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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1936'''.
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==Events==
[[File:Lorca Olive Tree.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The olive tree near [[Alfacar]] where [[Federico García Lorca]] is executed on August 19<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gibson |first=Ian |author-link=Ian Gibson (author) |title=Lorca's Granada |isbn=0-571-16489-7 |year=1992|publisher=Faber & Faber }}</ref>]]
*[[January 8]] – Jewish booksellers throughout [[Nazi Germany]] are deprived of their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one can sell books.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schultz |first=Sigrid |author-link=Sigrid Schultz |date=1936-01-09 |title=Beef Shortage Drives Germany to Frozen Meat |work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page=13}}</ref>
*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.<ref>{{Cite book |author-link=Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking |first=Kenneth |last=Baker |title=On the Burning of Books |location=London |publisher=Unicorn |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-910787-11-3 |pages=66–68}}</ref>
*[[May 16]]–[[May 17|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 Spain|Francoist]] militia during the [[White Terror (Spain)|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.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Assassination of Federico García Lorca |last=Gibson |first=Ian |year=1983 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=London |page=164}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=El assasinato de García Lorca |last=Gibson |first=Ian |year=1996 |publisher=Plaza and Janes |location=Barcelona |isbn=978-84-663-1314-8 |page=255 |language=es}}</ref> Lorca's play ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'' (''La casa de Bernarda Alba''), completed on June 19, will not be performed until [[1945 in literature|1945]].
*[[November 6]] – After United States publication in [[1934 in literature|1934]], the U.K. authorities decide they will not prosecute or seize copies of [[James Joyce]]'s [[1922 in literature|1922]] novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses |first=Kevin |last=Birmingham |location=London |publisher=Head of Zeus |year=2014 |isbn=9781784080723}}</ref>
*[[November 23]] – ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine begins to appear as a weekly news magazine in the United States, under the management of [[Henry Luce]].
*''unknown dates''
**The [[New Theatre, Sydney]], in Australia, attempts to stage [[Clifford Odets]]' anti-Nazi drama ''[[Till the Day I Die]]''; the German [[Consul General]] in the country complains to the [[Commonwealth Government]] and the play is banned; but the theatre stages the play in private premises.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206678291|title=New Theatre proves that art IS a weapon|newspaper=[[Tribune (Australian newspaper)|Tribune]]|issue=746|location=New South Wales, Australia|date=25 June 1952|access-date=2023-05-15|page=5|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
**The first lighthearted crime novel by Scottish-born university teacher of English literature [[J. I. M. Stewart]], writing as Michael Innes, is published: ''[[Death at the President's Lodging]]'', set in Oxford. It introduces his long-running character Detective Inspector [[Sir John Appleby|John Appleby]] of [[Scotland Yard]].<ref name=Whodunit>{{Cite book |first=H. R. F. |last=Keating |author-link=H. R. F. Keating |title=Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction |location=London |publisher=Windward |year=1982 |isbn=0-7112-0249-4}}</ref>
**The [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for excellence in children's literature is inaugurated by the [[Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals|Library Association]] in the United Kingdom. The first winner is [[Arthur Ransome]] for ''[[Pigeon Post]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Bookseller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sxFPAAAAIAAJ|year=1957|publisher=J. Whitaker|page=1964}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Felipe Alfau]] – ''Locos: A Comedy of Gestures''
*[[Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana]] – ''[[Layar Terkembang]]'' (With Sails Unfurled)
*[[Jorge Amado]] – ''[[Sea of Death]] (Mar Morto)''
*[[Eric Ambler]] – ''[[The Dark Frontier]]''<ref name=Whodunit />
*[[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 (novel)|Action for Slander]]''
*[[Marjorie Bowen]] – ''[[The Poisoners (Bowen novel)|The Poisoners]]''
*[[Carol Ryrie Brink]] – ''[[Caddie Woodlawn]]''
* [[John Bude]] – ''[[The Sussex Downs Murder]]''
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] – ''[[Tarzan's Quest]]''
*[[James M. Cain]] – ''[[Double Indemnity (novel)|Double Indemnity]]''
*[[Morley Callaghan]] – ''Now that April's Here and Other Stories''
*[[Karel Čapek]] – ''[[War with the Newts]] (Válka s mloky)''
*[[John Dickson Carr]]
**''[[The Arabian Nights Murder]]''
**''[[The Punch and Judy Murders]]'' (as by Carter Dickson)
*[[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 (novel)|This Man Is Dangerous]]''<ref>{{cite book |first=John |last=Sutherland |author-link=John Sutherland (author) |title=Bestsellers: a very short introduction |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-921489-1 |page=94}}</ref>
*[[Agatha Christie]] – [[Hercule Poirot]] novels
**''[[The A.B.C. Murders|The A. B. C. Murders]]''
**''[[Cards on the Table]]''
**''[[Murder in Mesopotamia]]''
*[[Robert P. Tristram Coffin]] – ''John Dawn''
*[[Freeman Wills Crofts]] 
** ''[[The Loss of the Jane Vosper]]''
** ''[[Man Overboard!]]''
*[[Cecil Day-Lewis]]  – ''[[Thou Shell of Death]]''
* [[Warwick Deeping]] – ''[[No Hero–This]]''
*[[Carmen de Icaza]] – ''[[Cristina Guzmán (novel)|Cristina Guzmán]]''
*[[Henry de Montherlant]] – ''Les Jeunes Filles'' (The Young Girls; first part of tetralogy)
*[[John Dos Passos]] – ''[[The Big Money (novel)|The Big Money]]''
*[[William Pène du Bois]] – ''Otto at Sea''
*[[Daphne du Maurier]] – ''[[Jamaica Inn (novel)|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'' ({{lang-ka|მთვარის მოტაცება|tr}})
*[[Anthony Gilbert (author)|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 final fourth volume, unfinishes, translated as ''The Specter'') 
*[[Graham Greene]] – ''[[A Gun for Sale]]''
*[[Walter Greenwood]] – ''[[Standing Room Only (novel)|Standing Room Only]]''
*[[Winifred Holtby]] – ''[[South Riding (novel)|South Riding]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Winifred Holtby {{!}} Hull History Centre |url=https://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/research/research-guides/winifred-holtby.aspx |website=www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>
*[[Aldous Huxley]] – ''[[Eyeless in Gaza (novel)|Eyeless in Gaza]]''
*[[J. I. M. Stewart|Michael Innes]] – ''[[Death at the President's Lodging]]''
*[[C. L. R. James]] – ''[[Minty Alley]]''
*[[Mikheil Javakhishvili]] – ''[[A Woman's Burden]]'' ({{lang-ka|ქალის ტვირთი}}, ''{{Transliteration|ka|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]] 
** ''[[Crime Counter Crime]]''
** ''[[A Pall for a Painter]]''
** ''[[Post After Post-Mortem]]''
*[[Andrew Nelson Lytle|Andrew Lytle]] – ''[[The Long Night (novel)|The Long Night]]''
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] – ''[[Figure of Eight (novel)|Figure of Eight]]''
*[[Klaus Mann]] – ''[[Mephisto (novel)|Mephisto]]''
* [[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Death in Ecstasy]]''
*[[A. E. W. Mason]] – ''[[Fire Over England (novel)|Fire Over England]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Library of Congress. Copyright Office|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73daAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1171|year=1936|pages=1171}}</ref>
* [[Alan Melville (writer)|Alan Melville]] – ''[[Death of Anton]]''
*[[Henry Miller]] – ''[[Black Spring (novel)|Black Spring]]''
*[[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[Dead Men's Morris]]''
*[[Margaret Mitchell]] – ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|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]]'' ({{langx|hi|गोदान}}, ''Gōdān'', The Gift of a Cow)
*[[Ellery Queen]] – ''[[Halfway House (novel)|Halfway House]]''
*[[Ayn Rand]] – ''[[We the Living]]''
*[[Erich Maria Remarque]] – ''[[Three Comrades (novel)|Three Comrades]] (Drei Kameraden)''
*[[Kate Roberts (author)|Kate Roberts]] – ''[[Traed mewn cyffion]]'' (Feet in the Stocks)
*[[Rafael Sabatini]] – ''[[The Fortunes of Captain Blood]]''
*[[Sim Hun]] – ''[[Sangnoksu]]'' ({{Korean|상록수|常綠樹}}; "Evergreen (Tree)"; serialization concludes and book publication)
*[[Israel Joshua Singer]] – ''[[The Brothers Ashkenazi]]'' (''Di brider Ashkenazy'', in book format)
*[[Lady Eleanor Smith|Eleanor Smith]] – ''[[Portrait of a Lady (novel)|Portrait of a Lady]]''
*[[John Steinbeck]] – ''[[In Dubious Battle]]''
*[[Rex Stout]] – ''[[The Rubber Band]]''
*[[Cecil Street]] 
** ''[[Death at Breakfast]]''
** ''[[Death in the Tunnel]]''
** ''[[In Face of the Verdict]]''
** ''[[Murder of a Chemist]]''
*[[Phoebe Atwood Taylor]]
**''[[The Crimson Patch]]''
**''[[Out of Order (novel)|Out of Order]]''
*[[Frank Thiess]] – ''Tsushima''
*[[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy|Aleksey Tolstoy]] – «[[:ru:Золотой ключик, или Приключения Буратино|Золотой ключик, или Приключения Буратино]]» (The Golden Key, or The Adventures of [[Buratino]])
*[[S. S. Van Dine]] – ''[[The Kidnap Murder Case]]''
*[[Vũ Trọng Phụng]] – ''[[:vi:Số đỏ|Số đỏ]] ([[Dumb Luck (novel)|Dumb Luck]])''
* [[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]] – ''[[Bury Him Darkly]]''
*[[Sylvia Townsend Warner]] – ''Summer Will Show''
*[[Carolyn Wells]] – ''Murder in the Bookshop''
*[[Ethel Lina White]] – ''[[The Wheel Spins]]'' (later ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'')
*[[Francis Brett Young]] – ''[[Far Forest (novel)|Far Forest]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Edward Ardizzone]] – ''Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (Journal d'un curé de campagne)''
*[[M. E. Atkinson]] – ''August Adventure''
*[[Carol Ryrie Brink]] – ''[[Caddie Woodlawn]]''
*[[Joanna Cannan]] – ''A Pony for Jean'' (first of nine Pony series books)
*[[Noel Langley]] – ''[[The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger]]''
*[[Munro Leaf]] – ''[[The Story of Ferdinand]]''
*[[John A. Moroso]] – ''[[Nobody's Buddy]]''
*[[Carola Oman]] – ''Ferry the Fearless''
*[[Arthur Ransome]] – ''[[Pigeon Post]]''
*[[Ruth Sawyer]] – ''[[Roller Skates]]''
*[[Lester Basil Sinclair]] (as John Mystery) – ''Why Cows Moo''
*[[Noel Streatfeild]] – ''[[Ballet Shoes (novel)|Ballet Shoes]]'' (illustrated by Ruth Gervis)
*[[Barbara Euphan Todd]] – ''Worzel Gummidge'' (first in the [[Worzel Gummidge]] series of eleven books)
*[[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]] – ''[[Buratino|The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino]]''

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[Pralhad Keshav Atre]]
**''Lagnāchi Bedi''
**''Udyāchā Sansār''
*[[W. H. Auden]] and [[Christopher Isherwood]] – ''[[The Ascent of F6]]'' (published English edition)
*[[S. N. Behrman]] – ''End of Summer''
*[[Charles Bennett (screenwriter)|Charles Bennett]] – ''[[Page From a Diary]]''
*[[Bertolt Brecht]] – ''[[Round Heads and Pointed Heads]] (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe)''
*[[Max Catto]] – ''[[Green Waters]]''
*[[Noël Coward]]
**''[[Tonight at 8.30]]''
**''[[Present Laughter]]''
*[[Mazo de la Roche]] and [[Nancy Price]] – ''Whiteoaks''
*[[Henry de Montherlant]] – ''Pasiphaé''
*[[Harley Granville-Barker]] – ''[[Waste (play)|Waste]]'' (first public performance, 1927 version; originally written 1906)
*[[Ian Hay]] – ''[[The Frog (play)|The Frog]]''
*[[George S. Kaufman]] and [[Moss Hart]] – ''[[You Can't Take It with You (play)|You Can't Take It with You]]''
*[[Sinclair Lewis]] and [[John C. Moffitt]] – ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'' (dramatisation)
*[[Federico García Lorca]] – ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'' (''La casa de Bernarda Alba''; written)
*[[Clare Boothe Luce]] – ''[[The Women (play)|The Women]]''
*[[Barré Lyndon]] – ''[[The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (play)|The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse]]''
* [[Hugh Mills (writer)|Hugh Mills]] – ''[[Laughter in Court]]''
*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[Bees on the Boat Deck]]''
*[[Terence Rattigan]] – ''[[French Without Tears (play)|French Without Tears]]''
*[[Dorothy L. Sayers]] and [[Muriel St. Clare Byrne]] – ''Busman's Honeymoon: A Detective Comedy in Three Acts''
*[[Irwin Shaw]] – ''[[Bury the Dead]]''
*[[George Shiels]]
**''The Jailbird''
**''The Passing Day''
*[[Ödön von Horváth]]
**''Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg'' (Don Juan Comes Back From the War)
**''Figaro läßt sich scheiden'' (Figaro Gets a Divorce)</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main|1936 in poetry}}
*[[W. H. Auden]] – ''[[On This Island|Look, Stranger!]]''<ref name=COCEL>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref>
*[[Gottfried Benn]] – ''Ausgewählte Gedichte'' (Selected Poems)
*[[T. S. Eliot]] – ''Collected Poems 1909–35''<ref name=COCEL/> including "[[Burnt Norton]]", first of the [[Four Quartets]]
*[[Patrick Kavanagh]] – ''Ploughman, and Other Poems''
*[[Michael Roberts (writer)|Michael Roberts]] (ed.) – ''The [[Faber Book of Modern Verse]]''
*[[Dylan Thomas]] – ''Twenty-five Poems''<ref name=COCEL/>
*[[W. B. Yeats]] (ed.) – ''The [[Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[A. J. Ayer]] – ''[[Language, Truth, and Logic]]''
*[[John Dickson Carr]] – ''The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey''
*[[Victor Hugo Green]] – ''[[The Negro Motorist Green Book]]'' (1st edn)
*[[Graham Greene]] – ''[[Journey Without Maps]]''
*[[Richard Foster Jones]] – ''Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Background of The Battle of the Books''
*[[Carl Gustav Jung]] – ''The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy (Die Erlösungsvorstellungen in der Alchemie)''
*[[John Maynard Keynes]] – ''[[The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money]]''
*[[Osbert Lancaster]] – ''Progress at Pelvis Bay''
*[[F. R. Leavis]] – ''Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry''
*[[C. S. Lewis]] – ''[[The Allegory of Love]]''
*[[Karl Mannheim]] – ''Ideology and Utopia''
*[[Edwin Muir]] – ''Scott and Scotland''
*[[George Orwell]] – "[[Bookshop Memories]]"
*[[Olavi Paavolainen]] – ''[[Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana]]'' (Guest of the Third Reich)
*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] – "[[Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics|''Beowulf'': The Monsters and the Critics]]" (version of a lecture)

==Births==
*[[January 5]] – [[Florence King]], American writer (died [[2016 in literature|2016]]) 
*[[January 10]] – [[Stephen E. Ambrose]], American historian (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])
*[[January 28]] – [[Ismail Kadare]], Albanian novelist and poet (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])
*[[February 12]] – [[Shawkat Ali (novelist)|Shawkat Ali]], Bangladeshi writer (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[February 18]] – [[Jean M. Auel]], American historical novelist
*[[March 1]] – [[Jean-René Huguenin]], French novelist and literary critic (died in [[1962 in literature|1962]])
*[[March 7]] – [[Georges Perec]], French novelist, filmmaker and essayist (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
*[[March 28]] 
** [[Peter Mayer]], English-born publisher (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
** [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] laureate (died [[2025 in literature|2025]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Marge Piercy]], American poet and activist
*[[April 12]] – [[Frankétienne]], Haitian writer (died [[2025 in literature|2025]])
*[[April 13]] – [[Choi In-hun]], South Korean writer (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[April 30]] – [[Viktor Likhonosov]], Soviet Russian writer and editor (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])
*[[May 10]] – [[Anthea Bell]], English translator (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[May 23]] – [[Ian Kennedy Martin]], English scriptwriter and novelist
*[[May 27]] – [[Ivo Brešan]], Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*[[June 3]]
**[[Duff Hart-Davis]], English biographer and journalist
**[[Larry McMurtry]], American novelist, essayist and screenwriter (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])
*[[June 9]] – [[Nell Dunn]], English playwright and author
*[[June 18]] – [[Dick Wimmer]], American novelist (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])
*[[June 23]] – [[Richard Bach]], American novelist and non-fiction writer
*[[June 24]] – [[J. H. Prynne]], English poet
*[[June 29]] – [[David Rudkin]], English playwright
*[[July 5]] – [[Valerie Flint]], English medieval historian (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[July 6]] – [[Abidullah Ghazi]], Indian-American author, educator and poet (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])
*[[August 8]] – [[Jan Pieńkowski]], Polish-born British children's writer and illustrator (died [[2022 in literature|2022]])
*[[August 24]] – [[A. S. Byatt]], English novelist (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
*[[August 27]] – [[Philippe Labro]], French writer, journalist and film director (died [[2025 in literature|2025]])
*[[September 1]] – [[Roderick Thorp]], American novelist (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[September 2]] – [[Károly Krajczár]], [[Hungarian Slovenes|Hungarian Slovene]] teacher, writer and collector (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[September 10]] – [[Peter Lovesey]], English crime fiction and short story writer (died [[2025 in literature|2025]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]], Welsh novelist and screenwriter
*[[September 26]] – [[Victor Watson (author)|Victor Watson]], English children's writer and academic
*[[October 1]] – [[Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran]], Sri Lankan writer, art and literary critic, journalist and radio and TV personality
*[[October 5]] – [[Václav Havel]], Czech dramatist and first president of [[Czech Republic]] (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])
*[[November 4]] – [[C. K. Williams]], American poet (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])
*[[November 17]] – [[John Wells (satirist)|John Wells]], English satirical writer and actor (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])
*[[November 18]] – [[Suzette Haden Elgin]], American science fiction writer (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Authors : Elgin, Suzette Haden : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/elgin_suzette_haden |website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com |access-date=9 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[November 20]] – [[Don DeLillo]], American novelist
*[[November 25]] – [[William McIlvanney]], Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet (died [[2015 in poetry|2015]])
*[[November 27]] – [[Dahlia Ravikovitch]], Israeli poet (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])
*[[December 1]] – [[Ma Văn Kháng]], Vietnamese writer
*[[December 2]] – [[Hebe Uhart]], Argentine writer (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[December 5]]
**[[James Lee Burke]], American writer
**[[Lewis Nkosi]], Zulu writer (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])
*[[December 11]] – [[Ingvar Moe]], Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[December 17]] – [[Frank Martinus Arion]], [[Curaçao]]an novelist and poet (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[James Churchward]], British writer (born [[1851 in literature|1851]])
*[[January 5]] – [[Ramón del Valle-Inclán]], Spanish dramatist and novelist (born [[1866 in literature|1866]])
*[[January 17]] – [[Mateiu Caragiale]], Romanian novelist and poet (stroke, born [[1885 in literature|1885]])
*[[January 18]] – [[Rudyard Kipling]], English writer and Nobel laureate (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])
*[[February 7]] – [[Elizabeth Robins Pennell]], American biographer and critic based in London (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
*[[February 8]] – [[Rahel Sanzara]], German dancer, actress and novelist (cancer, born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[February 23]] – [[Lidia Veselitskaya]] (V. Mikulich), Russian novelist, memoirist and translator (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])
*[[March 1]] – [[Mikhail Kuzmin]], Russian poet, musician and novelist (born [[1872 in literature|1872]])
*[[March 9]] – [[A. de Herz]], Romanian playwright and journalist (hemoptysis, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[March 16]] – [[Marguerite Durand]], French actress and journalist (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[April 30]] – [[A. E. Housman]], English poet (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])
*[[June 11]] – [[Robert E. Howard]], American fantasy writer (suicide, born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[June 12]]:
**[[M. R. James]], English ghost story writer and scholar (born [[1862 in literature|1862]])
**[[Karl Kraus (writer)|Karl Kraus]], Austrian writer and journalist (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])
*[[June 14]] – [[G. K. Chesterton]], English novelist, poet and Catholic apologist (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])
*[[June 18]] – [[Maxim Gorky]], Russian dramatist (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
*[[July 25]] – [[Donald Maxwell (illustrator)|Donald Maxwell]], English travel writer and illustrator (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])
*[[July 26]] – [[F. J. Harvey Darton]] English children's literature historian and publisher (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])
*[[August 8]] – [[Mourning Dove (author)|Mourning Dove]], Native American writer (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])
*[[August 15]] – [[Grazia Deledda]], Sardinian-born novelist and Nobel laureate (born [[1871 in literature|1871]])
*[[August 19]] – [[Federico García Lorca]], Spanish dramatist and poet (shot, born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[August 26]] – [[Juliette Adam]], French author (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Kathryn J.|last1=Crecelius|first2=Karen|last2=Offen|chapter=Juliette Adam|editor-first=Katharina M.|editor-last=Wilson|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Volume 1|location=New York|publisher=Garland|year=1991|page=3|isbn=978-0-82408-547-6}}</ref>
*[[October 5]] – [[J. Slauerhoff]], Dutch poet and novelist (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[October 9]] – [[Harriette A. Keyser]], American industrial reformer (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[November 12]] – [[Stefan Grabiński]], Polish horror writer (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*December – [[Emma Sheridan Fry]], American actor, playwright, and drama teacher (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[December 10]] – [[Luigi Pirandello]], Italian dramatist and novelist (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])
*[[December 24]]  – [[Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley]], English horticulturist and garden writer (born [[1872 in literature|1872]])
*[[December 27]] – [[Kristína Royová]], Slovak novelist, religious writer and poet (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])
*[[December 28]] – [[John Cornford]], English poet (killed in action, born [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref>{{Cite book |first=David Boyd |last=Haycock |title=I Am Spain |location=Brecon |year=2012 |pages=143–44}}</ref>
*[[December 31]] – [[Miguel de Unamuno]], Spanish novelist, poet and scholar (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*''date unknown'' – [[Bertha M. Wilson]], American playwright, critic and actress (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])

==Awards==
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Arthur Ransome]], ''[[Pigeon Post]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Winifred Holtby]], ''[[South Riding (novel)|South Riding]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Edward Sackville West]], ''A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of [[Thomas de Quincey]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Carol Ryrie Brink]], ''[[Caddie Woodlawn]]''
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Eugene O'Neill|Eugene Gladstone O'Neill]]
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Maxence Van Der Meersch]], ''L'Empreinte de Dieu''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies by a Number of Scholars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jm43AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA119|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=119}}</ref>
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Robert E. Sherwood]], ''[[Idiot's Delight (play)|Idiot's Delight]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert P. Tristram Coffin]], ''Strange Holiness''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]]: [[Harold L. Davis]], ''Honey in the Horn''

==References==
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