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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1946. ==Events== *January – Launch in the United Kingdom of Penguin Classics under the editorship of E. V. Rieu, whose translation of the ''Odyssey'' is the first published in the series and will be the country's best-selling book over the next decade. *January 5 – Estonian writer Jaan Kross is arrested and imprisoned by the occupying Soviet authorities. *February – Poet Ezra Pound, brought back to the United States on treason charges, is found unfit to face trial because of insanity and sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he remains for 12 years. *May 20 – W. H. Auden becomes a United States citizen. *May 22 – George Orwell leaves London to spend much of the next 18 months on the Scottish island of Jura, working on his novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (known at an earlier stage in its composition as ''The Last Man in Europe''). This year his ''Animal Farm'' becomes book of the year in the United States. *August 18 – Assamese poet Amulya Barua is killed aged 24 in communal violence while studying at the University of Calcutta; his only collection of poems, ''Achina'' ("The Stranger"), is published posthumously. *October 1 – English première of J. B. Priestley's drama ''An Inspector Calls'' (set in 1912) at the New Theatre, London, starring Ralph Richardson. *October 9 – Broadway première of Eugene O'Neill's drama ''The Iceman Cometh'' (set in 1912) at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York City. *November 7 – Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend. *November 8 – Christopher Isherwood becomes a United States citizen. *December 18 * *Brendan Behan is released from internment in the Republic of Ireland under an amnesty. * *Damon Runyon's ashes are scattered over New York City from an airplane piloted by Eddie Rickenbacker. *December 23 – Giovannino Guareschi publishes the first story about the priest Don Camillo in his magazine ''Candido''. *December 26 – David Lean's film of ''Great Expectations'' is released in England. *Publisher August Aimé Balkema produces his first book in South Africa, ''Vyjtig Gedigte'' by the poet C. Louis Leipoldt.〔("August Aime Balkema", ''South African History Online''; extracted from Human, K. (1999) “August Aime Balkema”, ''They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century'', Human & Rousseau, pp.442-445. )〕 *American writer and theologian Frederick Buechner resumes his Bachelor of Arts degree at Princeton University following war service. 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「1946 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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