1927 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927.

Events[]

  • January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo.
  • February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes,[1] an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris salon. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien.[2]
  • February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre (Theatre Masque) opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan.
  • May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel To the Lighthouse is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism,[3]
  • June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock. In November he takes British citizenship.[4]
  • July 5 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.[5]
  • July 9 – P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty, introduces Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings. The first UK appearance follows in the August issue of The Strand Magazine).
  • August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi appears in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series in London, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
  • September – Eric Blair (George Orwell) decides while on leave from the Imperial Police in Burma to remain in the U.K. He moves to London to become a writer.
  • October – Victor Gollancz founds the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd.
  • December – Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club", published in The Royal Magazine.[6]
  • unknown dates
    • A translation of Franz Roh's work of art criticism Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting, 1925) into Spanish by Revista de Occidente leads to the concept of magic realism becoming popular in Latin American literature.[7]
    • The Strand Bookstore is founded in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass.[8]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1927 in poetry
  • Robert Desnos – La Liberté ou l'amour! (Liberty or Love!)
  • Allama Iqbal – Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)
  • James Joyce – Pomes Penyeach
  • Don Marquis – archy and mehitabel

Non-fiction[]

  • Stanley Baldwin – On England and Other Addresses
  • Nan Britton – The President's Daughter
  • Alexandra David-Néel – My Journey to Lhasa / Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa
  • John Dewey – Philosophy and Civilization[12]
  • J. W. Dunne – An Experiment with Time
  • Walter Evans-Wentz (translator) – The Tibetan Book of the Dead (translation of Bardo Thodol)
  • E. M. Forster – Aspects of the Novel
  • Sigmund Freud – The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
  • Martin Heidegger – Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)
  • Christopher Hussey – The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View
  • Ernst Kantorowicz – Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite
  • John Livingston Lowes – The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
  • Bertrand Russell – An Outline of Philosophy
  • Helen Waddell – The Wandering Scholars

Births[]

  • January 8 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet (died 2015)
  • January 16 – Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (died 2000)
  • January 24
    • Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer, playwright and actor (died 2019)
    • Marvin Kaplan, American actor, screenwriter and playwright (died 2016)
  • January 25 – John Calder, Canadian-born Scottish publisher (died 2018)
  • January 28 – Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
  • February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (died 2014)[13]
  • February 6 – William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (died 1974)
  • February 16 – Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971)
  • February 21 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
  • March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist (died 2014)[14]
  • March 15 – Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995)
  • March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (died 2003)[15]
  • March 24 – Martin Walser, German author[16]
  • March 22 – Vera Henriksen, née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist (died 2016)
  • April 2 – Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (died 1980)[17]
  • April 24 – Trudi Birger, German Holocaust survivor and writer (died 2002)[18]
  • April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French author and illustrator (died 2020)[19]
  • May 1 – Tamar Bornstein-Lazar, Israeli children's writer (died 2020)
  • May 10 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author[20]
  • May 19 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (died 1991)
  • May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)[21]
  • May 27 – Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997)
  • May 28 – William A. Hilliard, American journalist (died 2017)
  • June 6 – Alan Seymour, Australian playwright (died 2015)
  • June 1 – Moyra Caldecott, English writer of historical fiction (died 2015)[22]
  • June 13 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (died 2006)
  • June 20 – Simin Behbahani, Persian poet (died 2014)
  • June 23 – Jacobo Langsner, Romanian-born Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (died 2020)
  • June 24 – Frederick Vreeland, American diplomat and writer
  • June 27 – Dominic Jeeva (டொமினிக் ஜீவா), Ceylonese Tamil fiction writer and essayist (died 2021)
  • June 30 – James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998)
  • July 4 – Neil Simon, American playwright (died 2018)[23]
  • July 15 – Ann Jellicoe, British playwright, stage director and actress (died 2017)
  • July 16 – Shirley Hughes, English writer and illustrator of children's books (died 2022)
  • July 22 – Katharine Topkins, American novelist
  • July 27 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist, writer and political figure (died 2014)
  • July 28
    • John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)[24]
    • Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (died 1986)[25]
  • July 31 – Peter Nichols, English playwright (died 2019)
  • August 9 – Robert Shaw, English-born actor, novelist and playwright (died 1978)[26]
  • August 15 – Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (died 2011)
  • August 17 – Stefan Geosits, Burgenland Croatian writer and translator
  • August 23 – Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator (died 2017)[27]
  • August 24 – David Ireland, Australian novelist
  • August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly, Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008)
  • September 4 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (died 2000)
  • September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (died 2019)[28]
  • October 7 – Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
  • October 16 – Günter Grass, German novelist (died 2015)[29]
  • October 31 – Sybil Wettasinghe, Ceylonese children's writer and illustrator (died 2020)[30]
  • November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (died 2018)[31]
  • November 16 – Franz Jalics, Hungarian Jesuit priest and author
  • November 24
    • Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist (died 2003)[32](estimated date)
    • Charles Osborne, Australian-born British writer and arts administrator (died 2017)
  • December 4 – Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (died 2019)[33]
  • December 13 – James Wright, American poet (died 1980)
  • December 24
    • Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (died 2020)[34]
    • Diane de Margerie, French translator

Deaths[]

Awards[]

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