1944 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1943 in literature, other events of 1944, 1945 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• An American Dilemma - Gunnar Myrdal
• Au rendez-vous allemand - (To the German Rendezvous) - Paul Éluard
• A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
• Beyond the Palisade (poetry) - James K. Baxter
• The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
• Book of Naturalists - Charles William Beebe
• The Case of Mrs. Wingate - Oscar Micheaux
• Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
• The Dawn Appears - Annie Greene Nelson
• Friday's Child – Georgette Heyer
• The Golden Fleece - Robert von Ranke Graves
• The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary
• Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
• Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
• Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
• The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Tall Book of Nursery Tales - Feodor Rojankovsky
• Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land) - Jorge Amado
• Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens - Hayyim Hazaz
• Two Frontiers (poetry) - Edwin James Bradley

Births

Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Maori writer, who was to write "The Whale Rider"

• January 8 - Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
• February 10 - Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
• February 14 - Alan Parker, director, writer
• February 14 - Carl Bernstein, journalist
• February 16 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
• December 17 - Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist

Deaths

• July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
• September 13 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator
• December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
• Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark