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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1943.

Events

January 4 – Thomas Mann completes Joseph der Ernährer (Joseph the Provider) in California, the last of his Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) tetralogy, on which he began in December 1926.
February 4 – The première of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan) takes place at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland, with Leonard Steckel directing.^[1]
March – The self-illustrated children's novella The Little Prince by the exiled French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the all-time best-selling book originated in French, is published in New York.
May – A strongly antisemitic production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is staged at the Burgtheater in Vienna, with Werner Krauss as Shylock.
June 30 – Having transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy and served eight days of active duty Jack Kerouac is honorably discharged on psychiatric grounds.^[2] In New York City, he, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg become friends.
September
- George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of the left-wing London paper Tribune.
- Retreating German forces set fire to the library of the Royal Society of Naples, and on September 30 to the Montesano Villa containing the most valuable State Archives of Naples.^[3]
September 9 – The première of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei, 1939) is held at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland, with Leonard Steckel directing and playing the title role.
October – Tristan Bernard is arrested, but subsequently released from the Drancy internment camp in France after public protests.^[4]
October 14 – The contents of Biblioteca della Comunità Israelitica in Rome are looted by Nazi German troops.
December
- Philip Larkin, with a degree from the University of Oxford, takes his first post as a librarian in Wellington, Shropshire.
- Philip Van Doren Stern sends copies of his story "The Greatest Gift" to friends as a Christmas card.
December 22 – On the death of children's writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter at Near Sawrey, over 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of land in the English Lake District are bequeathed to the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (the Heelis Bequest).^[5]
unknown dates
- Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen.^[6]
- Publication begins of a new comprehensive edition of Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (the Sämtliche Werke, or Große Stuttgarter Ausgabe).
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States places Richard Wright under surveillance.

New books

Non-fiction

Georges Bataille – L'Expérience intérieure
James Burnham – The Managerial Revolution
Julius Evola – The Doctrine of Awakening (La dottrina del risveglio)
Katharine Butler Hathaway – The Little Locksmith
Louis Hjelmslev – Prolegomena to a Theory of Language (Omkring sprogteoriens grundlæggelse)
C. S. Lewis – The Abolition of Man
John Neal – Observations on American Art: Selections from the Writings of John Neal (1793-1876) (edited by Harold Edward Dickson)^[7]
Reinhold Niebuhr – The Nature and Destiny of Man
Martin Noth – Uberlieferungsgeschischtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament
N. Porsenna – Visul Profetic (On the Prophetic Dream)
Jean-Paul Sartre – Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le néant: Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique)
J. A. Schumpeter – Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
I. C. Vissarion – Energie mecanică în lumea în care ne găsim (Mechanic Energy for This World We Now Inhabit)
Edna Walling – Gardens in Australia
William Foote Whyte – Street Corner Society
Stefan Zweig (suicide 1942) – The World of Yesterday (first English edition)

Births

January 4
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, American political biographer
- Hwang Sok-yong, Korean novelist
- Jesús Torbado, Spanish novelist (died 2018)
- Priit Vesilind, Estonian-American author and photographer
January 6 – Francis M. Nevins, American mystery writer, biographer, film historian and law professor^[8]^[9]
January 8 – Charles Murray, American political science writer (The Bell Curve)
January 11 – Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
January 13 – Lorna Sage, English scholar and biographer (died 2001)
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 (died 2015)
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^[10]
March 26 – Bob Woodward, American journalist
April 6 – Max Clifford, English publicist
April 17 – Gwynne Dyer, Canadian journalist
April 22 – Louise Glück, American poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2023)
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 (died 2018)
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 (died 1990)
August 2 – Rose Tremain (Rosemary Thomson), 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 (died 2012)
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
October 17 – Laila al-Othman, Kuwaiti writer
November 5 – Sam Shepard, American playwright, writer and actor
November 6 – Berlie Doherty (Beryl Hollingworth), English children's and young-adults' writer
November 7 – Stephen Greenblatt, American Shakespeare scholar
November 12 – Wallace Shawn, American actor and dramatist
December 9 – Joanna Trollope, English novelist
unknown dates
- Christine Evans, Welsh poet in English^[11]
- Vicki Feaver, English poet and academic^[12]
- Hadrawi (Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame), Somali poet^[13]
- Ebrahim Hussein, Tanzanian playwright in Swahili^[14]

Deaths

January 3 – F. M. Cornford, English classicist and poet (born 1874)
January 9 – R. G. Collingwood, English philosopher and historian (born 1889)
January 13 – Else Ury, German children's fiction writer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp; born 1877)
February 1 – Lola Szereszewska, Polish-Jewish poet and journalist (born 1895)
March 10 – Laurence Binyon, English poet and scholar (born 1869)
March 13 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (born 1898)
April 7 – Jovan Dučić, Herzegovina Serb poet and diplomat (born 1871)
April 29 – Sidney Keyes, English poet (killed in action; born 1922)
April 30 – Beatrice Webb, English sociologist, economist and social reformer (born 1858)
May 27 – Arthur Mee, English encyclopedist and writer (born 1875)
May 29 – Guido Mazzoni, Italian poet (born 1859)
June 17 – Annie S. Swan ('David Lyall'), Scottish novelist and journalist (born 1859)
June 28 – Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator (born 1872)
July 18 – Miyake Kaho, Japanese novelist, essayist and poet (born 1868)
c. August 8 – Haig Acterian (Mihail), Romanian poet, dramatist and journalist (missing in action; born 1904)
August 12 – Kurt Eggers, Nazi German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright (killed in action; born 1905)
August 22 – Virgilio Dávila, Puerto Rican poet and politician (born 1869)
August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher (born 1909)
October 3 – Ida Lee, Australian historian and poet (born 1865)
October 7 – Radclyffe Hall, English novelist and poet (born 1880)^[15]
November 19 – Georg Hermann, German fiction writer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp; born 1871)
November 27 – Louis Esson, Australian poet and playwright (born 1878)
November 30 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch correspondent and diarist (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp; born 1914)
December 2
- Drummond Allison, English poet (killed in action; born 1921)^[16]
- Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author (born 1902)
December 22 – Beatrix Potter, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1866)^[17]

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
Prix Goncourt: Marius Grout, Passage de l'Homme^[18]
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

References

^ Willett, John (1977) [1967]. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects (3rd rev. ed.). London: Methuen. p. 51. ISBN 0-413-34360-X.
^ Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives. National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 2009. p. 11.
^ Baker, Kenneth (2016). On the Burning of Books. London: Unicorn. pp. 138–40. ISBN 978-1-910787-11-3.
^ Leslie A. Sprout (25 May 2013). The Musical Legacy of Wartime France. Univ of California Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-520-27530-0.
^ Judy Taylor; Elizabeth M. Battrick; Anne Stevenson Hobbs; Joyce Irene Whalley; Beatrix Potter (1987). Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World. F. Warne. pp. 203–4. ISBN 978-0-7232-3561-3.
^ Harry Schneiderman; Itzhak J. Carmin (1987). Who's who in World Jewry. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-9618272-0-5.
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 9780805772302.
^ Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Vol. 97. New Providence, NJ: Martindale-Hubbell. 1997. p. LS160B. ISBN 1561602671.
^ "Francis M. Nevins". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
^ Pamela Kester-Shelton (1996). Feminist Writers. St. James Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-55862-217-3.
^ "List Of Writers: EVANS, CHRISTINE". Academi. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008.
^ Carol Ann Duffy; Vicki Feaver; Eavan Boland (1995). Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-058740-1.
^ Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
^ B. W. Andrzejewski; S. Pilaszewicz; W. Tyloch (21 November 1985). Literatures in African Languages: Theoretical Issues and Sample Surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 477. ISBN 978-0-521-25646-9.
^ Glasgow, Joanne (2002). "Hall, Radclyffe". glbtq.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
^ Robert Greacen (1994). The Only Emperor. Lapwing Publications. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-898472-11-7.
^ "Biography – Victoria and Albert Museum". www.vam.ac.uk. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
^ Lia Nicole Brozgal; Sara Kippur (2016). Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture, and Politics Today. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-78138-263-9.

[1] Willett, John (1977) [1967]. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects (3rd rev. ed.). London: Methuen. p. 51. ISBN 0-413-34360-X.

[2] Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives. National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 2009. p. 11.

[OBB-3] Baker, Kenneth (2016). On the Burning of Books. London: Unicorn. pp. 138–40. ISBN 978-1-910787-11-3.

[4] Leslie A. Sprout (25 May 2013). The Musical Legacy of Wartime France. Univ of California Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-520-27530-0.

[5] Judy Taylor; Elizabeth M. Battrick; Anne Stevenson Hobbs; Joyce Irene Whalley; Beatrix Potter (1987). Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World. F. Warne. pp. 203–4. ISBN 978-0-7232-3561-3.

[6] Harry Schneiderman; Itzhak J. Carmin (1987). Who's who in World Jewry. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-9618272-0-5.

[7] Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 9780805772302.

[8] Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Vol. 97. New Providence, NJ: Martindale-Hubbell. 1997. p. LS160B. ISBN 1561602671.

[9] "Francis M. Nevins". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2024.

[10] Pamela Kester-Shelton (1996). Feminist Writers. St. James Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-55862-217-3.

[11] "List Of Writers: EVANS, CHRISTINE". Academi. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008.

[12] Carol Ann Duffy; Vicki Feaver; Eavan Boland (1995). Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-058740-1.

[13] Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.

[14] B. W. Andrzejewski; S. Pilaszewicz; W. Tyloch (21 November 1985). Literatures in African Languages: Theoretical Issues and Sample Surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 477. ISBN 978-0-521-25646-9.

[15] Glasgow, Joanne (2002). "Hall, Radclyffe". glbtq.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2007-11-05.

[16] Robert Greacen (1994). The Only Emperor. Lapwing Publications. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-898472-11-7.

[17] "Biography – Victoria and Albert Museum". www.vam.ac.uk. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2019.

[18] Lia Nicole Brozgal; Sara Kippur (2016). Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture, and Politics Today. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-78138-263-9.

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 *September
 **[[George Orwell]] resigns from the [[BBC]] to become literary editor of the left-wing London paper ''[[Tribune (magazine)|Tribune]]''.
-**Retreating German forces set fire to the library of the Royal Society of Naples, and on September 30 to the Montesano Villa containing the most valuable [[State Archives of Naples]].<ref name=OBB>{{Cite book |author-link=Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking |first=Kenneth |last=Baker |title=On the Burning of Books |location=London |publisher=Unicorn |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-910787-11-3 |pages=138-40}}</ref>
+**Retreating German forces set fire to the library of the Royal Society of Naples, and on September 30 to the Montesano Villa containing the most valuable [[State Archives of Naples]].<ref name=OBB>{{Cite book |author-link=Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking |first=Kenneth |last=Baker |title=On the Burning of Books |location=London |publisher=Unicorn |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-910787-11-3 |pages=138–40}}</ref>
 *[[September 9]] – The première of [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s ''[[Life of Galileo]]'' (Leben des Galilei, 1939) is held at the [[Schauspielhaus Zürich]] in [[Switzerland]], with [[Leonard Steckel]] directing and playing the title role.
 *October – [[Tristan Bernard]] is arrested, but subsequently released from the [[Drancy internment camp]] in France after public protests.<ref>{{cite book|author=Leslie A. Sprout|title=The Musical Legacy of Wartime France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTUlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA214|date=25 May 2013|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-27530-0|pages=214}}</ref>
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 **[[Philip Larkin]], with a degree from the [[University of Oxford]], takes his first post as a librarian in [[Wellington, Shropshire]].
 **[[Philip Van Doren Stern]] sends copies of his story "[[The Greatest Gift (story)|The Greatest Gift]]" to friends as a Christmas card.
-*[[December 22]] – On the death of children's writer and illustrator [[Beatrix Potter]] at [[Near Sawrey]], over 4,000 acres (1620 ha) of land in the English [[Lake District]] are bequeathed to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty]] (the Heelis Bequest).<ref>{{cite book|author1=Judy Taylor|author2=Elizabeth M. Battrick|author3=Anne Stevenson Hobbs|author4=Joyce Irene Whalley |author5=Beatrix Potter|title=Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjFbAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=F. Warne|isbn=978-0-7232-3561-3|pages=203–4}}</ref>
+*[[December 22]] – On the death of children's writer and illustrator [[Beatrix Potter]] at [[Near Sawrey]], over {{convert|4,000|acre|ha|abbr=off}} of land in the English [[Lake District]] are bequeathed to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty]] (the Heelis Bequest).<ref>{{cite book|author1=Judy Taylor|author2=Elizabeth M. Battrick|author3=Anne Stevenson Hobbs|author4=Joyce Irene Whalley|author5=Beatrix Potter|title=Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjFbAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=F. Warne|isbn=978-0-7232-3561-3|pages=203–4}}</ref>
 *''unknown dates''
-**[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Harry Schneiderman|author2=Itzhak J. Carmin|title=Who's who in World Jewry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyYOAQAAMAAJ|year=1987|isbn=978-0-9618272-0-5|page=309}}</ref>
+**[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen.<ref>{{cite book|author1=[[Harry Schneiderman]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyYOAQAAMAAJ|title=Who's who in World Jewry|author2=Itzhak J. Carmin|year=1987|isbn=978-0-9618272-0-5|page=309}}</ref>
 **Publication begins of a new comprehensive edition of [[Friedrich Hölderlin]]'s complete works (the ''Sämtliche Werke'', or ''Große Stuttgarter Ausgabe'').
 **The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] in the United States places [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]] under surveillance.
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 ==New books==
 <!-- (''Title of published book translation''), ("Title of published poem/story translation"), (Literal translation of title) -->
 ===Fiction===
 *[[Lars Ahlin]] – ''Tåbb with the Manifesto ([[:sv:Tåbb med manifestet|Tåbb med manifestet]])''
 *[[Sabahattin Ali]] – ''Madonna in a Fur Coat ([[:tr:Kürk Mantolu Madonna|Kürk Mantolu Madonna]])''
+*[[Charlotte Armstrong]] – ''[[The Case of the Weird Sisters]]''
 *[[Sholem Asch]] – ''The Apostle''
 *[[Marcel Aymé]] – ''The Passer through Walls (Le Passe-muraille)''
 *[[Nigel Balchin]] – ''[[The Small Back Room (novel)|The Small Back Room]]''
 *[[Vaikom Muhammad Basheer]] – ''[[Premalekhanam]]''
+*[[Vicki Baum]] – ''[[Hotel Berlin (novel)|Hotel Berlin]]''
 *[[Henry Bellamann]] – ''Victoria Grandolet''
 *[[Georges Bernanos]] – ''[[Monsieur Ouine]]''
 *[[Marjorie Bowen]] – ''[[Airing in a Closed Carriage]]''
 *[[Ivan Bunin]] – ''[[Dark Avenues]]'' («Тёмные аллеи», ''Tyomnyye allei'', short stories, first edition)
+*[[Gerald Butler (writer)|Gerald Butler]] – ''[[Their Rainbow Had Black Edges]]''
+*[[Victor Canning]] – ''[[Green Battlefield]]''
 *[[John Dickson Carr]] (as Carter Dickson) – ''[[She Died A Lady]]''
 *[[Raymond Chandler]] – ''[[The Lady in the Lake]]''
+*[[Peter Cheyney]] – ''[[You Can Always Duck]]''
 *[[Colette]] – ''Le Képi''
-*[[Simone de Beauvoir]] – ''[[She Came to Stay]]'' (''L'Invitée'')
+*[[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[The Affair at Little Wokeham]]''
+*[[Simone de Beauvoir]] – ''[[She Came to Stay]] (L'Invitée)''
 *[[Pierre Drieu La Rochelle]] – ''[[The Man on Horseback]] (L'Homme à cheval)''
 *[[Howard Fast]] – ''Citizen [[Tom Paine]]''
 *[[Carlo Emilio Gadda]] – ''Gli anni''
 *[[Jean Genet]] (anonymously) – ''[[Our Lady of the Flowers]] (Notre Dame des Fleurs)''
+*[[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]] – ''[[The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball]]''
 *[[Robert Graves]] – ''[[I, Claudius|Claudius the God]]''
 *[[Elizabeth Janet Gray]] – ''[[Adam of the Road]]''
 *[[Graham Greene]] – ''[[The Ministry of Fear]]''
 *[[Hermann Hesse]] – ''[[The Glass Bead Game]] (Das Glasperlenspiel)''
-* [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]] – ''[[The Trojan Brothers (novel)|The Trojan Brothers]]
+*[[Anne Hocking]] – ''[[Nile Green (novel)|Nile Green]]''
+*[[Dorothy B. Hughes]] – ''[[The Blackbirder]]''
+*[[Michael Innes]] – ''[[The Weight of the Evidence]]''
 *[[Aleksander Kamiński]] (as Juliusz Górecki) – ''[[Kamienie na szaniec]]'' (Stones for the Rampart)
 *[[C. S. Lewis]] – ''[[Perelandra]]''
 *[[Clarice Lispector]] – ''[[Near to the Wild Heart]] (Perto do coração selvagem)''
+*[[Richard Llewellyn]] – ''[[None but the Lonely Heart (novel)|None but the Lonely Heart]]''
+*[[E. C. R. Lorac]] – ''[[Death Came Softly]]''
 *[[H. P. Lovecraft]] – ''[[Beyond the Wall of Sleep (collection)|Beyond the Wall of Sleep]]'' (collection)
 *[[Compton Mackenzie]] –  ''[[Keep the Home Guard Turning]]''
 *[[Naguib Mahfouz]] – ''[[Rhadopis of Nubia]]''
-*[[Bruce Marshall]] – ''[[Yellow Tapers for Paris]]''
+*[[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Colour Scheme]]''
+*[[Bruce Marshall (writer)|Bruce Marshall]] – ''[[Yellow Tapers for Paris]]''
+*[[Gladys Mitchell]]
+**''[[Sunset Over Soho]]''
+**''[[The Worsted Viper]]''
 *[[C. L. Moore]] – ''[[Earth's Last Citadel]]''
 *[[Robert Musil]] (died 1942) – ''[[The Man Without Qualities]]'' (''Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften'', publication concludes, uncompleted)
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 *[[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''Mr. Mirakel''
 *[[Roger Peyrefitte]] – ''[[Les Amitiés particulières]]'' (Special Friendships)
-* [[J.B. Priestley]] – ''[[Daylight on Saturday]]''
+*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[Daylight on Saturday]]''
 *[[Ellery Queen]] – ''[[There Was an Old Woman (novel)|There Was an Old Woman]]''
 *[[Ayn Rand]] – ''[[The Fountainhead]]''
+*[[Mary Renault]] – ''The Friendly Young Ladies''
 *[[Betty Smith]] – ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''
-*[[Margit Söderholm]] – ''[[Sunshine Follows Rain (novel)|Sunshine Follows Rain]]''
+*[[Margit Söderholm]] – ''[[Sunshine Follows Rain (novel)|Sunshine Follows Rain]] (Driver dagg faller regn)''
+* [[Cecil Street]]
+** ''[[Dead on the Track]]''
+** ''[[Men Die at Cyprus Lodge]]''
 *[[Antal Szerb]] – ''The Queen's Necklace (A királyné nyaklánca)''
 *[[Phoebe Atwood Taylor]]
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 *[[Denton Welch]] – ''[[Maiden Voyage (novel)|Maiden Voyage]]''
 *[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[Crux Ansata]]''
-*[[Dorothy Whipple]] – ''They Were Sisters''
+*[[Dorothy Whipple]] – ''[[They Were Sisters (novel)|They Were Sisters]]''
 *[[Chancellor Williams]] – ''The Raven''
 *[[Virginia Woolf]] (suicide 1941) – ''[[A Haunted House and Other Short Stories]]''
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 *[[M. J. Molloy]] – ''Old Road''
 *[[Armijn Pane]] – ''[[Kami, Perempuan]]'' (We, the Women)
-* [[J.B. Priestley]] – ''[[They Came to a City (play)|They Came to a City]]''
+*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[They Came to a City (play)|They Came to a City]]''
 *[[Terence Rattigan]] - ''[[While the Sun Shines (play)|While the Sun Shines]]''
 *[[Nelson Rodrigues]] – ''Vestido de Noiva'' (The Wedding Dress)
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 *[[Reinhold Niebuhr]] – ''[[The Nature and Destiny of Man]]''
 *[[Martin Noth]] – ''Uberlieferungsgeschischtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament''
+*[[N. Porsenna]] – ''Visul Profetic'' (On the Prophetic Dream)
 *[[Jean-Paul Sartre]] – ''[[Being and Nothingness]] (L'Être et le néant: Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique)''
 *[[Joseph Schumpeter|J. A. Schumpeter]] – ''Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy''
+*[[I. C. Vissarion]] – ''Energie mecanică în lumea în care ne găsim'' (Mechanic Energy for This World We Now Inhabit)
 *[[Edna Walling]] – ''Gardens in Australia''
 *[[William Foote Whyte]] – ''[[Street Corner Society]]''
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 **[[Jesús Torbado]], Spanish novelist (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
 **[[Priit Vesilind]], Estonian-American author and photographer
+*[[January 6]] – [[Francis M. Nevins]], American mystery writer, biographer, film historian and law professor<ref>''[https://archive.org/details/isbn_1561602671_17/page/160/mode/2up?q=%22January+6%2C+1943%22+%22Francis+Michael+Nevins%22 Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Vol. 97]''. New Providence, NJ: Martindale-Hubbell. 1997. p.&nbsp;LS160B. {{ISBN|1561602671}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/francis-m-nevins "Francis M. Nevins"]. [[Poetry Foundation]]. Retrieved March 18, 2024.</ref>
 *[[January 8]] – [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]], American political science writer (''[[The Bell Curve]]'')
 *[[January 11]] – [[Jim Hightower]], American radio host and author
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 *[[April 6]] – [[Max Clifford]], English publicist
 *[[April 17]] – [[Gwynne Dyer]], Canadian journalist
-*[[April 22]] – [[Louise Glück]], American poet, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]
+*[[April 22]] – [[Louise Glück]], American poet, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
 *[[April 30]] – [[Paul Jennings (Australian author)|Paul Jennings]], English-born Australian children's author
 *[[May 5]] – [[Michael Palin]], English comedy writer and television broadcaster
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 *[[November 5]] – [[Sam Shepard]], American playwright, writer and actor
 *[[November 6]] – [[Berlie Doherty]] (Beryl Hollingworth), English children's and young-adults' writer
-*[[November 7]] – [[Stephen Greenblatt]], Anerican Shakespeare scholar
+*[[November 7]] – [[Stephen Greenblatt]], American Shakespeare scholar
 *[[November 12]] – [[Wallace Shawn]], American actor and dramatist
 *[[December 9]] – [[Joanna Trollope]], English novelist
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 *[[January 9]] – [[R. G. Collingwood]], English philosopher and historian (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
 *[[January 13]] – [[Else Ury]], German children's fiction writer (killed in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]; born [[1877 in literature|1877]])
+*[[February 1]] – [[Lola Szereszewska]], Polish-Jewish poet and journalist (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
 *[[March 10]] – [[Laurence Binyon]], English poet and scholar (born [[1869 in literature|1869]])
 *[[March 13]] – [[Stephen Vincent Benét]], American author (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])

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