Literature year 1942
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
prose
- February 20 : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry publishes the strongly autobiographical novel Pilote de guerre ( Flight to Arras ) initially in the United States under the title Flight to Arras .
The first edition of Stefan Zweig's chess novella in the hands of Georg P. Salzmann , Library of Burned Books
- February 23 : Stefan Zweig kills himself with an overdose of veronal in his house in Petrópolis , Brazil, together with his wife Lotte . His autobiographical work Die Welt von Gestern (The World of Yesterday) is published posthumously in exile in cooperation with the publishers Hamish-Hamilton London and Bermann-Fischer Verlag AB in Stockholm. On December 7th, the Schachnovelle will be published in Buenos Aires in a limited edition of 300 pieces .
- Albert Camus publishes the existentialist- philosophical novel L'Étranger ( The Stranger ) at the Paris publishing house Gallimard . This becomes one of the most printed French novels of the 20th century. In the same year the essay Le mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphos ) was published.
- The French author Jean Marcel Bruller secretly publishes the novella Le silence de la mer ( The silence of the sea ) under the pseudonym Vercors in the German-occupied Paris . It is the very first title from the underground publisher Éditions de Minuit .
- The novel The Moon Is Down ( The Moon went down ) by John Steinbeck appears.
- The American author Isaac Asimov publishes the short story Runaround in the science fiction magazine Astounding , in which he formulates the three robot laws for the first time .
- The novel The Seventh Cross ( The Seventh Cross ) by Anna Seghers is published in the United States.
- Agatha Christie publishes the detective novels The Dead in the Library , The Unfinished Portrait and The Shadow Hand .
- British children's author Enid Blyton publishes Five on a Treasure Island , the first novel in her Five Friends series.
- The children's book Poo-Poo and the Dragons is published by Cecil Scott Forester .
- Cornell Woolrich publishes the short story It Had to Be Murder . This was filmed in 1954 by Alfred Hitchcock under the title Rear Window .
- It seems that the little dancer of Izu by Yasunari Kawabata in the German translation of Oscar Benl .
Periodicals
- David Hare publishes the surrealist magazine VVV for the first time in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp , André Breton and Max Ernst .
Born
January to April
- January 1st : Anne Duden , German writer
- January 6th : Jochen Senf , German actor and author
- January 8 : Per Anon Anonsen , Norwegian film editor, actor, screenwriter and film producer
- January 10 : Rimantas Šavelis , Lithuanian writer and screenwriter
- January 16 : Sigrid Combüchen , Swedish writer and literary critic
- January 18 : Vassula Ryden , Egyptian author
- January 27 : Stewart Raffill , American film director and screenwriter
- February 1 : Terry Jones , British comedian, director and writer († 2020 )
- February 7th : Klaus Theweleit , German literary scholar, cultural theorist and author
- February 8 : Marianne Ach , German writer and teacher
- February 19 : Timothy Bond , Canadian film director and screenwriter
- February 21 : Margarethe von Trotta , German director and screenwriter
- February 24th : Keto von Waberer , German writer
- March 1 : Konrad Adam , German journalist and publicist
- March 2 : John Irving , American novelist
- March 5 : Mike Resnick , American science fiction writer († 2020 )
- March 23 : Ama Ata Aidoo , Ghanaian writer and politician
- March 23 : Michael Haneke , Austrian theater and film director, screenwriter and film critic
- March 25 : Richard O'Brien , English actor, writer and composer
- March 26 : Erica Jong , American writer
- March 29 : Kyōko Shinkai , Japanese writer and painter
- March 30th : María del Carmen Aquino Rotundo , Uruguayan writer and journalist
- April 1 : Samuel R. Delany , American science fiction writer
- April 6 : Kabir Stori , Pashtun poet and writer († 2006 )
- April 13 : Otto Marchi , Swiss writer and historian († 2004 )
- April 20 : Arto Paasilinna , Finnish writer († 2018 )
- April 21 : Gerd-Peter Eigner , German writer († 2017 )
- April 22nd : Giorgio Agamben , Italian philosopher, essayist and author
May to August
- May 2 : Udo Steinke , German writer († 1999 )
- May 3 : Karl-Heinz Garnitz , German writer
- May 6 : Ariel Dorfman , Chilean author and playwright
- May 12 : Barry B. Longyear , American science fiction writer
- May 17th : Verena C. Harksen , German translator, editor and writer
- May 19 : Otto Jägersberg , German writer and filmmaker
- May 22 : Monika Nothing , German writer, radio play author, painter, journalist and family counselor
- June 6 : Klaus Bednarz , German journalist and moderator († 2015 )
- June 14 : Jonathan Raban , British writer
- June 24th : Gerhard Roth , Austrian writer
- June 25 : Ivan Binar , Czech writer and translator
- June 25 : Michel Tremblay , Canadian writer and director
- June 26 : Sigrid Löffler , Austrian journalist and literary critic
- June 28 : Rupert Sheldrake , British author and biologist
- June 30 : Robert Ballard , American writer and deep-sea scientist
- July 2nd : Gert Neumann , German writer
- July 3rd : Gerhard Pilz , Austrian tradesman (printer), screenwriter and actor
- July 10 : Hermann Burger , Swiss writer († 1989 )
- July 11th : Daphne Marlatt , Canadian writer of Australian descent
- July 24 : Mike Yaconelli , American pastor, author and satirist († 2003 )
- July 26 : Enrique Fierro , Uruguayan writer, poet, translator and literary critic († 2016 ) - born in 1941 or 1942
- July 26 : Barry Graves , German journalist, author and radio presenter († 1994 )
- July 29 : Sten Nadolny , German writer
- July 30th : Bärbel Reetz , German writer
- August 1st : Adriano Sofri , Italian journalist
- August 5th : Sergio Ramírez , Nicaraguan writer and politician
- August 9 : Karol Sidon , Czech writer and rabbi
- August 14 : Alberto Abruzzese , Italian literary and media scholar
- August 14 : Molefi Kete Asante , American author and Afrocentrist
- August 15 : Friede Springer , German publisher
- August 23 : Jürg Stenzl , Swiss musicologist, author and university professor
- August 25 : Frances Itani , Canadian writer and poet
- August 28 : Ali Podrimja , Kosovar Albanian poet († 2012 )
September to December
- September 1st : António Lobo Antunes , Portuguese writer
- September 3 : Claire Krähenbühl , Swiss writer
- September 14 : Bernard MacLaverty , Northern Irish writer
- September 28 : Donna Leon , American writer
- October 1 : Günter Wallraff , German journalist
- October 6 : Anna Wahlgren , Swedish author
- October 13 : Dieter Stappert , Austrian journalist and team manager in motorsport († 2008 )
- October 14 : Péter Nádas , Hungarian writer
- October 19 : Andrew Vachss , American attorney and writer
- October 23 : Michael Crichton , American writer, screenwriter and director († 2008 )
- October 24 : Fernando Vallejo , Mexican writer
- October 31 : Ginka Steinwachs , German writer
- November 1 : Larry Flynt , American publisher
- November 3 : Martin Cruz Smith , American writer
- November 9 : Karin Kiwus , German writer
- November 12th : Karl Corino , German literary critic and writer
- November 12th : Dieter Wedel , German director and screenwriter
- November 27th : Walter Weiss , Austrian philosopher and author
- December 3 : Alice Schwarzer , German journalist
- December 3 : Frank Sels , Belgian comic artist and author († 1986 )
- December 6th : Peter Handke , Austrian writer and translator
- December 11th : Thomas Mitscherlich , German film director and author († 1998 )
- December 17th : Ulrich Schaffer , German writer, poet and photographer
- December 18 : Katja Behrens , German writer
- December 20 : Paul Dräger , German classical philologist, translator and science historian
- December 21 : Uwe Dick , German writer
- December 24th : Dominique Manotti , French novelist and historian
- December 27th : Klaus Hoffer , Austrian writer
- December 30 : Matt Cohen , Canadian writer († 1999 )
- December 31 : Gunter Hofmann , German journalist
Exact date of birth unknown
- Luis Alberto Ammann , Argentine writer, journalist and politician
- Josef Art , German Ju-Jutsuka, non-fiction author and sports official
- Wasef Bakhtari , Afghan intellectual and poet
- Kristian Gerner , Swedish historian, author and Eastern Europe expert
- Adam Hochschild , American journalist and writer
- Moshe Kahn , German literary translator
- Gottfried Knapp , German art critic and author
- Hainer Kober , German translator
- Uri Margolin , Israeli-Canadian literary scholar
- Kiran Nagarkar , Indian writer († 2019)
Died
Date of death secured
- January 6th : Alexander Beljajew , Russian writer (* 1884 )
- January 17th : Georg Hirschfeld , German writer of Jewish origin (* 1873 )
- January 21 : Heinrich Wolf , German writer (* 1858 )
- January 21 : Christiaan Cornelissen , Dutch author, activist, libertarian socialist (* 1864 )
- January 30th : Ina von Grumbkow , German adventurer and author (* 1872 )
- February 2 : Daniil Charms , Russian writer (* 1905 )
- February 2 : Hugh D. McIntosh , Australian sports organizer, newspaper publisher and theater entrepreneur (* 1876 )
- February 23 : Stefan Zweig , Austrian writer (* 1881 )
- February 27 : Ernst Pfeiffer , German author and journalist (* 1876 )
- March 21 : Jindřich Štyrský , Czech painter, photographer, graphic artist, poet, representative of surrealism and art theorist (* 1899 )
- April 12 : Marco Brociner , Austrian journalist and writer (* 1852 )
- April 15 : Robert Musil , Austrian writer (* 1880 )
- April 24 : Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian writer (* 1874 )
- April 24th : Fryco Rocha , Lower Sorbian poet and writer (* 1863 )
- April 30 : Jakob van Hoddis , German writer (* 1887 )
- May 11 : Hagiwara Sakutarō , Japanese writer (* 1886 )
- May 23 : Charles Robert Ashbee , English architect, interior designer, artisan, art theorist and poet (* 1863 )
- July 10 : Franz Blei , Austrian writer, translator and literary critic (* 1871 )
- July 20 : Moses Louis Annenberg , American publicist (* 1877 )
- July 22nd : Heinrich Reimers , German publicist (* 1879 )
- July 26 : Roberto Arlt , Argentine storyteller, playwright and journalist (* 1900 )
- August 5 : Janusz Korczak , Polish doctor, children's book author and educator (* 1878 )
- August 16 : Rudolf Greinz , Austrian writer (* 1866 )
- August 17 : Irène Némirovsky , French writer of Ukrainian descent (* 1903 )
- August 22 : Alice Duer Miller , American writer (* 1874 )
- August 28 : Fabio Fiallo , Dominican politician, diplomat, journalist and writer (* 1866 )
- September 17 : Henri Hinrichsen , German publisher (* 1868 )
- October 3 : František Čech-Vyšata , Czech travel writer (* 1881 )
- October 7th : Norman Gale , English poet (* 1862 )
- October 10 : Richard von Schaukal , Austrian poet (* 1874 )
- October 27 : Udell Sylvester Andrews , American film director and screenwriter (* 1894 )
- November 3 : Carl Sternheim , German playwright and author (* 1878 )
- November 15 : Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Swiss writer (* 1908 )
- November 22 : Kitahara Hakushū , Japanese writer (* 1885 )
- December 4 : Nakajima Atsushi , Japanese writer (* 1909 )
- December 11th : Jochen Klepper , German journalist, writer and sacred song poet (* 1903 )
- December 16 : Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger , German-speaking Jewish poet and victim of the Shoah (* 1924 )
- December 22nd : Gerhard Wartenberg , German author (* 1904 )
- December 29 : Màrius Torres , Catalan poet (* 1910 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Arturo Rossato , Italian journalist, playwright, librettist and poet (* 1882 )
Web links
Commons : Books 1942 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Magazine 1942 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Newspapers 1942 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files