1936 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1936.

Events

August 18 – The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca, is arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror and is never seen alive again. His brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, is shot the same day.^[2]^[3] Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba), completed on June 19, will not be performed until 1945.
November 6 – Following its United States publication in 1934, the United Kingdom authorities decide they will not prosecute or seize copies of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses.^[4]
November 23 – Life magazine begins publication as a weekly news magazine in the United States under the management of Henry Luce.
Scottish-born university teacher of English literature J. I. M. Stewart writing as Michael Innes publishes his first (lighthearted) crime novel Death at the President's Lodging, set in Oxford and introducing his long-running character Detective Inspector John Appleby of Scotland Yard.^[5]
The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is established by the Library Association in the United Kingdom. The first winner is Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post.

New books

Poetry

W. H. Auden – Look, Stranger!^[7]
Gottfried Benn – Ausgewählte Gedichte (Selected Poems)
T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909–35^[7] including "Burnt Norton", first of the Four Quartets
Patrick Kavanagh – Ploughman, and Other Poems
Michael Roberts (ed.) – The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Dylan Thomas – Twenty-five Poems^[7]
W. B. Yeats (ed.) – The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935

Non-fiction

A. J. Ayer – Language, Truth, and Logic
John Dickson Carr – The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
Graham Greene – Journey Without Maps
Carl Gustav Jung – The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy (Die Erlösungsvorstellungen in der Alchemie)
John Maynard Keynes – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Osbert Lancaster – Progress at Pelvis Bay
F. R. Leavis – Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry
C. S. Lewis – The Allegory of Love
Edwin Muir – Scott and Scotland
George Orwell – "Bookshop Memories"
Olavi Paavolainen – Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana (Guest of the Third Reich)
J. R. R. Tolkien – "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (version of a lecture)

Births

January 10 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian (died 2002)
February 18 – Jean M. Auel, American historical novelist
March 7 – Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker and essayist (died 1982)
April 30 – Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet Russian writer and editor
May 23 – Ian Kennedy Martin, English scriptwriter and novelist
May 27 – Ivo Brešan, Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist
June 3
- Duff Hart-Davis, English biographer and journalist
- Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist and screenwriter
June 23 – Richard Bach, American novelist and non-fiction writer
June 24 – J. H. Prynne, English poet
June 29 – David Rudkin, English playwright
July 22 – Tom Robbins, American novelist
August 24 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist
September 20 – Andrew Davies, Welsh novelist and screenwriter
October 5 – Václav Havel, Czech dramatist and first president of Czech Republic (died 2011)
November 17 – John Wells, English satirical writer and actor (died 1998)
November 20 – Don DeLillo, American novelist
November 25 – William McIlvanney, Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015)
November 27 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (died 2005)
December 1 – Ma Văn Kháng, Vietnamese writer
December 5 – Lewis Nkosi, Zulu writer (died 2010)
December 11 – Ingvar Moe, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
December 17 – Frank Martinus Arion, Curaçaoan novelist and poet (died 2015)
Unknown date – Victor Watson, English children's writer and academic

Deaths

January 5 – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1866)
January 17 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian novelist and poet (stroke, born 1885)
January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer and Nobel laureate (born 1865)
February 8 – Rahel Sanzara, German dancer, actress and novelist (cancer, born 1894)
February 23 – Lidia Veselitskaya (V. Mikulich), Russian novelist, memoirist and translator (born 1857)
March 1 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, musician and novelist (born 1872)
March 16 – Marguerite Durand, French actress and journalist (born 1864)
April 30 – A. E. Housman, English poet (born 1859)
June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (suicide, born 1906)
June 12 – M. R. James, English ghost story writer and scholar (born 1862)
June 14
- G. K. Chesterton, English novelist, poet and Catholic apologist (born 1874)
- Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist (born 1868)
July 25 – Donald Maxwell, English travel writer and illustrator (born 1877)
August 8 – Mourning Dove, Native American writer (born 1884)
August 15 – Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer and Nobel laureate (born 1871)
August 19 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish dramatist and poet (shot, born 1898)
October 5 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (born 1898)
November 12 – Stefan Grabiński, Polish horror writer (born 1887)
December 10 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and novelist (born 1867)
December 27 – Kristína Royová, Slovak novelist, religious writer and poet (born 1860)
December 28 – John Cornford, English poet (killed in action, born 1915)^[8]
December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish novelist, poet and scholar (born 1864)

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

In fiction

William Boyd – The Blue Afternoon (1993)
Sebastian Faulks – The Girl at the Lion d'Or (1989)
Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa (play, 1990)
Philip Kerr – March Violets (1989)
Anthony Powell – Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960)

References

^ Gibson, Ian (1992). Lorca's Granada. ISBN 0-571-16489-7.
^ Gibson, Ian (1983). The Assassination of Federico García Lorca. London: Penguin Books. p. 164.
^ Gibson, Ian (1996). El assasinato de García Lorca (in Spanish). Barcelona: Plaza & Janes. p. 255. ISBN 978-84-663-1314-8.
^ Birmingham, Kevin (2014). The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses. London: Head of Zeus. ISBN 9781784080723.
^ ^a ^b Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.
^ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Haycock, David Boyd (2012). I Am Spain. Brecon. pp. 143–4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[1] Gibson, Ian (1992). Lorca's Granada. ISBN 0-571-16489-7.

[2] Gibson, Ian (1983). The Assassination of Federico García Lorca. London: Penguin Books. p. 164.

[3] Gibson, Ian (1996). El assasinato de García Lorca (in Spanish). Barcelona: Plaza & Janes. p. 255. ISBN 978-84-663-1314-8.

[4] Birmingham, Kevin (2014). The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses. London: Head of Zeus. ISBN 9781784080723.

[Whodunit-5] Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.

[6] Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.

[COCEL-7] Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[8] Haycock, David Boyd (2012). I Am Spain. Brecon. pp. 143–4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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