1941 in literature

none 1941 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1941. Events January 3 – A decree (Normalschrifterlaß) issued in Nazi Germany by Martin Bormann on behalf of Adolf Hitler calls for replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua."The Bormann Decree" banning the use of the Fraktur typeface http://german.about.com/library/gallery/blfoto_fraktur06E.htm About.com 2013-10-23 2013-12-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221347/http://german.about.com/library/gallery/blfoto_fraktur06E.htm dead January 20 – Chittadhar Hridaya begins a six-year sentence of imprisonment in Kathmandu for writing poetry in Nepal Bhasa, during which time he secretly composes his Buddhist epic Sugata Saurabha in that language. January 21–23 – A failed "Legionary Rebellion" in Bucharest, opposing loyalists of the Ion Antonescu government to the radically fascist Iron Guard, doubles as a pogrom against Romanian Jews. Avant-garde poet Ion Barbu joins a rebel squad storming into the Ministry of Education;Râpeanu Valeriu Valeriu Râpeanu 2003-04-12 Când totul se prăbușea Curierul Național Bucharest meanwhile, his colleague Ion Vinea protects a Jewish friend, the novelist Sergiu Dan.Corneliu Coposu http://www.caietesilvane.ro/indexcs.php?cmd=articol&idart=2342 Corneliu Coposu despre atitudinea lui Iuliu Maniu față de evrei Caiete Silvane 112 2014 ro dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150705081408/http://www.caietesilvane.ro/indexcs.php?cmd=articol&idart=2342 2015-07-05 The destruction of Jewish life and property is documented from inside the Jewish community by the photojournalist F. Brunea-Fox,Crohmălniceanu Ovid S. Ovid Crohmălniceanu Evreii în mișcarea de avangardă românească Editura Hasefer Bucharest 2001 130–132 973-8056-52-7 and by Marcel Janco. Janco's brother-in-law, essayist Jacques G. Costin, survives, but his brother is tortured and killed by the Guard; the murder prompts Janco to leave for British Palestine in February.Sandqvist Tom Dada East. The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts & London 2006 379–380 0-262-19507-0 Spring – The Antioch Review is founded as a literary magazine at Antioch College in Ohio. March Jean-Paul Sartre is released from prisoner-of-war camp on health grounds.David Burke Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light https://books.google.com/books?id=zwbOBPa7cPYC&pg=PT231 1 March 2009 Catapult 978-1-58243-958-7 231 Eugene O'Neill completes Long Day's Journey into Night (published and premiered in 1956). Publication of Lord David Cecil's The English Poets by William Collins in London, first of the 'Britain in Pictures' series devised by Hilda Matheson (died 1940) to celebrate British identity.Britain in Pictures: a history and bibliography Michael Carney London Werner Shaw 1995 9780907961093 April 6 – The National Library of Serbia is destroyed by bombing. April 19 – Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is launched at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland, with Therese Giehse in the title rôle.Therese Giehse interview with W. Stuart McDowell, 1968, in "Acting Brecht: The Munich Years," The Brecht Sourcebook, Carol Martin and Henry Bial, editors (Routledge, 2000) p. 71. May 5 – Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin meet while both reading English at St John's College, Oxford.Richard Bradford The Odd Couple: The curious friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin London Robson Press 2012 9781849543750 May 10/11 – The Blitz: 250,000 books are burned in the Library stacks of the British Museum in London as a result of incendiary bombing.195-7 National Treasures Caroline Shenton John Murray London 978-1-529-38743-8 May 21 – The 1941 theatre strike in Norway begins. Actors in the Norwegian professional theater strike in response to the revocation of work permits for six actors who refuse to perform on state radio for the Quisling regime during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. June – Noël Coward's comedy Blithe Spirit is premièred at Manchester Opera House in England. Opening in London on July 2, its run of 1,997 consecutive performances sets a record for non-musical plays in the West End theatre, which will not be surpassed for more than twenty years.Day Barry Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward 2005 Scarecrow Press 0-8108-5358-2 83 The original cast stars Kay Hammond as Elvira, Margaret Rutherford as Madame Arcati, Cecil Parker as Charles and Fay Compton as Ruth.Piccadilly Theatre: Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward The Times London 1941-07-03 48968 2 The Broadway première takes place on November 5 at the Morosco Theatre. June 22 – Among those fleeing the Operation Barbarossa attack on the Soviet Union is a Moldovan Jewish poet, Alexandru Robot, declared missing, presumed dead by August.Iurie Colesnic Iurie Colesnic http://87.248.191.115/bnrm/publicatii/files/1/2006_1_10.pdf Alexandru Robot – poetul enigmelor (90 de ani de la naștere) Magazin Bibliologic 1 2006 73 ro dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120227091056/http://87.248.191.115/bnrm/publicatii/files/1/2006_1_10.pdf 2012-02-27 June 29 For unknown reasons, the Hungarian philosopher György Lukács is arrested by the NKVD and held at Lubyanka Building in Moscow; he will be released on August 26, possibly after a plea made by Mátyás Rákosi.A. S. Stykalin V. T. Sereda 1941. György Lukács la Lubianka Magazin Istoric 12 2001 48–52 The Iași pogrom in Nazi-allied Romania is witnessed by the Italian war correspondent Curzio Malaparte, who recounts it in a chapter of his novel Kaputt (1944), for long the only work to deal with the events.Gheorghiu Mihai-Dinu Glăjar, Valentina Teodorescu, Jeanine Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust Palgrave Macmillan New York 2011 47–56 The Iași Pogrom in Curzio Malaparte's Kaputt: Between History and Fiction 978-1-349-29451-0 August 6 – C. S. Lewis begins a series of BBC Radio broadcasts that give rise to Mere Christianity.Publication History of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity Mike W. Perry 1998-07-01 C. S. Lewis Web http://www.discovery.org/a/519 2013-12-02 August 18 – Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a 19-year-old poet of American paternity serving in Britain with the Royal Canadian Air Force, makes a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V from RAF Llandow in Wales, and then by September 3 completes the sonnet "High Flight" about the experience. On December 11 he dies in an air collision over England. Fall – Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is launched under the editorship of Frederic Dannay, by Lawrence E. Spivak's Mercury Publications in New York City.Jon Tuska In Manors and Alleys: A Casebook on the American Detective Film https://books.google.com/books?id=8hwKAAAAIAAJ 1988 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-25007-1 106 September – In Nazi-allied Romania, George Călinescu publishes his companion to Romanian literature (Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent). It is condemned in the far-right press for including entries on Romanian Jewish writers, whose work has been explicitly banned.Rotman Liviu Demnitate în vremuri de restriște Editura Hasefer, Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania & Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania Bucharest 2008 174–177 978-973-630-189-6 It is eventually withdrawn from circulation, but its own racist undertones are criticized by intellectuals, among them both Romanian Jews (Felix Aderca and Mihail Sebastian) and non-Jews (Șerban Cioculescu, Mihai Ralea and Vladimir Streinu).Boia Lucian Lucian Boia Capcanele istoriei. Elita intelectuală românească între 1930 și 1950 Humanitas Bucharest 2012 238–245 978-973-50-3533-4 September 6–7 – Under Nazi occupation, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever is among the Polish Jews interned in the Vilna Ghetto. c. October – The first known reference to Babi Yar in poetry is written soon after the Babi Yar massacres, the work of the young Jewish-Ukrainian poet from Kyiv and an eyewitness, Liudmila Titova; her poem "Babi Yar" will be discovered only in the 1990s.http://babiy-yar.livejournal.com/4786.html https://archive.today/20130407021913/http://babiy-yar.livejournal.com/4786.html dead 2013-04-07 Первые стихи о Бабьем Яре. Людмила Титова Babiy-Yar.Livejournal.com 2012-10-04 2013-02-23 October 27 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Last Tycoon, unfinished on his death in 1940, is edited by Edmund Wilson and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York City.Scott Fitzgerald's Last Novel J. Donald Adams https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/specials/fitzgerald-tycoon.html The New York Times 1941-11-09 2014-01-08 November – Brendan Behan is released from Borstal in England and deported back to Ireland. December thumb|300px|Alexander Vvedensky's mug shot in NKVD records During the Siege of Leningrad, Yakov Druskin, ill and starving, and Maria Malich, second wife of Russian avant-garde poet Danil Kharms (arrested this summer for treason and imprisoned in the psychiatric ward at Leningrad Prison No. 1, where he will die in 1942), trudge to Kharms' bombed-out apartment building to collect a trunk of manuscripts, so preserving his work and that of Alexander Vvedensky's for decades until it can be circulated.http://www.bc.edu/publications/newarcadia/archives/2/vvedensky/ Epstien Thomas Vvedensky in Love The New Arcadia Review Boston College Honors Program 2 2004 2006-12-08 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101208230109/http://www.bc.edu/publications/newarcadia/archives/2/vvedensky/ 2010-12-08 Vvedensky, arrested in September in Kharkiv for "counterrevolutionary agitation", is evacuated, but dies of pleurisy on the way. Penguin Books publishes in the U.K. the first story book in its Puffin Books children's paperback imprint: Worzel Gummidge by Barbara Euphan Todd. Also this year, the imprint publishes its first fictional picture book: Kathleen Hale's Orlando's Evening Out.Valerie Grove So Much To Tell https://books.google.com/books?id=yVjvi7lhBVoC 2010 Penguin Books 978-0-670-91885-0 10 The series editor is Eleanor Graham.Penguin Archive Timeline http://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/resources/specialcollections/archives/penguin/timeline University of Bristol 2013-10-30 unknown dates The new National and University Library of Slovenia building in Ljubljana, designed by Jože Plečnik in 1930/1931, is completed and opened to the public.David H. Stam International Dictionary of Library Histories https://books.google.com/books?id=APtYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA700 November 2001 Routledge 978-1-136-77785-1 700 Biblioteca Cantonale (Cantonal Library) at Lugano in the Italian-speaking Canton of Ticino in neutral Switzerland, designed by Rino and Carlo Tami, is completed. The Bosnian Serb writer Branko Ćopić joins the Yugoslav Partisans.Some Yugoslav Novelists https://books.google.com/books?id=5PjfAAAAMAAJ 1954 Jugoslovenska knjiga 15 The poet Ezra Pound applies unsuccessfully to return to the U.S. from Italy. He begins appearing on Rome Radio with antisemitic broadcasts sympathetic to the Axis powers.Ackroyd Peter Peter Ackroyd Ezra Pound and His World Thames and Hudson Ltd London 1980 0500130698 Chronology 118 The Classic Comics series is launched in the United States with a version of The Three Musketeers. New books Fiction Margery Allingham – Traitor's Purse Isaac Asimov – Nightfall (novelette) William Attaway – Blood on the Forge Pierre Benoit – The Gobi Desert Frans G. Bengtsson – The Long Ships, part 1 (Röde Orm, originally translated as Red Orm) Maurice Blanchot – Thomas l'Obscur (Thomas the Obscure) Godfried Bomans – Erik of het klein insectenboek (Erik and His Little Insect Book) Jorge Luis Borges – The Garden of Forking Paths (El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, short stories) Phyllis Bottome – London Pride Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon – No Bed for Bacon Christianna Brand Death in High Heels Heads You Lose John Buchan (died 1940) – Sick Heart River Pearl S. Buck – China Sky Gerald Butler – They Cracked Her Glass Slipper James M. Cain – Mildred Pierce Joyce Cary – Herself Surprised John Dickson Carr The Case of the Constant Suicides Death Turns the Tables Seeing is Believing (as by Carter Dickson) Peter Cheyney It Couldn't Matter Less Your Deal, My Lovely Agatha Christie Evil Under the Sun N or M? J. Storer Clouston – Beastmark the Spy Colette – Julie de Carneilhan J.J. Connington – The Twenty-One Clues John Creasey – Salute the Toff Freeman Wills Crofts James Tarrant, Adventurer The Losing Game A. J. Cronin – The Keys of the KingdomGeorge Watson Ian R. Willison The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=9e48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA557 1972 CUP Archive 557 Eric Cross – The Tailor and Ansty Cecil Day-Lewis – The Case of the Abominable Snowman L. Sprague de Camp – Lest Darkness Fall (complete novel)T. A. Shippey Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: Lest darkness fall https://books.google.com/books?id=UyYYAAAAIAAJ 1996 Salem Press 978-0-89356-909-9 559 August Derleth – Someone in the Dark Ilya Ehrenburg – The Fall of Paris («Падение Парижа», Padeniye Parizha) F. Scott Fitzgerald (died 1940) – The Last Tycoon Anthony Gilbert The Vanishing Corpse The Woman in Red Marcus Goodrich – Delilah Patrick Hamilton – Hangover SquareH. R. F. Keating H. R. F. Keating Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction London Windward 1982 0-7112-0249-4 Robert A. Heinlein – Methuselah's Children James Hilton – Random Harvest Anne Hocking – Miss Milverton Dorothy B. Hughes – The Bamboo Blonde Soeman Hs – Kawan Bergeloet (Playmate, collected short stories) Hammond Innes – Attack Alarm Michael Innes – Appleby on Ararat Anna Kavan – Change the Name C. S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters Janet Lewis – The Wife of Martin Guerre E. C. R. Lorac – Case in the Clinic Marie Belloc Lowndes – Before the Storm Helen MacInnes – Above Suspicion Compton Mackenzie – The Red Tapeworm Hugh MacLennan – Barometer Rising Ngaio Marsh Death and the Dancing Footman Surfeit of Lampreys W. Somerset Maugham – Up at the Villa Oscar Micheaux – The Wind From Nowhere Betty Miller – Farewell, Leicester Square Henry Miller – The Colossus of Maroussi Gladys Mitchell Hangman's Curfew When Last I Died Edgar Mittelholzer – Corentyne Thunder Vilhelm Moberg – Ride This Night (Rid i natt) Paul Morand – The Man in a Hurry (L'Homme pressé) Vladimir Nabokov – The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Flann O'Brien – An Béal Bocht E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Shy Plutocrat Rafael Sabatini – Columbus Budd Schulberg – What Makes Sammy Run? Anya Seton – My Theodosia Georges Simenon – Strange Inheritance Armstrong Sperry – Call It Courage Cecil Street Death at the Helm They Watched by Night Phoebe Atwood Taylor The Perennial Boarder The Hollow Chest (as by Alice Tilton) Kylie Tennant – The Battlers Franz Werfel – The Song of Bernadette (Das Lied von Bernadette) Rex Warner – The AerodromeChris Hopkins English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History London Continuum International Publishing Group 2007 0826489389 138–57 Eudora Welty – A Curtain of Green Ethel Lina White – She Faded into Air Virginia Woolf (suicide March 28) – Between the Acts Children and young people Enid Blyton The Adventurous Four The Twins at St. Clare's Walter D. Edmonds – The Matchlock Gun Mary Grannan – Just Mary Robert McCloskey – Make Way for Ducklings Arthur Ransome – Missee Lee H. A. Rey and Margret Rey – Curious George (first in the Curious George series of seven books) Mary Treadgold – We Couldn't Leave Dinah Dorothy Vicary – Lucy Brown's Schooldays etc. Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little Town on the Prairie Drama Jean Anouilh Eurydice Le Rendez-vous de Senlis Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (written) Noël Coward – Blithe Spirit Kenneth Horne – Love in a Mist Molly Keane – Ducks and Drakes Esther McCracken – Quiet Weekend Pablo Picasso – Desire Caught by the Tail (Le Désir attrapé par la queue, written) Enrique Jardiel Poncela – We Thieves Are Honourable (Los ladrones somos gente honrada) Vernon Sylvaine Warn That Man! Women Aren't Angels Xavier Villaurrutia – Invitación à la muerte Emlyn Williams – The Morning Star Richard Wright and Paul Green - Native Son produced by Orson Welles at the St. James Theatre NYC, on March 24. Poetry 1941 in poetry W. H. Auden – New Year Letter (British edition of 'The Double Man') William Rose Benét – The Dust which is God Laurence Binyon – The North Star and Other Poems T. S. Eliot – The Dry Salvages (third of the Four Quartets; in February New English Weekly) A Choice of Kipling's Verse by T. S. Eliot (published December) G. S. Fraser – The Fatal Landscape and Other Poems Patrick Kavanagh – The Great HungerCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm John Gillespie Magee, Jr. – "High Flight" John Pudney – "For Johnny" Non-fiction thumb|upright|The publisher Robert M. McBride goes bankrupt in 1948 and the copyright on All In A Lifetime is never renewed. Aurelio Baldor – Álgebra de Baldor Frank Buck with Ferrin Fraser – All in a Lifetime George Călinescu – Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent Joyce Cary The Case for African Freedom A House of Children Leonora Eyles – For My Enemy DaughterDaughter Vivyan Leonora Eyles (1909–1984) was still in Italy with her husband Mario Praz. Victor Gollancz – Russia and Ourselves Louis MacNeice – The Poetry of W. B. Yeats The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Michael Richey – "Sunk by a Mine. A Survivor's Story" Vita Sackville-West – English Country Houses Antal Szerb – A világirodalom története (History of World Literature) Robert Vansittart – Black Record. Germans Past and Present Rebecca West – Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia Stefan Zweig – Brasilien. Ein Land der Zukunft (Brazil, Land of the Future) Births January 19 – Colin Gunton, English theologian and academic (died 2003) January 24 – Gary K. Wolf, American humorist March 13 Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (died 2008) Donella Meadows, American environmentalist (died 2001) March 22 – Billy Collins, American poet April 10 – Paul Theroux, American novelist and travel writer May 13 – Miles Kington, Northern Irish-born humorist and journalist (died 2008) May 19 – Nora Ephron, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2012)https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jun/27/nora-ephron Nora Ephron obituary Bergan Ronald June 27, 2012 The Guardian March 22, 2017 en-GB 0261-3077 May 24 – Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, American singer-songwriter, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature June 5 – Spalding Gray, American screenwriter and dramatist (died 2004)Edward Vilga Acting Now: Conversations on Craft and Career https://books.google.com/books?id=CwVlkTBSCugC&pg=PA100 1997 Rutgers University Press 978-0-8135-2403-0 100 June 27 – James P. Hogan, English-born American science fiction author (died 2010) July 5 – Barbara Frischmuth, Austrian writer of poetry and prose (died 2025) July 9 – Cirilo Bautista, Filipino poet, author and critic (died 2018)De Vera Ruel National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista, 76, writes 30 http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/293547/national-artist-literature-cirilo-f-bautista-76-writes-30/ 7 May 2018 Philippine Daily Inquirer 6 May 2018 July 12 – John Lahr, American-born author and critic August 9 Shirlee Busbee, American novelist Jamila Gavin, Anglo-Indian children's writer August 26 – Ayşe Kulin, Turkish writer September 1 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet (died 1987) September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer and novelist (died 1990) September 15 – Lindsay Barrett, Jamaican novelist, poet and journalist October 2 – John Sinclair, American poet October 4 – Anne Rice, American horror/fantasy writer (died 2021) October 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer (executed 1995) October 13 – John Snow, English cricketer and poet October 20 – Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (died 1988) October 25 – Anne Tyler, American novelist October 27 – Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian novelist, author and feminist November 18 – Marta Pessarrodona, Spanish poet, literary critic, essayist, biographer November 23 – Derek Mahon, Irish poet (died 2020) December 5 – Sheridan Morley, English biographer and critic (died 2007) unknown dates Jonathan Aaron, American poetKerry Flattley Chris Wallace-Crabbe From the Republic of Conscience: An International Anthology of Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=vgRaAAAAMAAJ 1993 White Pine Press 978-1-877727-26-9 177 John Mole, English poet and musicianJohn Mole Depending on the Light https://books.google.com/books?id=oCdbAAAAMAAJ 1993 Peterloo Poets 978-1-871471-38-0 Pepetela, Angolan novelistAlba della Fazia Amoia Professor Emeritus Alba Amoia Bettina Liebowitz Knapp Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=9UUUHP3Mg0IC&pg=PA410 2004 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30688-4 410 Jay Rubin, American scholar and translatorDavid Karashima Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami https://books.google.com/books?id=SDPSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92 1 September 2020 Soft Skull Press 978-1-59376-590-3 92 Deaths January 1 – József Konkolics, Hungarian Slovene writer (born 1859) January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher (born 1859) January 6 Franz Hessel, German writer and translator (born 1880) F. R. Higgins, Irish poet and theatre director (born 1896) January 13 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (born 1882) January 23 – William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham), English journalist, novelist and poet (born 1852) February 5 – Banjo Paterson, Australian bush poet and journalist (born 1864) February 9 – Elizabeth von Arnim, Australian-born English novelist (born 1866)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition (UK library card required): Arnim, Mary Annette [May] von. Retrieved 5 March 2014. February 22 – G. E. Trevelyan, English novelist (born 1903; died of injuries sustained in air raid) February 24 – Robert Byron, English travel writer (born 1905; torpedoed) March 13 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American novelist and poet (born 1881) March 28 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist and writer (born 1882; suicide)Virginia Woolf https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf The British Library 28 March 2019 11 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230811113204/https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf dead June 1 – Sir Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-born English novelist (born 1884) June 15 – Evelyn Underhill, English poet, Christian mystic and pacifist (born 1875) June 27 – Ieremia Cecan, Bessarabian journalist and Christian polemicist (born 1867; shot) July 4 Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Polish writer, translator and gynecologist (born 1874) Luella Dowd Smith, American educator and author (born 1847) August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath and writer (born 1861) August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Soviet Russian poet (born 1892; suicide) September 19 – H. E. Marshall, Scottish history writer for children (born 1867) October 16 – Sergei Efron, Soviet Russian poet and secret police operative (born 1893; executed) October 17 – May Ziadeh, Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator (born 1886) October 26 – Arkady Gaidar, Soviet Russian soldier and children's story writer (born 1904; killed in action) November 8 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian political scientist and public servant (born 1909) November 18 – Émile Nelligan, French Canadian poet (born 1879)Émile Nelligan Canadian poet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emile-Nelligan Encyclopedia Britannica 17 April 2019 en unknown date – Anne Elliot, English novelist (born 1856) Awards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah Frost Medal: Robert Frost James Tait Black Memorial Prize: For fiction: Joyce Cary, A House of Children For biography: John Gore, King George V Newbery Medal for children's literature: Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage Nobel Prize in Literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture Novel: No award given Hugo Award: Best Novella: Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On—" References 30em External links Popular Books of 1941 at Goodreads Published 1941 Books at Goodreads 1941 Books at Goodreads