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1945 in literature
See also:
1944 in literature
,
other events of 1945
,
1946 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
November 1
-
Ebony Magazine[?]
is published for the first time.
Brideshead Revisited
by
Evelyn Waugh
is published. In
2001
, the book would be the third of his works named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
Loving[?]
by
Henry Green[?]
is published. In
2001
, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
New Books
The Age of Jackson[?]
-
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.[?]
The Age of Reason
-
Jean-Paul Sartre
Animal Farm
-
George Orwell
Black Boy[?]
-
Richard Wright
The Black Rose[?]
-
Thomas B. Costain
Bonheur d'occasion[?]
(
The Tin Flute
) -
Gabrielle Roy
The Bosnian Trilogy[?]
-
Ivo Andric
Brideshead Revisited
-
Evelyn Waugh
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept[?]
-
Elizabeth Smart
Cannery Row
-
John Steinbeck
Caucasian Chalk Circle[?]
-
Bertolt Brecht
Gigi
-
Colette
High Ground[?]
-
Odella Phelps Wood[?]
Loving[?]
-
Henry Green[?]
Night Has a Thousand Eyes[?]
-
Cornell Woolrich
The Naked and the Dead[?]
-
Norman Mailer
The Open Society and Its Enemies[?]
-
Karl Popper
The Policy King[?]
-
Lewis A. H. Caldwell[?]
The Pursuit of Love
-
Nancy Mitford
Rabbit Hill[?]
-
Robert Lawson[?]
A Street in Bronzeville[?]
-
Gwendolyn Brooks[?]
Stuart Little
-
E.B. White
That Hideous Strength
-
C. S. Lewis
Tootle[?]
-
Gertrude Crampton[?]
Two Solitudes[?]
-
Hugh MacLennan
The Wide House[?]
-
Taylor Caldwell
Births
January 30
-
Michael Dorris[?]
, author (+
1997
)
April 27
-
August Wilson
, playwright
April 30
-
Annie Dillard
July 9
-
Dean R. Koontz
Deaths
January 22
-
Else Lasker-Schuler[?]
, poet (*
1869
)
March 12
-
Anne Frank
, author of
The Diary of Anne Frank
, at
Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp
April 9
-
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
, theologian (*
1906
, murdered by
German Nationalsozialists
)
May 15
-
Charles Williams
, British author
August 26
-
Franz Werfel
, Czech writer
December 4
-
Arthur Morrison[?]
, writer
December 28
-
Theodore Dreiser
, author
Awards
Newberry Medal
for
children's literature
:
Robert Lawson[?]
,
Rabbit Hill
Nobel Prize for literature
:
Gabriela Mistral
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
:
Mary Chase[?]
,
Harvey
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
:
Karl Shapiro[?]
,
V-Letter and Other Poems
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
:
John Hersey
,
A Bell for Adano
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