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Overview of the events of 1946 in literature
Overview of the events of 1946 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1946 .
Events
January – The
Penguin Classics imprint is launched in the U.K. under the editorship of
E. V. Rieu , whose translation of the
Odyssey is the first of the books published,
[1] and will be the country's best-selling book over the next decade.
[2]
January 5 – The
Estonian writer
Jaan Kross is arrested and imprisoned by the occupying
Soviet authorities.
February – The poet
Ezra Pound , brought back to the United States on treason charges, is found unfit to face trial due to insanity and sent to
St. Elizabeths Hospital , Washington, D.C., where he remains for 12 years.
May 20 – The English poet
W. H. Auden becomes a
United States citizen .
[3]
May 22 –
George Orwell leaves London to spend much of the next 18 months on the Scottish island of
Jura , working on his novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four (known at an earlier stage of composition as The Last Man in Europe ). This year his
Animal Farm becomes book of the year in the United States.
August 18 – The
Assamese poet
Amulya Barua is killed aged 24 in communal violence while studying at the
University of Calcutta . His only collection of poems, Achina (The Stranger), is published posthumously.
October 1 – The English première of
J. B. Priestley 's drama
An Inspector Calls (set in 1912) shows at the
New Theatre , London. It stars
Ralph Richardson .
[4]
October 9 – The
Broadway première of
Eugene O'Neill 's drama
The Iceman Cometh , set in 1912, is held at the
Martin Beck Theatre , New York City.
October 10 – Die Chinesische Mauer by Swiss writer
Max Frisch , receives its stage première.
[5]
November 7 –
Walker Percy , a U.S. writer of philosophical novels, marries Mary Bernice Townsend.
November 8 – The English novelist and diarist
Christopher Isherwood becomes a U.S. citizen.
December 18
December 23 –
Giovannino Guareschi publishes the first story about the priest
Don Camillo in his magazine Candido .
December 26 –
David Lean 's film of
Great Expectations is released in England.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Jorge Amado –
Seara Vermelha
Francis Ambrière –
The Long Holiday (Les Grandes Vacances)
Charlotte Armstrong –
The Unsuspected
Miguel Ángel Asturias –
El Señor Presidente
René Barjavel –
The Tragic Innocents
Vicki Baum –
Mortgage on Life
Simone de Beauvoir –
All Men are Mortal (Tous les hommes sont mortels)
Algernon Blackwood –
The Doll and One Other
Jorge Luis Borges –
Deutsches Requiem
Tadeusz Borowski –
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (or Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber , originally Pożegnanie z Marią (Farewell to Maria), short stories)
Phyllis Bottome –
The Lifeline
Christianna Brand –
Suddenly at His Residence
John Bude –
Trouble A-Brewing
Ivan Bunin –
Dark Avenues («Тёмные аллеи», Tyomnyye allei , short stories, complete edition)
John Dickson Carr
Adolfo Bioy Casares and
Silvina Ocampo – Los que aman, odian (Those Who Love, Hate)
Vera Caspary –
Stranger Than Truth
Peter Cheyney
Agatha Christie –
The Hollow
A. E. Coppard –
Fearful Pleasures
Edmund Crispin –
The Moving Toyshop
Kenneth Fearing –
The Big Clock
Adonias Filho – Os servos da morte
Errol Flynn –
Showdown
C. S. Forester -
Lord Hornblower
Pat Frank –
Mr. Adam
Carlo Emilio Gadda –
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana , serial publication)
Stella Gibbons – Westwood
Anthony Gilbert –
The Spinster's Secret
William Lindsay Gresham –
Nightmare Alley
Ruth Guimarães – Água Funda (Deep Water, in
Paraíba Valley dialect of Brazilian Portuguese)
João Guimarães Rosa –
Sagarana
Thomas Heggen –
Mister Roberts
Raymond J. Healy and
J. Francis McComas , editors –
Adventures in Time and Space
George Wylie Henderson –
Jule
William Hope Hodgson –
The House on the Borderland and Other Novels
Robert E. Howard –
Skull-Face and Others
Michael Innes
Christopher Isherwood –
The Berlin Stories
Cläre Jung – Aus der Tiefe rufe ich
Nikos Kazantzakis –
Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas)
Arthur Koestler –
Thieves in the Night
Philip Larkin –
Jill
Marghanita Laski (as Sarah Russell) – To Bed with Grand Music
Violette Leduc – L'Asphyxie (translated as In the Prison of Her Skin )
Lois Lenski –
Strawberry Girl
Eric Linklater –
Private Angelo
Frank Belknap Long –
The Hounds of Tindalos
E. C. R. Lorac
W. Somerset Maugham –
Then and Now
Carson McCullers –
Member of the Wedding
Oscar Micheaux – The Story of Dorothy Stanfield
A. A. Milne –
Chloe Marr
Gladys Mitchell –
Here Comes a Chopper
Mervyn Peake –
Titus Groan (first of the
Gormenghast series )
Ann Petry –
The Street
Isaac Rosenfeld – Passage from Home
Anya Seton –
The Turquoise
Margit Söderholm –
All the World's Delights
Rex Stout –
The Silent Speaker
Cecil Street
Tugelbay Sydykbekov – Bizdin zamandyn kišileri (People of our time)
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
The Asey Mayo Trio
Punch with Care
Ruthven Todd
Gore Vidal –
Williwaw
A. E. van Vogt –
Slan
Boris Vian
H. Russell Wakefield –
The Clock Strikes Twelve
Mervyn Wall – The Unfortunate Fursey
Robert Penn Warren –
All the King's Men
Eudora Welty –
Delta Wedding
Henry S. Whitehead –
West India Lights
Kiichirō Yamate –
Momotarō-zamurai (桃太郎侍)
Ivan Yefremov –
The Land of Foam («На краю Ойкумены», Na krayu Oikumeny , At the edge of infinity)
Seishi Yokomizo –
The Honjin Murders (本陣殺人事件, Honjin satsujin jiken )
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 4 –
Lisa Appignanesi , Polish-born author and academic
January 21 –
Gretel Ehrlich , American travel writer, poet and essayist
February 7 –
Brian Patten , English poet
February 25 –
Franz Xaver Kroetz , German dramatist
March 1 –
Jim Crace , English author
March 5 –
Mem Fox (Merrion Frances Partridge), Australian children's writer
April 2 –
Sue Townsend , English comic novelist and playwright (died
2014 )
April 29 –
Humphrey Carpenter , English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (died
2005 )
May 8 –
Ruth Padel , English poet and author
May 11 –
Valerie Grove , English journalist and author
May 12 –
L. Neil Smith , American author and activist
June 28 –
John Birtwhistle , English poet and librettist
July 22 –
Ryoki Inoue , born José Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue, prolific Brazilian novelist
July 26 –
Joel Mokyr , Israeli economic historian
July 28 –
Fahmida Riaz , Pakistani writer
August 1 –
Paul Torday , English novelist (died
2013 )
August 2 –
James Howe , American journalist and author of juvenile fiction
August 29 –
Leona Gom , Canadian poet and novelist
September 12 –
Neil Lyndon , English journalist and author of No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism
[7]
September 26 –
Andrea Dworkin , American writer and activist (died
2005 )
October 1 –
Tim O'Brien , American novelist
October 4 -
Susan Sarandon American actress
October 19 -
Philip Pullman , English author
October 20 –
Elfriede Jelinek , Austrian novelist and Nobel laureate
October 28 –
Sharon Thesen , Canadian poet
November 7 –
Diane Francis , Canadian journalist and author
November 18 –
Alan Dean Foster , American science fiction author
November 25 –
Marc Brown , author and creator of
Arthur
December 2 –
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid , Egyptian novelist
December 4 –
Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer , Majorca-born Spanish Catalan fiction writer
December 11 –
Ellen Meloy , American nature writer (died
2004 )
Uncertain date
Deaths
January 6 –
Dion Fortune , British occultist, Christian Qabalist, ceremonial magician and novelist (born
1890 )
[8]
February 11 –
John Langalibalele Dube , South African Zulu writer (born
1871 )
[9]
March 19 –
Catherine Carswell ,
Scottish novelist and biographer (born
1879 )
March 20 –
Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), Australian novelist (born
1870 )
April 1 –
Edward Sheldon , American dramatist (born
1886 )
April 11 –
Dem. Theodorescu , Romanian novelist and journalist (born
1888 )
May 19 –
Booth Tarkington , American novelist and dramatist (born
1869 )
[10]
May 20 –
Jane Findlater , Scottish novelist (born
1866 )
May 25 –
Ernest Rhys , English writer and book series editor of Welsh extraction (born
1859 )
[11]
Summer –
Ștefan Foriș , Hungarian and Romanian journalist and communist activist (murdered, born
1892 )
June 6 –
Gerhart Hauptmann , German dramatist, novelist and poet, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Literature (born
1862 )
[12]
July 8 –
Orrick Glenday Johns , American poet and playwright (born
1887 )
July 22 –
Edward Sperling , Russian-born American humorist (killed by bomb, born
1889 )
July 27 –
Gertrude Stein , American novelist, poet and dramatist (born
1874 )
[13]
July 30 –
Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov , Russian poet and revolutionary (born
1854 )
August 13 –
H. G. Wells , English novelist (born
1866 )
[14]
August 18 –
Marion Angus , Scottish poet (born
1865 )
August 31 –
Harley Granville-Barker , English actor, dramatist and critic (born
1877 )
September 9 –
Violet Jacob , Scottish historical novelist and poet (born
1863 )
September 21 –
Lydia J. Newcomb Comings , American author, educator, lecturer (born
1850 )
September 26 –
William Strunk, Jr. , American professor of English (born 1869)
November 5 –
Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden , English author and patron of the arts(born
1880 )
[15]
November 14 –
May Sinclair , English novelist (born
1863 )
[16]
December 10 –
Damon Runyon , American short-story writer (born
1880 )
[17]
December 17 –
Constance Garnett , English translator (born
1861 )
December 23 –
Ellen Marriage , English translator (born
1865 )
Awards
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^ Max Berwald (2013). A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch . Camden House. p. 11.
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ISBN
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