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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1921.

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]
March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe.
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 6 – The première of Tristan Tzara's parodic The Gas Heart (Le Cœur à gaz) at a Dada Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris provokes audience derision.
June 10 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love is first published commercially by Martin Secker in London.
September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613).^[2]
September 26 – 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.^[3] The opening production is As You Like It.
December 9 – John William Gott becomes the last person in England to be imprisoned for blasphemous libel.
December 31 – Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual n°1 (Mexico City).

New books

Fiction

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – "Autumn Mountain" (秋山, Akiyama)
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible
James Branch Cabell – Figures of Earth
Hall Caine – The Master of Man
Karel Čapek – Trapné povídky (Embarrassing Stories, translated as Money and other stories)
Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge
Arthur Chapman – Mystery Ranch
A. E. Coppard – Adam & Eve & Pinch Me: Tales
Mary Cholmondeley – The Romance of His Life
Marie Corelli – The Secret Power
Miloš Crnjanski – The Journal of Čarnojević (Дневник о Чарнојевићу, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću)
Walter de la Mare – Memoirs of a Midget
Fran Saleški Finžgar – Pod svobodnim soncem
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Beautiful and Damned (serialized in Metropolitan Magazine (New York))
- Flappers and Philosophers (short stories)
Mikkjel Fønhus – Troll-Elgen^[4]
John Galsworthy – To Let (last book of The Forsyte Saga)
H. Rider Haggard – She and Allan
Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth
A. S. M. Hutchinson – If Winter Comes^[5]
Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow
Frigyes Karinthy – Capillaria
Sheila Kaye-Smith – Joanna Godden
Denis Mackail – Romance to the Rescue
René Maran – Batouala
L. M. Montgomery – Rilla of Ingleside
George Moore – Heloise and Abelard
Paul Morand – Tender Shoots (Tendres stocks, short stories)
Baroness Orczy
- Castles in the Air (short stories)
- The First Sir Percy
Alejandro Pérez Lugín – Currito of the Cross (Currito de la Cruz)
Gene Stratton Porter – Her Father's Daughter
Marcel Proust
- The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes II, second part of vol. 3 of In Search of Lost Time)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (Sodome et Gomorrhe I, first part of vol. 4 of In Search of Lost Time)
Sukumar Ray – HaJaBaRaLa
Iñigo Ed. Regalado – May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso
Rafael Sabatini – Scaramouche
Naoya Shiga – A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路, An'ya Kōro; serialized 1921–37)
Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams
Sigrid Undset – Husfrue (The Wife or The Mistress of Husaby, second part of Kristin Lavransdatter)
Eugene Walter – The Byzantine Riddle and other stories
Elinor Wylie – Nets to Catch the Wind
Francis Brett Young – The Black Diamond
Yevgeny Zamyatin – We (Мы; completed)

Children and young people

Dorita Fairlie Bruce – The Senior Prefect (later entitled Dimsie Goes to School)
Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Charles Boardman Hawes – The Great Quest
Albert Payson Terhune – The Heart of a Dog

Births

January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990)
January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime writer (died 1995)
February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist author (died 2006)
February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (died 1985)
March 1 – Richard Wilbur, American poet and translator
March 24 – Wilson Harris, Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist
May 23
- James Blish, American science fiction author (died 1975)
- Ray Lawler, Australian dramatist
May 29 – Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (died 2012)
June 11 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (died 2000)
August 11 – Alex Haley, American writer (died 1992)
August 17 – Elinor Lyon, British children's writer (died 2008)
September 12 – Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician (died 2006)
September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (died 2007)
October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer (died 2014)
October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (died 1996)
November 6 – James Jones, American novelist (died 1977)
November 22 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (died 2003)
December 20 – Israil Bercovici, Romanian dramatist and historian (died 1988)

Deaths

March 22 – E. W. Hornung, English author (born 1866)
April 6 – Maximilian Berlitz, German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor (born 1852)
May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian 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)
July 7 – Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet, novelist and translator (pneumonia, born 1893)
June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, English Theosophist author (born 1840)
July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, Polish Esperantist (born 1857)
August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (born 1880)
August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (executed, born 1886)
October 10 – Otto von Gierke, German historian (born 1841)
November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born 1849)
November 14 – Christabel Rose Coleridge English novelist and editor (born 1843)
Unknown date – John Habberton, American critic (born 1842)^[7]

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence

References

↑ 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.
↑ "Norwich Players' New Theatre". The Times (42836). London. 1921-09-27. p. 8.
↑ 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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