1931 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1931.
Events
- January 10 – A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems together with first editions of The Scarlet Letter and Moby-Dick, are stolen from the New York Public Library by Samuel Dupree acting on behalf of crooked New York antiquarian book dealer Harry Gold.[1]
- January 26 – Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs opens in New York on Broadway. It will later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma![2]
- April – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome.
- June 1 – Near v. Minnesota decided in the Supreme Court of the United States affirms the principle that prior restraint is unconstitutional.
- July 4 – James Joyce marries his long-time partner Nora Barnacle at Kensington register office in London.
- October 4 – First appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.[3]
- The publisher Hamish Hamilton is founded by Jamie Hamilton in London.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is banned in Hunan, China, for anthropomorphism.[4]
- The Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome), written in 1785, begins its first publication in a scholarly edition as a literary text.
New books
Fiction
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon – The Bridal Canopy
- Margery Allingham – Police at the Funeral
- Roberto Arlt – Los lanzallamas (The Flame-Throwers)
- E. F. Benson – Mapp and Lucia
- Arna Bontemps – God Sends Sunday
- Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth
- Morley Callaghan – No Man's Meat
- Nellie Campobello – Cartucho
- John Dickson Carr
- Castle Skull
- The Lost Gallows
- Willa Cather – Shadows on the Rock
- Sigurd Christiansen – To levende og en død
- Agatha Christie – The Sittaford Mystery
- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth – The Cat Who Went to Heaven
- N. D. Cocea – Vinul de viață lungă
- A. J. Cronin – Hatter's Castle
- E. E. Cummings – CIOPW
- Sergiu Dan – Dragoste și moarte în provincie
- Detection Club – The Floating Admiral
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Will O' the Wisp
- Lord Dunsany – The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
- William Faulkner
- Jessie Redmon Fauset – The Chinaberry Tree
- Carlo Emilio Gadda – La madonna dei filosofi
- Emma Goldman – Living My Life
- Caroline Gordon – Penhally
- Dashiell Hammett – The Glass Key
- James Hanley – Boy
- Serge-Simon Held – La Mort du fer (The Death of Iron)
- Harold Heslop – Red Earth
- Georgette Heyer – The Conqueror
- James Hilton – Murder at School
- Knud Holmboe – Desert Encounter
- Fannie Hurst – Back Street
- Francis Iles – Malice Aforethought[5]
- Carolyn Keene – The Secret of Shadow Ranch
- Irmgard Keun – Gilgi – eine von uns (Gilgi – One of Us)
- Halldór Laxness – Salka Valka, pt I: Þú vínviður hreini (O Thou Pure Vine)
- W. Somerset Maugham – Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular
- Pierre Mac Orlan – La Bandera
- Nancy Mitford – Highland Fling
- Thomas Mofolo – Chaka
- Leopold Myers – Prince Jali
- Ilf and Petrov – The Little Golden Calf
- Andrei Platonov – The Foundation Pit (Котлован, Kotlovan; completed; not published until after the author's death in 1951)
- Anthony Powell – Afternoon Men
- Ellery Queen – The Dutch Shoe Mystery
- Erich Remarque – The Road Back
- E. Arnot Robertson – Four Frightened People
- Vita Sackville-West – All Passion Spent
- Dorothy Sayers – Five Red Herrings
- George S. Schuyler – Black No More
- Nevil Shute – Lonely Road
- Georges Simenon – Pietr-le-Letton (book format)
- Upton Sinclair – Roman Holiday
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling – The Forge
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor – The Cape Cod Mystery
- Sigrid Undset – Wild Orchid
- Hugh Walpole – Judith Paris
- Nathanael West – The Dream Life of Balso Snell
- Virginia Woolf – The Waves
- P.G. Wodehouse
Children and young people
- Jean de Brunhoff – Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (translated as The Story of Babar)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Erich Kästner – The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (Der 35. Mai)
- Arthur Ransome – Swallowdale
Drama
- Chen Liting – Put Down Your Whip (放下你的鞭子, Fàngxià nǐde biānzi)
- Noël Coward – Post Mortem (published)
- John van Druten – London Wall
- Federico García Lorca – When Five Years Pass (Así que pasen cinco años, written)
- Jean Giraudoux – Judith
- Eugene O'Neill – Mourning Becomes Electra
- Ahmed Shawqi – Qambeez (Cambyses)
- Dodie Smith – Autumn Crocus
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern – The Man Who Pays The Piper
- Ödön von Horváth – Tales from the Vienna Woods (Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald)
- Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas Dinner
- Carl Zuckmayer – The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
Non-fiction
- Samuel Beckett – Proust
- Adrian Bell – Silver Ley
- Marc Bloch – Les Caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale française
- Arthur Bryant – King Charles the Second
- Herbert Butterfield – The Whig Interpretation of History
- W. Chapman & V.C.A. Ferraro – A New Theory of Magnetic Storms
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda et al. – Dehkhoda Dictionary of the Persian language
- Julius Evola – The Hermetic Tradition
- Dion Fortune – Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science
- John Middleton Murry – Son of Woman: The Story of D. H. Lawrence
- Irma S. Rombauer – The Joy of Cooking
- Helen Thomas – World Without End
Births
- January 6
- E. L. Doctorow, American author (died 2015)
- P. J. Kavanagh, English poet, novelist, lecturer, actor, broadcaster and columnist (died 2015)
- January 9 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American science fiction author (died 2008)
- January 10 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (died 2004)
- January 17 – Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky), German journalist and science fiction author (died 2000)
- January 24 – Leonard Baker, American historian and Pulitzer-winning author (died 1984)
- January 27
- John Hopkins, English screenwriter (died 1998)
- Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (died 2001)
- Allan W. Eckert, American historian and novelist (died 2011)
- Shirley Hazzard, Australian author (died 2016)
- February 9 – Thomas Bernhard, Dutch-born Austrian author (died 1989)
- February 11 – Larry Merchant, American author and boxing commentator
- February 12 – Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch-American crime writer (died 2008)
- February 18
- Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (died 2007)
- Toni Morrison, American writer and Nobel Prize winner
- February 19 – Robert Sobel, American business writer (died 1999)
- March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American novelist (died 2018)
- March 16 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theater director and writer (died 2009)
- March 22 – Leslie Thomas, Welsh novelist (died 2014)
- March 26 – Alison Prince, English-born Scottish children's writer and illustrator
- April 1 – Rolf Hochhuth, German dramatist
- April 15 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and translator (died 2015)
- April 21 – Gabriel de Broglie, French historian
- April 29 – Robert Gottlieb, American editor
- June 12 – Robin Cook (Derek Raymond), English crime novelist (died 1994)
- June 21 – Patricia Goedicke, American poet (died 2006)
- July 4 – Sébastien Japrisot, French novelist and screenwriter (died 2003)
- July 7 – David Eddings, American novelist (died 2009)
- July 10
- Nick Adams, American screenwriter (died 1968)
- Julian May, American science fiction author
- Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer
- August 2 – Karl Miller, British writer and literary editor (died 2014)
- August 12 – William Goldman, American author
- August 14 – Frederic Raphael, American-born English screenwriter, novelist and non-fiction author
- September 14 – Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist and dramatist
- September 22
- Ashokamitran (Jagadisa Thyagarajan), Indian fiction writer (died 2017)
- Fay Weldon, English novelist
- October 8 – Dennis Silk, American-born English writer on literature and cricket, and first-class cricketer
- October 13 – Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (died 1995)
- October 19 – John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell), English spy novelist
- November 3 – Arun Sarma, Assamese playwright and novelist (died 2017)
- November 18 – Nikoloz Janashia, Georgian historian (died 1982)
Deaths
- January 26 – Graça Aranha, Brazilian diplomat and writer (born 1868)
- March 27 – Arnold Bennett, English novelist (born 1867)
- April 4 – André Michelin, French originator of Michelin Guides (born 1853)
- April 10 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-born American poet (born 1883)
- June 29 – Nérée Beauchemin, French-Canadian poet (born 1850)
- July 2 – Harald Høffding, Danish philosopher (born 1843)
- August 1 – Bertha McNamara, German-born Australian pamphleteer and bookseller (born 1853)
- August 15 – Delfín Chamorro, Spanish poet and language teacher (born 1863)
- August 27 – Frank Harris, Irish-born American author and editor (born 1856)
- August 31 – Hall Caine, Manx novelist and dramatist (born 1853)
- October 13 – Ernst Didring, Swedish novelist (born 1868)
- October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (born 1862)
- November 3 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Uruguayan epic poet (born 1855)
- November 5 – Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian American writer (born 1876)
- November 19 – Xu Zhimo (徐志摩), Chinese poet (air accident, born 1897)
- December 10 – Enrico Corradini, Italian novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1865)
- December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American inventor of library classification system (born 1851)
- December 27 – Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author and collector of songs and ballads (born 1846)
- December 31 – Ieronim Yasinsky, Russian writer, poet and essayist (born 1850
Awards
- Chancellor's Gold Medal: Robert Gittings
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Kate O'Brien, Without My Cloak
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: J. Y. R. Greig, David Hume
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven
- Nobel Prize for literature – Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Ayer Barnes – Years of Grace
References
- ^ McDade, Travis (2013). Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199922666.
- ^ Lynn Riggs: An Oklahoma Treasure Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Doherty, Jim (2009). "I Like 'Em Tough". ME.
- ^ "Topics of the Times". The New York Times. 1931-05-05. p. 26.
- ^ Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.