On 31 October 2011 13:45, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
The most prominent British writer to die in 1941 was Virginia Woolf, so no doubt we'll see a spate of reprints by about March. Others include Hugh Walpole (prolific but mostly forgotten), P. C. Wren ("Beau Geste"), A. G. Macdonell ("England, Their England"), H. E. Marshall ("Our Island Story").
Following on from this, I tried skimming some other countries, and got very excited when I noticed Tagore died in 1941, but on examination he's in the public domain already - India is life + 60.
Japan, Canada and New Zealand are life + 50, but I don't immediately see any exciting cases who died in 1961; Australia is in the process of transitioning from life + 50 to life + 70, and as a result no-one new will fall into the public domain this year. France is best left aside as discussed above; Germany is life + 70, which means Emanuel Lasker's books on chess will become PD, along with a handful of minor novelists.