1933 in literature

1933 in literature

The year 1933 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* February 17 - The magazine "Newsweek" is published for the first time.
* James Joyce's "Ulysses" is allowed into United States.

New books

*Hervey Allen - "Anthony Adverse"
*Jorge Amado - "Cacau" ("Cacao")
*Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie - "When Worlds Collide"
*Marjorie Bowen - ""
*Pearl S. Buck - "Sons"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "Tarzan and the City of Gold"
*Erskine Caldwell - "God's Little Acre"
*Leslie Charteris - "Once More the Saint" (a.k.a. "The Saint and Mr. Teal")
*Agatha Christie - "The Hound of Death"
*A. J. Cronin - "Grand Canary"
*Guy Endore - "The Werewolf of Paris"
*Zona Gale - "Papa La Fleur"
*Erle Stanley Gardner - "The Case of the Sulky Girl"
*Walter Greenwood - "Love on the Dole"
*Dashiell Hammett
**"The Thin Man"
**"Woman In The Dark"
*James Hilton - "Lost Horizon"
*Volter Kilpi - "Alastalon salissa"
*Elizabeth Foreman Lewis - "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze"
*Arthur Machen - "The Green Round"
*Claude McKay - "Banana Bottom"
*Andre Malraux - "Man's Fate"
*Ellery Queen
**"The American Gun Mystery"
**"The Siamese Twin Mystery"
*Raymond Queneau - "Le Chiendent"
*Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - "South Moon Under"
*Gertrude Stein - "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
*S. S. Van Dine - "The Kennel Murder Case"
*Hugh Walpole - "Vanessa"
*H. G. Wells - "The Shape of Things to Come"
*Franz Werfel - "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh"
*Antonia White - "Frost in May"
*Virginia Woolf - ""

New drama

*Jean Anouilh - "Mandarine"
*Ferdinand Bruckner - "Die Rassen"
*Eugene O'Neill - "Ah, Wilderness!"
*Jay Tobias - "Everybody's Crazy"

Poetry

*Edwin James Brady - "Wardens of the Seas"
*Filip Shiroka - "Zâni i zêmrës"
*William Butler Yeats - "The Winding Stair and Other Poems"

Non-fiction

*Vera Brittain - "Testament of Youth"
*George Orwell - "Down and Out in Paris and London"
*Helen Waddell - "Peter Abelard"
*Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - "In Praise of Shadows"

Births

* January 9 - Wilbur Smith, novelist
* January 16 - Susan Sontag, author (+ 2004)
* February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
* March 17 - Penelope Lively, novelist
* April 14 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer
* May 5 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, blockbuster author
* May 29 - Edward Whittemore, writer
* September 19 - Gilles Archambault, "Québécois" novelist
* November 13 - Peter Härtling, German writer
* December 31 - Edward Bunker, crime novelist

Deaths

* January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist
* January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
* January 31 - John Galsworthy, writer
* April 5 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer
* April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
* April 30 - Anne de Noailles, French writer
* May 26 - Horatio Bottomley, journalist and fraudster
* July 8 - Anthony Hope
* September 20 - Annie Besant, Theosophist writer
* September 25 - Ring Lardner, writer
* September 25 - Pascal Poirier, historian
* November 12 - F. Holland Day, publisher
* November 20 - Augustine Birrell, politician and author
* December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator

Awards

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: A. G. Macdonell, "England, Their England"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Violet Clifton, "The Book of Talbot"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze"
* Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, "Both Your Houses"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: "Conquistador"
* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling - "The Store"


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