1936 in literature
Overview of the events of 1936 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1936 .
Events
The olive tree near Alfacar where Federico García Lorca is executed on August 19[ 1] January 8 – Jewish booksellers throughout Nazi Germany are deprived of their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one can sell books.[ 2] May – The Greek poet and Communist activist Yiannis Ritsos is inspired to write his poem Epitaphios by a photograph of a dead protester at a massive tobacco workers' demonstration in Thessaloniki. It is published soon after. In August, the right-wing dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas comes to power in Greece and copies are burned publicly at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.[ 3]
May 16 –17 – About 30 left-wing writers of the Second Polish Republic gather at the Lviv Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Workers .August 3 – George Heywood Hill establishes the Heywood Hill bookshop in London's Mayfair .August 18 – The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca , is arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror and never seen alive again. His brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, is shot on the same day.[ 4] [ 5] The House of Bernarda Alba La casa de Bernarda Alba ), completed on June 19, will not be performed until 1945 .November 6 – After United States publication in 1934 , the U.K. authorities decide they will not prosecute or seize copies of James Joyce 's 1922 novel Ulysses [ 6] November 23 – Life Henry Luce .unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Felipe Alfau – Locos: A Comedy of Gestures Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana – Layar Terkembang Jorge Amado – Sea of Death (Mar Morto)Eric Ambler – The Dark Frontier [ 8] Arturo Ambrogi – El Jetón Nigel Balchin – Lightbody on Liberty Djuna Barnes – Nightwood Henry Bellamann – The Gray Man Walks Stephen Vincent Benét – "The Devil and Daniel Webster " (short story, published in The Saturday Evening Post E. C. Bentley – Trent's Own Case Georges Bernanos – The Diary of a Country Priest Arna Bontemps – Black Thunder Mary Borden - Action for Slander Marjorie Bowen – The Poisoners Carol Ryrie Brink – Caddie Woodlawn John Bude – The Sussex Downs Murder Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan's Quest James M. Cain – Double Indemnity Morley Callaghan – Now that April's Here and Other Stories Karel Čapek – War with the Newts (Válka s mloky)John Dickson Carr
Willa Cather – Not Under Forty Mihail Celarianu – Femeia sângelui meu (The Woman in My Blood)Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Death on the Installment Plan (Mort à crédit)Peter Cheyney – This Man Is Dangerous [ 10] Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot novels
Robert P. Tristram Coffin – John Dawn Freeman Wills Crofts
Cecil Day-Lewis – Thou Shell of Death Warwick Deeping – No Hero–This Carmen de Icaza – Cristina Guzmán Henry de Montherlant – Les Jeunes Filles (The Young Girls; first part of tetralogy)John Dos Passos – The Big Money William Pène du Bois – Otto at Sea Daphne du Maurier – Jamaica Inn Walter D. Edmonds – Drums Along the Mohawk Mircea Eliade – Miss Christina (Domnișoara Christina)William Faulkner – Absalom, Absalom! Gilbert Frankau – Farewell Romance Konstantine Gamsakhurdia – Stealing the Moon (Georgian : მთვარის მოტაცება romanized :mtvaris mot'atseba )Anthony Gilbert – Murder by Experts Jean Giono – Joy of Man's Desiring (Que ma joie demeure)Maxim Gorky (posthumous) – The Life of Klim Samgin The Specter )Graham Greene – A Gun for Sale Walter Greenwood – Standing Room Only Winifred Holtby – South Riding [ 11] Aldous Huxley – Eyeless in Gaza Michael Innes – Death at the President's Lodging C. L. R. James – Minty Alley Mikheil Javakhishvili – A Woman's Burden Georgian : ქალის ტვირთი Qalis tvirti Storm Jameson
None Turn Back (The Mirror in Darkness III)In the Second Year Arthur Joseph – Dark Metropolis Margaret Kennedy – Together and Apart Leo Kiacheli – Gvadi Bigva Jonathan Latimer – The Lady in the Morgue Jean de La Varende – Leather-Nose (Nez-de-Cuir)Alexander Lernet-Holenia – Baron Bagge (Der Baron Bagge)Haniel Long – Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca E. C. R. Lorac
Andrew Lytle – The Long Night Compton Mackenzie – Figure of Eight Klaus Mann – Mephisto Ngaio Marsh – Death in Ecstasy A. E. W. Mason – Fire Over England [ 12] Alan Melville – Death of Anton Henry Miller – Black Spring Gladys Mitchell – Dead Men's Morris Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind Naomi Mitchison – The Fourth Pig John A. Moroso – Nobody's Buddy Anaïs Nin – House of Incest George Orwell – Keep the Aspidistra Flying John Cowper Powys – Maiden Castle Premchand – Godaan Hindi : गोदान , Gōdān , The Gift of a Cow)Ellery Queen – Halfway House Ayn Rand – We the Living Erich Maria Remarque – Three Comrades (Drei Kameraden)Kate Roberts – Traed mewn cyffion Rafael Sabatini – The Fortunes of Captain Blood Sim Hun – Sangnoksu Korean : 상록수 Hanja : 常綠樹 Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Ashkenazi Di brider Ashkenazy , in book format)Eleanor Smith – Portrait of a Lady John Steinbeck – In Dubious Battle Rex Stout – The Rubber Band Cecil Street
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Frank Thiess – Tsushima Aleksey Tolstoy – «Золотой ключик, или Приключения Буратино » (The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Buratino )S. S. Van Dine – The Kidnap Murder Case Vũ Trọng Phụng – Số đỏ (Dumb Luck )Henry Wade – Bury Him Darkly Sylvia Townsend Warner – Summer Will Show Carolyn Wells – Murder in the Bookshop Ethel Lina White – The Wheel Spins The Lady Vanishes Francis Brett Young – Far Forest
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 5 – Florence King , American writer (died 2016 )January 10 – Stephen E. Ambrose , American historian (died 2002 )January 28 – Ismail Kadare , Albanian novelist and poet (died 2024 )February 12 – Shawkat Ali , Bangladeshi writer (died 2018 )February 18 – Jean M. Auel , American historical novelistMarch 1 – Jean-René Huguenin , French novelist and literary critic (died in 1962 )March 7 – Georges Perec , French novelist, filmmaker and essayist (died 1982 )March 28
March 31 – Marge Piercy , American poet and activistApril 30 – Viktor Likhonosov , Soviet Russian writer and editorMay 10 – Anthea Bell , English translator (died 2018 )May 23 – Ian Kennedy Martin , English scriptwriter and novelistMay 27 – Ivo Brešan , Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist (died 2016 )June 3
June 9 – Nell Dunn , English playwright and authorJune 18 – Dick Wimmer , American novelist (died 2011 )June 23 – Richard Bach , American novelist and non-fiction writerJune 24 – J. H. Prynne , English poetJune 29 – David Rudkin , English playwrightJuly 5 – Valerie Flint , English medieval historian (died 2009 )July 6 – Abidullah Ghazi , Indian-American author, educator and poetJuly 22 – Tom Robbins , American novelistAugust 8 – Jan Pieńkowski , Polish-born British children's writer and illustrator (died 2022 )August 24 – A. S. Byatt , English novelist (died 2023 )September 1 – Roderick Thorp , American novelist (died 1999 )September 2 – Károly Krajczár , Hungarian Slovene teacher, writer and collector (died 2018 )September 20 – Andrew Davies , Welsh novelist and screenwriterSeptember 26 – Victor Watson , English children's writer and academicOctober 1 – Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran , Sri Lankan writer, art and literary critic, journalist and radio and TV personalityOctober 5 – Václav Havel , Czech dramatist and first president of Czech Republic (died 2011 )November 4 – C. K. Williams , American poet (died 2015 )November 17 – John Wells , English satirical writer and actor (died 1998 )November 18 – Suzette Haden Elgin , American science fiction writer (died 2015 )[ 14] November 20 – Don DeLillo , American novelistNovember 25 – William McIlvanney , Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015 )November 27 – Dahlia Ravikovitch , Israeli poet (died 2005 )December 1 – Ma Văn Kháng , Vietnamese writerDecember 2 – Hebe Uhart , Argentine writer (died 2018 )December 5
December 11 – Ingvar Moe , Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer (died 1993 )December 17 – Frank Martinus Arion , Curaçaoan novelist and poet (died 2015 )
Deaths
January 4 – James Churchward , British writer (born 1851 )January 5 – Ramón del Valle-Inclán , Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1866 )January 17 – Mateiu Caragiale , Romanian novelist and poet (stroke, born 1885 )January 18 – Rudyard Kipling , English writer and Nobel laureate (born 1865 )February 7 – Elizabeth Robins Pennell , American biographer and critic based in London (born 1855 )February 8 – Rahel Sanzara , German dancer, actress and novelist (cancer, born 1894 )February 23 – Lidia Veselitskaya (V. Mikulich), Russian novelist, memoirist and translator (born 1857 )March 1 – Mikhail Kuzmin , Russian poet, musician and novelist (born 1872 )March 9 – A. de Herz , Romanian playwright and journalist (hemoptysis, born 1887 )March 16 – Marguerite Durand , French actress and journalist (born 1864 )April 30 – A. E. Housman , English poet (born 1859 )June 11 – Robert E. Howard , American fantasy writer (suicide, born 1906 )June 12 :
June 14 – G. K. Chesterton , English novelist, poet and Catholic apologist (born 1874 )June 18 – Maxim Gorky , Russian dramatist (born 1868 )July 25 – Donald Maxwell , English travel writer and illustrator (born 1877 )July 26 – F. J. Harvey Darton English children's literature historian and publisher (born 1878 )August 8 – Mourning Dove , Native American writer (born 1884 )August 15 – Grazia Deledda , Sardinian-born novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1871 )August 19 – Federico García Lorca , Spanish dramatist and poet (shot, born 1898 )August 26 – Juliette Adam , French author (born 1836 )[ 15] October 5 – J. Slauerhoff , Dutch poet and novelist (born 1898 )October 9 – Harriette A. Keyser , American industrial reformer (born 1841 )November 12 – Stefan Grabiński , Polish horror writer (born 1887 )December – Emma Sheridan Fry , American actor, playwright, and drama teacher (born 1864 )
December 10 – Luigi Pirandello , Italian dramatist and novelist (born 1867 )December 24 – Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley , English horticulturist and garden writer (born 1872 )December 27 – Kristína Royová , Slovak novelist, religious writer and poet (born 1860 )December 28 – John Cornford , English poet (killed in action, born 1915 )[ 16] December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno , Spanish novelist, poet and scholar (born 1864 )date unknown – Bertha M. Wilson , American playwright, critic and actress (born 1874 )
Awards
References
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