1943 in literature
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See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- Jack Kerouac joins the US Navy.
- C. S. Lewis makes a series of radio broadcasts that will be adapted as Mere Christianity.
- Tristan Bernard is released from the Drancy deportation camp.
- CIA and FBI place Richard Wright under surveillance.
- Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.
New books
- Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray
- The Apostle - Sholem Asch
- Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast
- Claudius the God - Robert Graves
- Crux Ansata - H. G. Wells
- Earth's Last Citadel - C. L. Moore
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- Gremlins - Roald Dahl
- A Haunted House and other stories - Virginia Woolf (published anonymously)
- Le Képi - Colette
- The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
- The Last of Summer - Kate O'Brien
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold Niebuhr
- Mr. Mirakel - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- The Ship - C.S. Forester
- The Raven - Chancellor Williams
- Rhadopis of Nubia - Naguib Mahfouz
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- Towards Zero - Agatha Christie
- Victoria Grandolet - Henry Bellamann
- The White Face - Carl Offord
New drama
Poetry
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse edited by T. S. Eliot
Non-fiction
Births
- January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
- January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
- February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer
- February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor
- February 22 - Terry Eagleton, critic
- March 26 - Bob Woodward, journalist
- April 30 - Paul Jennings, children's author
- May 5 - Michael Palin, comedy writer and television personality
- May 7 - Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning novelist
- May 8 - Pat Barker, Booker Prize-winning novelist
- June 15 - Xaviera Hollander, Happy Hooker author
- November 5 - Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, writer, actor
- November 12 - Wallace Shawn, actor and dramatist
- December 9 - Joanna Trollope, novelist
- date unknown - L. E. Modesitt, Jr., fantasy and science fiction writer
- date unknown - Gwynne Dyer, journalist
- date unknown - Max Clifford, publicist
- date unknown - Simon Jenkins, journalist
- date unknown - Charles Murray, Bell Curve author
- date unknown - Sheila Rowbotham, feminist author
- date unknown - Christopher Priest, science fiction author
Deaths
- January 9 - R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian
- March 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar
- April 30 - Beatrice Webb
- May - Arthur Mee, editor of the Children's Encyclopaedia
- August 24 - Simone Weil, philosopher
- October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, controversial author
- December 22 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author
- date unknown - Guido Mazzoni, poet
- date unknown - F. M. Cornford, poet
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Janet Elizabeth Gray, Adam of the Road
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- 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
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