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Talk:English-only movement

Texas
“If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas.” Miriam A. Ferguson 170.140.150.50 (talk) 13:58, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * A great line, but almost certainly misattributed to Ferguson. See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miriam_A._Ferguson   Will Beback    talk    17:56, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to note that many of the citations for this page are dead links. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.218.72 (talk) 19:46, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was no move. There is no consensus supporting a page move at this time. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 09:51, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

English-only movement → English language-only movement of the United States —

There have been English people only movements in US history, advocating exclusion of those who were not of English stock, like the Irish, etc. There are also English language only movements in countries other than the United States. This article should be renamed.

76.66.197.2 (talk) 05:15, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

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 * On the proposal's first point, I'm not aware of an "English-only movement" in U.S. history that referred to English people. As to the second point, if there are English-only movements in countries other than the U.S., that info can be added to this article under the current name without problem. Station1 (talk) 05:52, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This article is only about the US, other movements should not be drowned out by the content of this page, so moving this page would allow another article to be situated at this current name that is not unbalanced by the amount of US material. This article is substantial already, so adding to it would only result in a split sometime soon anyways. 70.29.209.121 (talk) 05:13, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Not convinced. Is the author refering to natvism with his first point? If so, it is already covered there. In that case, I don't even think a disambiguation page is necessary, a hatnote would probably do. Moogwrench (talk) 23:51, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was referring to a type of nativism involving descendants of the ethnic English colonists of the US. I will also note that there are (and were) also such movements in other countries, as the nativism article points out. 70.29.209.121 (talk) 05:34, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

 * I don't object, but is there any evidence of these movements in other countries?   Will Beback    talk    06:19, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
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Unreliable source
Cross-checking the facts on proenglish.org I have noticed some biased information. This source uses its own interpretation of laws when stating the English as Official language information for states. Before adding each individual state, that states laws should be cross-checked individually to make sure they infact have an official language. Specifically I noticed the Massachusetts information was incorrect, a similar discussion is also taking place on the Massachusetts talk page.--Extrabatteries (talk) 00:34, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks, Extrabatteries! I was just coming to this page to make the change in light of the discussion on the Massachusetts page. Tfolkman 17:27, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This is actually a serious problem. I came here after working on a somewhat related section in Languages of the United States.  I'll begin to tackle it soon, but would appreciate anyone else jumping in.  Cheers, ClovisPt (talk) 17:52, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Dade County
This edit came up on my watchlist. I noticed the citation needed and did some googling. I found some sources, but they seem to cherrypick the info presented according to their "take" on the subject. I don't have the time right now to sift something supportable and coherent which avoids WP:SYNTH out of the sources I found, so I'll just list what I've found here in case someone else wants to do that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:22, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Missouri has an official policy
We voted for an English only amendment back in 2008 and it passed. Here is a website that shows states that have such laws.

Here is another link: 1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.177.81 (talk) 23:31, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Breaking the Law.
According to the article states like Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Montana have declared English as the only official language of the state. My question is how officials make references to the States themselves while conducting official business without breaking the law? I mean, those names are all Spanish names. Do they break the Law when they mention their own States? Should they not change those names to English names if English is the only official language? Pipo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.26.48.77 (talk) 02:35, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Louisiana
Currently the Louisiana entry says English is the sole official language of Louisiana, but Louisiana has no official language, and recognizes both French and English as working languages. The source cited is referenced as stating that English has been the official language since 1811, but the same website has a page specifically for Louisiana that contradicts that. Hangmanwa7id (talk) 20:44, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

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Would it not be more appropriate to use "Official English" for the primary name of this movement rather than "English-only", since that's what they call themselves? Proponents of this movement find it misleading when people say "English-only", claiming that it implies they want to ban the use and study of other languages, which they don't. They do advocate that English should be the only official language, so the "English-only" name really isn't that inaccurate, but don't groups and movements have the right to choose what other people call them? Does Wikipedia have a policy for this? Justin Kunimune (talk) 23:15, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

 * The policy is at WP:COMMONNAME, which says we should generally use the name most often given to the topic by reliable sources. Station1 (talk) 06:00, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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1926 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1926.

Events

 * February 8 – Seán O'Casey's play The Plough and the Stars opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. At the February 11 performance there is a near-riot: one audience member strikes an actress.
 * February 12 – The Irish Free State Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints a Committee on Evil Literature.
 * February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church.
 * April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in the United States.
 * May 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford.
 * October 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The White Guard (Белая гвардия), partly serialized in Rossiya before the magazine's suppression earlier in the year, opens as a dramatic adaptation, The Days of the Turbins, at the Moscow Art Theatre. It is enjoyed by Stalin.
 * October 14 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne first appears, published by Methuen in London.
 * December 3 – The English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey. On December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel by the journalist Ritchie Calder, staying under her husband's mistress's surname.
 * December – Thomas Mann begins writing Die Geschichten Jaakobs in Munich, first of the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder), on which he will work until January 1943.
 * unknown dates
 * Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac establish the Théatre Alfred-Jarry in Paris to produce surrealist drama.
 * The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is founded in Middlebury, Vermont.
 * Vsevolod Meyerhold stages an expressionistic production of Gogol's satirical comedy The Government Inspector (Ревизор, 1836) in Moscow.
 * Margaret Mitchell begins the novel Gone with the Wind, which will appear 1936.
 * The remains of the English poet Isaac Rosenberg (killed in battle in 1918) are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
 * Peter Llewelyn Davies establishes the London publishing house Peter Davies Ltd.

Fiction

 * Ion Agârbiceanu – Legea trupului
 * Marcel Arland – Monique
 * Roberto Arlt – Mad Toy (El juguete rabioso)
 * Isaac Babel – Red Cavalry («Конармия», short stories)
 * Henry Bellamann – Petenera's Daughter
 * Anthony Berkeley – The Wychford Poisoning Case
 * Louis Bromfield – Early Autumn
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs – The Moon Maid
 * Willa Cather – My Mortal Enemy
 * Marjorie Bowen – Mistress Nell Gwynne
 * G. K. Chesterton – The Incredulity of Father Brown
 * Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
 * J.J. Connington – Death at Swaythling Court
 * Freeman Wills Crofts – The Cheyne Mystery
 * James R. Crowell and Samuel C. Hildreth – The Spell of the Turf
 * Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Tirano Banderas: novela de tierra caliente (Tyrant Banderas)
 * Arthur Conan Doyle – The Land of Mist
 * Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – Number 17
 * William Faulkner – Soldiers' Pay
 * Ronald Firbank – Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald – All the Sad Young Men
 * Ford Madox Ford – A Man Could Stand Up (third book of the four-volume Parade's End)
 * C. S. Forester – Payment Deferred
 * Dion Fortune – The Secrets of Dr. Taverner
 * Zona Gale – Preface to Life
 * Hugo Gernsback – Ralph 124C 41+ (in book form)
 * Ellen Glasgow – The Romantic Comedians
 * Ricardo Güiraldes – Don Segundo Sombra
 * H. Rider Haggard – The Treasure of the Lake
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * The Sun Also Rises
 * The Torrents of Spring
 * Harold Heslop –  (Under the Sway of Coal, translation of Goaf)
 * Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades
 * Sydney Horler – The House of Secrets
 * Mikheil Javakhishvili – The White Collar (თეთრი საყელო, Tetri sakelo)
 * Franz Kafka – The Castle
 * Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) – "The Dancing Girl of Izu" (伊豆の踊子, "Izu no odoriko", short story)
 * D. H. Lawrence – The Plumed Serpent
 * Agnes Mure Mackenzie – The Quiet Lady
 * Compton Mackenzie – Fairy Gold
 * Hope Mirrlees – Lud-in-the-Mist
 * George Moore – Ulich and Soracha
 * Vladimir Nabokov (as V. Sirin) – Mary («Машенька», Mashen'ka)
 * Carola Oman – King Heart
 * E. Phillips Oppenheim
 * The Golden Beast
 * Prodigals of Monte Carlo
 * Baroness Orczy – The Celestial City
 * Cassiano Ricardo – Vamos caçar papagaios
 * Grigol Robakidze – The Snake's Skin (გველის პერანგი)
 * Sagitta (John Henry Mackay) – Der Puppenjunge (The Pansy; in English as The Hustler)
 * Marquis de Sade – Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
 * Dorothy L. Sayers – Clouds of Witness
 * Arthur Schnitzler – Dream Story (Traumnovelle)
 * Thorne Smith – Topper (aka The Jovial Ghosts)
 * Cecil Street – Dr. Priestley's Quest
 * A. H. Tammsaare – Tõde ja Õigus (Truth and Justice, begins publication)
 * Sylvia Thompson – The Hounds of Spring
 * B. Traven – The Death Ship (Das Totenschiff)
 * S. S. Van Dine – The Benson Murder Case (the first Philo Vance mystery)
 * Henry Wade – The Verdict of You All
 * Edgar Wallace
 * The Avenger
 * Barbara on Her Own
 * The Northing Tramp
 * The Terrible People
 * The Yellow Snake
 * Sylvia Townsend Warner – Lolly Willowes
 * H. G. Wells – The World of William Clissold
 * Walter F. White – Flight
 * Monteiro Lobato — O Presidente Negro

Children and young people

 * Angela Brazil – Joan's Best Chum
 * Will James – Smoky the Cowhorse
 * A. A. Milne – Winnie-the-Pooh
 * Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Hungry Tiger of Oz (20th in the Oz series overall and the sixth written by her)

Drama

 * Dorothy Brandon – Blind Alley
 * Bertolt Brecht – Man Equals Man (Mann ist Mann)
 * Mikhail Bulgakov – The Days of the Turbins («Дни Турбиных»)
 * G. D. H. Cole – The Striker Stricken
 * St. John Greer Ervine – Anthony and Anna
 * J. B. Fagan – And So To Bed
 * Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – After Dark
 * John Galsworthy – Escape
 * Patrick Hastings – Scotch Mist
 * Zora Neale Hurston – Color Struck (published)
 * Seán O'Casey – The Plough and the Stars
 * Eden Phillpotts – Blue Comet
 * Ben Travers – Rookery Nook
 * Sergei Tretyakov – I Want a Baby («Хочу ребёнка»)

Poetry

 * Mário de Andrade – Losango cáqui
 * Langston Hughes – The Weary Blues
 * Robert McAlmon – The Portrait of a Generation
 * Hugh MacDiarmid – A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
 * Dorothy Parker – Enough Rope
 * Vita Sackville-West – The Land

Non-fiction

 * Germán List Arzubide – El movimiento estridentista
 * Benedictine Vulgate (begins publication)
 * Angela Brazil – My Own Schooldays
 * Arthur Conan Doyle – The History of Spiritualism
 * H. Rider Haggard – The Days of My Life
 * T. E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
 * Otto Schmidt (chief editor) – Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая советская энциклопедия, Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya; begins publication)
 * Dan Simonescu – Încercări istorico-literare (Literary and Historical Essays)
 * R. H. Tawney – Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
 * Helen Thomas – As It Was
 * W. B. Yeats – Autobiographies
 * Paul Zarifopol – Din registrul ideilor gingașe (A Register of Tender Ideas)
 * Alfred Eckhard Zimmern – The Third British Empire

Births

 * January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (died 2009)
 * January 12 – Shumon Miura, Japanese novelist (died 2017)
 * January 13 – Michael Bond, English fiction writer and creator of Paddington Bear (died 2017)
 * January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (died 1991)
 * January 27 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born musician and writer (died 2003)
 * February 3 – Richard Yates, American novelist (died 1992)
 * February 8 – Neal Cassady, American writer and poet (died 1968)
 * February 20 – Richard Matheson, American science fiction writer (died 2013)
 * March 3 – James Merrill, American poet (died 1995)
 * March 7 – Chemmanam Chacko, Indian poet (died 2018)
 * March 24 – Dario Fo, Italian dramatist and actor (died 2016)
 * March 27 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (died 1966)
 * March 31 – John Fowles, English novelist (died 2005)
 * April 3 – Luís de Sttau Monteiro, Portuguese novelist and dramatist (died 1993)
 * April 12 – Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer (died 2018)
 * April 13 – Egon Wolff, Chilean dramatist (died 2016)
 * April 23
 * J. P. Donleavy, Irish American novelist (died 2017)
 * Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist and children's writer (died 2003)
 * April 28 – Harper Lee, American novelist (died 2016)
 * April 30 – Edmund Cooper, British poet and author (died 1982)
 * May 15 – English twins
 * Anthony Shaffer, dramatist and screenwriter (died 2001)
 * Peter Shaffer, dramatist (died 2016)
 * May 21 – Robert Creeley, American author (died 2005)
 * June 3 – Allen Ginsberg, American Beat Generation poet (died 1997)
 * June 4 – Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright and critic (died 2020)
 * June 13
 * Kanam EJ, Malayalam novelist and lyricist (died 1982)
 * Dalmiro Sáenz, Argentinian writer (died 2016)
 * June 19 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher (died 1972)
 * July 7 – Spencer Holst, American writer and storyteller (died 2001)
 * July 11 – Frederick Buechner, American author and minister (died 2022)
 * July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (died 2001)
 * August 6 – Elisabeth Beresford, English children's author (died 2010)
 * August 12 – Wallace Markfield, American comic novelist (died 2002)
 * August 13 – Roy Heath, Guyanese novelist (died 2008)
 * August 14
 * Alice Adams, American short story writer (died 1999)
 * René Goscinny, French writer and co-creator of Astérix (died 1977)
 * September 3 – Alison Lurie, American novelist and academic (died 2020)
 * September 6 – Clancy Sigal, American writer (died 2017)
 * September 14 – Michel Butor, French writer (died 2016)
 * September 16 – John Knowles, American novelist (died 2001)
 * October 2 – Jan Morris, born James Morris, Anglo-Welsh historian and travel writer (died 2020)
 * October 15 – Evan Hunter, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
 * November 5 – John Berger, English art critic and novelist (died 2017)
 * November 11
 * José Manuel Caballero, Spanish novelist and poet (died 2021)
 * Harold Perkin, English social historian (died 2004)
 * November 19 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (died 2011)
 * November 20 – John Gardner, English thriller writer (died 2007)
 * November 25 – Poul Anderson, American science fiction writer (died 2001)
 * December 23 – Robert Bly, American writer (died 2021)

Deaths

 * January 14
 * René Boylesve, French author (born 1867)
 * August Sedláček, Czech historian (born 1843)
 * January 26 – Bucura Dumbravă, Romanian novelist and spiritualist (malaria, born 1868)
 * February 1 – Ishibashi Ningetsu (石橋 忍月), Japanese author and critic (born 1865)
 * February 6 – Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin, German theologian (born 1847)
 * February 12 – Radu Rosetti, Romanian politician, historical novelist and memoirist (born 1853)
 * March 3 – Sir Sidney Lee, English biographer (born 1859)
 * May 9 – J. M. Dent, English publisher (born 1849)
 * May 21 – Ronald Firbank, English novelist (born 1886)
 * May 23 – Sigrid Elmblad, Swedish author and translator (born 1860)
 * May 26 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian Expressionist poet (meningitis, born 1904)
 * June 27 – Addie C. Strong Engle, American author and publisher (born 1845)
 * July 8 – Karel Václav Rais, Czech realist novelist (born 1859)
 * July 11 – Fran Detela, Slovenian academic and writer (born 1850)
 * July 14 – Elisabeth Cavazza, American author, journalist, and music critic (born 1849)
 * July 19 – Ada Cambridge, English/Australian writer and poet (born 1844)
 * July 22 – John Burland Harris-Burland, British writer (born 1870)
 * August 1 – Israel Zangwill, English poet (born 1864)
 * October 5 – Javier de Viana, Uruguayan writer (born 1868)
 * October 9 – Helena Nyblom, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales (born 1843)
 * October 11 – Albert Robida, French illustrator and novelist (born 1848)
 * November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, Russian memoirist (born 1869)
 * December 8 – Sarah Doudney, English novelist, children's writer and hymnist (born 1841)
 * December 12 – Jean Richepin, French poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1849)
 * December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (born 1875)
 * unknown date
 * Emma Whitcomb Babcock, American litterateur and author (born 1849)
 * Susanne Vandegrift Moore, American editor and publisher (born 1848)

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Herbert Brook Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Grazia Deledda
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George Kelly, Craig's Wife
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
 * Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
 * Blindman International Poetry Prize: Ruth Manning-Sanders, The City

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1927 in literature

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Events

 * January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo.
 * February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes, an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris salon. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien.
 * February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre (Theatre Masque) opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan.
 * May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel To the Lighthouse is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism,
 * June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock. In November he takes British citizenship.
 * July 5 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
 * July 9 – P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty, introduces Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings. The first UK appearance follows in the August issue of The Strand Magazine).
 * August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi appears in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series in London, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
 * September – Eric Blair (George Orwell) decides while on leave from the Imperial Police in Burma to remain in the U.K. He moves to London to become a writer.
 * October – Victor Gollancz founds the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd.
 * December – Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club", published in The Royal Magazine.
 * unknown dates
 * A translation of Franz Roh's work of art criticism Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting, 1925) into Spanish by Revista de Occidente leads to the concept of magic realism becoming popular in Latin American literature.
 * The Strand Bookstore is founded in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass.

Fiction

 * Djamaluddin Adinegoro – Darah Muda (Young Blood)
 * Ion Agârbiceanu – Legea minții
 * Anthony Berkeley – Cicely Disappears
 * Arthur Bernède – Belphégor
 * Tjoe Hong Bok – Setangan Berloemoer Darah (A Glove Covered in Blood)
 * James Boyd – Marching On
 * Lynn Brock – The Kink
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs – The Outlaw of Torn
 * James Branch Cabell – Something About Eve
 * Willa Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop
 * Blaise Cendrars – La Confession de Dan Yack
 * Agatha Christie – The Big Four
 * J.J. Connington
 * Murder in the Maze
 * Tragedy at Ravensthorpe
 * Jaime de Angulo – The Lariat
 * Mazo de la Roche – Jalna
 * Warwick Deeping – Kitty
 * Ding Ling – Miss Sophia's Diary
 * Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
 * William Faulkner – Mosquitoes
 * David Garnett – Go She Must!
 * Anthony Gilbert – The Tragedy at Freyne
 * George Goodchild – The Monster of Grammont
 * Maxim Gorky – The Life of Klim Samgin (first volume, translated as Bystander)
 * Julien Green – The Closed Garden
 * H. Rider Haggard – Allan and the Ice-gods
 * Ernest Hemingway – Men Without Women
 * Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf
 * James Weldon Johnson – God's Trombones
 * Franz Kafka – Amerika
 * Margaret Kennedy – Red Sky at Morning
 * Joseph Kessel – Nights of Princes
 * Kwee Tek Hoay – Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang
 * Ze'ev Jabotinsky – Samson
 * D. H. Lawrence – John Thomas and Lady Jane
 * Halldór Laxness – Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír (The Great Weaver from Kashmir)
 * Rosamond Lehmann – Dusty Answer
 * Sinclair Lewis – Elmer Gantry
 * Marie Belloc Lowndes – The Story of Ivy
 * Philip MacDonald – Patrol
 * Compton Mackenzie
 * Rogues and Vagabonds
 * Vestal Fire
 * A. E. W. Mason – No Other Tiger
 * François Mauriac – Thérèse Desqueyroux
 * Vilhelm Moberg – Raskens
 * Paul Morand – The Living Buddha
 * Mourning Dove – Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
 * Yury Olesha – Envy
 * E. Phillips Oppenheim – Miss Brown of X.Y.O.
 * Baroness Orczy – Sir Percy Hits Back
 * T. F. Powys – Mr. Weston's Good Wine
 * J. B. Priestley – Benighted
 * Marcel Proust (posthumous) – Le Temps retrouvé (Time Regained or The Past Recaptured; final instalment of In Search of Lost Time)
 * Waverley Lewis Root – King of the Jews
 * Joseph Roth – Flight without End
 * Rafael Sabatini – The Nuptials of Corbal
 * Dorothy L. Sayers – Unnatural Death
 * Upton Sinclair – Oil!
 * Cecil Street
 * The Ellerby Case
 * Mademoiselle From Armentieres
 * Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Garin Death Ray (Гиперболоид инженера Гарина)
 * B. Traven – Der Schatz der Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
 * Sigrid Undset
 * The Snake Pit
 * The Son Avenger
 * Konstantin Vaginov – Goat Song
 * S. S. Van Dine – The Canary Murder Case
 * Edgar Wallace
 * The Forger
 * The Squeaker
 * Terror Keep
 * The Traitor's Gate
 * Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
 * Henry Williamson – Tarka the Otter
 * P. G. Wodehouse
 * Meet Mr Mulliner
 * The Small Bachelor
 * Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
 * Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治) – Naruto Hitcho (鳴門秘帖, A Secret Record of Naruto; serialization concludes)
 * Francis Brett Young – Portrait of Clare
 * Arnold Zweig – Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa (The Case of Sergeant Grischa)

Children and young people

 * Walter R. Brooks – To and Again (reissued 1949 as Freddy Goes to Florida, first of the Freddy the Pig series)
 * Franklin W. Dixon – The Tower Treasure
 * Will James – Smoky the Cowhorse
 * May Justus – Peter Pocket: A Little Boy of the Cumberland Mountains
 * John Masefield – The Midnight Folk
 * A. A. Milne – Now We Are Six (verse)
 * Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs (proto-Hobbits)
 * Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Gnome King of Oz (21st in the Oz series overall and the seventh written by her)
 * Constancio C. Vigil
 * Botón Tolón
 * Cuentos para niños
 * La hormiguita viajera
 * Los escarabajos y la moneda de oro

Drama

 * Isaac Babel – Sunset
 * Philip Barry – Paris Bound
 * Noel Pemberton Billing – High Treason
 * Bertolt Brecht – In The Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte in its final version)
 * Mikhail Bulgakov – Flight («Бег», Beg, written)
 * Hamilton Deane – Dracula (1927 revision of a 1924 stage adaptation)
 * James Bernard Fagan – The Greater Love
 * Federico García Lorca
 * Mariana Pineda
 * The Curse of the Butterfly (El Maleficio de la Mariposa), first production 1927 in the Teatro Eslava, Madrid
 * Joseph Goebbels – Der Wanderer (only performances; written 1923)
 * Walter C. Hackett – The Wicked Earl
 * DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward – Porgy
 * Vsevolod Ivanov – Armoured Train 14-69 («Бронепоезд 14-69», Bronepoezd 14-69)
 * Georgia Douglas Johnson – Plumes
 * George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – The Royal Family
 * John Howard Lawson – Loud Speaker
 * Alexander Lernet-Holenia – Szene als Einleitung zu einer Totenfeier für Rainer Maria Rilke
 * Frederick Lonsdale – The High Road
 * W. Somerset Maugham – The Letter
 * Harrison Owen – The Happy Husband
 * Ernst Toller – Hoppla, We're Alive! (Hoppla, wir leben!)
 * Ben Travers – Thark
 * Jim Tully – Twenty Below
 * John Van Druten
 * Chance Acquaintance
 * Diversion
 * Bayard Veiller – The Trial of Mary Dugan
 * Roger Vitrac – The Mysteries of Love (Les Mystères de l'amour)
 * Frank Vosper – The Combined Maze
 * Edgar Wallace
 * Double Dan
 * The Terror
 * Emlyn Williams – Full Moon
 * Carl Zuckmayer – Schinderhannes

Poetry

 * Robert Desnos – La Liberté ou l'amour! (Liberty or Love!)
 * Allama Iqbal – Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)
 * James Joyce – Pomes Penyeach
 * Don Marquis – archy and mehitabel

Non-fiction

 * Stanley Baldwin – On England and Other Addresses
 * Nan Britton – The President's Daughter
 * Alexandra David-Néel – My Journey to Lhasa / Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa
 * John Dewey – Philosophy and Civilization
 * J. W. Dunne – An Experiment with Time
 * Walter Evans-Wentz (translator) – The Tibetan Book of the Dead (translation of Bardo Thodol)
 * E. M. Forster – Aspects of the Novel
 * Sigmund Freud – The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
 * Charles Homer Haskins - The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
 * Martin Heidegger – Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)
 * Christopher Hussey – The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View
 * Ernst Kantorowicz – Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite
 * Ronald Knox - The Belief of Catholics
 * John Livingston Lowes – The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
 * Bertrand Russell – An Outline of Philosophy
 * Helen Waddell – The Wandering Scholars

Births

 * January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet (died 2015)
 * January 16 – Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (died 2000)
 * January 24
 * Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer, playwright and actor (died 2019)
 * Marvin Kaplan, American actor, screenwriter and playwright (died 2016)
 * January 25 – John Calder, Canadian-born Scottish publisher (died 2018)
 * January 28 – Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
 * February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (died 2014)
 * February 6 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (died 1974)
 * February 16 – Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971)
 * February 21 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
 * March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist (died 2014)
 * March 15 – Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995)
 * March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (died 2003)
 * March 24 – Martin Walser, German author
 * March 22 – Vera Henriksen, née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist (died 2016)
 * April 2 – Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (died 1980)
 * April 24 – Trudi Birger, German Holocaust survivor and writer (died 2002)
 * April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French author and illustrator (died 2020)
 * May 1 – Tamar Bornstein-Lazar, Israeli children's writer (died 2020)
 * May 7 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, British-American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013)
 * May 10 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
 * May 19 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (died 1991)
 * May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)
 * May 27 – Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997)
 * May 28 – William A. Hilliard, American journalist (died 2017)
 * June 6 – Alan Seymour, Australian playwright (died 2015)
 * June 1 – Moyra Caldecott, English writer of historical fiction (died 2015)
 * June 13 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (died 2006)
 * June 20 – Simin Behbahani, Persian poet (died 2014)
 * June 23 – Jacobo Langsner, Romanian-born Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (died 2020)
 * June 24 – Frederick Vreeland, American diplomat and writer
 * June 27 – Dominic Jeeva (டொமினிக் ஜீவா), Ceylonese Tamil fiction writer and essayist (died 2021)
 * June 30 – James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998)
 * July 4 – Neil Simon, American playwright (died 2018)
 * July 15 – Ann Jellicoe, British playwright, stage director and actress (died 2017)
 * July 16 – Shirley Hughes, English writer and illustrator of children's books (died 2022)
 * July 22 – Katharine Topkins, American novelist
 * July 27 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist, writer and political figure (died 2014)
 * July 28
 * John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)
 * Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (died 1986)
 * July 31 – Peter Nichols, English playwright (died 2019)
 * August 9 – Robert Shaw, English-born actor, novelist and playwright (died 1978)
 * August 15 – Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (died 2011)
 * August 17 – Stefan Geosits, Burgenland Croatian writer and translator
 * August 23 – Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator (died 2017)
 * August 24 – David Ireland, Australian novelist (died 2022)
 * August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly, Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008)
 * September 4 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (died 2000)
 * September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (died 2019)
 * October 7 – Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
 * October 16 – Günter Grass, German novelist (died 2015)
 * October 31 – Sybil Wettasinghe, Ceylonese children's writer and illustrator (died 2020)
 * November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (died 2018)
 * November 16 – Franz Jalics, Hungarian Jesuit priest and author
 * November 24
 * Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist (died 2003) (estimated date)
 * Charles Osborne, Australian-born British writer and arts administrator (died 2017)
 * December 4 – Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (died 2019)
 * December 13 – James Wright, American poet (died 1980)
 * December 16 - Peter Dickinson, English author and poet (died 2015)
 * December 24
 * Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (died 2020)
 * Diane de Margerie, French translator

Deaths

 * January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet (born 1870)
 * January 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-born German author (b. 1855)
 * January 21 – Margret Holmes Bates, American novelist and poet (born 1844)
 * January 24 – Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian poet and author (born 1837)
 * February 5 – Osório Duque-Estrada, Brazilian poet, essayist, journalist and literary critic (born 1870)
 * February 26 – Alfred Remy, German-born American philologist and music writer (born 1870)
 * February 27 – Roi Cooper Megrue, American playwright (b. 1882)
 * March 3 – Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (born 1878)
 * March 10 – George W. Forbes, American journalist and librarian (born 1864)
 * March 18 – Philip Wicksteed, English theologian and critic (born 1844)
 * March 31 – Mabel Collins, British theosophist and author (born 1851)
 * April 2 – Ottokár Prohászka, Hungarian Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (born 1858)
 * April 16 – Gaston Leroux, French novelist (born 1868)
 * April 17 – Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, American fantasy fiction writer (born 1850)
 * April 19 – Minnie S. Davis, American author and mental scientist (born 1835)
 * May 2 – Fukuda Hideko, Japanese feminist author (born 1865)
 * May 20 – N. Samuel of Tranquebar, Ceylonese poet and author (born 1850)
 * May 25 – Henri Hubert, French sociologist (born 1872)
 * May 29 – Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (born 1854)
 * June 1 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
 * June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (born 1857)
 * June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (born 1859)
 * June 20 – Clara Louise Burnham, American novelist (born 1854)
 * July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (born 1891)
 * July 16 – Emily Selinger, American author, painter, and educator (born 1848)
 * July 17 – Harriet Earhart Monroe, American lecturer, educator, writer, producer (born 1842)
 * July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介), Japanese short story writer and poet (suicide, born 1892)
 * July 26
 * Kazimir Barantsevich, Russian writer (born 1851)
 * Federico De Roberto, Italian novelist and dramatist (born 1861)
 * August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (born 1878)
 * August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (born 1871)
 * September 14 – Hugo Ball, German poet (born 1886)
 * September 15 – Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist (born 1864)
 * October 8
 * Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet (Hodgkin's disease, born 1886)
 * Mary Webb, English novelist (born 1881)
 * October 22 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian realist writer (born 1876)
 * October 23 – Bernhard Alexander, Hungarian philosopher and polymath (born 1850)
 * October 29 – Hermann Muthesius, German architect and author (born 1861)
 * November 23 – Stanisław Przybyszewski, Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet (born 1868)
 * December 5 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist and essayist (born 1863)
 * December 17 – Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (born 1883)
 * date unknown – Emma Scarr Booth, British-born American novelist and poet (born 1835)

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
 * Newdigate Prize for poetry: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner)
 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson
 * Prix Goncourt: Maurice Bedel, Jérôme 60° latitude nord
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
 * Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn

title: 1927 in literature


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1928 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1928.

Events

 * January
 * The Soviet magazine Oktyabr begins publishing Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don («Тихий Дон», Tikhiy Don) in instalments.
 * Ford Madox Ford publishes Last Post in the U.K., as the last in his World War I tetralogy Parade's End, which has been appearing since 1924.
 * January 16 – The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London. Pallbearers include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. Meanwhile, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset. Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1891 (Macmillan), in fact largely dictated by Hardy.
 * February – Weird Tales magazine publishes H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu" in the United States.
 * March 31 – Stockholm Public Library, designed by Gunnar Asplund, opens.
 * April 19 – Publication of the Oxford English Dictionary is completed.
 * Spring – George Orwell moves from London to Paris; his first articles as a professional writer appear later in the year.
 * June – The literary magazine Contemporáneos is first published in Mexico by Jaime Torres Bodet, giving a name to the group Los Contemporáneos.
 * June 27 – The English writer Evelyn Waugh marries Evelyn Gardner, daughter of Lady Winifred Burghclere, in St Paul's Church, Portman Square, London, with only Harold Acton, Alec Waugh (the author's brother) and Pansy Pakenham present. They move into a flat in Canonbury Square, Islington. In September the author's first completed novel, Decline and Fall, is published by Chapman & Hall, of which his father, Arthur Waugh, is managing director. It is illustrated by the author. It reaches a third impression by the end of the year. The marriage lasts until the following September.
 * July – D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is published in Florence. It will not be published unexpurgated in Britain until 1960.
 * August 27 – Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe in Galway is founded as the national Irish-language theater, opening with Micheál Mac Liammóir's version of Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne.
 * August 31 – The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper), adapted by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and composer Kurt Weill (with set designer Caspar Neher) from The Beggar's Opera, is launched at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, with Harald Paulsen and Lotte Lenya in the principal rôles.
 * September
 * S. S. Van Dine's "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories" are published in The American Magazine.
 * Leslie Charteris's Meet the Tiger, the first adventure of Simon Templar ("the Saint"), is published in the U.K.. Charteris will write dozens of novels and stories with the character in 1928–1963; successor writers will continue until 1983.
 * September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner (Gwas Myghal) and others.
 * October
 * W. H. Auden goes to Berlin and is soon joined by Christopher Isherwood.
 * Luk Phu Chai (A Real Man), perhaps the first major original Thai novel, is published by Siburapha (Kulap Saipradit).
 * October 14 – The Gate Theatre in Dublin is founded by English actors and lovers Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards, initially using the Abbey Theatre's Peacock studio to stage works by European and American dramatists.
 * November–December – Erich Maria Remarque's antiwar novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) appears in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung. Hans Herbert Grimm's Schlump is also published (anonymously) by Kurt Wolff in Berlin this year.
 * November 1 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey, introduces the Roman-based 29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace the Ottoman script as the official writing system for the Turkish language.
 * November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More").
 * November 9–16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, published on July 27 by Jonathan Cape in London with an appreciation by Havelock Ellis, is tried and convicted at Bow Street Magistrates' Court on the grounds of obscenity under the Hicklin test, for its theme of lesbian love, after a campaign against it by James Douglas in the Sunday Express. The presiding magistrate, Sir Chartres Biron, holds that the book contains "not one word which suggested that anyone with the horrible tendencies described was in the least degree blameworthy. All the characters in the book were presented as attractive people and put forward with admiration." Other lesbian literature published in England this year evades prosecution: Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Hotel, Virginia Woolf's fictional Orlando: A Biography, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical Extraordinary Women. Djuna Barnes' novel Ladies Almanack, published in Paris, also alludes to the controversy.
 * December 9 – R. C. Sherriff's drama Journey's End, set on the Western Front (World War I), is premièred by the Incorporated Stage Society at the Apollo Theatre in London, with Laurence Olivier in a principal rôle.
 * December 19 – Italo Svevo (Aron Schmitz), returning from an Alpine resort to Trieste, suffers a car accident. He dies next day leaving his novel Il Vegliardo (The Old Man) unfinished in mid-word.
 * unknown dates
 * Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali first appears as a serial in a Calcutta periodical.
 * The clerihew, a comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is first mentioned in print.
 * It is claimed that one in four of all secular books printed and sold in England this year are the work of Edgar Wallace.

Fiction

 * Giovanni Battista Angioletti – Il giorno del giudizio
 * Leslie Barringer – Joris of the Rock
 * Vicki Baum – Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry
 * Charles William Beebe – Beneath Tropic Seas
 * Henry Bellamann – Crescendo
 * Marjorie Bowen – General Crack
 * André Breton – Nadja
 * Lynn Brock – The Slip-Carriage Mystery
 * Mary Butts – Armed with Madness
 * Morley Callaghan – Strange Fugitive
 * Ferreira de Castro – Emigrantes (Emigrants)
 * Agatha Christie – The Mystery of the Blue Train
 * Colette – Break of Day (La Naissance du jour)
 * J.J. Connington – Mystery at Lynden Sands
 * Freeman Wills Crofts – The Sea Mystery
 * Clemence Dane – Enter Sir John
 * Frank Parker Day – Rockbound
 * Rolfes Robert Reginald Dhlomo – An African Tragedy
 * Franklin W. Dixon – Hunting for Hidden Gold
 * W. E. B. Du Bois – Dark Princess
 * Ephesian (C. E. Bechhofer Roberts) – This Side Idolatry
 * Jessie Redmon Fauset – Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
 * Rudolph Fisher – The Walls of Jericho
 * Esther Forbes – A Mirror for Witches
 * Rosita Forbes – King's Mate
 * Ford Madox Ford – Last Post
 * E. M. Forster – The Eternal Moment and Other Stories
 * August Gailit – Toomas Nipernaadi
 * Anthony Gilbert – The Murder of Mrs. Davenport
 * Maxim Gorky – The Life of Klim Samgin (second volume, translated as The Magnet; «Жизнь Клима Самгина», Zhizn', Klima Samgina)
 * Reşat Nuri Güntekin – Yeşil Gece
 * Radclyffe Hall – The Well of Loneliness
 * Thea von Harbou – The Rocket to the Moon
 * Georgette Heyer – The Masqueraders
 * James Hilton – The Silver Flame
 * Aldous Huxley – Point Counter Point
 * Ilf and Petrov – The Twelve Chairs («Двенадцать стульев», Dvenadtsat stulyev)
 * Mikheil Javakhishvili – Givi Shaduri (გივი შადური)
 * Joseph Kessel – Belle de Jour
 * Kwee Tek Hoay – Drama dari Krakatau (serialization)
 * Sydney Horler – The Curse of Doone
 * Selma Lagerlöf – Anna Svärd
 * Nella Larsen – Quicksand
 * D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley's Lover
 * Claude McKay – Home To Harlem
 * Wyndham Lewis - The Childermass: Section I
 * Compton Mackenzie – Extremes Meet
 * W. Somerset Maugham – Ashenden: Or the British Agent
 * Abdul Muis – Salah Asuhan
 * Dhan Gopal Mukerji – Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
 * Vladimir Nabokov (as V. Sirin) – King, Queen, Knave («Король, дама, валет», Korol', dama, valet)
 * Baroness Orczy – Skin o' My Tooth
 * Anthony Powell – The Barnard Letters
 * Premchand – Nirmala
 * Jenaro Prieto – The Partner
 * Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
 * E. Arnot Robertson – Cullum
 * Siegfried Sassoon – Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (anonymous in 1st impression)
 * Dorothy L. Sayers
 * Lord Peter Views the Body
 * The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
 * Arthur Schnitzler – Therese
 * Nan Shepherd – The Quarry Wood
 * Cecil Street – The Murders in Praed Street
 * Păstorel Teodoreanu – Hronicul Măscăriciului Vălătuc
 * S. S. Van Dine
 * The Greene Murder Case
 * The Bishop Murder Case
 * Henry Wade – The Missing Partners
 * Edgar Wallace
 * Again Sanders
 * Again the Three Just Men
 * The Double
 * Elegant Edward (short stories)
 * The Flying Squad
 * The Gunner
 * The Orator (short stories)
 * The Thief in the Night (short stories)
 * The Twister
 * Hugh Walpole – Wintersmoon
 * Mika Waltari – Suuri illusioni
 * Evelyn Waugh – Decline and Fall
 * H. G. Wells – Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
 * Franz Werfel – Class Reunion (Der Abituriententag)
 * Virginia Woolf – Orlando: A Biography
 * S. Fowler Wright
 * Deluge
 * The Island of Captain Sparrow
 * Francis Brett Young
 * The Key of Life
 * My Brother Jonathan

Children and young people

 * Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
 * Wanda Gág – Millions of Cats
 * A. A. Milne – The House at Pooh Corner
 * Felix Salten – Bambi, A Life in the Woods (Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde, 1923)
 * Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Giant Horse of Oz

Drama

 * Jacinto Benavente – Pepa Doncel
 * Charles Bennett
 * Blackmail
 * The Last Hour
 * Bertolt Brecht – The Threepenny Opera
 * Joe Corrie – In Time o' Strife
 * Eduardo De Filippo – Filosoficamente
 * Nikolai Erdman – The Suicide («Самоубийца», written)
 * Marieluise Fleißer – Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Pioniere in Ingolstadt)
 * Garrett Fort – Jarnegan
 * Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Sita Banbas (published)
 * Kwee Tek Hoay (郭德懷)– Korbannja Yi Yong Toen (Victims of Yi Yong Toen, published serially)
 * Patrick Hastings – The Moving Finger
 * Monckton Hoffe – Many Waters
 * Daniil Kharms – Elizabeth Bam («Елизавета Бам»)
 * Miroslav Krleža – The Glembays (Gospoda Glembajevi)
 * John Howard Lawson – The International
 * Alexander Lernet-Holenia, as Clemens Neydisser, and Stefan Zweig – Gelegenheit macht Liebe (Opportunity creates love) or Quiproquo
 * Federico García Lorca – The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden (Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, written)
 * Walter C. Hackett – Other Men's Wives
 * W. Somerset Maugham – The Sacred Flame
 * Ivor Novello – The Truth Game
 * Eugene O'Neill – Strange Interlude (first staging)
 * Eugen Ortner – Meier Helmbrecht
 * Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩) – Pan Jinlian (潘金蓮)
 * R. C. Sherriff – Journey's End
 * Ben Travers – Plunder
 * Sophie Treadwell – Machinal
 * John Van Druten – The Return of the Soldier
 * Louis Verneuil – Monsieur Lamberthier
 * Roger Vitrac – Victor, or Power to the Children (Victor, ou les enfants au pouvoir)
 * Edgar Wallace
 * The Lad
 * The Man Who Changed His Name
 * The Squeaker
 * Carl Zuckmayer – Katharina Knie

Poetry

 * Stephen Vincent Benét – John Brown's Body
 * Robert Frost – West-Running Brook
 * Robinson Jeffers – Cawdor
 * Federico García Lorca – Gypsy Ballads (Romancero Gitano)
 * Siegfried Sassoon – The Heart's Journey

Non-fiction

 * Max Aitken – Politicians and the War
 * Clive Bell – Civilization: An Essay
 * Edmund Blunden – Undertones of War (autobiography)
 * Hall Caine – Recollections of Rossetti (second expanded version)
 * Julius Evola – Imperialismo Pagano (Pagan Imperialism)
 * Sidney Bradshaw Fay – Origins of the World War
 * Dion Fortune – Esoteric Orders and Their Work
 * Harold Lloyd – An American Comedy (autobiography)
 * Dora Marsden – The Definition of the Godhead
 * Margaret Mead – Coming of Age in Samoa
 * Paul Morand – Black Magic
 * Tomas O'Crohan – Allagar na h-Inise (Island Cross-Talk)
 * Edgar Wallace – The Trial of Patrick Herbert Mahon
 * H. G. Wells – The Open Conspiracy
 * Stefan Zweig – Drei Dichter ihres Lebens. Casanova – Stendhal – Tolstoi (Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy)

Births

 * January 1 – Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish writer (died 1998)
 * January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2017)
 * January 8 – Sander Vanocur, American journalist (died 2019)
 * January 9 – Judith Krantz, American novelist (died 2019)
 * January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet (died 2015)
 * January 16 – William Kennedy, American writer and journalist
 * January 17 – Roman Frister, Polish writer (died 2015)
 * January 21 – János Kornai (as János Kornfelder), Hungarian economist (died 2021)
 * January 24 – Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
 * February 5 – Andrew Greeley, Irish-American priest and novelist (died 2013)
 * February 9
 * Frank Frazetta, American illustrator (died 2010)
 * Roger Mudd, American journalist (died 2021)
 * February 13 – Refik Erduran, Turkish playwright, columnist and writer (died 2017)
 * February 15 – Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, created Clifford the Big Red Dog (died 2014)
 * February 19 – Onuora Nzekwu, Nigerian writer (died 2017)
 * February 25 – Richard G. Stern, American novelist and educator (died 2013)
 * February 28 – Walter Tevis, American novelist (died 1984)
 * February 29 – Jean Adamson, English children's author and illustrator
 * March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English novelist (died 2010)
 * March 12 – Edward Albee, American dramatist (died 2016)
 * March 13 – Jane Grigson, English cookery writer (died 1990)
 * March 22 – E. D. Hirsch, American academic literary critic and educator
 * March 30 – Tom Sharpe, English satirical author (died 2013)
 * April 4 – Maya Angelou, American poet (died 2014)
 * April 7 – Alan J. Pakula, American screenwriter (died 1998)
 * April 11 – Lionel Abrahams, South African novelist, poet and essayist (died 2004)
 * April 17 – Cynthia Ozick, American author
 * April 24 – Martin Seymour-Smith, English poet, biographer and critic (died 1998)
 * May 4 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet (died 2021)
 * May 24 – William Trevor, Irish fiction writer and playwright (died 2016)
 * June 10 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author and illustrator (died 2012)
 * June 28 – Stan Barstow, English novelist (died 2011)
 * July 16
 * Anita Brookner, English novelist (died 2016)
 * Robert Sheckley, American writer (died 2005)
 * July 18 – Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer, Poet Laureate of the Netherlands (d. 2009)
 * July 19 – Samuel John Hazo, American author
 * July 24 – Griselda Gambaro, Argentine writer
 * July 26 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist (died 2004)
 * August 7 – Anthony Lejeune, English writer, editor and broadcaster (died 2018)
 * August 12 – Beni Virtzberg, Israeli forester, Holocaust survivor and writer (died 1968)
 * September 6 – Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author (died 2017)
 * September 11 – William X. Kienzle, American priest and author (died 2001)
 * September 18 – Sigrid Kahle, Swedish journalist and writer (died 2013)
 * September 20 – Donald Hall, American poet and poet laureate (died 2018)
 * September 30 – Elie Wiesel, American Jewish author and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 2016)
 * October 2 – Zora Tavčar, Slovenian writer and translator
 * October 3 – Alvin Toffler, American futurist writer (died 2016)
 * October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (died 1980)
 * October 10 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (died 2009)
 * October 17 – Rosemary Tonks, English poet, prose writer and children's writer (died 2014)
 * October 21 – Yu Guangzhong, Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic (died 2017)
 * October 27 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer and poet
 * November 2 – Paul Johnson, English historian and journalist (died 2023)
 * November 9 – Anne Sexton, American poet (died 1974)
 * November 11 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (died 2012)
 * November 12 – Marjorie W. Sharmat, American children's writer (died 2019)
 * November 20 – Dolf Verroen, Dutch writer of children's literature
 * November 28 – Bano Qudsia, Punjab-born Pakistani fiction writer (died 2017)
 * December 3
 * Karin Bang, Norwegian novelist and poet (died 2017)
 * Barbara Probst Solomon, American author, essayist and journalist (died 2019)
 * December 16 – Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (died 1982)
 * December 31 – Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (died 2015)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Juan B. Justo, Argentine journalist (born 1865)
 * January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (born 1840)
 * January 19 – Hans Hinrich Wendt, German theologian (born 1853)
 * January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist, journalist and politician (born 1867)
 * February 19 – Mildred Aldrich, American journalist (born 1853)
 * February 29 – Adolphe Appia, Swiss writer and scenery and lighting designer (born 1862)
 * March 4 – Paul Sabatier, French religious writer (born 1858)
 * March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish poet (born 1896)
 * March 24
 * Didrik Hegermann Grønvold, Norwegian novelist (born 1855)
 * Charlotte Mew, English poet (born 1869; suicide)
 * April 10 – Stanley J. Weyman, English novelist (born 1855)
 * April 19 – Ladislav Klíma, Czech novelist and philosopher (born 1878)
 * May 5 – Barry Pain, English writer (born 1864)
 * May 16 – Edmund Gosse, English poet and critic (born 1849)
 * May 19 – Max Scheler, German philosopher (born 1874)
 * May 22 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (suicide, born 1904)
 * May 25 – George Ranetti, Romanian humorist and playwright (born 1875)
 * July 1 – Avery Hopwood, American playwright (heart attack, born 1882)
 * July 8 – Crystal Eastman, American journalist (born 1881)
 * August – Isaac Markens, American journalist (born 1846)
 * August 16 – Antonín Sova, Czech poet (born 1864)
 * August 17 – Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, British statesman and author (born 1838)
 * August 24 – Oskar Jerschke, German dramatist (born 1861)
 * October 24 – Henry Festing Jones, English biographer, editor and lawyer (born 1851)
 * December 1 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (born 1888)
 * December 13 – Joseph Bucklin Bishop, American journalist and publisher (born 1847)
 * December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (stroke, born 1885)
 * December 19 – Italo Svevo, Italian writer (born 1861)
 * December 23 – Ludwig Rosenthal, German antiquarian bookseller (born 1840)

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Buchan, Montrose
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon
 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Sigrid Undset
 * Prix Goncourt: Maurice Constantin-Weyer, Un Homme se penche sur son passé
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Tristram
 * Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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1929 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1929.

Events

 * January 10 – The Adventures of Tintin begin with the first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), serialized in the children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième.
 * February–August – Voltaire's Candide (1759) is held to be obscene by the United States Customs Service in Boston.
 * February – The first of Margery Allingham's crime novels to feature Albert Campion, The Crime at Black Dudley (U.S. title: The Black Dudley Murder), is published in the UK.
 * March – Norah C. James's first novel, Sleeveless Errand, is held to be obscene on publication in London, for its portrayal of the city's bohemian life. An edition appears later in Paris from Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press.
 * April 1 – The Faber and Faber publishing company is founded in London by Geoffrey Faber, with T. S. Eliot as its literary editor.
 * May – Hugo Gernsback first uses the term "science fiction" in its modern sense, for his pulp magazine Amazing Stories.
 * c. June – The first of Gladys Mitchell's crime novels appears in the UK. Entitled Speedy Death, it introduces a psychologist detective character, Mrs Bradley.
 * July – British publisher William Collins, Sons launches its Detective Story Club imprint with Edgar Wallace's novelization of The Terror.
 * July 5 – Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair, London, gallery on grounds of indecency, citing the Vagrancy Act 1838.
 * August – The Censorship of Publications Act sets up the Censorship of Publications Board in the Irish Free State.
 * August 15 – The first Ellery Queen mystery novel, The Roman Hat Mystery, is published in New York City.
 * Mid year – Serialization begins of one of the first Thai novels – the first by a woman, M. L. Bubpha Kunjara Nimmanhemin writing as Dokmai Sot – entitled Sattru Khǫng Čhaolon (Her Enemy). Soon after comes the semi-autobiographical Lakhǫn Haeng Chiwit (The Circus of Life) of Prince Arkartdam-keung Rapheephat, writing as M. C. Akat. Several Thai writers join Kulap Saipradit in the Suphapburut literary group.
 * October – Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met while he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Twenty-one-year-old De Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain an agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre.
 * October 11 – Seán O'Casey's play The Silver Tassie, set in World War I, receives its première at the Apollo Theatre, London, directed by Raymond Massey. It stars Charles Laughton and Barry Fitzgerald, and has a set design by Augustus John. Rejected the year before by W. B. Yeats for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, it will not open in Ireland until 1935.
 * October 5 – The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice confiscates copies of Samuel Roth's pirated edition of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses – the first complete edition printed in the U.S. He serves two prison terms for publishing an obscene work.
 * October 29 – Released in the U.S. is the first sound film adaptation of a Shakespeare play: The Taming of the Shrew, starring Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks.
 * December – George Orwell returns to England after a period living in Paris.
 * unknown dates
 * Norwegian poet Herman Wildenvey, born Herman Portaas, and his wife, fiction writer Gisken Wildenvey, born Jonette Andreassen, formally adopt the joint surname Wildenvey.
 * Father Ronald Knox codifies the "rules" for the Golden Age of Detective Fiction in a "Decalogue" introducing The Best Detective Stories of 1928–1929.
 * The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is banned in the Soviet Union due to the interest its author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, shows in the occult.
 * Foyles bookshop in London moves to larger premises in the Foyles Building, Charing Cross Road.
 * Monotype introduces Stanley Morison's revival of the Bembo typeface for book printing.

Fiction

 * Richard Aldington – Death of a Hero
 * Paul Alverdes – Die Pfeiferstube (The Whistler's Room)
 * Roberto Arlt – Los siete locos (The Seven Madmen)
 * Marcel Aymé – The Hollow Field
 * Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay – Pather Panchali (Song of the Road, book publication)
 * Hamilton Basso – Relics and Angels
 * Vicki Baum – Menschen im Hotel (People at a Hotel, translated as Grand Hotel)
 * E.F. Benson – Paying Guests
 * Anthony Berkeley
 * The Piccadilly Murder
 * The Poisoned Chocolates Case
 * Georges Bernanos – Joy
 * Algernon Blackwood – Dudley & Gilderoy: A Nonsense
 * Mary Borden – The Forbidden Zone
 * Elizabeth Bowen – The Last September
 * Marjorie Bowen – Dickon
 * Lynn Brock
 * The Dagwort Coombe Murder
 * The Mendip Mystery
 * Mateiu Caragiale – Craii de Curtea-Veche
 * Agatha Christie
 * The Seven Dials Mystery
 * Partners in Crime (short stories)
 * Jean Cocteau – Les Enfants Terribles
 * Colette – Sido
 * J.J. Connington
 * The Eye in the Museum
 * Nemesis at Raynham Parva
 * Miloš Crnjanski – Сеобе (Seobe, Migrations)
 * Freeman Wills Crofts – The Box Office Murders
 * Aleister Crowley – The Stratagem and other Stories
 * Mazo de la Roche – Whiteoaks of Jalna
 * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Courrier sud (Southern Mail)
 * Alfred Döblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
 * Lloyd C. Douglas – Magnificent Obsession
 * Arthur Conan Doyle – The Maracot Deep
 * Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Hotel Acropolis (Une Femme à sa fenêtre)
 * M. Barnard Eldershaw – A House Is Built
 * Susan Ertz – The Milky Way
 * William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
 * Edna Ferber – Cimarron
 * C. S. Forester – Brown on Resolution
 * Zona Gale – Borgia
 * Rómulo Gallegos – Doña Bárbara
 * Gaito Gazdanov – Вечер у Клэр (Vecher u Kler, An Evening with Claire)
 * Floyd Gibbons – The Red Napoleon
 * Anthony Gilbert
 * Death at Four Corners
 * The Mystery of the Open Window
 * Jean Giono
 * Colline
 * Lovers are Never Losers
 * Joseph Goebbels – Michael: A German Destiny in Diary Form (Michael: Ein deutsches Schicksal in Tagebuchblättern)
 * George Goodchild – Jack O'Lantern
 * Henry Green – Living
 * Julien Green – The Dark Journey
 * Graham Greene – The Man Within
 * H. Rider Haggard – Mary of Marion Isle
 * Dashiell Hammett
 * The Dain Curse
 * Red Harvest
 * Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
 * Richard Hughes – A High Wind in Jamaica
 * Masuji Ibuse (井伏 鱒二) – Salamander and Other Stories
 * Frigyes Karinthy – Minden másképpen van (Everything Is Different, short stories)
 * Anna Kavan – A Charmed Circle
 * Takiji Kobayashi (小林 多喜二) – Kanikōsen (The Cannery Boat)
 * Kwee Tek Hoay – Drama dari Krakatau (Drama of Krakatoa; serialization)
 * Oliver La Farge – Laughing Boy
 * Nella Larsen – Passing
 * Sinclair Lewis – Dodsworth
 * Eric Linklater – Poet's Pub
 * Claude McKay – Banjo
 * Frederic Manning (anonymously) – The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme & Ancre, 1916 (subscription edition)
 * Gladys Mitchell
 * The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
 * Speedy Death
 * Alberto Moravia – Gli indifferenti (Time of Indifference)
 * W. F. Morris – Bretherton: Khaki or Field Grey?
 * Leopold Myers – The Near and the Far
 * Irène Némirovsky – David Golder
 * Peadar O'Donnell – Adrigool
 * Katherine Anne Porter – Flowering Judas
 * Katharine Susannah Prichard - Coonardoo
 * J. B. Priestley – The Good Companions
 * Ellery Queen – The Roman Hat Mystery
 * Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues; book publication and first English translation)
 * Henry Handel Richardson (Et Florence Robertson) – Ultima Thule (final part of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony)
 * Ole Edvart Rølvaag – Peder Victorious (Peder Seier)
 * Graham Seton – The W Plan
 * Agnes Smedley – Daughter of Earth
 * John Steinbeck – Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference to History
 * Cecil Street
 * The Davidson Case
 * The House on Tollard Ridge
 * Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) – Some Prefer Nettles (蓼喰う蟲)
 * Josephine Tey – The Man in the Queue
 * Wallace Thurman – The Blacker the Berry
 * Sigrid Undset – In the Wilderness
 * S. S. Van Dine – The Scarab Murder Case
 * Henry Wade – The Duke of York's Steps
 * Edgar Wallace
 * Four Square Jane
 * The Green Ribbon
 * The India-Rubber Men
 * Lynd Ward – Gods' Man (wordless "novel in woodcuts")
 * Thomas Wolfe – Look Homeward, Angel
 * S. Fowler Wright
 * Dawn
 * The World Below
 * Francis Brett Young – Black Roses

Children and young people

 * Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Lost Empire
 * Catherine Christian – The Luck of the Scallop Shell
 * Josephine Elder – Evelyn Finds Herself
 * Erich Kästner – Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive)
 * Eric P. Kelly – The Trumpeter of Krakow
 * William Maxwell Reed – The Earth for Sam; the story of mountains, rivers, dinosaurs and men (non-fiction)
 * Ruth Plumly Thompson – Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (23rd in the Oz series overall and the ninth written by her)
 * Alison Uttley – The Squirrel, The Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit (introducing Little Grey Rabbit)

Drama

 * Jacinto Benavente – Vidas cruzadas (Short Cuts)
 * Henri Bernstein – Mélo
 * Bertolt Brecht – The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent (Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis)
 * Ferdinand Bruckner – Krankheit der Jugend (Illness of Youth)
 * St. John Ervine – The First Mrs. Fraser
 * Jean Giraudoux – Amphitryon 38
 * Walter C. Hackett – Sorry You've Been Troubled
 * Patrick Hamilton – Rope
 * Denis Johnston – The Old Lady Says "No!"
 * Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Rustom O Sohrab
 * Frederick Lonsdale – Canaries Sometimes Sing
 * A. A. Milne
 * Michael and Mary
 * Toad of Toad Hall (adapted from Kenneth Grahame)
 * Kaj Munk – I Brændingen
 * Eugene O'Neill – Dynamo
 * Marcel Pagnol – Marius
 * Stanisława Przybyszewska – The Danton Case (Sprawa Dantona)
 * Ernest Raymond – The Berg
 * Elmer Rice – Street Scene
 * Arnold Ridley – Keepers of Youth
 * George Bernard Shaw – The Apple Cart
 * Ahmed Shawqi – Masraa' Kliyubatra (The Death of Cleopatra)
 * John Van Druten – After All
 * Ödön von Horváth – Rund um den Kongreß
 * Edgar Wallace
 * The Calendar
 * Persons Unknown

Poetry

 * Robinson Jeffers – Dear Judas and Other Poems
 * W. B. Yeats – The Winding Stair

Non-fiction

 * Ada Boni – Il talismano della felicità (The Talisman of Happiness)
 * Aleister Crowley – Magick in Theory and Practice
 * Mahatma Gandhi – The Story of My Experiments with Truth
 * Robert Graves – Good-Bye to All That
 * Walter Lippmann – A Preface to Morals
 * A. A. Milne – Those Were the Days
 * Tomas O'Crohan – An t-Oileánach (The Islandman)
 * Charles Kay Ogden – Basic English
 * Walter F. Otto – Die Götter Griechenlands (The Homeric Gods)
 * Alice Prin – Kiki's Memoirs
 * I. A. Richards – Practical Criticism
 * Various authors – Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress: essays in support of James Joyce
 * A. E. Waite – The Holy Kabbalah
 * E. B. White and James Thurber – Is Sex Necessary?
 * Alfred North Whitehead – Process and Reality
 * Virginia Woolf – A Room of One's Own

Births

 * January 9
 * Brian Friel, Irish dramatist (died 2015)
 * Heiner Müller, German dramatist (died 1995)
 * January 26 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
 * February 6
 * Keith Waterhouse, English journalist and novelist (died 2009)
 * Valentin Yanin, Russian historian and author (died 2020)
 * February 16 – Peter Porter, Australian-born English poet and educator (died 2010)
 * February 17 – Chaim Potok, American author (died 2002)
 * February 18 – Len Deighton, English thriller writer
 * February 25 – Issa J. Boullata, Palestinian scholar and writer (died 2019)
 * March 1 – Thuppettan, Malayalam-language Keralan playwright (died 2019)
 * March 7 – Dan Jacobson, South African novelist (died 2014)
 * March 13 – Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist and translator (died 2018)
 * March 18 – Christa Wolf, German literary critic, novelist and essayist (died 2011)
 * March 19 – Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (died 2003)
 * April 1 – Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist (died 2023)
 * April 9 – Paule Marshall, born Valenza Pauline Burke, American novelist (died 2019)
 * April 23 – George Steiner, French-born literary critic and philosopher (died 2020)
 * April 26 – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (died 2019)
 * May 10 – Sándor Kányádi, Hungarian poet and translator (died 2018)
 * May 14 – George Selden, American author (died 1989)
 * May 16 – Adrienne Rich, American poet and essayist (died 2012)
 * June 2 – Norton Juster, American children's writer and academic (died 2021)
 * June 11 – George Garrett, American poet and novelist (died 2008)
 * June 12
 * Brigid Brophy, English novelist and critic (died 1995)
 * Anne Frank (Annelies Marie Frank), German-born Dutch child diarist (died 1945)
 * June 18 – Grigorijus Kanovičius, Jewish Lithuanian writer
 * June 20 – Anne Weale, English writer (died 2007)
 * June 25 – Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator (died 2021)
 * June 29 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
 * July 8
 * Shirley Ann Grau, American short story writer (died 2020)
 * A. T. Q. Stewart, Northern Irish historian and academic (died 2010)
 * July 12 – Tayeb Salih, Sudanese fiction writer and cultural commentator (died 2009)
 * July 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe, English poet (died 2009)
 * July 27 – Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), English thriller writer (died 2022)
 * July 31 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist (died 2024)
 * August 5 – Al Alvarez, English writer and poetry editor (died 2019)
 * August 7 – Arrigo Petacco, Italian journalist and writer (died 2018)
 * August 14 – Thomas Meehan, American screenwriter (died 2017)
 * August 18 – Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist (died 1979)
 * August 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet and translator
 * August 27 – Ira Levin, American novelist and playwright (died 2007)
 * August 29 – Thom Gunn, Anglo-American poet (died 2004)
 * September 15 – John Julius Norwich, British historian and travel writer (died 2018)
 * September 25 – Barbara Walters, American journalist (died 2022)
 * September 30 – Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino senator, writer (died 2017)
 * October 7 – Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
 * October 15 – Milorad Pavić, Serbian novelist (died 2009)
 * October 21
 * Pierre Bellemare, French writer and radio personality (died 2018)
 * Ursula K. Le Guin, American science fiction and fantasy author (died 2018)
 * October 23 – Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet (died 2006)
 * October 30 – Jean Chapman, English novelist
 * November 6 – C. P. Taylor, Scottish playwright (died 1981)
 * November 7 – Steve Carter, American playwright (died 2020)
 * November 12 – Michael Ende, German novelist and children's writer (died 1995)
 * November 13 – Theo Aronson, South African-born British biographer (died 2003)
 * December 2 – Leon Litwack, American historian (died 2021)
 * December 12 – John Osborne, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1994)
 * December 16 – James Moore, English author (died 2017)
 * December 17 – William Safire, born Safir, American columnist (died 2009)
 * December 19 – Howard Sackler, American dramatist and screenwriter (died 1982)
 * December 23 – Monique Watteau (Monique Dubois), Belgian fantasy novelist and artist
 * December 24 – Philip Ziegler, English biographer and historian (died 2023)
 * December 30 – Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, Malagasy writer, politician (died 1997)
 * December 31 – Robert B. Silvers, American literary editor (died 2017)

Deaths

 * January — Anna Bowman Dodd, American author (born 1858)
 * January 15 – Leonard Cline, American novelist, poet and journalist (heart failure, born 1893)
 * January 29 – Hans Prutz, German historian (born 1843)
 * February 6 – Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Scottish writer and women's rights activist (born 1840)
 * March 7 – Auguste Groner, Austrian detective fiction writer (born 1850)
 * March 15 – Grace Rhys, Irish novelist and poet (born 1865)
 * March 26 – Katharine Lee Bates, American lyricist (born 1859)
 * March 31 – Santeri Nuorteva, Soviet journalist and politician (born 1881)
 * April 12 – Flora Annie Steel, English writer (born 1847)
 * April 16 – Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian and poet (born 1864)
 * April 21 – Lucy Clifford (Mrs. W. K. Clifford), English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1846)
 * May 19 – Mary E. Mann, English novelist and short story writer (born 1848)
 * June 8 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (born 1861)
 * June 18 – Vedam Venkataraya Sastry, Sanskrit and Telugu poet, critic and dramatist (born 1853)
 * June 22
 * Alfred Brunswig, German philosopher (born 1877)
 * Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, English writer of romances and children's books (born 1860)
 * June 25 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (born 1858)
 * June 28 – Edward Carpenter, English socialist poet and philosopher (born 1844)
 * July 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist and poet (born 1874)
 * July 31 – José de Castro, Portuguese journalist (born 1868)
 * August – Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (born 1881)
 * September 12 – Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (born 1865)
 * September 19 – Francis Darwin, English botanist and academic (born 1848)
 * October – Arno Holz, German Naturalist poet and dramatist (born 1863)
 * October 8 – Max Lehmann, German historian (born 1845)
 * October 19 – Alexandru Davila, Romanian dramatist and diplomat (born 1862)
 * November 3 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and teacher (born 1883)
 * November 29 – Dallas Lore Sharp, American nature writer (born 1870)
 * December 10 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (suicide; born 1898)
 * unknown dates
 * Ella M. S. Marble, American physician (born 1850)
 * Evelyn Whitaker, English children's writer (born 1844)

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
 * Newdigate prize: Phyllis Hartnoll
 * Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
 * O. Henry Award: Dorothy Parker, "Big Blonde" (short story)
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
 * Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary

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1930 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1930.

Events

 * January 6 – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, giving Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
 * February – The Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State. Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) are Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley, The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and several on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes.
 * February 23 – Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues, 1929) is banned in Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick.
 * March 19 – Paul Robeson plays the title role of Othello at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona.
 * May 6 – The Collins Crime Club is launched as a crime fiction imprint by the U.K. firm William Collins.
 * May 10 – John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
 * July 14 – Luigi Pirandello's The Man with the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first broadcast television drama, by the BBC in England, directed by Val Gielgud.
 * July 19 – Georges Simenon's Detective Inspector Jules Maigret makes a first appearance in print, under Simenon's own name after he abandons pseudonyms, in the novel Pietr-le-Letton (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett), which begins serialization in the French weekly magazine Ric et Rac published by Fayard. It will appear in book form in 1931 as the fifth of 75 novels (and 28 short stories) in which Simenon features the pipe-smoking Paris detective.
 * September 11 – Agatha Christie marries archaeologist Max Mallowan in Edinburgh.
 * September 24 – The first production of Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives opens at the Phoenix Theatre (London), featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast.
 * September 29 – The English satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh joins the Catholic Church.
 * October 13 – Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage, the first full-length novel to feature her amateur detective Miss Marple, appears in the U.K. in the Collins Crime Club series, after serialization in the United States.
 * November 5 – The American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 * December 10 – The first performance of Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstück The Decision (Die Maßnahme), written in collaboration with Slatan Dudow and the composer Hanns Eisler, occurs at the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin, with Ernst Busch as lead.
 * unknown dates
 * John Langalibalele Dube publishes the historical novella Insila kaShaka, the first work of fiction in the Zulu language.
 * Franz Kafka's novel The Castle (1926) is translated into English for the first time, by Willa and Edwin Muir.

Fiction

 * Vicki Baum – Grand Hotel
 * E.F. Benson – The Inheritor
 * Max Brand – Destry Rides Again (original serial version as Twelve Peers)
 * Lynn Brock – Q.E.D.
 * Pearl S. Buck – East Wind: West Wind
 * John Dickson Carr – It Walks By Night
 * Leslie Charteris – Enter the Saint
 * Gabriel Chevallier – La Peur (Fear)
 * Agatha Christie
 * The Murder at the Vicarage
 * The Mysterious Mr. Quin
 * Giant's Bread (as Mary Westmacott)
 * Albert Cohen – Solal of the Solals
 * Ferreira de Castro - A Selva (The Forest – A Tale of the Amazon Rubber Tappers)
 * J.J. Connington – The Two Tickets Puzzle
 * Freeman Wills Crofts – Sir John Magill's Last Journey
 * John Dos Passos – The 42nd Parallel
 * William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
 * Rachel Field – Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
 * Gaito Gazdanov – An Evening with Claire
 * Anthony Gilbert – The Night of the Fog
 * Jean Giono – Second Harvest
 * Milt Gross – He Done Her Wrong: the Great American Novel (wordless novel)
 * H. Rider Haggard – Belshazzar
 * Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
 * A. P. Herbert – The Water Gipsies
 * Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund
 * Georgette Heyer – Powder and Patch
 * Robert Hichens – The Bracelet
 * Sydney Horler – Checkmate
 * Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter
 * Carolyn Keene – The Secret of the Old Clock
 * Margaret Kennedy – The Fool of the Family
 * Oliver La Farge – Laughing Boy
 * D. H. Lawrence
 * Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories
 * The Virgin and the Gypsy
 * Norman Lindsay – Redheap
 * Benito Lynch – The Romance of a Gaucho
 * Compton Mackenzie – April Fools
 * André Malraux – The Royal Way (La Voie royale)
 * Frederic Manning (as "Private 19022") – Her Privates We (first trade edition)
 * Katherine Mansfield (posthumously) – The Aloe
 * W. Somerset Maugham – Cakes and Ale
 * Gladys Mitchell – The Longer Bodies
 * George Moore
 * Aphrodite in Aulis
 * A Flood
 * Paul Morand – World Champions (Champions du monde)
 * Robert Musil – The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, publication begins)
 * Stratis Myrivilis – Η ζωή εν τάφω (I zoí en tafo, "Life in the Tomb"; book publication)
 * Vladimir Nabokov
 * The Defense
 * The Eye
 * Irène Némirovsky – Le Bal
 * E. Phillips Oppenheim
 * The Lion and the Lamb
 * The Million Pound Deposit
 * Camil Petrescu – Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război (The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War)
 * Sol Plaatje – Mhudi (written 1919–20)
 * J. B. Priestley – Angel Pavement
 * Ellery Queen – The French Powder Mystery
 * Elizabeth Madox Roberts – The Great Meadow
 * Joseph Roth – Job
 * Rafael Sabatini – The King's Minion
 * Ernst von Salomon – The Outlaws
 * Dorothy L. Sayers
 * Strong Poison
 * The Documents in the Case (written with Robert Eustace)
 * Nan Shepherd – The Weatherhouse
 * Upton Sinclair – Mental Radio
 * Olaf Stapledon – Last and First Men
 * Cecil Street
 * Peril at Cranbury Hall
 * The Secret of High Eldersham
 * Miguel de Unamuno – San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
 * Ion Vinea – Paradisul suspinelor (A Haven for the Sighs)
 * Edgar Wallace
 * The Clue of the Silver Key
 * The Lady of Ascot
 * Hugh Walpole – Rogue Herries
 * Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies
 * Dorothy Whipple – High Wages
 * Thornton Wilder – The Woman of Andros
 * Charles Williams – War in Heaven
 * Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Insatiability (Nienasycenie)
 * Gamel Woolsey – One Way of Love (written; published 1987)
 * Philip Gordon Wylie – Gladiator
 * Francis Brett Young – Jim Redlake

Children and young people

 * William S. Gray – first in the Dick and Jane series of Elson-Gray Readers
 * "Carolyn Keene" – The Secret of the Old Clock and other Nancy Drew mystery stories
 * André Maurois – Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers; illustrated by Jean Bruller)
 * Anne Parrish – Floating Island
 * Watty Piper – The Little Engine That Could
 * Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
 * Gwynedd Rae – Mostly Mary (first in the Mary Plain series of 14 books)
 * Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons (first in the Swallows and Amazons series of 12 books)
 * Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Yellow Knight of Oz (24th in the Oz series overall and the 10th written by her)
 * Marion St John Webb – Mr Papingay's Flying Shop (first in the Papingay series of four books)
 * Sadie Rose Weilerstein – The Adventures of K'tonton: a Little Jewish Tom Thumb

Drama

 * Rudolf Besier – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
 * Antoine Bibesco – Ladies All
 * Bertolt Brecht
 * Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)
 * The Decision (Die Maßnahme)
 * Ferdinand Bruckner – Elisabeth von England (Elizabeth of England)
 * Jean Cocteau – The Human Voice (La Voix humaine)
 * Marc Connelly – The Green Pastures
 * Noël Coward – Private Lives
 * Ian Hay and Guy Bolton – A Song of Sixpence
 * Ian Hay and P.G. Wodehouse – Leave It to Psmith
 * Georgia Douglas Johnson – Blue-Eyed Black Boy
 * Fred Duprez – My Wife's Family
 * Geoffrey Kerr – London Calling
 * Kwee Tek Hoay – Nonton Tjapgome (Watching the Lantern Festival)
 * Federico García Lorca
 * El público, written)
 * The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife (La zapatera prodigiosa)
 * Patrick MacGill – Suspense
 * Edgar Wallace –
 * On the Spot
 * The Mouthpiece
 * Smoky Cell
 * Emlyn Williams – A Murder Has Been Arranged
 * Christa Winsloe – Ritter Nérestan (written as Gestern und heute, translated as Children in Uniform)
 * W. B. Yeats – The Words Upon The Window Pane

Poetry

 * W. H. Auden – Poems
 * Samuel Beckett – Whoroscope
 * Hart Crane – The Bridge
 * Laxmi Prasad Devkota – Muna Madan (मुनामदन)
 * T. S. Eliot – Ash Wednesday
 * D. Iacobescu (died 1913) – Quasi
 * P. H. B. Lyon (editor) – The Discovery of Poetry

Non-fiction

 * Adrian Bell – Corduroy
 * Catherine Carswell – The Life of Robert Burns
 * E. K. Chambers – William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems
 * Alphonse Daudet (died 1897) – In the Land of Pain (La Doulou (La Douleur): 1887–1895 et Le Trésor d'Arlatan: 1897)
 * William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity
 * Dion Fortune – Psychic Self-Defence
 * Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
 * Muhammad Iqbal – The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
 * James Jeans – The Mysterious Universe
 * G. Wilson Knight – The Wheel of Fire: interpretations of Shakespearian tragedy
 * Samuil Lehtțir and Iosif Vainberg – Întrebări literari (Literary Questions)
 * Bata LoBagola (Joseph Howard Lee) – LoBagola: An African Savage's Own Story (make-believe autobiography)
 * Paul Morand – New York
 * Edouard de Pomiane – Cuisine en dix minutes
 * Alfred Rosenberg – The Myth of the Twentieth Century (Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts)
 * W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman – 1066 and All That
 * David Unaipon (credited to William Ramsay Smith) – Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals
 * Owen Wister – Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship

Births

 * January 1 – Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born poet
 * January 20 – Blair Lent, American children's author and illustrator (died 2009)
 * January 23 – Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright (died 2017)
 * February 15 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet (died 2020)
 * February 17 – Ruth Rendell (Ruth Barbara Grasemann), English detective and mystery novel writer (died 2015)
 * February 18 – Gahan Wilson, American author and illustrator (died 2019)
 * February 22 – Edward D. Hoch, American detective fiction writer (died 2008)
 * February 23 – Paul West, English-born American novelist, poet and essayist (died 2015)
 * March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (died 2018)
 * March 8 – Douglas Hurd, English politician and novelist
 * March 26 – Gregory Corso, American poet (died 2001)
 * April 16 – Carol Bly, American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (died 2007)
 * May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet (died 2014)
 * May 13 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish novelist (died 2020)
 * May 14 – María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (died 2018)
 * May 15 – Grace Ogot, Kenyan author (died 2015)
 * May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (died 1965)
 * May 21 – Stanley Wells, English Shakespearean scholar
 * May 25 – Jón frá Pálmholti (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (died 2004)
 * May 27 – John Barth, American fiction writer (died 2024)
 * June 3 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (died 1999)
 * June 10 – Grace Mirabella, American journalist, editor of Vogue 1971-88
 * June 14 – Charles McCarry, American spy and novelist (died 2019)
 * June 23 – Anthony Thwaite, English poet (died 2021)
 * June 28 – Maureen Howard, American writer, editor and lecturer
 * July 6 – Gloria Skurzynski, American author
 * July 11 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (died 2019)
 * July 13 – Sam Greenlee, African American author (died 2014)
 * July 15 – Jacques Derrida, French Algerian literary critic (died 2004)
 * July 17 – Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (died 2018)
 * August 8 – Barry Unsworth, English novelist (died 2012)
 * August 9 – Carmen Balcells, Spanish literary agent (died 2015)
 * August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet laureate (died 1998)
 * August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (died 2009)
 * August 25 – Peter Trower, Canadian poet and novelist (died 2017)
 * August 27 – Erzsébet Galgóczi, Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 1989)
 * September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand novelist (died 2002)
 * September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American poet (died 1999)
 * September 29 – Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (died 2017)
 * October 2 – Antonio Gala, Spanish poet, playwright and novelist
 * October 10 – Harold Pinter, English dramatist (died 2008)
 * October 18 – Esther Hautzig, Polish-born American autobiographer (died 2009)
 * October 24 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist and literary biographer (died 2019)
 * October 26 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian researcher and poet (died 2014)
 * October 27 – Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet (died 2019)
 * October 30 – Timothy Findley, Canadian author (died 2002)
 * November 1 – A. R. Gurney, American dramatist (died 2017)
 * November 5
 * Clifford Irving, American literary forger (died 2017)
 * Hans Mommsen, German historian (died 2015)
 * November 12 – Irma Chilton, Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (died 1990)
 * November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist and essayist (died 2009)
 * November 16 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, academic and literary critic (died 2013)
 * November 20 – Bai Hua, Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist (died 2019)
 * November 27 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (died 2009)
 * December 2 – Jon Silkin, English poet (died 1997)
 * December 9 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (died 2010)
 * December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (died 1986)

Deaths

 * January 9 – Edward Bok, American author (born 1863)
 * January 16 – Johannes Gilhoff, German writer (born 1861)
 * January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician (born 1835)
 * February 9 – Alice Williams Brotherton, American author (born 1848)
 * February 27
 * George Haven Putnam, American author and publisher (born 1844)
 * Joseph Wright, English philologist and lexicographer (born 1855)
 * February 28 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (born 1889)
 * March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist and poet (born 1885)
 * March 12 – Alois Jirásek, Czech novelist and dramatist (born 1851)
 * March 13 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, American author (born 1852)
 * April 10 – Alfred Williams, English poet and steam-hammer operator (born 1877)
 * April 14
 * Sigurd Ibsen, Norwegian politician and writer (born 1859)
 * Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet, suicide (born 1893)
 * John B. Sheridan, Irish-American sports journalist (born 1870)
 * April 21 – Robert Bridges, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1844)
 * April 22 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (born 1866)
 * April 29 – Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (born 1902)
 * May 12 – Iso Mutsu (睦磯, Gertrude Ethel Passingham), English-born Japanese travel writer (born 1867)
 * May 15 – William John Locke, British Guiana-born English novelist and playwright (born 1863)
 * May 16 – Florence Bell, English writer and playwright (born 1851)
 * May 17 – Herbert Croly, American political writer (born 1869)
 * June 9
 * Arthur St. John Adcock, English novelist and poet (born 1864)
 * Thomas Herbert Warren, English scholar and poet (born 1853)
 * June 23 – Israel Gollancz, English Shakespeare scholar (born 1864)
 * July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer of crime fiction (born 1859)
 * July 26 – Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian (born 1849)
 * August 23 – Lucien Wolf, English journalist and historian (born 1857)
 * August 29 – William Archibald Spooner, English academic and instigator of spoonerisms (born 1844)
 * September 4 – Vladimir Arsenyev, Russian travel writer and explorer (born 1872)
 * September 5 – Georges de Porto-Riche, French novelist and dramatist (born 1849)
 * September 25 – Arthur Way, English-born Australian classicist and translator (born 1847)
 * September
 * Thomas Nicoll Hepburn (Gabriel Setoun), Scottish writer and poet (born 1861)
 * Karam Singh, Sikh historian (born 1884)
 * October 4 – Olena Pchilka, Ukrainian writer, translator and publisher (born 1849)
 * October 16 – James Surtees Phillpotts, English writer and educator (born 1839)
 * November 20 – William B. Hanna, American sportswriter (born 1866)
 * November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born 1855)
 * December 8 – Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (born 1894)
 * December 22
 * Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis), Scottish humorist, novelist and critic (born 1863)
 * Marion Manville Pope, American poet and author of juvenile literature (born 1859)
 * unknown dates – Roy Horniman, English novelist and playwright (born 1874)

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: E. H. Young, Miss Mole
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Francis Yeats-Brown, Lives of a Bengal Lancer
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
 * Nobel Prize in Literature: Sinclair Lewis
 * Prix Goncourt: Henri Fauconnier, Malaisie
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems
 * Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

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