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| 1944 |
| | | Jorge Luis Borges publishes Fictions, a collection of short stories | |
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| 1945 |
| | | English author Nancy Mitford has her first success with the novel The Pursuit of Love | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh publishes Brideshead Revisited, a novel about a rich Catholic family in England between the wars | |
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| 1945 |
| | | In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Eudora Welty sets her novel Delta Wedding in a contemporary southern plantation | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Titus Groan begins British author Mervyn Peake's trilogy of gothic novels | |
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| 1947 |
| | | English author and alcoholic Malcolm Lowry publishes an autobiographical novel, Under the Volcano | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Norman Mailer has immediate succes with his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, based on his military service in the Pacific | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US novelist and poet Jack Kerouac coins a term for his contemporaries, the Beat Generation | |
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| 1949 |
| | | George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel set in a terrifying totalitarian state of the future, watched over by Big Brother | |
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