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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1935'''.
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==Events==
*January – The first published portions of [[Yasunari Kawabata]]'s novel ''[[Snow Country]]'' (雪国, ''Yukiguni'') appear as standalone stories in Japan.
*[[January 6]] – [[Clifford Odets]] becomes the first [[Method acting|Method]]-trained playwright with his first produced play, the one-act ''[[Waiting for Lefty]]'' at the former [[Civic Repertory Theatre]] in New York City. This is followed by the equally political ''[[Awake and Sing!]]'' premiered on February 19 at the city's [[Belasco Theatre]]; ''[[Till the Day I Die]]'' on March 26 at the [[Longacre Theatre]]; and ''[[Paradise Lost (play)|Paradise Lost]]'' opening on December 9 at the same location.<ref>Clurman, Harold (1945). ''The Fervent Years''. New York: Hill and Wang.</ref>
*[[March 20]] – The London publisher [[Boriswood]] pleads guilty and is fined in [[Manchester]]'s Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of [[James Hanley (novelist)|James Hanley]]'s 1931 novel ''[[Boy (novel)|Boy]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Gaskell|title=The Book Collector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OxEAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Queen Anne Press|page=72}}</ref>
*[[May 13]] – [[T. E. Lawrence]], having left the British [[Royal Air Force]] in March, has an accident with his [[Brough Superior]] motorcycle while returning to his cottage at [[Clouds Hill]], England, after posting books to a friend, A. E. "Jock" Chambers, and sending a telegram inviting the novelist [[Henry Williamson]] to lunch.<ref>[[Bodleian Library]] (Oxford) MS. Eng. c. 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=T. E. Lawrence to Henry Williamson |url=http://telstudies.org/writings/letters/1935/350513_williamson.shtml |work=T. E. Lawrence Studies |date=2006-01-01 |access-date=2013-08-27}}</ref> He dies six days later. On July 29 his ''[[Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' is first published in an edition for general circulation.
*[[June 15]]
**British poet [[W. H. Auden]] contracts a marriage of convenience with exiled German anti-Nazi actress and writer [[Erika Mann]], homosexual like him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Erika Julia Hedwig Mann |url=http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I6&ged=auden-bicknell.ged |work=W. H. Auden – 'Family Ghosts' |access-date=2011-11-29 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712114954/http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I6&ged=auden-bicknell.ged |archive-date=2012-07-12 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
**[[T. S. Eliot]]'s [[verse drama]] ''[[Murder in the Cathedral]]'' is premièred<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage Learning|title=A Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAnQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT28|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4103-5330-6|pages=28}}</ref> at [[Canterbury Cathedral]], the setting for the action of the play.
*[[July 30]] – [[Allen Lane]] founds [[Penguin Books]], as the first mass-market paperbacks in Britain.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Penguin Pocket On This Day |publisher=Penguin Reference Library |isbn=0-14-102715-0 |year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan |last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=379–380 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
*August – Open-air reading room established by [[New York Public Library]] in [[Bryant Park]].
*[[August 27]] – The [[Federal Theatre Project]] is established in the United States.
*[[September 5]] – [[Michael Joseph (publisher)|Michael Joseph]] is founded as a publisher in London.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/michael-joseph-publishers |title=Michael Joseph Publishers |work=Making Britain |publisher=[[The Open University]] |access-date=2014-09-04}}</ref>
*[[November 2]] – The Scottish-born thriller writer [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir]], is sworn in as [[Governor General of Canada]].
*[[November 7]] – The [[Royal National Institute of Blind People|British and Foreign Blind Association]] introduces a library of [[talking book]]s for the visually impaired.
*[[November 26]] – ''[[Scrooge (1935 film)|Scrooge]]'', the first feature-length talking film version of [[Dickens]]' ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' ([[1843 in literature|1843]]) is released in Britain. Sir [[Seymour Hicks]] reprises the title rôle, which he has performed for decades on stage.
*''unknown dates''
**The library journal ''Die Bucherei'' in [[Nazi Germany]] publishes guidelines for books to be removed from library shelves and destroyed: all those by Jewish authors, Marxist and pacifist literature, and anything critical of the state.<ref>{{cite book|author=Marta L. Dosa|title=Libraries in the Political Scene|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JooYAAAAIAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-8371-6443-4|page=57}}</ref>
**The first published edition of the [[Marquis de Sade]]'s ''[[The 120 Days of Sodom]] (Les 120 journées de Sodome)'', written in [[1785 in literature|1785]], in a scholarly edition as a literary text, is completed.<ref name="Baker2007">{{cite book|author=Simon Baker|title=Surrealism, History and Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RmOr-yv5ySsC&pg=PA237|year=2007|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03911-091-9|pages=237}}</ref>
**[[Fredric Warburg]] and [[Roger Senhouse]] retrieve the London publishers [[Martin Secker]] from [[receivership]], as [[Harvill Secker|Secker & Warburg]].

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Nelson Algren]] – ''[[Somebody in Boots]]''
*[[Mulk Raj Anand]] – ''[[Untouchable (novel)|Untouchable]]''
*[[Enid Bagnold]] – ''[[National Velvet]]''
*[[Ion Biberi]] – ''Proces'' (Trial)
*[[Jorge Luis Borges]] – ''[[A Universal History of Infamy]]'' (''Historia universal de la infamia'', collected short stories)
*[[Elizabeth Bowen]] – ''[[The House in Paris]]''
*[[Pearl S. Buck]] – ''[[A House Divided (novel)|A House Divided]]''
*[[John Bude]] – ''[[The Lake District Murder]]''
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] – ''[[Tarzan and the Leopard Men]]''
*[[Dino Buzzati]] – ''[[Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio]]''
*[[Erskine Caldwell]] – ''Journeyman''
*[[Morley Callaghan]] – ''They Shall Inherit the Earth''
*[[Elias Canetti]] – ''Die Blendung''
*[[John Dickson Carr]]
**''Death-Watch''
**''[[The Hollow Man (1935 novel)|The Hollow Man]]'' (also ''The Three Coffins'')
**''[[The Red Widow Murders]]'' (as Carter Dickson)
**''[[The Unicorn Murders]]'' (as Carter Dickson)
*[[Agatha Christie]]
**''[[Three Act Tragedy]]''
**''[[Death in the Clouds]]''
*[[Solomon Cleaver]] – ''[[Jean Val Jean]]''
*[[Robert P. Tristram Coffin]] – ''Red Sky in the Morning''
*[[J.J. Connington]] – ''[[In Whose Dim Shadow]]''
*[[Jack Conroy]] – ''[[A World to Win (Jack Conroy novel)|A World to Win]]''
*[[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[Crime at Guildford]]''
*[[A. J. Cronin]]
**''Country Doctor'' (novella)
**''[[The Stars Look Down]]''
*[[H. L. Davis]] – ''[[Honey in the Horn]]''
* [[Cecil Day-Lewis]] – ''[[A Question of Proof]]''
*[[Franklin W. Dixon]] – ''[[The Hidden Harbor Mystery]]''
*[[Lawrence Durrell]] – ''[[Pied Piper of Lovers]]''
*[[E. R. Eddison]] – ''[[Mistress of Mistresses]]''
*[[Susan Ertz]]
**''Now We Set Out''
**''Woman Alive, But Now Dead''
*[[James T. Farrell]] – ''Studs Lonigan – A Trilogy''
*[[Rachel Field]] – ''Time Out of Mind''
*[[Charles G. Finney]] – ''[[The Circus of Dr. Lao]]''
*[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] – ''[[Taps at Reveille]]''
* [[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]] – ''[[The Man Who Was Too Clever]]''
*[[Graham Greene]] – ''[[England Made Me (novel)|England Made Me]]''
*[[George Wylie Henderson]] – ''Ollie Miss''
*[[Harold Heslop]] – ''Last Cage Down''
*[[Georgette Heyer]]
**''[[Death in the Stocks]]''
**''[[Regency Buck]]''
*[[Christopher Isherwood]] – ''[[Mr Norris Changes Trains]]''
*[[Pamela Hansford Johnson]] – ''This Bed Thy Centre''
*[[Anna Kavan]] (writing as Helen Ferguson) – ''A Stranger Still''
*[[Sinclair Lewis]] – ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]''
*[[E. C. R. Lorac]] 
**''[[Death of an Author (Lorac novel)|Death of an Author]]''
**''[[The Organ Speaks]]''
*[[August Mälk]] – ''Õitsev Meri'' (The Flowering Sea)
*[[André Malraux]] – ''Le Temps du mépris''<ref>{{cite book|author=Library of Congress. Copyright Office|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1935|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qQhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1956|year=1936|publisher=Copyright Office, Library of Congress|pages=1956}}</ref>
*[[Ngaio Marsh]] 
** ''[[Enter a Murderer]]''
** ''[[The Nursing Home Murder]]''
*[[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[The Devil at Saxon Wall]]''
*[[Naomi Mitchison]] – ''We Have Been Warned''
*[[Alberto Moravia]] – ''Le ambizioni sbagliate''<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Daiches|author2=Anthony Thorlby|title=Literature and Western Civilization: The modern world III: reactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3adZAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Aldus|page=298}}</ref>
*[[R. K. Narayan]] – ''[[Swami and Friends]]''
*[[John O'Hara]] 
**''[[BUtterfield 8]]''
**''The Doctor's Son and Other Stories''
*[[George Orwell]] – ''[[A Clergyman's Daughter]]''
*[[N. Porsenna]] – ''Se-aprind făcliile'' (They're Lighting Torches)
*[[Ellery Queen]]
**''[[The Spanish Cape Mystery]]''
**''[[The Lamp of God]]''
*[[Charles Ferdinand Ramuz]] – ''When the Mountain Fell''
*[[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]] – ''Golden Apples''
*[[Ernest Raymond]] – ''[[We, The Accused]]''
*[[Herbert Read]] – ''[[The Green Child]]''
*[[George Santayana]] – ''[[The Last Puritan]]''
*[[Dorothy L. Sayers]] – ''[[Gaudy Night]]''
*[[Monica Shannon]] – ''[[Dobry]]''
*[[Howard Spring]] – ''[[Rachel Rosing]]''
*[[Eleanor Smith (writer)|Eleanor Smith]] – ''[[Tzigane (novel)|Tzigane]]''
*[[John Steinbeck]] – ''[[Tortilla Flat]]''
*[[Rex Stout]] – ''[[The League of Frightened Men]]''
*[[Cecil Street]] 
** ''[[The Corpse in the Car]]''
** ''[[Hendon's First Case]]''
** ''[[Mystery at Olympia]]''
*[[Alan Sullivan]] – ''[[The Great Divide (novel)|The Great Divide]]''
*[[Phoebe Atwood Taylor]]
**''[[Deathblow Hill]]''
**''[[The Tinkling Symbol]]''
*[[A. A. Thomson]] – ''The Exquisite Burden''
*[[B. Traven]] – ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]''
*[[Violet Trefusis]] – ''Broderie Anglaise''
*[[S. S. Van Dine]] – ''[[The Garden Murder Case]]''
*[[I. C. Vissarion]] – ''Învietorul de morți'' (Raiser of the Dead)
*[[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]] – ''[[Heir Presumptive (novel)|Heir Presumptive]]''
*[[Stanley G. Weinbaum]] – ''[[The Lotus Eaters (Weinbaum)|The Lotus Eaters]]''
*[[Dennis Wheatley]] – ''[[The Eunuch of Stamboul]]''
*[[Ethel Lina White]] – ''[[Wax (Ethel Lina White novel)|Wax]]''
*[[P. G. Wodehouse]] – ''[[Blandings Castle and Elsewhere]]''
*[[Xiao Hong]] (蕭紅) – ''[[The Field of Life and Death]]'' (生死场, ''Shēng sǐ chǎng'')
*[[Eiji Yoshikawa]] (吉川 英治) – ''[[Musashi (novel)|Musashi]]'' (宮本武蔵, ''Miyamoto Musashi'')
*[[Francis Brett Young]] – ''[[White Ladies (novel)|White Ladies]]''
*[[Yumeno Kyūsaku]] (夢野 久作) – ''Dogra Magra'' (ドグラマグラ)

===Children and young people===
*[[Enid Bagnold]] – ''[[National Velvet]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkPhAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Beacham Pub.|isbn=978-0-933833-11-1|page=941}}</ref>
*[[Louise Andrews Kent]] – ''He went with Marco Polo: A Story of Venice and Cathay'' (first of seven in "He went with" series)<ref>{{cite book|author=National Council of Teachers of English. Elementary School Book List Committee|title=Adventuring with Books: An Annotated and Graded List of Books for Use with Children in the Elementary Grades|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNwYAAAAIAAJ|year=1950|publisher=National Council of Teachers of English|page=46}}</ref>
*[[John Masefield]] – ''[[The Box of Delights]]''<ref name="John Masefield 1994 31">{{cite book|author=John Masefield|title=John Masefield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqLrkGD7B_kC&pg=PA31|year=1994|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-0-85115-363-6|pages=31}}</ref>
*[[Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor]] – ''Ceaùr. Povești oltenești'' (Woozy. Oltenian Stories)
*[[Kate Seredy]] – ''[[The Good Master]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=May Hill Arbuthnot|author2=Zena Sutherland|title=Children and Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTnnmO60v2gC|year=1972|publisher=Scott, Foresman|page=436}}</ref>
*[[Laura Ingalls Wilder]] – ''[[Little House on the Prairie (novel)|Little House on the Prairie]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Helen Jeannette Hanlon|author2=Miriam B. Booth|title=Junior High School English in Wartime and After|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cfbcU33uRMwC|year=1944|publisher=National Council of Teachers of English|page=26}}</ref>

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[J. R. Ackerley]] – ''The Prisoners of War''
*[[Maxwell Anderson]] – ''[[Winterset (play)|Winterset]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jackson R. Bryer|author2=Mary C. Hartig|title=The Facts on File Companion to American Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4grSoWwXSwC&pg=PR10|year=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2966-2|pages=10}}</ref>
*[[T. S. Eliot]] – ''[[Murder in the Cathedral]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Glenda Leeming|title=Poetic Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkVdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR6|date=21 April 1989|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-19860-3|pages=6}}</ref>
*[[Federico García Lorca]] – ''[[Doña Rosita the Spinster]]'' (''Doña Rosita la soltera'')<ref>{{cite book|title=García Lorca Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RNfAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=State University College, Brockport|page=143}}</ref>
*[[Norman Ginsbury]] – ''[[Viceroy Sarah]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Norman Ginsbury|title=Viceroy Sarah: A Play in Three Acts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQE_AQAAIAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Samuel French|pages=3–4}}</ref>
*[[Jean Giraudoux]] – ''[[The Trojan War Will Not Take Place]] (La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu)''<ref>{{cite book|author= O. Classe|title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L.|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|year=2000|page=537}}</ref>
*[[Walter Hackett]] – ''[[Espionage (play)|Espionage]]''
*[[N. C. Hunter]] – ''[[All Rights Reserved (play)|All Rights Reserved]]''
* [[Ronald Jeans]] – ''[[The Composite Man]]''
*[[Anthony Kimmins]] – ''[[Chase the Ace (play)|Chase the Ace]]''
*[[Archibald MacLeish]] – ''[[Panic (1935 play)|Panic]]''
*[[Bernard Merivale]] – ''[[The Unguarded Hour (play)|The Unguarded Hour]]''
*[[Clifford Odets]]
**''[[Waiting for Lefty]]''
**''[[Awake and Sing!]]''
*[[Lawrence Riley]] – ''[[Personal Appearance (play)|Personal Appearance]]''
*[[Dodie Smith]] – ''[[Call It a Day (play)|Call It a Day]]''
*[[John Van Druten]] – ''[[Most of the Game]]''
*[[Emlyn Williams]] – ''[[Night Must Fall]]''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
*''See [[1935 in poetry]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Julian Bell]], ed. – ''We Did Not Fight: 1914–18 Experiences of War Resisters''
*[[M. C. Bradbrook]] – ''Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy''
*[[William Henry Chamberlin]] – ''Russia's Iron Age''
*[[Manuel Chaves Nogales]] – ''Juan Belmonte, matador de toros: su vida y sus hazañas'' (translated as ''Juan Belmonte, killer of bulls'')
*[[George Dangerfield]] – ''[[The Strange Death of Liberal England]]''
*[[Clarence Day]] – ''[[Life with Father]]''
*[[Dion Fortune]] – ''The Mystical Qabalah''
*[[Ernest Hemingway]] – ''[[Green Hills of Africa]]''<ref>{{cite book | last = Strychacz | first = Thomas | title = Hemingway's theaters of masculinity | publisher = Louisiana State University Press | location = Baton Rouge | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780807129067 | page=167}}</ref>
*[[Jack Hilton (writer)|Jack Hilton]] – ''Caliban Shrieks''<ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Self|title=Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton review – lost voice of the north|date=2024-02-27|accessdate=2024-09-06|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/27/caliban-shrieks-by-jack-hilton-review-lost-voice-of-the-north}}</ref>
*[[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] – ''[[North to the Orient]]''
*''[[Merkantilt biografisk leksikon]]''
*''[[Polish Biographical Dictionary]] (Polski słownik biograficzny)''
*[[Iris Origo]] – ''Allegra'' (biography of [[Allegra Byron|Byron's daughter]]) 
*[[Caroline Spurgeon]] – ''Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us''
*[[Nigel Tranter]] – ''The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400–1650''
*[[J. Dover Wilson]] – ''What Happens in Hamlet''
*Thomas Wright – ''The Life of [[Charles Dickens]]''

==Births==
*[[January 2]] – [[David McKee]], English children's writer and illustrator (died [[2022 in literature|2022]])
*[[January 8]] – [[Lewis H. Lapham]], American publisher, founder of ''[[Lapham's Quarterly]]'' (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])
*[[January 14]] – [[Labhshankar Thakar]], Indian [[Gujarati language]] poet, playwright and story writer (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*[[January 18]] – [[Jon Stallworthy]], English poet and literary critic (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/03/jon-stallworthy|title=Jon Stallworthy|author=Jane Potter|date=December 3, 2014|website=The Guardian|access-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>
*[[January 27]] – [[D. M. Thomas]], English novelist, poet and translator (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
*[[January 28]] – [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]], English novelist and academic (died [[2025 in literature|2025]])
*[[January 30]] – [[Richard Brautigan]], American writer and poet (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Brautigan | first = Richard | title = Richard Brautigan's Trout fishing in America; The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster; and, In watermelon sugar | publisher = Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence | location = Boston | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780395500767 | page=138}}</ref>
*[[January 31]] – [[Kenzaburō Ōe]] (大江 健三郎), Japanese novelist and essayist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1994/oe/facts/|title=Kenzaburo Oe - Facts|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>
*[[February 18]] – [[Janette Oke]], Canadian author
*[[February 22]] – [[Danilo Kiš]], Serbian novelist (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
*[[February 23]] – [[Tom Murphy (playwright)|Tom Murphy]], Irish playwright (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[March 4]] – [[Stanisław Moskal]], Polish scientist and writer (died [[2019]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Moskal |first=Stanisław |title=Wstęp do imagineskopii: próba zarysu |date= |publisher=Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz" |year=2009 |isbn=978-83-89188-82-3 |edition=IV |location=Pruszków |page=199}}</ref>
*[[March 13]]
**[[Kofi Awoonor]], Ghanaian poet and writer (killed [[2013 in literature|2013]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24213762|title=Kofi Awoonor: Remembering a Ghanaian poet|website=BBC News - Africa|date=September 23, 2013|access-date=September 12, 2021}}</ref>
**[[David Nobbs]], English comedy writer (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Hawtree|first=Christopher|title=David Nobbs obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/10/david-nobbs|work=The Guardian|date=10 August 2015|accessdate=11 August 2015}}</ref>
*[[March 23]] – [[Barry Cryer]], English comedy writer and performer<ref>{{cite book|title=International Film and TV Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZxmAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Screen International, King Publications Limited|page=378}}</ref> (died [[2022 in literature|2022]])
*[[March 27]] – [[Abelardo Castillo]], Argentinian writer (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Judith Rossner]], American novelist (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])
*[[April 4]]
**[[Trevor Griffiths]], English playwright and screenwriter (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])
**[[Michael Horovitz]], German-born English poet and translator (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])
*[[April 6]] – [[J. P. Clark|John Pepper Clark]], Nigerian poet and playwright (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas V. Anpe|title=An Investigation of John Pepper Clark's Drama as an Organic Interaction of Traditional African Drama with Western Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=awazAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison|page=9}}</ref>
*[[April 14]] – [[Erich von Däniken]], Swiss writer on paranormal
*[[April 15]] – [[Alan Plater]], English playwright and screenwriter (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])<ref name="Hunter1991">{{cite book|author=Allan Hunter|title=Chambers Film and Television Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sAUAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Chambers|isbn=978-0-550-17250-1|page=265}}</ref>
*[[April 25]] – [[Li Ao]], Chinese-Taiwanese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[April 26]] – [[Patricia Reilly Giff]], American author and educator
*[[May 1]] – [[Julian Mitchell]], English playwright and screenwriter 
*[[May 2]] – [[Lynda Lee-Potter]], English columnist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/21/dailymail.guardianobituaries |title=Obituary: Lynda Lee-Potter |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=21 October 2004}}</ref>
*[[May 9]] – [[Roger Hargreaves]], English children's author and illustrator (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-76335 |title=Hargreaves, (Charles) Roger |author=John Malam |publisher=[[Dictionary of National Biography]] |access-date=9 May 2011}}</ref>
*[[May 29]] – [[André Brink]], South African novelist (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])
*[[June 2]] – [[Carol Shields]], American-born writer (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Canadian Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHkVAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Gale Canada|isbn=978-1-896413-08-2|page=418}}</ref>
*[[June 4]] – [[Shiao Yi]], Taiwanese-American wuxia novelist (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.163.com/18/1121/10/E14LL144000187UE.html |script-title=zh:与金庸相比,萧逸更在意中国传统的伦理道德 |work=163.com |date=21 November 2018 |language=zh}}</ref>
*[[June 7]] – [[Harry Crews]], American author and playwright (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])
*[[June 24]] – [[Pete Hamill]], American journalist and author (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Pete Hamill, Legendary New York Newspaperman, Dies at 85|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pete-hamill-dead-legendary-new-york-newspaperman-was-85-1192727|first1=Chris|last1=Koseluk|first2=Mike|last2=Barnes|date=August 5, 2020|access-date=August 6, 2020|magazine=Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
*[[June 25]]
**[[Corinne Chevallier]], Algerian historian and novelist
**[[Larry Kramer]], American playwright, author, film producer and LGBT activist (died [[2020 in literature|2020]]).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Larry Kramer obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/28/larry-kramer-obituary|date=May 28, 2020|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref>
**[[Fran Ross]], African-American satirist (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
*[[June 30]] – [[Peter Achinstein]], American philosopher<ref>{{cite book|author=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|title=Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ej88AQAAIAAJ|year=1965|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|page=1}}</ref>
*[[July 11]] – [[Günther von Lojewski]], German journalist, television presenter and author (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
*[[July 13]] – [[Earl Lovelace]], Trinidadian novelist and playwright
*[[August 1]] – [[Mohinder Pratap Chand]], Urdu poet, writer and language advocate (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])
*[[August 15]] – [[Régine Deforges]], French dramatist, novelist and publisher (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Pierre Perrone|title=Régine Marie Deforges|website=Independent|date=28 April 2014|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/r-gine-marie-deforges-erotic-writer-who-fell-foul-of-the-authorities-and-became-the-first-woman-to-9297228.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/r-gine-marie-deforges-erotic-writer-who-fell-foul-of-the-authorities-and-became-the-first-woman-to-9297228.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[August 21]] – [[Yuri Entin]], Soviet and Russian poet, lyricist and playwright
*[[August 22]] – [[E. Annie Proulx]], American novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=Karen Lane Rood|title=Understanding Annie Proulx|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MkluuskLTLoC&pg=PA1|year=2001|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-402-2|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[September 5]] – [[Ward Just]], American novelist (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/books/ward-just-dead.html|title=Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction|last=Stout|first=David|date=December 20, 2019|website=New York Times|access-date=October 22, 2020}}</ref>
*[[September 10]] – [[Mary Oliver]], American poet (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA542|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=542}}</ref>
*[[September 16]] – [[Esther Vilar]], German-Argentinian writer
*[[September 17]] – [[Ken Kesey]], American novelist (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ann Charters|title=The Beats, Literary Bohemians in Postwar America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrVZAAAAYAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-1148-0|page=306}}</ref>
*[[October 7]] – [[Thomas Keneally]], Australian novelist and non-fiction writer<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Pierce|title=Thomas Keneally: A Celebration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NfCYCcffXX0C&pg=PT7|year=2006|publisher=National Library Australia|isbn=978-0-642-27641-4|pages=7}}</ref>
*[[November 1]] – [[Edward Said]], Palestinian-American literary critic (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[November 7]]
**[[Elvira Quintana]], Spanish-Mexican actress, singer, and poet (died [[1968 in literature|1968]])
**[[Willibrordus S. Rendra]], Indonesian dramatist, poet, activist, performer, actor and director (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[November 9]] – [[Jerry Hopkins (author)|Jerry Hopkins]], American journalist and biographer (died [[2018 in literature|2018]]) 
*[[November 18]]
**[[Sam Abrams]], American poet
**[[Rodney Hall (writer)|Rodney Hall]], Australian author and poet
*[[November 22]] – [[Hugh C. Rae]] (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Shaw|first1=Alison|title=Obituary: Hugh C Rae, author|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-hugh-c-rae-author-1-3570620|accessdate=18 October 2014|work=The Scotsman|date=13 October 2014}}</ref>
*[[December 5]] – [[Yevgeny Titarenko]], Soviet writer (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[December 10]] – [[Shūji Terayama]] (寺山 修司), Japanese avant-garde writer, film director and photographer (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[December 13]]
**[[Eyvindur P. Eiríksson]], Icelandic poet and novelist
**[[Adélia Prado]], Brazilian writer and poet
*''unknown date'' – [[Bahaa Taher]], Egyptian writer

==Deaths==
[[File:Înmormântarea lui Panait Istrati, apr 1935.jpg|thumb|360px|Funeral cortege for [[Panait Istrati]]. [[Bucharest]], April 1935]]
*[[February 7]] – [[Lewis Grassic Gibbon]], Scottish novelist (peritonitis, born [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hugh MacDiarmid|title=New Selected Letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MapaAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Carcanet|isbn=978-1-85754-273-8|page=92}}</ref>
*[[February 13]]
**[[Ioan Bianu]], Romanian librarian, bibliographer and linguist (uremia, born [[1856 in literature|1856]] or [[1857 in literature|1857]])
**[[Vernon Lee]], born Violet Paget, expatriate English writer (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])
*[[February 28]] – [[Tsubouchi Shōyō]] (坪内 逍遥), Japanese writer (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])
*[[April 6]] – [[Edwin Arlington Robinson]], American poet (born [[1869 in literature|1869]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA507|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=507}}</ref>
*[[April 11]] – [[Anna Katharine Green]], American crime writer (born [[1846 in literature|1846]])
*[[April 16]] – [[Panait Istrati]], Romanian novelist, short story writer and political essayist (tuberculosis, born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Orwell|title=A Kind of Compulsion, 1903-1936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSIeAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Secker & Warburg|isbn=978-0-436-35020-7|page=388}}</ref>
*[[May 19]] – [[T. E. Lawrence]] (Lawrence of Arabia), English historian and memoirist (motorcycle accident, born [[1888 in literature|1888]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Journal of the T.E. Lawrence Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7chAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=The Society|page=87}}</ref>
*[[June 29]] – [[Kaitarō Hasegawa|Hayashi Fubo]], Japanese novelist (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])
*[[July 17]] – [[George William Russell]], Irish nationalist, poet and artist (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])<ref>Boylan, Henry, ''A Dictionary of Irish Biography'', p. 384, 3rd. edit., (1998) {{ISBN|0-7171-2507-6}}</ref>
*[[August 11]] – Sir [[William Watson (poet)|William Watson]], English poet (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])
*[[August 17]] – [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], American novelist (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Carol Farley Kessler|title=Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia, with Selected Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ex3avKz2NIwC&pg=PA40|date=1 March 1995|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-2644-2|pages=40}}</ref>
*[[August 30]] – [[Henri Barbusse]], French novelist and journalist (pneumonia, born [[1873 in literature|1873]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was who: A Companion to Who's who : Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=opcYAAAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=A. & C. Black|page=62}}</ref>
*[[September 26]] – [[Iván Persa]], [[Hungarian Slovenes|Hungarian Slovene]] writer and priest (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])
*[[September 29]] – [[Winifred Holtby]], English novelist (Bright's disease, born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Winifred Holtby {{!}} Hull History Centre |url=https://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/research/research-guides/winifred-holtby.aspx |website=www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>
*[[October 11]] – [[Steele Rudd]], Australian short story writer (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])<ref>{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Arthur Hoey|Last=Davis|shortlink=0-dict-biogD.html#davis1}}</ref>
*[[November 4]] – [[Ella Loraine Dorsey]], American author, journalist and translator (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Daughters of the American Revolution|title=Proceedings of the Continental Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoYPAQAAIAAJ|year=1936|page=2}}</ref>
*[[November 28]]
:*[[Mary R. Platt Hatch]], American author (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lina Mainiero|title=American Women Writers: F to Le|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWLhAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Ungar|isbn=978-0-8044-3151-4|page=264}}</ref>
:*[[Louise Manning Hodgkins]], American educator, author, editor (born [[1846 in literature|1846]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Mary G. Charlton Edholm]], American journalist and [[Temperance movement in the United States|temperance]] reformer (born [[1854 in literature|1854]])
*[[November 30]] – [[Fernando Pessoa]], Portuguese poet, philosopher and critic (cirrhosis, born [[1888 in literature|1888]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Fernando Pessoa|title=Selected Poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gguwtgcnZGAC&pg=PT12|date=30 November 2000|publisher=Penguin Adult|isbn=978-0-14-118433-3|pages=12}}</ref>
*[[December 14]] – [[Stanley G. Weinbaum]], American science-fiction author (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Toronto|title=War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gRALaZFqLtIC&pg=RA2-PT3|date=4 May 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0351-3|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[December 17]] – [[Lizette Woodworth Reese]], American poet (born 1856)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lizette Woodworth Reese {{!}} American poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lizette-Woodworth-Reese |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=4 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[December 21]] – [[Kurt Tucholsky]], German journalist and satirist (drug overdose, born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/608379/Kurt-Tucholsky |title=Kurt Tucholsky |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=21 April 2009}}</ref>
*[[December 28]] – [[Clarence Day]], American writer (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])<ref>(29 December 1935). [https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/29/archives/0lar3e-day-6i-author-is-dead-his-latest-best-seller-life-with.html Clarence Day, 61, Author, Is Dead], ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>

==Awards==
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[L. H. Myers]], ''The Root and the Flower''<ref>{{cite book|title=Osmania Journal of English Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8G9DAAAAYAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Department of English, Osmania University|page=39}}</ref>
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Raymond Wilson Chambers|R. W. Chambers]], ''Thomas More''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Monica Shannon]], ''[[Dobry]]''
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: not awarded
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Zoë Akins]], ''The Old Maid''<ref name=Pulitzer/>
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Audrey Wurdemann]], ''Bright Ambush''<ref name=Pulitzer>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1935|title=Prize winners by year - 1935|website=Pulitzer.org|access-date=August 2, 2021}}</ref>
*[[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]]: [[Josephine Winslow Johnson]], ''[[Now in November]]''<ref name=Pulitzer/>

==References==
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