1945 in literature
The year 1945 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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.
New books
Ivo Andric – The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini Ćuprija)
Rev. W. V. Awdry – The Three Railway Engines
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson - The Long Ships (Röde Orm)
Robert Bloch - The Opener of the Way
Hermann Broch - The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil)
Gwendolyn Brooks – A Street in Bronzeville
Taylor Caldwell – The Wide House
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
Vera Caspary – Bedelia
Colette – Gigi
Thomas B. Costain – The Black Rose
Gertrude Crampton – Tootle
August Derleth
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Varian Fry – Surrender on Demand
Henry Green – Loving
Ruth Krauss - The Carrot Seed
Margery Lawrence – Number Seven, Queer Street
Robert Lawson – Rabbit Hill
J. Sheridan Le Fanu – Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories
Carlo Levi - Christ Stopped at Eboli
C. S. Lewis – That Hideous Strength
H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Lurker at the Threshold
Hugh MacLennan – Two Solitudes
Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
Nancy Mitford – The Pursuit of Love
George Orwell – Animal Farm
Gabrielle Roy – Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute)
Jean-Paul Sartre – The Age of Reason
Elizabeth Smart – By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row
James Thurber – The Thurber Carnival (anthology)
Elio Vittorini – Uomini e no
Mika Waltari – The Egyptian
Evangeline Walton – Witch House
Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
E. B. White – Stuart Little
Odella Phelps Wood – High Ground
Cornell Woolrich – Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Richard Wright – Black Boy
New drama
Bertolt Brecht – Caucasian Chalk Circle
Mary Chase – Harvey
Arthur Laurents – Home of the Brave
Poetry
Idris Davies - Tonypandy and other poems
Non-fiction
R. G. Collingwood – The Idea of Nature
Arthur Koestler – The Yogi and the Commissar and other essays
Betty MacDonald – The Egg and I
Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies
Bertrand Russell – A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Ernesto Sábato - Uno y el Universo (One and the Universe)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. – The Age of Jackson
Births
January 3 - David Starkey, historian
January 30 - Michael Dorris, author (+ 1997)
March 19 - Jim Turner, editor (+ 1999)
April 2 - Anne Waldman, poet
April 27 - August Wilson, playwright
April 30 - Annie Dillard
July 9 - Dean R. Koontz, novelist
September 1 Scott Spencer 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
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. A. G. Strong, Travellers
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: D. S. MacColl, Philip Wilson Steer
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
Nobel Prize for literature: Gabriela Mistral
Premio Nadal: José Félix Tapia, La luna ha entrado en casa
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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