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The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

New books

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Canal Town
Jorge Amado - Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land)
Saul Bellow - Dangling Man
Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Imaginary Beings
Christianna Brand - Green for Danger
John Dickson Carr
- Till Death Do Us Part
- He Wouldn't Kill Patience (as by Carter Dickson)
Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth
Agatha Christie
- Death Comes as the End
- Towards Zero
- Absent in the Spring (as by Mary Westmacott)
Edmund Crispin - The Case of the Gilded Fly
A. J. Cronin - The Green Years
Esther Forbes - Johnny Tremain
Jean Genet - Notre Dame des Fleurs
John Hersey - A Bell for Adano
Georgette Heyer - Friday's Child
Charles R. Jackson - The Lost Weekend
Pär Lagerkvist - Dvärgen
Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
H. P. Lovecraft - Marginalia
W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge
Oscar Micheaux - The Case of Mrs. Wingate
Alberto Moravia - Agostino (Two Adolescents)
Gunnar Myrdal - An American Dilemma
Feodor Rojankovsky - The Tall Book of Nursery Tales
Anya Seton - Dragonwyck
Clark Ashton Smith - Lost Worlds
Rex Stout - Not Quite Dead Enough
Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Dead Ernest (as by Alice Tilton)
Donald Wandrei - The Eye and the Finger
Martin Wickremasinghe - Gamperaliya
Henry S. Whitehead - Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales

New drama

Jean Anouilh - Antigone
Bertolt Brecht - The Caucasian Chalk Circle (written)
Lawrence Riley - Time to Kill
John Van Druten - I Remember Mama

Poetry

James K. Baxter - Beyond the Palisade
Paul Éluard - Au rendez-vous allemand (To the German Rendezvous)
Five Young American Poets, volume 3, including work by Eve Merriam, John Frederick Nims, Jean Garrigue, Tennessee Williams and Alejandro Carrión
Nicholas Moore - The Glass Tower

Non-fiction

Charles William Beebe - Book of Naturalists.
Friedrich Hayek - The Road to Serfdom.
Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Margaret Landon - Anna and the King of Siam.
Gunnar Myrdal - An American Dilemma.
Charles Stevenson - Ethics and Language.

Births

January 8 - Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
January 21 - Jack Abbott, murderer and acclaimed writer
February 7 - Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Māori writer, author of The Whale Rider
February 14
- Alan Parker, director, writer
- Carl Bernstein, journalist
February 16 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
May 13 - Armistead Maupin, novelist
May 17 - Uldis Bērziņš, poet and translator
May 18 - W. G. Sebald, novelist (d. 2001)
June 5 - John Fraser, journalist
August 18 - Paula Danziger, young adult book novelist
August 30 - Molly Ivins, journalist
October 2 - Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
October 5 - Tomás de Jesús Mangual, journalist
November 7 - Peter Wilby, journalist
November 24 - Eintou Pearl Springer, poet
November 28 - Rita Mae Brown, writer and political activist
December 17 - Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist
date unknown
- Tom Leonard, dialect poet
- Patrick O'Connell, poet (d. 2004)

Deaths

January 6 - Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
January 8 - Joseph Jastrow, psychologist
January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
February 10 - Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
February 12 - Olive Custance, poet (b. 1874)
March 5
- Max Jacob, poet and critic
- Alun Lewis, war poet (accidental shooting)
March 28 - Stephen Leacock, economist
May 3 - Anica Černej, Slovenian poet (b. 1900) (concentration camp victim)
May 12 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
May 16 - George Ade, journalist and dramatist
June
- Joseph Campbell, poet (b. 1879)
- Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, socialite and author
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, cartoonist and illustrator
October 19 - Karel Poláček, writer, humourist, journalist
November 15 - Edith Durham, travel writer (b. 1863)
December 17 - Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist (b. 1893)
December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
date unknown - Ethel Lina White, crime novelist

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Forrest Reid, Young Tom
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: C. V. Wedgwood, William the Silent
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Premio Nadal (first award): Carmen Laforet, Nada
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
E. E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.

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