1944 in literature

See also: 1943 in literature, other events of 1944, 1945 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• An American Dilemma – Gunnar Myrdal
• Au rendez-vous allemand – (To the German Rendezvous) – Paul Éluard
• A Bell for Adano – John Hersey
• Beyond the Palisade (poetry) – James K. Baxter
• The Book of Imaginary Beings – Jorge Luis Borges
• Book of Naturalists – Charles William Beebe
• The Case of Mrs. Wingate – Oscar Micheaux
• Dangling Man  – Saul Bellow
• The Dawn Appears – Annie Greene Nelson
• Friday's Child – Georgette Heyer
• The Golden Fleece – Robert von Ranke Graves
• The Horse's Mouth – Joyce Cary
• Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
• Our Lady of the Flowers – Jean Genet
• Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
• The Razor's Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
• The Tall Book of Nursery Tales – Feodor Rojankovsky
• Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land) – Jorge Amado
• Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens – Hayyim Hazaz
• Two Frontiers (poetry) – Edwin James Bradley

Births

• Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Maori writer, who was to write "The Whale Rider"
• January 8 – Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
• February 10 – Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
• February 14 – Alan Parker, director, writer
• February 14 – Carl Bernstein, journalist
• February 16 – Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
• December 17 – Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist

Deaths

• July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
• September 13 – Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator
• December 30 – Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
• Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark