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Overview of the events of 1922 in literature
Overview of the events of 1922 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922 .
Under modern
copyright law of the United States , all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper
copyright notice entered the
public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in
1998 .
Events
1st ed. cover
This is a significant year for
high modernism in
literature .
[1]
January –
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 's modernist
short story "
In a Grove " (藪の中, Yabu no naka ) is published in the Japanese magazine
Shinchō .
January 24 –
Façade – An Entertainment , poems by
Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by
William Walton , are first performed, privately in London.
[2]
January 27 –
Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel
The Castle (Das Schloss) at the mountain resort of
Spindlermühle , ceasing around early September in mid-sentence.
[3]
February 2
February 5 –
DeWitt and
Lila Wallace publish the first issue of
Reader's Digest in the United States.
[5]
February–September –
D. H. and
Frieda Lawrence migrate from Europe to the United States, visiting Australia on the way, where he completes writing his novel
Kangaroo .
March 3 –
F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel
The Beautiful and Damned is published in book form by
Charles Scribner's Sons in New York; on December 10 a
silent
film version is released.
c. March 8 – The Czech playwrights
Karel and
Josef Čapek 's play
Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu , also known as The Insect Play , published
1921 ) is first performed at the
National Theatre Brno . It is also first performed this year in English translation, in the United States.
April –
Marcel Proust 's Sodome et Gomorrhe II (part of the
novel sequence
À la Recherche du temps perdu ) is published in Paris.
May 18 –
Marcel Proust ,
James Joyce ,
Sergei Diaghilev ,
Igor Stravinsky ,
Pablo Picasso ,
Erik Satie and
Clive Bell , hosted by English art patron and novelist
Sydney Schiff , dine in
Paris at the
Hotel Majestic : their one joint meeting.
[6]
May 27 –
F. Scott Fitzgerald 's short story "
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " is published in
The Smart Set magazine.
June
July – Having issued a 2nd edition of
António Botto 's poetry collection Canções through his
Lisbon publishing house Olisipo,
Fernando Pessoa publishes a magazine article praising Botto's courage and sincerity in shamelessly singing
homosexual love as a true
aesthete ,
[8] sparking controversy over literatura de Sodoma .
August –
T. E. Lawrence is recruited into the British
Royal Air Force as Ordinary
Aircraftman 352087 John Hume Ross by Flying Officer
W. E. Johns in London. Lawrence later writes
The Mint about his experiences.
Summer – F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel
The Great Gatsby (
1925 ) is set on
Long Island at this time, partly inspired by Scott and
Zelda Fitzgerald 's life from October 9 at
Great Neck, New York , with the novelist
Ring Lardner , newspaper editor
Herbert Bayard Swope and (probably) bootlegger
Max Gerlach as friends and neighbors.
September
September 14 –
Sinclair Lewis 's satirical novel
Babbitt is published by
Harcourt, Brace & Company .
September 22
Bengali writer
Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" (The Advent of the Delightful Mother) in support of the
Indian independence movement , in the Puja issue of his new biweekly
Dhumketu . For this he is arrested in the
Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of
sedition for much of the following year. He goes on a hunger strike and composes many poems while in prison. His poem "
Bidrohi " (বিদ্রোহী, The Rebel, December 1921) appears in his first anthology, Agnibeena .
F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story collection
Tales of the Jazz Age is published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.
September 29 –
Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) , at the
Munich Kammerspiele , becomes the first play by
Bertolt Brecht to be staged.
October 15 –
T. S. Eliot founds
The Criterion magazine, with the first appearance of his poem
The Waste Land .
[2] This will be first fully published in book form by
Boni & Liveright in New York in December.
October 26 –
Jacob's Room by
Virginia Woolf is published by the
Hogarth Press of
Richmond upon Thames with a jacket design by the author's sister
Vanessa Bell . Also this summer, Woolf writes the short story "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" (published July 1923), the groundwork of the novel
Mrs Dalloway (
1925 ).
November –
Uri Zvi Greenberg flees to Berlin after the second issue of the
Yiddish literary journal Albatros , which he edits, is seized. The
Warsaw authorities accuse him of blasphemy for iconoclastic depictions of Jesus, notably his prose poem "Royte epl fun veybeymer" (Red Apples from the Trees of Pain).
December – A valise containing all
Ernest Hemingway 's manuscripts of the past year's writing is stolen at
Paris-Gare de Lyon .
December 6 –
W. B. Yeats becomes a nominated
member of Seanad Éireann in the
Irish Free State .
December 10 – The
National Library of Albania is inaugurated in
Tirana .
[10]
December 20 –
Jean Cocteau 's
Antigone appears at the reopened
Théâtre de l'Atelier in the
Montmartre district of Paris, with sets by
Pablo Picasso , music by
Arthur Honegger and costumes by
Gabrielle Chanel . Génica Athanasiou plays the title rôle, with
Charles Dullin as
Créon and
Antonin Artaud as
Tiresias . There are
Dadaist protests.
[11]
unknown date – The first
Newbery Medal for authors of distinguished children's books is awarded by the
American Library Association to
Hendrik Willem van Loon for
The Story of Mankind (
1921 ).
[12]
New books
1st ed. cover: the figures resemble the author and his wife
Zelda
Fiction
Children and young people
Carl Sandburg 's
Rootabaga Stories 1st ed. frontispiece by
Maud and Miska Petersham
Drama
1st publication
Poetry
1st ed. title page
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
Idris Jamma' , Sudanese poet (died
1980 )
[18]
January 10 –
Terence Kilmartin , Irish journalist and translator (died
1991 )
January 22 –
Howard Moss , American poet, playwright, and critic (died
1987 )
January 23 –
Vernon Scannell , British poet (died
2007 )
February 6 –
Denis Norden , English comedy writer (died
2018 )
February 18 –
Helen Gurley Brown , American editor and publisher (died
2012 )
March 12 –
Jack Kerouac , American author of
On the Road (died
1969 )
March 27 –
Dick King-Smith , English children's author (died
2011 )
April 2 –
Zenia Larsson , Polish-Swedish writer and sculptor of Jewish descent (died
2007 )
April 4 –
Máire Mhac an tSaoi , Irish poet and scholar (died
2021 )
April 13 –
John Braine , English novelist (died
1986 )
[19]
April 16
April 22 –
Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Cuban novelist (died
2005 )
April 28 –
Alistair MacLean ,
Scottish novelist (died
1987 )
May 6 –
Alan Ross , Indian-born English poet and editor (died
2001 )
May 8 –
Mary Q. Steele , American naturalist and author (died
1992 )
May 27 –
Sidney Keyes , English poet (died
1943 )
[22]
May 30 –
Hal Clement , American science fiction writer (died
2003 )
June 2 –
Božena Mačingová , Slovak writer, author of books for children and young adults (died
2017 )
June 11 –
Erving Goffman , Canadian sociologist (died
1982 )
June 29 –
Vasko Popa , Yugoslav poet (died
1991 )
June 30 –
Mollie Hunter , Scottish novelist and children's writer (died
2012 )
July 12 –
Michael Ventris , English translator (died
1956 )
July 15 –
Cathal Ó Sándair , Irish language novelist (died
1996 )
July 17 –
Donald Davie , English poet (died
1995 )
July 19 –
George McGovern , American author and politician (died
2012 )
August 9 –
Philip Larkin , English poet (died
1985 )
[23]
August 18 –
Alain Robbe-Grillet , French novelist (died
2008 )
[24]
September 12 –
Jackson Mac Low , American poet (died
2004 )
November 11 –
Kurt Vonnegut , American novelist (died
2007 )
November 16 –
José Saramago , Portuguese writer (died
2010 )
November 29 –
Michael Howard , English historian, author and academic (died
2019 )
[25]
November 26 –
Charles M. Schulz , American cartoonist (died
2000 )
December 11 –
Grace Paley , American writer (died
2007 )
December 28 –
Stan Lee , American comic-book writer and editor (died
2018 )
December 29 –
William Gaddis , American novelist (died
1998 )
December 30 –
Jane Langton , American author and illustrator (died
2018 )
[26]
December –
Lu Yongfu , Chinese translator
Deaths
January 3 –
Berthold Delbrück , German linguist (born
1842 )
January 12 –
Thomas Gibson Bowles , English founder of
The Lady and
Vanity Fair (born
1881 )
January 27
February 3
February 21 –
Nellie Blessing Eyster , American journalist, writer, and reformer (born
1836 )
February 25 –
Emma Southwick Brinton , American army nurse and foreign correspondent (born
1834 )
March 20 –
Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell , American novelist and short-story writer (born
1836 )
June 12 –
Wolfgang Kapp , Prussian journalist (born
1858 )
June 28 –
Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian writer (born
1885 )
July 4 –
Laura Rosamond White , American author, poet, editor (born
1844 )
July 8 –
Mori Ōgai (森鷗外), Japanese novelist and poet (born
1862 )
July 26 –
Ehrman Syme Nadal , American author (born
1843 )
[28]
August 14
August 25 –
Edward George Honey , Australian journalist (born
1885 )
August 29 –
Georges Sorel , French philosopher (born
1847 )
September 2 –
Henry Lawson , Australian poet (born
1867 )
September 4 –
George R. Sims , English writer (born
1847 )
September 10 –
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , English poet and radical (born
1840 )
October 13 –
Elizabeth Williams Champney , American author (born
1850 )
[30]
October 22 –
Lyman Abbott , American theologian (born
1835 )
[31]
October 30 –
Géza Gárdonyi , Hungarian historical novelist (born
1863 )
[32]
November 1 –
Lima Barreto , Brazilian novelist and journalist (born
1881 )
November 18 –
Marcel Proust , French author (born
1871 )
[33]
November 24 –
Erskine Childers , Irish historian and novelist (born
1870 )
November 27 –
Alice Meynell , English poet (born
1847 )
[34]
December 13 –
Hannes Hafstein , Icelandic poet and prime minister (born
1861 )
December 19 –
Clementina Black , English novelist and political writer (born
1853 )
[35]
unknown date –
Mary Anna Needell (Mrs. J. H. Needell), English novelist (born
1830 )
Awards
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