1944 in literature
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See also: 1943 in literature, other events of 1944, 1945 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- E. E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.
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
- Friday's Child – Georgette Heyer
- 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 Bradley
Births
- Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Maori writer, who was to write "The Whale Rider"
- January 8 - Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
- 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
- August 30 - Molly Ivins, journalist
- December 17 - Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist
Deaths
- January 6 - Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
- January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
- February 10 - Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
- March 5 - Alun Lewis, war poet
- March 28 - Stephen Leacock, economist
- May 12 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
- June 9 - Keith Douglas, war poet
- June 16 - Marc Bloch, historian
- July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
- September 13 - W. Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator
- December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
- date unknown - Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
- date unknown - Joseph Campbell, poet
- date unknown - Ethel Lina White, crime novelist
- date unknown - Olive Custance, poet
Awards
- Newbery 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