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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1935.
Contents
1 Events
2 New books
2.1 Fiction
2.2 Children and young people
2.3 Drama
2.4 Poetry
2.5 Non-fiction
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
6 In literature
7 References
Events
- March – London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in the north of England for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel Boy.
May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, returning to his home at Clouds Hill in England, he has an accident with his Brough Superior motorcycle and dies six days later. Having left the British Royal Air Force in March, he would have posted a parcel of books to his friend A. E. "Jock" Chambers[1] and sent a telegram inviting novelist Henry Williamson to lunch.[2] On July 29 his Seven Pillars of Wisdom is first published in an edition for general circulation.
June 15
W. H. Auden enters into a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.[3]
T. S. Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral receives its première at Canterbury Cathedral in England.
July 30 – Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass-market paperbacks in Britain.[4][5]
August 27 – The Federal Theatre Project is established in the United States.
September 5 – Michael Joseph is founded as a publisher in London.[6]
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 with Sir Seymour Hicks reprising the title rôle which he has performed for several decades in stage adaptations.- In Nazi Germany, the library journal Die Bucherei publishes guidelines for books to be removed from library shelves and disposed of: all those by Jewish authors, Marxist and pacifist literature, and anything critical of the state.
- The Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome), written in 1785, concludes its first publication in a scholarly edition as a literary text.
Fredric Warburg and Roger Senhouse take the London publishing firm of Martin Secker out of receivership as Secker & Warburg.
New books
Fiction
Nelson Algren – Somebody in Boots
Mulk Raj Anand – Untouchable
Enid Bagnold – National Velvet
Jorge Luis Borges – A Universal History of Infamy (Historia universal de la infamia, collected short stories)
Elizabeth Bowen – The House in Paris
Pearl S. Buck – A House Divided
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Leopard Men
Dino Buzzati – Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio
Erskine Caldwell – Journeyman
Morley Callaghan – They Shall Inherit the Earth
Elias Canetti – Die Blendung
John Dickson Carr- Death-Watch
The Hollow Man (also The Three Coffins)
The Red Widow Murders (as Carter Dickson)
The Unicorn Murders (as Carter Dickson)
Agatha Christie- Three Act Tragedy
- Death in the Clouds
Solomon Cleaver – Jean Val Jean
Robert P. Tristram Coffin – Red Sky in the Morning
Jack Conroy – A World to Win
A. J. Cronin – The Stars Look Down
H. L. Davis – Honey in the Horn
Franklin W. Dixon – The Hidden Harbor Mystery
Lawrence Durrell – Pied Piper of Lovers
E. R. Eddison – Mistress of Mistresses
Susan Ertz- Now We Set Out
- Woman Alive, But Now Dead
James T. Farrell – Studs Lonigan – A Trilogy
Rachel Field – Time Out of Mind
Charles G. Finney – The Circus of Dr. Lao
Graham Greene – England Made Me
George Wylie Henderson – Ollie Miss
Harold Heslop – Last Cage Down
Georgette Heyer- Death in the Stocks
- Regency Buck
Christopher Isherwood – Mr Norris Changes Trains
Pamela Hansford Johnson – This Bed Thy Centre
Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson) – A Stranger Still
Sinclair Lewis – It Can't Happen Here
August Mälk – Õitsev Meri ("The Flowering Sea")
André Malraux – Le Temps du mépris
Ngaio Marsh – Enter a Murderer
John Masefield – The Box of Delights
Naomi Mitchison – We Have Been Warned
Alberto Moravia – Le ambizioni sbagliate
R. K. Narayan – Swami and Friends
John O'Hara – BUtterfield 8
George Orwell – A Clergyman's Daughter
Ellery Queen- The Spanish Cape Mystery
- The Lamp of God
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz – When the Mountain Fell
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – Golden Apples
Ernest Raymond – We, The Accused
Herbert Read – The Green Child
George Santayana – The Last Puritan
Dorothy L. Sayers – Gaudy Night
Monica Shannon – Dobry
Eleanor Smith – Tzigane
John Steinbeck – Tortilla Flat
Rex Stout – The League of Frightened Men
Alan Sullivan – The Great Divide
Phoebe Atwood Taylor- Deathblow Hill
- The Tinkling Symbol
A. A. Thomson – The Exquisite Burden (autobiographical novel)
B. Traven – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
S. S. Van Dine – The Garden Murder Case
Stanley G. Weinbaum – The Lotus Eaters
P. G. Wodehouse – Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (short stories)
Xiao Hong (蕭紅) – The Field of Life and Death (生死场, Shēng sǐ chǎng)
Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治) – Musashi (宮本武蔵, Miyamoto Musashi)
Yumeno Kyūsaku (夢野 久作) – Dogra Magra (ドグラマグラ)
Children and young people
Enid Bagnold – National Velvet
Louise Andrews Kent – He went with Marco Polo: A Story of Venice and Cathay (first of seven in "He went with" series)
John Masefield – The Box of Delights
Kate Seredy – The Good Master
Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie
Drama
J. R. Ackerley – The Prisoners of War
Maxwell Anderson – Winterset
T. S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
Federico García Lorca – Doña Rosita the Spinster (Doña Rosita la soltera)
Jean Giraudoux – The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu)
Anthony Kimmins – Chase the Ace
Archibald MacLeish – Panic
Clifford Odets – Waiting for Lefty
Lawrence Riley – Personal Appearance
Dodie Smith – Call It a Day
Emlyn Williams – Night Must Fall
Poetry
- See 1935 in poetry
Non-fiction
Julian Bell, ed. – We Did Not Fight: 1914–18 Experiences of War Resisters
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
Carl Gustav Jung – Dream Symbols of the Process of Individuation.
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- Thomas Wright – The Life of Charles Dickens
Births
January 2 – David McKee, English children's writer and illustrator
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)
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)
January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), Japanese novelist and essayist
February 18 – Janette Oke, Canadian author
February 23 – Tom Murphy, Irish playwright (died 2018)
March 13
Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and writer (killed 2013)
David Nobbs, English comedy writer (died 2015)
March 23 – Barry Cryer, English comedy writer
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
April 6 – John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright
April 14 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer on paranormal
April 15 – Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2010)
May 1 – Julian Mitchell, English playwright and screenwriter
May 2 – Lynda Lee-Potter, English columnist (died 2004)
May 29 – André Brink, South African novelist (died 2015)
June 7 – Harry Crews, American author and playwright (died 2012)
June 25 – Fran Ross, African American satirist (died 1985)
July 13 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian novelist and playwright
August 15 – Régine Deforges, French dramatist, novelist and publisher (died 2014)
August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist
September 10 – Mary Oliver, American poet (died 2018)
September 16 – Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
September 17 – Ken Kesey, American novelist (died 2001)
October 7 – Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist and non-fiction writer
November 18 – Rodney Hall, Australian author and poet
November 22 – Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist (died 2014)
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
Deaths
February 7 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish novelist (peritonitis, born 1901)
February 13 – Ioan Bianu, Romanian librarian, bibliographer and linguist (uremia, born 1856 or 1857)
February 28 – Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥), Japanese writer (born 1859)
April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (born 1869)
April 11 – Anna Katharine Green, American crime writer (born 1846)
April 16 – Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist, short story writer and political essayist (tuberculosis, born 1884)
May 19 – T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), English historian and memoirist (motorcycle accident, born 1888)
August 11 – Sir William Watson, English poet (born 1858)
August 17 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American novelist (born 1860)
August 30 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (pneumonia, born 1873)
September 29 – Winifred Holtby, English novelist (Bright's disease, born 1898)
October 11 – Steele Rudd, Australian short story writer (born 1868)
November 30 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, philosopher and critic (cirrhosis, born 1888)
December 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (born 1856)
December 21 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (drug overdose, born 1890)[7]
December 28 – Clarence Day, American writer (born 1874)
Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers, Thomas More
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, Dobry
Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoë Akins, The Old Maid
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson – Now in November
In literature
March 23 – Francis Rattenbury is murdered in Bournemouth, inspiring the stage plays Cause Célèbre (1977) by Terence Rattigan and Molly (1978) by Simon Gray.
References
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