1936 in literature 1936 .Events January 8 – Jewish booksellers throughout Nazi Germany are deprived of their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one can sell books. May – The Greek poet and Communist activist Yiannis Ritsos is inspired to write his poem Epitaphios by a photograph of a dead protester at a massive tobacco workers' demonstration in Thessaloniki. It is published soon after. In August, the right-wing dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas comes to power in Greece and copies are burned publicly at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens. May 16–17 – About 30 left-wing writers of the Second Polish Republic gather at the Lviv Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Workers . August 3 – George Heywood Hill establishes the Heywood Hill bookshop in London's Mayfair . August 18 – The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca , is arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror and never seen alive again. His brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, is shot on the same day. Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba , completed on June 19, will not be performed until 1945 . November 6 – After United States publication in 1934 , the U.K. authorities decide they will not prosecute or seize copies of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses . November 23 – Life Henry Luce . Uncertain dates Fiction Felipe Alfau – Locos: A Comedy of Gestures Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana – Layar Terkembang Jorge Amado – Sea of Death Eric Ambler – The Dark Frontier Arturo Ambrogi – El Jetón Nigel Balchin – Lightbody on Liberty Djuna Barnes – Nightwood Henry Bellamann – The Gray Man Walks Stephen Vincent Benét – "The Devil and Daniel Webster" Georges Bernanos – The Diary of a Country Priest Arna Bontemps – Black Thunder Mary Borden - Action for Slander Carol Ryrie Brink – Caddie Woodlawn Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan's Quest James M. Cain – Double Indemnity Morley Callaghan – Now that April's Here and Other Stories Karel Čapek – War with the Newts John Dickson Carr *The Arabian Nights Murder *The Punch and Judy Murders Willa Cather – Not Under Forty Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Death on the Installment Plan Peter Cheyney – This Man is Dangerous Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot novels *The A. B. C. Murders *Cards on the Table *Murder in Mesopotamia Robert P. Tristram Coffin – John Dawn Carmen de Icaza - Cristina Guzmán Henry de Montherlant - Les Jeunes Filles John Dos Passos – The Big Money William Pène du Bois – Otto at Sea Daphne du Maurier – Jamaica Inn Walter D. Edmonds – Drums Along the Mohawk Mircea Eliade – Miss Christina William Faulkner – Absalom, Absalom! Margaret Flint – The Old Ashburn Place Gilbert Frankau – Farewell Romance Konstantine Gamsakhurdia – Stealing the Moon Jean Giono – Joy of Man's Desiring Graham Greene – A Gun for Sale Winifred Holtby – South Riding Aldous Huxley – Eyeless in Gaza Michael Innes – Death at the President’s Lodging C. L. R. James – Minty Alley Mikheil Javakhishvili – A Woman's Burden Storm Jameson *None Turn Back *In the Second Year Arthur Joseph – Dark Metropolis Leo Kiacheli – Gvadi Bigva Jonathan Latimer – The Lady in the Morgue Jean de La Varende – Leather-Nose Haniel Long – Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca Clare Boothe Luce – The Women Andrew Lytle – The Long Night Compton Mackenzie – Figure of Eight Klaus Mann – Mephisto A. E. W. Mason – Fire Over England Henry Miller – Black Spring Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind Naomi Mitchison – The Fourth Pig John A. Moroso – Nobody's Buddy Anaïs Nin – House of Incest George Orwell – Keep the Aspidistra Flying John Cowper Powys – Maiden Castle Premchand – Godaan Ellery Queen – Halfway House Ayn Rand – We the Living Erich Maria Remarque – Three Comrades Kate Roberts – Traed mewn cyffion Rafael Sabatini – The Fortunes of Captain Blood Sim Hun – Sangnoksu Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Ashkenazi Eleanor Smith – Portrait of a Lady John Steinbeck – In Dubious Battle Rex Stout – The Rubber Band Phoebe Atwood Taylor *The Crimson Patch *Out of Order Frank Thiess – Tsushima Aleksey Tolstoy – «:ru:Золотой ключик, или Приключения Буратино|Золотой ключик, или Приключения Буратино» S. S. Van Dine – The Kidnap Murder Case Vũ Trọng Phụng – :vi:Số đỏ|Số đỏ Sylvia Townsend Warner – Summer Will Show Carolyn Wells – Murder in the Bookshop Ethel Lina White – The Wheel Spins Children and young people Edward Ardizzone – Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain M. E. Atkinson – August Adventure Carol Ryrie Brink – Caddie Woodlawn Joanna Cannan – A Pony for Jean Noel Langley – The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger Munro Leaf – The Story of Ferdinand John A. Moroso – Nobody's Buddy Carola Oman – Ferry the Fearless Arthur Ransome – Pigeon Post Ruth Sawyer – Roller Skates Lester Basil Sinclair – Why Cows Moo Noel Streatfeild – Ballet Shoes Barbara Euphan Todd – Worzel Gummidge Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Golden Key , or the Adventures of Buratino Drama Pralhad Keshav Atre *Lagnāchi Bedi *Udyāchā Sansār W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood – The Ascent of F6 S. N. Behrman – End of Summer Charles Bennett – Page From a Diary Bertolt Brecht – Round Heads and Pointed Heads Noël Coward *Tonight at 8.30 *Present Laughter Mazo de la Roche and Nancy Price – Whiteoaks Henry de Montherlant – Pasiphaé Harley Granville-Barker – Waste Ian Hay – The Frog George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart – You Can't Take It with You Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt – It Can't Happen Here Federico García Lorca – The House of Bernarda Alba Clare Boothe Luce – The Women Barré Lyndon – The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse J.B. Priestley – Bees on the Boat Deck Terence Rattigan – French Without Tears Irwin Shaw – Bury the Dead Ödön von Horváth *Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg *Figaro läßt sich scheiden Poetry W. H. Auden – Look, Stranger! Gottfried Benn – Ausgewählte Gedichte T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909–35 including "Burnt Norton", first of the Four Quartets Patrick Kavanagh – Ploughman, and Other Poems Michael Roberts – The Faber Book of Modern Verse Dylan Thomas – Twenty-five Poems W. B. Yeats – The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 Non-fiction A. J. Ayer – Language, Truth, and Logic John Dickson Carr – The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey Graham Greene – Journey Without Maps Richard Foster Jones – Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Background of The Battle of the Books Carl Gustav Jung – The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy John Maynard Keynes – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Osbert Lancaster – Progress at Pelvis Bay F. R. Leavis – Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry C. S. Lewis – The Allegory of Love Karl Mannheim – Ideology and Utopia Edwin Muir – Scott and Scotland George Orwell – "Bookshop Memories" Olavi Paavolainen – Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana J. R. R. Tolkien – ""Births January 5 – Florence King , American writer January 10 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian January 28 – Ismail Kadare , Albanian novelist and poet February 12 – Shawkat Ali , Bangladeshi writer February 18 – Jean M. Auel, American historical novelist March 1 – Jean-René Huguenin , French novelist and literary critic March 7 – Georges Perec , French novelist, filmmaker and essayist March 28 – Peter Mayer , English-born publisher March 31 – Marge Piercy , American poet and activist April 30 – Viktor Likhonosov , Soviet Russian writer and editor May 10 – Anthea Bell , English translator May 23 – Ian Kennedy Martin , English scriptwriter and novelist May 27 – Ivo Brešan , Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist June 3 *Duff Hart-Davis, English biographer and journalist *Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist and screenwriter June 9 – Nell Dunn , English playwright and author June 18 – Dick Wimmer , American novelist June 23 – Richard Bach , American novelist and non-fiction writer June 24 – J. H. Prynne, English poet June 29 – David Rudkin , English playwright July 5 – Valerie Flint , English medieval historian July 6 – Abidullah Ghazi , Indian-American author, educator and poet July 22 – Tom Robbins , American novelist August 24 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist September 1 – Roderick Thorp , American novelist September 2 – Károly Krajczár , Hungarian Slovene teacher, writer and collector September 20 – Andrew Davies , Welsh novelist and screenwriter September 26 – Victor Watson , English children's writer and academic October 1 – Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran , Sri Lankan writer , art and literary critic, journalist and radio and TV personality October 5 – Václav Havel , Czech dramatist and first president of Czech Republic November 4 – C. K. Williams, American poet November 17 – John Wells , English satirical writer and actor November 18 – Suzette Haden Elgin , American science fiction writer November 20 – Don DeLillo , American novelist November 25 – William McIlvanney , Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet November 27 – Dahlia Ravikovitch , Israeli poet December 1 – Ma Văn Kháng , Vietnamese writer December 2 – Hebe Uhart , Argentine writer December 5 *James Lee Burke, American writer *Lewis Nkosi, Zulu writer December 11 – Ingvar Moe , Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer December 17 – Frank Martinus Arion , Curaçaoan novelist and poetDeaths January 4 – James Churchward , British writer January 5 – Ramón del Valle-Inclán , Spanish dramatist and novelist January 17 – Mateiu Caragiale , Romanian novelist and poet January 18 – Rudyard Kipling , English writer and Nobel laureate February 7 – Elizabeth Robins Pennell , American biographer and critic based in London February 8 – Rahel Sanzara , German dancer, actress and novelist February 23 – Lidia Veselitskaya , Russian novelist, memoirist and translator March 1 – Mikhail Kuzmin , Russian poet, musician and novelist March 9 – A. de Herz, Romanian playwright and journalist March 16 – Marguerite Durand , French actress and journalist April 30 – A. E. Housman, English poet June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer June 12 – M. R. James, English ghost story writer and scholar June 14 *G. K. Chesterton, English novelist, poet and Catholic apologist *Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist July 25 – Donald Maxwell , English travel writer and illustrator July 26 – F. J. Harvey Darton English children's literature historian and publisher August 8 – Mourning Dove , Native American writer August 15 – Grazia Deledda , Sardinian-born novelist and Nobel laureate August 19 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish dramatist and poet October 5 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist November 12 – Stefan Grabiński , Polish horror writer December 10 – Luigi Pirandello , Italian dramatist and novelist December 24 – Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley , English horticulturist and garden writer December 27 – Kristína Royová , Slovak novelist, religious writer and poet December 28 – John Cornford , English poet December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno , Spanish novelist, poet and scholarAwards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Winifred Holtby , South Riding James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Edward Sackville West , A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carol Ryrie Brink , Caddie Woodlawn Nobel Prize in literature: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, Idiot's Delight Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis, Honey in the Horn In fiction William Boyd – The Blue Afternoon Sebastian Faulks – The Girl at the Lion d'Or Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa Philip Kerr – March Violets Anthony Powell – Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
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