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Literature-related events during 1930
Overview of the events of 1930 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1930 .
Events
January 6 – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by
A. A. Milne , giving
Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the
Winnie-the-Pooh works.
[1]
February – The
Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the
Irish Free State . Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) are
Point Counter Point by
Aldous Huxley ,
The Well of Loneliness by
Radclyffe Hall and several on sex and marriage by
Margaret Sanger and
Marie Stopes .
[2]
February 23 –
Erich Maria Remarque 's
anti-war novel
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues , 1929) is banned in
Thuringian schools by Education Minister
Wilhelm Frick .
[3]
March 19 –
Paul Robeson plays the title role of
Othello at the
Savoy Theatre , London, with
Peggy Ashcroft as
Desdemona .
[4]
May 6 – The
Collins Crime Club is launched as a
crime fiction imprint by the U.K. firm
William Collins .
May 10 –
John Masefield becomes
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom .
[5]
July 14 –
Luigi Pirandello 's
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first broadcast television drama, by the
BBC in England, directed by
Val Gielgud .
[6]
July 19 –
Georges Simenon 's Detective Inspector
Jules Maigret makes a first appearance in print, under Simenon's own name after he abandons pseudonyms, in the novel Pietr-le-Letton (
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett ) , which begins serialization in the French weekly magazine Ric et Rac published by
Fayard .
[7] It will appear in book form in
1931 as the fifth of 75 novels (and 28 short stories) in which Simenon features the pipe-smoking Paris detective.
September 11 –
Agatha Christie marries archaeologist
Max Mallowan in Edinburgh.
September 24 – The first production of
Noël Coward 's comedy
Private Lives opens at the
Phoenix Theatre (London) , featuring Coward,
Gertrude Lawrence and
Laurence Olivier in the cast.
[6]
September 29 – The English satirical novelist
Evelyn Waugh joins the
Catholic Church .
[8]
October 13 – Agatha Christie's
The Murder at the Vicarage , the first full-length novel to feature her amateur detective
Miss Marple , appears in the U.K. in the Collins Crime Club series, after serialization in the United States.
November 5 – The American novelist
Sinclair Lewis is awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature .
December 10 – The first performance of
Bertolt Brecht 's
Lehrstück
The Decision (Die Maßnahme ), written in collaboration with
Slatan Dudow and the composer
Hanns Eisler , occurs at the
Großes Schauspielhaus in
Berlin , with
Ernst Busch as lead.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born poet
January 20 –
Blair Lent , American children's author and illustrator (died
2009 )
January 23 –
Derek Walcott ,
Saint Lucian poet and playwright (died
2017 )
[21]
February 15 –
Bruce Dawe , Australian poet (died
2020 )
[22]
February 17 –
Ruth Rendell (Ruth Barbara Grasemann), English detective and mystery novel writer (died
2015 )
[23]
February 18 –
Gahan Wilson , American author and illustrator (died
2019 )
[24]
February 22 –
Edward D. Hoch , American detective fiction writer (died
2008 )
February 23 –
Paul West , English-born American novelist, poet and essayist (died
2015 )
[25]
March 2 –
Tom Wolfe , American author, journalist (died
2018 )
[26]
March 8 –
Douglas Hurd , English politician and novelist
[27]
March 26 –
Gregory Corso , American poet (died
2001 )
April 16 –
Carol Bly , American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (died
2007 )
May 3 –
Juan Gelman , Argentine poet (died
2014 )
[28]
May 13 –
José Jiménez Lozano , Spanish novelist (died
2020 )
[29]
May 14 –
María Irene Fornés , Cuban-American playwright (died
2018 )
[30]
May 15 –
Grace Ogot , Kenyan author (died
2015 )
[31]
May 19 –
Lorraine Hansberry , African-American playwright (died
1965 )
[32]
May 21 –
Stanley Wells , English Shakespearean scholar
May 25 –
Jón frá Pálmholti (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (died
2004 )
May 27 –
John Barth , American fiction writer (died
2024 )
[33]
June 3 –
Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (died
1999 )
[34]
June 10 –
Grace Mirabella , American journalist, editor of
Vogue 1971-88
[35]
June 14 –
Charles McCarry , American spy and novelist (died
2019 )
[36]
June 23 –
Anthony Thwaite , English poet (died
2021 )
[37]
June 28 –
Maureen Howard , American writer, editor and lecturer
[38]
July 6 –
Gloria Skurzynski , American author
[39]
July 11 –
Harold Bloom , American literary critic (died
2019 )
[40]
July 13 –
Sam Greenlee , African American author (died
2014 )
July 15 –
Jacques Derrida , French Algerian literary critic (died
2004 )
[41]
July 17 –
Ray Galton , English scriptwriter (died
2018 )
[42]
August 8 –
Barry Unsworth , English novelist (died
2012 )
[43]
August 9 –
Carmen Balcells , Spanish literary agent (died
2015 )
[44]
August 17 –
Ted Hughes , English poet laureate (died
1998 )
[45]
August 19 –
Frank McCourt , Irish-American writer (died
2009 )
[46]
August 25 –
Peter Trower , Canadian poet and novelist (died
2017 )
[47]
August 27 –
Erzsébet Galgóczi , Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died
1989 )
September 3 –
Cherry Wilder , New Zealand novelist (died
2002 )
[48]
September 25 –
Shel Silverstein , American poet (died
1999 )
[49]
September 29 –
Colin Dexter , English detective fiction writer (died
2017 )
[50]
October 2 –
Antonio Gala , Spanish poet, playwright and novelist
October 10 –
Harold Pinter , English dramatist (died
2008 )
[51]
October 18 –
Esther Hautzig , Polish-born American autobiographer (died
2009 )
October 24 –
Elaine Feinstein , English poet, novelist and
literary biographer (died
2019 )
[52]
October 26 –
Catherine Obianuju Acholonu , Nigerian researcher and poet (died
2014 )
October 27 –
Francisca Aguirre , Spanish poet (died
2019 )
[53]
October 30 –
Timothy Findley , Canadian author (died
2002 )
[54]
November 1 –
A. R. Gurney , American dramatist (died
2017 )
November 5
November 12 –
Irma Chilton , Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (died
1990 )
[57]
November 15 –
J. G. Ballard , English novelist and essayist (died
2009 )
[58]
November 16 –
Chinua Achebe , Nigerian writer, academic and literary critic (died
2013 )
[59]
November 20 –
Bai Hua , Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist (died
2019 )
November 27 –
Rex Shelley , Singaporean author (died
2009 )
December 2 –
Jon Silkin , English poet (died
1997 )
December 9 –
Edoardo Sanguineti , Italian writer (died
2010 )
[60]
December 25 –
Salah Jahin , Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (died
1986 )
[61]
Deaths
January 9 –
Edward Bok , American author (born
1863 )
[62]
January 16 –
Johannes Gilhoff , German writer (born
1861 )
January 24 –
Rebecca Latimer Felton , American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician (born
1835 )
[63]
February 9 –
Alice Williams Brotherton , American author (born
1848 )
February 27
February 28 –
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff , Scottish writer and translator (born
1889 )
March 2 –
D. H. Lawrence , English novelist and poet (born
1885 )
[64]
March 12 –
Alois Jirásek , Czech novelist and dramatist (born
1851 )
March 13 –
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman , American author (born
1852 )
[65]
April 10 –
Alfred Williams , English poet and steam-hammer operator (born
1877 )
April 14
April 21 –
Robert Bridges , English poet and Poet Laureate (born
1844 )
[68]
April 22 –
Jeppe Aakjær , Danish poet and novelist (born
1866 )
[69]
April 29 –
Maria Polydouri , Greek poet (born
1902 )
May 12 –
Iso Mutsu (睦磯, Gertrude Ethel Passingham), English-born Japanese travel writer (born
1867 )
[70]
May 15 –
William John Locke ,
British Guiana -born English novelist and playwright (born
1863 )
May 16 –
Florence Bell , English writer and playwright (born
1851 )
May 17 –
Herbert Croly , American political writer (born
1869 )
June 9
June 23 –
Israel Gollancz , English Shakespeare scholar (born
1864 )
July 7 –
Arthur Conan Doyle , Scottish writer of crime fiction (born
1859 )
[71]
July 26 –
Pavlos Karolidis , Greek historian (born
1849 )
[72]
August 23 –
Lucien Wolf , English journalist and historian (born
1857 )
August 29 –
William Archibald Spooner , English academic and instigator of
spoonerisms (born
1844 )
September 4 –
Vladimir Arsenyev , Russian travel writer and explorer (born
1872 )
September 5 –
Georges de Porto-Riche , French novelist and dramatist (born
1849 )
September 25 –
Arthur Way , English-born Australian classicist and translator (born
1847 )
September
October 4 –
Olena Pchilka , Ukrainian writer, translator and publisher (born
1849 )
[73]
October 16 –
James Surtees Phillpotts , English writer and educator (born
1839 )
[74]
November 20 –
William B. Hanna , American sportswriter (born
1866 )
[75]
November 21 –
Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune , Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born
1855 )
December 8 –
Florbela Espanca , Portuguese poet (born
1894 )
[76]
December 22
unknown dates –
Roy Horniman , English novelist and playwright (born
1874 )
Awards
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^
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^
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^
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^ Hans Krabbendam; Johannes Leendert Krabbendam (2001).
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^
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^ George Seldes (1940).
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^ Lee Templin Hamilton (1991).
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^
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^
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