This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1936.
Events
January 8 – Jewish booksellers throughout
Nazi Germany are deprived of their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one can sell books.[2]
May – The Greek poet and Communist activist
Yiannis Ritsos is inspired to write his poem Epitaphios by a photograph of a dead protester at a massive tobacco workers' demonstration in Thessaloniki. It is published soon after. In August, the
right-wingdictatorship of
Ioannis Metaxas comes to power in Greece and copies are burned publicly at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.[3]
August 18 – The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist,
Federico García Lorca, is arrested by
Francoist militia during the
White Terror and never seen alive again. His brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, is shot on the same day.[4][5] 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 – After United States publication in
1934, the U.K. authorities decide they will not prosecute or seize copies of
James Joyce's
1922 novel Ulysses.[6]
November 23 – Life magazine begins to appear as a weekly news magazine in the United States, under the management of
Henry Luce.
^Crecelius, Kathryn J.; Offen, Karen (1991). "Juliette Adam". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Volume 1. New York: Garland. p. 3.
ISBN978-0-82408-547-6.
^Haycock, David Boyd (2012). I Am Spain. Brecon. pp. 143–44.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1936.
Events
January 8 – Jewish booksellers throughout
Nazi Germany are deprived of their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one can sell books.[2]
May – The Greek poet and Communist activist
Yiannis Ritsos is inspired to write his poem Epitaphios by a photograph of a dead protester at a massive tobacco workers' demonstration in Thessaloniki. It is published soon after. In August, the
right-wingdictatorship of
Ioannis Metaxas comes to power in Greece and copies are burned publicly at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.[3]
August 18 – The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist,
Federico García Lorca, is arrested by
Francoist militia during the
White Terror and never seen alive again. His brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, is shot on the same day.[4][5] 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 – After United States publication in
1934, the U.K. authorities decide they will not prosecute or seize copies of
James Joyce's
1922 novel Ulysses.[6]
November 23 – Life magazine begins to appear as a weekly news magazine in the United States, under the management of
Henry Luce.
^Crecelius, Kathryn J.; Offen, Karen (1991). "Juliette Adam". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Volume 1. New York: Garland. p. 3.
ISBN978-0-82408-547-6.
^Haycock, David Boyd (2012). I Am Spain. Brecon. pp. 143–44.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)