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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1941. ==Events== *January 3 - A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Nazi Germany by Martin Bormann on behalf of Adolf Hitler requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://german.about.com/library/gallery/blfoto_fraktur06E.htm )〕 *January 20 - Chittadhar Hridaya begins a 6-year sentence of imprisonment in Kathmandu for writing poetry in Nepal Bhasa during which time he secretly composes his Buddhist epic ''Sugata Saurabha'' in the same language. *Spring - ''The Antioch Review'' is founded as a literary magazine at Antioch College in Ohio. *April - Jean-Paul Sartre is released from prisoner of war camp on health grounds. *April 19 - Bertolt Brecht's play ''Mother Courage and Her Children'' (''Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder'') is premiered at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland with Therese Giehse in the title rôle.〔Therese Giehse interview with W. Stuart McDowell, 1968, in "Acting Brecht: The Munich Years," The Brecht Sourcebook, Carol Martin, Henry Bial, editors (Routledge, 2000) p. 71.〕 *May 5 - Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin meet while both reading English at St John's College, Oxford. *May 21 - 1941 theatre strike in Norway begins: Actors in the Norwegian professional theatre strike in response to the revocation of work permits for six actors who refused to perform on state radio for the Quisling regime under the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. *June - Noël Coward's comedy ''Blithe Spirit'' is premiered at Manchester Opera House in England. Opening in London on July 2, its run of 1,997 consecutive performances sets a record for non-musical plays in the West End theatre which will not be surpassed for more than twenty years. The original cast stars Kay Hammond as Elvira, Margaret Rutherford as Madame Arcati, Cecil Parker as Charles and Fay Compton as Ruth. The Broadway premiere takes place on November 5 at the Morosco Theatre. *August 6 - C. S. Lewis begins a series of BBC Radio broadcasts that will be adapted as ''Mere Christianity''. *September 3 - 19-year-old American poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr. flies a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V and afterwards writes "High Flight" about the experience; on December 11 he dies while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force. *September 6–7 - Under Nazi occupation, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever is among the Polish Jews interned in the Vilna Ghetto. *c. October - The first known reference to Babi Yar in poetry is written soon after the Babi Yar massacres by the young Jewish-Ukrainian poetess from Kiev and an eyewitness, Liudmila Titova; her poem "Babi Yar" will be discovered only in the 1990s. *October 27 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel ''The Last Tycoon'', left unfinished on the author's death in 1940, is edited by Edmund Wilson and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York City. *November - Brendan Behan is released from Borstal in England and deported to Ireland. *December * *During the Siege of Leningrad, Yakov Druskin, ill and starving, and Maria Malich, the second wife of imprisoned poet Danil Kharms, trudge across the city to Kharms' bombed-out apartment and collect a trunk full of manuscripts, preserving his and fellow poet Alexander Vvedensky's work for decades until it can be circulated. * *Penguin Books publishes the first story book under its Puffin Books children's paperback imprint in the United Kingdom, ''Worzel Gummidge'' by Barbara Euphan Todd. The series editor is Eleanor Graham.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/resources/specialcollections/archives/penguin/timeline )〕 *Bosnian Serb writer Branko Ćopić joins the Yugoslav Partisans. *Poet Ezra Pound applies to return to the United States from Italy but is refused. He begins appearing on Rome Radio, making antisemitic broadcasts sympathetic to the Axis powers. *''Classic Comics'' series launched in the United States with a version of ''The Three Musketeers''. 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「1941 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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