1930 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

Events

• July 14 - Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first-ever broadcast television drama.
• November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.

New books

• Angel Pavement - J. B. Priestley
• Aphrodite in Aulis - George A. Moore
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• Bridal Pond - Zona Gale
• Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
• Checkmate - Sydney Horler
• A Flood - George A. Moore
• The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
• Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
• The Great Meadow - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field
• It's Never Over - Morley Callaghan
• Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
• The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
• The Mysterious Mr. Quin - Agatha Christie
• Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
• Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes
• Powder and Patch – Georgette Heyer
• The Promised Land - Gilbert Lubin
• Rogue Herries - Hugh Walpole
• The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
• 1066 and All That - W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman
• Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
• Woman of Andros - Thornton Wilder

New drama

• Antoine Bibesco - Ladies All
• Ferdinand Bruckner - Elisabeth von England
• Noel Coward - Private Lives

Births

• January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
• February 17 - Ruth Rendell, writer
• March 8 - Douglas Hurd, politician and novelist
• July 15 - Jacques Derrida, literary critic (d. 2004)
• August 17 - Ted Hughes, poet (+ 1998)
• September 25 - Shel Silverstein, poet (d. 1999)
• October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
• November 1 - A. R. Gurney, dramatist
• November 5 - Clifford Irving, literary forger
• November 18 - J. G. Ballard, author

Deaths

• February 27 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
• March 2 - D.H. Lawrence, novelist and poet
• March 12 - Alois Jirásek, novelist and dramatist
• April 21 - Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate
• May 17 - Herbert Croly, political writer
• June 9 - Arthur St. John Adcock, novelist
• July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
• August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, originator of the "spoonerism"
• date unknown - Sigurd Ibsen, politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize: E. H. Young, Miss Mole
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver Lafarge - Laughing Boyfr:1930 en littérature

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