1943 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1943.

Events[]

  • January 4 – Thomas Mann completes Joseph der Ernährer (Joseph the Provider) in California, the last of his Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) tetralogy, on which he began in December 1926.
  • February 4 – The première of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan) takes place at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland, with Leonard Steckel directing.[1]
  • March – The self-illustrated children's novella The Little Prince by the exiled French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the all-time best-selling book originated in French, is published in New York.
  • May – A strongly antisemitic production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is staged at the Burgtheater in Vienna, with Werner Krauss as Shylock.
  • June 30 – Having transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy and served eight days of active duty Jack Kerouac is honorably discharged on psychiatric grounds.[2] In New York City, he, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg become friends.
  • September
    • George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of the left-wing London paper Tribune.
    • Retreating German forces set fire to the library of the Royal Society of Naples, and on September 30 to the Montesano Villa containing the most valuable State Archives of Naples.[3]
  • September 9 – The première of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei, 1939) is held at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland, with Leonard Steckel directing and playing the title role.
  • October – Tristan Bernard is arrested, but subsequently released from the Drancy internment camp in France after public protests.[4]
  • October 14 – The contents of Biblioteca della Comunità Israelitica in Rome are looted by Nazi German troops.
  • December
    • Philip Larkin, with a degree from the University of Oxford, takes his first post as a librarian in Wellington, Shropshire.
    • Philip Van Doren Stern sends copies of his story "The Greatest Gift" to friends as a Christmas card.
  • December 22 – On the death of children's writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter at Near Sawrey, over 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of land in the English Lake District are bequeathed to the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (the Heelis Bequest).[5]
  • unknown dates
    • Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen.[6]
    • Publication begins of a new comprehensive edition of Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (the Sämtliche Werke, or Große Stuttgarter Ausgabe).
    • The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States places Richard Wright under surveillance.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

  • Bertolt Brecht
    • The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan)
    • Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei)
  • Albert Camus – The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu)
  • Moss Hart – Winged Victory
  • Frank Harvey – Brighton Rock
  • Fritz Hochwälder – Das Heilige Experiment (The Holy Experiment, The Strong Are Lonely)
  • Esther McCracken – Living Room
  • Elena Miramova – Dark Eyes
  • M. J. Molloy – Old Road
  • Armijn Pane – Kami, Perempuan (We, the Women)
  • J.B. Priestley – They Came to a City
  • Terence Rattigan - While the Sun Shines
  • Nelson Rodrigues – Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – The Flies (Les Mouches)
  • Yang Jiang – As You Desire (Chenxin ruyi)

Non-fiction[]

  • Georges Bataille – L'Expérience intérieure
  • James Burnham – The Managerial Revolution
  • Julius Evola – The Doctrine of Awakening (La dottrina del risveglio)
  • Katharine Butler Hathaway – The Little Locksmith
  • Louis Hjelmslev – Prolegomena to a Theory of Language (Omkring sprogteoriens grundlæggelse)
  • C. S. Lewis – The Abolition of Man
  • John Neal – Observations on American Art: Selections from the Writings of John Neal (1793-1876) (edited by Harold Edward Dickson)[7]
  • 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)
  • J. A. Schumpeter – Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
  • Edna Walling – Gardens in Australia
  • William Foote Whyte – Street Corner Society
  • Stefan Zweig (suicide 1942) – The World of Yesterday (first English edition)

Births[]

  • January 4
    • Doris Kearns Goodwin, American political biographer
    • Hwang Sok-yong, Korean novelist
    • Jesús Torbado, Spanish novelist (died 2018)
    • Priit Vesilind, Estonian-American author and photographer
  • January 8 – Charles Murray, American political science writer (The Bell Curve)
  • January 11 – Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
  • January 13 – Lorna Sage, English scholar and biographer (died 2001)
  • February 8 – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic
  • February 15 – Elke Heidenreich, German journalist and writer
  • February 16 – Graham Lord, Rhodesian-born English literary biographer and novelist (died 2015)
  • February 18 – Graeme Garden, Scottish-born writer, comedian and actor
  • February 21 – Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Russian fiction writer
  • February 22 – Terry Eagleton, English scholar and publicist
  • February 27 – Sheila Rowbotham, English feminist author[8]
  • March 26 – Bob Woodward, American journalist
  • April 6 – Max Clifford, English publicist
  • April 17 – Gwynne Dyer, Canadian journalist
  • April 22 – Louise Glück, American poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
  • April 30 – Paul Jennings, English-born Australian children's author
  • May 5 – Michael Palin, English comedy writer and television broadcaster
  • May 7 – Peter Carey, Australian novelist
  • May 8 – Pat Barker, English novelist
  • May 20 – Justin Cartwright, South African-born novelist (died 2018)
  • June 7
    • Nikki Giovanni, American author, poet and educator
    • Michael Pennington, English writer, actor and director
  • June 10 – Simon Jenkins, English journalist
  • June 15 – Xaviera Hollander, Dutch East Indies-born writer
  • July 14 – Christopher Priest, English novelist
  • July 16 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (died 1990)
  • August 2 – Rose Tremain (Rosemary Thomson), English novelist
  • August 30 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
  • September 12 – Michael Ondaatje, Ceylonese-born Canadian novelist and poet
  • September 24 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer, academic and translator (died 2012)
  • October 5 – Michael Morpurgo, English children's writer
  • October 8 - R. L. Stine, American novelist
  • October 9 – L. E. Modesitt, Jr., American fantasy and science fiction writer
  • October 17 – Laila al-Othman, Kuwaiti writer
  • November 5 – Sam Shepard, American playwright, writer and actor
  • November 6 – Berlie Doherty (Beryl Hollingworth), English children's and young-adults' writer
  • November 7 – Stephen Greenblatt, American Shakespeare scholar
  • November 12 – Wallace Shawn, American actor and dramatist
  • December 9 – Joanna Trollope, English novelist
  • unknown dates
    • Christine Evans, Welsh poet in English[9]
    • Vicki Feaver, English poet and academic[10]
    • Hadrawi (Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame), Somali poet[11]
    • Ebrahim Hussein, Tanzanian playwright in Swahili[12]

Deaths[]

  • January 3 – F. M. Cornford, English classicist and poet (born 1874)
  • January 9 – R. G. Collingwood, English philosopher and historian (born 1889)
  • January 13 – Else Ury, German children's fiction writer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp; born 1877)
  • March 10 – Laurence Binyon, English poet and scholar (born 1869)
  • March 13 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (born 1898)
  • April 7 – Jovan Dučić, Herzegovina Serb poet and diplomat (born 1871)
  • April 29 – Sidney Keyes, English poet (killed in action; born 1922)
  • April 30 – Beatrice Webb, English sociologist, economist and social reformer (born 1858)
  • May 27 – Arthur Mee, English encyclopedist and writer (born 1875)
  • May 29 – Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet (born 1859)
  • June 17 – Annie S. Swan ('David Lyall'), Scottish novelist and journalist (born 1859)
  • June 28 – Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator (born 1872)
  • July 18 – Miyake Kaho, Japanese novelist, essayist and poet (born 1868)
  • c. August 8 – Haig Acterian (Mihail), Romanian poet, dramatist and journalist (missing in action; born 1904)
  • August 12 – Kurt Eggers, Nazi German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright (killed in action; born 1905)
  • August 22 – Virgilio Dávila, Puerto Rican poet and politician (born 1869)
  • August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher (born 1909)
  • October 3 – Ida Lee, Australian historian and poet (born 1865)
  • October 7 – Radclyffe Hall, English novelist and poet (born 1880)[13]
  • November 19 – Georg Hermann, German fiction writer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp; born 1871)
  • November 27 – Louis Esson, Australian poet and playwright (born 1878)
  • November 30 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch correspondent and diarist (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp; born 1914)
  • December 2
    • Drummond Allison, English poet (killed in action; born 1921)[14]
    • Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author (born 1902)
  • December 22 – Beatrix Potter, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1866)[15]

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Willett, John (1977) [1967]. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects (3rd rev. ed.). London: Methuen. p. 51. ISBN 0-413-34360-X.
  2. ^ Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives. National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 2009. p. 11.
  3. ^ Baker, Kenneth (2016). On the Burning of Books. London: Unicorn. pp. 138–40. ISBN 978-1-910787-11-3.
  4. ^ Leslie A. Sprout (25 May 2013). The Musical Legacy of Wartime France. Univ of California Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-520-27530-0.
  5. ^ Judy Taylor; Elizabeth M. Battrick; Anne Stevenson Hobbs; Joyce Irene Whalley; Beatrix Potter (1987). Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World. F. Warne. pp. 203–4. ISBN 978-0-7232-3561-3.
  6. ^ Harry Schneiderman; Itzhak J. Carmin (1987). Who's who in World Jewry. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-9618272-0-5.
  7. ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 9780805772302.
  8. ^ Pamela Kester-Shelton (1996). Feminist Writers. St. James Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-55862-217-3.
  9. ^ "List Of Writers: EVANS, CHRISTINE". Academi. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008.
  10. ^ Carol Ann Duffy; Vicki Feaver; Eavan Boland (1995). Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-058740-1.
  11. ^ Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
  12. ^ B. W. Andrzejewski; S. Pilaszewicz; W. Tyloch (21 November 1985). Literatures in African Languages: Theoretical Issues and Sample Surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 477. ISBN 978-0-521-25646-9.
  13. ^ Glasgow, Joanne (2002). "Hall, Radclyffe". glbtq.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
  14. ^ Robert Greacen (1994). The Only Emperor. Lapwing Publications. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-898472-11-7.
  15. ^ "Biography – Victoria and Albert Museum". www.vam.ac.uk. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  16. ^ Lia Nicole Brozgal; Sara Kippur (2016). Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture, and Politics Today. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-78138-263-9.


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