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Entering the public domain in Europe

A work enters the public domain in most European countries (with the exception of
Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...
) 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the author's lifetime.


Writers

The section of ''Stephen Hero'' (
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
) added in 1963 will enter the UK public domain. *
A. Merritt Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884 – August 21, 1943) – known by his byline, A. Merritt – was an American Sunday magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 1999, ...
, an American Sunday magazine editor and writer of speculative fiction. * Akim Samar, a Soviet poet and novelist and the first Nanai-language writer. * Alberto Casañal Shakery, a Spanish poet, writer, humourist and novelist. * Alessandro Maragliano, an Italian poet, journalist and painter. * Alfred Deutsch-German, an Austrian poet, journalist, screenwriter and film director. *
Alice Rühle-Gerstel Alice Rühle-Gerstel (24 March 1894 – 24 June 1943) was a German-Jewish writer, feminist, and psychologist. Biography Alice Gerstel attended a girls' boarding school in Dresden, then the lyceum and the German-language teacher-training college ...
, a German journalist and activist. * Andreas Latzko, an Austrian novelist, playwright and biographer. * Annie Shepherd Swan, a Scottish journalist and writer of romantic fiction. *
Edward Heron-Allen Edward Heron-Allen FRS (born ''Edward Heron Allen'') (17 December 1861 – 28 March 1943) was an English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works of Omar Khayyam. Life Heron-Allen was born in London, the young ...
, an English journalist and translator. *
Edward Abbott Parry Sir Edward Abbott Parry (2 October 1863 – 1 December 1943) was a British judge and dramatist. Parry was born in London into a prominent Welsh family, the second son of barrister John Humffreys Parry and grandson of antiquary John Humffreys Parr ...
, an English playwright and children's author. * Eduardo Martínez Celis, a Mexican journalist, poet, essayist and playwright. * E. M. Delafield, an English author best known for ''Diary of a Provincial Lady''. *
Denji Kuroshima was a Japanese author. Personal life A largely self-taught writer of humble social origins, Kuroshima was born on Shōdoshima in the Inland Sea and went to Tokyo to work and study. Conscripted into the army in 1919, he was sent to fight in a do ...
, a Japanese anti-militarist novelist. * David Vygodsky, a Russian translator, poet and literary critic. *
Dan Billany Dan Billany (14 November 1913 – disappeared 20 November 1943) was an English novelist. Biography Billany was born and raised in Hull. He joined the Labour League of Youth and later the Hull Branch of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, but ...
, a British novelist of World War II. Note that ''The Cage'' and ''The Trap'' were published posthumously, and therefore will not enter the public domain in 2014. * Cale Young Rice, an American poet and dramatist. * Bernt Theodor Anker, a Norwegian author. *
Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Potter (, 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as '' The Tale of Peter Rabbit'', which was ...
, an author and illustrator best known for ''The Tale of Peter Rabbit''. * Beatrice Webb, an English socialist author. * Beatrice Hastings, an English writer, poet and literary critic. * Arthur Waugh, an English biographer, poet and father of Alec and Evelyn Waugh. * Gertrud Kolmar, a German poet. *
George Bramwell Evens The Rev. George Bramwell Evens (15 February 1884–20 November 1943) was, under the pseudonym Romany (and sometimes The Tramp), a British radio broadcaster and writer on countryside and natural history matters – quite possibly the first to bro ...
, a British writer on natural history and the countryside. * Froylán Turcios, a Honduran intellectual. *
Frida Uhl Maria Friederike Cornelia "Frida" Strindberg (née Uhl; 4 April 1872 – 28 June 1943) was an Austrian writer and translator, who was closely associated with many important figures in 20th-century literature. Biography Uhl was the daughter of F ...
, an Austrian writer. *
Fredrik Ramm Fredrik Ramm (11 March 1892 – 15 November 1943) was a Norwegian journalist. Personal life He was born in Oslo as a son of chief physician Fredrik G. O. Ramm and Anna Margaretha Brinchmann. He was a nephew of pioneering woman physician Louise ...
, a Norwegian journalist. * Frederick Franklin Schrader, an American journalist and dramatist. *
Ernst Ottwalt Ernst Ottwalt (13 November 1901 – 24 August 1943) was the pen name of German writer and playwright Ernst Gottwalt Nicolas. A communist, he fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and went into exile in the Soviet Union, where he fell victim to the Great Purge ...
, a German writer and dramatist. * Enrique Geenzier, a Panamanian poet. * Emily Poynton Weaver, a Canadian novelist and essayist. * Else Ury, a German, Jewish children's book author. *
Elinor Glyn Elinor Glyn ( Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern stand ...
, a British script writer and author of romantic fiction. * , a German, Jewish writer, art historian. *
Hanns Heinz Ewers Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilo ...
, a German writer, Enfant terrible and Nobel prize winner. * , a German writer, his Book "Hauptmann Latour" was forbidden by the Nazi Regime. *
Kurt Eggers Kurt Eggers (10 November 1905 – 12 August 1943) was a German writer, poet, songwriter, and playwright with close links to the Nazi Party. He served as both a member of a propaganda company ( Propagandakompanie) and as a Waffen-SS soldier at the ...
, a German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright. * Kočo Racin, a Macedonian poet. *
Kermit Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both Wo ...
, an American memoirist and the son of Theodore Roosevelt. *
Karl Schönherr Karl Schönherr (24 February 1867 - 15 March 1943) was an Austrian writer of Austrian Heimat themes. Biography Schönherr was born in Axams, near Innsbruck (Austria), to Joseph and Marie Suitner Schönherr. He began studying philosophy in Inn ...
, an Austrian writer on Heimat. * Jenő Rejtő, a Hungarian journalist and writer. *
Jovan Dučić Jovan Dučić ( sr-cyr, Јован Дучић, ; 17 February 1871 – 7 April 1943) was a Herzegovinian Serb poet-diplomat and academic. He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and modernist poets. Dučić published his first collec ...
, a Bosnian Serb writer and poet. *
José Gil Fortoul José Gil Fortoul (25 November 1861, in Barquisimeto, Lara – 15 June 1943, in Caracas) was a Venezuelan writer, historian, and politician, who was briefly the acting president of Venezuela. As a political scientist and legal scholar, he is cl ...
, a Venezuelan historian and writer. * Joseph Clayton, an English journalist, historian and biographer. * Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, a German philosopher and painter. * Jiří Langer, a Hebrew poet, scholar and essayist. * James Cowan, a New Zealand author on ethnography and colonial history. * Ivan Goran Kovačić, a Croatian poet and writer. * Ignacio Lasso, an Ecuadorian poet. * Hyun Jin-geon, a South Korean writer. *
Hermogenes Ilagan Hermogenes Ilagan (19 April 1873 in Bigaa, Bulacan – 27 February 1943) was a Filipino tenor, writer, stage actor, and playwright. He was a descendant of Francisco Baltazar. His talent in singing made him popular in the field of theater arts ...
, a Filipino writer and playwright. *
Henrik Pontoppidan Henrik Pontoppidan (24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and shor ...
, a Danish realist writer and Nobel Laureate. *
Gjuro Szabo Gjuro Szabo (, sometimes also Đuro Szabo; February 3, 1875 in Novska – May 2, 1943 in Zagreb) was a Croatian historian, art conserver and museologist. He published over 200 papers about Croatian national history, the history of art, art co ...
, a Croatian historian. * Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, a French avant-garde poet. * Robert Lively, an American screenwriter. *
Richard Hillary Flight Lieutenant Richard Hope Hillary (20 April 1919 – 8 January 1943) was an Anglo-Australian Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Second World War. He wrote the book '' The Last Enemy'' about his experiences during the Battle of Brit ...
, a British pilot who wrote about The Battle of Britain. * Raisa Blokh, a Russian poet. *
Radclyffe Hall Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author, best known for the novel ''The Well of Loneliness'', a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. In adulthood, Hall often went by the name Jo ...
, an English poet and author best known for ''The Well of Loneliness''. * Poykayil Johannan, a Dalit poet. *
Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, also known by the pseudonym Norbert Lorédan, (21 November 1865 – 30 January 1943) was a French theatre director, librettist, journalist and writer. He was born in Toulouse and died in Paris. Biography A son of a ban ...
, a French journalist and writer. * Per Imerslund, a Norwegian national socialist and autobiographer. *
Nordahl Grieg Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg (1 November 1902 – 2 December 1943) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and activism, political activist. He was a popular author and a controversial public figure. He served in World War II as a war c ...
, a Norwegian socialist poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist. *
Nankichi Niimi was a Japanese author, sometimes known as the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan. Niimi was born in Yanabe, in the city of Handa, Aichi, Handa, Aichi prefecture, on July 30, 1913. He lost his mother when he was four years old. His literary skill ...
, a Japanese author of children's fiction. *
Maurice Healy Maurice Healy (3 January 1859 – 9 November 1923) was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP). As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was returned to in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Gre ...
, an Irish writer best known for his legal memoirs. * Maria Jotuni, a Finnish author and playwright. * Mankumari Basu, an Indian poet and short story writer. * M. M. Mangasarian, an American writer best known for discussion of the historical Jesus. *
Louis Gillet Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian. Life Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876. He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the École nor ...
, a French art and literature historian. * Lorenz Hart, a lyricist who wrote songs like "Blue Moon" and "My Funny Valentine" * Lore Berger, a Swiss novelist. * Levon Pashalian, an Armenian short story writer, journalist and novelist. * Zygmunt Rumel, a Polish poet. * Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, an Azerbaijani essayist and novelist. *
Yury Tynyanov Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov ( rus, Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов, p=ˈjʉrʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ tɨˈnʲænəf; October 18, 1894 – December 20, 1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and scr ...
, a Soviet writer and screenwriter. * William Charles Scully, a South African poet and novelist. *
Willem Arondeus Willem Arondeus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Naz ...
, a Dutch artist and novelist. *
Wallace Nelson Wallace Alexander Nelson (29 April 1856 – 5 May 1943) was a short term Western Australian politician. He represented the electoral district of Hannans from 1904 to 1905 in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. He was described as the ...
, an Australian essayist. * W. W. Jacobs, an English novelist and short story writer best known for ''The Monkey's Paw'' *
Veselin Masleša Veselin Masleša ( sr-cyr, Веселин Маслеша; 20 April 1906 – 14 June 1943) was a Yugoslav writer, activist and Partisan. Veselin Masleša was born to a Bosnian Serb family in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then occupied by ...
, a Bosnian Serb writer. *
Vaman Malhar Joshi Vaman Malhar Joshi (January 21, 1882 – July 20, 1943) was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, British India. Early life Joshi was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family on January 21, 1882 in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Mahar ...
, an Indian writer. *
Tsugi Takano was a female novelist from Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. She was born in 1890 as the second daughter of a local merchant. In 1904, she entered Hamamatsu Women's High School and in 1907 she entered Shizuoko Women's High School. However, ...
, a Japanese novelist. * Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, an Indian playwright. * Thoma Abrami, an Albanian poet and journalist. * Theo Thijssen, a Dutch writer. *
Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét (; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, '' John Brown's Body'' (1928), for which he receiv ...
, an American poet, novelist and short story writer best known for ''John Brown's Body'' * Stephen Haggard, a British writer and poet. *
Simone Weil Simone Adolphine Weil ( , ; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Over 2,500 scholarly works have been published about her, including close analyses and readings of her work, since 1995. ...
, a French philosopher who wrote a plan for post-World War II France. * Shūsei Tokuda, a Japanese author. * Shaul Tchernichovsky, a Russian-born Hebrew poet. *
Sarah Grand Sarah Grand (10 June 1854 – 12 May 1943) was an English feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922. Her work revolved around the New Woman ideal. Early life and influences Sarah Grand was born Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke in Roseba ...
, a British feminist writer. * S. E. Cottam, an English poet. *
Rudolf Lothar Rudolf Lothar ú:dolf ló:tar(born Rudolf Lothar Spitzer; 25 February 1865 – 2 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born Austrian writer, playwright, critic and essayist. He was born and died in Budapest. Literary works * 1891 ''Der verschleier ...
, an Austrian writer and essayist. *
Kostis Palamas Kostis Palamas ( el, Κωστής Παλαμάς; – 27 February 1943) was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called Ne ...
, a Greek poet. * Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Dutch poet, mystic and classicist.


Artists

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Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Potter (, 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as '' The Tale of Peter Rabbit'', which was ...
- illustrated her classic children's books *
William M. Timlin William Mitcheson Timlin (11 April 1892 – 7 June 1943) was an architect and illustrator. Early life He was born in Ashington, Northumberland, the son of a colliery fireman. He showed talent for drawing at Morpeth Grammar School, and rece ...
, a South African illustrator. *
Gustav Vigeland Gustav Vigeland (11 April 1869 – 12 March 1943), born as Adolf Gustav Thorsen, was a Norwegian sculptor. Gustav Vigeland occupies a special position among Norwegian sculptors, both in the power of his creative imagination and in his product ...
, Norwegian sculptor. * Henri Martin, French painter. *
Camille Claudel Camille Rosalie Claudel (; 8 December 1864 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity, but later gained recognition for the originality and quality of her work. The ...
, French sculptor. *
Maurice Denis Maurice Denis (; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, he is associated with ''Les Nabis'', symbolism, a ...
, French painter. *
Chaïm Soutine Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a Belarusian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the ...
, French expressionist painter. *
Sophie Taeuber-Arp Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp (; 19 January 1889 – 13 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer. Born in 1889 in Davos, and raised in Trogen, Switzerlan ...
, Swiss artist and sculptor. *
Robert Antoine Pinchon Robert Antoine Pinchon (, 1 July 1886 in Rouen – 9 January 1943 in Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (''l'École de Rouen'') who was born and spent most of his life in France. He was consist ...
, French Post-Impressionist landscape painter. *
Jovan Dučić Jovan Dučić ( sr-cyr, Јован Дучић, ; 17 February 1871 – 7 April 1943) was a Herzegovinian Serb poet-diplomat and academic. He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and modernist poets. Dučić published his first collec ...
, Bosnian Serb poet and writer. *
Oskar Schlemmer Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the w ...
, German poet and sculptor. * Carmen Zaragoza y Rojas, Filipino painter * Anna Alma-Tadema * Franz Courtens * Aristarkh Lentulov * John R. Neill, American magazine and children's book illustrator * Nils von Dardel *
Sarah Purser Sarah Henrietta Purser RHA (22 March 1848 – 7 August 1943) was an Irish artist mainly noted for her work with stained glass. Biography Purser was born in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) in County Dublin, and raised in Dungarvan, County Wat ...
Irish *
Alain John Alain Jordan Clement John (20 June 1920 – 23 December 1943) was an aspiring sculptor of Armenian descent who joined the RAF as a navigator, and was killed during the Second World War. John is known for his statue of ''Christ in Blessing'', whi ...
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Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer Dionís Baixeras i Verdaguer (1862–1943) was a naturalist Spanish artist from Barcelona, who specialized in oil on canvas and was noted for his realistic and detailed Orientalist and everyday life scenes. Early life Baixeras was born in Bar ...
* Edmond Delphaut *
Ella Du Cane Ella Du Cane (1874-1943) was a British artist best known for her watercolors of landscapes and exotic locales. Early life Ella Mary Du Cane was the third and youngest daughter of politician and colonial administrator Sir Charles Du Cane and his ...
* Emil Mazy *
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (January 7, 1873 – June 24, 1943) was an American illustrator, Painting, painter, and printmaker who painted and illustrated Tennessee society, including the state's women and children. As a printmaker, she pione ...
* Emanuel Bachrach-Barée


Composers and musicians

* Fats Waller, American jazz musician and entertainer. * Geoffrey Shaw, English composer and musician. According to the Logos Foundation, works by these composers published during their lifetimes are in the public domain. *
Joseph Schillinger Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger ( Russian: Иосиф Моисеевич Шиллингер, (other sources: ) – 23 March 1943) was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Compositio ...
* Sergei Rachmaninov * * Leo Smit * Charles N. Daniels *
Lorenzo Barcelata Lorenzo Barcelata (July 24, 1898 – July 13, 1943) was a Mexican composer and actor born in Tlalixcoyan, Veracruz. He died in Mexico City from cholera, shortly before his 45th birthday. Barcelata came from a musically oriented family. He wrote ...


Academics

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Max Wertheimer Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was an Austro-Hungarian psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book, ''Productive Thinking'', and ...
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Franz Oppenheimer Franz Oppenheimer (March 30, 1864 – September 30, 1943) was a German Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state. Life and career After studying medicine in Freiburg and ...
, German-Jewish sociologist and political economist.


Other

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Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla ( ; ,"Tesla"
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George Washington Carver, American scientist and inventor. *
Max Reinhardt Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he is regarded as one of the most pro ...
, American actor and director. *
John Harvey Kellogg John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, eugenicist, and businessman. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. The ...
* Johannes Hähle, German World War II photographer.


Brazil

* Afrânio de Melo Franco ( pt)


Entering the public domain in the United States

The
Copyright Term Extension Act The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act – also known as the Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection Act – extended copyright terms in the United States in 1998. It is one of several a ...
means no published works would enter the public domain in this jurisdiction until 2019. Unpublished works by authors who died in 1943 entered the public domain on January 1, 2014.


Entering the public domain in 50 years post mortem auctoris countries

In countries where works enter the public domain 50 years after the death of the creator (such as
Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
) the following authors' works will be in the public domain in 2014. * Stark Young, American playwright, novelist and essayist. *
Gustav Regler Gustav Regler (25 May 1898 – 14 January 1963) was a German writer and journalist. Background Gustav Regler was born on 25 May 1898 in Merzig, in the Prussian Rhine Province (now Saarland). Career Regler served in the German Infantry during ...
, German socialist novelist. * Gilardo Gilardi, Argentine composer. * Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist. *
Otto Harbach Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies and operettas. Harbach collaborated as lyricist or librettist with many of the leading B ...
, American lyricist and librettist. * Robert Frost, American poet. *
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...
, American poet, novelist and short story writer. *
Arthur Guy Empey Arthur is a common male given name of Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. Another theory, more ...
, American author and screenwriter. * Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer. *
William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...
, American modernist poet. *
Jean Bruce Jean Bruce (22 March 1921 – 26 March 1963), born Jean Brochet, was a prolific French popular writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Alexandre, Jean Alexandre Brochet, Jean-Martin Rouan, and Joyce Lindsay. He died in a car accident in ...
, French popular writer. *
Xul Solar Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (14 December 1887 – 9 April 1963), an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages. Biography Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari was born ...
, Spanish sculptor, painter, writer and inventor of imaginary languages. *
Kodō Nomura was the pen-name of Nomura Osakazu (野村長一), a novelist and music critic in Shōwa period Japan. He also used the pen-name Araebisu for his music criticism. He is famous for his creation of the fictional detective Zenigata Heiji. Early li ...
, Japanese novelist and movie critic. *
Christopher Hassall Christopher Vernon Hassall (24 March 1912 – 25 April 1963) was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical partnership with the actor and composer Ivor Novello after worki ...
, English actor, librettist, lyricist and poet. *
Roland Pertwee Roland Pertwee (15 May 1885 – 26 April 1963) was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of ''Doctor Who'' actor Jon Pertwee and playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee. He was al ...
, English playwright and screenwriter. * Lope K. Santos, Filipino Tagalog writer. * Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. *
John Cowper Powys John Cowper Powys (; 8 October 187217 June 1963) was an English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse ...
, British novelist. *
Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book ''The Wa ...
, American poet. * Oliver La Farge, American writer. *
Clifford Odets Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdra ...
, American playwright and screenwriter. * Georges Braque, French Cubist sculptor and painter. * David Low, New Zealand political cartoonist who worked in the UK. * Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright. * Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter. *
Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the s ...
, French poet, novelist, playwright and artist. *
C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge Univers ...
, Irish novelist, poet and essayist. *
Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxle ...
, English novelist and essayist. *
Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, comp ...
, Romanian and French essayist and poet. *
Edith Hamilton Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany ...
, American educator and author


Entering the public domain in 20 years p.m.a. countries

In countries where works enter the public domain 20 years after the death of the creator (such as
Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
) the following authors' works will be in the public domain in 2014. * Charizma, American hip hop artist. * Léo Ferré, French poet and composer. *
William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel ''Lord of the Flies'' (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980 ...
, English poet, novelist and playwright best known for ''Lord of the Flies''.


See also

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1943 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1943. Events *January 4 – Thomas Mann completes ''Joseph der Ernährer'' (Joseph the Provider) in California, the last of his '' Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph u ...
,
1953 in literature Events from the year 1953 in literature . Events *January 5 – '' Waiting For Godot'', a play by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, has its first public stage performance, in French as ''En attendant Godot'', at the in Paris. Beckett's novel ' ...
,
1963 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1963. Events *January – ''Novy Mir'' publishes "Matryona's Home", the first of three more stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn critical of the Soviet regime. They wil ...
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1973 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1973. Events *March 6 – The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (''Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i um ...
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