1936 in literature
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The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Life magazine is first published.
- The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is established in the UK.
[edit] New books
- Eric Ambler - The Dark Frontier
- Henry Bellamann - The Gray Man Walks
- Gottfried Benn - The Trainee Man
- Arna Wendell Bontemps - Black Thunder
- Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris
- Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan's Quest
- James M. Cain - Double Indemnity
- Morley Callaghan - Now that April's Here and Other Stories
- Karel Čapek - War with the Newts
- John Dickson Carr
- The Arabian Nights Murder
- The Punch and Judy Murders (as by Carter Dickson)
- Willa Cather - Not Under Forty
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Death on the Installment Plan
- Agatha Christie
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin - John Dawn
- John Dos Passos - The Big Money
- William Pène du Bois - Otto at Sea
- Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
- Walter D. Edmonds - Drums Along the Mohawk
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
- Margaret Flint - The Old Ashburn Place
- Aldous Huxley - Eyeless in Gaza
- Winifred Holtby - South Riding
- Arthur Joseph - Dark Metropolis
- Jonathan Latimer - The Lady in the Morgue
- Andrew Lytle - The Long Night
- Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
- John A. Moroso - Nobody's Buddy
- Ellery Queen - Halfway House
- Ayn Rand - We the Living
- Arthur Ransome - Pigeon Post
- Israel Joshua Singer - The Brothers Ashkenazi
- John Steinbeck - In Dubious Battle
- Rex Stout - The Rubber Band
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- S. S. Van Dine - The Kidnap Murder Case
- Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins (later The Lady Vanishes)
[edit] New drama
- W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood - The Ascent of F6
- Bertolt Brecht - Round Heads and Pointed Heads
- Noël Coward - Tonight at 8:30 and Present Laughter
- Federico García Lorca - The House of Bernarda Alba (written)
- Clare Boothe Luce - The Women
- Terence Rattigan - French Without Tears
- Irwin Shaw - Bury the Dead
[edit] Poetry
See 1936 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- John Dickson Carr - The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
- Carl Gustav Jung - The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy.
- John Maynard Keynes -The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
- C. S. Lewis - The Allegory of Love
- Edwin Muir - Scott and Scotland
- Olavi Paavolainen - Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana
[edit] Births
- January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian (died 2002)
- January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, author
- February 18 - Jean M. Auel, Earth's Children author
- April 30 - Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet writer and editor
- May 23 - Ian Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
- June 23 - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull author
- June 24 - J. H. Prynne, poet
- July 22 - Tom Robbins, novelist
- August 24 - A. S. Byatt, novelist
- September 20 - Andrew Davies, TV and film writer
- October 5 - Václav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic (died 2011)
- November 17 - John Wells, satirical writer and actor (died 1998)
- November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States novelist
- date unknown - Duff Hart-Davis, biographer and journalist
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer (born 1865) - Nobel prize for literature (1907)
- March 16 - Marguerite Durand, journalist
- April 30 - A. E. Housman, poet (born 1859)
- June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (suicide)
- June 12 - M. R. James, writer of ghost stories (born 1862)
- June 14 - G. K. Chesterton, author (born 1874)
- June 14 - Maxim Gorky, dramatist (born 1868)
- August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)
- August 19 - Federico García Lorca, dramatist and poet
- November 12 - Stefan Grabinski, "the Polish Poe"
- December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and novelist (born 1867)
- December 28 - John Cornford, Communist poet
[edit] Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Winifred Holtby, South Riding
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Edward Sackville West, A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
- Nobel Prize for literature: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, Idiot's Delight
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis - Honey in the Horn
