1930 in literature

The year 1930 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*July 14 - Luigi Pirandello's "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth" becomes the first-ever broadcast television drama.
*November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
*John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
*A Boston, Massachusetts court bans Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy" (1925) as "obscene".

New books

*Vicki Baum - "Grand Hotel"
*Pearl S. Buck - ""
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "Tarzan at the Earth's Core"
*Morley Callaghan - "It's Never Over"
*Gabriel Chevallier - "La Peur"
*Agatha Christie - "The Mysterious Mr. Quin"
*John Dos Passos - "The 42nd Parallel"
*William Faulkner - "As I Lay Dying"
*Rachel Field - "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years"
*Zona Gale - "Bridal Pond"
*Dashiell Hammett - "The Maltese Falcon"
*Hermann Hesse - "Narcissus and Goldmund"
*Georgette Heyer - "Powder and Patch"
*Sydney Horler - "Checkmate"
*Langston Hughes - "Not Without Laughter"
*Carolyn Keene - "The Secret of the Old Clock"
*Oliver La Farge - "Laughing Boy"
*W. Somerset Maugham - "Cakes and Ale"
*André Malraux - "The Royal Way" ("La Voie Royale")
*André Maurois - "Fattypuffs and Thinifers" ("Patapoufs et Filifers")
*George A. Moore
**"Aphrodite in Aulis"
**"A Flood"
*Vladimir Nabokov
**"The Defense"
**"The Eye"
*Irène Némirovsky - "Le Bal"
*Camil Petrescu - "Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război" ("The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War")
*Watty Piper - "The Little Engine That Could"
*J. B. Priestley - "Angel Pavement"
*Ellery Queen - "The French Powder Mystery"
*Elizabeth Madox Roberts - "The Great Meadow"
*Upton Sinclair - "Mental Radio"
*Olaf Stapledon - "Last and First Men"
*Miguel de Unamuno - "San Manuel Bueno, Mártir"
*Hugh Walpole - "Rogue Herries"
*Evelyn Waugh - "Vile Bodies"
*Thornton Wilder - "The Woman of Andros"
*Philip Gordon Wylie - "Gladiator"

New drama

*Antoine Bibesco - "Ladies All"
*Bertolt Brecht - "The Decision"
*Ferdinand Bruckner - "Elisabeth of England"
*Marc Connelly - "The Green Pastures"
*Noel Coward - "Private Lives"
*Geoffrey Kerr - "London Calling"
*Federico García Lorca - "The Public" and "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife"

Poetry

*Richard Church -"The Glance Backward"
*Viola Meynell - "The Frozen Ocean"

Non-fiction

*Muhammad Iqbal - "The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam"
*Edouard de Pomiane - "Cuisine en dix minutes"
*W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman - "1066 and All That"
*Owen Wister - ""

Births

* January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
* February 17 - Ruth Rendell, writer
* March 8 - Douglas Hurd, politician and novelist
* July 15 - Jacques Derrida, literary critic (d. 2004)
* August 17 - Ted Hughes, poet (+ 1998)
* September 25 - Shel Silverstein, poet (d. 1999)
* October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
* November 1 - A. R. Gurney, dramatist
* November 5 - Clifford Irving, literary forger
* November 18 - J. G. Ballard, author

Deaths

* February 27 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
* March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet
* March 12 - Alois Jirásek, novelist and dramatist
* April 21 - Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate
* May 17 - Herbert Croly, political writer
* June 9 - Arthur St. John Adcock, novelist
* July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
* August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, originator of the "spoonerism"
*"date unknown" - Sigurd Ibsen, politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen

Awards

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: E. H. Young, "Miss Mole"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Francis Yeats-Brown, "Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years"
* Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, " The Green Pastures"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: "Selected Poems"
* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver La Farge - "Laughing Boy"