1944 in literature
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See also: 1943 in literature, other events of 1944, 1945 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Samuel Hopkins Adams - Canal Town
- Jorge Amado - Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land)
- Saul Bellow - Dangling Man
- Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Imaginary Beings
- Christianna Brand - Green for Danger
- Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth
- A. J. Cronin - The Green Years
- Esther Forbes - Johnny Tremain
- Jean Genet - Notre Dame des Fleurs
- Hayyim Hazaz - Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens
- John Hersey - A Bell for Adano
- Georgette Heyer - Friday's Child
- Charles R. Jackson - The Lost Weekend
- Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
- H.P. Lovecraft - Marginalia
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge
- Oscar Micheaux - The Case of Mrs. Wingate
- Alberto Moravia - Agostino (Two Adolescents)
- Gunnar Myrdal - An American Dilemma
- Annie Greene Nelson - The Dawn Appears
- Feodor Rojankovsky - The Tall Book of Nursery Tales
- Clark Ashton Smith - Lost Worlds
- Donald Wandrei - The Eye and the Finger
- Henry S. Whitehead - Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales
[edit] Poetry
- James K. Baxter - Beyond the Palisade
- Edwin James Bradley - Two Frontiers
- Paul Éluard - Au rendez-vous allemand (To the German Rendezvous)
- Five Young American Poets, volume 3, including work by Eve Merriam, John Frederick Nims, Jean Garrigue, Tennessee Williams and Alejandro Carrión
- Nicholas Moore - The Glass Tower
[edit] Non-fiction
- Charles William Beebe - Book of Naturalists
- Friedrich Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
- Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Margaret Landon - Anna and the King of Siam
[edit] Births
- January 8 - Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
- January 21 - Jack Abbott, murderer and acclaimed writer
- February 14
- Alan Parker, director, writer
- Carl Bernstein, journalist
- February 16 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
- May 13 - Armistead Maupin, novelist
- May 18 - W. G. Sebald, novelist (d. 2001)
- June 5 - John Fraser, journalist
- August 18 - Paula Danziger, young adult book novelist
- August 30 - Molly Ivins, journalist
- October 2 - Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
- October 5 - Tomás de Jesús Mangual, journalist
- November 7 - Peter Wilby, journalist
- November 24 - Eintou Pearl Springer, poet
- November 28 - Rita Mae Brown, writer and political activist
- December 17 - Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist
- date unknown
- Uldis Bērziņš, poet and translator
- Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Māori writer, author of The Whale Rider
- Tom Leonard, dialect poet
- Patrick O'Connell, poet (d. 2004)
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
- January 8 - Joseph Jastrow, psychologist
- January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
- February 10 - Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
- March 5
- Max Jacob, poet and critic
- Alun Lewis, war poet
- March 28 - Stephen Leacock, economist
- May 12 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
- May 16 - George Ade, journalist and dramatist
- June - Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, socialite and author
- June 9 - Keith Douglas, war poet
- June 16 - Marc Bloch, historian
- July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
- September 13 - W. Heath Robinson, cartoonist and illustrator
- October 19 - Karel Poláček, writer, humourist, journalist
- December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
- date unknown
- Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
- Joseph Campbell, poet
- Anica Černej, poet
- Edith Durham, travel writer
- Olive Custance, poet
- Ethel Lina White, crime novelist
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
- Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- Premio Nadal (first award): Carmen Laforet, Nada
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
- E. E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.
