Literature year 1941
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Overview of the literary
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Events
prose
- The detective novels Evil Under the Sun ( Evil Under the Sun ) and Little Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf ( N or M? ) Of Agatha Christie appear.
- Franz Werfel publishes Das Lied von Bernadette .
- The science fiction novel Lest Darkness Fall by Lyon Sprague de Camp appears.
drama
- January 10 : The play Arsenic and Old Lace ( Arsenic and Old Lace ) by Joseph Kesselring has on Broadway premiered.
- April 19 : Bertolt Brecht's drama Mother Courage and Her Children is premiered at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . The subject matter of the epic play comes from the picaresque novel Trutz Simplex or the biography of the Ertz cheater and landstorter Courasche by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen .
Film adaptations
- October 3 : The crime film The Maltese Falcon by John Huston premieres in the USA. In the third film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett 's novel of the same name , the director stayed close to the original for the first time during the eight-week filming period.
Awards ceremonies
- The Nobel Prize for Literature , like any other Nobel Prize, is not awarded.
Others
- March 28 : Virginia Woolf kills herself in the River Ouse itself .
- April 24th : The Swedish writer Karin Boye kills herself in a forest near Alingsås .
Born
January to March
- January 2nd : Joachim Kath , German communication scientist and book author
- January 8 : Graham Chapman , British actor and writer († 1989 )
- January 9 : Ernst Vlcek , Austrian science fiction author († 2008 )
- January 10 : Horst Jüssen , German actor, director and author († 2008 )
- January 14th : Faye Dunaway , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
- January 19 : Stan Persky , Canadian writer, media commentator, and university lecturer
- January 20 : Pete Ariel , German film director, film editor, assistant director and screenwriter († 2012 )
- January 21 : Elaine Showalter , American feminist and literary scholar
- January 23 : João Ubaldo Ribeiro , Brazilian writer († 2014 )
- January 25 : Sengai Aaliyan , Tamil writer († 2016 )
- January 26th : Jochen Missfeldt , German writer
- January 28 : Peter Voss , German journalist
- January 30th : Gregory Benford , American science fiction writer and physicist
- February 1 : Jerry Spinelli , author of books for young adults and novels for young adults
- February 2 : Bolívar Echeverría , Ecuadorian-Mexican scientist, philosopher and writer († 2010 )
- February 3 : Michael Scharang , Austrian writer
- February 4th : Wolfgang Buresch , German freelance writer, puppeteer and director
- February 4th : Hubert Straßl , Austrian writer
- February 12 : Binjamin Wilkomirski , Swiss author
- February 20 : Alexander Gauland , German lawyer, publicist and politician
- February 21 : Heinrich Zankl , German human biologist and non-fiction author
- February 22nd : Jack Darcus , Canadian director, screenwriter, painter and writer
- February 23 : William Hjortsberg , American writer († 2017 )
- March 1st : Sulejman Halil Mato , Albanian writer
- March 18 : Wolfgang Bauer , Austrian writer († 2005 )
- March 24th : Günther Bentele , German author of children's books
- March 24th : Karl Blessing , German publisher († 2005 )
April to June
- April 6 : Hans W. Geißendörfer , German director, author and producer
- April 10 : Jamie Reid , Canadian poet, writer and art activist († 2015 )
- April 10 : Paul Theroux , American travel writer
- April 10 : Martin Waddell , British writer
- April 11 : Benno Hurt , German writer, photographer and lawyer
- April 13 : Jean-Marc Reiser , French comic artist († 1983 )
- April 14th : Landolf Scherzer , German writer and publicist
- April 15 : Klaus Stiller , German writer
- April 18 : Michael D. Higgins , Irish politician and poet, Irish President
- April 22 : Michael Schulte , German writer and literary translator († 2019 )
- April 25 : Werner Enke , German actor and author
- April 30th : Heinz Prüller , Austrian journalist
- May 2nd : Elvira Hoffmann , German writer
- May 3 : Dieter Borchmeyer , German literary scholar
- May 4 : Erwin Kruk , German-Polish writer, Masurian poet and literary critic of the Polish language († 2017 )
- May 13 : Hademar Bankhofer , Austrian journalist
- May 19 : Nora Ephron , American screenwriter and film director († 2012 )
- May 21 : Norbert Klaus Fuchs , German author, editor and publisher
- May 22 : Donald Harman Akenson , American historian and writer
- May 23 : Uwe Brandner , German director and writer († 2018 )
- May 28 : Guntram Vesper , German writer and poet
- May 30 : Roberto Calasso , Italian essayist and cultural-philosophical writer
- May 31 : Hans Neuenfels , German writer, librettist, theater and opera director
- June 3 : Monika Maron , German writer
- June 5 : Spalding Gray , American actor, screenwriter and writer († 2004 )
- June 12th : Walther Umstätter , Professor of Library and Information Science
- June 15 : Frank Strecker , German actor, director and author († 2000 )
- June 22nd : Ed Bradley , American journalist († 2006 )
- June 24th : Julia Kristeva , Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst and author
- June 25 : Denys Arcand , Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer
- June 27 : James P. Hogan , British science fiction writer († 2010 )
- June 27 : Krzysztof Kieślowski , Polish film director and screenwriter († 1996 )
- June 30 : Roger Blachon , French cartoonist († 2008 )
July to September
- July 3 : Wilfried F. Schoeller , German literary critic and author († 2020 )
- July 4th : Tomaž Šalamun , Slovenian poet († 2014 )
- July 5th : Barbara Frischmuth , Austrian writer and translator
- July 7th : Wolfram Setz , German historian, editor, translator and essayist
- July 8 : Klaus J. Stöhlker , German-Swiss journalist, consultant, author and entrepreneur
- July 9 : Nancy Farmer , American writer
- July 11 : Heiner Bremer , German journalist
- July 16 : Dag Solstad , Norwegian author
- July 25 : Raúl Ruiz , Chilean-French film director and screenwriter († 2011 )
- July 26 : Enrique Fierro , Uruguayan writer, poet, translator and literary critic († 2016 ) - born in 1941 or 1942
- July 29th : Wolfgang Bittner , German writer
- July 29th : Peter Hohl , German writer, publicist and publisher
- August 2 : François Weyergans , Belgian-French writer († 2019 )
- August 5 : Alexander K. Dewdney , Canadian computer scientist, book author
- August 7 : Franco Columbu , Italian-American bodybuilder, chiropractor, writer, and film actor
- August 12 : Réjean Ducharme , French-Canadian writer and playwright († 2017 )
- August 16 : Kōjin Karatani , Japanese literary scholar and philosopher
- August 25 : Carol Bolt , Canadian playwright († 2000 )
- August 27 : Monika Sperr , German writer († 1984 )
- August 31 : Wolfgang Hilbig , German writer († 2007 )
- September 5 : Rachid Boudjedra , Algerian writer
- September 14 : Eckhard Henscheid , German writer
- September 16 : Hans-Georg Stümke , German weather observer, writer, historian and publicist († 2002 )
- September 19 : Peter Horton , Austrian guitarist, songwriter, television presenter and writer
- September 27 : Tommaso Di Ciaula , Italian writer and journalist
- September 29 : Gaston Salvatore , German-speaking writer († 2015 )
- September 30th : Britt Eleonora Arenander , Swedish writer, translator and journalist
October to December
- October 2 : John Sinclair , American poet and writer
- October 4 : Anne Rice , American writer
- October 5 : Manfred Bofinger , German graphic artist and cartoonist († 2006 )
- October 9 : Egon Ammann , Swiss publisher († 2017 )
- October 10 : Assadullah Habib , Afghan poet and writer
- October 10 : Gerd Honsik , German writer, poet and Holocaust denier
- October 10 : Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian civil rights activist and writer († 1995 )
- October 13 : Robert Hunter , Canadian journalist, author and politician († 2005 )
- October 19 : Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos , Angolan writer, politician and freedom fighter
- October 22 : Max Apple , American novelist and screenwriter
- October 25 : Anne Tyler , American writer
- October 26 : Bob de Groot , Belgian comic artist
- October 27 : Gerd Brantenberg , Norwegian author
- October 30 : Sérgio Sant'Anna , Brazilian writer († 2020 )
- November 6th : Mário Cláudio , Portuguese writer
- November 21 : Margriet de Moor , Dutch writer
- November 23 : Jochen Hauser , German writer and screenwriter
- November 24 : Ricardo Piglia , Argentine writer († 2017 )
- November 25 : Gerald Seymour , British writer
- November 28 : Hermann Strasser , Austrian sociologist and publicist
- December 1 : Jesús Moncada , Spanish writer († 2005 )
- December 3 : Julius Eduard Erdmann Ernst-August Prince von Anhalt , German journalist and book author
- December 6th : Heinz Gstrein , Austrian-Swiss orientalist, Orthodox theologian, foreign correspondent and non-fiction author
- December 7th : Jürgen Horlemann , German politician and publisher († 1995 )
- December 10 : Jan Flieger , German children's, youth and crime writer
- December 14 : Antoni Morell i Mora , Andorran writer († 2020 )
- December 25 : Lex Hixon , American poet, philosopher and spiritual teacher († 1995 )
Exact date unknown
- Volker Arzt , German graduate physicist, moderator and author
- Jenni Calder , British literary historian and poet
- Beverley Harper , Australian author († 2002 )
- Pat Mallet , French comic artist († 2012 )
- Rudi Palla , Austrian filmmaker and writer
Died
- January 1 : Max Neal , German Schwank author (* 1865 )
- January 13 : James Joyce , Irish writer (* 1882 )
- January 18 : Anton Kuh , Austrian journalist, essayist and narrator (* 1890 )
- February 2 : Johannes Schlaf , German playwright, narrator and translator (* 1862 )
- February 5 : Andrew Barton Paterson , Australian poet (* 1864 )
- February 9 : Elizabeth von Arnim , British writer (* 1866 )
- February 13 : Marcet Haldeman , American author (* 1887 )
- February 14 : Alfred Apfel , German lawyer, defense attorney and author (* 1882 )
- February 18 : Alfred Gustav Benedictus Ackermann-Teubner , German publisher and bookseller (* 1857 )
- March 8 : Sherwood Anderson , American narrator (* 1876 )
- March 28 : Virginia Woolf , British writer and publisher (* 1882 )
- March 30 : Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter , Swiss writer (* 1887 )
- April 8 : Max Herrmann-Neisse , German writer (* 1886 )
- April 8 : Marcel Prévost , French writer (* 1862 )
- April 8 : Mariusz Zaruski , Polish general, sailor, mountaineer, writer, poet and painter (* 1867 )
- April 17 : Alexander Zinn , German writer and politician (* 1880 )
- April 24 : Karin Boye , Swedish writer (* 1900 )
- April 26 : Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem , German writer (* 1854 )
- May 6 : Heinrich Simon , German journalist and publisher (* 1880 )
- May 21 : George Habib Antonius , Lebanese writer (* 1891 )
- July 4th : Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński , Polish poet (* 1874 )
- July 15 : Max Kretzer , German writer (* 1854 )
- July 26 : Josephine Siebe , German children's book author (* 1870 )
- August 7 : Rabindranath Tagore , Bengali poet, painter, philosopher (* 1861 )
- August 22 : Julius Petersen , German literary scholar (* 1878 )
- August 31 : Marina Tsvetaeva , Russian poet (* 1892 )
- October 8 : Gustav Gerson Kahn , American musician, songwriter and lyricist (* 1886 )
- October 14 : Arthur Holitscher , Czech Jewish writer (* 1869 )
- October 20 : Hanuš Bonn , Czech poet, literary critic and translator
- October 29 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afinogenow , Russian writer and playwright (* 1904 )
- October 29 : Bruno Cassirer , Polish Jewish publisher, gallery owner and horse breeder (* 1872 )
- November 6th : Maurice Leblanc , French writer (* 1864 )
- November 7th : Albin Zollinger , Swiss writer (* 1895 )
- November 17 : Edmond Haraucourt , French writer (* 1856 )
- December 8th : Ludwig Anton , Austrian writer and doctor (* 1872 )
- December 29 : Luigi Albertini , Italian politician and publicist (* 1871 )
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