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The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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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.
- The FBI places Richard Wright under surveillance.
- Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.
New books
- Sholem Asch - The Apostle
- Henry Bellamann - Victoria Grandolet
- Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - She Died A Lady
- Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake
- Agatha Christie - Towards Zero
- Colette - Le Képi
- Roald Dahl - Gremlins
- Howard Fast - Citizen Tom Paine
- C. S. Forester - The Ship
- Robert Graves - Claudius the God
- Elizabeth Janet Gray - Adam of the Road
- Graham Greene - Ministry of Fear
- Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
- H. P. Lovecraft - Beyond the Wall of Sleep
- Naguib Mahfouz - Rhadopis of Nubia
- C. L. Moore - Earth's Last Citadel
- Kate O'Brien - The Last of Summer
- E. Phillips Oppenheim - Mr. Mirakel
- Roger Peyrefitte - Les amitiés particulières
- Ellery Queen - There Was an Old Woman
- Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
- Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Kylie Tennant - Ride on Stranger
- H. G. Wells - Crux Ansata
- Chancellor Williams - The Raven
- Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (published anonymously)
New drama
- Bertolt Brecht - Life of Galileo and The Good Person of Szechwan
- Albert Camus - The Misunderstanding
- Moss Hart - Winged Victory
- Jean-Paul Sartre - The Flies
Poetry
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse edited by T. S. Eliot
Non-fiction
- Julius Evola - The Doctrine of Awakening
- C. S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
- Reinhold Niebuhr - The Nature and Destiny of Man
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness
- Stephan Zweig - The World of Yesterday.
Births
- January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
- January 8 - Charles Murray, Bell Curve author
- 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 6 - Max Clifford, publicist
- April 17 - Gwynne Dyer, 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 10 - Simon Jenkins, journalist
- June 15 - Xaviera Hollander, Happy Hooker author
- July 16 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990)
- 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
- Sheila Rowbotham, feminist author
Deaths
- January 9 - R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian
- March 10 - Laurence Binyon, poet and scholar
- April 7 - Jovan Dučić, poet and diplomat (b. 1871)
- April 30 - Beatrice Webb
- May - Arthur Mee, editor of the Children's Encyclopaedia
- June 28 - Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator (b. 1872)
- August - Haig Acterian ("Mihail"), Fascist poet, dramatist, director and journalist (b. 1904) (missing in action)
- August 22 - Virgilio Dávila, poet and politician (b. 1869)
- August 24 - Simone Weil, philosopher
- October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, controversial author
- December 22 - Beatrix Potter, children's author (b. 1866)
- date unknown
- Ida Lee, Australian historian and poet (b. 1865)
- Guido Mazzoni, poet
- date unknown - F. M. Cornford, poet
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
- 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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