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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1944. ==Events== *February 6 – Première of Jean Anouilh's tragedy ''Antigone'', at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Nazi-occupied Paris. *May – Première of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist drama ''Huis Clos'', at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Nazi-occupied Paris. *June 1 & June 5 – The first and second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem ''Chanson d'automne'' (''Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.'') are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres as a coded message to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time). *June * *D-Day landings and Invasion of Normandy: English soldier-poet Keith Douglas is killed; Vernon Scannell (as John Bain) experiences the incident that gives rise to the poem "Walking Wounded" (1965) and is wounded; and, during lulls in the fighting, J. D. Salinger is working on an early version of ''The Catcher in the Rye'' and Dennis B. Wilson is writing the poem that will be published as ''Elegy of a Common Soldier'' in 2012. * *The final edition of the Breton nationalist newspaper ''L'Heure Bretonne'' is published. *August – With the Liberation of Paris, Jean Genet's novel ''Notre Dame des Fleurs'' (1943) can begin to circulate openly. *September 14 – Laurence Olivier opens in the title rôle of ''Richard III'' at The Old Vic in London. *October – Contents of the Załuski Library are deliberately destroyed during the planned destruction of Warsaw by Nazi occupiers. *November 22 – Release in England of Laurence Olivier's ''Henry V'', the first work of Shakespeare filmed in colour. *November 23 – Arthur Miller's play ''The Man Who Had All the Luck'' (written in 1940) has its Broadway première at the Forrest Theatre in New York City but lasts for only 4 performances. *December 26 – Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical "memory play" ''The Glass Menagerie'', adapted from a short story, premières at the Civic Theatre in Chicago. *c. December – Günter Grass is conscripted into the Waffen-SS. *English actor-manager Geoffrey Kendal arrives in India for the first time with Entertainments National Service Association touring Patrick Hamilton's drama ''Gas Light''; from 1947 Kendal's touring repertory theatre company "Shakespeareana" will perform Shakespeare in towns and villages across the country for several decades. 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「1944 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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