Editing 1929 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1929'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 10]] – ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' begin with the first appearance of [[Hergé]]'s [[Belgium|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]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last = Dongelmans | first = B.P.M. | title = Tot volle waschdom : bijdragen aan de geschiedenis van de kinder- en jeugdliteratuur | publisher = Biblion | location = Den Haag | year = 2000 | isbn = 9789054832263 | language=nl}}</ref>
*February–August – [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]'' ([[1759 in literature|1759]]) is held to be obscene by the [[United States Customs Service]] in [[Boston]].
*February – The first of [[Margery Allingham]]'s [[crime novel]]s 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.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Seized Novel Condemned |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=1929-03-05 |page=13}}</ref> An edition appears later in Paris from [[Jack Kahane]]'s [[Obelisk Press]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pearson |first=Neil |title=Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_rYXMViLL4C&pg=PA79 |year=2007 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-1-84631-101-7 |pages=79–81}}</ref>
*[[April 1]] – The [[Faber and Faber]] publishing company is founded in London by [[Geoffrey Faber]], with [[T. S. Eliot]] as its literary editor.
*[[April 29]] – In the course of a domestic argument in London between poets and writers [[Robert Graves]], [[Laura Riding]], [[Geoffrey Phibbs]] and Graves's wife [[Nancy Nicholson]], Riding and Graves jump from windows, she sustaining life-threatening injuries.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jean Moorcroft|last=Wilson|title= Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to ''Good-Bye to All That''|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London|year=2018|pages=352–364|isbn=9781472929143|author-link=Jean Moorcroft Wilson}}</ref> Later this year, Graves and Riding go to live together in [[Mallorca]].
*May – [[Hugo Gernsback]] first uses the term "[[science fiction]]" in its modern sense, for his pulp magazine ''[[Amazing Stories]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Garyn G. Roberts|title=The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQhaAAAAYAAJ|date=1 July 2000|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-021280-1|page=1129}}</ref>
*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]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Andrew |last=Graham-Dixon |title=Rude awakening |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3605916/Rude-awakening.html |date=11 May 2003 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |access-date=2011-05-10}}</ref>
*August – The Censorship of Publications Act sets up the [[Censorship of Publications Board (Ireland)|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 language|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.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Benjamin A. |last=Batson |title=Kulab Saipradit and the ''War of Life'' |url=http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/1981/JSS_069_0g_Baltson_KulabSaipraditAndWarOfLife.pdf |access-date=2013-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203081251/http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/1981/JSS_069_0g_Baltson_KulabSaipraditAndWarOfLife.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-03 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*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 (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]].<ref>[http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/697/9/121275751w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS201793859&dyn=8!xrn_7_0_CS201793859&hst_1?sw_aep=camlib ''The Times'', 3 October 1929.]</ref> 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 (novel)|Ulysses]]'' – the first complete edition printed in the U.S.<ref name="Gertzman2011">{{cite book|author=Jay A. Gertzman|title=Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUZL1_zoMWcC&pg=PA364|date=2 September 2011|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-0585-5|pages=364–}}</ref> He serves two prison terms for publishing an obscene work.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses |first=Kevin |last=Birmingham |location=London |publisher=Head of Zeus |year=2014 |isbn=9781784080723}}</ref>
*[[October 29]] – Released in the U.S. is the first [[sound film]] adaptation of a Shakespeare play: ''[[The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film)|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.''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Edward Gorman|author2=Martin Harry Greenberg|author3=Larry Segriff|author4=Jonl Breen|title=The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBbngR3jMSEC|year=1995|publisher=Galahad Books|isbn=978-0-88365-910-6|page=61}}</ref>
**''[[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 Imaging|Monotype]] introduces [[Stanley Morison]]'s revival of the [[Bembo]] [[typeface]] for book printing.

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Richard Aldington]] – ''[[Death of a Hero]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Vivien Whelpton|title=Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover 1911-1929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79XYDwAAQBAJ|date=25 July 2019|publisher=Lutterworth Press|isbn=978-0-7188-4796-8|page=340}}</ref>
*[[Paul Alverdes]] – ''Die Pfeiferstube'' (The Whistler's Room)
*[[Roberto Arlt]] – ''Los siete locos'' (The Seven Madmen)<ref>{{cite book|author=Rose Corral|title=El obsesivo circular de la ficción: asedios a Los siete locos y Los lanzallamas de Roberto Arlt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dMcAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Colegio de México|isbn=978-968-12-0511-9|language=es}}</ref>
*[[Marcel Aymé]] – ''[[The Hollow Field]]''
*[[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]] – ''[[Pather Panchali (novel)|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 (novel)|Grand Hotel]]'')
*[[E. F. Benson]] – ''[[Paying Guests (novel)|Paying Guests]]''
*[[Anthony Berkeley]]
**''[[The Piccadilly Murder]]''
**''[[The Poisoned Chocolates Case]]''
*[[Georges Bernanos]] – ''[[Joy (Bernanos novel)|Joy]]''
*[[Algernon Blackwood]] – ''Dudley & Gilderoy: A Nonsense''
*[[Mary Borden]] – ''The Forbidden Zone''
*[[Elizabeth Bowen]] – ''[[The Last September]]''
* [[Marjorie Bowen]] – ''[[Dickon (novel)|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 story collection)|''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 (novel)|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 (novel)|Cimarron]]''
*[[C. S. Forester]] – ''[[Brown on Resolution]]''
*[[Zona Gale]] – ''[[Borgia]]''
*[[Rómulo Gallegos]] – ''[[Doña Bárbara]]''
*[[Gaito Gazdanov]] – ''[[:ru:Вечер у Клэр|Вечер у Клэр]]'' (''Vecher u Kler'', An Evening with Claire)
*[[Floyd Gibbons]] – ''[[The Red Napoleon]]''
* [[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]]
** ''[[Death at Four Corners]]''
** ''[[The Mystery of the Open Window]]''
*[[Jean Giono]]
**''[[Colline]]''
**''[[Lovers are Never Losers]]''
*[[Joseph Goebbels]] – ''[[Michael (novel)|Michael: A German Destiny in Diary Form]] (Michael: Ein deutsches Schicksal in Tagebuchblättern)''
* [[George Goodchild]] – ''[[Jack O'Lantern (novel)|Jack O'Lantern]]''
*[[Henry Green]] – ''[[Living (novel)|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 (writer)|Richard Hughes]] – ''[[A High Wind in Jamaica (novel)|A High Wind in Jamaica]]''
*[[Masuji Ibuse]] (井伏 鱒二) – ''Salamander and Other Stories''
* [[Ianthe Jerrold]] – ''The Studio Crime''
*[[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 (novel)|Laughing Boy]]''
*[[Nella Larsen]] – ''[[Passing (novel)|Passing]]''
*[[Sinclair Lewis]] – ''[[Dodsworth (novel)|Dodsworth]]''
*[[Eric Linklater]] – ''[[Poet's Pub (novel)|Poet's Pub]]''
*[[Marie Belloc Lowndes]] – ''[[One of Those Ways]]''
*[[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]]''<ref>{{Cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |author-link=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=rev. |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
*[[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 (novel)|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 (novel)|The Blacker the Berry]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Everett Jenkins|title=Pan-African Chronology: 1914-1929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zU0UAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-0835-1|page=496}}</ref>
*[[Sigrid Undset]] – ''In the Wilderness''
*[[S. S. Van Dine]] – ''[[The Scarab Murder Case]]''
*[[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]] – ''[[The Duke of York's Steps]]''
*[[Edgar Wallace]] 
**''[[Four Square Jane]]'' 
**''[[The Green Ribbon (novel)|The Green Ribbon]]''
**''[[The India-Rubber Men]]''
*[[Lynd Ward]] – ''[[Gods' Man]]'' (wordless "novel in woodcuts")
*[[Edith Wharton]] – ''Hudson River Bracketed''
*[[Thomas Wolfe]] – ''[[Look Homeward, Angel]]''
*[[S. Fowler Wright]]
**''Dawn''
**''[[The World Below]]''
*[[Francis Brett Young]] – ''[[Black Roses (novel)|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''
*[[Rachel Field]] – ''[[Hitty, Her First Hundred Years]]''
*[[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===
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*[[Jacinto Benavente]] – ''[[:es:Vidas cruzadas (obra de teatro)|Vidas cruzadas]]'' (Short Cuts)
*[[Henri Bernstein]] – ''[[Mélo (play)|Mélo]]''
*[[Bertolt Brecht]] – ''[[The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent]] (Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis)''
*[[Ferdinand Bruckner]] – ''[[:de:Krankheit der Jugend|Krankheit der Jugend]]'' (Illness of Youth)
*[[St. John Ervine]] – ''[[The First Mrs. Fraser (play)|The First Mrs. Fraser]]''
*[[Jean Giraudoux]] – ''[[Amphitryon 38]]''
*[[Walter Hackett]] – ''[[Sorry You've Been Troubled]]''
*[[Patrick Hamilton (dramatist)|Patrick Hamilton]] – ''[[Rope (play)|Rope]]''
*[[Denis Johnston]] – ''The Old Lady Says "No!"''
*[[Agha Hashar Kashmiri]] – ''[[Rustom O Sohrab]]''
*[[Frederick Lonsdale]] – ''[[Canaries Sometimes Sing (play)|Canaries Sometimes Sing]]''
*[[A. A. Milne]] 
** ''[[Michael and Mary (play)|Michael and Mary]]'' 
**  ''[[Toad of Toad Hall]]'' (adapted from [[Kenneth Grahame]])
*[[Kaj Munk]] – ''I Brændingen''
*[[Eugene O'Neill]] – ''[[Dynamo (play)|Dynamo]]''
*[[Marcel Pagnol]] – ''[[Marius (play)|Marius]]''
*[[Stanisława Przybyszewska]] – ''[[The Danton Case]] (Sprawa Dantona)''
*[[Ernest Raymond]] – ''[[The Berg (play)|The Berg]]''
*[[Elmer Rice]] – ''[[Street Scene (play)|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 (play)|After All]]''
*[[Ödön von Horváth]] – ''Rund um den Kongreß''
*[[Edgar Wallace]] 
**''[[The Calendar (play)|The Calendar]]'' 
**''[[Persons Unknown (play)|Persons Unknown]]''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main|1929 in poetry}}
*[[Robinson Jeffers]] – ''Dear Judas and Other Poems''<ref>{{cite book|author=Robinson Jeffers|title=Dear Judas, and Other Poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxiyzQEACAAJ|year=1929|publisher=Liveright}}</ref>
*[[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]] – {{lang|ga|[[oldwikisource:An t-Oileánach|An t-Oileánach]]}} (The Islandman)
*[[Charles Kay Ogden]] – ''[[Basic English]]''
*[[Walter F. Otto]] – ''[[The Homeric Gods|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]]<ref>{{cite book | last = Boheemen | first = Christine | title = Postcolonial constructions | publisher = Rodopi | location = Amsterdam Atlanta | year = 2001 | isbn = 9789042012769 | page=178}}</ref>
*[[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 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Maureen Hughes|title=The Pocket Guide to Plays & Playwrights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7fNDwAAQBAJ&pg=RA2-PT36|date=19 March 2009|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-84468-726-8|pages=2}}</ref>
**[[Heiner Müller]], German dramatist (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Theresa M. Ganter|title=Searching for a New German Identity: Heiner Müller and the Geschichtsdrama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYFEUO8z5g4C&pg=PA13|year=2008|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03911-048-3|pages=13}}</ref>
*[[January 26]] – [[Jules Feiffer]], American cartoonist and writer
*[[February 6]] 
** [[Keith Waterhouse]], English journalist and novelist (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Waterhouse|author2=Neil McEwan|title=Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar: Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7vyAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Longman|isbn=978-0-582-03822-6|page=5}}</ref>
** [[Valentin Yanin]], Russian historian and author (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])
*[[February 16]] – [[Peter Porter (poet)|Peter Porter]], Australian-born English poet and educator (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])
*[[February 17]] – [[Chaim Potok]], American author (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sanford Sternlicht|title=Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vOG2EXef4EC&pg=PA2|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31181-9|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[February 18]] – [[Len Deighton]], English thriller writer<ref>{{cite book|title=Breese's Guide to Modern First Editions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhPhAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Breese Books|isbn=978-0-947533-36-6|page=108}}</ref>
*[[February 25]] – [[Issa J. Boullata]], Palestinian scholar and writer (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://arablit.org/2019/05/03/translator-issa-j-boullata-90/|title=Translator Issa J. Boullata, 90|publisher=ArabLit|date=3 May 2019|accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref>
*[[March 1]] – [[Thuppettan]],  Malayalam-language Keralan playwright (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])
*[[March 7]] – [[Dan Jacobson]], South African novelist (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])
*[[March 13]] – [[Mateja Matevski]], Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist and translator (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[March 18]] – [[Christa Wolf]], German literary critic, novelist and essayist (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/01/christa-wolf |title=Christa Wolf obituary|first= Kate |last=Webb|newspaper=The Guardian|date= 1 December 2011}}</ref>
*[[March 19]] – [[Miquel Martí i Pol]], Catalan poet (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Milan Kundera]], Czech-French novelist (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Bloom | first = Harold | title = Milan Kundera | publisher = Chelsea House Publishers | location = Philadelphia | year = 2003 | isbn = 9781438113340 | page=147}}</ref>
*[[April 9]] – [[Paule Marshall]], born Valenza Pauline Burke, American novelist (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])
*[[April 23]] – [[George Steiner]], French-born literary critic and philosopher (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lehmann-Haupt |first1=Christopher |last2=Grimes |first2=William |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/books/george-steiner-dead.html |title=George Steiner, Prodigious Literary Critic, Dies at 90 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 February 2020 |access-date=4 February 2020}}</ref> 
*[[April 26]] – [[Jerzy Turonek]], Polish-Belarusian historian (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])
*[[May 10]]
**[[Sándor Kányádi]], Hungarian poet and translator (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
**[[Antonine Maillet]], Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar (died [[2025 in literature|2025]])
*[[May 14]] – [[George Selden (author)|George Selden]], American author (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Adrienne Rich]], American poet and essayist (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Poet and pioneer|first=John|last= O'Mahoney|date=15 June 2002|access-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>
*[[June 2]] – [[Norton Juster]], American children's writer and academic (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])
*[[June 11]] – [[George Garrett (poet)|George Garrett]], American poet and novelist (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[June 12]]
**[[Brigid Brophy]], English novelist and critic (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
**[[Anne Frank]] (Annelies Marie Frank), German-born Dutch child diarist (died [[1945 in literature|1945]])
*[[June 18]] – [[Grigorijus Kanovičius]], Jewish Lithuanian writer (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
*[[June 20]] – [[Anne Weale]], English writer (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])
*[[June 25]] – [[Eric Carle]], American children's writer and illustrator (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Eric Carle, Author and Illustrator of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' Dead at 91 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/eric-carle-the-very-hungry-caterpillar-author-dead-obit-1175120/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=27 May 2021 |date=2021-05-27}}</ref>
*[[June 29]] – [[Oriana Fallaci]], Italian journalist and author (died [[2006]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/16/guardianobituaries.italy|title=Oriana Fallaci|date=September 16, 2006|author1=Liz McGregor|author2=John Hooper|website=Guardian|access-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>
*[[July 8]] 
**[[Shirley Ann Grau]], American short story writer (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])
**[[A. T. Q. Stewart]], Northern Irish historian and academic (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])
*[[July 12]] – [[Tayeb Salih]], Sudanese fiction writer and cultural commentator (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[July 22]] – [[U. A. Fanthorpe]], English poet (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[July 27]] – [[Jack Higgins]] (Harry Patterson), English thriller writer (died [[2022 in literature|2022]])
*[[July 31]] – [[Lynne Reid Banks]], English novelist (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])
*[[August 5]] – [[Al Alvarez]], English writer and poetry editor (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])
*[[August 7]] – [[Arrigo Petacco]], Italian journalist and writer (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/cronache/18_aprile_03/morto-arrigo-petacco-giornalista-storico-921cafae-375e-11e8-b6e2-a808a444e7a2.shtml|title = Morto Arrigo Petacco, giornalista e storico|date = 4 March 2018}}</ref>
*[[August 14]] – [[Thomas Meehan (writer)|Thomas Meehan]], American screenwriter (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[August 18]] – [[Anatoly Kuznetsov]], Russian dissident novelist (died [[1979 in literature|1979]])
*[[August 21]] – [[X. J. Kennedy]], American poet and translator
*[[August 27]] – [[Ira Levin]], American novelist and playwright (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=The Stepford Wives (1975) Screen: 'Stepford Wives' Assays Suburbia's Detergent Set|author-link=Vincent Canby|first=Vincent|last=Canby |date=1975-02-13|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D01EFDC1E30E03ABC4B52DFB466838E669EDE}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |title=The Stepford Wives (2004) FILM REVIEW; Married To a Machine |first=A. O.|last=Scott|date=2004-06-11|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE2DA1430F932A25755C0A9629C8B63}}</ref>
*[[August 29]] – [[Thom Gunn]], Anglo-American poet (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[September 15]] – [[John Julius Norwich]], British historian and travel writer (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Telegraph Obituaries |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/06/01/john-julius-norwich-writer-television-personality-obituary/ |title=John Julius Norwich, writer and television personality – obituary |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=1 June 2018 |access-date=13 March 2020}}</ref>
*[[September 25]] – [[Barbara Walters]], American journalist (died 2022)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stanley |first=Alessandra |date=2022-12-31 |title=Barbara Walters, a First Among TV Newswomen, Is Dead at 93 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/business/media/barbara-walters-dead.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[September 30]] – [[Leticia Ramos-Shahani]], Filipino senator, writer (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[October 7]] – [[Robert Westall]], English novelist and children's writer (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[October 15]] – [[Milorad Pavić]], Serbian novelist (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[October 21]] 
** [[Pierre Bellemare]], French writer and radio personality (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
** [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], American science fiction and fantasy author (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jonas |first=Gerald |date=23 January 2018 |title=Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123221310/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[October 23]] – [[Shamsur Rahman (poet)|Shamsur Rahman]], Bengali poet (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[October 30]] – [[Jean Chapman]], English novelist
*[[November 6]] – [[C. P. Taylor]], Scottish playwright (died [[1981 in literature|1981]]) 
*[[November 7]] – [[Steve Carter (playwright)|Steve Carter]], American playwright (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])
*[[November 12]] – [[Michael Ende]], German novelist and children's writer (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[November 13]] – [[Theo Aronson]], South African-born British biographer (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[December 2]] – [[Leon Litwack]], American historian (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Risen |first1=Clay |title=Leon Litwack, 91, Dies; Changed How Scholars Portray Black History |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/leon-litwack-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries |access-date=12 August 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 August 2021}}</ref> 
*[[December 12]] – [[John Osborne]], English playwright and screenwriter (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Heilpern |first=John |author-link=John Heilpern |title=John Osborne: A Patriot for Us |url=https://archive.org/details/johnosbornepatri0000heil |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Chatto & Windus]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7011-6780-6 |page=23}}</ref>
*[[December 16]] – [[James Moore (Cornish author)|James Moore]], English author (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[December 17]] – [[William Safire]], born Safir, American columnist (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[December 19]] – [[Howard Sackler]], American dramatist and screenwriter (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
*[[December 23]] – [[Monique Watteau]] (Monique Dubois), Belgian fantasy novelist and artist
*[[December 24]] – [[Philip Ziegler]], English biographer and historian (died 2023)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Philip Ziegler, biographer of Britain’s powerful and pivotal, dies at 93 |language=en-US |work=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/01/philip-ziegler-biographer-british-dies/ |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
*[[December 30]] – [[Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka]], Malagasy writer, politician (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[December 31]] – [[Robert B. Silvers]], American literary editor (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])

==Deaths==
*January — [[Anna Bowman Dodd]], American author (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])
*[[January 15]] – [[Leonard Cline]], American novelist, poet and journalist (heart failure, born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>[[Douglas A. Anderson|Anderson, Douglas A.]] Introduction to Cold Spring Press edition of ''[[The Dark Chamber]]''.</ref>
*[[January 29]] – [[Hans Prutz]], German historian (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])
*[[February 6]] – [[Charlotte Carmichael Stopes]], Scottish writer and women's rights activist (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])
*[[March 7]] – [[:de:Auguste Groner|Auguste Groner]], Austrian detective fiction writer (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[March 15]] – [[Grace Rhys]], Irish novelist and poet (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Publishers Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRJVAAAAYAAJ|year=1929|publisher=F. Leypoldt|page=1507}}</ref>
*[[March 26]] – [[Katharine Lee Bates]], American lyricist (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Santeri Nuorteva]], Soviet journalist and politician (born [[1881 in literature|1881]])
*[[April 12]] – [[Flora Annie Steel]], English writer (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*[[April 16]] – Sir [[John Morris-Jones]], Welsh grammarian and poet (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[April 21]] – [[Lucy Clifford]] (Mrs. W. K. Clifford), English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born [[1846 in literature|1846]])
*[[May 19]] – [[Mary E. Mann]], English novelist and short story writer (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*[[June 8]] – [[Bliss Carman]], Canadian poet (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Carman, Bliss |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Canada|location=Toronto|publisher=University Associates|date=1948|volume=I |page=392}}</ref><ref name="adams">{{cite book|first=John Coldwell|last=Adams|chapter-url=http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/John%20Coldwell%20Adams/Confederation%20Voices/chapter%203.html|chapter=III - Bliss Carman (1861-1929)|title=Confederation Voices: Seven Canadian Poets |publisher=Canadian Poetry Press|date=2007|access-date=March 23, 2011}}</ref>
*[[June 18]] – [[Vedam Venkataraya Sastry]], Sanskrit and Telugu poet, critic and dramatist (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])
*[[June 22]]
**[[Alfred Brunswig]], German philosopher (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])
**[[Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler]], English writer of romances and children's books (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])
*[[June 25]] – [[Georges Courteline]], French dramatist and novelist (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])
*[[June 28]] – [[Edward Carpenter]], English socialist poet and philosopher (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[July 15]] – [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], Austrian novelist and poet (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])
*[[July 31]] – [[José de Castro]], Portuguese journalist (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
*August – [[Mary MacLane]], Canadian feminist writer (born [[1881 in literature|1881]])
*[[September 12]] – [[Rainis]], Latvian poet and playwright (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])
*[[September 19]] – [[Francis Darwin]], English botanist and academic (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*October – [[Arno Holz]], German [[Naturalism (literature)|Naturalist]] poet and dramatist (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])
*[[October 8]] – [[Max Lehmann (historian)|Max Lehmann]], German historian (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])
*[[October 19]] – [[Alexandru Davila]], Romanian dramatist and diplomat (born [[1862 in literature|1862]])
*[[November 3]] – [[Olav Aukrust]], Norwegian poet and teacher (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Dallas Lore Sharp]], American nature writer (born 1870)<ref>{{cite book|author=Pete Dunne|title=Bayshore Summer: Finding Eden in a Most Unlikely Place|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3SorPzxk8YC&pg=PA216|date=9 June 2010|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-547-48770-0|pages=216}}</ref>
*[[December 10]] – [[Harry Crosby]], American publisher and poet (suicide; born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*''unknown dates''
**[[Ella M. S. Marble]], American physician (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
**[[Evelyn Whitaker]], English children's writer (born [[1844 in literature|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 (play)|Street Scene]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Stephen Vincent Benét]], ''[[John Brown's Body (poem)|John Brown's Body]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]]: [[Julia Peterkin]], ''Scarlet Sister Mary''

==References==
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