1926 in literature


This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1926.

Events

Fiction


  • Dorothy Brandon – Blind Alley
  • Bertolt Brecht – Man Equals Man
  • Mikhail Bulgakov – Days of the Turbins
  • G. D. H. Cole – The Striker Stricken
  • St. John Greer Ervine – Anthony and Anna
  • J. B. Fagan – And So To Bed
  • Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – After Dark
  • John Galsworthy – Escape
  • Patrick Hastings – Scotch Mist
  • Zora Neale Hurston – Color Struck
  • Seán O'Casey – The Plough and the Stars
  • Ben Travers – Rookery Nook
  • Sergei Tretyakov – I Want a Baby

    Poetry

  • Mário de Andrade – Losango cáqui
  • Langston Hughes – The Weary Blues
  • Robert McAlmon – The Portrait of a Generation
  • Hugh MacDiarmid – A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
  • Dorothy Parker – Enough Rope
  • Vita Sackville-West – The Land

    Non-fiction

  • Germán List Arzubide – El movimiento estridentista
  • Angela Brazil – My Own Schooldays
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – The History of Spiritualism
  • T. E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • Otto Schmidt – Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  • R. H. Tawney – Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
  • Helen Thomas – As It Was
  • W. B. Yeats – Autobiographies
  • Paul Zarifopol – Din registrul ideilor gingașe
  • Alfred Eckhard Zimmern – The Third British Empire

    Births

  • January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet
  • January 12 – Shumon Miura, Japanese novelist
  • January 13 – Michael Bond, English fiction writer and creator of Paddington Bear
  • January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist
  • February 3 – Richard Yates, American novelist
  • February 20 – Richard Matheson, American science fiction writer
  • March 3 – James Merrill, American poet
  • March 24 – Dario Fo, Italian dramatist and actor
  • March 27 – Frank O'Hara, American poet
  • March 31 – John Fowles, English novelist
  • April 3 – Luís de Sttau Monteiro, Portuguese novelist and dramatist
  • April 13 – Egon Wolff, Chilean dramatist
  • April 23
  • *J. P. Donleavy, Irish American novelist
  • *Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist and children's writer
  • April 28 – Harper Lee, American novelist
  • May 15 – English twins
  • *Anthony Shaffer, dramatist and screenwriter
  • *Peter Shaffer, dramatist
  • May 21 – Robert Creeley, American author
  • June 3 – Allen Ginsberg, American Beat Generation poet
  • June 13
  • *Kanam EJ, Malayalam novelist and lyricist
  • *Dalmiro Sáenz, Argentinian writer
  • June 19 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher
  • July 7 – Spencer Holst, American writer and storyteller
  • July 11 – Frederick Buechner, American author and minister
  • July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings, English poet
  • August 12 – Wallace Markfield, American comic novelist
  • August 14
  • *Alice Adams, American short story writer
  • *René Goscinny, French writer and co-creator of Astérix
  • September 6 – Clancy Sigal, American writer
  • September 14 – Michel Butor, French writer
  • October 2 – Jan Morris, born James Morris, Welsh historian and travel writer
  • October 15 – Evan Hunter, American author and screenwriter
  • November 5 – John Berger, English art critic and novelist
  • November 11
  • *José Manuel Caballero, Spanish novelist and poet
  • *Harold Perkin, English social historian
  • November 19 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright
  • November 20 – John Gardner, English thriller writer
  • November 25 – Poul Anderson, American science fiction writer
  • December 23 – Robert Bly, American writer

    Deaths

  • January 14
  • *René Boylesve, French author
  • *August Sedláček, Czech historian
  • January 26 – Bucura Dumbravă, Romanian novelist and spiritualist
  • February 1 – Ishibashi Ningetsu, Japanese author and critic
  • February 6 – Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin, German theologian
  • February 12 – Radu Rosetti, Romanian politician, historical novelist and memoirist
  • March 3 – Sir Sidney Lee, English biographer
  • May 9 – J. M. Dent, English publisher
  • May 21 – Ronald Firbank, English novelist
  • May 26 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian Expressionist poet
  • July 8 – Karel Václav Rais, Czech realist novelist
  • July 11 – Fran Detela, Slovenian academic and writer
  • July 19 – Ada Cambridge, English/Australian writer and poet
  • August 1 – Israel Zangwill, English poet
  • October 5 – Javier de Viana, Uruguayan writer
  • October 9 – Helena Nyblom, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
  • October 11 – Albert Robida, French illustrator and novelist
  • November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, Russian memoirist
  • December 8 – Sarah Doudney, English novelist, children's writer and hymnist
  • December 12 – Jean Richepin, French poet, dramatist and novelist
  • December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet

    Awards

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Herbert Brook Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Grazia Deledda
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George Kelly, Craig's Wife
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
  • Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
  • Blindman International Poetry Prize: Ruth Manning-Sanders, The City