1934 in literature
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See also: 1933 in literature, other events of 1934, 1935 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- First Flash Gordon comic strip published.
- Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those present at the first Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers.
- First Nero Wolfe book published by Rex Stout
[edit] New books
- M. Ageyev - Cocain Romance (Roman s kokainom)
- Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie - After Worlds Collide
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay - Pother kanta
- Samuel Beckett - More Pricks Than Kicks
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Lion Man
- James Branch Cabell - Smirt
- James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Morley Callaghan - Such is My Beloved
- Barbara Barclay Carter - Ship without Sails
- Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
- Colette - Duo
- Freeman Wills Crofts - The 12.30 from Croydon
- Isak Dinesen - Seven Gothic Tales
- Max Ernst - Une Semaine de Bonte
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night
- Robert Graves - I, Claudius
- James Hilton - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Zora Neale Hurston - Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel
- Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
- Leopold Myers - Rajah Amar
- John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra
- Henry Roth - Call It Sleep
- Mikhail Sholokhov - And Quiet Flows the Don
- Irving Stone - Lust for Life
- Rex Stout - Fer-de-Lance
- B. Traven - The Death Ship (first publication in English)
- P. L. Travers - Mary Poppins
- Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
- Nathaniel West - A Cool Million
- Antonia White - Frost in May
- V. M. Yeates - Winged Victory
- Herge - Cigars of the Pharaoh
[edit] New drama
[edit] Non-fiction
- Julius Evola - Il Mistero del Graal e la Tradizione Ghibellina dell'Impero (The Mystery of the Grail)
- Emma Goldman - Living My Life
- Aldous Huxley - Beyond the Mexique Bay
- Cornelia Meigs - Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
- A. A. Milne - Peace with Honour
- H. G. Wells - An Experiment in Autobiography
[edit] Births
- February 10 - Fleur Adcock, poet
- February 10 - Gordon Lish, American writer, editor and teacher
- March 28 - Jean Louvet, dramatist
- May 27 - Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.
- July 21 - Jonathan Miller, satirist and non-fiction author
- August 6 - Piers Anthony, English writer of science fiction and fantasy
- October 17 - Alan Garner, novelist
- November 9 - Ronald Harwood, dramatist
- November 21 - Beryl Bainbridge, novelist
- date unknown - Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Andrei Bely, novelist, poet and critic
- January 15 - Hermann Bahr, dramatist and critic
- January 30 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher
- February 8 - Ferenc Móra, novelist and journalist
- March 10 - F. Anstey, Vice Versa author
- April 9 - Safvet-beg Bašagić, poet
- April 11 - Gerald du Maurier, actor-manager, son of George du Maurier and father of Daphne du Maurier
- June 21 - Thorne Smith, humorist and fantasy author
- July 23 - Karl Joel, philosopher
- July 29 - Frane Bulić, historian
- August 13 - Mary Hunter Austin, travel writer
- September 9 - Roger Fry, art critic
- November 23 - Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatist
- date unknown
- Fritz Gerlich, anti-Hitler journalist
- Julian Hawthorne, journalist and novelist
- Gustave Lanson, historian and literary critic
- Robert Clyde Packer, newspaper magnate
- Naito Torajiro, historian
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Robert Graves, I, Claudius and Claudius the God
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry instituted this year with first winner, Laurence Whistler
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa
- Nobel Prize for literature: Luigi Pirandello.
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Caroline Miller - Lamb in His Bosom
