1927 in literature

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The year 1927 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

June 29 — T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship.
July 9 — P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey" is published in the United States magazine Liberty introducing Lord Emsworth's prize pig, Empress of Blandings (first U.K. publication in August issue of The Strand Magazine).
September — Eric Blair ("George Orwell") decides while on leave to remain in the UK, resigns from his post with the Imperial Police in Burma, and moves to London to become a writer.
Victor Gollancz establishes the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd.
The Books Kinokuniya bookstore business is established in Tokyo.
The Strand Bookstore business is established in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass.

New prose fiction

Djamaluddin Adinegoro - Darah Muda ("Young Blood")
Arthur Bernède - Belphégor
James Boyd - Marching On
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Outlaw of Torn
James Branch Cabell - Something About Eve
Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Blaise Cendrars - La Confession de Dan Yack
Agatha Christie - The Big Four
Jaime de Angulo - The Lariat
Mazo de la Roche - Jalna
Franklin W. Dixon - The Tower Treasure
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
William Faulkner - Mosquitoes
David Garnett - Go She Must!
Julien Green - The Closed Garden
Ernest Hemingway - Men Without Women
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
Will James - Smoky the Cowhorse
James Weldon Johnson - God's Trombones
Franz Kafka - Amerika
Kwee Tek Hoay - Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang
Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer
Sinclair Lewis - Elmer Gantry
Waverley Lewis Root - King of the Jews
Philip MacDonald - Patrol
François Mauriac - Thérèse Desqueyroux
Vilhelm Moberg - Raskens
Yury Olesha - Envy
Baroness Orczy - Sir Percy Hits Back
Marcel Proust (posthumous) - Le Temps retrouvé ("Time Regained" or "The Past Recaptured"; final instalment of In Search of Lost Time)
Joseph Roth - Flight without End
Dorothy L. Sayers - Unnatural Death
Upton Sinclair - Oil!
B. Traven - Der Schatz der Sierra Madre ("The Treasure of the Sierra Madre")
Sigrid Undset
- The Snake Pit
- The Son Avenger
S. S. Van Dine - The Canary Murder Case
Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter
P. G. Wodehouse
- Meet Mr Mulliner
- The Small Bachelor
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Eiji Yoshikawa - Naruto Hitcho (鳴門秘帖, "A Secret Record of Naruto"; serialization concludes)
Arnold Zweig - Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa ("The Case of Sergeant Grischa")

New drama

Isaac Babel - Sunset
Philip Barry - Paris Bound
Bertolt Brecht - In The Jungle of Cities (in its final version)
Mikhail Bulgakov - Flight (written)
Federico García Lorca - Mariana Pineda
DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward - Porgy
Vsevolod Ivanov - Armoured Train 14-69
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - The Royal Family
John Howard Lawson - Loud Speaker
W. Somerset Maugham - The Letter
Ernst Toller - Hoppla, We're Alive!
Jim Tully - Twenty Below
Bayard Veiller - The Trial of Mary Dugan
Carl Zuckmayer - Schinderhannes.

Poetry

Main article: 1927 in poetry

Robert Desnos - La liberté ou l'amour!
Allama Iqbal - Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms)
A. A. Milne - Now We Are Six

Non-fiction

Nan Britton - The President's Daughter
John Dewey - Philosophy and Civilization^[1]
J. W. Dunne - An Experiment with Time
E. M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel
Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)
John Livingston Lowes - The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
Bertrand Russell - An Outline of Philosophy
Helen Waddell - The Wandering Scholars

Births

January 8 - Charles Tomlinson, English poet
January 16 - Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (died 2000)
February 1 - Galway Kinnell, American poet
February 6 - William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist & journalist
February 16 - Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971)
February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist
March 18 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (died 2003)
May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)
May 27 - Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997)
July 4 - Neil Simon, American playwright
August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator
August 27 - Fouad al-Tikerly, Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008)
September 4 - Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (died 2000)
September 30 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
December 13 - James Wright, American poet (died 1980)
December 24 - Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist

Deaths

March 18 - Philip Wicksteed, English theologian and critic (born 1844)
March 31 - Mabel Collins, British theosophist and author (born 1851)
April 16 - Gaston Leroux, French novelist (born 1868)
May 25 - Henri Hubert, French sociologist (born 1872)
May 29 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (born 1854)
June 1 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
June 9 - Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (born 1857)
June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (born 1859)
July 5 - Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (born 1891)
July 24 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese poet and writer (born 1892)
August 13 - James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (born 1878)
August 24 - Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (born 1871)
September 14 - Hugo Ball, German poet (born 1886)
October 8
- Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet (born 1886; Hodgkin's disease)^[2]
- Mary Webb, English novelist (born 1881)
October 22 - Borisav Stanković, Serbian writer (born 1876)
November 23 - Stanisław Przybyszewski, Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet (born 1868)
December 5 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist and essayist (born 1863)
December 17 - Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (born 1883)
date unknown - Alfred Remy, German-born American philologist and music writer (born 1870)

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn

References

↑ "Obituary: "Dr. John Dewey Dead at 92; Philosopher a Noted Liberal". The New York Times. 1952. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
↑ Escuela Normal Superior de Chascomús.

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