1943 in literature

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The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune.
Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Jack Kerouac joins the US Navy.
C.S. Lewis makes a series of radio broadcasts that will be adapted as Mere Christianity.
Tristan Bernard is released from the Drancy deportation camp.
The FBI places Richard Wright under surveillance.
Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.

Sholem Asch - The Apostle
Henry Bellamann - Victoria Grandolet
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
John Dickson Carr - She Died A Lady (as by Carter Dickson)
Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake
Colette - Le Képi
Roald Dahl - The Gremlins
Howard Fast - Citizen Tom Paine
C.S. Forester - The Ship
Elizabeth Janet Gray - Adam of the Road
Graham Greene - Ministry of Fear
Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
Clarice Lispector - Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do coração selvagem)
H.P. Lovecraft - Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Naguib Mahfouz - Rhadopis of Nubia
C.L. Moore - Earth's Last Citadel
Kate O'Brien - The Last of Summer
E. Phillips Oppenheim - Mr. Mirakel
Roger Peyrefitte - Les amitiés particulières
Ellery Queen - There Was an Old Woman
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Arthur Ransome - The Picts And The Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- Going, Going, Gone
- Proof of the Pudding
- File for Record (as by Alice Tilton)
Kylie Tennant - Ride on Stranger
H.G. Wells - Crux Ansata
Chancellor Williams - The Raven
Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (published anonymously)
C.S. Lewis - Perelandra

January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
January 8 - Charles Murray, Bell Curve author
January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer
February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor
February 22 - Terry Eagleton, critic
March 26 - Bob Woodward, journalist
April 6 - Max Clifford, publicist
April 17 - Gwynne Dyer, journalist
April 30 - Paul Jennings, children's author
May 5 - Michael Palin, comedy writer and television personality
May 7 - Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning novelist
May 8 - Pat Barker, Booker Prize-winning novelist
June 10 - Simon Jenkins, journalist
June 15 - Xaviera Hollander, Happy Hooker author
July 16 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990)
November 5 - Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, writer, actor
November 12 - Wallace Shawn, actor and dramatist
December 9 - Joanna Trollope, novelist
date unknown
- Ebrahim Hussein, Swahili playwright
- L. E. Modesitt, Jr., fantasy and science fiction writer
- Sheila Rowbotham, feminist author

January 9 - R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian
March 10 - Laurence Binyon, poet and scholar
April 7 - Jovan Dučić, poet and diplomat (b. 1871)
April 30 - Beatrice Webb
May - Arthur Mee, editor of the Children's Encyclopaedia
June 28 - Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator (b. 1872)
August - Haig Acterian ("Mihail"), Fascist poet, dramatist, director and journalist (b. 1904) (missing in action)
August 22 - Virgilio Dávila, poet and politician (b. 1869)
August 24 - Simone Weil, philosopher
October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, controversial author (b. 1880)
December 22 - Beatrix Potter, children's author (b. 1866)
date unknown
- Ida Lee, Australian historian and poet (b. 1865)
- Guido Mazzoni, poet
date unknown - F. M. Cornford, poet

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