1933 in literature 1933 .Events , May 11, 1933May – Nazi book burnings take place in Germany by the German Student Union , principally of works by Jewish intellectuals, leading to an Exilliteratur . Although his novels are spared, Thomas Mann settles in Switzerland. Lion Feuchtwanger , on a lecture tour of the United States in January, has decided not to return to Germany; Bertolt Brecht has moved to Prague in February; and Alfred Döblin to Switzerland in March. May 16–17 – In the Soviet Union , Joseph Stalin orders the NKVD to "preserve but isolate" Osip Mandelstam , after having been informed of the "Stalin Epigram"; Mandelstam is then arrested. A protest by literary figures, including Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak , prompts Stalin to declare that he might "review the case". His admiration for Pasternak as a poetic genius is strengthened when the latter asks for a private meeting to discuss "life and death" — although he never grants it, he instructs the NKVD to "leave that cloud-dweller alone". June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape". July – Poedjangga Baroe , the Indonesian avant-garde literary magazine, is first published, by Armijn Pane , Amir Hamzah and Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana . October – The name Inklings , previously used by a disbanded undergraduate group, is taken by an informal literary discussion group of University of Oxford academics, including C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. October 8 – The General Union of Roma in Romania is set up by writer Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică, with Grigoraș Dinicu as honorary president; by 1934 , it publishes the Romani-language newspaper O Ròm , and books of Romani mythology , edited by Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor. December *Codex Sinaiticus sold by the Soviet Union to the British Museum Library through the agency of Maggs Bros Ltd at a price of £100,000, the highest ever paid for a book at this time. *Raymond Chandler's first short story, the detective fiction "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", is published in the magazine Black Mask in the United States. December 6 – In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses , U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not as a whole pornographic and therefore cannot not be obscene . Uncertain date Robert Walser, under treatment for schizophrenia since 1929 , is placed in a sanitarium in Herisau . This ends his work as a writer, though he will live until 1956 .New books Fiction Hervey Allen – Anthony Adverse Jorge Amado – Cacau Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie – When Worlds Collide Marjorie Bowen – The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales Pearl S. Buck *All Men Are Brothers *Sons Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the City of Gold Dino Buzzati – Bàrnabo delle montagne Erskine Caldwell – God's Little Acre John Dickson Carr – The Mad Hatter Mystery Leslie Charteris – Once More the Saint Agatha Christie *The Hound of Death *Lord Edgware Dies A. J. Cronin – Grand Canary Warwick Deeping – Two Black Sheep Mircea Eliade – Bengal Nights Guy Endore – The Werewolf of Paris Susan Ertz – The Proselyte Miles Franklin – Bring the Monkey Zona Gale – Papa La Fleur Erle Stanley Gardner – The Case of the Sulky Girl Matila Ghyka – Pluie d'étoiles Walter Greenwood – Love on the Dole Dashiell Hammett *The Thin Man *Woman In The Dark Robert Hichens – The Paradine Case James Hilton *Knight Without Armour *Lost Horizon Volter Kilpi – Alastalon salissa Pär Lagerkvist – :sv:Bödeln|Bödeln Alexander Lernet-Holenia – I Was Jack Mortimer Arthur Machen – The Green Round Compton Mackenzie – Water on the Brain Claude McKay – Banana Bottom André Malraux – Man's Fate Caroline Pafford Miller – Lamb in His Bosom Camil Petrescu – :ro:Patul lui Procust |Patul lui Procust Ellery Queen *The American Gun Mystery *The Siamese Twin Mystery Raymond Queneau – Le Chiendent Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – South Moon Under E. Arnot Robertson – Ordinary Families Dorothy L. Sayers *Hangman's Holiday *Murder Must Advertise Bruno Schulz – The Street of Crocodiles Nan Shepherd – A Pass in the Grampians Gertrude Stein – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Phoebe Atwood Taylor – The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players Angela Thirkell – High Rising Thomas F. Tweed – Rinehard: a melodrama of the nineteen-thirties S. S. Van Dine – The Kennel Murder Case Helen Waddell – Peter Abelard Hugh Walpole – Vanessa H. G. Wells – The Shape of Things to Come Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh Nathanael West – Miss Lonelyhearts Dennis Wheatley – The Forbidden Territory Antonia White – Frost in May Virginia Woolf – Children and young people Marjorie Flack – The Story about Ping Norman Hunter – The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm Erich Kästner – The Flying Classroom Elizabeth Foreman Lewis – Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Arthur Ransome – Winter Holiday Dorothy Wall – Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian Drama Tawfiq al-Hakim – Ahl el-Kahf Jean Anouilh – Mandarine Clifford Bax – The Rose Without a Thorn Ferdinand Bruckner – Die Rassen Gordon Daviot – Richard of Bordeaux Selli Engler – Heil Hitler Ian Hay – A Present from Margate Hanns Johst – Schlageter Sidney Kingsley – Men in White Federico García Lorca – Blood Wedding W. Somerset Maugham – Sheppey R.J. Minney – Clive of India Ivor Novello – Fresh Fields Eugene O'Neill – Ah, Wilderness! J. B. Priestley – Laburnum Grove Lennox Robinson – Drama at Inish Mordaunt Shairp – The Green Bay Tree John Van Druten – The Distaff Side Maxim Ziese – Siebenstein Poetry Edwin James Brady – Wardens of the Seas Benjamin Fondane – Ulysse Osip Mandelstam – "Stalin Epigram" Vita Sackville-West – Collected Poems Filip Shiroka – Zâni i zêmrës J. Slauerhoff – Soleares William Butler Yeats – The Winding Stair and Other PoemsNon-fiction Vera Brittain – Testament of Youth Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – Warum Krieg? Benjamin Fondane – Rimbaud le voyou Carl Jung – Modern Man in Search of a Soul Agnes Mure Mackenzie – An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714 George Orwell – Down and Out in Paris and London Wilhelm Reich – The Mass Psychology of Fascism Upton Sinclair – Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox Muiris Ó Súilleabháin – Fiche Bliain ag Fás Jun'ichirō Tanizaki – In Praise of Shadows Births January 1 – Joe Orton , English playwright January 2 – Seiichi Morimura , Japanese author January 4 – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , American children's and adult novelist January 9 – Wilbur Smith , South African historical novelist January 13 – Shahnon Ahmad , Malaysian writer and politician January 16 – Susan Sontag , American novelist January 25 – Alden Nowlan , Canadian poet and novelist February 1 – Reynolds Price , American novelist and literary scholar February 5 – B. S. Johnson, English novelist February 12 – Costa-Gavras , Greek-French film director and writer February 20 – Zamenga Batukezanga , Congolese francophone writer and philanthropist February 22 – Christopher Ondaatje , Ceylonese-born English travel writer, biographer and philanthropist February 27 – Edward Lucie-Smith , Jamaican-born English writer, critic and broadcaster March 17 – Penelope Lively , Egyptian-born English novelist March 18 – Sergio Pitol , Mexican fiction writer , translator and diplomat March 19 – Philip Roth , American novelist April 2 – György Konrád , Hungarian novelist, essayist, political dissident and President of PEN International April 7 – Cong Weixi , Chinese author April 14 – Boris Strugatsky , Russian sci-fi writer April 24 – Patricia Bosworth , American writer/biographer May 9 – Jessica Steele , English romance novelist May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford , English-born American novelist May 12 – Stephen Vizinczey , Hungarian-born writer May 29 – Edward Whittemore , American novelist June 9 – Vicente Leñero , Mexican novelist and playwright June 11 – Martti Soosaar , Estonian journalist and author June 20 – Claire Tomalin , English journalist and biographer June 30 – Mauricio Rosencof , Uruguayan playwright, poet and journalist July 2 – John Antrobus , English playwright and scriptwriter July 4 – David Littman , English historian July 10 – Kevin Gilbert , Australian writer and artist July 13 – David Storey , English novelist and playwright July 14 – Solange Fasquelle , French novelist July 20 – Cormac McCarthy , American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter July 21 – John Gardner , American writer August – Ko Un , South Korean poet August 9 – M. 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Vasudevan Nair, Indian Malayalam-language writer August 13 – Madhur Jaffrey , Indian actress and food writer August 16 – Tom Maschler , Austrian-born English literary publisher September 9 – Michael Novak , American philosopher and author September 19 – Gilles Archambault , French Canadian novelist October 11 – David Daniels , American visual poet October 24 – Norman Rush , American writer November 1 – Huub Oosterhuis , Dutch poet, theologian and liturgy reformer November 13 – Peter Härtling , German novelist and poet November 23 - Daniel Chavarría , Uruguayan writer and translator December 2 – Kent Andersson , Swedish dramatist December 31 – Edward Bunker , American crime novelist Uncertain date Jim Barnes, Native American poet and translatorDeaths January 11 – Hugo Zöller , German explorer and journalist January 21 – George Moore , Irish poet and novelist January 29 – Sara Teasdale , American poet January 31 – John Galsworthy , English novelist and dramatist February 20 – Takiji Kobayashi , Japanese writer April 5 – Earl Derr Biggers , American novelist and playwright April 19 – E. W. Hobson, English writer on mathematics April 29 – Constantine Cavafy , Greek Alexandrine poet April 30 – Anna de Noailles , French writer May 26 – Horatio Bottomley , English journalist and fraudster June 7 – Dragutin Domjanić , Croatian poet July 8 – Anthony Hope , English adventure novelist August 12 – Alexandru Philippide , Romanian linguist and polemicist September 20 – Annie Besant , English Theosophist writer September 23 – György Almásy , Hungarian travel writer September 25 *Ring Lardner, American writer *Pascal Poirier, Canadian historian October 30 – Herminie Templeton Kavanagh , Anglo-Irish-American short story writer November 12 – F. Holland Day, American publisher November 20 – Augustine Birrell , English politician and author November 28 – Minnie Earl Sears , American librarian November 30 – Annie Armitt , English novelist and poet December 4 – Stefan George , German poet and translator December 27 – Georgina Castle Smith , English children's writer Uncertain date Janet Milne Rae, Scottish novelistAwards 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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