1946 in literature

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.
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