1933 in literature
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See also: 1932 in literature, other events of 1933, 1934 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
- James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into United States
[edit] New books
- Hervey Allen - Anthony Adverse
- Jorge Amado - Cacau (Cacao)
- Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie - When Worlds Collide
- Marjorie Bowen - The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the City of Gold
- Erskine Caldwell - God's Little Acre
- Leslie Charteris - Once More the Saint (a.k.a. The Saint and Mr. Teal)
- Agatha Christie - The Hound of Death
- A. J. Cronin - Grand Canary
- Guy Endore - The Werewolf of Paris
- Zona Gale - Papa La Fleur
- Erle Stanley Gardner - The Case of the Sulky Girl
- Walter Greenwood - Love on the Dole
- Dashiell Hammett
- The Thin Man
- Woman In The Dark
- John H.Hill - Princess Malah
- James Hilton - Lost Horizon
- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
- Arthur Machen - The Green Round
- Claude McKay - Banana Bottom
- Andre Malraux - Man's Fate
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - South Moon Under
- Gertrude Stein - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Hugh Walpole - Vanessa
- H. G. Wells - The Shape of Things to Come
- Franz Werfel - The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
- Virginia Woolf - Flush: A Biography
[edit] New drama
- Jean Anouilh - Mandarine
- Ferdinand Bruckner - Die Rassen
- Eugene O'Neill - Ah, Wilderness!
- Jay Tobias - Everybody's Crazy
[edit] Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - Wardens of the Seas
- Filip Shiroka - Zâni i zêmrës
- William Butler Yeats - The Winding Stair and Other Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth
- George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
- Helen Waddell - Peter Abelard
[edit] Births
- January 9 - Wilbur Smith, novelist
- January 16 - Susan Sontag, author (+ 2004)
- February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
- March 17 - Penelope Lively, novelist
- April 14 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer
- May 5 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, blockbuster author
- May 29 - Edward Whittemore, writer
- September 19 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist
- December 31 - Edward Bunker, crime novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist
- January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
- January 31 - John Galsworthy, writer
- April 5 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer
- April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
- April 30 - Anne de Noailles, French writer
- May 26 - Horatio Bottomley, journalist and fraudster
- July 8 - Anthony Hope
- September 20 - Annie Besant, Theosophist writer
- September 25 - Ring Lardner, writer
- September 25 - Pascal Poirier, historian
- November 12 - F. Holland Day, publisher
- November 20 - Augustine Birrell, politician and author
- December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
- Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling - The Store
