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Overview of the events of 1934 in literature
Overview of the events of 1934 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1934 .
Events
January 7 – The first
Flash Gordon
comic strip is created and illustrated by
Alex Raymond and published in the United States.
[1]
January 25 –
James Joyce 's novel
Ulysses , after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses , is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by
Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales.
[2]
January –
B. Traven 's novel
The Death Ship (
1926 ) first appears in English.
February –
Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London.
February 6 – The
February 6 riots in France, partly provoked by a performance of Shakespeare's
Coriolanus by the
Comédie-Française , will become the focus of a cult in the works of far-right authors, notably
Death on Credit by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (
1936 ) and
Gilles by
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (
1939 ). Also in 1934, Drieu announces his conversion to fascism, with the essay Socialisme fasciste .
[3]
March 16 and
October 5 –
P. G. Wodehouse 's
Thank You, Jeeves and
Right Ho, Jeeves , the first full-length novels to feature
Jeeves , are published.
April –
F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fourth and final completed novel,
Tender Is the Night , appears in book form in New York, after serialization since January in the monthly
Scribner's Magazine .
April 3 – The English
literary biographer Thomas Wright (of
Olney ) first publishes, in the
Daily Express , some facts about
Charles Dickens ' relations with the actress
Ellen Ternan .
[4]
April 6 –
Rudyard Kipling and
W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
May 1 – The first officially designated Thingplatz for the performance of
Thingspiele is dedicated in the
Brandberge in
Halle (
Nazi Germany ).
[5]
June
A medieval manuscript of
Le Morte d'Arthur used by
Caxton is identified in the Fellows' Library of
Winchester College (England) by the bibliophile
Walter Fraser Oakeshott .
[6]
The English poet
Laurie Lee
walks out one midsummer morning from his
Gloucestershire home, bound for Spain.
Two notable
gentleman detectives of the
Golden Age of Detective Fiction , set in England, appear for the first time in print, later to have whole series written about them. The first to feature Inspector
Roderick Alleyn of
Scotland Yard is
A Man Lay Dead by
Ngaio Marsh , at this time resident in her native New Zealand, published in London. The first
Sir Henry Merrivale
locked room mystery ,
The Plague Court Murders , appears from
John Dickson Carr , at this time resident in the UK and writing as "Carter Dickson", in New York around early June. It is followed in December by
The White Priory Murders .
[7]
July 17 – The circular
Manchester Central Library , England, opens.
August –
Boris Pasternak and
Korney Chukovsky are among those at the first Congress of the
Union of Soviet Writers .
[8]
September –
Henry Miller 's novel
Tropic of Cancer is published in
Paris by the
Obelisk Press . The
United States Customs Service prohibits imports of it.
[9]
October 22 – A new
Cambridge University Library , designed by
Giles Gilbert Scott , opens in England.
October 24 – The first of
Rex Stout 's
Nero Wolfe
detective novels ,
Fer-de-Lance , is published in New York, and abridged in the November
The American Magazine as "Point of Death."
November 20 –
Lillian Hellman 's first successful play,
The Children's Hour , dealing with a theme of accusations of
lesbianism , opens at the
Maxine Elliott Theatre on
Broadway in New York, where it will run for two years.
December 25 – The Romanian novelist
Panait Istrati , a former communist, begins his collaboration with the quasi-fascist
Cruciada Românismului with a polemic against antisemitism.
[10] The weekly newspaper, edited by
Mihai Stelescu and
Alexandru Talex , later hosts pieces by
Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu .
[11]
Unknown date – The first three volumes of
Mikhail Sholokhov 's novel
And Quiet Flows the Don first appear in English under this title.
New books
Fiction
M. Ageyev –
Cocain Romance (Roman s kokainom)
Edwin Balmer and
Philip Wylie –
After Worlds Collide
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay –
Pother Kanta
Samuel Beckett –
More Pricks Than Kicks
[12]
Phyllis Bottome –
Private Worlds
Marjorie Bowen –
Moss Rose
Ernest Bramah –
The Bravo of London
James Branch Cabell –
Smirt
John Brophy –
Waterfront
James M. Cain –
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Morley Callaghan –
Such Is My Beloved
Victor Canning –
Mr. Finchley Discovers His England
Willy Corsari – Terugkeer tot Thera (Return to Thera , introduces Inspector Lund, the archetypal Dutch detective)
[13]
John Dickson Carr
Gabriel Chevallier –
Clochemerle
Agatha Christie
Colette –
Duo
J.J. Connington –
The Ha-Ha Case
Freeman Wills Crofts
Henry de Montherlant – Les Célibataires (The Bachelors)
Isak Dinesen – Seven Gothic Tales
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle –
The Comedy of Charleroi (La Comédie de Charleroi , linked short stories)
Max Ernst –
Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness, graphic novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald –
Tender Is the Night
Carlo Emilio Gadda – Il castello di Udine
Jeanne Galzy – Jeunes Filles en serre chaude (Young girls in a greenhouse)
Anthony Gilbert –
An Old Lady Dies
Jean Giono –
The Song of the World
Robert Graves –
I, Claudius
Graham Greene –
It's a Battlefield
Walter Greenwood –
His Worship the Mayor
Harold Heslop
The Crime of Peter Ropner
Goaf (English version)
Robert Hichens –
The Power To Kill
James Hilton –
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Richard Hull – The Murder of My Aunt
Zora Neale Hurston –
Jonah's Gourd Vine : A Novel
F. Tennyson Jesse –
A Pin to See the Peepshow
D. Gwenallt Jones – Plasau'r Brenin
John Knittel –
Via Mala
Halldór Laxness –
Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk ) — Part I, Icelandic Pioneers (Landnámsmaður Íslands )
Alexander Lernet-Holenia –
The Standard
Eiluned Lewis – Dew on the Grass
Eric Linklater –
Magnus Merriman
E. C. R. Lorac
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Compton Mackenzie –
The Darkening Green
Ngaio Marsh –
A Man Lay Dead
Alan Melville
Henry Miller –
Tropic of Cancer
Gladys Mitchell –
Death at the Opera
Leopold Myers – Rajah Amar
Vladimir Nabokov –
Despair
Carolina Nabuco –
A Sucessora
John O'Hara –
Appointment in Samarra
E. Phillips Oppenheim
George Orwell –
Burmese Days
John Cowper Powys
Ellery Queen –
The Chinese Orange Mystery
Henry Roth –
Call It Sleep
Rafael Sabatini –
Venetian Masque
Dorothy L. Sayers –
The Nine Tailors
Bruno Schulz –
The Street of Crocodiles (short stories, Sklepy cynamonowe – Cinnamon Shops – in December
1933 , dated 1934)
Mihail Sebastian – De două mii de ani (For Two Thousand Years)
J. Slauerhoff – Het leven op aarde (Life on Earth)
Howard Spring –
Shabby Tiger
Irving Stone –
Lust for Life
Rex Stout –
Fer-de-Lance
Cecil Street
Ruth Suckow – The Folks
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
'
Torquemada ' – Cain's Jawbone
[14]
Thomas F. Tweed – Blind Mouths
S. S. Van Dine
Simon Vestdijk –
Terug tot Ina Damman (Return to Ina Damman, first published of the
Anton Wachter cycle )
Henry Wade –
Constable Guard Thyself
Evelyn Waugh –
A Handful of Dust
Nathanael West –
A Cool Million
Dennis Wheatley –
The Devil Rides Out
Dorothy Whipple –
They Knew Mr. Knight
P. G. Wodehouse
S. Fowler Wright
David
Prelude in Prague: The War of 1938
Who Else But She? (as Sydney Fowler)
V. M. Yeates –
Winged Victory
Francis Brett Young –
This Little World
Marguerite Yourcenar –
A Coin in Nine Hands (Denier du rêve)
Louis Aragon –
The Bells of Basel (Les Cloches de Bâle)
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 4 –
Hellmuth Karasek , German journalist, literary critic, and novelist (died
2015 )
[16]
January 8 –
Alexandra Ripley , American novelist (died
2004 )
January 12
January 18 –
Raymond Briggs , English writer and illustrator (died
2022 )
[18]
February 10
February 18 –
Audre Lorde , American poet, writer and feminist (died
1992 )
February 27 –
N. Scott Momaday , Native American novelist (died
2024 )
March 28 –
Jean Louvet , Belgian dramatist (died
2015 )
April 24 –
Jayakanthan , Tamil writer,
Jnanpith awardee (died
2015 )
May 10 –
Richard Peck , American novelist (died
2015 )
May 12 –
Elechi Amadi , Nigerian novelist (died
2016 )
May 27 –
Harlan Ellison , American science fiction writer (died
2018 )
June 11 –
Lady Annabel Goldsmith , English memoirist and socialite
July 11 –
Helen Cresswell , English children's writer and scriptwriter (died
2005 )
[19]
July 13 –
Wole Soyinka , Nigerian writer, playwright and Nobel laureate
July 20 –
Uwe Johnson , German writer (died
1984 )
July 21 –
Jonathan Miller , English satirist and non-fiction author (died
2019 )
August 5 –
Wendell Berry , American poet, novelist and activist (died 2019)
August 6
August 16 –
Diana Wynne Jones , English children's fantasy novelist (died
2011 )
[20]
September 11 –
Leon Rooke , Canadian novelist
September 17 –
Binoy Majumdar , Indian
Hungryalist poet (died
2006 )
September 21 –
Leonard Cohen , Canadian-born poet, singer-songwriter and novelist (died
2016 )
September 23 –
Per Olov Enquist , Swedish novelist (died
2020 )
October 1 –
Shakeb Jalali , Pakistani poet in Urdu (suicide
1966 )
October 17 –
Alan Garner , English children's novelist
[21]
October 24 –
Adrian Mitchell , English poet, playwright and children's author (died
2008 )
November 9 –
Ronald Harwood (Ronald Horwitz), South African-born English dramatist and screenwriter (died
2020 )
November 12 –
John McGahern , Irish novelist (died
2006 )
November 15 –
Irén Pavlics ,
Slovene author in Hungary
November 19 –
Joanne Kyger , American poet (died
2017 )
November 21 –
Beryl Bainbridge , English novelist (died
2010 )
[22]
December 5 –
Joan Didion , American writer (died
2021 )
December 28 –
Alasdair Gray , Scottish novelist and artist (died
2019 )
[23]
unknown dates
Deaths
January 1 –
Jakob Wassermann , German-Jewish novelist (born
1873 )
January 6 –
Dorothy Edwards , Welsh novelist (suicide, born
1903 )
January 8 –
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev), Russian novelist, poet and critic (born
1880 )
January 11 –
Helen Zimmern , German-born English writer and translator (born
1846 )
January 15 –
Hermann Bahr , Austrian dramatist and critic (born
1863 )
February 8 –
Ferenc Móra , Hungarian novelist and journalist (born
1879 )
February 28 –
Emeline Harriet Howe , American poet, writer and social activist (born
1844 )
March 10 –
Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey), English comic novelist and journalist (born
1856 )
April 9 –
Safvet-beg Bašagić , Bosnian poet (born
1870 )
April 12 –
Robert Clyde Packer , Australian journalist and newspaper magnate (heart failure, born
1879 )
May 1 –
Paul Zarifopol , Romanian critic (born
1874 )
June 14 –
John Gray , English poet (born
1866 )
June 21 –
Thorne Smith , American humorist and fantasy author (heart attack, born
1892 )
June 26 –
Naito Torajiro (内藤 虎次郎), Japanese historian (born
1866 )
June 30 –
Night of the Long Knives
July 4 –
Hayim Nahman Bialik , Hebrew-language poet (born
1873 )
July 21 –
Julian Hawthorne , American journalist and novelist (born
1846 )
July 23 –
Karl Joel , German philosopher (born
1864 )
July 29 –
Frane Bulić , Croatian historian (born
1846 )
August 13 –
Mary Hunter Austin , American travel writer (born
1868 )
August 30 –
Rebecca Richardson Joslin , American non-fiction writer (born
1846 )
September 9 –
Roger Fry , English art critic (born
1866 )
September 21 –
Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică , Romanian literary critic (born
1866 )
November 23 –
Arthur Wing Pinero , English dramatist (born
1855 )
December 15 –
Gustave Lanson , French historian and literary critic (born
1857 )
December 26 –
Wallace Thurman , African American novelist (TB, born
1902 )
unknown dates
Awards
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