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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1921.

Events

January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard.[1]
February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of The Little Review, are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.[2]
March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe.
April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English.
May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.
May – A production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic, London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Shakespeare's day.
June 6 – The première of Tristan Tzara's parodic The Gas Heart (Le Cœur à gaz) takes place at a Dada Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris. It provokes audience derision.
June 10 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love is first published commercially by Martin Secker in London.
September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613).[3]
September 26 – The Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, England, an old chapel, is turned into an English Renaissance theatre for period drama by an amateur repertory company directed by Walter Nugent Monck.[4] It opens with As You Like It.
December 9 – John William Gott becomes the last person in England imprisoned for blasphemous libel.
December 31 – Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual No. 1 in Mexico City.

New books

Births

January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990)
January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime writer (died 1995)
February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist author (died 2006)
February 5 – Marion Eames, Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh (died 2007)
February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (died 1985)
March 1 – Richard Wilbur, American poet and translator (died 2017)
March 3 – Paul Guimard, French novelist (died 2004)
March 24 – Wilson Harris, Guyanese-born poet, novelist and essayist (died 2018)
April 21 – Angela Bianchini, Italian fiction writer and literary critic (died 2018)
May 23
- James Blish, American science fiction author (died 1975)
- Ray Lawler, Australian dramatist
May 29
- Mona Van Duyn, American poet (died 2004)
- Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (died 2012)
June 11 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (died 2000)
June 14 – John Bradburne, English poet and missionary (killed 1979)
August 11 – Alex Haley, American writer (died 1992)
August 17 – Elinor Lyon, British children's writer (died 2008)
August 18 – Frédéric Jacques Temple, French poet and writer (died 2020)
September 12 – Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician (died 2006)
September 15 – Richard Gordon, English author (died 2017)
September 16 – Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian (died 2017)[10]
September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (died 2007)
October 2 – Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer (died 1978)
October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer (died 2014)
October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (died 1996)
November 6 – James Jones, American novelist (died 1977)
November 22 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (died 2003)
December 20 – Israil Bercovici, Romanian dramatist and historian (died 1988)

Deaths

February 24 – John Habberton, American critic (born 1842)[11]
March 22 – E. W. Hornung, English author (born 1866)
April 6 – Maximilian Berlitz, German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor (born 1852)
May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian publicist (born 1864)
May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist (born 1851)
May 13 – Jean Aicard, French writer (born 1848)
June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (born 1862)
June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, English Theosophist author (born 1840)
July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, Polish Esperantist (born 1857)
July 7 – Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet, novelist and translator (pneumonia, born 1893)
August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (born 1880)
August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (executed, born 1886)
September 22 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (born 1850)[12]
October 10 – Otto von Gierke, German historian (born 1841)
November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born 1849)
November 14 – Christabel Rose Coleridge English novelist and editor (born 1843)

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
Nobel Prize in Literature: Anatole France
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

References

The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1970. p. 2640.
Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 502–04. ISBN 0-1950-3103-2.
"Teatro Nacional Cervantes" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-01-14.
"Norwich Players' New Theatre". The Times (42836). London. 1921-09-27. p. 8.
Elster, Kristian (1924). Illustreret Norsk litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian). 2. Kristiania: Gyldendal. p. 808.
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
Edgar Wallace (3 March 2010). The Four Just Men. House of Stratus. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7551-2247-9.
Rudolf Käser; Beate Schappach (31 October 2014). Krank geschrieben: Gesundheit und Krankheit im Diskursfeld von Literatur, Geschlecht und Medizin (in German). transcript Verlag. p. 147. ISBN 978-3-8394-1760-7.
Apter-Gabriel, Ruth (1987). Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928. Israel Museum. p. 67.
Ataullah Siddiqui (15 April 1997). Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-312-16510-9.
Non Series #138- Trif and Trixy // John Habberton autograph 7 March 2012. Accessed 9 January 2012.
Frank Northen Magill (1958). Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors. Salem Press. p. 1106.

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[1] The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1970. p. 2640.

[2] Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 502–04. ISBN 0-1950-3103-2.

[3] "Teatro Nacional Cervantes" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-01-14.

[4] "Norwich Players' New Theatre". The Times (42836). London. 1921-09-27. p. 8.

[5] Elster, Kristian (1924). Illustreret Norsk litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian). 2. Kristiania: Gyldendal. p. 808.

[6] Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

[7] Edgar Wallace (3 March 2010). The Four Just Men. House of Stratus. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7551-2247-9.

[8] Rudolf Käser; Beate Schappach (31 October 2014). Krank geschrieben: Gesundheit und Krankheit im Diskursfeld von Literatur, Geschlecht und Medizin (in German). transcript Verlag. p. 147. ISBN 978-3-8394-1760-7.

[9] Apter-Gabriel, Ruth (1987). Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928. Israel Museum. p. 67.

[10] Ataullah Siddiqui (15 April 1997). Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-312-16510-9.

[11] Non Series #138- Trif and Trixy // John Habberton autograph 7 March 2012. Accessed 9 January 2012.

[12] Frank Northen Magill (1958). Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors. Salem Press. p. 1106.

1921 in literature

Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

References