1945 in literature
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See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- November 1 - Ebony Magazine is published for the first time.
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is published.
- Loving by Henry Green is published.
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
- Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht
- 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
- Tootle - Gertrude Crampton
- Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan
- The Wide House - Taylor Caldwell
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
- Raymond E. Feist, American fantasy author
- date unknown - Jacqueline Wilson, best-selling children's 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