1930 in literature 1930 .Events January 6 – An early literary character-licencing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, giving Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works. February – The Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State . Among the first 13 books banned are Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley , The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and several on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes . February 23 – Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front is banned in Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick . March 19 – Paul Robeson plays the title role of Othello at the Savoy Theatre , London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona . May 6 – The Collins Crime Club is launched as a crime fiction imprint by the U.K. firm William Collins . May 10 – John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom . July 14 – Luigi Pirandello's The Man with the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first broadcast television drama, by the BBC in England, directed by Val Gielgud . July 19 – Georges Simenon's Detective Inspector Jules Maigret makes a first appearance in print, under Simenon's own name after he abandons pseudonyms, in the novel Pietr-le-Letton , which begins serialization in the French weekly magazine Ric et Rac published by Fayard . It will appear in book form in 1931 as the fifth of 75 novels in which Simenon features the pipe-smoking Paris detective. September 11 – Agatha Christie marries archaeologist Max Mallowan in Edinburgh. September 24 – The first production of Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives opens at the Phoenix Theatre, featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast. September 29 – The English satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh joins the Catholic Church . October 13 – Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage , the first full-length novel to feature her amateur detective Miss Marple , appears in the U.K. in the Collins Crime Club series, after serialization in the United States. November 5 – The American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature . December 10 – The first performance of Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstück The Decision , written in collaboration with Slatan Dudow and the composer Hanns Eisler , occurs at the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin , with Ernst Busch as lead. Uncertain dates John Langalibalele Dube publishes the historical novella Insila kaShaka , the first work of fiction in the Zulu language . Franz Kafka's novel The Castle is first translated into English, by Willa and Edwin Muir .New books Fiction Vicki Baum – Grand Hotel Max Brand – Destry Rides Again Pearl S. Buck – John Dickson Carr – It Walks By Night Leslie Charteris – Enter the Saint Gabriel Chevallier – La Peur Agatha Christie *The Murder at the Vicarage *The Mysterious Mr. Quin *Giant's Bread Albert Cohen – Solal of the Solals Ferreira de Castro - A Selva John Dos Passos – The 42nd Parallel William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying Rachel Field – Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Zona Gale – Bridal Pond Jean Giono – Second Harvest Milt Gross – He Done Her Wrong: the Great American Novel Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon A. P. Herbert – The Water Gipsies Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund Georgette Heyer – Powder and Patch Robert Hichens – The Bracelet Sydney Horler – Checkmate Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter Carolyn Keene – The Secret of the Old Clock Oliver La Farge – Laughing Boy D. H. Lawrence *Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories *The Virgin and the Gypsy Norman Lindsay – Redheap Benito Lynch – The Romance of a Gaucho Compton Mackenzie – April Fools André Malraux – The Royal Way Frederic Manning – Her Privates We Katherine Mansfield – The Aloe W. Somerset Maugham – Cakes and Ale George Moore *Aphrodite in Aulis *A Flood Paul Morand – World Champions Robert Musil – The Man Without Qualities Stratis Myrivilis – :el:Η ζωή εν τάφω |Η ζωή εν τάφω Vladimir Nabokov *The Defense *The Eye Irène Némirovsky – Le Bal Camil Petrescu – :ro:Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război|Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război J. B. Priestley – Angel Pavement Ellery Queen – The French Powder Mystery Elizabeth Madox Roberts – The Great Meadow Joseph Roth – Job Ernst von Salomon – The Outlaws Dorothy L. Sayers *Strong Poison *The Documents in the Case Nan Shepherd – The Weatherhouse Upton Sinclair – Mental Radio Olaf Stapledon – Last and First Men Miguel de Unamuno – San Manuel Bueno, Mártir Ion Vinea – Paradisul suspinelor Edgar Wallace – The Lady of Ascot Hugh Walpole – Rogue Herries Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies Thornton Wilder – The Woman of Andros Charles Williams – War in Heaven Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Insatiability Gamel Woolsey – One Way of Love Philip Gordon Wylie – Gladiator Children and young people William S. Gray – first in the Dick and Jane series of Elson-Gray Readers "Carolyn Keene" – The Secret of the Old Clock and other Nancy Drew mystery stories André Maurois – Fattypuffs and Thinifers Anne Parrish – Floating Island Watty Piper – The Little Engine That Could Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Little Pig Robinson Gwynedd Rae – Mostly Mary Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons Marion St John Webb – Mr Papingay's Flying Shop Sadie Rose Weilerstein – The Adventures of K'tonton: a Little Jewish Tom Thumb Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Yellow Knight of Oz Drama Rudolf Besier – The Barretts of Wimpole Street Antoine Bibesco – Ladies All Bertolt Brecht *Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny *The Decision Ferdinand Bruckner – Elisabeth von England Jean Cocteau – The Human Voice Marc Connelly – The Green Pastures Noël Coward – Private Lives Ian Hay and Guy Bolton – A Song of Sixpence Ian Hay and P.G. Wodehouse – Leave It to Psmith Nicolae Iorga *Sfântul Francisc *Fiul cel pierdut Georgia Douglas Johnson – Blue-Eyed Black Boy Geoffrey Kerr – London Calling Kwee Tek Hoay – Nonton Tjapgome Federico García Lorca *The Public *The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife Patrick MacGill – Suspense Edgar Wallace * On the Spot * The Mouthpiece * Smoky Cell Emlyn Williams – A Murder Has Been Arranged Christa Winsloe – Ritter Nérestan Poetry W. H. Auden – Poems Samuel Beckett – Whoroscope Hart Crane – The Bridge Laxmi Prasad Devkota – Muna Madan T. S. Eliot – Ash Wednesday D. Iacobescu – Quasi P. H. B. Lyon – The Discovery of Poetry Non-fiction Adrian Bell – Corduroy Catherine Carswell – The Life of Robert Burns E. K. Chambers – William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems Alphonse Daudet – In the Land of Pain William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity Dion Fortune – Psychic Self-Defence Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents Muhammad Iqbal – The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam James Jeans – The Mysterious Universe G. Wilson Knight – The Wheel of Fire: interpretations of Shakespearian tragedy Bata LoBagola – LoBagola: An African Savage's Own Story Paul Morand – New York Edouard de Pomiane – Cuisine en dix minutes Alfred Rosenberg – The Myth of the Twentieth Century W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman – 1066 and All That David Unaipon – Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals Owen Wister – Births January 1 – Adunis , Syrian-born poet January 20 – Blair Lent , American children's author and illustrator January 23 – Derek Walcott , Saint Lucian poet and playwright February 17 – Ruth Rendell , English detective and mystery novel writer February 18 – Gahan Wilson , American author and illustrator February 22 – Edward D. Hoch, American detective fiction writer February 23 – Paul West , English-born American novelist, poet and essayist March 8 – Douglas Hurd , English politician and novelist March 26 – Gregory Corso , American poet April 16 – Carol Bly , American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction May 3 – Juan Gelman , Argentine poet May 13 – José Jiménez Lozano , Spanish novelist May 15 – Grace Ogot , Kenyan author May 21 – Stanley Wells , English Shakespearean scholar June 23 – Anthony Thwaite , English poet June 28 – Maureen Howard , American writer, editor and lecturer July 6 – Gloria Skurzynski , American author July 11 – Harold Bloom , American literary critic July 13 – Sam Greenlee , African American author July 15 – Jacques Derrida , French literary critic August 9 – Carmen Balcells , Spanish literary agent August 17 – Ted Hughes , English poet laureate August 25 – Peter Trower , Canadian poet and novelist August 27 – Erzsébet Galgóczi , Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter September 25 – Shel Silverstein , American poet September 29 – Colin Dexter , English detective fiction writer October 2 – Antonio Gala , Spanish poet, playwright and novelist October 10 – Harold Pinter , English dramatist October 18 – Esther Hautzig , Polish-born American autobiographer October 24 – Elaine Feinstein , English poet, novelist and literary biographer October 26 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu , Nigerian researcher and poet November 1 – A. R. Gurney, American dramatist November 5 – Clifford Irving , American literary forger November 12 – Irma Chilton , Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English November 16 – Chinua Achebe , Nigerian writer, academic and literary critic November 18 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist and essayist November 20 – Bai Hua , Chinese poet , dramatist and novelist November 27 – Rex Shelley , Singaporean author December 2 – Jon Silkin , English poetDeaths January 16 – Johannes Gilhoff , German writer February 27 *George Haven Putnam, American author and publisher *Joseph Wright, English philologist and lexicographer February 28 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff , Scottish writer and translator March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist and poet March 12 – Alois Jirásek , Czech novelist and dramatist April 10 – Alfred Williams , English poet and steam-hammer operator April 14 *Sigurd Ibsen, Norwegian politician and writer *Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet April 21 – Robert Bridges , English poet and Poet Laureate April 22 – Jeppe Aakjær , Danish poet and novelist April 29 – Maria Polydouri , Greek poet May 15 – William John Locke , British Guiana-born English novelist and playwright May 16 – Florence Bell , English writer and playwright May 17 – Herbert Croly , American political writer June 9 *Arthur St. John Adcock, English novelist and poet *Thomas Herbert Warren, English scholar and poet June 23 – Israel Gollancz , English Shakespeare scholar July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle , Scottish writer of crime fiction August 23 – Lucien Wolf , English journalist and historian August 29 – William Archibald Spooner , English academic and instigator of spoonerisms September 4 – Vladimir Arsenyev , Russian travel writer and explorer September 5 – Georges de Porto-Riche , French novelist and dramatist September 25 – Arthur Way , English-born Australian classicist and translator September *Thomas Nicoll Hepburn, Scottish writer and poet *Karam Singh, Sikh historian November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune , Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest December 22 – Neil Munro , Scottish humorist, novelist and critic Uncertain dates Roy Horniman, English novelist and playwright Iso Mutsu, English-born Japanese travel writerAwards 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 in 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
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