1935 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1935.
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Events
- 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's 1931 novel Boy.[1]
- 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.[2][3] He dies six days later. On July 29 his Seven Pillars of Wisdom is first published in an edition for general circulation.
- June 15
- W. H. Auden concludes a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.[4]
- T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral is premièred,[5] 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.[6][7]
- 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 is founded as a publisher in London.[8]
- November 2 – The Scottish-born thriller writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada.
- November 7 – The British and Foreign Blind Association introduces a library of talking books for the visually impaired.
- November 26 – Scrooge, the first feature-length talking film version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (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.[9]
- The first published edition of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome), written in 1785, in a scholarly edition as a literary text, is completed.[10]
- Fredric Warburg and Roger Senhouse retrieves the London publishers Martin Secker from receivership, as Secker & Warburg.
New books
Fiction
- Nelson Algren – Somebody in Boots
- Mulk Raj Anand – Untouchable
- Enid Bagnold – National Velvet
- 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
- 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 (also The Three Coffins)
- The Red Widow Murders (as Carter Dickson)
- The Unicorn Murders (as Carter Dickson)
- Agatha Christie
- Solomon Cleaver – Jean Val Jean
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin – Red Sky in the Morning
- Jack Conroy – A World to Win
- A. J. Cronin – The Stars Look Down
- H. L. Davis – Honey in the Horn
- 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
- Graham Greene – England Made Me
- George Wylie Henderson – Ollie Miss
- Harold Heslop – Last Cage Down
- Georgette Heyer
- 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
- August Mälk – Õitsev Meri ("The Flowering Sea")
- André Malraux – Le Temps du mépris
- Ngaio Marsh – Enter a Murderer
- John Masefield – The Box of Delights
- Naomi Mitchison – We Have Been Warned
- Alberto Moravia – Le ambizioni sbagliate
- R. K. Narayan – Swami and Friends
- John O'Hara – BUtterfield 8
- George Orwell – A Clergyman's Daughter
- Ellery Queen
- 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 – Tzigane
- John Steinbeck – Tortilla Flat
- Rex Stout – The League of Frightened Men
- Alan Sullivan – The Great Divide
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- A. A. Thomson – The Exquisite Burden (autobiographical novel)
- B. Traven – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- S. S. Van Dine – The Garden Murder Case
- Stanley G. Weinbaum – The Lotus Eaters
- P. G. Wodehouse – Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (short stories)
- Xiao Hong (蕭紅) – The Field of Life and Death (生死场, Shēng sǐ chǎng)
- Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治) – Musashi (宮本武蔵, Miyamoto Musashi)
- Francis Brett Young – White Ladies
- Yumeno Kyūsaku (夢野 久作) – Dogra Magra (ドグラマグラ)
Children and young people
- Enid Bagnold – National Velvet
- Louise Andrews Kent – He went with Marco Polo: A Story of Venice and Cathay (first of seven in "He went with" series)
- John Masefield – The Box of Delights
- Kate Seredy – The Good Master
- Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie
Drama
- J. R. Ackerley – The Prisoners of War
- Maxwell Anderson – Winterset
- T. S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
- Federico García Lorca – Doña Rosita the Spinster (Doña Rosita la soltera)
- Norman Ginsbury – Viceroy Sarah
- Jean Giraudoux – The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu)
- Walter C. Hackett – Espionage
- N.C. Hunter – All Rights Reserved
- Anthony Kimmins – Chase the Ace
- Archibald MacLeish – Panic
- Bernard Merivale – The Unguarded Hour
- Clifford Odets – Waiting for Lefty
- Lawrence Riley – Personal Appearance
- Dodie Smith – Call It a Day
- John Van Druten – Most of the Game
- Emlyn Williams – Night Must Fall
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
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh – North to the Orient
- Merkantilt biografisk leksikon
- Polish Biographical Dictionary (Polski słownik biograficzny)
- Iris Origo – Allegra (biography of 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
- January 8 – Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher, founded Lapham's Quarterly
- January 14 – Labhshankar Thakar, Indian Gujarati language poet, playwright and story writer (died 2016)
- January 18 – Jon Stallworthy, English poet and literary critic (died 2014)
- January 27 – D. M. Thomas, English novelist, poet and translator
- January 28 – David Lodge, English novelist and academic
- January 30 – Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (died 1984)
- January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), Japanese novelist and essayist
- February 18 – Janette Oke, Canadian author
- February 22 – Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist (died 1989)
- February 23 – Tom Murphy, Irish playwright (died 2018)
- March 13
- Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and writer (killed 2013)
- David Nobbs, English comedy writer (died 2015)
- March 23 – Barry Cryer, English comedy writer
- March 27 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian writer (died 2017)
- March 31 – Judith Rossner, American novelist (died 2005)
- April 4 – Michael Horovitz, German-born English poet and translator
- April 6 – John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright
- April 14 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer on paranormal
- April 15 – Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2010)
- May 1 – Julian Mitchell, English playwright and screenwriter
- May 2 – Lynda Lee-Potter, English columnist (died 2004)
- May 29 – André Brink, South African novelist (died 2015)
- June 4 – Shiao Yi, Taiwanese-American wuxia novelist (d. 2018)[11]
- June 7 – Harry Crews, American author and playwright (died 2012)
- June 25
- Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, film producer and LGBT activist (died 2020)
- Fran Ross, African American satirist (died 1985)
- July 13 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian novelist and playwright
- August 15 – Régine Deforges, French dramatist, novelist and publisher (died 2014)
- August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist
- September 10 – Mary Oliver, American poet (died 2018)
- September 16 – Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
- September 17 – Ken Kesey, American novelist (died 2001)
- October 7 – Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist and non-fiction writer
- November 7
- Elvira Quintana, Spanish-Mexican actress, singer, and poet (died 1968)
- Willibrordus S. Rendra, Indonesian dramatist, poet, activist, performer, actor and director (died 2009)
- November 18
- Sam Abrams, American poet
- Rodney Hall, Australian author and poet
- November 22 – Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist (died 2014)
- December 5 – Yevgeny Titarenko, Soviet writer (died 2018)
- December 10 – Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司), Japanese avant-garde writer, film director and photographer (died 1983)
- December 13 – Adélia Prado, Brazilian writer and poet
- unknown date – Bahaa Taher, Egyptian writer
Deaths
Funeral cortege for Panait Istrati. Bucharest, April 1935
- February 7 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish novelist (peritonitis, born 1901)
- February 13 – Ioan Bianu, Romanian librarian, bibliographer and linguist (uremia, born 1856 or 1857)
- February 28 – Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥), Japanese writer (born 1859)
- April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (born 1869)
- April 11 – Anna Katharine Green, American crime writer (born 1846)
- April 16 – Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist, short story writer and political essayist (tuberculosis, born 1884)
- May 19 – T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), English historian and memoirist (motorcycle accident, born 1888)
- August 11 – Sir William Watson, English poet (born 1858)
- August 17 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American novelist (born 1860)
- August 30 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (pneumonia, born 1873)
- September 29 – Winifred Holtby, English novelist (Bright's disease, born 1898)
- October 11 – Steele Rudd, Australian short story writer (born 1868)
- November 30 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, philosopher and critic (cirrhosis, born 1888)[12]
- December 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (born 1856)[13]
- December 21 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (drug overdose, born 1890)[14]
- December 28 – Clarence Day, American writer (born 1874)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: 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
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November
In literature
- March 23 – Francis Rattenbury is murdered in Bournemouth, inspiring the stage plays Cause Célèbre (1977) by Terence Rattigan and Molly (1978) by Simon Gray.
- According to Anthony Burgess's novel Earthly Powers (1980), this year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the fictional writer Jakob Strehler.
References
- Philip Gaskell (2002). The Book Collector. Queen Anne Press. p. 72.
- Bodleian Library (Oxford) MS. Eng. c. 2014.
- "T. E. Lawrence to Henry Williamson". T. E. Lawrence Studies. 2006-01-01. Retrieved 2013-08-27.
- "Erika Julia Hedwig Mann". W. H. Auden – 'Family Ghosts'. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral". Gale, Cengage Learning. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-4103-5330-6.
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 379–380. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- "Michael Joseph Publishers". Making Britain. The Open University. Retrieved 2014-09-04.
- Marta L. Dosa (1974). Libraries in the Political Scene. Greenwood Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8371-6443-4.
- Simon Baker (2007). Surrealism, History and Revolution. Peter Lang. p. 237. ISBN 978-3-03911-091-9.
- 与金庸相比,萧逸更在意中国传统的伦理道德. 163.com (in Chinese). 21 November 2018.
- Fernando Pessoa (30 November 2000). Selected Poems. Penguin Adult. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-14-118433-3.
- "Lizette Woodworth Reese | American poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- "Kurt Tucholsky". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
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