1939 in literature

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Sholem Asch wrote his novel Jesus. A Nazarene.
The postmodern novel At Swim -two -Birds ( At Swim - Two - Birds ) of the Irishman Flann O'Brien appears.
Finnegans Wake, the last novel by James Joyce, where he has worked since 1923, appears.
Antoine de Saint -Exupéry writes the experience report Terre des Hommes ( Wind, Sand and Stars ).

TS Eliot published the collection of poems Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats, which is the basis for the musical Cats decades later.

Before leaving Denmark on April 23, completed the drama Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children.
Joseph Kesselring wrote the comedy Arsenic and Old Lace ( Arsenic and Old Lace ), which is his only successful play.

The Finn Frans Eemil Sillanpää receives " for deep view and the exquisite style of art, which he portrays the farm life and the nature of his home country in their mutual context, " the Nobel Prize for Literature.

JANUARY 5: Luisa Futoransky, Argentine poet and writer
January 7: Michael of Greece, Greek prince and author
JANUARY 12: Helmut Eisendle, Austrian psychologist and writer († 2003)
JANUARY 15: Hartmut Geerken, German musician, composer, writer, publicist, radio playwright and filmmaker
January 23: Fred Wah, Canadian poet, writer and former university lecturer
JANUARY 29: Germaine Greer, Australian intellectuals, author and journalist
February 1: Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist, esoteric and author
February 10: Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong- Canadian journalist, author and diplomat
FEBRUARY 18: Federico Moleiro, Venezuelan poet
February 28: Erika Pluhar, Austrian actress, singer and author
March 3: Ariane Mnouchkine, French theater and film director, theater director and author
March 14: Yves Boisset, French film director and screenwriter
March 30: Christine Wolter, German writer
April 3: Henning Venske, German actor, comedian, presenter and writer
APRIL 12: Alan Ayckbourn, British dramatist
April 13: Seamus Heaney, Irish writer
APRIL 20: Peter S. Beagle, American novelist and songwriter
April 20: Katherine V. Forrest, Canadian writer
APRIL 21: Richard Goedeke, German mountaineers, climbers and author
April 22: Jason Anthony Miller, American actor and playwright († 2001)
APRIL 28: Burkhard Driest, German actor and screenwriter
APRIL 30: Trautl Brandstaller, Austrian journalist, writer and television editor

September 3: Vivi Bach, Danish singer, actress, television presenter and writer († 2013)
September 16: Breyten Breytenbach, South African- French writer, anti -apartheid activist and painter
September 16: Wolfram Schütte, German journalist, author, film critic and editor
September 26: Charlotte Grasnick, German author
September 26: George McWhirter, Canadian writer, translator and university teacher of Northern Irish origin
OCTOBER 5: Marie -Claire Blais, Canadian writer
OCTOBER 12: Vladimír Körner, Czech screenwriter, playwright and writer
October 16: Gerold Späth, Swiss writer
OCTOBER 21: Peter Plichta, German chemist and author
October 25: Rosemarie Eitzert, German children's book author
October 27: John Cleese, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
November 3: Terrence McNally, American playwright
November 6: Satoko Kizaki, Japanese writer
NOV 7: Lene Mayer- Skumanz, Austrian author
NOVEMBER 9: Marco Bellocchio, Italian director and screenwriter
November 18: Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
November 18: Amanda Lear, singer, painter, presenter, writer and actress
December 4: Günther Stingl, Austrian writer
December 10: Peter Schütt, German writer, politician and journalist
December 18: Friedrich Tenkrat, Austrian writer
December 25: Tununa Mercado, Argentine writer and journalist

Səməd Behrəngi, Persian writer, teacher, journalist and civil rights activist († 1968)
Jörg Nimmergut, German author
Yak Rivais, French artists and writers

July 7: Fritz Skowronnek, German journalist and writer (* 1858)
July 27: Hartley Burr Alexander, American philosopher, writer and ethnologist (* 1873)

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