On 31 October 2011 13:45, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> 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.
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- Andrew Gray
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