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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1933'''.
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==Events==
*February – Having joined the [[Japanese Communist Party]], the Chinese novelist [[Hu Feng]] is arrested and "badly beaten" in [[Tokyo]], Japan, for his protests against [[imperialism]]. Returning to the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] as a popular hero, he is nevertheless prevented from joining the [[Chinese Communist Party]] by a rival, [[Zhou Yang (literary theorist)|Zhou Yang]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Denton |first=Kirk A. |title=The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=0-8047-3128-4 |location=Stanford |pages=81–82 |oclc=37713016}}</ref>
*[[February 17]] – The magazine ''[[Newsweek|News-Week]]'' is published for the first time in [[New York City]], United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bztv.typepad.com/instanthistory/2007/02/newsweek_1_a_lo.html|title=Instant History: Review of First ''Newsweek'' with Cover Photo|publisher=BZTV|date=February 17, 1933|access-date=December 25, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025034807/http://bztv.typepad.com/instanthistory/2007/02/newsweek_1_a_lo.html|archive-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref>
*[[March 8]] – Premiere of [[Federico García Lorca]]'s play ''[[Blood Wedding]]'' (''Bodas de Sangre'') is held at the Teatro Beatriz in [[Madrid]], Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/abci-noticia-inspiro-lorca-bodas-sangre-202003040848_noticia.html|title=La noticia del misterioso crimen que Lorca leyó en ABC y le inspiró «Bodas de sangre»|language=es|website=Archivo ABC|author=Mónica Arrizabalaga|access-date=18 January 2025}}</ref>
*[[April 23]] – [[Millosh Gjergj Nikolla]] is appointed schoolteacher among the [[Serbo-Montenegrins in Albania|Serbs]] of [[Vraka]], [[Albanian Kingdom (1928–39)|Kingdom of Albania]]. The next two years bring his creative period as a short story writer, describing his sense of despair at being isolated in a backward region.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elsie |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Elsie |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History |publisher=I. B. Tauris |location=London & New York |year=2012 |page=308 |isbn=978-1-78076-431-3}}</ref>
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-14597, Berlin, Opernplatz, Bücherverbrennung.jpg|thumb|330px|[[Nazi book burnings|Book burning]] in the [[Bebelplatz|Opernplatz]], [[Berlin]], May 11, 1933]]
*May – [[Nazi book burnings]] take place in [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] by the [[German Student Union]], principally of works by Jewish intellectuals, leading to an ''[[Exilliteratur]]''. Although his novels are spared (unlike those of his brother [[Heinrich Mann]]), [[Thomas Mann]] settles in Switzerland. [[Lion Feuchtwanger]], on a lecture tour of the United States in January, has decided not to return to Germany; [[Bertolt Brecht]] has moved to [[Prague]] in February; and [[Alfred Döblin]] to Switzerland in March.
*[[May 16]]–[[May 17|17]] – In the [[Soviet Union]], [[Joseph Stalin]] orders the [[NKVD]] to "preserve but isolate" [[Osip Mandelstam]], after having been informed of the "[[Stalin Epigram]]"; Mandelstam is then arrested. A protest by literary figures, including [[Anna Akhmatova]] and [[Boris Pasternak]], prompts Stalin to declare that he might "review the case" (he never will). His admiration for Pasternak as a poetic genius is strengthened when the latter asks for a private meeting to discuss "life and death" — although he never grants it, he instructs the NKVD to "leave that cloud-dweller [Pasternak] alone".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Montefiore |first=Simon Sebag |author-link=Simon Sebag Montefiore |title=Stalin. The Court of the Red Tsar |publisher=Phoenix |location=London |year=2004 |pages=135–137 |isbn=0-75381-766-7}}</ref> 
*June 
**[[W. H. Auden]] has his "Vision of Agape".<ref>Preface to his anthology ''The Protestant Mystics'' (1964).</ref>
**[[Robert Walser (writer)|Robert Walser]], under treatment for [[schizophrenia]] since [[1929 in literature|1929]], is placed in a [[sanatorium]] in [[Herisau]], Switzerland. This ends his work as a writer, though he will live until [[1956 in literature|1956]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Heffernan |first=Valerie |title=Provocation from the Periphery: Robert Walser Re-examined |publisher=Königshausen & Neumann |location=Würzburg |year=1998 |pages=15–16 |isbn=978-3-8260-3264-6}}</ref>
*July – ''[[Poedjangga Baroe]]'', the Indonesian [[avant-garde]] literary magazine, is first published, by [[Armijn Pane]], [[Amir Hamzah]] and [[Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana]].
*October (approximate) – The name [[Inklings]], previously used by a disbanded undergraduate group, is taken by an informal literary discussion group of [[University of Oxford]] academics, including [[C. S. Lewis]] and [[J. R. R. Tolkien]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Colin Duriez|title=The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lF4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA240|date=20 February 2015|publisher=Lion Books|isbn=978-0-7459-5792-0|pages=240}}</ref>
*[[October 8]] – The General Union of Roma in Romania is set up by writer [[Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică]], with [[Grigoraș Dinicu]] as honorary president; by [[1934 in literature|1934]], it publishes the [[Romani language|Romani-language]] newspaper ''O Ròm'', and books of [[Romani mythology]], edited by [[Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Achim |first=Viorel |title=The Roma in Romanian History |publisher=CEU Press |location=Budapest & New York |year=2007 |pages=154–157 |isbn=978-963-9241-84-8}}</ref>
*[[November 7]] – Premiere of [[Samuil Lehtțir]]'s ''Biruința'' (Victory), at [[Tiraspol]]'s State Theater; it is the first local play to have been produced within the [[Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Colesnic |first=Iurie |author-link=Iurie Colesnic |date=2014-06-23 |title=Prima piesă montată pe scena tiraspoleană a fost a unui basarabean |newspaper=Timpul |location=Chișinău }}</ref>
*December
**[[Codex Sinaiticus]] sold by the Soviet Union to the [[British Library|British Museum Library]] through the agency of [[Maggs Bros Ltd]] at a price of £100,000, the highest ever paid for a book at this time.
**[[Raymond Chandler]]'s first short story, the [[detective fiction]] "[[Blackmailers Don't Shoot]]", is published in the magazine ''[[Black Mask (magazine)|Black Mask]]'' in the United States.
*[[December 6]] – In ''[[United States v. One Book Called Ulysses]]'', [[United States district court|U.S. District]] Judge [[John M. Woolsey]] rules that [[James Joyce]]'s novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' is not as a whole [[Pornography|pornographic]] and therefore cannot be [[obscene]].<ref>[[Case citation |5 F.Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933)]].</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Hervey Allen]] – ''[[Anthony Adverse]]''
*[[Jorge Amado]] – ''[[Cacau (novel)|Cacau]]'' (''Cacao'')
*[[Edwin Balmer]] and [[Philip Wylie]] – ''[[When Worlds Collide]]''
*[[Marjorie Bowen]] – ''[[Album Leaf (novel)|Album Leaf]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=James Vinson|title=Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers|publisher=Macmillan|year=1982|page=92}}</ref>
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] – ''[[Tarzan and the City of Gold]]''
*[[Dino Buzzati]] – ''[[Bàrnabo delle montagne]]''
*[[Erskine Caldwell]] – ''[[God's Little Acre]]''
*[[John Dickson Carr]] – ''[[The Mad Hatter Mystery]]''
*[[Leslie Charteris]] – ''[[Once More the Saint]]'' (also ''The Saint and Mr. Teal'')
*[[Agatha Christie]]
**''[[The Hound of Death]]''
**''[[Lord Edgware Dies]]''
*[[J.J. Connington]] – ''[[Tom Tiddler's Island]]''
*[[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[The Hog's Back Mystery]]''
*[[A. J. Cronin]] – ''[[Grand Canary (novel)|Grand Canary]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Ross McKibbin|title=Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=9780198834205|page=54}}</ref>
*[[Warwick Deeping]] – ''[[Two Black Sheep]]''
*[[Mircea Eliade]] – ''[[Bengal Nights]]'' (''Mayitreyi'')
*[[Guy Endore]] – ''[[The Werewolf of Paris]]''
*[[Susan Ertz]] – ''The Proselyte''<ref>{{cite book|editor=Richard L Saunders|author=Dale Lowell Morgan|title=Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Part 1: Collected Works, 1939-1951|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=2012|page=153}}</ref>
*[[Miles Franklin]] – ''Bring the Monkey''
*[[Zona Gale]] – ''Papa La Fleur''
*[[John Galsworthy]] – ''[[One More River (novel)|One More River]]''
*[[Erle Stanley Gardner]] – ''The Case of the Sulky Girl''
*[[Matila Ghyka]] – ''Pluie d'étoiles''
*[[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]] 
** ''[[Death in Fancy Dress]]''
** ''[[The Musical Comedy Crime]]''
** ''[[Portrait of a Murderer (novel)|Portrait of a Murderer]]''
*[[Walter Greenwood]] – ''[[Love on the Dole]]''
*[[Dashiell Hammett]]
**''[[The Thin Man]]''
**''Woman In The Dark''
*[[Ernest Hemingway]] – ''[[Winner Take Nothing]]''
*[[Robert Smythe Hichens|Robert Hichens]] – ''[[The Paradine Case (novel)|The Paradine Case]]''<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>
*[[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]]
**''[[Knight Without Armour (novel)|Knight Without Armour]]''
**''[[Lost Horizon (novel)|Lost Horizon]]''
*[[Volter Kilpi]] – ''[[Alastalon salissa]]'' (In the Parlour at Alastalo)
* [[Ronald Knox]] –''[[The Body in the Silo]]''
*[[Pär Lagerkvist]] – ''[[:sv:Bödeln|Bödeln]]'' (The Hangman; novella)
*[[Alexander Lernet-Holenia]] – ''[[I Was Jack Mortimer (novel)|I Was Jack Mortimer]]''
*[[E. C. R. Lorac]] 
** ''[[The Case of Colonel Marchand]]''
** ''[[Death on the Oxford Road]]''
*[[Arthur Machen]] – ''[[The Green Round]]''
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] – ''[[Water on the Brain]]''
*[[Claude McKay]] – ''Banana Bottom''
*[[André Malraux]] – ''[[Man's Fate]] (La Condition humaine)''
*[[Caroline Pafford Miller]] – ''[[Lamb in His Bosom]]''
*[[A. A. Milne]] – ''[[Four Days' Wonder (novel)|Four Days' Wonder]]''
*[[Camil Petrescu]] – ''[[:ro:Patul lui Procust (roman)|Patul lui Procust]]'' (The Bed of Procrustes)
* [[E. R. Punshon]] – ''[[Information Received (novel)|Information Received]]''
*[[Ellery Queen]]
**''[[The American Gun Mystery]]''
**''[[The Siamese Twin Mystery]]''
*[[Raymond Queneau]] – ''Le Chiendent''
*[[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]] – ''South Moon Under''
*[[E. Arnot Robertson]] – ''Ordinary Families''
*[[Profira Sadoveanu]] – ''Mormolocul'' (Tadopole)
*[[Dorothy L. Sayers]]
**''[[Hangman's Holiday]]'' (short stories)
**''[[Murder Must Advertise]]''<ref name="COFC"/>
*[[Bruno Schulz]] – ''[[The Street of Crocodiles]]'' (short stories, published as ''Sklepy cynamonowe'', "Cinnamon Shops", in December, dated [[1934 in literature|1934]])
*[[Gertrude Stein]] – ''[[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Gertrude Stein|title=Writings 1903–1932|publisher=Library of America|year=1998|page=924}} {{ISBN|1-883011-40-X}}</ref> 
*[[John Steinbeck]] - ''[[To a God Unknown]]''
*[[Gladys Bronwyn Stern]] – ''[[Long Lost Father (novel)|Long Lost Father]]''
*[[Cecil Street]] 
** ''[[The Claverton Mystery]]''
** ''[[The Motor Rally Mystery]]''
** ''[[The Venner Crime]]''
*[[Thomas Frederic Tweed|Thomas F. Tweed]] – ''Rinehard: a melodrama of the nineteen-thirties''
*[[S. S. Van Dine]] – ''[[The Kennel Murder Case]]''<ref name="COFC">{{cite book|author1=Jacques Barzun|author2=Wendell Hertig Taylor|title=A Catalogue of Crime|publisher=Harper & Row|year=1971}} {{ISBN|0-06-015796-8}}</ref>
* [[John Vandercook]] – ''[[Murder in Trinidad (novel)|Murder in Trinidad]]''
* [[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]] – ''[[Mist on the Saltings]]''
*[[Helen Waddell]] – ''Peter Abelard''
*[[Hugh Walpole]] – ''Vanessa''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[The Shape of Things to Come]]''
*[[Franz Werfel]] – ''[[The Forty Days of Musa Dagh]]'' (''Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh'')
*[[Nathanael West]] – ''[[Miss Lonelyhearts]]''
*[[Dennis Wheatley]] – ''[[The Forbidden Territory]]''
*[[Antonia White]] – ''[[Frost in May]]''
*[[Virginia Woolf]] – ''[[Flush: A Biography]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Marjorie Flack]] – ''[[The Story about Ping]]''
*[[Norman Hunter (author)|Norman Hunter]] – ''The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm'' (first in [[Professor Branestawm]] series)
*[[Erich Kästner]] – ''[[The Flying Classroom]]''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=The Flying Classroom by Erich Kastner |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781782690566 |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}</ref>
*[[Arthur Ransome]] – ''[[Winter Holiday]]''
*[[Felix Salten]] – ''[[Florian: The Emperor’s Stallion]]''
*[[Dorothy Wall]] – ''[[Blinky Bill]]: the Quaint Little Australian'' (first in the Blinky Bill series of three books)

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
[[File:Ah-Wilderness-1933.jpg|thumb|400px|The original [[Broadway theatre|Broadway production]] of ''[[Ah, Wilderness!]]'', with [[George M. Cohan]], [[Elisha Cook, Jr.]], and [[Gene Lockhart]]]]
*[[Tawfiq al-Hakim]] – ''Ahl el-Kahf'' (The People of the Cave)
*[[Jean Anouilh]] – ''Mandarine''
*[[Anthony Armstrong (writer)|Anthony Armstrong]] 
** ''[[Ten Minute Alibi (play)|Ten Minute Alibi]]''
** ''[[Without Witness (play)|Without Witness]]''
*[[Clifford Bax]] – ''[[The Rose Without a Thorn]]''
*[[Ferdinand Bruckner]] – ''Die Rassen''
*Gordon Daviot ([[Josephine Tey]]) – ''[[Richard of Bordeaux (play)|Richard of Bordeaux]]''
*[[Selli Engler]] – ''Heil Hitler''
*[[Walter Hackett]] – ''[[Afterwards (play)|Afterwards]]''
*[[Ian Hay]] – ''[[A Present from Margate]]''
*[[Hanns Johst]] – ''[[Schlageter]]''
*[[Sidney Kingsley]] – ''[[Men in White (play)|Men in White]]''
*[[Samuil Lehtțir]] – ''Biruința'' (Victory)
*[[Federico García Lorca]] – ''[[Blood Wedding (play)|Blood Wedding]]''
*[[W. Somerset Maugham]] – ''[[Sheppey (play)|Sheppey]]''
*[[R. J. Minney]] – ''[[Clive of India (film)|Clive of India]]''
*[[Ivor Novello]] – ''[[Fresh Fields (play)|Fresh Fields]]''
*[[Eugene O'Neill]] – ''[[Ah, Wilderness!]]''
*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[Laburnum Grove (play)|Laburnum Grove]]''
*[[Lennox Robinson]] – ''[[Drama at Inish]]''
*[[Mordaunt Shairp]] – ''[[The Green Bay Tree]]''
*[[John Van Druten]] – ''[[The Distaff Side]]''
*[[Maxim Ziese]] – ''[[Siebenstein]]''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main|1933 in poetry}}
*[[Edwin James Brady]] – ''Wardens of the Seas''
*[[Benjamin Fondane]] – ''Ulysse''
*[[Mascha Kaléko]] – ''Das Lyrische Stenogrammheft: Verse vom Alltag''
*[[Osip Mandelstam]] – "[[Stalin Epigram]]"
*[[Vita Sackville-West]] – ''Collected Poems''
*[[Filip Shiroka]] – ''Zâni i zêmrës''
*[[J. Slauerhoff]] – ''Soleares''
*[[W. B. Yeats]] – ''[[The Winding Stair and Other Poems]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Vera Brittain]] – ''[[Testament of Youth]]''
*[[Albert Einstein]] and [[Sigmund Freud]] – ''Warum Krieg?''
*[[Benjamin Fondane]] – ''Rimbaud le voyou''
*[[Ionel Gherea]] – ''Le Moi el le monde. Essai d'une cosmogonie anthropomorphique'' (The Self and the World. An Essay in Anthropomorphic Cosmogony)
*[[Carl Jung]] – ''[[Modern Man in Search of a Soul]]''
*[[Agnes Mure Mackenzie]] – ''An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714''
*[[George Orwell]] – ''[[Down and Out in Paris and London]]''
*[[Wilhelm Reich]] – ''[[The Mass Psychology of Fascism]] (Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus)''
*[[Upton Sinclair]] – ''[[Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox]]''
*[[Muiris Ó Súilleabháin]] (Maurice O'Sullivan) – ''Fiche Bliain ag Fás (Twenty Years a-Growing)''
*[[Jun'ichirō Tanizaki]] (谷崎 潤一郎) – ''[[In Praise of Shadows]]'' (陰翳礼讃, essay on aesthetics)

==Births==
*[[January 1]] – [[Joe Orton]], English playwright (murdered [[1967 in literature|1967]])
*[[January 2]] – [[Seiichi Morimura]] (森村誠一), Japanese author (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
*[[January 4]] – [[Phyllis Reynolds Naylor]], American children's and adult novelist
*[[January 9]] – [[Wilbur Smith]], South African historical novelist (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])<ref>{{Cite news|last=Agence France-Presse|date=2021-11-14|title=The Guardian|work=Bestselling author Wilbur Smith dies aged 88|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/14/bestselling-author-wilbur-smith-dies-aged-88}}</ref>
*[[January 13]] – [[Shahnon Ahmad]], Malaysian writer and politician (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[January 16]] – [[Susan Sontag]] (Susan Rosenblatt), American novelist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Homberger |first1=Eric |title=Susan Sontag obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/dec/29/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |website=The Guardian |date=29 December 2004 |access-date=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
*[[January 25]] – [[Alden Nowlan]], Canadian poet and novelist (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[February 1]] – [[Reynolds Price]], American novelist and literary scholar (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])
*[[February 5]] – [[B. S. Johnson]], English novelist (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])
*[[February 12]] – [[Costa-Gavras]] (Konstantinos Gavras), Greek-French film director and writer<ref>{{cite book | title = Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Bernan Press| year = 2018 | isbn = 9781641432641 | page=127}}</ref>
*[[February 20]] – [[Zamenga Batukezanga]], Congolese francophone writer and philanthropist (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[February 22]] – [[Christopher Ondaatje]], Ceylonese-born English travel writer, biographer and philanthropist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Whately Parker|author2=Charles Wolcott Parker|author3=Barnet M. Greene|title=Who's who in Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnxmAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=International Press|isbn=978-0-7715-7726-0|page=433}}</ref>
*[[February 27]] – [[Edward Lucie-Smith]], Jamaican-born English writer, critic and broadcaster
*[[March 17]] – [[Penelope Lively]] (Penelope Low), Egyptian-born English novelist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mary Hurley Moran|title=Penelope Lively|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PghbAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-7028-5|page=7}}</ref>
*[[March 18]] – [[Sergio Pitol]], Mexican fiction writer, translator and diplomat (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[March 19]] – [[Philip Roth]], American novelist (died 2018)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sanford Pinsker|author2=Professor Sanford Pinsker, B.A., PH.D.|title=The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh7Ya84bjtcC&pg=PA145|year=1991|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1581-9|pages=145}}</ref>
*[[April 2]] – [[György Konrád]], Hungarian novelist, essayist, political dissident and President of PEN International (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/07/gyorgy-konrad-obituary|title=György Konrád obituary|date=7 October 2019|website=The Guardian|author=George Gomori|access-date=14 November 2021}}</ref>
*[[April 7]] – [[Cong Weixi]], Chinese author (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])
*[[April 14]] – [[Boris Strugatsky]], Russian sci-fi writer (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/20/boris-strugatsky-russia-sci-fi-writer|title=Boris Strugatsky: Russia mourns death of sci-fi writer – even Vladimir Putin|date=20 November 2012|website=The Guardian|author=Miriam Elder|access-date=14 November 2021}}</ref>
*[[April 24]] – [[Patricia Bosworth]], American writer/biographer (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/books/patricia-bosworth-dead-virus.html|title=Patricia Bosworth, actress-turned-author, dies at 86|date= April 16, 2020|author=Elsa Dixler|website=New York Times|access-date=August 8, 2021}}</ref>
*[[May 9]] – [[Jessica Steele]], English romance novelist (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])
*[[May 10]] – [[Barbara Taylor Bradford]] (Barbara Taylor), English-born American novelist (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Dave |editor-last=Mote |title=Contemporary Popular Writers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2MkUAQAAIAAJ |year=1997 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=978-1-55862-216-6 |page=43}}</ref>
*[[May 12]] – [[Stephen Vizinczey]], Hungarian-born writer (died 2021)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ratcliffe |first=Michael |date=2021-08-29 |title=Stephen Vizinczey obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/29/stephen-vizinczey-obituary |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*[[May 22]] – [[Arnold Lobel]], American children's writer and illustrator (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[May 29]]
** [[Abdul Rahman Munif]], Arab writer (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
** [[Edward Whittemore]], American novelist (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[June 9]] – [[Vicente Leñero]], Mexican novelist and playwright (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])
*[[June 11]] – [[Martti Soosaar]], Estonian journalist and author (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[June 20]] – [[Claire Tomalin]] (Claire Delavenay), English journalist and biographer
*[[June 25]] – [[James Meredith]], African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
*[[June 30]] – [[Mauricio Rosencof]], Uruguayan playwright, poet and journalist
*[[July 2]] – [[John Antrobus]], English playwright and scriptwriter
*[[July 4]] – [[David Littman (historian)|David Littman]], English historian (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])
*[[July 10]] – [[Kevin Gilbert (author)|Kevin Gilbert]], Australian writer and artist (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[July 13]] – [[David Storey]], English novelist and playwright (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[July 14]] – [[Solange Fasquelle]], French novelist (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*[[July 15]] – [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]], Indian novelist (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=ലേഖകൻ|first=മാധ്യമം|date=2021-07-29|title=എം.ടിക്ക് ഇന്ന് പിറന്നാൾ {{!}} Madhyamam|url=https://www.madhyamam.com/kerala/today-is-mt-vasudevan-nairs-birthday-829928|access-date=2021-07-29|website=www.madhyamam.com|language=en}}</ref>
*[[July 20]] – [[Cormac McCarthy]], American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
*[[July 21]]
**[[John Gardner (novelist)|John Gardner]], American novelist (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
**[[Brigitte Reimann]], German novelist (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])
*[[August 1]] – [[Ko Un]] (Ko Untae), [[Koreans|South Korean]] poet
*[[August 2]] – [[Michel del Castillo]], Spanish-born French writer (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])
*[[August 7]] – [[Jerry Pournelle]], American science fiction writer (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/obituaries/jerry-pournelle-science-fiction-novelist-and-computer-guide-dies-at-84.html|title=Jerry Pournelle, Science Fiction Novelist and Computer Guide, Dies at 84|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|work=The New York Times |date=September 15, 2017|access-date=September 1, 2019|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
*[[August 13]] – [[Madhur Jaffrey]], Indian actress and food writer<ref>{{cite book|title=Screen International Film and TV Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6uBkAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Screen International, King Publications Limited|isbn=978-0-900925-21-4|page=130}}</ref>
*[[August 16]] – [[Tom Maschler]], Austrian-born English literary publisher (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{Cite news|last=Thomson|first=Liz|date=16 October 2020|title=Tom Maschler obituary|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/16/tom-maschler-obituary|access-date=17 October 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*[[September 8]] – [[Michael Frayn]], English playwright and novelist
*[[September 9]] – [[Michael Novak]], American philosopher and author (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[September 19]] – [[Gilles Archambault]], French Canadian novelist
*[[September 27]] – [[Paul Goble (writer and illustrator)|Paul Goble]], English-American author and illustrator (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[October 11]] – [[David Daniels (poet)|David Daniels]], American visual poet (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[October 21]] – [[Maureen Duffy]], English poet, playwright, author and activist<ref>{{cite web |title=Maureen Duffy |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/maureen-duffy |website=www.bl.uk |access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
*[[October 24]] – [[Norman Rush]], American writer
*[[November 1]] 
** [[Viačasłaŭ Adamčyk]], Belarusian journalist, writer, playwright and screenwriter (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])
** [[Huub Oosterhuis]], Dutch poet, theologian and liturgy reformer
** [[Samir Roychoudhury]], Indian Bengali poet and philosopher (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*[[November 5]] – [[Ilie Purcaru]], Romanian journalist and poet (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[November 13]] – [[Peter Härtling]], German novelist and poet (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[November 23]] – [[Daniel Chavarría]], Uruguayan writer and translator (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[December 2]] – [[Kent Andersson (playwright)|Kent Andersson]], Swedish dramatist (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])
*[[December 22]] – [[Jim Barnes (writer)|Jim Barnes]], Native American poet and translator<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HsHiAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-7876-2670-9|page=32}}</ref>
*[[December 31]] – [[Edward Bunker]], American crime novelist (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 5]] – [[J. M. Robertson]], British [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] politician, writer and journalist, [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade]] (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Wells|first=G. A.|author-link=George Albert Wells|title=J.M. Robertson (1856-1933): liberal, rationalist, and scholar |year=1987 |publisher=Pemberton |isbn=978-0-30187-002-1|page=26}}</ref>
*[[January 11]] – [[Hugo Zöller]], German explorer and journalist (born [[1852 in literature|1852]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New International Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZwYAAAAIAAJ|year=1934|publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company|page=587}}</ref>
*[[January 21]] – [[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]], Irish poet and novelist (born [[1852 in literature|1852]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Moore, George (1852-1933) |work=Blue Plaques |publisher=[[English Heritage]] |year=1937 |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/george-moore/ |access-date=8 December 2023 }}</ref>
*[[January 29]] – [[Sara Teasdale]], American poet (born [[1884 in literature|1884]]; suicide)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poemhunter.com/sara-teasdale/biography/|title=Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)|access-date=2009-04-22}}</ref>
*[[January 31]] – [[John Galsworthy]], English novelist and dramatist (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James Gindin|title=John Galsworthy's Life and Art: An Alien's Fortress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YcevCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=18 June 1987|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-349-08530-9|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[February 20]] – [[Takiji Kobayashi]] (小林多喜二), Japanese writer (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[April 5]] – [[Earl Derr Biggers]], American novelist and playwright (heart attack, born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author=J.K. Van Dover|title=Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925-1930|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated|year=2010|isbn=9780786456895|page=163}}</ref>
*[[April 19]] – [[E. W. Hobson]], English writer on mathematics (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])<ref>{{acad|id=HB874EW|name=Hobson, Ernest William}}</ref>
*[[April 24]] – [[Janet Milne Rae]], Scottish novelist (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2013/01/british-women-writers-of-fiction-1910_59.html|title=British Women Writers of Fiction|website=Furrowed Middlebrow|date=1 January 2013|access-date=16 November 2020}}</ref>
*[[April 29]] – [[Constantine P. Cavafy|Constantine Cavafy]], Greek Alexandrine poet (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])
*[[April 30]] – [[Anna de Noailles]], French writer (born [[1876 in literature|1876]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Leonard Huxley (writer)|Leonard Huxley]], British writer (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-post-and-mercury-death-of-mr/132098939/ |title=Death of Mr. Leonard Huxley |newspaper=[[Liverpool Daily Post]] |page=8 |date=1933-05-04 |access-date=2023-09-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
*[[May 16]] – [[John Henry Mackay]], Scottish-born German anarchist writer and philosopher (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0masjfeO6isC&pg=PA600 | title=Kräm – Marp | isbn=9783110220490 | last1=Kühlmann | first1=Wilhelm | date=29 September 2010 }}</ref>
*[[May 26]] – [[Horatio Bottomley]], English journalist and fraudster (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])<ref>{{cite book|last= Hyman|first= Alan|title= The Rise and Fall of Horatio Bottomley|url= https://archive.org/details/risefallofhorati0000hyma|publisher= Cassell & Co.|location= Littlehampton, West Sussex|year= 1972|isbn= 0-304-29023-8|pages=289–90}}</ref>
*[[June 7]] – [[Dragutin Domjanić]], Croatian poet (born [[1875 in literature|1875]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|publisher=Macmillan|year=1973|page=362}}</ref>
* [[June 27]] – [[Jennie M. Bingham]], American author (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])<ref name="FamilySearch">{{cite web |title=Jane Maria Bingham 16 March 1859 – 27 June 1933 • MFYZ-3C2 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MFYZ-3C2 |website=ident.familysearch.org |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
*[[July 8]] – [[Anthony Hope]] (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English adventure novelist (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])<ref>Obituary in ''[[The Times]]'', 10 July 1933, p. 16</ref>
*[[August 12]] – [[Alexandru Philippide]], Romanian linguist and polemicist (atherosclerosis, born [[1859 in literature|1859]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Annie Besant]], English Theosophist writer (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 September 1933 |title=Dr. Annie Besant |page=12 |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LvVUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7137%2C2455951 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
*[[September 22]] – [[György Almásy]], Hungarian travel writer (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Wolfgang Behn|title=Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume One (A-G)|year=2004|isbn=9789047413905|page=34|publisher=-Brill }}</ref>
*[[September 25]]
**[[Ring Lardner]], American writer (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ring Lardner Dies; Noted as Writer |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0306.html}}</ref>
**[[Pascal Poirier]], Canadian historian (born [[1852 in literature|1852]])
*[[September 28]] – [[G. R. S. Mead]], British writer (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Gilbert |first=R.A. |title=Mead, George Robert Stow |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-53879 |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/53879 }}</ref>
*[[October 30]] – [[Herminie Templeton Kavanagh]], Anglo-Irish-American short story writer (born [[1861 in literature|1861]]?)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Doig |first1=James |title=Herminie Templeton Kavanagh (1861-1933) |journal=The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature |date=2022 |issue=20 |pages=69–74 |jstor=48687413 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48687413 |access-date=1 July 2024 |issn=2009-6089}}</ref>
*[[November 12]] – [[F. Holland Day]], American publisher (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[November 20]] – [[Augustine Birrell]], English politician and author (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Birrell, Augustine|volume=3|pages=989–990}}</ref>
*[[November 28]] – [[Minnie Earl Sears]], American librarian (born [[1873 in literature|1873]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Alumni Association News Letter|publisher=University of Illinois|year=1953|page=7}}</ref>
*[[November 30]] – [[Annie Armitt]], English novelist and poet (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Cumbria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9EMAQAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Dalesman Publishing Company|page=444}}</ref>
*[[December 4]] – [[Stefan George]], German poet and translator (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
*[[December 16]] – [[Robert W. Chambers]], American writer (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])<ref>{{Cite news|title = Robert Chambers, Novelist, Is Dead|date = December 17, 1933|work = New York Times|page = 36}}</ref>
*[[December 27]] – [[Georgina Castle Smith]] (pseudonym Brenda), English children's writer (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])

==Awards==
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[A. G. Macdonell]], ''[[England, Their England]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Violet Clifton]], ''The Book of Talbot''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Elizabeth Foreman Lewis]], ''[[Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze]]''
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin]]
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Maxwell Anderson]], ''Both Your Houses''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Archibald MacLeish]], ''Conquistador''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]]: [[T. S. Stribling]], ''[[The Store (novel)|The Store]]''

==References==
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