1945 in literature
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See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- November 1 - The magazine Ebony is published for the first time.
- Noel Coward's short play, Still Life, is adapted to become the film, Brief Encounter.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
- The novelist Colette becomes president of the Académie Goncourt.
- Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- André Malraux is appointed minister of information by French President Charles de Gaulle.
[edit] New books
- Ivo Andric – The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini Ćuprija)
- Rev. W. V. Awdry – The Three Railway Engines
- Frans Gunnar Bengtsson - The Long Ships (Röde Orm)
- Robert Bloch - The Opener of the Way
- Hermann Broch - The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil)
- Gwendolyn Brooks – A Street in Bronzeville
- Taylor Caldwell – The Wide House
- Colette – Gigi
- Thomas B. Costain – The Black Rose
- Gertrude Crampton – Tootle
- August Derleth
- Varian Fry – Surrender on Demand
- Henry Green – Loving
- Ruth Krauss - The Carrot Seed
- Margery Lawrence – Number Seven, Queer Street
- Robert Lawson – Rabbit Hill
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu – Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories
- C. S. Lewis – That Hideous Strength
- H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Lurker at the Threshold
- Hugh MacLennan – Two Solitudes
- Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
- Nancy Mitford – The Pursuit of Love
- George Orwell – Animal Farm
- Gabrielle Roy – Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute)
- J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (novel)
- Jean-Paul Sartre – The Age of Reason
- Elizabeth Smart – By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
- John Steinbeck – Cannery Row
- James Thurber – The Thurber Carnival (anthology)
- Elio Vittorini – Uomini e no
- Mika Waltari – The Egyptian
- Evangeline Walton – Witch House
- Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
- E. B. White – Stuart Little
- Odella Phelps Wood – High Ground
- Cornell Woolrich – Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- Richard Wright – Black Boy
[edit] New drama
- Bertolt Brecht – Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Mary Chase – Harvey
- Arthur Laurents – Home of the Brave
[edit] Poetry
- Idris Davies - Tonypandy and other poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- R. G. Collingwood – The Idea of Nature
- Arthur Koestler – The Yogi and the Commissar and other essays
- Betty MacDonald – The Egg and I
- Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies
- Bertrand Russell – A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
- Ernesto Sábato - Uno y el Universo (One and the Universe)
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. – The Age of Jackson
[edit] Births
- January 3 - David Starkey, historian
- January 30 - Michael Dorris, author (+ 1997)
- March 19 - Jim Turner, editor (+ 1999)
- April 2 - Anne Waldman, poet
- April 27 - August Wilson, playwright
- April 30 - Annie Dillard
- July 9 - Dean R. Koontz, novelist
- September 1 Scott Spencer novelist
- October 15 - John Murrell, dramatist
- December 17 - Jacqueline Wilson, best-selling children's author
- Raymond E. Feist, American fantasy author
- date unknown - Robert Gray, poet
- date unknown - Shiva Naipaul, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 - Margaret Deland, novelist
- January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, poet (* 1869)
- March 12 - Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- March 20 - Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
- April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (* 1906, murdered by German Nationalsozialists)
- May 15 - Charles Williams, British author
- July 13 - Alla Nazimova, actress, scriptwriter and producer
- August 20 - Alexander Roda Roda, novelist
- August 26 - Franz Werfel, German language writer
- October 8 - Felix Salten, author of Bambi
- November 21 - Robert Benchley, humorist
- December 4 - Arthur Morrison, writer
- December 28 - Theodore Dreiser, author
- date unknown - Charles Gilman Norris, novelist
- date unknown - Charles Maurice Donnay, dramatist
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
- Nobel Prize for literature: Gabriela Mistral
- Premio Nadal: José Félix Tapia, La luna ha entrado en casa
- 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
