1945 in literature

See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• November 1 - The magazine Ebony is published for the first time.
• Noel Coward's short play, Still Life, is adapted to become the film, Brief Encounter.
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
• The novelist Colette becomes president of the Académie Goncourt.
• Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
• André Malraux is appointed minister of information by French President Charles de Gaulle.

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New books

• The Age of Jackson - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
• The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Black Boy - Richard Wright
• The Black Rose - Thomas B. Costain
• Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute) - Gabrielle Roy
• The Bosnian Trilogy - Ivo Andric
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
• Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
• The Catcher in the Rye (novel) - J.D. Sallinger
• The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
• Gigi - Colette
• High Ground - Odella Phelps Wood
• Loving - Henry Green
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes - Cornell Woolrich
• The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
• The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper
• The Policy King - Lewis A. H. Caldwell
• The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
• Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson
• A Street in Bronzeville - Gwendolyn Brooks
• Stuart Little - E.B. White
• Surrender on Demand - Varian Fry
• That Hideous Strength - C. S. Lewis
• The Thurber Carnival (anthology) - James Thurber
• The Three Railway Engines - Rev. W. V. Awdry
• Tootle - Gertrude Crampton
• Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan
• Uomini e no - Elio Vittorini
• The Wide House - Taylor Caldwell

New drama

• Bertolt Brecht - Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Mary Chase - Harvey
• Arthur Laurents - Home of the Brave

Non-fiction

• R. G. Collingwood – The Idea of Nature
• Arthur Koestler – The Yogi and the Commissar and other essays
• Bertrand Russell – A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Births

• January 3 - David Starkey, historian
• January 30 - Michael Dorris, author (+ 1997)
• April 2 - Anne Waldman, poet
• April 27 - August Wilson, playwright
• April 30 - Annie Dillard
• July 9 - Dean R. Koontz, novelist
• October 15 - John Murrell, dramatist
• December 17 - Jacqueline Wilson, best-selling children's author
• Raymond E. Feist, American fantasy author
• date unknown - Robert Gray, poet
• date unknown - Shiva Naipaul, novelist

Deaths

• January 13 - Margaret Deland, novelist
• January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, poet (* 1869)
• March 12 - Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• March 20 - Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
• April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (* 1906, murdered by German Nationalsozialists)
• May 15 - Charles Williams, British author
• July 13 - Alla Nazimova, actress, scriptwriter and producer
• August 20 - Alexander Roda Roda, novelist
• August 26 - Franz Werfel, German language writer
• October 8 - Felix Salten, author of Bambi
• November 21 - Robert Benchley, humorist
• December 4 - Arthur Morrison, writer
• December 28 - Theodore Dreiser, author
• date unknown - Charles Gilman Norris, novelist
• date unknown - Charles Maurice Donnay, dramatist

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
• Nobel Prize for literature: Gabriela Mistral
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Mary Chase, Harvey
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Hersey, A Bell for Adano

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