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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1940. ==Events== *January - English literary magazine ''Horizon'' is first published in London by Cyril Connolly, Peter Watson and Stephen Spender. *February - Canadian writer Robertson Davies leaves the Old Vic repertory company in the U.K. *April - Máirtín Ó Cadhain is interned by the Irish government at Curragh Camp as a member of the Irish Republican Army. *June 5 - English novelist J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio ''Postscript'', "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Service in the U.K., marking the role of the pleasure steamers in the Dunkirk evacuation concluded the day before. *July * * Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans. Léopold Sédar Senghor also becomes a prisoner of war this year. P. G. Wodehouse is interned as an enemy alien. * * American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine ''Fantastic Novels'' begins its first run. *July 26 - Release of the movie adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'' with Aldous Huxley as a screenwriter. *December - Penguin Books launches its Puffin Books children's imprint in the United Kingdom with publication of "Puffin Picture Book No. 1", ''War on Land'', by James Holland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/resources/specialcollections/archives/penguin/timeline )〕 *December 21 - F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack aged 44 in the apartment of Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham leaving his novel ''The Love of the Last Tycoon'' unfinished. *December 29 - Heavy bombing causes the Second Great Fire of London, destroying the premises of Simpkin, Marshall, the U.K.'s largest book wholesaler, and of many publishers also in the Paternoster Row area of the city, including Longman, together with around 25,000 volumes in the Guildhall Library's stores and a copy of the ''Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'' in a jewelled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (1939); altogether Britain's worst book burning. On dawn patrol, Douglas Blackwood, a fighter pilot at this time, is able to see his family's publishing business, William Blackwood, burning. *Wills & Hepworth of Loughborough launch their classic Ladybird Books format in the United Kingdom with publication of ''Bunnykin's Picnic Party: a story in verse for children with illustrations in colour''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1940 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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