1945 in literature

1945 in literature

See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

November 1 - Ebony Magazine[?] is published for the first time.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is published. In 2001, the book would be the third of his works named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

Loving[?] by Henry Green[?] is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

The Age of Jackson[?] - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.[?]
The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Black Boy[?] - Richard Wright
The Black Rose[?] - Thomas B. Costain
Bonheur d'occasion[?] (The Tin Flute) - Gabrielle Roy
The Bosnian Trilogy[?] - Ivo Andric
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept[?] - Elizabeth Smart
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Caucasian Chalk Circle[?] - Bertolt Brecht
Gigi - Colette
High Ground[?] - Odella Phelps Wood[?]
Loving[?] - Henry Green[?]
Night Has a Thousand Eyes[?] - Cornell Woolrich
The Naked and the Dead[?] - Norman Mailer
The Open Society and Its Enemies[?] - Karl Popper
The Policy King[?] - Lewis A. H. Caldwell[?]
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
Rabbit Hill[?] - Robert Lawson[?]
A Street in Bronzeville[?] - Gwendolyn Brooks[?]
Stuart Little - E.B. White
That Hideous Strength - C. S. Lewis
Tootle[?] - Gertrude Crampton[?]
Two Solitudes[?] - Hugh MacLennan
The Wide House[?] - Taylor Caldwell

January 30 - Michael Dorris[?], author (+ 1997)
April 27 - August Wilson, playwright
April 30 - Annie Dillard
July 9 - Dean R. Koontz

January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler[?], poet (* 1869)
March 12 - Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (* 1906, murdered by German Nationalsozialists)
May 15 - Charles Williams, British author
August 26 - Franz Werfel, Czech writer
December 4 - Arthur Morrison[?], writer
December 28 - Theodore Dreiser, author

Newberry Medal for children's literature: Robert Lawson[?], Rabbit Hill
Nobel Prize for literature: Gabriela Mistral
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