1942 in literature

none 1942 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1942. Events January 1 – The U.K. Book Production War Economy Agreement comes into force.Typography versus Hitler — The Book Production War Economy Agreement 2013-06-27 2017-04-10 http://cforster.com/2013/06/book-production-war-economy/ Chris Forster February 20 – Jean Bruller's novella Le Silence de la mer (Silence of the Sea), 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.Jean Bruller La Bataille du silence 1967 February 22 – The Austrian-born novelist Stefan Zweig and his second wife Lotte Altmann (Zweig's former secretary) 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.Davis, Darién J. Marshall, Oliver https://books.google.com/books?id=mQKS0FSKXWUC&dq= Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42 Continuum International Publishing Group 2010 41 Laurent Seksik's 2010 novel Les Derniers Jours de Stefan Zweig is set at this time. thumb|right | The house of Stefan Zweig in Petropolis 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 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 (Adapted Screenplay) 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. August 9 – The New York Times launches the national version of its influential New York Times Best Seller list.Ralph E. Hanson Mass Communication: Living in a Media World https://books.google.com/books?id=8UJiAAAAMAAJ 2005 McGraw-Hill 978-0-07-234177-5 71 August 28 – Polish writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, as head of the underground organization Front for the Rebirth of Poland, publishes in Warsaw her Protest! leaflet against the mass murder of Jews in German-occupied Poland. 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 («Сталингра́д», original Russian publication 1952) and Life and Fate («Жизнь и судьба», completed 1959). October – The English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein, against orders.Armor https://books.google.com/books?id=HQU7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA9-PA60 1997 U.S. Armor Association 9 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 GirlsWisconsin Library Bulletin https://books.google.com/books?id=9cavAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA28 1943 Division of Library Services, Department of Public Instruction. 28 Martha Albrand – No Surrender Nelson Algren – Never Come MorningO'Hagan Andrew https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/11/07/nelson-algren-singing-back-streets/ Singing the Back Streets The New York Review of Books November 7, 2019 October 21, 2019 Charlotte Armstrong – Lay On, Mac Duff!Cypert, Rick The Virtue of Suspense: The Life and Works of Charlotte Armstrong Associated University Press 2008 43 Nigel Balchin – Darkness Falls from the AirLawrence Phillips The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-century Literary Representations of London https://books.google.com/books?id=av6zGhIlumoC&pg=PA85 2004 Rodopi 90-420-1663-9 85 John Brophy – Immortal Sergeant John Bude – Death Knows No Calendar Albert Camus – The Stranger (L'Étranger)Pierre-Louis Rey L'Étranger (1942).: Camus : analyse critique https://books.google.com/books?id=-Gj-zQEACAAJ 1991 Hatier John Dickson Carr The Emperor's Snuff-Box The Gilded Man (as by Carter Dickson) Camilo José Cela – The Family of Pascual Duarte (La Familia de Pascual Duarte) Raymond Chandler – The High Window Peter Cheyney Dark DuetPanek, LeRoy The Special Branch: The British Spy Novel, 1890-1980 Popular Press 1981 174 Never a Dull Moment Sorry You've Been Troubled Agatha Christie The Body in the Libraryhttp://home.insightbb.com/~jsmarcum/agatha40.htm American Tribute to Agatha Christie: The Classic Years: 1940 – 1944 May 2007 J S Marcum 3 January 2020 2 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081202133856/http://home.insightbb.com/~jsmarcum/agatha40.htm dead Five Little Pigs The Moving Finger (US publication) G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole – Toper's EndBook Review Digest, Volume 38. H.W. Wilson Company, 1943. p.155 J. J. Connington – No Past Is DeadBruce F. Murphy The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery Springer 1999 152 James Gould Cozzens – The Just and the Unjust John Creasey – The Toff Goes to MarketJohn M. Reilly Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers Springer 2015 375 Freeman Wills Crofts – Fear Comes to Chalfont Lloyd C. Douglas – The RobeBear John The #1 New York Times Best Seller: Intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago Berkeley, CA Ten Speed Press 1992 Rachel Field – And Now Tomorrow R. Austin Freeman – The Jacob Street Mystery Anthony Gilbert – Something Nasty in the Woodshed Natalia Ginzburg (as Alessandra Tornimparte) – La strada che va in città (The Road to the city) James Gunn – Deadlier Than the Male Cyril Hare – Tragedy at Law Robert A. Heinlein – Beyond This Horizon Robert Hichens – A New Way of Life Anne Hocking – One Shall Be Taken Michael Innes – The Daffodil Affair Kalki Krishnamurthy Magudapathi Parthiban Kanavu (பார்த்திபன் கனவு, Parthiban's Dream) Maura Laverty – Never No More C. S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters (Christian apologetics) E. C. R. Lorac Rope's End, Rogue's End The Sixteenth Stair Mary McCarthy – The Company She Keeps Sándor Márai – Embers (A gyertyák csonkig égnek)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/13/fiction.features1 Older - and much wiser Shapiro Anna 13 January 2002 The Observer 20 July 2017 Gladys Mitchell – Laurels Are Poison David Leslie Murray – Enter Three Witcheshttps://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-68898 Murray, David Leslie (1888–1962), writer and newspaper editor 2004 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/68898 2020-04-02 J. B. Priestley – Blackout in Gretley Ellery Queen – Calamity Town Raymond Queneau – Pierrot mon ami Clayton Rawson – No Coffin for the Corpse G. Herbert Sallans – Little ManG. H. Sallans' 'Little Man' All-Canada Award Winner Toronto Daily Star November 21, 1942 9 Anna Seghers – The Seventh Cross (Das siebte Kreuz)Sonja Hilzinger Anna Seghers, Das siebte Kreuz https://books.google.com/books?id=mfZlAAAAMAAJ 2004 P. Reclam 978-3-15-016042-8 Nevil Shute – Pied Piper Georges Simenon – Young CardinaudDavid Carter The Pocket Essential Georges Simenon Pocket Essentials 2003 60 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 OrchidsJoseph Arditti Orchid Biology, Reviews and Perspectives https://books.google.com/books?id=L0NFAQAAIAAJ 1977 Comstock Pub. Associates 978-0-88192-170-0 230 Cecil Street The Fourth Bomb Night Exercise This Undesirable Residence Antal Szerb (as A. H. Redcliff) – Oliver VII (VII. Olivér) Tomita Tsuneo (富田常雄) – Sanshiro Sugata (姿三四郎) Vercors – Le Silence de la merhttps://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb45787116c.public Le Silence de la mer Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 25 October 2023 Hugh Walpole (died 1941) – The Killer and the Slain Evelyn Waugh – Put Out More Flags Franz Werfel – The Song of Bernadette Ethel Lina White – Midnight House Wu Cheng'en (吳承恩), translated by Arthur Waley – Monkey (15th century) Xiao Hong (蕭紅) – Hulanhe zhuan (呼兰河传, Tales of the Hulan River) Francis Brett Young – A Man About the House Children and young people BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) – 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 (first in the Little Red Engine series of nine books) Solomon Simon – Di Helden fun Khelm (The Heroes of Chełm) Elizabeth Gray Vining (as Elizabeth Janet Gray) – Adam of the RoadSix Special Books The Saturday Review of Literature December 5, 1942 25 49 60 Ursula Moray Williams – Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat Drama Jacinto Benavente – La honradez de la cerradura es 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 (radio play) Kaj Munk – Niels Ebbesenhttp://denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Litteratur/Dansk_litteratur/1914-40/Kaj_Munk Kaj Munk Den Store Danske, Gyldendal Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen 1 March 2019 Eugene O'Neill – A Touch of the Poet (written) Terence Rattigan – Flare Path John Van Druten – The Damask Cheek Poetry Morwenna Donnelly – Beauty and Ashes 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 (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)Jonathan Judaken Robert Bernasconi Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context https://books.google.com/books?id=4hIIywr30xkC&pg=PT127 2012 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14774-3 127 Salvador Dalí – The Secret Life of Salvador DalíEric Shanes Dalí https://books.google.com/books?id=-b_2AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT93 22 December 2011 Parkstone International 978-1-78160-588-2 93 Edith Hamilton – Mythology Richard Hillary – The Last Enemy Aldous Huxley – The Art of Seeing Beryl Markham – West with the Night 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 Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (died 2003)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/apr/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries Terenci Moix 11 April 2003 Michael Eaude The Guardian 18 February 2024 Božin Pavlovski, Macedonian-Australian author January 9 – Enrique Estrázulas, Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist and diplomat (died 2016)http://www.dramaturgiauruguaya.gub.uy/obras/autores/enrique-estrazulas/ Bio of Enrique Estrázulas 12 January 2025 Dramaturgia Uruguaya Dirección Nacional de Cultura 29 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160329003307/http://www.dramaturgiauruguaya.gub.uy/obras/autores/enrique-estrazulas/ dead es January 19 – Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet, playwright and politician January 31 – Derek Jarman, English film director, writer and diarist (died 1994)Tony Peake, Derek Jarman: A Biography (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1999), pp. 12–13. February 1 – Terry Jones, Welsh comedic actor and writer (died 2020)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/terry-jones-death-monty-python-age-cause-a9296546.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/terry-jones-death-monty-python-age-cause-a9296546.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Jacob Stolworthy Terry Jones death: Monty Python star and Life of Brian director dies, aged 77 The Independent February – David Williamson, Australian playwright March 2 – John Irving, American novelist and screenwriterJay Parini The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA267 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-515653-9 267 March 28 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist (died 2024)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/21/daniel-dennett-obituary Daniel Dennett obituary 21 April 2024 Jane O'Grady Guardian 12 January 2025 April 1 – Samuel R. Delany, American novelist, essayist and criticJessie Carney Smith Notable Black American Men https://books.google.com/books?id=htmcmPqU6IsC 1999 Gale Research 978-0-7876-0763-0 286 April 4 – Kitty Kelley, American biographer and journalist April 20 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish novelist and journalist (died 2018)Arto Paasilinna 20.4.1942–15.10.2018 https://www.wsoy.fi/uutiset/arto-paasilinna-20-4-1942-15-10-2018 WSOY fi April 27 – Ruth Glick, American cookery author and novelist May 6 – Ariel Dorfman, Argentine/Chilean novelist, playwright and essayistVineta Colby H. W. Wilson World Authors, 1985-1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=s2kYAAAAIAAJ 1995 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-0875-2 220 May 11 – Rachel Billington, English authorContemporary Novelists https://books.google.com/books?id=ArEPAQAAMAAJ 1991 St. James Press 978-1-55862-036-0 108 June 25 – Michel Tremblay, French Canadian novelist and playwrighthttps://ville.montreal.qc.ca/ordre/en/michel-tremblay Michel Tremblay Ordre de Montreal 12 January 2025 July 2 – Mukhtar Shakhanov, Kazakh writer, editor and lawmaker August 2 – Isabel Allende, Chilean novelistTim McNeese Isabel Allende https://books.google.com/books?id=IPLmxchjuMMC&pg=PA100 2006 Infobase Publishing 978-1-4381-0680-9 100 August 7 – Garrison Keillor, American humorous writer and broadcasterJudith Yaross Lee Garrison Keillor https://books.google.com/books?id=23y1pltuxkkC&pg=PA3 1991 Univ. Press of Mississippi 978-1-61703-399-5 3 August 9 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author David Steinberg – Northern Stars http://northernstars.ca/actorsstu/steinberg_david_bio.html 2002 2010-01-12 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100612042903/http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsstu/steinberg_david_bio.html June 12, 2010 mdy August 22 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (died 1993) September 1 – António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist and psychiatrist (died 2026) September 14 – Bernard MacLaverty, Irish writer September 21 – Luis Mateo Díez, Spanish writer October 16 – Joseph Bruchac, Native American author October 20 – Bob Graham, Australian children's writer and illustrator October 23 Michael Crichton, American writer and director (died 2008)Paul T. Hellmann Historical Gazetteer of the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA278 14 February 2006 Routledge 1-135-94859-3 278 Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet and scholar October 24 – Frank Delaney, Irish-born novelist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2017)Jennifer Curry World Authors, 2000-2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=lqsjAQAAIAAJ 2007 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-1077-9 164 November 7 – Helen Garner, Australian writer November 8 – Fernando Sorrentino, Argentine writerClark M. Zlotchew Voices of the River Plate: Interviews with Writers of Argentina and Uruguay https://books.google.com/books?id=UJ4OAQAAMAAJ 1995 Borgo Press 978-0-89370-317-2 67 November 19 – Sharon Olds, American poet November 24 – Craig Thomas, Welsh novelist (died 2011)Meic Stephens Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRsvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT190 20 September 2012 Y Lolfa 978-1-84771-605-7 190 December 6 – Peter Handke, Nobel-winning Austrian novelist and playwrighthttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/handke/facts/ Peter Handke - Facts Nobelprize.org 12 January 2025 unknown date – Ghada al-Samman, Syrian writerRaḍwá ʻĀshūr Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul Hasna Reda-Mekdashi Mandy McClure Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 https://books.google.com/books?id=MB6gphBXU0kC&pg=PA484 2008 American Univ in Cairo Press 978-977-416-146-9 484 Deaths January 8 – Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Indian writer and humanitarian (born 1891)http://www.pakcolumnist.com/chaudhry-afzal-haq-marhoom-aur-punjab-hakumat.html Chaudhry Afzal Haq marhoom aur punjab hakumat September 1, 2012 Attaul Haq Qasmi PakColumnist 5 September 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20150626152046/http://www.pakcolumnist.com/chaudhry-afzal-haq-marhoom-aur-punjab-hakumat.html# 26 June 2015 dead dmy-all January 14 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (born 1883) February 2 – Daniil Kharms, Russian poet, writer and dramatist (died in prison, born 1905) February 18 – Henri Stahl, Romanian historian, short story writer, memoirist and stenographer (born 1877) March 16 – Rachel Field, American author and poet (born 1894)Fordyce Rachel Field, Rachel (Lyman) D.L. Kirkpatrick Twentieth-century Children's Writers London Macmillan 1978 978-0-33323-414-3 445 March 26 – Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (born 1862)Carolyn Wells American writer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolyn-Wells Encyclopedia Britannica 22 January 2020 en March 28 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet (died in prison, born 1910)Geraldine Cleary Nichols Miguel Hernandez https://books.google.com/books?id=T1lfAAAAMAAJ 1978 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-6301-0 12 April 24 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist and children's writer (born 1874)Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018346.html id.loc.gov 16 March 2019 May 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎), Japanese poet (born 1886)Sakutarō Hagiwara Howling at the Moon: Poems and Prose of Hagiwara Sakutarō https://books.google.com/books?id=YBBkAAAAMAAJ 2002 Green Integer 978-1-931243-01-8 53 May 20 – Nini Roll Anker, Norwegian novelist and playwright (born 1873)Matthew J. Bruccoli Richard Layman Twentieth-century Norwegian Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=F8wUAQAAIAAJ 2004 Gale 978-0-7876-6834-1 8 May 26 – Libero Bovio, Neapolitan dialect poet (born 1883) May 29 – Akiko Yosano (与謝野 晶子, Yosano Shiyo), Japanese poet and feminist (born 1878) May – Jakob van Hoddis (Hans Davidsohn) German poet (died in extermination camp, born 1887) June 30 – Léon Daudet, French writer and journalist (born 1867)Philippe Michel-Thiriet Dominique Frémy The Book of Proust https://books.google.com/books?id=1AEnAAAAMAAJ 1989 Chatto & Windus 978-0-7011-3360-3 173 July 1 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer in Irish (born 1857) July 23 – Nikola Vaptsarov (Никола Йонков Вапцаров), Bulgarian poet and resistance worker (executed, born 1909) August 17 – Irène Némirovsky, Russian-born French novelist (died in concentration camp, born 1903) August 27 – Lev Nussimbaum, Russian and Azerbaijani novelist (gangrene; born 1905)The Lives of Two Writers - Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli and Lev Nussimbaum Azerbaijan International 15 2–4 2011 39 September 26 – Oskar Kraus, Czech philosopher (born 1872)Christian Zentner Friedemann Bedurftig The Encyclopedia Of The Third Reich https://books.google.com/books?id=crRZAAAAYAAJ 21 August 1997 Hachette Books 978-0-306-80793-0 512 October 14 – Cosmo Hamilton, English dramatist and novelist (born 1870)Who's who in the Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=NRi1AAAAIAAJ 1947 Pitman 1877 October 20 – Friedrich Münzer, German classicist (born 1868)E. A. Judge Ancient History in a Modern University: The ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome https://books.google.com/books?id=x6dmAAAAMAAJ 1998 Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University 978-0-8028-3840-7 372 October 29 – Màrius Torres, Catalan Spanish poet (born 1910) November 4 Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, American novelist and textbook and children's writer (born 1863)Stanley Kunitz Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. Supplement https://books.google.com/books?id=d9_TAAAAMAAJ 1955 H. W. Wilson 32 Clementine Krämer, German poet and short-story writer (died in concentration camp, born 1873) December 23 – Konstantin Balmont, Russian Symbolist poet and translator (born 1867)Richard D. Schupbach Stanford Slavic Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=4NkoAQAAIAAJ 1991 Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University 406 Awards 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 in 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 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1942 at Goodreads Published 1942 Books at Goodreads 1942 Books at Goodreads