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Overview of the events of 1929 in literature
Overview of the events of 1929 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1929 .
Events
January 10 –
The Adventures of Tintin begin with the first appearance of
Hergé 's
Belgian
comic book hero in
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets) , serialized in the children's newspaper supplement
Le Petit Vingtième .
[1]
February–August –
Voltaire 's
Candide (
1759 ) is held to be obscene by the
United States Customs Service in
Boston .
February – The first of
Margery Allingham 's
crime novels to feature
Albert Campion ,
The Crime at Black Dudley (U.S. title: The Black Dudley Murder ), is published in the UK.
March –
Norah C. James 's first novel, Sleeveless Errand , is held to be obscene on publication in London, for its portrayal of the city's bohemian life.
[2] An edition appears later in Paris from
Jack Kahane 's
Obelisk Press .
[3]
April 1 – The
Faber and Faber publishing company is founded in London by
Geoffrey Faber , with
T. S. Eliot as its literary editor.
May –
Hugo Gernsback first uses the term "
science fiction " in its modern sense, for his pulp magazine
Amazing Stories .
[4]
c. June – The first of
Gladys Mitchell 's crime novels appears in the UK. Entitled Speedy Death , it introduces a psychologist detective character,
Mrs Bradley .
July – British publisher
William Collins, Sons launches its Detective Story Club imprint with
Edgar Wallace 's novelization of The Terror .
July 5 –
Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by
D. H. Lawrence from a
Mayfair , London, gallery on grounds of indecency, citing the
Vagrancy Act 1838 .
[5]
August – The Censorship of Publications Act sets up the
Censorship of Publications Board in the
Irish Free State .
August 15 – The first
Ellery Queen mystery novel,
The Roman Hat Mystery , is published in
New York City .
Mid year – Serialization begins of one of the first
Thai novels – the first by a woman, M. L. Bubpha Kunjara Nimmanhemin writing as Dokmai Sot – entitled Sattru Khǫng Čhaolon (Her Enemy). Soon after comes the semi-autobiographical Lakhǫn Haeng Chiwit (The Circus of Life) of Prince Arkartdam-keung Rapheephat, writing as M. C. Akat. Several Thai writers join
Kulap Saipradit in the Suphapburut literary group.
[6]
October –
Jean-Paul Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met while he studied at the
École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Twenty-one-year-old De Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain an
agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre.
October 11 –
Seán O'Casey 's play
The Silver Tassie , set in
World War I , receives its première at the
Apollo Theatre , London, directed by
Raymond Massey . It stars
Charles Laughton and
Barry Fitzgerald , and has a set design by
Augustus John .
[7] Rejected the year before by
W. B. Yeats for the
Abbey Theatre in
Dublin , it will not open in Ireland until 1935.
October 5 – The
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice confiscates copies of
Samuel Roth 's pirated edition of
James Joyce 's 1922 novel
Ulysses – the first complete edition printed in the U.S.
[8] He serves two prison terms for publishing an obscene work.
[9]
October 29 – Released in the U.S. is the first
sound film adaptation of a Shakespeare play:
The Taming of the Shrew , starring
Mary Pickford and her husband
Douglas Fairbanks .
December –
George Orwell returns to England after a period living in Paris.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 9
January 26 –
Jules Feiffer , American cartoonist and writer
February 6
February 16 –
Peter Porter , Australian-born English poet and educator (died
2010 )
February 17 –
Chaim Potok , American author (died
2002 )
[20]
February 18 –
Len Deighton , English thriller writer
[21]
February 25 –
Issa J. Boullata , Palestinian scholar and writer (died
2019 )
[22]
March 1 –
Thuppettan , Malayalam-language Keralan playwright (died
2019 )
March 7 –
Dan Jacobson , South African novelist (died
2014 )
March 13 –
Mateja Matevski , Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist and translator (died
2018 )
March 18 –
Christa Wolf , German literary critic, novelist and essayist (died
2011 )
[23]
March 19 –
Miquel Martí i Pol , Catalan poet (died
2003 )
April 1 –
Milan Kundera , Czech-French novelist (died
2023 )
[24]
April 9 –
Paule Marshall , born Valenza Pauline Burke, American novelist (died
2019 )
April 23 –
George Steiner , French-born literary critic and philosopher (died
2020 )
[25]
April 26 –
Jerzy Turonek , Polish-Belarusian historian (died
2019 )
May 10 –
Sándor Kányádi , Hungarian poet and translator (died
2018 )
May 14 –
George Selden , American author (died
1989 )
May 16 –
Adrienne Rich , American poet and essayist (died
2012 )
[26]
June 2 –
Norton Juster , American children's writer and academic (died
2021 )
June 11 –
George Garrett , American poet and novelist (died
2008 )
June 12
June 18 –
Grigorijus Kanovičius , Jewish Lithuanian writer
June 20 –
Anne Weale , English writer (died
2007 )
June 25 –
Eric Carle , American children's writer and illustrator (died
2021 )
[27]
June 29 –
Oriana Fallaci , Italian journalist and author (d.
2006 )
[28]
July 8
July 12 –
Tayeb Salih , Sudanese fiction writer and cultural commentator (died
2009 )
July 22 –
U. A. Fanthorpe , English poet (died
2009 )
July 27 –
Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), English thriller writer (died
2022 )
July 31 –
Lynne Reid Banks , English novelist (died
2024 )
August 5 –
Al Alvarez , English writer and poetry editor (died
2019 )
August 7 –
Arrigo Petacco , Italian journalist and writer (died
2018 )
[29]
August 14 –
Thomas Meehan , American screenwriter (died
2017 )
August 18 –
Anatoly Kuznetsov , Russian dissident novelist (died
1979 )
August 21 –
X. J. Kennedy , American poet and translator
August 27 –
Ira Levin , American novelist and playwright (died
2007 )
[30]
[31]
August 29 –
Thom Gunn , Anglo-American poet (died
2004 )
September 15 –
John Julius Norwich , British historian and travel writer (died
2018 )
[32]
September 25 –
Barbara Walters , American journalist (died 2022)
[33]
September 30 –
Leticia Ramos-Shahani , Filipino senator, writer (died
2017 )
October 7 –
Robert Westall , English novelist and children's writer (died
1993 )
October 15 –
Milorad Pavić , Serbian novelist (died
2009 )
October 21
October 23 –
Shamsur Rahman , Bengali poet (died
2006 )
October 30 –
Jean Chapman , English novelist
November 7 –
Steve Carter , American playwright (died
2020 )
November 12 –
Michael Ende , German novelist and children's writer (died
1995 )
November 13 –
Theo Aronson , South African-born British biographer (died
2003 )
December 2 –
Leon Litwack , American historian (died
2021 )
[35]
December 12 –
John Osborne , English playwright and screenwriter (died
1994 )
[36]
December 16 –
James Moore , English author (died
2017 )
December 17 –
William Safire , born Safir, American columnist (died
2009 )
December 19 –
Howard Sackler , American dramatist and screenwriter (died
1982 )
December 23 –
Monique Watteau (Monique Dubois), Belgian fantasy novelist and artist
December 24 –
Philip Ziegler , English biographer and historian (died 2023)
[37]
December 30 –
Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka , Malagasy writer, politician (died
1997 )
December 31 –
Robert B. Silvers , American literary editor (died
2017 )
Deaths
January —
Anna Bowman Dodd , American author (born
1858 )
January 15 –
Leonard Cline , American novelist, poet and journalist (heart failure, born
1893 )
[38]
January 29 –
Hans Prutz , German historian (born
1843 )
February 6 –
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes , Scottish writer and women's rights activist (born
1840 )
March 7 –
Auguste Groner , Austrian detective fiction writer (born
1850 )
March 15 –
Grace Rhys , Irish novelist and poet (born
1865 )
[39]
March 26 –
Katharine Lee Bates , American lyricist (born
1859 )
March 31 –
Santeri Nuorteva , Soviet journalist and politician (born
1881 )
April 12 –
Flora Annie Steel , English writer (born
1847 )
April 16 – Sir
John Morris-Jones , Welsh grammarian and poet (born
1864 )
April 21 –
Lucy Clifford (Mrs. W. K. Clifford), English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born
1846 )
May 19 –
Mary E. Mann , English novelist and short story writer (born
1848 )
June 8 –
Bliss Carman , Canadian poet (born
1861 )
[40]
[41]
June 18 –
Vedam Venkataraya Sastry , Sanskrit and Telugu poet, critic and dramatist (born
1853 )
June 22
June 25 –
Georges Courteline , French dramatist and novelist (born
1858 )
June 28 –
Edward Carpenter , English socialist poet and philosopher (born
1844 )
July 15 –
Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Austrian novelist and poet (born
1874 )
July 31 –
José de Castro , Portuguese journalist (born
1868 )
August –
Mary MacLane , Canadian feminist writer (born
1881 )
September 12 –
Rainis , Latvian poet and playwright (born
1865 )
September 19 –
Francis Darwin , English botanist and academic (born
1848 )
October –
Arno Holz , German
Naturalist poet and dramatist (born
1863 )
October 8 –
Max Lehmann , German historian (born
1845 )
October 19 –
Alexandru Davila , Romanian dramatist and diplomat (born
1862 )
November 3 –
Olav Aukrust , Norwegian poet and teacher (born
1883 )
November 29 –
Dallas Lore Sharp , American nature writer (born 1870)
[42]
December 10 –
Harry Crosby , American publisher and poet (suicide; born
1898 )
unknown dates
Awards
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