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Overview of the events of 1944 in literature
Overview of the events of 1944 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1944 .
Events
February 6 – The première of
Jean Anouilh 's tragedy
Antigone takes place at the
Théâtre de l'Atelier in
Nazi-occupied
Paris .
[1]
March 19 – The première of
Pablo Picasso 's play
Desire Caught by the Tail (Le Désir attrapé par la queue) is a private reading in Paris by the author that includes
Simone de Beauvoir ,
Jean-Paul Sartre ,
Valentine Hugo and
Raymond Queneau directed by
Albert Camus .
[2]
May – The première of
Jean-Paul Sartre 's
existentialist drama
Huis Clos is held at the
Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Nazi-occupied Paris.
[3]
June 1 and
5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of
Paul Verlaine 's
1866 poem
Chanson d'automne ("Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone") are broadcast by the
Allies over
BBC
Radio Londres among coded messages to the
French Resistance to prepare for the
D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time).
[4]
[5]
June
August – With the
Liberation of Paris ,
Jean Genet 's novel
Notre Dame des Fleurs (
1943 ) can begin to circulate openly.
September 14 –
Laurence Olivier takes the title rôle in the production of
Richard III that opens at
The Old Vic in London.
October
October 2
After a few months' internment at
Drancy and
Birkenau ,
Benjamin Fondane is one of 700 prisoners put to death in the gas chamber – the last such killings before Birkenau is evacuated.
[8] Upon selection, Fondane is heard joking about the irony of his misfortune.
[9]
Dylan Thomas is to be best man at the wedding of a friend and fellow Welsh poet,
Vernon Watkins , in London, but fails to turn up.
November 22 – The release in England of
Laurence Olivier 's
Henry V makes it the first work of
Shakespeare to be filmed in colour.
November 23 –
Arthur Miller 's play
The Man Who Had All the Luck (written in
1940 ) has its
Broadway première at the
Forrest Theatre in New York City, but runs for only four performances.
December 26 –
Tennessee Williams ' semi-autobiographical "
memory play "
The Glass Menagerie , adapted from a short story, is premièred at the Civic Theatre in
Chicago .
unknown date – The English
actor-manager
Geoffrey Kendal arrives in India for the first time with the
Entertainments National Service Association , touring
Patrick Hamilton 's drama
Gaslight ; from
1947 Kendal's touring repertory company "Shakespeareana" will perform
Shakespeare in towns and villages across India for some decades.
[10]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 8 –
Terry Brooks , American writer of
fantasy fiction
January 17 –
Jan Guillou , Swedish author
January 21 –
Jack Abbott , American writer (suicide
2002 )
February 7 –
Witi Ihimaera , New Zealand
Māori writer
February 9 –
Alice Walker , American novelist and poet
February 11 –
Joy Williams , American fiction writer
February 14
February 16 –
Richard Ford , American novelist
February 27
April 18 –
Kathy Acker , American postmodernist experimental novelist and punk poet (died
1997 )
May 13 –
Armistead Maupin , American novelist
May 17 –
Uldis Bērziņš , Latvian poet and translator
May 18 –
W. G. Sebald , German novelist (died
2001 )
June 5
June 9 -
Jeanne DuPrau , American writer
July 21 –
Buchi Emecheta , Nigerian-born novelist and children's writer (died
2017 )
August 10 –
Barbara Erskine , English novelist
August 18 –
Paula Danziger , American young adult novelist (died
2004 )
August 19 –
Bodil Malmsten , Swedish writer (died
2016 )
August 22 –
Tom Leonard , Scottish dialect poet
August 30 –
Molly Ivins , American journalist (died
2007 )
September 19 –
Ismet Özel , Turkish poet
September 24 –
Eavan Boland , Irish poet (died
2020 )
October 2 –
Vernor Vinge , American science fiction novelist
October 5 –
Tomás de Jesús Mangual , Puerto Rican journalist (died
2011 )
November 7 –
Peter Wilby , English journalist
November 24 –
Eintou Pearl Springer , Trinidadian poet
November 28 –
Rita Mae Brown , American writer and political activist
December 1 –
Tahar Ben Jelloun , French Moroccan-born novelist
December 2 –
Botho Strauß , German writer and dramatist
December 9 –
Ki Longfellow , American novelist
December 15 –
Elizabeth Arnold , English children's writer
December 17 –
Jack L. Chalker , American science fiction novelist (died
2005 )
December 21 –
James Sallis , American crime novelist
unknown dates
Deaths
January 6 –
Ida Tarbell , American journalist (born
1857 )
January 7 –
Napoleon Lapathiotis , Greek lawyer and poet (born
1888 )
January 8 –
Joseph Jastrow , Polish American psychologist (born
1863 )
January 15 –
Armand Praviel , French poet, novelist, and journalist (born
1875 )
January 31 –
Jean Giraudoux , French dramatist (born
1882 )
February –
David Vogel ,
Hebrew poet (died in concentration camp, born
1891 )
[13]
February 2 –
Jane Agnes Stewart , American author, editor, and contributor to periodicals (born
1860 )
February 9 –
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux , English-born poet, biographer and novelist (born
1857 )
February 10 –
Israel Joshua Singer , Yiddish novelist (born
1893 )
February 12 –
Olive Custance , Lady Alfred Douglas, English poet (born
1874 )
February 23 –
Augusta Peaux , Dutch poet (born
1859 )
March 5
March 11 –
Irvin S. Cobb , American writer (born
1876 )
March 28 –
Stephen Leacock , English-born Canadian humorous writer and economist (born
1869 )
April 21 –
Florence Trail , American educator and author (born
1854 )
May 3 –
Anica Černej , Slovenian poet (in concentration camp, born
1900 )
May 12
May 16 –
George Ade , American journalist and dramatist (born
1866 )
May 24 –
Harold Bell Wright , American writer (born
1872 )
June –
Joseph Campbell , Northern Irish poet (born
1879 )
June 9 –
Keith Douglas , English war poet (killed in action, born
1920 )
June 13 –
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel , American socialite and author (born
1868 )
June 16 –
Marc Bloch , French historian (executed, born
1886 )
July 31 –
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French pilot and writer (lost in aircraft, born
1900 )
August 13 –
Ethel Lina White , Welsh-born English crime novelist (born
1876 )
August 25 –
Musa Cälil , Soviet
Tatar poet and resistance fighter (executed, born
1905 )
September 4 –
Margery Williams , English-born American children's writer (born
1881 )
September 13 –
W. Heath Robinson , English cartoonist and illustrator (born
1872 )
October 2 –
Benjamin Fondane , Romanian-born French poet, playwright and critic (Nazi gas chamber, born
1898 )
October 8 –
Elsa Lindberg-Dovlette , Swedish writer of harem stories (born
1874 )
[14]
October 19 –
Karel Poláček , Czech writer, humorist and journalist (born
1892 )
October 29 –
Stephen Hudson (born Sydney Schiff), English novelist, translator and arts patron (born
1868 )
November 15 –
Edith Durham , English travel writer (born
1863 )
December 2 –
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Italian poet, art theorist and Futurist writer (born
1876 )
December 17 –
Robert Nichols , English poet and dramatist (born
1893 )
December 30 –
Romain Rolland , French author and Nobel laureate (born
1866 )
Awards
References
^ Charles Delattre (1998).
Antigone, Jean Anouilh (in French). Editions Bréal. p. 7.
ISBN
978-2-84291-150-8 .
^ McLanathan, Richard B. K.; Brown, Gene (1978). The Arts . Ayer Publishing. p. 60.
^ Jean-Paul Sartre (3 December 1987).
Huis Clos . Psychology Press. p. 29.
ISBN
978-0-415-04003-7 .
^
^
Stourton, Edward (2017). Auntie's War: the BBC during the Second World War . London: Doubleday.
ISBN
978-0-857-52332-7 .
^ Kirby, Terry (2010-10-08).
"The strange and secretive life of Alexander Wilson" .
The Independent . London.
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2018-12-12 .
^
The Virginia Quarterly Review . University of Virginia. 2006. p. 1.
^ Daniel, Paul (1978). "Destinul unui poet". In
Fondane, Benjamin (ed.). Poezii . Bucharest: Editura Minerva. pp. 637–638.
OCLC
252065138 .
^ Răileanu, Petre; Carassou, Michel (1999). Fundoianu/Fondane et l'avant-garde . Bucharest & Paris: Fondation Culturelle Roumaine & Éditions Paris-Méditerranée. p. 133.
ISBN
2-84272-057-1 .
^ Singh, Kuldip (1998-06-15).
"Obituary: Geoffrey Kendal" .
The Independent . London.
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2013-12-11 .
^ Mihir Bose: "A Hatred for Hindus", History Today (Vol 66/12, December 2016), p. 3.
^
Sir Roger Scruton, conservative philosopher of wide accomplishments – obituary
^ Sorrel Kerbel (23 November 2004).
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century . Routledge. p. 1113.
ISBN
978-1-135-45607-8 .
^ Åhlen, Bengt (1945). Svensk bokkalender 1945: En översikt över 1944 års bokutgivning (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögre. p. 82.
OCLC
924316513 .