1943 in literature


This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1943.

Events

Uncertain dates

Fiction


  • Bertolt Brecht
  • *The Good Person of Szechwan
  • *Life of Galileo
  • Albert Camus – The Misunderstanding
  • Moss Hart – Winged Victory
  • Frank Harvey – Brighton Rock
  • Fritz Hochwälder – Das Heilige Experiment
  • Esther McCracken – Living Room
  • Elena Miramova – Dark Eyes
  • M. J. Molloy – Old Road
  • Armijn Pane – Kami, Perempuan
  • J.B. Priestley – They Came to a City
  • Terence Rattigan - While the Sun Shines
  • Nelson Rodrigues – Vestido de Noiva
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – The Flies
  • Yang Jiang – As You Desire

    Non-fiction

  • Georges Bataille – L'Expérience intérieure
  • James Burnham – The Managerial Revolution
  • Julius Evola – The Doctrine of Awakening
  • Katharine Butler Hathaway – The Little Locksmith
  • Louis Hjelmslev – Prolegomena to a Theory of Language
  • C. S. Lewis – The Abolition of Man
  • Reinhold Niebuhr – The Nature and Destiny of Man
  • Martin Noth – Uberlieferungsgeschischtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Being and Nothingness
  • J. A. Schumpeter – Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
  • Edna Walling – Gardens in Australia
  • William Foote Whyte – Street Corner Society
  • Stefan Zweig – The World of Yesterday

    Births

  • January 4
  • *Doris Kearns Goodwin, American political biographer
  • *Hwang Sok-yong, Korean novelist
  • *Jesús Torbado, Spanish novelist
  • *Priit Vesilind, Estonian-American author and photographer
  • January 8 – Charles Murray, American political science writer
  • January 11 – Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
  • January 13 – Lorna Sage, English scholar and biographer
  • February 8 – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic
  • February 15 – Elke Heidenreich, German journalist and writer
  • February 16 – Graham Lord, Rhodesian-born English literary biographer and novelist
  • February 18 – Graeme Garden, Scottish-born writer, comedian and actor
  • February 21 – Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Russian fiction writer
  • February 22 – Terry Eagleton, English scholar and publicist
  • February 27 – Sheila Rowbotham, English feminist author
  • March 26 – Bob Woodward, American journalist
  • April 6 – Max Clifford, English publicist
  • April 17 – Gwynne Dyer, Canadian journalist
  • April 30 – Paul Jennings, English-born Australian children's author
  • May 5 – Michael Palin, English comedy writer and television broadcaster
  • May 7 – Peter Carey, Australian novelist
  • May 8 – Pat Barker, English novelist
  • May 20 – Justin Cartwright, South African-born novelist
  • June 7
  • *Nikki Giovanni, American author, poet and educator
  • *Michael Pennington, English writer, actor and director
  • June 10 – Simon Jenkins, English journalist
  • June 15 – Xaviera Hollander, Dutch East Indies-born writer
  • July 14 – Christopher Priest, English novelist
  • July 16 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer
  • August 2 – Rose Tremain, English novelist
  • August 30 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
  • September 12 – Michael Ondaatje, Ceylonese-born Canadian novelist and poet
  • September 24 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer, academic and translator
  • October 5 – Michael Morpurgo, English children's writer
  • October 8 - R. L. Stine, American novelist
  • October 9 – L. E. Modesitt, Jr., American fantasy and science fiction writer
  • November 5 – Sam Shepard, American playwright, writer and actor
  • November 6 – Berlie Doherty, English children's and young-adults' writer
  • November 7 – Stephen Greenblatt, Anerican Shakespeare scholar
  • November 12 – Wallace Shawn, American actor and dramatist
  • December 9 – Joanna Trollope, English novelist
Uncertain dates
  • Christine Evans, Welsh poet in English
  • Vicki Feaver, English poet and academic
  • Hadrawi, Somali poet
  • Ebrahim Hussein, Tanzanian playwright in Swahili

    Deaths

  • January 3 – F. M. Cornford, English classicist and poet
  • January 9 – R. G. Collingwood, English philosopher and historian
  • March 10 – Laurence Binyon, English poet and scholar
  • March 13 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author
  • April 7 – Jovan Dučić, Herzegovina Serb poet and diplomat
  • April 29 – Sidney Keyes, English poet
  • April 30 – Beatrice Webb, English sociologist, economist and social reformer
  • May 27 – Arthur Mee, English encyclopedist and writer
  • May 29 – Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet
  • June 17 – Annie S. Swan, Scottish novelist and journalist
  • June 28 – Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator
  • c. August 8 – Haig Acterian, Romanian poet, dramatist and journalist
  • August 12 – Kurt Eggers, Nazi German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright
  • August 22 – Virgilio Dávila, Puerto Rican poet and politician
  • August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher
  • October 3 – Ida Lee, Australian historian and poet
  • October 7 – Radclyffe Hall, English novelist and poet
  • November 19 – :de:Georg Hermann|Georg Hermann, German fiction writer
  • November 27 – Louis Esson, Australian poet and playwright
  • November 30 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch correspondent, diarist and Holocaust victim
  • December 2
  • *Drummond Allison, English poet
  • *Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author
  • December 22 – Beatrix Potter, English children's writer and illustrator

    Awards

  • Frost Medal: Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Mary Lavin, Tales from Bective Bridge
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. G. Coulton, Fourscore Years
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Janet Gray, Adam of the Road
  • Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Witness Tree
  • Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Upton Sinclair – Dragon's Teeth

    In literature

  • January 1 – Karel Čapek's science fiction novel The Absolute at Large opens on this day.
  • June 31 – Len Deighton's novel Bomber is set on this day.
  • Autumn – Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's opens at this time.
  • Heinrich Böll's first novel The Train Was on Time is set during this year.