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1941 Best Book Awards

Carnegie Medal
Visitors from London by Kitty Barne (winner)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (winner)

Authors born in 1941

Gill Alderman
Gary Alexander
Annamaria Alfieri
Charlotte Vale Allen
Max Apple
David Ashton
Murray Bail
Richard Baker
Richard L Baldwin
Carolyn Banks
Barbara Bartholomew
B W Battin
Rosalind Belben
Gregory Benford
Sandra Benitez
Jeanne Betancourt
Christopher H Bidmead
Patricia Bird
Jerry Bledsoe
Sandra Bolton
Rashid Boudjedra
Shirlee Busbee
Frederick Busch
Grant Callin
Stephen J Cannell
Philip Caputo
Ian Cochrane
Phoebe Conn
Wendy Cooling
Lori Copeland
Josephine Cox
Jasmine Cresswell
Bill Crider
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Donna Fletcher Crow
Jeanne M Dams
Mary Danby
John Darnton
Jon DeCles
P T Deutermann
Stephen Dobyns
Lynley Dodd
Emmanuel Dongala
Réjean Ducharme
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ron Ellis
Royston Ellis
Nora Ephron
Rita Clay Estrada
Nancy Farmer
Ellen Feldman
Allan Folsom
June Francis
J F Freedman
Nigel Frith
Alan Furst
Reg Gadney
Jane Gaskell
Jamila Gavin
Ed Gorman
Camarin Grae
Bill Granger
Spalding Gray
Stephen Gray
Martin H Greenberg
Richard Greener
Jack C Haldeman II
Robert Lee Hall
James Hamilton-Paterson
Niel Hancock
W A Harbinson
Philip Harbottle
Lyndon Hardy
Michael Hartland
David G Hartwell
Ernest Hebert
Tony Hendra
Diana Hendry
Nigel Hinton
William Hjortsberg
James P Hogan
Sandra Howard
Geoffrey Hoyle
Richard Hoyt
Anna Jacobs
Marie Jakober
Pat Jordan
Michael Kandel
Michael Kasner
Denis Kilcommons
Crawford Kilian
Garry Kilworth
Julia Kristeva
Ayşe Kulin
Christopher Lee
Peter Lefcourt
Jeremy Leven
Sam J Lundwall
Kirby McCauley
Roger McDonald
Robert McKee
Barry Maitland
Owen Marshall
Sandra Miesel
Anita Mills
Kay Mitchell
Bill Moody
Margriet de Moor
Timeri Murari
Barbara Neely
David Ohle
Michael O'Rourke
Maggie Osborne
David R Palmer
Mike Phillips
Ricardo Piglia
Daniel Pinkwater
Janet Quin-Harkin
Piers Paul Read
Anne Rice
Stephen Robinett
Madeleine St John
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Olive Senior
Gerald Seymour
Malcolm Shuman
Ian Slater
Elizabeth Smither
Dag Solstad
Jerry Spinelli
Ryder Stacy
Shane Stevens
Wallace J Swenson
Rob Swigart
Patrick Taylor
Paul Theroux
Maria Thomas
Louise Titchener
Barbara Trapido
Anne Tyler
Judith Van Gieson
Martin Waddell
Hugh Walker
Marilyn Wallace
Elizabeth Walter
Stella Whitelaw
John Edgar Wideman
Larry Woiwode
Gary K Wolf
George Wolk

Authors who died in 1941

Sherwood Anderson
Elizabeth Von Arnim
John G Brandon
Peter Drax
James Joyce
Maurice Le Blanc
Frances Little
A G Macdonell
Hjalmar Söderberg
Andrew Soutar
Hugh Walpole
Virginia Woolf
P C Wren

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