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]
The expatriate American poet
Ezra Pound is arrested by the
Italian resistance movement and taken to its headquarters in
Chiavari, but soon released as of no interest.[4] On
May 5, he turns himself in to the
United States Army. He is held in a military detention camp outside
Pisa, spending 25 days in an open cage before being given a tent. There he appears to suffer a nervous breakdown. While in the camp he drafts The Pisan Cantos.
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]
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.
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]
The expatriate American poet
Ezra Pound is arrested by the
Italian resistance movement and taken to its headquarters in
Chiavari, but soon released as of no interest.[4] On
May 5, he turns himself in to the
United States Army. He is held in a military detention camp outside
Pisa, spending 25 days in an open cage before being given a tent. There he appears to suffer a nervous breakdown. While in the camp he drafts The Pisan Cantos.
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]
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.