1933 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1933.

Events[]

  • February – Having joined the Japanese Communist Party, the 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 by the rejection of him by a 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) is held at the Teatro Beatriz in Madrid.
  • April 23 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla is appointed schoolteacher among the Serbs of Vraka, Kingdom of Albania. The next two years bring his creative period as a short story writer, 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 take place 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 16–17 – 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]
    • Robert Walser, under treatment for schizophrenia since 1929, is placed in a sanatorium in Herisau, Switzerland. This ends his work as a writer, though he will live until 1956.[5]
  • July – Poedjangga Baroe, the Indonesian avant-garde literary magazine, is first published, by Armijn Pane, Amir Hamzah and Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana.
  • October (approximate) – The name Inklings, previously used by a disbanded undergraduate group, is taken by an informal literary discussion group of University of Oxford academics, including C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.[6]
  • 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.[7]
  • 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 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.[8]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1933 in poetry
  • Edwin James Brady – Wardens of the Seas
  • Benjamin Fondane – Ulysse
  • Mascha Kaléko – Das Lyrische Stenogrammheft: Verse vom Alltag
  • Osip Mandelstam – "Stalin Epigram"
  • Vita Sackville-West – Collected Poems
  • Filip Shiroka – Zâni i zêmrës
  • J. Slauerhoff – Soleares
  • W. B. Yeats – The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 1 – Joe Orton, English playwright (murdered 1967)
  • January 2 – Seiichi Morimura (森村誠一), Japanese author
  • January 4 – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, American children's and adult novelist
  • January 9 – Wilbur Smith, South African historical novelist
  • January 13 – Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer and politician (died 2017)
  • 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 20 – Zamenga Batukezanga, Congolese francophone writer and philanthropist (died 2000)
  • February 22 – Christopher Ondaatje, Ceylonese-born English travel writer, biographer and philanthropist[10]
  • February 27 – Edward Lucie-Smith, Jamaican-born English writer, critic and broadcaster
  • March 17 – Penelope Lively (Penelope Low), Egyptian-born English novelist[11]
  • March 18 – Sergio Pitol, Mexican fiction writer, translator and diplomat (died 2018)
  • March 19 – Philip Roth, American novelist (died 2018)[12]
  • April 2 – György Konrád, Hungarian novelist, essayist, political dissident and President of PEN International (died 2019)
  • April 7 – Cong Weixi, Chinese author (died 2019)
  • April 14 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer (died 2012)
  • April 24 – Patricia Bosworth, American writer/biographer (died 2020)[13]
  • May 9 – Jessica Steele, English romance novelist (died 2020)
  • May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford (Barbara Taylor), English-born American novelist[14]
  • May 12 – Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian-born writer
  • May 29
    • Abdul Rahman Munif, Arab writer (died 2004)
    • 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
  • June 25 – James Meredith, African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
  • June 30 – Mauricio Rosencof, Uruguayan playwright, poet and journalist
  • 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 15 – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian novelist[15]
  • 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
    • Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer (died 2017)[16]
  • August 9 – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian Malayalam-language writer
  • August 13 – Madhur Jaffrey, Indian actress and food writer[17]
  • August 16 – Tom Maschler, Austrian-born English literary publisher (died 2020)[18]
  • September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher and author (died 2017)
  • September 19 – Gilles Archambault, French Canadian novelist
  • September 27 – Paul Goble, English-American author and illustrator (died 2017)
  • October 11 – David Daniels, American visual poet (died 2008)
  • October 24 – Norman Rush, American writer
  • November 1
    • Vyacheslav Adamczyk, Belarusian journalist, writer, playwright and screenwriter. (died 2001)
    • Samir Roychoudhury, Indian Bengali poet, philosopher of the Hungry generation (died 2016)
    • Huub Oosterhuis, Dutch poet, theologian and liturgy reformer
  • November 13 – Peter Härtling, German novelist and poet (died 2017)
  • November 23 - Daniel Chavarría, Uruguayan writer and translator (died 2018)
  • December 2 – Kent Andersson, Swedish dramatist (died 2005)
  • December 22 – Jim Barnes, Native American poet and translator[19]
  • December 31 – Edward Bunker, American crime novelist (died 2005)

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

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  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. ^ Heffernan, Valerie (1998). Provocation from the Periphery: Robert Walser Re-examined. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-3-8260-3264-6.
  6. ^ Colin Duriez (20 February 2015). The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle. Lion Books. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-7459-5792-0.
  7. ^ Achim, Viorel (2007). The Roma in Romanian History. Budapest & New York: CEU Press. pp. 154–157. ISBN 978-963-9241-84-8.
  8. ^ 5 F.Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933).
  9. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
  10. ^ Charles Whately Parker; Charles Wolcott Parker; Barnet M. Greene (2000). Who's who in Canada. International Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-7715-7726-0.
  11. ^ Mary Hurley Moran (1993). Penelope Lively. Twayne Publishers. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8057-7028-5.
  12. ^ Sanford Pinsker; Professor Sanford Pinsker, B.A., PH.D. (1991). The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction. SIU Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-8093-1581-9.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  14. ^ Dave Mote (1997). Contemporary Popular Writers. St. James Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-55862-216-6.
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  20. ^ The New International Year Book. Dodd, Mead and Company. 1934. p. 587.
  21. ^ "Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)". Retrieved 2009-04-22.
  22. ^ James Gindin (18 June 1987). John Galsworthy's Life and Art: An Alien's Fortress. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-08530-9.
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