Literature year 1940

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Literature year 1940
Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls .

Events

prose

• March: Agatha Christie publishes the Hercule Poirot novel Sad Cypress ( morphine ).
• In the United States appears Carson McCullers ' first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ( The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ).

F. Scott Fitzgerald, photograph by Carl Van Vechten , 1937

• December 21 : F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack in Hollywood. His last novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western ( The Love of the Last Tycoon ) thus remains unfinished.

• Ernest Hemingway published his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls ( Whom the Bell Tolls ).
• Raymond Chandler publishes the detective novel Farewell, My Lovely ( Farewell, My Darling ).
• Mikhail Zoshchenko publishes the stories about Lenin .

drama

• 1940/ 41 : Bertolt Brecht's play Mr Puntila and his Man Matti arises.

Periodicals

• May 26th : The first edition of the weekly newspaper Das Reich , created by the National Socialists to influence German intellectuals, appears .
• June 5 : The German newspaper appears for the first time in the Netherlands in German-occupied Amsterdam .

Film adaptations

• January 24 : In New York, John Ford's film The Fruits of Anger, based on the novel by John Steinbeck with Henry Fonda in the leading role, celebrates its world premiere .

Cover picture Pinocchio

• February 7 : Walt Disney's second full-length cartoon Pinocchio based on the children's book of the same name by Carlo Collodi has its world premiere in the United States.

Logo Rebecca

• March 27 : Alfred Hitchcock's first Hollywood film, Rebecca, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in the leading roles, premieres in Los Angeles . It is received enthusiastically by critics and audiences alike.
• April 25 : The feature film The Postmaster by Gustav Ucicky, loosely based on the story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin , premieres in Vienna.

Awards ceremonies

• Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main : Agnes Miegel
• The Nobel Prize for Literature , like any other Nobel Prize, will not be awarded this year .
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Les grandes vacances by Francis Ambrière (awarded in 1946)
• Pulitzer Prize / Theater : William Saroyan for The Time of Your Life
• Pulitzer Prize / Poetry : Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren
• Pulitzer Prize / Biography : Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters (Vol. VII and VIII) by Ray Stannard Baker
• Pulitzer Prize / History : Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg

Born

January to March

• 0January 2nd : Horst Rankl , German writer and actor
• 0January 4th : Gao Xingjian , Chinese storyteller, translator, playwright, director, critic and artist
• 0January 7th : Armin Abmeier , German bookseller and editor († 2012 )
• 0January 7th : Helga Schubert , German psychologist and author
• January 13 : Edmund White , American writer
• January 19 : Bernhard Sinkel , German director, writer and producer
• January 23 : Jürgen Grasmück , German author of science fiction novels († 2007 )
• January 25 : Gonzalo Aguirre Ramírez , Uruguayan politician, lawyer and journalist
• January 28 : Guido Bachmann , Swiss writer and actor († 2003 )
• January 28 : Miguel Barnet , Cuban writer and ethnologist
• January 29 : Katharine Ross , American actress and children's book author

• 0February 2 : Thomas M. Disch , American writer († 2008 )
• 0February 6 : Tom Brokaw , American journalist
• 0February 9 : JM Coetzee , South African writer
• February 10 : Rainer Holbe , German journalist, television presenter and author
• February 11 : Jūrō Kara , Japanese writer
• February 15 : İsmail Cem , Turkish journalist and politician († 2007 )
• February 22 : Ülo Tuulik , Estonian writer

• 0March 1st : Erich Schleyer , German-Austrian actor and author
• 0March 6 : Philippe Amaury , French publisher († 2006 )
• March 11 : Fanny Morweiser , German writer († 2014 )
• March 12th : Mauri Antero Numminen , Finnish singer, composer, author and filmmaker
• March 12 : Sheila Och , Czech children's book author († 1999 )
• March 28 : Russell Banks , American writer
• March 30th : Uwe Timm , German writer

April to June

• 0April 5 : Manfred Strahl , German journalist, editor and writer († 2000 )
• April 10 : Clark Blaise , Canadian writer
• April 12 : Jack Hibberd , Australian playwright and author
• April 13 : Friedemann Berger , German writer († 2009 )
• April 13 : Sven Holm , Danish writer († 2019 )
• April 13 : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio , Franco-Mauritian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature
• April 15 : Jeffrey Archer , Conservative British politician and bestselling writer
• April 16 : Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , German poet and narrator († 1975 )
• April 16 : Waltraud Meißner , Palatinate dialect poet
• April 19 : Frank Davey , Canadian poet, writer and university teacher
• April 20 : Johannes von Buttlar , German author
• April 21 : Peter Schneider , German writer
• April 23 : Dietrich Schwanitz , German English scholar and writer († 2004 )
• April 24 : Sue Grafton , American crime novelist († 2017 )
• April 25 : Ethel Afamado , Uruguayan singer and writer

• 0May 4th : Víctor Farías , Chilean Germanist and journalist
• 0May 7th : Dorit Zinn , German writer
• 0May 9 : James L. Brooks , American film director and screenwriter
• May 11 : Niklaus Meienberg , Swiss writer and journalist († 1993 )
• May 12 : Peter Huckauf , German writer
• May 13 : Bruce Chatwin , British writer († 1989 )
• May 24 : Joseph Brodsky , Russian-American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature († 1996 )
• May 25 : Marianne Ahrne , Swedish director, screenwriter and writer

• 0June 8th : Françoise Levie , Belgian film producer, director and screenwriter
• June 18 : Mirjam Pressler , German writer and translator († 2019 )

July to September

• 0July 2 : Irving Abella , Canadian writer and historian
• 0July 3 : Burkhart Kroeber , German translator and author
• July 18 : Lillian Faderman , American professor of literature
• July 26 : Brigitte Hamann , German historian and author
• July 27 : Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein , German librarian
• July 28 : Judy Grahn , American author
• July 30th : Fleur Jaeggy , Italian-speaking Swiss writer
• July 31 : Frido Mann , German-speaking psychologist and writer

• 0August 4th : Herwig Nachtmann , Austrian publisher
• August 13 : Dirk Sager , German journalist († 2014 )
• August 22 : Yambo Ouologuem , Malian writer († 2017 )
• August 31 : Dorrit Willumsen , Danish writer

• 0September 1 : Annie Ernaux , French writer
• 0September 3 : Eduardo Galeano , Uruguayan journalist, essayist and writer
• 0September 7th : Dario Argento , Italian film director and screenwriter
• 0September 9 : Vicente Segrelles , Spanish cartoonist and author
• September 14 : Wenceslav Konstantinow , Bulgarian writer and translator († 2019 )
• September 15 : Norman Spinrad , American science fiction writer
• September 17 : Cynthia Flood , Canadian writer
• September 17th : Karin Reschke , German writer
• September 24 : Yves Navarre , French writer († 1994 )
• September 25 : Brigitte Burmeister , German literary scholar and writer

October to December

• 0October 1 : Phyllis Chesler , American writer
• 0October 2 : Herbert Riehl-Heyse , German journalist and author († 2003 )
• 0October 5 : Manfred Bissinger , German publicist
• October 15 : Isabella Ackerl , Austrian historian, Germanist and author
• October 31 : Uwe-Karsten Heye , German journalist, diplomat and author

• 0November 2 : Vincenzo Cerami , Italian writer and screenwriter († 2013 )
• 0November 2nd : Carolin Reiber , German journalist, TV announcer and presenter
• 0November 6th : Volker Jacobs , German journalist
• November 12th : Jürgen Todenhöfer , politician, author and manager
• November 18 : Adriano Aprà , Italian author and film critic
• November 20 : Hermann L. Gremliza , German journalist († 2019 )

• 0December 4th : Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel , British-Canadian journalist and writer
• December 29 : Brigitte Kronauer , German writer and essayist († 2019 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Joel Agee , American writer and translator
• Gemma O'Connor , Irish writer
• Reiner Putzger , German writer
• Ulrich Ritzel , German journalist and writer
• Jürgen Schwarz , German high school teacher and textbook author

Died

• January 27 : Isaak Babel , Russian journalist of Jewish origin (* 1894 )
• January 31 : René Schickele , French writer (* 1883 )

• February 8 : Hans Ostwald , German journalist and writer (* 1873 )
• February 24 : Ludwig Kessing , German worker poet (* 1869 )

• March 10 : Agnes von Krusenstjerna , Swedish writer (* 1894 )
• March 10 : Mikhail A. Bulgakov , Russian writer (* 1891 )

Selma Lagerlöf, 1908

• March 16 : Selma Lagerlöf , Swedish writer (* 1858 )
• March 23 : Minakami Takitarō , Japanese writer (* 1887 )
• March 26 : Helene Böhlau , German writer (* 1856 )
• April 3 : Josef Ponten , German architect, art historian and writer (* 1883 )

Leonard Leslie Brooke: Self-Portrait with Pig

• May 1 : Leonard Leslie Brooke , British draftsman, painter and author (* 1862 )
• May 20 : Verner von Heidenstam , Swedish poet (* 1859 )

• June 10 : Marcus Garvey , Jamaican journalist (* 1887 )
• June 21 : Walter Hasenclever , German expressionist writer (* 1890 )

• July 5 : Carl Einstein , German art historian and writer (* 1885 )
• July 26 : Kurt Kluge , German sculptor, ore caster and writer (* 1886 )

• August 8 : Fritz Büchner , German journalist (* 1895 )
• August 10 : Hans-Caspar von Zobeltitz , German writer and editor (* 1883 )
• August 22 : Rudolf Medek , Czech writer and soldier (* 1890 )

• September 4 : Henri Lavedan , French writer and journalist (* 1859 )
• September 11th : Hermann Stehr , German writer (* 1864 )
• September 26 : Walter Benjamin , German writer, art and literary critic (* 1892 )
• September 27 : Helene Aeckerle , German author and translator (* 1875 )

• October 24 : Hans Kyser , German writer and film director (* 1882 )

• November 7th : Julius Wahle , Austrian literary scholar (* 1861 )
• November 20 : Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch , American suffragette and publicist (* 1856 )

Fitzgerald's grave in Rockville, Maryland

• December 21 : F. Scott Fitzgerald , American writer (* 1896 )
• December 22nd : Nathanael West , American writer (* 1903 )
• December 30th : Gjergj Fishta , Albanian Franciscan priest, poet and translator (* 1871 )

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