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Overview of the events of 1925 in literature
Overview of the events of 1925 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1925.
Events
February 21 – The first issue of
The New Yorker magazine is published by
Harold Ross .
[1]
February 28 – The first story under the name
B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in
Vorwärts (
Berlin ).
April –
F. Scott Fitzgerald and
Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the
Montparnasse quarter of
Paris , after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby (by
Charles Scribner's Sons in New York City) and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in
The Sun Also Rises (1926).
May 14 –
Virginia Woolf 's novel
Mrs Dalloway is published by the
Hogarth Press in
Bloomsbury , London.
[2] Woolf is beginning work on
To the Lighthouse .
May 20 –
C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford , where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954.
[3]
Summer –
Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two
first-class cricket matches, for
Dublin University against
Northamptonshire .
July 22 – The first of
Ben Travers ' "
Aldwych farces ",
A Cuckoo in the Nest , opens at London's
Aldwych Theatre in a production by actor-manager
Tom Walls featuring the brothers
Ralph Lynn ,
Gordon James and Hastings Lynn.
[4]
October 1 –
J. R. R. Tolkien becomes
Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the
University of Oxford .
December 24 –
A. A. Milne 's
Winnie-the-Pooh story "The Wrong Sort of Bees" appears in the
London Evening News .
December 28 – The
Russian poet
Sergei Yesenin (born
1895 ) writes a farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья) in his own blood before hanging himself at the
Angleterre Hotel ,
Leningrad .
December –
W. H. Auden and
Christopher Isherwood meet for the first time as adults in London.
[5]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Anthologies
Births
January 7 –
Gerald Durrell , Indian-born British naturalist and author (died
1995 )
[17]
January 8 –
James Saunders , English dramatist (died
2004 )
January 9 –
Abdelhamid ben Hadouga , Algerian writer (died
1996 )
January 11 –
William Styron , American writer (died
2006 )
January 14 –
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Kimitake Hiraoka), Japanese author and political activist (died
1970 )
[18]
January 17 –
Robert Cormier , American young-adult novelist (died
2000 )
January 20 –
Ernesto Cardenal , Nicaraguan Catholic priest and poet (died
2020 )
January 26 –
Miep Diekmann , Dutch writer of children's literature (died
2017 )
February 18 –
Jack Gilbert , American poet and educator (died
2012 )
February 20 –
Alex La Guma , South African novelist and political activist (died
1985 )
February 22
March 14 –
John Wain , English novelist and short-story writer (died
1994 )
March 16 –
Ismith Khan , Trinidad-born novelist (died
2002 )
March 21 –
Peter Brook , English theatre director (died
2022 )
March 25 –
Flannery O'Connor , American author (died
1964 )
March 27 –
John Bayley , Indian-born English literary critic (died
2015 )
May 25 –
Rosario Castellanos , Mexican writer (died
1974 )
June 16 –
Jean d'Ormesson , French writer (died
2017 )
July 5 –
Jean Raspail , French writer (died
2020 )
July 26 –
Ana María Matute , Spanish novelist (died
2014 )
August 1 –
Pam Gems , born Iris Pamela Price, English playwright (died
2011 )
August 12 –
Donald Justice , American poet and educator (died
2004 )
August 17 –
John Hawkes , American novelist (died
1998 )
August 18 –
Brian Aldiss , English science fiction author and editor (died
2017 )
August 28 –
Arkady Strugatsky , Russian science fiction writer (died
1991 )
September 4 –
Forrest Carter , American speechwriter and author (died
1979 )
September 6 –
Andrea Camilleri , Italian novelist and playwright (died
2019 )
[19]
October 1
October 3 –
Gore Vidal , American writer (died
2012 )
October 8 –
Andrei Sinyavsky , Russian writer and dissident (died
1997 )
October 11 –
Elmore Leonard , American novelist and screenwriter (died
2013 )
October 25 –
Romek Marber , Polish-born book designer (died
2020 )
[20]
October 26 –
Jan Wolkers , Dutch writer and artist (died
2007 )
December 19 –
Tankred Dorst , German dramatist (died
2017 )
[21]
Deaths
January 4 –
Elisabeth von Heyking , German novelist, travel writer and diarist (born
1861 )
[22]
January 27 –
Friedrich von Hügel , Austrian theologian (born
1852 )
[23]
January 31 –
George Washington Cable , American writer (born
1844 )
[24]
February 16 –
Francisco Díaz-Silveira , Cuban journalist and poet (born
1871 )
March 2 –
Luigj Gurakuqi , Albanian writer and politician (born
1879 )
March 26 –
Hugo Bettauer , Austrian journalist and writer (born
1872 )
[25]
April 7 –
Gerhard Gran , Norwegian literary historian, essayist and biographer (born
1856 )
April 8 –
Emma Curtis Hopkins , American spiritual writer (born
1849 )
May 2 –
Antun Branko Šimić , Croatian poet (born
1898 )
[26]
May 12 –
Amy Lowell , American poet (born
1874 )
[27]
May 14 –
H. Rider Haggard , British adventure novelist (b.
1856 )
[28]
June 6 –
Pierre Louÿs , French poet (born
1870 )
July 13 –
Margaret Dye Ellis , American social reformer, lobbyist, and correspondent (born
1845 )
July 15 –
Mary Cholmondeley , English novelist (born
1859 )
July 16 –
Pyotr Gnedich , Russian writer (born
1855 )
August 15 –
George Barbu Știrbei , Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts (born
1828 )
September 11 –
Gustav Kastropp , German poet and librettist (born
1844 )
[29]
October 31 –
José Ingenieros , Argentine positivist philosopher, essayist and physician (born
1877 )
October 7 –
Felix Liebermann , German-Jewish historian (born
1851 )
October 27 –
Darrell Figgis , Irish-born writer and politician, suicide (born
1882 )
c. November –
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald , Irish
literary biographer , drama critic and sculptor (born
1834 )
December 5 –
Władysław Reymont , Polish novelist, Nobel Prize winner (born
1867 )
[30]
December 15 –
Emma B. Alrich , American journalist, author, and educator (born
1845 )
December 28 –
Sergei Yesenin , Russian poet (born
1895 )
[31]
Awards
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^ Christopher Isherwood (2011).
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^ The Death of Christopher Marlowe.
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISBN
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