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Overview of the events of 1945 in literature
Overview of the events of 1945 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1945 .
Events
January – In
Paris , journalist and poet
Robert Brasillach is tried and found guilty of "intelligence with the (German) enemy" during World War II, sparking a major dispute in French society over collaboration and clemency.
[1]
c. January 1 –
Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the
Légion d'honneur .
January 27 –
Primo Levi is among those liberated from the
Auschwitz concentration camp complex.
February –
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticizing
Joseph Stalin .
February 13 –
15 – The
bombing of Dresden in World War II is seen by the German Jewish diarist
Victor Klemperer , the novelist
Kurt Vonnegut as an American prisoner of war, and
Miles Tripp as a British bomb aimer. It will feature in
Józef Mackiewicz 's novel Sprawa pulkownika Miasojedowa (Colonel Miasoyedov's Case,
1962 ),
Bohumil Hrabal 's Ostře sledované vlaky (Closely Observed Trains ,
1965 ) and Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (
1969 ).
March 4 – Poet
Pablo Neruda is elected a
Chilean senator and officially joins the
Communist Party of Chile four months later.
March 8 –
Federico García Lorca 's play
The House of Bernarda Alba , completed just before his assassination in
1936 , is first performed, in
Buenos Aires .
March 31 –
Tennessee Williams ' semi-autobiographical "
memory play "
The Glass Menagerie (
1944 , adapted from a short story) opens on
Broadway at the
Playhouse Theatre (New York City) , starring
Laurette Taylor and winning the
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
[2]
About end March –
Jack Kerouac and
William S. Burroughs complete their mystery novel
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks , a fictionalization of manslaughter committed in 1944 by their friend
Lucien Carr , but it will not appear fully until
2008 .
[3]
May – The
Estonian poet
Heiti Talvik is deported to
Siberia and never heard of again.
May 2
May 8 – The
occupying powers in
Allied-occupied Germany and
Austria impose publishing curbs as part of
denazification .
[5]
June –
Ern Malley hoax : Australia's most celebrated literary hoax takes place when
Angry Penguins is published with poems by the fictional Ern Malley. Poets
James McAuley and
Harold Stewart created the poems from lines of other published work and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax is played on
Max Harris , at this time a 22-year-old avant garde poet and critic who had started the modernist magazine Angry Penguins . Harris and his circle of literary friends agreed that a hitherto completely unknown modernist poet of great merit had come to light in suburban Australia. The Autumn 1944 edition of the magazine with the poems comes out in mid-1945 due to wartime printing delays with cover illustration by
Sidney Nolan . An Australian newspaper uncovers the hoax within weeks. McAuley and Stewart loved early
Modernist poets but despise later modernism and especially the well-funded Angry Penguins and are jealous of Harris's precocious success.
[6]
c. July –
Theatre Workshop is formed in the north of England by
Joan Littlewood ,
Ewan MacColl and other former members of Theatre Union as a touring company.
August 17 – The
allegorical
dystopian
novella
Animal Farm by
George Orwell , a satire on
Stalinism , is first published by
Fredric Warburg in London.
September 11 – The
Citizens Theatre opens in
Glasgow under this name.
September –
J. B. Priestley 's drama
An Inspector Calls is premièred in Russian translation in
Leningrad .
[7]
October 29 –
Vladimir Nabokov 's 1940 application for U.S. citizenship is granted.
[8]
November 1 – The U.S. magazine
Ebony appears.
November 21 –
André Malraux is named Minister of Information by the new French President,
Charles de Gaulle .
[9]
November 26 – The U.K. film
Brief Encounter , adapted from
Noël Coward 's short play Still Life , is released.
November –
Astrid Lindgren 's children's book Pippi Långstrump , with illustrations by
Ingrid Vang Nyman , is published in Sweden by
Rabén & Sjögren , having won a competition run by the publisher for children's books in August. It introduces an anarchic child heroine. An English translation appears as
Pippi Longstocking .
December –
Nag Hammadi library , a collection of
Gnostic texts , is discovered in
Upper Egypt .
[10]
Canadian author
Elizabeth Smart 's novel in
prose poetry
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is published in London (U.K.); the writer's mother Louise leads a successful campaign with government officials to have the
book banned in Canada , buying up as many copies as she can find of those that make their way into the country and having them burned.
[11]
New books
1st ed.
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 3 –
David Starkey , English historian
January 20 –
Robert Olen Butler , American novelist and short story writer
January 30 –
Michael Dorris , American writer (died
1997 )
February 12 –
David Small , American author and illustrator
February 13 -
William Sleator , American science-fiction writer (died
2011 )
February 23 –
Robert Gray , Australian poet and critic
February 25 –
Shiva Naipaul , Trinidad-born novelist (died
1985 )
March 19 –
Jim Turner , American literary editor (died
1999 )
April 2 –
Anne Waldman , American poet
April 16 –
Sebastian Barker , English poet and journalist (died
2014 )
April 27 –
August Wilson , American playwright (died
2005 )
April 30 –
Annie Dillard , American poet and prose writer
June 11 –
Robert Munsch , American-Canadian author and academic
June 13 –
Whitley Strieber , American horror novelist
June 21 –
Adam Zagajewski , Polish poet, novelist and essayist
July 5 –
Michael Blake , American novelist and screenwriter (died
2015 )
July 9 –
Dean Koontz , American novelist
July 12 –
Remy Sylado (Yapi Panda Abdiel Tambayong), Indonesian writer
July 21 –
Wendy Cope , English poet
July 25 -
Joseph Delaney , English author (died
2022 )
July 30 –
Patrick Modiano , French novelist, Nobel laureate
September 1 –
Mustafa Balel , Turkish author and translator
October 15 –
John Murrell , American-born dramatist
November 5 –
Richard Holmes , English
literary biographer
November 24 –
Nuruddin Farah , Somali novelist
December 17 –
Jacqueline Wilson , English children's writer
December 21 –
Raymond E. Feist , American fantasy writer
unknown dates
Deaths
January 22 –
Else Lasker-Schüler , German-born Jewish poet (born
1869 )
January 27 –
Antal Szerb , Hungarian writer (in concentration camp, born
1901 )
February 6 –
Robert Brasillach , French writer (executed, born
1909 )
February 23 –
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy , Russian writer (born
1883 )
c. March 12 –
Anne Frank , German-born Dutch child diarist (probable typhus in concentration camp, born
1929 )
March 15 –
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle , French novelist (suicide, born
1893 )
March 20 –
Lord Alfred Douglas , English poet (born
1870 )
March 31 –
Maurice Donnay , French dramatist (born
1859 )
April –
Josef Čapek , Czech artist and writer (in concentration camp, born
1887 )
April 9 –
Dietrich Bonhoeffer , German theologian (hanged in concentration camp, born
1906 )
May 15 –
Charles Williams , English author (born
1886 )
May 29 –
Mihail Sebastian , Romanian Jewish playwright, essayist, and novelist (road accident, born
1907 )
June 5 –
Ilie Bărbulescu , Romanian linguist and journalist (born
1873 )
June 8 –
Robert Desnos , French poet (in concentration camp, born
1900 )
June 11 –
Lurana W. Sheldon , American author and newspaper editor (born
1862 )
July 13 –
Alla Nazimova , Crimean-born American scriptwriter and actress (born
1879 )
July 25 –
Charles Gilman Norris , American novelist (born
1881 )
August 18 –
E. R. Eddison , English fantasy writer (born
1882 )
August 20 –
Alexander Roda Roda , Austro-Croatian-born novelist (born
1872 )
August 26 –
Franz Werfel , Bohemian-born writer (born
1890 )
September 9 –
Zinaida Gippius , émigré Russian writer (born
1869 )
September 21 –
Ioan C. Filitti , Romanian historian, political theorist and essayist (born
1879 )
September 22 –
Thomas Burke , English novelist and story writer (born
1886 )
October 8 –
Felix Salten , Austrian-born children's writer (born
1869 )
[16]
November 21 –
Robert Benchley , American humorist (born
1889 )
[17]
December 4 –
Arthur Morrison , English writer (born
1863 )
December 14 -
Maurice Baring , English poet and writer (born
1874 )
December 28 –
Theodore Dreiser , American author (born
1871 )
[18]
Awards
References
^
Judt, Tony (1992).
Past Imperfect. French Intellectuals, 1944–1956 . Berkeley: University of California Press. pp.
63 –74.
ISBN
0-520-07921-3 .
^
"The Glass Menagerie" . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League. Retrieved 2014-12-16 .
^ Walsh, John (2008-11-03).
"The young generation: Burroughs and Kerouac – an unpublished collaboration" .
The Independent . London.
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2015-07-13 .
^
Hugh Kenner .
^ Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R., eds. (2013). The Book: A Global History . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-967941-6 .
^ Heyward, Michael (1993). The Ern Malley Affair . University of Queensland Press.
^ Grove, Valerie (2015-08-29).
"How JB Priestley's Inspector first called on the USSR" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2019-11-12 .
^
Pitzer, Andrea (2013).
"Vladimir Nabokov immigration files" . The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov . Retrieved 2015-08-03 .
^ Claude Mauriac (1973).
The Other de Gaulle: Diaries 1944-1954 . Angus and Robertson. p. 143.
^ James McConkey Robinson (1984).
The Nag Hammadi Library in English . Brill Archive. p. 9.
ISBN
90-04-07185-7 .
^ Norton, Ingrid (2010-10-01).
"A Year with Short Novels: Elizabeth Smart, Queen of Sheba" . Open Letters Monthly .
^ Bosworth, Mark (13 March 2014).
"Tove Jansson: Love, war and the Moomins" . BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2014 .
^
"Croft, Esther" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
^
"Rabai al-Madhoun" . International Prize for Arabic Fiction . Retrieved 1 December 2020 .
^ Marcia Lynx Qualey.
"Book review: Muhammad Zafzaf′s ″Elusive Fox″" . Qantara . Retrieved 1 December 2020 .
^
"Felix Salten dies: author of 'Bambi'; Creator of Princely Deer Fled to Zurich After the German Invasion of Austria" . New York Times . October 9, 1945. Retrieved May 3, 2022 .
^ Billy Altman, Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley . (New York City:
W. W. Norton , 1997.
ISBN
0-393-03833-5 ) Pages 352-362
^ Theodore Dreiser Recalled . Clemson University Press. 2017. p. 311.
ISBN
9781942954446 .
^ Marie-Clotilde Hubert (2000).
Construire le temps: normes et usages chronologiques du moyen âge à l'époque contemporaine (in French). Librairie Droz. p. 493.
ISBN
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