ^ Clark M. Zlotchew (1995). Voices of the River Plate: Interviews with Writers of Argentina and Uruguay. Borgo Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-89370-317-2.
  25. ^ Meic Stephens (20 September 2012). Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten. Y Lolfa. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-84771-605-7.
  26. ^ Raḍwá ʻĀshūr; Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul; Hasna Reda-Mekdashi; Mandy McClure (2008). Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 484. ISBN 978-977-416-146-9.
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  35. ^ Christian Zentner; Friedemann Bedurftig (21 August 1997). The Encyclopedia Of The Third Reich. Hachette Books. p. 512. ISBN 978-0-306-80793-0.
  36. ^ Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. 1947. p. 1877.
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