1921 in literature

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The year 1921 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.

Events

January 1 - The Jonathan Cape publishing business is established in Bloomsbury (London) by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard.
February - Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of The Little Review, are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.^[1]
April 20 - Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English.
May 9 - The première of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.
June 10 - D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love is first published in a trade edition, by Martin Secker in London.
September 5 - The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) in Argentina opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba ("The foolish lady", 1613).^[2]
December 31 - Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual n°1 (Mexico City).
Opening of the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, England, an old chapel reconstructed as a recreation of an English Renaissance theatre building for the production of period drama by an amateur repertory company under the direction of Walter Nugent Monck.
Jorge Luis Borges returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe.

January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990)
January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime writer (died 1995)
February 4 – Betty Friedan, feminist author, The Feminine Mystique (died 2006)
February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (died 1985)
March 1 – Richard Wilbur, American poet and translator
March 24 – Sir Wilson Harris, Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist
May 23 – James Blish, American science fiction author (died 1975)
August 11 – Alex Haley, American writer (died 1992)
September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (died 2007)
October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (died 1996)
November 22 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (died 2003)
date unknown
- Israil Bercovici, dramatist and historian (died 1988)

February^[6] - John Habberton, critic (born 1842)
March 22 – Ernest William Hornung, English author (born 1866)
April 6 - Maximilian Berlitz, founder of Berlitz language schools (born 1852)
May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, publicist (born 1864)
May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist (born 1851)
May 13 – Jean Aicard, French writer (born 1848)
June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (born 1862)
June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, Theosophist author (born 1840)
July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, promoter of Esperanto (born 1857)
August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (born 1880)
August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (born 1886; executed)
October 10 – Otto von Gierke, German historian (born 1841)
November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born 1849)

↑ Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 502–04. ISBN 0-1950-3103-2.
↑ "Teatro Nacional Cervantes" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-01-14.
↑ Elster, Kristian (1924). Illustreret Norsk litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian) 2. Kristiania: Gyldendal. p. 808.
↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
↑ Apter-Gabriel, Ruth (1987). Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928. Israel Museum. p. 67.
↑ Non Series #138- Trif and Trixy// John Habberton autograph March 7, 2012. Accessed 9 January 2012

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