1935 in literature


This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1935.

Events

Uncertain dates

Fiction


  • J. R. Ackerley – The Prisoners of War
  • Maxwell Anderson – Winterset
  • T. S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
  • Federico García Lorca – Doña Rosita the Spinster
  • Norman Ginsbury – Viceroy Sarah
  • Jean Giraudoux – The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
  • Walter C. Hackett – Espionage
  • N.C. Hunter – All Rights Reserved
  • Anthony Kimmins – Chase the Ace
  • Archibald MacLeish – Panic
  • Bernard Merivale – The Unguarded Hour
  • Clifford Odets – Waiting for Lefty
  • Lawrence Riley – Personal Appearance
  • Dodie Smith – Call It a Day
  • John Van Druten – Most of the Game
  • Emlyn Williams – Night Must Fall

    Poetry

  • See 1935 in poetry

    Non-fiction

  • Julian Bell, ed. – We Did Not Fight: 1914–18 Experiences of War Resisters
  • M. C. Bradbrook – Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy
  • William Henry Chamberlin – Russia's Iron Age
  • Manuel Chaves Nogales – Juan Belmonte, matador de toros: su vida y sus hazañas
  • George Dangerfield – The Strange Death of Liberal England
  • Clarence Day – Life with Father
  • Dion Fortune – The Mystical Qabalah
  • Ernest Hemingway – Green Hills of Africa
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh – North to the Orient
  • Merkantilt biografisk leksikon
  • Polish Biographical Dictionary
  • Iris Origo – Allegra
  • Caroline Spurgeon – Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us
  • Nigel Tranter – The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400–1650
  • J. Dover Wilson – What Happens in Hamlet
  • Thomas Wright – The Life of Charles Dickens

    Births

  • January 2 – David McKee, English children's writer and illustrator
  • January 14 – Labhshankar Thakar, Indian Gujarati language poet, playwright and story writer
  • January 18 – Jon Stallworthy, English poet and literary critic
  • January 27 – D. M. Thomas, English novelist, poet and translator
  • January 28 – David Lodge, English novelist and academic
  • January 30 – Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet
  • January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese novelist and essayist
  • February 18 – Janette Oke, Canadian author
  • February 23 – Tom Murphy, Irish playwright
  • March 13
  • *Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and writer
  • *David Nobbs, English comedy writer
  • March 23 – Barry Cryer, English comedy writer
  • March 27 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian writer
  • March 31 – Judith Rossner, American novelist
  • April 4 – Michael Horovitz, German-born English poet and translator
  • April 6 – John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright
  • April 14 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer on paranormal
  • April 15 – Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter
  • May 1 – Julian Mitchell, English playwright and screenwriter
  • May 2 – Lynda Lee-Potter, English columnist
  • May 29 – André Brink, South African novelist
  • June 4 – Shiao Yi, Taiwanese-American wuxia novelist
  • June 7 – Harry Crews, American author and playwright
  • June 25
  • *Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, film producer and LGBT activist
  • *Fran Ross, African American satirist
  • July 13 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian novelist and playwright
  • August 15 – Régine Deforges, French dramatist, novelist and publisher
  • August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist
  • September 10 – Mary Oliver, American poet
  • September 16 – Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
  • September 17 – Ken Kesey, American novelist
  • October 7 – Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist and non-fiction writer
  • November 7
  • *Elvira Quintana, Spanish-Mexican actress, singer, and poet
  • *Willibrordus S. Rendra, Indonesian dramatist, poet, activist, performer, actor and director
  • November 18
  • *Sam Abrams, American poet
  • *Rodney Hall, Australian author and poet
  • November 22 – Hugh C. Rae, Scottish novelist
  • December 5 – Yevgeny Titarenko, Soviet writer
  • December 10 – Shūji Terayama, Japanese avant-garde writer, film director and photographer
  • December 13 – Adélia Prado, Brazilian writer and poet

    Deaths

  • February 7 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish novelist
  • February 13 – Ioan Bianu, Romanian librarian, bibliographer and linguist
  • February 28 – Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese writer
  • April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet
  • April 11 – Anna Katharine Green, American crime writer
  • April 16 – Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist, short story writer and political essayist
  • May 19 – T. E. Lawrence, English historian and memoirist
  • August 11 – Sir William Watson, English poet
  • August 17 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American novelist
  • August 30 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
  • September 29 – Winifred Holtby, English novelist
  • October 11 – Steele Rudd, Australian short story writer
  • November 30 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, philosopher and critic
  • December 17 – Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet
  • December 21 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
  • December 28 – Clarence Day, American writer

    Awards

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. W. Chambers, Thomas More
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, Dobry
  • Nobel Prize in literature: not awarded
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoë Akins, The Old Maid
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush
  • Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

    In literature

  • March 23 – Francis Rattenbury is murdered in Bournemouth, inspiring the stage plays Cause Célèbre by Terence Rattigan and Molly by Simon Gray.
  • According to Anthony Burgess's novel Earthly Powers, this year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the fictional writer Jakob Strehler.