1932 in literature
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See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of Punch magazine.
- Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is rejected by several publishers.
- W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
- The New Poetry (Thơ mới) period began, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, beginning Modern Literature in Vietnam.
[edit] New books
- Laura Adams Armer - Waterless Mountain
- Henry Bellamann - The Richest Woman in Town
- Pearl S. Buck - Sons
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Leopard Men
- Erskine Caldwell - Tobacco Road
- Morley Callaghan - A Broken Journey
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
- Colette - Le Pur et L'Impur
- A.J. Cronin - Three Loves
- John Dos Passos - 1919
- William Faulkner - Light in August
- Lion Feuchtwanger - Josephus
- Rudolph Fisher - The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
- Ellen Glasgow - The Sheltered Life
- Herman Hesse - Journey to the East
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Narrow Corner
- Nancy Mitford - Christmas Pudding
- Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall - Mutiny on the Bounty
- Damon Runyon - Guys and Dolls
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - Satan in Goray
- Thorne Smith - Topper Takes a Trip
- Wallace Thurman - Infants Of The Spring
- Sigrid Undset
- Burning Bush
- The Son Avenger
- Hugh Walpole - The Fortress
- Evelyn Waugh - Black Mischief
- Charles Williams - The Greater Trumps
[edit] New drama
- Elias Canetti - Die Hochzeit (The Wedding)
- Noel Coward - Design for Living
- George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - Dinner at Eight
- Marcel Pagnol - Fanny
[edit] Poetry
- W. H. Auden - The Orators
- Cecil Day-Lewis - From Feathers To Iron
- An "Objectivist's" Anthology
- Boris Pasternak - The Second Birth
[edit] Non-fiction
- Henri Bergson - Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion (The Two Sources of Morality and Religion)
- Bernard DeVoto - Mark Twain's America
- T. S. Eliot - Selected Essays, 1917-1932
- John Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author
- February 7 - Gay Talese, author
- March 18 - John Updike, novelist and poet
- March 31 - John Jakes, novelist
- May 7 - Jenny Joseph, poet
- June 5 - Christy Brown, My Left Foot author (d. 1981)
- August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, novelist
- September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, novelist (d. 2000)
- October 27 - Sylvia Plath, poet
- unknown date - Troy Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Lytton Strachey, biographer
- February 10 - Edgar Wallace, crime writer
- March 16 - Harold Monro, poet
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, philosopher
- April 26 - Hart Crane, poet
- May 22 - Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist
- June 17 - Sir John Quick, politician and author
- July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, Wind in the Willows author
- July 20 - René Bazin, novelist
- July 22 - J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet author
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Helen Simpson, Boomerang
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
- Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
