1927 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927.
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Events
- January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo.
- February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes,[1] an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris salon. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien.[2]
- May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel To the Lighthouse is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism,[3]
- June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock. In November he takes British citizenship.
- July 7 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
- July 9 – P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty, introduces Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings. The first UK appearance follows in the August issue of The Strand Magazine).
- August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi appears in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series in London, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
- September – Eric Blair (George Orwell) decides while on leave from the Imperial Police in Burma to remain in the U.K. He moves to London to become a writer.
- October – Victor Gollancz founds the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd.
- December – Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club", published in The Royal Magazine.[4]
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- A translation of Franz Roh's work of art criticism Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting, 1925) into Spanish by Revista de Occidente leads to the concept of magic realism becoming popular in Latin American literature.[5]
- The Strand Bookstore is founded in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass.[6]
New books
Fiction
- Djamaluddin Adinegoro – Darah Muda (Young Blood)
- Ion Agârbiceanu – Legea minții
- Arthur Bernède – Belphégor
- Tjoe Hong Bok – Setangan Berloemoer Darah (A Glove Covered in Blood)
- James Boyd – Marching On
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – The Outlaw of Torn
- James Branch Cabell – Something About Eve
- Willa Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Blaise Cendrars – La Confession de Dan Yack
- Agatha Christie – The Big Four
- Jaime de Angulo – The Lariat
- Mazo de la Roche – Jalna
- Warwick Deeping – Kitty
- Ding Ling – Miss Sophia's Diary
- Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- William Faulkner – Mosquitoes
- David Garnett – Go She Must!
- Julien Green – The Closed Garden
- Ernest Hemingway – Men Without Women
- Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf
- James Weldon Johnson – God's Trombones
- Franz Kafka – Amerika
- Kwee Tek Hoay – Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky – Samson
- D. H. Lawrence – John Thomas and Lady Jane
- Halldór Laxness – Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír (The Great Weaver from Kashmir)
- Rosamond Lehmann – Dusty Answer
- Sinclair Lewis – Elmer Gantry
- Marie Belloc Lowndes – The Story of Ivy
- Philip MacDonald – Patrol
- Compton Mackenzie
- François Mauriac – Thérèse Desqueyroux
- Vilhelm Moberg – Raskens
- Paul Morand – The Living Buddha
- Mourning Dove – Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
- Yury Olesha – Envy
- Baroness Orczy – Sir Percy Hits Back
- T. F. Powys – Mr. Weston's Good Wine
- J.B. Priestley – Benighted
- Marcel Proust (posthumous) – Le Temps retrouvé (Time Regained or The Past Recaptured; final instalment of In Search of Lost Time)
- Waverley Lewis Root – King of the Jews
- Joseph Roth – Flight without End
- Rafael Sabatini – The Nuptials of Corbal
- Dorothy L. Sayers – Unnatural Death
- Upton Sinclair – Oil!
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Garin Death Ray («Гиперболоид инженера Гарина», The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin)
- B. Traven – Der Schatz der Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
- Sigrid Undset
- The Snake Pit
- The Son Avenger
- Konstantin Vaginov – Goat Song
- S. S. Van Dine – The Canary Murder Case
- Edgar Wallace
- Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Henry Williamson – Tarka the Otter
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
- Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治) – Naruto Hitcho (鳴門秘帖, A Secret Record of Naruto; serialization concludes)
- Francis Brett Young – Portrait of Clare
- Arnold Zweig – Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa (The Case of Sergeant Grischa)
Children and young people
- Walter R. Brooks – To and Again (reissued 1949 as Freddy Goes to Florida, first of the Freddy the Pig series)
- Franklin W. Dixon – The Tower Treasure
- Will James – Smoky the Cowhorse
- May Justus – Peter Pocket: A Little Boy of the Cumberland Mountains
- John Masefield – The Midnight Folk
- A. A. Milne – Now We Are Six (verse)
- Edward Wyke Smith – The Marvellous Land of Snergs (proto-Hobbits)
- Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Gnome King of Oz (21st in the Oz series overall and the seventh written by her)
- Constancio C. Vigil
- Botón Tolón
- Cuentos para niños
- La hormiguita viajera
- Los escarabajos y la moneda de oro
Drama
- Isaac Babel – Sunset
- Philip Barry – Paris Bound
- Noel Pemberton Billing – High Treason
- Bertolt Brecht – In The Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte in its final version)
- Mikhail Bulgakov – Flight («Бег», Beg, written)
- James Bernard Fagan – The Greater Love
- Federico García Lorca – Mariana Pineda
- Joseph Goebbels – Der Wanderer (only performances; written 1923)
- Walter C. Hackett – The Wicked Earl
- DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward – Porgy
- Vsevolod Ivanov – Armoured Train 14-69 («Бронепоезд 14-69», Bronepoezd 14-69)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson – Plumes
- George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – The Royal Family
- John Howard Lawson – Loud Speaker
- Alexander Lernet-Holenia – Szene als Einleitung zu einer Totenfeier für Rainer Maria Rilke
- Frederick Lonsdale – The High Road
- W. Somerset Maugham – The Letter
- Ernst Toller – Hoppla, We're Alive! (Hoppla, wir leben!)
- Ben Travers – Thark
- Jim Tully – Twenty Below
- John Van Druten
- Bayard Veiller – The Trial of Mary Dugan
- Roger Vitrac – The Mysteries of Love (Les Mystères de l'amour)
- Frank Vosper – The Combined Maze
- Edgar Wallace
- Emlyn Williams – Full Moon
- Carl Zuckmayer – Schinderhannes
Poetry
- Robert Desnos – La Liberté ou l'amour! (Liberty or Love!)
- Allama Iqbal – Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)
- James Joyce – Pomes Penyeach
- Don Marquis – archy and mehitabel
Non-fiction
- Stanley Baldwin – On England and Other Addresses
- Nan Britton – The President's Daughter
- Alexandra David-Néel – My Journey to Lhasa / Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa
- John Dewey – Philosophy and Civilization[7]
- J. W. Dunne – An Experiment with Time
- Walter Evans-Wentz (translator) – The Tibetan Book of the Dead (translation of Bardo Thodol)
- E. M. Forster – Aspects of the Novel
- Sigmund Freud – The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
- Martin Heidegger – Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)
- Christopher Hussey – The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View
- Ernst Kantorowicz – Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite
- John Livingston Lowes – The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
- Bertrand Russell – An Outline of Philosophy
- Helen Waddell – The Wandering Scholars
Births
- January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet (died 2015)
- January 16 – Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (died 2000)
- January 24
- Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer, playwright and actor (died 2019)
- Marvin Kaplan, American actor, screenwriter and playwright (died 2016)
- January 25 – John Calder, Canadian-born Scottish publisher (died 2018)
- January 28 – Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
- February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (died 2014)[8]
- February 6 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (died 1974)
- February 16 – Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971)
- February 21 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
- March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist (died 2014)
- March 15 – Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995)
- March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (died 2003)[9]
- March 24 – Martin Walser, German author[10]
- March 22 – Vera Henriksen, née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist (died 2016)
- April 2 – Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (died 1980)[11]
- May 1 – Tamar Bornstein-Lazar, Israeli children's writer (died 2020)
- May 19 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (died 1991)
- May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)
- May 27 – Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997)
- May 28 – William A. Hilliard, American journalist (died 2017)
- June 6 – Alan Seymour, Australian playwright (died 2015)
- June 13 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (died 2006)
- June 20 – Simin Behbahani, Persian poet (died 2014)
- June 23 – Jacobo Langsner, Romanian-born Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (died 2020)
- June 24 – Frederick Vreeland, American diplomat and writer
- June 27 – Dominic Jeeva (டொமினிக் ஜீவா), Ceylonese Tamil fiction writer and essayist (died 2021)
- June 30 – James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998)
- July 4 – Neil Simon, American playwright (died 2018)
- July 15 – Ann Jellicoe, British playwright, stage director and actress (died 2017)
- July 22 – Katharine Topkins, American novelist
- July 27 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist, writer and political figure (died 2014)
- July 31 – Peter Nichols, English playwright (died 2019)
- August 9 – Robert Shaw, English-born actor, novelist and playwright (died 1978)
- August 15 – Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (died 2011)
- August 17 – Stefan Geosits, Burgenland Croatian writer and translator
- August 23 – Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator (died 2017)[12]
- August 24 – David Ireland, Australian novelist
- August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly, Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008)
- September 4 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (died 2000)
- September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (died 2019)
- October 7 – Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
- October 16 – Günter Grass, German novelist (died 2015)
- October 31 – Sybil Wettasinghe, Ceylonese children's writer and illustrator (died 2020)[13]
- November 16 – Franz Jalics, Hungarian Jesuit priest and author
- November 24 – Charles Osborne, Australian-born British writer and arts administrator (died 2017)
- December 4 – Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (died 2019)[14]
- December 13 – James Wright, American poet (died 1980)
- December 24
- Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (died 2020)[15]
- Diane de Margerie, French translator
Deaths
- January 24 – Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian poet and author (born 1837)[16]
- February 26 – Alfred Remy, German-born American philologist and music writer (born 1870)
- March 18 – Philip Wicksteed, English theologian and critic (born 1844)[17]
- March 31 – Mabel Collins, British theosophist and author (born 1851)
- April 16 – Gaston Leroux, French novelist (born 1868)
- May 25 – Henri Hubert, French sociologist (born 1872)[18]
- May 29 – Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (born 1854)
- June 1 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
- June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (born 1857)
- June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (born 1859)
- June 20 – Clara Louise Burnham, American novelist (born 1854)[19]
- July 5 – Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (born 1891)
- July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介), Japanese short story writer and poet (suicide, born 1892)
- August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (born 1878)
- August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (born 1871)
- September 14 – Hugo Ball, German poet (born 1886)
- September 15 – Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist (born 1864)
- October 8
- Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet (Hodgkin's disease, born 1886)[20]
- Mary Webb, English novelist (born 1881)
- October 22 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian writer (born 1876)
- October 23 – Bernhard Alexander, Hungarian philosopher and polymath (born 1850)
- November 23 – Stanisław Przybyszewski, Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet (born 1868)
- December 5 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist and essayist (born 1863)
- December 17 – Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (born 1883)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
- Newdigate Prize for poetry: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner)
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson
- Prix Goncourt: Maurice Bedel, Jérôme 60° latitude nord[21]
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn
References
- Natalie Clifford Barney (June 1992). Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney. NYU Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-8147-1177-4.
- Wickes, George (1976). The Amazon of Letters. New York: Putnam. pp. 153, 167. ISBN 0-399-11864-0.
- "100 Best Novels". Modern Library. 1999. Archived from the original on 2010-02-07. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
- Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making. New York: Harper. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-06-206542-1. This becomes the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932).
- Irene Guenther, "Magic Realism in the Weimar Republic" in MR: Theory, History, Community.
- Thomas, Robert Mcg. Jr. (August 2, 1978). "Benjamin Bass, 77, Was Founder Of the Strand Used‐Book Store". The New York Times. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- "Obituary: "Dr. John Dewey Dead at 92; Philosopher a Noted Liberal". The New York Times. 1952. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
- Howard Nelson (1987). On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell: The Wages of Dying. University of Michigan Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-472-06376-6.
- Edd Applegate (1996). Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-313-29949-0.
- Dieter Hildebrandt; Siegfried Unseld (1972). German Mosaic: an Album for Today: Official Gift Book of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XX. Olympiade Munich 1972. Suhrkamp. p. 438. ISBN 978-3-518-02636-6.
- Tracy Chevalier (1997). Encyclopedia of the Essay. Taylor & Francis. p. 863. ISBN 978-1-884964-30-5.
- Julia Eccleshare (17 February 2017). "Dick Bruna obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- "Veteran children's author, Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe passed away at the age of 93". News First. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1975). Alfanhui. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-0-911198-39-3.
- Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, page 40, 2007, Greenwood Press; ISBN 0-313-33428-5
- Robert Lecker; Jack David; Ellen Quigley (1993). ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists. ECW Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-55022-151-0.
- The Economic journal. 1967. p. 333.
- American journal of archaeology. 1928. p. 68.
- Kaser, James A. (2011). The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide. Scarecrow Press. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-4616-7258-6.
- Escuela Normal Superior de Chascomús.
- Books Abroad. University of Oklahoma. 1928. p. 29.
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