1929 in literature

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The year 1929 in literature involved some significant events and new books.i love symone and she is so cool

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Candide by Voltaire is declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is banned in the USSR because of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's interest in the occult.
George Orwell returns to the UK after living in Paris.
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir meet for the first time at the École Normale.
Ellery Queen publishes his first mystery novel.

New books

Richard Aldington - Death of a Hero
Hamilton Basso - Relics and Angels
Anthony Berkeley - The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Mary Borden - The Forbidden Zone
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Lost Empire
Mateiu Caragiale - Craii de Curtea-Veche
Jean Cocteau - Les Enfants Terribles
Colette - Sido
Aleister Crowley - The Stratagem and other Stories
Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Lloyd C. Douglas - Magnificent Obsession
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Maracot Deep
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Jessie Redmon Fauset - Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Edna Ferber - Cimarron
C. S. Forester - Brown on Resolution
Zona Gale - Borgia
Rómulo Gallegos - Doña Bárbara
Floyd Gibbons - The Red Napoleon
Henry Green - Living
Julien Green - The Dark Journey
Dashiell Hammett
- The Dain Curse
- Red Harvest
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica
Anna Kavan - A Charmed Circle
Eric P. Kelly - The Trumpeter of Krakow
Oliver La Forge - Laughing Boy
Nella Larsen - Passing
Sinclair Lewis - Dodsworth
Claude McKay - Banjo
Alberto Moravia - Gli indifferenti (Time of Indifference)
Leopold Myers - The Near and the Far
Katherine Anne Porter - Flowering Judas
Ellery Queen - The Roman Hat Mystery
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
Elmer Rice - Street Scene
O. E. Rolvaag - Peder Victorious
John Steinbeck - Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference to History
Wallace Thurman - The Blacker the Berry
Sigrid Undset - In the Wilderness
S. S. Van Dine - The Scarab Murder Case
Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel

New drama

Patrick Hamilton - Rope
Kaj Munk - I Brændingen
Stanisława Przybyszewska - The Danton Case
Elmer Rice - Street Scene
George Bernard Shaw - The Apple Cart

Poetry

Robinson Jeffers - Dear Judas and Other Poems

Non-fiction

Ada Boni - Il talismano della felicità (The Talisman of Happiness)
G. K. Chesterton - The Everlasting Man
Mahatma Gandhi - The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That
Walter Lippmann - A Preface to Morals
A. A. Milne - Those Were the Days
Alice Prin - Kiki's Memoirs
Various authors - Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress: essays in support of James Joyce
E. B. White & James Thurber - Is Sex Necessary?
Alfred North Whitehead - Process and Reality
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

Births

January 26 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist & writer
February 17 - Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)
February 18 - Len Deighton, British novelist
April 1 - Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist
June 11 - George Garrett, American poet & novelist (d. 2008)
July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
August 18 - Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist (d. 1979)
August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet & translator
August 27 - Ira Levin, American novelist & playwright (d. 2007)
August 29 - Thom Gunn, Anglo-American poet (d. 2004)
November 13 - Theo Aronson, British biographer (d. 2003)
December 12 - John Osborne, English playwright & screenwriter (d. 1994)
December 16 - James Moore, Cornish author
December 19 - Howard Sackler, American dramatist & screenwriter (d. 1982)
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- Steve Carter, American playwright

Deaths

March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, lyricist of "America the Beautiful" (b. 1859)
April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian & poet (b. 1864)
April 21 - Lucy Clifford, British novelist (b. 1846)
June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
June 22 - Alfred Brunswig, German philosopher (b. 1877)
June 25 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist & novelist (b. 1858)
July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist & poet (b. 1874)
July 31 - José de Castro, Portuguese journalist (b. 1868)
date unknown
- Max Lehmann, German historian (b. 1845)
- Hans Prutz, German historian (b. 1843)
- Grace Rhys, Irish novelist & poet (b. 1865)
- Dallas Lore Sharp, American nature writer (b. 1870)

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
Newdigate prize: Phyllis Hartnoll
Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
O. Henry Award: Dorothy Parker for Big Blonde (short story)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét: John Brown's Body
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary

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