1543 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1543.

Events

 * unknown date – In France:
 * The Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris issues its first Index of prohibited (religious) books.
 * Guillaume Rouillé sets up as a bookseller in Lyon.

Prose

 * Mikael Agricola – Abckiria (first book printed in Finnish)
 * Nicolaus Copernicus – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)
 * Martin Luther – Vom Schem Hamphoras
 * Fernan Perez de Oliva, completed by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar – Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre
 * Andreas Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body, in Seven Books)
 * Benefizio della Morte di Cristo ("The Benefit of Christ's Death", attributed to Aonio Paleario)

Drama

 * Lodovico Dolce – Hecuba

Poetry

 * See 1543 in poetry

Births

 * February 4 – Giovanni Francesco Fara, Sardinian historian, geographer and clergyman
 * February 25 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, politician, historian and poet (died 1603)
 * November 2 – Kasper Franck, German theologian (died 1584)
 * Unknown dates
 * Louis Bellaud, Occitan language writer and poet (died 1588)
 * Thomas Deloney, silk weaver and writer (died in or before 1600 in literature)
 * Bartosz Paprocki, Polish and Czech historiographer, translator and poet (died 1614)
 * Thomas Twyne, Elizabethan translator and physician (died 1613)
 * Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian poet (died 1593)

Deaths

 * May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)
 * July 19 – Berthold of Chiemsee, German theologian (born 1465)
 * Unknown date – Jan Dubčanský ze Zdenína, Moravian nobleman, printer of Moravia's first Czech-language book (born 1490)