1944 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[?]
• 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 Brady[?]

Births

• 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

• Newberry 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