1942 in literature 1942 .Events January 1 – The U.K. Book Production War Economy Agreement comes into force . February 20 – Jean Bruller's novella Le Silence de la mer , about resistance to the Nazi occupation of France , is issued clandestinely as the first publication of Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris, under the pseudonym "Vercors". A hundred copies are distributed from late summer; the rest are destroyed by the occupying authorities. February 22 – The Austrian-born novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte are found dead of a barbiturate overdose in their home in Petrópolis , Brazil, leaving notes indicating despair at the future of European civilization. The manuscript of Zweig's autobiography The World of Yesterday , posted to his publisher a day earlier, is first published in Stockholm later in the year as Die Welt von Gestern . March – Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are introduced in his short story "Runaround", published in Astounding Science-Fiction . March 1 – The Canadian novelist Robertson Davies begins a 13-year spell as editor of the Peterborough Examiner in Ontario . March 28 – The Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital, having scrawled his last verse on the wall. April 9 – The New York Times launches the national version of its influential New York Times Best Seller list. April 29 – The newspaper Asia Raja is first published in the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation ; it will publish a number of literary works . May – The German novelist Thomas Mann moves to California. May 4 – The French novelist André Gide moves to Tunis. May 8 – The English novelist David Garnett marries as his second wife, the painter and writer Angelica Bell , daughter of Garnett's lover Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell . June 4 – The film Mrs. Miniver is released, for which the novelist James Hilton will share an Academy Award for Best Writing on 4 March 1943. June 12 – Anne Frank , on her 13th birthday, makes the first entry in her new diary in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. August – The French Resistance unit to which expatriate Irish writer Samuel Beckett belongs is betrayed. He has to flee from occupied Paris on foot to Roussillon, Vaucluse in south-eastern France, where he continues work on his novel Watt . Autumn – Vasily Grossman attends the Battle of Stalingrad as a reporter for the Soviet Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda . The experience later governs his novels Stalingrad and Life and Fate . October – The English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein , against orders. November 19 – The Polish Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz is shot dead by a Gestapo officer, while walking through the "Aryan quarter" of his home town, Drohobych .New books Fiction Samuel Hopkins Adams – The Harvey Girls Nelson Algren – Never Come Morning Nigel Balchin – Darkness Falls from the Air Henry Bellamann – Floods of Spring Earle Birney – David Taylor Caldwell – The Strong City Albert Camus – The Stranger John Dickson Carr *The Emperor's Snuff-Box *The Gilded Man Joyce Cary – To Be a Pilgrim Camilo José Cela – The Family of Pascual Duarte Raymond Chandler – The High Window Agatha Christie *The Body in the Library *Five Little Pigs *The Moving Finger James Gould Cozzens - The Just and the Unjust Lloyd C. Douglas – The Robe Daphne du Maurier – Frenchman's Creek Rachel Field – And Now Tomorrow Natalia Ginzburg – La strada che va in città Robert A. Heinlein – Beyond This Horizon Robert Hichens – A New Way of Life Kalki Krishnamurthy *Magudapathi *Parthiban Kanavu Maura Laverty – Never No More C. S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters Mary McCarthy – The Company She Keeps Sándor Márai – Embers Beryl Markham – West with the Night Ellery Queen – Calamity Town Raymond Queneau – Pierrot mon ami Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – Cross Creek Clayton Rawson – No Coffin for the Corpse Anna Seghers – The Seventh Cross Nevil Shute – Pied Piper Curt Siodmak – Donovan's Brain Clark Ashton Smith – Out of Space and Time Eleanor Smith *Caravan *The Man in Grey John Steinbeck – The Moon is Down Rex Stout – Black Orchids Antal Szerb – Oliver VII Phoebe Atwood Taylor *The Six Iron Spiders *Three Plots for Asey Mayo Tomita Tsuneo – Sanshiro Sugata Vercors – Le Silence de la mer Hugh Walpole – The Killer and The Slain Evelyn Waugh – Put Out More Flags Franz Werfel – The Song of Bernadette Cornell Woolrich – Black Alibi S. Fowler Wright *Second Bout with the Mildew Gang *The Siege of Malta Wu Cheng'en, translated by Arthur Waley – Monkey Xiao Hong – Hulanhe zhuan Children and young people BB – The Little Grey Men Enid Blyton *Five on a Treasure Island *Mary Mouse and the Doll's House Eleanor Estes – The Middle Moffat Janette Sebring Lowrey – The Poky Little Puppy Diana Ross – The Little Red Engine Gets a Name David Severn – Rick Afire Solomon Simon – Di Helden fun Khelm Hildegarde Swift – The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge Elizabeth Gray Vining – Adam of the Road Ursula Moray Williams – Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat Drama Jean Anouilh – Antigone Jacinto Benavente – Paul Vincent Carroll – The Strings Are False Constance Cox – The Romance of David Garrick Henry de Montherlant – La Reine morte Maurice Druon – Mégarée Patrick Hastings – Escort Arthur Miller – Thunder from the Hills Kaj Munk – Niels Ebbesen Eugene O'Neill – A Touch of the Poet Terence Rattigan – Flare Path John Van Druten – The Damask Cheek Poetry T. S. Eliot – Little Gidding Patrick Kavanagh – The Great Hunger Saint-John Perse – Exil Non-fiction Elizabeth Bowen – Bowen's Court Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus Salvador Dalí – The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí Edith Hamilton – Mythology Richard Hillary – The Last Enemy Aldous Huxley – The Art of Seeing C. S. Lewis – A Preface to Paradise Lost Elliot Paul – The Last Time I Saw Paris Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. – Picketing Hell Radu D. Rosetti – Odinioară Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Flight to Arras Rebecca West – Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Births January 7 – Božin Pavlovski , Macedonian-Australian author January 9 – Enrique Estrázulas , Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, and diplomat January 31 – Derek Jarman , English film director, writer and diarist February 1 – Terry Jones , Welsh comedic actor and writer February – David Williamson , Australian playwright March 2 – John Irving , American novelist and screenwriter March 28 – Daniel Dennett , American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist April 1 – Samuel R. Delany, American novelist, essayist and critic April 4 – Kitty Kelley , American biographer and journalist April 20 – Arto Paasilinna , Finnish novelist and journalist May 6 – Ariel Dorfman , Argentine/Chilean novelist, playwright and essayist May 11 – Rachel Billington , English author June 25 – Michel Tremblay , French Canadian novelist and playwright August 2 – Isabel Allende , Chilean novelist August 7 – Garrison Keillor , American humorous writer and broadcaster September 1 – António Lobo Antunes , Portuguese novelist and physician October 20 – Bob Graham , Australian children's writer and illustrator October 23 *Michael Crichton, American writer and director *Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet and scholar October 24 – Frank Delaney , Irish-born novelist, journalist and broadcaster November 8 – Fernando Sorrentino , Argentine writer November 19 – Sharon Olds , American poet November 24 – Craig Thomas , Welsh novelist December 6 – Peter Handke , Austrian novelist and playwright unknown date – Ghada al-Samman , Syrian writerDeaths February 2 – Daniil Kharms , Russian poet, writer and dramatist February 18 – Henri Stahl , Romanian historian, short story writer , memoirist and stenographer March 26 – Carolyn Wells , American novelist and poet March 28 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet April 24 – Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian novelist and children's writer May 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara , Japanese poet May 20 – Nini Roll Anker , Norwegian novelist and playwright May 26 – Libero Bovio , Neapolitan dialect poet May 29 – Akiko Yosano , Japanese poet and feminist May – Jakob van Hoddis German poet June 30 – Léon Daudet , French writer and journalist July 1 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich , Irish writer in Irish August 17 – Irène Némirovsky , Russian-born French novelist August 27 – Lev Nussimbaum , Russian and Azerbaijani novelist September 26 – Oskar Kraus , Czech philosopher October 14 – Cosmo Hamilton , English dramatist and novelist October 20 – Friedrich Münzer , German classicist October 29 – Màrius Torres , Catalan Spanish poet November 4 *Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, American novelist and textbook and children's writer *Clementine Krämer, German poet and short-story writer December 23 – Konstantin Balmont , Russian Symbolist poet and translatorAwards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Denys Watkins-Pitchford , The Little Grey Men Frost Medal: Edgar Lee Masters James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Arthur Waley, Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng'en James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede , Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary Newbery Medal for children's literature: Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet , The Dust Which Is God Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow , In This Our Life In literature Laurent Binet's novel HHhH is based around the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich on 4 June 1942. Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter is set during this year, with a background of the author's experiences as a wartime intelligence officer in Freetown, Sierra Leone .
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