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 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)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 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 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 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] [ 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 9 – Collaborationist Georges Suarez becomes the first journalist executed during the épuration légale [ 10] November 22 – The release in England of Laurence Olivier 's Henry V Shakespeare to be filmed in colour.November 23 – Arthur Miller 's play The Man Who Had All the Luck 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 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 1947 Kendal's touring repertory company "Shakespeareana" will perform Shakespeare in towns and villages across India for some decades.[ 11]
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 authorJanuary 21 – Jack Abbott , American writer (suicide 2002 )February 7 – Witi Ihimaera , New Zealand Māori writerFebruary 9 – Alice Walker , American novelist and poetFebruary 11 – Joy Williams , American fiction writerFebruary 14
February 16 – Richard Ford , American novelistFebruary 18 – Elizabeth Nunez , Trinidadian-born American novelist (died 2024 )February 27
April 18 – Kathy Acker , American postmodernist experimental novelist and punk poet (died 1997 )May 13 – Armistead Maupin , American novelistMay 17 – Uldis Bērziņš , Latvian poet and translatorMay 18 – W. G. Sebald , German novelist (died 2001 )June 5
June 9 - Jeanne DuPrau , American writerJuly 21 – Buchi Emecheta , Nigerian-born novelist and children's writer (died 2017 )August 10 – Barbara Erskine , English novelistAugust 18 – Paula Danziger , American young adult novelist (died 2004 )August 19 – Bodil Malmsten , Swedish writer (died 2016 )August 22 – Tom Leonard , Scottish dialect poetAugust 30 – Molly Ivins , American journalist (died 2007 )September 19 – Ismet Özel , Turkish poetSeptember 24 – Eavan Boland , Irish poet (died 2020 )October 2 – Vernor Vinge , American science fiction novelistOctober 5 – Tomás de Jesús Mangual , Puerto Rican journalist (died 2011 )November 7 – Peter Wilby , English journalistNovember 24 – Eintou Pearl Springer , Trinidadian poetNovember 28 – Rita Mae Brown , American writer and political activistDecember 1 – Tahar Ben Jelloun , French Moroccan-born novelistDecember 2 – Botho Strauß , German writer and dramatistDecember 9 – Ki Longfellow , American novelistDecember 15 – Elizabeth Arnold , English children's writerDecember 17 – Jack L. Chalker , American science fiction novelist (died 2005 )December 21 – James Sallis , American crime novelistunknown 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 )[ 14]
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 )[ 15] 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
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