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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1933.

Events[edit]

February – Having joined the Japanese Communist Party, Chinese novelist Hu Feng is arrested and "badly beaten" in Tokyo for his protests against imperialism. Returning to the Republic of China as a popular hero, he is nevertheless prevented from joining the Communist Party of China; his application is rejected by rival Zhou Yang.^[1]
February 17 – The magazine News-Week is published for the first time in New York.
March 8 – Première of Federico García Lorca's play Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre) at the Teatro Beatriz in Madrid.
April 23 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla is appointed schoolteacher among the Serbs of Vraka, Kingdom of Albania. The following two years mark his creative period as a short story writer, with themes describing his sense of despair at being isolated in a backward region.^[2]

Book burning in the Opernplatz, Berlin, May 11, 1933

May – Nazi book burnings in Germany by the German Student Union, principally of works by Jewish intellectuals, leading to an Exilliteratur. Although his novels are spared (unlike those of his brother Heinrich Mann), Thomas Mann settles in Switzerland. Lion Feuchtwanger, on a lecture tour of the United States in January, has decided not to return to Germany; Bertolt Brecht has moved to Prague in February; and Alfred Döblin to Switzerland in March.
May 16 – May 17 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin orders the NKVD to "preserve but isolate" Osip Mandelstam, after having been informed of the "Stalin Epigram"; Mandelstam is then arrested. A protest by literary figures, including Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, prompts Stalin to declare that he might "review the case" (he never will). His admiration for Pasternak as a poetic genius is strengthened when the latter asks for a private meeting to discuss "life and death"—although he never grants it, he instructs the NKVD to "leave that cloud-dweller [Pasternak] alone".^[3]
June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape".^[4]
July – Poedjangga Baroe, the Indonesian avant-garde literary magazine, is first published, by Armijn Pane, Amir Hamzah and Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana.
October 8 – The General Union of Roma in Romania is set up by writer Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică, with Grigoraș Dinicu as honorary president; by 1934, it publishes the Romani-language newspaper O Ròm, and books of Romani mythology, edited by Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor.^[5]
December
- Codex Sinaiticus sold by the Soviet Union to the British Museum Library through the agency of Maggs Bros Ltd at a price of £100,000, the highest ever paid for a book at this time.
- Raymond Chandler's first short story, the hardboiled detective fiction "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", is published in the magazine Black Mask in the United States.
December 6 – In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not as a whole pornographic and therefore cannot not be obscene.^[6]
The name Inklings is taken by an informal literary discussion group at Oxford.
Robert Walser, under treatment for schizophrenia since 1929, is committed to the sanitarium in Herisau. This ends his work as a writer, though he will continue to live until 1956.^[7]

New books[edit]

Fiction[edit]

Hervey Allen – Anthony Adverse
Jorge Amado – Cacau (Cacao)
Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie – When Worlds Collide
Marjorie Bowen – The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
Pearl S. Buck
- All Men Are Brothers (translation of Water Margin)
- Sons
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the City of Gold
Dino Buzzati – Bàrnabo delle montagne
Erskine Caldwell – God's Little Acre
John Dickson Carr – The Mad Hatter Mystery
Leslie Charteris – Once More the Saint (also The Saint and Mr. Teal)
Agatha Christie
- The Hound of Death
- Lord Edgware Dies
A. J. Cronin – Grand Canary
Warwick Deeping – Two Black Sheep
Mircea Eliade – Bengal Nights (Mayitreyi)
Guy Endore – The Werewolf of Paris
Susan Ertz – The Proselyte
Miles Franklin – Bring the Monkey
Zona Gale – Papa La Fleur
Erle Stanley Gardner – The Case of the Sulky Girl
Matila Ghyka – Pluie d'étoiles
Walter Greenwood – Love on the Dole
Dashiell Hammett
- The Thin Man
- Woman In The Dark
Robert Hichens – The Paradine Case^[8]
James Hilton
- Knight Without Armour
- Lost Horizon
Volter Kilpi – Alastalon salissa (In the Parlour at Alastalo)
Pär Lagerkvist – Bödeln (The Hangman; novella)
Arthur Machen – The Green Round
Claude McKay – Banana Bottom
André Malraux – Man's Fate (La Condition humaine)
Ellery Queen
- The American Gun Mystery
- The Siamese Twin Mystery
Raymond Queneau – Le Chiendent
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – South Moon Under
E. Arnot Robertson – Ordinary Families
Dorothy L. Sayers
- Hangman's Holiday (short stories)
- Murder Must Advertise
Bruno Schulz – The Street of Crocodiles (short stories, published as Sklepy cynamonowe, "Cinnamon Shops", in December, dated 1934)
Nan Shepherd – A Pass in the Grampians
Gertrude Stein – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Phoebe Atwood Taylor – The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
Angela Thirkell – High Rising
Thomas F. Tweed – Rinehard: a melodrama of the nineteen-thirties
S. S. Van Dine – The Kennel Murder Case
Helen Waddell – Peter Abelard
Hugh Walpole – Vanessa
H. G. Wells – The Shape of Things to Come
Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh)
Nathanael West – Miss Lonelyhearts
Dennis Wheatley – The Forbidden Territory
Antonia White – Frost in May
Virginia Woolf – Flush: A Biography

Children and young people[edit]

Marjorie Flack – The Story about Ping
Norman Hunter – The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (first in Professor Branestawm series)
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis – Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Arthur Ransome – Winter Holiday
Dorothy Wall – Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian (first in the Blinky Bill series of three books)

Births[edit]

January 1 – Joe Orton, English playwright (murdered 1967)
January 9 – Wilbur Smith, South African historical novelist
January 16 – Susan Sontag (Susan Rosenblatt), American novelist (died 2004)
January 25 – Alden Nowlan, Canadian poet and novelist (died 1983)
February 1 – Reynolds Price, American novelist and literary scholar (died 2011)
February 5 – B. S. Johnson, English novelist (died 1973)
February 12 – Costa-Gavras (Konstantinos Gavras), Greek-French film director and writer
February 22 – Christopher Ondaatje, Ceylonese-born English travel writer, biographer and philanthropist
February 27 – Edward Lucie-Smith, Jamaican-born English writer, critic and broadcaster
March 17 – Penelope Lively (Penelope Low), Egyptian-born English novelist
March 18 – Sergio Pitol, Mexican fiction writer, translator and diplomat (died 2018)
March 19 – Philip Roth, American novelist (died 2018)
April 14 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer (died 2012)
April 24 – Patricia Bosworth, American writer/biographer
May 9 – Jessica Steele, English romance novelist
May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford (Barbara Taylor), English-born American novelist
May 12 – Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian-born writer
May 29 – Edward Whittemore, American novelist (died 1995)
June 9 – Vicente Leñero, Mexican novelist and playwright (died 2014)
June 11 – Martti Soosaar, Estonian journalist and author (died 2017)
June 20 – Claire Tomalin (Claire Delavenay), English journalist and biographer
July 2 – John Antrobus, English playwright and scriptwriter
July 4 – David Littman, English historian (died 2012)
July 10 – Kevin Gilbert, Australian writer and artist (died 1993)
July 13 – David Storey, English novelist and playwright (died 2017)
July 14 – Solange Fasquelle, French novelist (died 2016)
July 20 – Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
July 21 – John Gardner, American writer (died 1982)
August – Ko Un (Ko Untae), South Korean poet
August 13 – Madhur Jaffrey, Indian actress and food writer
August 16 – Tom Maschler, Austrian-born English literary publisher
September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher and author (died 2017)
September 19 – Gilles Archambault, French Canadian novelist
October 11 – David Daniels, American visual poet (died 2008)
October 24 – Norman Rush, American writer
November 13 – Peter Härtling, German novelist and poet (died 2017)
December 2 – Kent Andersson, Swedish dramatist (died 2005)
December 31 – Edward Bunker, American crime novelist (died 2005)
Unknown date – Jim Barnes, Native American poet and translator

Deaths[edit]

January 21 – George Moore, Irish poet and novelist (born 1852)
January 29 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (born 1884; suicide)^[9]
January 31 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and dramatist (born 1867)
February 20 – Takiji Kobayashi (小林多喜二), Japanese writer (born 1903)
April 5 – Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (heart attack, born 1884)
April 19 – E. W. Hobson, English writer on mathematics (born 1856)
April 29 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet (born 1863)
April 30 – Anna de Noailles, French writer (born 1876)
May 26 – Horatio Bottomley, English journalist and fraudster (born 1860)
June 7 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian poet (born 1875)
July 8 – Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English adventure novelist (born 1863)
August 12 – Alexandru Philippide, Romanian linguist and polemicist (atherosclerosis, born 1859)
September 20 – Annie Besant, English Theosophist writer (born 1847)
September 23 – György Almásy, Hungarian travel writer (born 1867)
September 25
- Ring Lardner, American writer (born 1885)
- Pascal Poirier, Canadian historian (born 1852)
October 30 – Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, Anglo-Irish-American short story writer (born 1861?)
November 12 – F. Holland Day, American publisher (born 1864)
November 20 – Augustine Birrell, English politician and author (born 1850)
November 28 – Minnie Earl Sears, American librarian (born 1873)
December 4 – Stefan George, German poet and translator (born 1868)
December 27 – Georgina Castle Smith (pseudonym Brenda), English children's writer (born 1845)
Unknown dates
- Annie Armitt, English novelist and poet (born 1850)
- Janet Milne Rae, Scottish novelist (born 1844)
- Hugo Zöller, German explorer and journalist (born 1852)

Awards[edit]

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Violet Clifton, The Book of Talbot
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling – The Store

References[edit]

^ Denton, Kirk A. (1998). The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 0-8047-3128-4.
^ Elsie, Robert (2012). A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. London & New York: I. B. Tauris. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-78076-431-3.
^ Montefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin. The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Phoenix. pp. 135–137. ISBN 0-75381-766-7.
^ Preface to his anthology The Protestant Mystics (1964).
^ Achim, Viorel (2007). The Roma in Romanian History. Budapest & New York: CEU Press. pp. 154–157. ISBN 978-963-9241-84-8.
^ 5 F.Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933).
^ Heffernan, Valerie (1998). Provocation from the Periphery: Robert Walser Re-examined. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-3-8260-3264-6.
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ "Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)". Retrieved 2009-04-22.

[1] Denton, Kirk A. (1998). The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 0-8047-3128-4.

[2] Elsie, Robert (2012). A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. London & New York: I. B. Tauris. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-78076-431-3.

[3] Montefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin. The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Phoenix. pp. 135–137. ISBN 0-75381-766-7.

[4] Preface to his anthology The Protestant Mystics (1964).

[5] Achim, Viorel (2007). The Roma in Romanian History. Budapest & New York: CEU Press. pp. 154–157. ISBN 978-963-9241-84-8.

[6] 5 F.Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933).

[7] Heffernan, Valerie (1998). Provocation from the Periphery: Robert Walser Re-examined. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-3-8260-3264-6.

[8] Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

[9] "Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)". Retrieved 2009-04-22.

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1933 in literature

Contents

Events[edit]

New books[edit]

Fiction[edit]

Children and young people[edit]

Drama[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Awards[edit]

References[edit]