1935 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1935.

Events[]

  • January – The first published portions of Yasunari Kawabata's novel Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni) appear as standalone stories in Japanese literature.
  • March 20 – The London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in Manchester's Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel Boy.[1]
  • May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, having left the British Royal Air Force in March, has an accident with his Brough Superior motorcycle while returning to his cottage at Clouds Hill, England, after posting books to a friend, A. E. "Jock" Chambers, and sending a telegram inviting the novelist Henry Williamson to lunch.[2][3] He dies six days later. On July 29 his Seven Pillars of Wisdom is first published in an edition for general circulation.
  • June 15
    • W. H. Auden concludes a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.[4]
    • T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral is premièred,[5] at Canterbury Cathedral, the setting for the action of the play.
  • July 30 – Allen Lane founds Penguin Books, as the first mass-market paperbacks in Britain.[6][7]
  • August – Open-air reading room established by New York Public Library in Bryant Park.
  • August 27 – The Federal Theatre Project is established in the United States.
  • September 5 – Michael Joseph is founded as a publisher in London.[8]
  • November 2 – The Scottish-born thriller writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada.
  • November 7 – The British and Foreign Blind Association introduces a library of talking books for the visually impaired.
  • November 26 – Scrooge, the first feature-length talking film version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) is released in Britain. Sir Seymour Hicks reprises the title rôle, which he has performed for decades on stage.
  • unknown dates
    • The library journal Die Bucherei in Nazi Germany publishes guidelines for books to be removed from library shelves and destroyed: all those by Jewish authors, Marxist and pacifist literature, and anything critical of the state.[9]
    • The first published edition of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome), written in 1785, in a scholarly edition as a literary text, is completed.[10]
    • Fredric Warburg and Roger Senhouse retrieve the London publishers Martin Secker from receivership, as Secker & Warburg.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Non-fiction[]

  • Julian Bell, ed. – We Did Not Fight: 1914–18 Experiences of War Resisters
  • M. C. Bradbrook – Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy
  • William Henry Chamberlin – Russia's Iron Age
  • Manuel Chaves Nogales – Juan Belmonte, matador de toros: su vida y sus hazañas (translated as Juan Belmonte, killer of bulls)
  • George Dangerfield – The Strange Death of Liberal England
  • Clarence Day – Life with Father
  • Dion Fortune – The Mystical Qabalah
  • Ernest Hemingway – Green Hills of Africa[24]
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh – North to the Orient
  • Merkantilt biografisk leksikon
  • Polish Biographical Dictionary (Polski słownik biograficzny)
  • Iris Origo – Allegra (biography of Byron's daughter)
  • Caroline Spurgeon – Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us
  • Nigel Tranter – The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400–1650
  • J. Dover Wilson – What Happens in Hamlet
  • Thomas Wright – The Life of Charles Dickens

Births[]

  • January 2 – David McKee, English children's writer and illustrator
  • January 8 – Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher, founded Lapham's Quarterly
  • January 14 – Labhshankar Thakar, Indian Gujarati language poet, playwright and story writer (died 2016)
  • January 18 – Jon Stallworthy, English poet and literary critic (died 2014)[25]
  • January 27 – D. M. Thomas, English novelist, poet and translator
  • January 28 – David Lodge, English novelist and academic
  • January 30 – Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (died 1984)[26]
  • January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), Japanese novelist and essayist[27]
  • February 18 – Janette Oke, Canadian author
  • February 22 – Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist (died 1989)
  • February 23 – Tom Murphy, Irish playwright (died 2018)
  • March 13
    • Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and writer (killed 2013)[28]
    • David Nobbs, English comedy writer (died 2015)[29]
  • March 23 – Barry Cryer, English comedy writer[30]
  • March 27 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian writer (died 2017)
  • March 31 – Judith Rossner, American novelist (died 2005)
  • April 4 – Michael Horovitz, German-born English poet and translator (died 2021)
  • April 6 – John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright (died 2020)[31]
  • April 14 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer on paranormal
  • April 15 – Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2010)[32]
  • April 26 – Patricia Reilly Giff, American author and educator
  • May 1 – Julian Mitchell, English playwright and screenwriter
  • May 2 – Lynda Lee-Potter, English columnist (died 2004)[33]
  • May 9 – Roger Hargreaves, English children's author and illustrator (died 1988)[34]
  • May 29 – André Brink, South African novelist (died 2015)
  • June 2 – Carol Shields, American-born writer (died 2003)[35]
  • June 4 – Shiao Yi, Taiwanese-American wuxia novelist (d. 2018)[36]
  • June 7 – Harry Crews, American author and playwright (died 2012)
  • June 24 – Pete Hamill, American journalist and author (died 2020)[37]
  • June 25
    • Corinne Chevallier, Algerian historian and novelist
    • Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, film producer and LGBT activist (died 2020).[38]
    • Fran Ross, African-American satirist (died 1985)
  • June 30 – Peter Achinstein, American philosopher[39]
  • July 11 – Günther von Lojewski, German journalist, television presenter and author
  • July 13 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian novelist and playwright
  • August 1 – Mohinder Pratap Chand, Urdu poet, writer and language advocate (died 2020)
  • August 15 – Régine Deforges, French dramatist, novelist and publisher (died 2014)[40]
  • August 21 – Yuri Entin, Soviet and Russian poet, lyricist and playwright
  • August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist[41]
  • September 5 – Ward Just, American novelist (died 2019)[42]
  • September 10 – Mary Oliver, American poet (died 2019)[43]
  • September 16 – Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
  • September 17 – Ken Kesey, American novelist (died 2001)[44]
  • October 7 – Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist and non-fiction writer[45]
  • November 7
    • Elvira Quintana, Spanish-Mexican actress, singer, and poet (died 1968)
    • Willibrordus S. Rendra, Indonesian dramatist, poet, activist, performer, actor and director (died 2009)
  • November 9 – Jerry Hopkins, American journalist and biographer (died 2018)
  • November 18
    • Sam Abrams, American poet
    • Rodney Hall, Australian author and poet
  • November 22 – Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist (died 2014)[46]
  • December 5 – Yevgeny Titarenko, Soviet writer (died 2018)
  • December 10 – Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司), Japanese avant-garde writer, film director and photographer (died 1983)
  • December 13 – Adélia Prado, Brazilian writer and poet
  • unknown date – Bahaa Taher, Egyptian writer

Deaths[]

Funeral cortege for Panait Istrati. Bucharest, April 1935

Awards[]

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