- 1922 in literature
The year 1922 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Under the current U.S. copyright law, all works published before
January 1 ,1923 with a propercopyright notice entered thepublic domain no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier are now in the public domain.Events
*The first
Newbery Medal is awarded to authors of distinguished books for children.
*T. S. Eliot founds "Criterion" magazine.
*"Ulysses" byJames Joyce is published.New books
*
Ernest Bramah - "Kai Lung's Golden Hours "
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "At the Earth's Core"
*Karel Čapek
**"The Absolute at Large "
**"Krakatit"
*Willa Cather - "One of Ours "
*Colette - "La Maison de Claudine"
*Richmal Crompton - "Just William "
*Aleister Crowley - "Diary of a Drug Fiend "
*E.E. Cummings - "The Enormous Room "
*E. R. Eddison - "The Worm Ouroboros "
*F. Scott Fitzgerald - "The Beautiful and Damned "
*David Garnett - "Lady into Fox "
*Hermann Hesse - "Siddhartha"
*James Joyce - "Ulysses"
*Sinclair Lewis - "Babbitt"
*Victor Margueritte - "La Garçonne" (English translation "The Bachelor Girl", 1923)
*W. Somerset Maugham - "On a Chinese Screen"
*A. A. Milne - "The Red House Mystery "
*Baroness Orczy
**"The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel "
**"Nicolette: A Tale of Old Provence"
*Boris Pilnyak - "The Naked Year"
*Ernest Raymond - "Tell England "
*Rafael Sabatini - "Captain Blood"
*May Sinclair - "Life and Death of Harriett Frean"
*Sigrid Undset - "The Cross"
*Carl Van Vechten "Peter Whiffle"
*Elizabeth Von Arnim - "Enchanted April "
*Margery Williams - "The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real"
*Virginia Woolf - "Jacob's Room "New drama
*
Karel Čapek - "The Makropulos Affair "
*Eugene O'Neill - "The Hairy Ape "
*Ben Travers - "The Dippers"Poetry
*
Mário de Andrade - "Paulicéia Desvairada " ("Hallucinated City")
*T. S. Eliot - "The Waste Land "
*A. E. Housman - "Last Poems "
*Birger Sjöberg - "Fridas Bok"
*César Vallejo - "Trilce"Non-fiction
*
E. E. Cummings - "The Enormous Room "
*James George Frazer - "The Golden Bough "
*T. E. Lawrence - "Seven Pillars of Wisdom " (private edition)
*Walter Lippmann - "Public Opinion "
*Hans Prinzhorn - "Artistry of the Mentally Ill "
*Hendrik Willem van Loon - "The Story of Mankind "
*Ludwig Wittgenstein - "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus "Births
*
January 23 -Vernon Scannell , British poet (d. 2007)
*February 6 -Denis Norden , English comedy writer
*February 18 -Helen Gurley Brown , American editor & publisher
*March 12 -Jack Kerouac , American author of "On the Road " (d. 1969)
*March 27 -Dick King-Smith , English children's author
*April 13 -John Braine , English novelist (d. 1986)
*April 16 -Kingsley Amis , English novelist (d. 1995)
*April 28 -Alistair MacLean , Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
*May 6 -Alan Ross , British poet & editor (d. 2001)
*May 27 -Sidney Keyes , English poet (d. 1943)
*May 30 - Hal Clement, American science fiction writer (d. 2003)
*June 11 -Erving Goffman , Canadian sociologist (d. 1982)
*June 29 -Vasko Popa , Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
*July 12 -Michael Ventris , English translator (d. 1956)
*July 17 -Donald Davie , English poet (d. 1995)
*August 9 -Philip Larkin , English poet (d. 1985)
*August 18 -Alain Robbe-Grillet , French novelist (d. 2008)
*September 12 -Jackson Mac Low , American poet (d. 2004)
*November 11 -Kurt Vonnegut , American novelist (d. 2007)
*November 16 -José Saramago , Portuguese writer
*December 29 -William Gaddis , American novelist (d. 1998)Deaths
*
January 12 -Thomas Gibson Bowles , founder of "The Lady" & "Vanity Fair" (b. 1841)
*January 27 -Nellie Bly , American journalist (b. 1864)
*February 3 -John Butler Yeats , Irish poet (b. 1839)
*June 12 -Wolfgang Kapp , Prussian journalist (b. 1858)
*June 28 -Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian writer (b. 1885)
*July 8 -Mori Ōgai , Japanese novelist & poet (b. 1862)
*August 14 -Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe , newspaper proprietor (b. 1865)
*August 29 -Georges Sorel , French philosopher (b. 1847)
*September 2 -Henry Lawson , Australian poet (b. 1867)
*September 10 -Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , English poet (b. 1840)
*October 30 -Géza Gárdonyi , Hungarian historical novelist (b. 1863)
*November 18 -Marcel Proust , French author (b. 1871)
*November 24 -Robert Erskine Childers , Irish historian & novelist (b. 1870)
*November 27 -Alice Meynell , English poet (b. 1847)
*December 13 -Hannes Hafstein , Icelandic poet & prime minister (b. 1861)
*"date unknown"
**Berthold Delbrück , German linguist (b. 1842)
**Edward George Honey , Australian journalist (b. 1885)
**Ehrman Syme Nadal , American author (b. 1843)Awards
*
Hawthornden Prize for poetry:Edmund Blunden
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:David Garnett , "Lady into Fox "
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Percy Lubbock , "Earlham"
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Hendrik Willem van Loon , "The Story of Mankind "
*Nobel Prize for Literature :Jacinto Benavente
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama :Eugene O'Neill , "Anna Christie "
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Edwin Arlington Robinson : "Collected Poems"
*Pulitzer Prize for the Novel :Booth Tarkington - "Alice Adams"
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