1945 in literature

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The year 1945 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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Events [edit]

  • March 4 - Poet Pablo Neruda is elected a Communist party senator in Chile. He officially joins the Communist Party of Chile four months later.
  • May 2 - Expatriate American poet Ezra Pound is arrested by the Italian resistance movement and taken to their headquarters in Chiavari, where he is soon released as possessing no interest.[1] The next day, he turns himself in to the United States Army. He is incarcerated in a military detention camp outside Pisa, spending 25 days in an open cage before being given a tent. Here he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown. While in the camp he drafts The Pisan Cantos.
  • June - Australia's most celebrated literary hoax takes place when the modernist magazine Angry Penguins is published with poems by the fictitious Ern Malley. Poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart created the poems from lines of other published work and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax is played on Max Harris, then a 22-year-old avant garde poet and critic who had started Angry Penguins. Harris and his circle of literary friends agreed that a hitherto completely unknown modernist poet of great merit had come to light in suburban Australia. The Autumn 1944 edition of the magazine with the poems comes out in mid-1945 due to wartime printing delays. An Australian newspaper uncovers the hoax within weeks. McAuley and Stewart loved early Modernist poets but despise later modernism and especially the well-funded Angry Penguins and are jealous of Harris's precocious success.
  • November 1 - The magazine Ebony is published for the first time.
  • November 26 - Release in the United Kingdom of the film Brief Encounter adapted from Noël Coward's short play Still Life.
  • December 21 - André Malraux is appointed minister of information by French President Charles de Gaulle.
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
  • The novelist Colette is the first woman to be admitted to the Académie Goncourt.
  • Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.

New books [edit]

New drama [edit]

Poetry [edit]

Non-fiction [edit]

Births [edit]

Deaths [edit]

Last known photograph of French surrealist poet and Resistance fighter Robert Desnos, in Theresienstadt concentration camp at about the time of its liberation in 1945

Awards [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Hugh Kenner.
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