1932 IN LITERATURE

The year '1932 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of ''Punch'' magazine.

★ Samuel Beckett's first novel, ''Dream of Fair to Middling Women'', is rejected by several publishers.

★ W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.

★ The New Poetry (Thơ mới) period began, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, beginning Modern Literature in Vietnam.

New books

★ Laura Adams Armer - ''Waterless Mountain''

★ Henry Bellamann - ''The Richest Woman in Town''

★ John Buchan - ''The Gap in the Curtain''

★ Pearl S. Buck - ''Sons''

★ Edgar Rice Burroughs - ''Tarzan Triumphant''

★ Erskine Caldwell - ''Tobacco Road''

★ Morley Callaghan - ''A Broken Journey''

★ Louis-Ferdinand Céline - ''Journey to the End of the Night''

★ Colette - ''Le Pur et L'Impur''

★ A. J. Cronin - ''Three Loves''

★ John Dos Passos - ''1919''

★ William Faulkner - ''Light in August''

★ Lion Feuchtwanger - ''Josephus''

★ Rudolph Fisher - ''

★ Lewis Grassic Gibbon - ''Sunset Song''

★ Stella Gibbons - ''Cold Comfort Farm''

★ Ellen Glasgow - ''The Sheltered Life''

★ Herman Hesse - ''Journey to the East''

★ Aldous Huxley - ''Brave New World''

★ W. Somerset Maugham - ''The Narrow Corner''

★ Nancy Mitford - ''Christmas Pudding''

★ Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall - ''Mutiny on the Bounty''

★ Anthony Powell - ''Venusberg''

★ Damon Runyon - ''Guys and Dolls''

★ Isaac Bashevis Singer - ''Satan in Goray''

★ Thorne Smith - ''Topper Takes a Trip''

★ Wallace Thurman - ''Infants Of The Spring''

★ Sigrid Undset

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★ ''Burning Bush''

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★ ''The Son Avenger''

★ Hugh Walpole - ''The Fortress''

★ Evelyn Waugh - ''Black Mischief''

★ Laura Ingalls Wilder - ''Little House in the Big Woods''

★ Charles Williams - ''The Greater Trumps''

New drama

★ Elias Canetti - ''Die Hochzeit (The Wedding)''

★ Noel Coward - ''Design for Living''

★ George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - ''Dinner at Eight''

★ Marcel Pagnol - ''Fanny''

Poetry

★ W. H. Auden - ''The Orators''

★ Cecil Day-Lewis - ''From Feathers To Iron''

★ ''An "Objectivist's" Anthology''

★ Boris Pasternak - ''The Second Birth''

Non-fiction

★ Henri Bergson - ''Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion (The Two Sources of Morality and Religion)''

★ Bernard DeVoto - ''Mark Twain's America''

★ T. S. Eliot - ''Selected Essays, 1917-1932''

★ John Steinbeck - ''The Pastures of Heaven''

Births

★ January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author

★ February 7 - Gay Talese, author

★ March 18 - John Updike, novelist and poet

★ March 31 - John Jakes, novelist

★ May 7 - Jenny Joseph, poet

★ June 5 - Christy Brown, ''My Left Foot'' author (d. 1981)

★ August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, novelist

★ September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, novelist (d. 2000)

★ October 27 - Sylvia Plath, poet

★ ''unknown date'' - Troy Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter

Deaths

★ January 21 - Lytton Strachey, biographer

★ February 10 - Edgar Wallace, crime writer

★ March 16 - Harold Monro, poet

★ April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, philosopher

★ April 26 - Hart Crane, poet

★ May 22 - Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist

★ June 17 - Sir John Quick, politician and author

★ July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, ''Wind in the Willows'' author

★ July 20 - René Bazin, novelist

★ July 22 - J. Meade Falkner, ''Moonfleet'' author

★ November 23 - Henry S. Whitehead, American author

Awards

★ James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Helen Simpson, ''Boomerang''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, ''Waterless Mountain''

★ Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, ''Of Thee I Sing''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: ''The Flowering Stone''

★ Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: ''The Good Earth''