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The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- August 18 - The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca, is arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror and is never seen alive again. His brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, is shot the same day.[1][2] Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba), completed on June 19, will not be performed until 1945.
- Scottish-born university teacher of English literature J. I. M. Stewart writing as Michael Innes publishes his first (lighthearted) crime novel Death at the President's Lodging, set in Oxford and introducing his long-running character Detective Inspector John Appleby of Scotland Yard.[3]
- Life magazine is first published in the United States.
- The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is established by the Library Association in the United Kingdom. The first winner is Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post.
New books
- Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana - Layar Terkembang
- Jorge Amado - Mar Morto
- Eric Ambler - The Dark Frontier[3]
- Arturo Ambrogi - El Jetón
- Henry Bellamann - The Gray Man Walks
- Gottfried Benn - The Trainee Man
- Arna Wendell Bontemps - Black Thunder
- Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris
- Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
- 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
- John Dickson Carr
- The Arabian Nights Murder
- The Punch and Judy Murders (as by Carter Dickson)
- Willa Cather - Not Under Forty
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Death on the Installment Plan (Mort à crédit)
- Peter Cheyney - This Man is Dangerous[4]
- Agatha Christie
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin - John Dawn
- 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
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
- Margaret Flint - The Old Ashburn Place
- Graham Greene - A Gun for Sale
- Aldous Huxley - Eyeless in Gaza
- Winifred Holtby - South Riding
- Michael Innes - Death at the President’s Lodging
- C. L. R. James - Minty Alley
- Arthur Joseph - Dark Metropolis
- Jonathan Latimer - The Lady in the Morgue
- Jean de La Varende - Leather-Nose
- Haniel Long - Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca
- Andrew Lytle - The Long Night
- A. E. W. Mason - Fire Over England
- Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
- John A. Moroso - Nobody's Buddy
- George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- John Cowper Powys - Maiden Castle
- Premchand - Godaan
- Ellery Queen - Halfway House
- Ayn Rand - We the Living
- Arthur Ransome - Pigeon Post
- Erich Maria Remarque - Three Comrades
- Kate Roberts (author) - Traed mewn cyffion
- Israel Joshua Singer - The Brothers Ashkenazi
- John Steinbeck - In Dubious Battle
- Rex Stout - The Rubber Band
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- S. S. Van Dine - The Kidnap Murder Case
- Vũ Trọng Phụng - Dumb Luck
- Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins (later The Lady Vanishes)
- Aleksey Tolstoy - The Adventures of Buratino
New drama
- W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood - The Ascent of F6
- Bertolt Brecht - Round Heads and Pointed Heads (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe)
- Noël Coward - Tonight at 8:30 and Present Laughter
- Mazo de la Roche and Nancy Price - Whiteoaks
- Harley Granville-Barker - Waste (first public performance, 1927 version; originally written 1906)
- Federico García Lorca - The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba; written)
- Clare Boothe Luce - The Women
- Terence Rattigan - French Without Tears
- George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart - You Can't Take It With You
- Irwin Shaw - Bury the Dead
Poetry
- W. H. Auden - Look, Stranger![5]
- T. S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909–35[5] 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[5]
- 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
- Graham Greene - Journey Without Maps
- Carl Gustav Jung - The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy
- John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- F. R. Leavis - Revaluation: tradition & development in English poetry
- C. S. Lewis - The Allegory of Love
- Edwin Muir - Scott and Scotland
- Olavi Paavolainen - Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana
Births
- January 10 - Stephen E. Ambrose, controversial American historian (died 2002)
- January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, crime novelist
- February 18 - Jean M. Auel, Earth's Children author
- March 7 - Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker and essayist (died 1982)
- April 30 - Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet writer and editor
- May 23 - Ian Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
- May 27 - Ivo Brešan, Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist
- June 3
- Duff Hart-Davis, biographer and journalist, son of Rupert Hart-Davis
- Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
- June 23 - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull author
- June 24 - J. H. Prynne, poet
- July 22 - Tom Robbins, novelist
- August 24 - A. S. Byatt, novelist
- September 20 - Andrew Davies, TV and film writer
- October 2 - Antonio Gala, Spanish poet, playwright and novelist
- October 5 - Václav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic (died 2011)
- November 17 - John Wells, English satirical writer and actor (died 1998)
- November 20 - Don DeLillo, American novelist
- November 27 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (died 2005)
- December 1 - Ma Văn Kháng, Vietnamese writer
- December 5 - Lewis Nkosi, Zulu writer (died 2010)
- December 11 - Ingvar Moe, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
Deaths
- January 5 - Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1866)
- January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer and Nobel Laureate (1907) (born 1865)
- February 8 - Rahel Sanzara, German dancer, actress and novelist (born 1894; cancer)
- February 23 - Lidia Veselitskaya (V. Mikulich), Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and translator (born 1857)
- March 1 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, musician and novelist (born 1872)
- 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 (born 1906; suicide)
- June 12 - M. R. James, English writer of ghost stories (born 1862)
- June 14
- G. K. Chesterton, English journalist, novelist, poet, critic and Christian apologist (born 1874)
- Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist (born 1868)
- August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer and Nobel Laureate (1926) (born 1871)
- August 19 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1898; shot)
- November 12 - Stefan Grabiński, Polish horror writer ("the Polish Poe"; born 1887)
- December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and novelist (born 1867)
- December 28 - John Cornford, English Communist poet (born 1915; killed in Spanish Civil War, circumstances uncertain)[6]
- December 31 - Miguel de Unamuno, Basque Spanish writer (born 1864)
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 for literature: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- 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
In fiction
- William Boyd - The Blue Afternoon (1993)
- Sebastian Faulks - The Girl at the Lion d'Or (1989)
- Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa (play, 1990)
- Philip Kerr - March Violets (1989)
- Anthony Powell - Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960)
References
- ^ 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 & Janes. p. 255. ISBN 978-84-663-1314-8.
- ^ a b Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.
- ^ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.
- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Haycock, David Boyd (2012). I Am Spain. Brecon. pp. 143–4.
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