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The year 1946 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- November 7 - Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend.
- Launch in the United Kingdom of Penguin Classics under the editorship of E. V. Rieu, whose translation of the Odyssey is the first published in the series.[1]
- Animal Farm by George Orwell becomes book of the year in the United States.
- Frederick Buechner receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.
New prose fiction
- Miguel Ángel Asturias - The President
- Simone de Beauvoir - Tous les hommes sont mortels
- Algernon Blackwood - The Doll and One Other
- John Dickson Carr
- He Who Whispers
- My Late Wives (as by Carter Dickson)
- Agatha Christie - The Hollow
- A. E. Coppard - Fearful Pleasures
- Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop
- Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
- Errol Flynn - Showdown
- C. S. Forester - Lord Hornblower
- Pat Frank - Mr. Adam
- Stella Gibbons - Westwood
- William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley
- João Guimarães Rosa - Sagarana
- Thomas Heggen - Mister Roberts
- Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, editors - Adventures in Time and Space
- George Wylie Henderson - Jule
- William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland and Other Novels
- Robert E. Howard - Skull-Face and Others
- Christopher Isherwood - The Berlin Stories
- Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
- Arthur Koestler - Thieves in the Night
- Philip Larkin - Jill.
- Madeleine L'Engle - Ilsa
- Lois Lenski - Strawberry Girl
- Frank Belknap Long - The Hounds of Tindalos
- W. Somerset Maugham - Then and Now
- Carson McCullers - Member of the Wedding
- Oscar Micheaux - The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield
- Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan, first of the Gormenghast series.
- Ann Lane Petty - The Street
- Anya Seton - The Turquoise
- Rex Stout - The Silent Speaker
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- The Asey Mayo Trio
- Punch with Care
- Charles Tazewell - The Littlest Angel
- A. E. van Vogt - Slan
- Boris Vian - I Spit on Your Graves
- H. Russell Wakefield - The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
- Eudora Welty - Delta Wedding
- Henry S. Whitehead - West India Lights
- Ivan Yefremov - The Land of Foam
New drama
- Eduardo De Filippo - Filumena Marturano
- Eugene O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh
- J. B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls
- Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy
Non-fiction
- R. G. Collingwood - The Idea of History (posthumously collected lectures)
- Jean Genet - Miracle de la rose
- Benjamin Spock - The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Births
- August 29 - Leona Gom, author
- September 26 - Andrea Dworkin, author
- October 1 - Tim O'Brien, novelist
- October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek, author
- October 28 - Sharon Thesen, poet
- November 7 - Diane Francis, Canadian journalist and author
- November 18 - Alan Dean Foster, science fiction author
- December 11 - Ellen Meloy, author
Deaths
- March 1 - Adriana Porter, Wiccan poet
- March 19 - Catherine Carswell, novelist and biographer
- April 1 - Edward Sheldon, dramatist
- May 19 - Booth Tarkington, novelist and dramatist
- May 25 - Ernest Rhys, founder of the Everyman series
- June 2 - Carrie Ingalls, newspaper worker and sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet & playwright
- July 22 - Edward Sperling, humorist
- July 27 - Gertrude Stein, poet and dramatist
- August 13 - H. G. Wells, ground-breaking science fiction novelist
- August 31 - Harley Granville-Barker, actor, dramatist and critic
- November 14 - May Sinclair, novelist
Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Oliver Onions, Poor Man's Tapestry
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Aldington, Wellington
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
- Nobel Prize for literature: Hermann Hesse
- Premio Nadal: José María Gironella, Un hombre
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
References
- ^ "Penguin Classics in translation". Penguin Archive Project. University of Bristol. 2009-08-17. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/penguinarchiveproject/research/classics/. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
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