Overview of the events of 1942 in literature
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.[ 1] February 20 – Jean Bruller 's novella Le Silence de la mer 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.[ 2] February 22 – The Austrian -born novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte 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 Stockholm later in the year as Die Welt von Gestern .[ 3] 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 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 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 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 New York Times Best Seller list[ 4] August 28 – Polish writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka , as head of the underground organization Front for the Rebirth of Poland , publishes in Warsaw her Protest! Autumn – Vasily Grossman attends the Battle of Stalingrad as a reporter for the Soviet Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda Stalingrad («Сталингра́д», original Russian publication 1952 ) and Life and Fate 1959 ).
October – The English poet Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein , against orders.[ 5]
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
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 7 – Terenci Moix , Spanish writer (died 2003 )[ 26] January 7 – Božin Pavlovski , Macedonian-Australian authorJanuary 9 – Enrique Estrázulas , Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist and diplomat (died 2016 )January 19 – Paul-Eerik Rummo , Estonian poet, playwright and politicianJanuary 31 – Derek Jarman , English film director, writer and diarist (died 1994 )[ 27] February 1 – Terry Jones , Welsh comedic actor and writer (died 2020 )[ 28] February – David Williamson , Australian playwright
March 2 – John Irving , American novelist and screenwriter[ 29] March 28 – Daniel Dennett , American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientistApril 1 – Samuel R. Delany , American novelist, essayist and critic[ 30] April 4 – Kitty Kelley , American biographer and journalistApril 20 – Arto Paasilinna , Finnish novelist and journalist (died 2018 )[ 31] April 27 – Ruth Glick , American cookery author and novelistMay 6 – Ariel Dorfman , Argentine/Chilean novelist, playwright and essayist[ 32] May 11 – Rachel Billington , English author[ 33] June 25 – Michel Tremblay , French Canadian novelist and playwrightJuly 2 – Mukhtar Shakhanov , Kazakh writer and lawmakerAugust 2 – Isabel Allende , Chilean novelist[ 34] August 7 – Garrison Keillor , American humorous writer and broadcaster[ 35] August 9 – David Steinberg , Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author[ 36] August 22 – Uğur Mumcu , Turkish journalist and writer (died 1993 )September 1 – António Lobo Antunes , Portuguese novelist and physicianSeptember 14 – Bernard MacLaverty , Irish writerSeptember 21 , Luis Mateo Díez , Spanish writerOctober 16 – Joseph Bruchac , Native American authorOctober 20 – Bob Graham , Australian children's writer and illustratorOctober 23
October 24 – Frank Delaney , Irish-born novelist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2017 )[ 38] November 7 – Helen Garner , Australian writerNovember 8 – Fernando Sorrentino , Argentine writer[ 39] November 19 – Sharon Olds , American poetNovember 24 – Craig Thomas , Welsh novelist (died 2011 )[ 40] December 6 – Peter Handke , Austrian novelist and playwrightunknown date – Ghada al-Samman , Syrian writer[ 41]
Deaths
January 8 – Chaudhry Afzal Haq , Indian writer and humanitarian (born 1891 )[ 42] 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 )[ 43] March 26 – Carolyn Wells , American novelist and poet (born 1862 )[ 44] March 28 – Miguel Hernández , Spanish poet (died in prison, born 1910 )[ 45] April 24 – Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian novelist and children's writer (born 1874 )[ 46] May 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎), Japanese poet (born 1886 )[ 47] May 20 – Nini Roll Anker , Norwegian novelist and playwright (born 1873 )[ 48] 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 )[ 49] July 1 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich , Irish writer in Irish (born 1857 )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 )[ 50] September 26 – Oskar Kraus , Czech philosopher (born 1872 )[ 51] October 14 – Cosmo Hamilton , English dramatist and novelist (born 1870 )[ 52] October 20 – Friedrich Münzer , German classicist (born 1868 )[ 53] October 29 – Màrius Torres , Catalan Spanish poet (born 1910 )November 4
December 23 – Konstantin Balmont , Russian Symbolist poet and translator (born 1867 )[ 55]
Awards
References
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