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Overview of the events of 1924 in literature
Overview of the events of 1924 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1924 .
Events
January
January 15 – The world's first
radio play , Danger by
Richard Hughes , is broadcast by the
B.B.C. from its London studios.
[2]
February 2 – A largely rewritten version of
Roi Cooper Megrue and
Walter C. Hackett 's
1914
farce
It Pays to Advertise opens in a production by actor-manager
Tom Walls , at the
Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve
Aldwych farces .
[3]
[4]
[5]
March 3 –
Seán O'Casey 's drama
Juno and the Paycock opens at the
Abbey Theatre ,
Dublin .
[6]
March
April –
Ford Madox Ford publishes the first of four volumes set around
World War I , titled
Parade's End . It is completed in
1928 .
April 12 – The Indian poet
Rabindranath Tagore arrives in China, where his views prove controversial.
[7] While there, he becomes associated with the innovative poets
Xu Zhimo and
Lin Huiyin .
May 3 –
F. Scott and
Zelda Fitzgerald leave New York for France.
June – Ret Marut, perhaps previously Otto Feige and presumed later to be the writer
B. Traven , leaves Europe for
Mexico .
[8]
June 4 –
E. M. Forster 's novel
A Passage to India is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life.
September –
Buddenbrooks , the first of
Thomas Mann 's works to appear in English, is published in a translation by the American
Helen T. Lowe-Porter . The original German appeared in 1901.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 30 –
Lloyd Alexander , American writer (died
2007 )
February 3 –
Andrzej Szczypiorski , Polish writer (died
2000 )
February 6 –
Jin Yong , Chinese
wuxia novelist (died
2018 )
February 17 –
Margaret Truman , American writer and soprano (died
2008 )
April 3
April 8 –
Humberto Costantini , Argentinian writer (died
1987 )
April 20 –
Miroslav Komárek , Czech historical linguist (died
2013 )
April 24
April 26 –
Solomon Mutswairo , Zimbabwean novelist and poet (died
2005 )
May 1 –
Terry Southern , American writer (died
1995 )
May 3 –
Yehuda Amichai , born Ludwig Pfeuffer, German-born Israeli Hebrew-language poet (died
2000 )
May 8 –
Petru Dumitriu , Romanian novelist (died
2002 )
July 1 –
Wang Huo , Chinese novelist and screenwriter
July 15 –
Finn Bjørnseth , Norwegian novelist (died
1973 )
July 30
August 3 –
Leon Uris , American author (died
2003 )
August 6 –
James Baldwin , American writer (died
1987 )
[17]
August 15 –
Robert Bolt , English screenwriter and playwright (died
1995 )
[18]
August 17 –
Evan S. Connell , American author (died
2013 )
August 22 –
Ada Jafri , Indian poet writing in Urdu (died
2015 )
September 4 –
Joan Aiken , English novelist (died
2004 )
September 14 –
Davidson Nicol , Sierra Leonean diplomat, author (died
1994 )
September 27 –
Josef Škvorecký , Czech-born novelist and publisher (died
2012 )
September 30 –
Truman Capote , American fiction writer (died
1984 )
[19]
October 1 –
Jimmy Carter , author and 39th President of the United States
October 3 –
Harvey Kurtzman , American cartoonist and editor (died
1993 )
October 5 –
José Donoso , Chilean writer (died
1996 )
October 29 –
Zbigniew Herbert , Polish writer (died
1998 )
November 21 –
Christopher Tolkien , British academic and editor (died
2020 )
[20]
November 22 –
Rosamunde Pilcher , English novelist (died
2019 )
December 10 –
Mitzura Arghezi , Romanian book editor, illustrator, and politician (died
2015 )
December 29 –
Francisco Nieva , Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer (died
2016 )
unknown dates
Deaths
April 21 –
Marie Corelli , English author (born
1855 )
[22]
May ? –
Muhammad bin Fadlallah al-Sarawi , Iranian-Iraqi faqih, religious writer and poet (born
c.
1880 )
[23]
May 1 –
Lepha Eliza Bailey , American author, lecturer, and social reformer (born
1845 )[
citation needed ]
May 4 –
E. Nesbit , English children's author (born
1858 )
[24]
June 3 –
Franz Kafka , German-language author (born
1883 )
[25]
June 30 –
Jacob Israël de Haan , Dutch-Jewish novelist, poet and journalist (assassinated, born
1881 )
[26]
August 3 –
Joseph Conrad , Polish-born English novelist (born
1857 )
[27]
August 25 –
Velma Caldwell Melville , American editor and writer (born
1858 )
[28]
August 26 –
Julia Carter Aldrich , American author and editor (born
1834 )
October 9
October 12 –
Anatole France , French poet, novelist and journalist (born
1844 )
[29]
October 25 –
Laura Jean Libbey , American novelist (born
1862 )
[30]
October 29 –
Frances Hodgson Burnett , English-born children's author (born
1849 )
[31]
November 21 –
Paul Milliet , French dramatist and librettist (born
1848 )
November 22 –
Herman Heijermans , Dutch dramatist (born
1864 )
December 6 –
Gene Stratton-Porter , American novelist and naturalist (born
1863 )
[32]
December 26 –
Arnold Henry Savage Landor , English writer and artist (born
1865 )
December 27 –
Jennie Thornley Clarke , American educator, writer, and anthologist (born
1860 )
unknown date –
Nicolae Velo ,
Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania (b.
1882 )
[33]
Awards
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^ Heidi Zogbaum (1992).
B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico . SR Books. pp. 3–4.
ISBN
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^
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