1930 in literature
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The year 1930 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- July 14 - Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first-ever broadcast television drama.
- November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
- A Boston, Massachusetts court bans Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy (1925) as "obscene".
[edit] New books
- Vicki Baum - Grand Hotel
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan at the Earth's Core
- Morley Callaghan - It's Never Over
- Gabriel Chevallier - La Peur
- Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr. Quin
- John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel
- William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
- Rachel Field - Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Zona Gale - Bridal Pond
- Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
- Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund
- Georgette Heyer - Powder and Patch
- Sydney Horler - Checkmate
- Langston Hughes - Not Without Laughter
- Carolyn Keene - The Secret of the Old Clock
- Oliver La Farge - Laughing Boy
- W. Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale
- André Malraux - La Voie Royale The Royal Way
- André Maurois - Patapoufs et Filifers (Fattypuffs and Thinifers)
- George A. Moore
- Aphrodite in Aulis
- A Flood
- Irène Némirovsky - Le Bal
- Camil Petrescu - Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război ("The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War")
- Watty Piper - The Little Engine That Could
- J. B. Priestley - Angel Pavement
- Ellery Queen - The French Powder Mystery
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts - The Great Meadow
- Upton Sinclair - Mental Radio
- Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men
- Miguel de Unamuno - San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
- Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries
- Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
- Thornton Wilder - The Woman of Andros
- Philip Gordon Wylie - Gladiator
[edit] New drama
- Antoine Bibesco - Ladies All
- Bertolt Brecht - The Decision
- Ferdinand Bruckner - Elisabeth of England
- Marc Connelly - The Green Pastures
- Noel Coward - Private Lives
- Geoffrey Kerr - London Calling
- Federico García Lorca - The Public and The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife
[edit] Poetry
- Richard Church -The Glance Backward
- Viola Meynell - The Frozen Ocean
[edit] Non-fiction
- Muhammad Iqbal - The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
- Edouard de Pomiane - Cuisine en dix minutes
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman - 1066 and All That
- Owen Wister - Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship
[edit] Births
- January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
- February 17 - Ruth Rendell, writer
- March 8 - Douglas Hurd, politician and novelist
- July 15 - Jacques Derrida, literary critic (d. 2004)
- August 17 - Ted Hughes, poet (+ 1998)
- September 25 - Shel Silverstein, poet (d. 1999)
- October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
- November 1 - A. R. Gurney, dramatist
- November 5 - Clifford Irving, literary forger
- November 18 - J. G. Ballard, author
[edit] Deaths
- February 27 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
- March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet
- March 12 - Alois Jirásek, novelist and dramatist
- April 21 - Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate
- May 17 - Herbert Croly, political writer
- June 9 - Arthur St. John Adcock, novelist
- July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
- August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, originator of the "spoonerism"
- date unknown - Sigurd Ibsen, politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: E. H. Young, Miss Mole
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Francis Yeats-Brown, Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver La Farge - Laughing Boy