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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1936.

Events

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] Lorca's play 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 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.^[7]
- 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 John Appleby of Scotland Yard.^[8]
- The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is inaugurated by the Library Association in the United Kingdom. The first winner is Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post.^[9]

New books

Poetry

W. H. Auden – Look, Stranger!^[13]
Gottfried Benn – Ausgewählte Gedichte (Selected Poems)
T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909–35^[13] including "Burnt Norton", first of the Four Quartets
Patrick Kavanagh – Ploughman, and Other Poems
Michael Roberts (ed.) – The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Dylan Thomas – Twenty-five Poems^[13]
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" (version of a lecture)

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 novelist
March 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
- Peter Mayer, English-born publisher (died 2018)
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 31 – Marge Piercy, American poet and activist
April 30 – Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet Russian writer and editor
May 10 – Anthea Bell, English translator (died 2018)
May 23 – Ian Kennedy Martin, English scriptwriter and novelist
May 27 – Ivo Brešan, Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist (died 2016)
June 3
- Duff Hart-Davis, English biographer and journalist
- Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist and screenwriter (died 2021)
June 9 – Nell Dunn, English playwright and author
June 18 – Dick Wimmer, American novelist (died 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)
July 6 – Abidullah Ghazi, Indian-American author, educator and poet
July 22 – Tom Robbins, American novelist
August 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 screenwriter
September 26 – 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)
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 novelist
November 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 writer
December 2 – Hebe Uhart, Argentine writer (died 2018)
December 5
- James Lee Burke, American writer
- Lewis Nkosi, Zulu writer (died 2010)
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:
- M. R. James, English ghost story writer and scholar (born 1862)
- Karl Kraus, Austrian writer and journalist (born 1874)
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

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Winifred Holtby, 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 Gladstone O'Neill
Prix Goncourt: Maxence Van Der Meersch, L'Empreinte de Dieu^[17]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, 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

^ Gibson, Ian (1992). Lorca's Granada. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-16489-7.
^ Schultz, Sigrid (1936-01-09). "Beef Shortage Drives Germany to Frozen Meat". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 13.
^ Baker, Kenneth (2016). On the Burning of Books. London: Unicorn. pp. 66–68. ISBN 978-1-910787-11-3.
^ Gibson, Ian (1983). The Assassination of Federico García Lorca. London: Penguin Books. p. 164.
^ Gibson, Ian (1996). El assasinato de García Lorca (in Spanish). Barcelona: Plaza and Janes. p. 255. ISBN 978-84-663-1314-8.
^ Birmingham, Kevin (2014). The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses. London: Head of Zeus. ISBN 9781784080723.
^ "New Theatre proves that art IS a weapon". Tribune. No. 746. New South Wales, Australia. 25 June 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via National Library of Australia.
^ ^a ^b Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.
^ The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1957. p. 1964.
^ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.
^ "Winifred Holtby | Hull History Centre". www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office (1936). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series. p. 1171.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ "Authors : Elgin, Suzette Haden : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
^ Crecelius, Kathryn J.; Offen, Karen (1991). "Juliette Adam". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Volume 1. New York: Garland. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-82408-547-6.
^ Haycock, David Boyd (2012). I Am Spain. Brecon. pp. 143–44.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies by a Number of Scholars. CUP Archive. p. 119.

[1] Gibson, Ian (1992). Lorca's Granada. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-16489-7.

[2] Schultz, Sigrid (1936-01-09). "Beef Shortage Drives Germany to Frozen Meat". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 13.

[3] Baker, Kenneth (2016). On the Burning of Books. London: Unicorn. pp. 66–68. ISBN 978-1-910787-11-3.

[4] Gibson, Ian (1983). The Assassination of Federico García Lorca. London: Penguin Books. p. 164.

[5] Gibson, Ian (1996). El assasinato de García Lorca (in Spanish). Barcelona: Plaza and Janes. p. 255. ISBN 978-84-663-1314-8.

[6] Birmingham, Kevin (2014). The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses. London: Head of Zeus. ISBN 9781784080723.

[7] "New Theatre proves that art IS a weapon". Tribune. No. 746. New South Wales, Australia. 25 June 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-05-15 – via National Library of Australia.

[Whodunit-8] Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.

[9] The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1957. p. 1964.

[10] Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.

[11] "Winifred Holtby | Hull History Centre". www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2024.

[12] Library of Congress. Copyright Office (1936). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series. p. 1171.

[COCEL-13] Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[14] "Authors : Elgin, Suzette Haden : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.

[15] Crecelius, Kathryn J.; Offen, Karen (1991). "Juliette Adam". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Volume 1. New York: Garland. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-82408-547-6.

[16] Haycock, David Boyd (2012). I Am Spain. Brecon. pp. 143–44.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[17] The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies by a Number of Scholars. CUP Archive. p. 119.

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-[[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}}</ref>]]
+[[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>
+*[[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]].
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 *[[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>
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 *[[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 (novel)|The Poisoners]]''
+*[[Marjorie Bowen]] – ''[[The Poisoners (Bowen novel)|The Poisoners]]''
 *[[Carol Ryrie Brink]] – ''[[Caddie Woodlawn]]''
 * [[John Bude]] – ''[[The Sussex Downs Murder]]''
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 **''[[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>
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 ** ''[[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)
@@ Line 68: / Line 73: @@
 *[[Graham Greene]] – ''[[A Gun for Sale]]''
 *[[Walter Greenwood]] – ''[[Standing Room Only (novel)|Standing Room Only]]''
-*[[Winifred Holtby]] – ''[[South Riding (novel)|South Riding]]''
+*[[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]]''
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 *[[Alexander Lernet-Holenia]] – ''[[Baron Bagge]] (Der Baron Bagge)''
 *[[Haniel Long]] – ''Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca''
-* [[E.C.R. Lorac]]
+* [[E. C. R. Lorac]]
 ** ''[[Crime Counter Crime]]''
 ** ''[[A Pall for a Painter]]''
 ** ''[[Post After Post-Mortem]]''
-*[[Andrew Nelson Lytle|Andrew Lytle]] – ''The Long Night''
+*[[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]]''
@@ Line 101: / Line 106: @@
 *[[George Orwell]] – ''[[Keep the Aspidistra Flying]]''
 *[[John Cowper Powys]] – ''Maiden Castle''
-*[[Premchand]] – ''[[Godaan]]'' ({{lang-hi|गोदान}}, ''Gōdān'', The Gift of a Cow)
+*[[Premchand]] – ''[[Godaan]]'' ({{langx|hi|गोदान}}, ''Gōdān'', The Gift of a Cow)
 *[[Ellery Queen]] – ''[[Halfway House (novel)|Halfway House]]''
 *[[Ayn Rand]] – ''[[We the Living]]''
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 *[[Cecil Street]]
 ** ''[[Death at Breakfast]]''
-** ''[[Death in the Tunnel]]
+** ''[[Death in the Tunnel]]''
 ** ''[[In Face of the Verdict]]''
 ** ''[[Murder of a Chemist]]''
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 **''Lagnāchi Bedi''
 **''Udyāchā Sansār''
-*[[W. H. Auden]] and [[Christopher Isherwood]] – ''[[The Ascent of F6]]''
+*[[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]]''
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 *[[Clare Boothe Luce]] – ''[[The Women (play)|The Women]]''
 *[[Barré Lyndon]] – ''[[The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (play)|The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse]]''
-*[[J.B. Priestley]] – ''[[Bees on the Boat Deck]]''
+* [[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)
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 *[[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
+*[[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]])
+*[[March 28]]
+** [[Peter Mayer]], English-born publisher (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
+** [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate
 *[[March 31]] – [[Marge Piercy]], American poet and activist
 *[[April 30]] – [[Viktor Likhonosov]], Soviet Russian writer and editor
@@ Line 228: / Line 240: @@
 *[[July 22]] – [[Tom Robbins]], American novelist
 *[[August 8]] – [[Jan Pieńkowski]], Polish-born British children's writer and illustrator (died [[2022 in literature|2022]])
-*[[August 24]] – [[A. S. Byatt]], English novelist
+*[[August 24]] – [[A. S. Byatt]], English novelist (died [[2023 in literature|2023]])
 *[[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]])
@@ Line 262: / Line 274: @@
 *[[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]])
+*[[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 14]] – [[G. K. Chesterton]], English novelist, poet and Catholic apologist (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])
-**[[Maxim Gorky]], Russian dramatist (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
+*[[June 18]] – [[Maxim Gorky]], Russian dramatist (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
-*[[July 25]] – [[Donald Maxwell]], English travel writer and illustrator (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])
+*[[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]])
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 *[[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>
-*[[November 4]] – [[Annie Ryder Gracey]], American writer and missionary (died [[1908 in literature|1908]])
 *[[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]])
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 *[[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]])
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