1929 in literature

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

Events

• Candide by Voltaire was 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

New books

• Banjo - Claude McKay
• The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman
• Brown on Resolution - C.S. Forester
• Borgia - Zona Gale
• A Charmed Circle - Anna Kavan
• The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett
• The Dark Journey - Julian Green
• Death of a Hero - Richard Aldington
• Dodsworth - Sinclair Lewis
• Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• Flowering Judas - Katherine Anne Porter
• A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
• Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) - Erich Maria Remarque
• In the Wilderness - Sigrid Undset
• The Innocent Voyage - Richard Hughes
• Kiki's Memoirs - Kiki
• Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
• Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
• The Magnificent Obsession - Lloyd C. Douglas
• The Mind Reader - Walter A. Roberts
• The Near and the Far - Leopold Myers
• Passing - Nella Larsen
• Peder Victorious - O.E. Rolvaag
• Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral - Jessie Redmon Fauset
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley
• A Preface to Morals - Walter Lippmann
• The Roman Hat Mystery - Ellery Queen
• The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, The Octoroon; With Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negro During the Reconstruction Period - Albert Evander Coleman
• A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
• Rope (novel) - Patrick Hamilton
• Sido - Colette
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• The Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric P. Kelly

New drama

• Kaj Munk - I Brændingen
• Stanisława Przybyszewska - The Danton Case
• George Bernard Shaw - The Apple Cart

Non-fiction

• Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That
• A. A. Milne - Those Were the Days
• Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress: essays in support of James Joyce

Births

• January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
• February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (+ 2002)
• February 18 - Len Deighton, novelist
• April 1 - Milan Kundera, novelist
• August 29 - Thom Gunn, poet

Deaths

• March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, lyricist of America the Beautiful
• April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian and poet
• April 21 - Lucy Clifford, novelist
• June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
• June 25 – Georges Courteline, dramatist and novelist
• July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, novelist and poet

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize: J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
• 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 Benet: John Brown's Body
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Maryfr:1929 en littérature

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