1933 in literature

The year 1933 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• February 17 - The magazine News-Week is published for the first time in New York.
• December 6 - In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not as a whole pornographic and therefore cannot not be obscene.^[1]

New books

• Hervey Allen - Anthony Adverse
• Jorge Amado - Cacau (Cacao)
• Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie - When Worlds Collide
• Marjorie Bowen - The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the City of Gold
• Erskine Caldwell - God's Little Acre
• John Dickson Carr - The Mad Hatter Mystery
• Leslie Charteris - Once More the Saint (a.k.a. The Saint and Mr. Teal)
• Agatha Christie
  • The Hound of Death
  • Lord Edgware Dies
• A. J. Cronin - Grand Canary
• Guy Endore - The Werewolf of Paris
• Zona Gale - Papa La Fleur
• Erle Stanley Gardner - The Case of the Sulky Girl
• Walter Greenwood - Love on the Dole
• Dashiell Hammett
  • The Thin Man
  • Woman In The Dark
• James Hilton - Lost Horizon
• Volter Kilpi - Alastalon salissa
• Elizabeth Foreman Lewis - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
• Arthur Machen - The Green Round
• Claude McKay - Banana Bottom
• André Malraux - Man's Fate
• Ellery Queen
  • The American Gun Mystery
  • The Siamese Twin Mystery
• Arthur Ransome - Winter Holiday
• Raymond Queneau - Le Chiendent
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - South Moon Under
• Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Hangman's Holiday
  • Murder Must Advertise
• Gertrude Stein - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor - The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
• S. S. Van Dine - The Kennel Murder Case
• Helen Waddell - Peter Abelard
• Hugh Walpole - Vanessa
• H. G. Wells - The Shape of Things to Come
• Franz Werfel - The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
• Antonia White - Frost in May
• Virginia Woolf - Flush: A Biography

New drama

• Jean Anouilh - Mandarine
• Ferdinand Bruckner - Die Rassen
• Federico García Lorca - Blood Wedding
• Eugene O'Neill - Ah, Wilderness!
• Lennox Robinson - Drama at Inish

Poetry

• Edwin James Brady - Wardens of the Seas
• Filip Shiroka - Zâni i zêmrës
• William Butler Yeats - The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Non-fiction

• Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth
• George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
• Muiris Ó Súilleabháin - Fiche Bliain ag Fás / Twenty Years A'Growing
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - In Praise of Shadows

Births

• January 1 - Joe Orton, playwright (died 1967)
• January 9 - Wilbur Smith, novelist
• January 16 - Susan Sontag, novelist (died 2004)
• February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
• March 17 - Penelope Lively, novelist
• March 19 - Philip Roth, novelist
• April 14 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer
• May 5 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, blockbuster author
• May 29 - Edward Whittemore, novelist (died 1995)
• June 20 - Claire Tomalin, journalist and biographer
• July 4 - David Littman, historian
• July 10 - Kevin Gilbert, Australian writer and artist (died 1993)
• July 21 - John Gardner, American writer (died 1982)
• August 13 - Madhur Jaffrey, actress and food writer
• September 19 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist
• October 11 - David Daniels, poet (died 2008)
• November 13 - Peter Härtling, German writer
• December 2 - Kent Andersson, dramatist (died 2005)
• December 31 - Edward Bunker, crime novelist (died 2005)
• date unknown
  • Halim Barakat, Arabic novelist
  • Jim Barnes, Native American poet and translator

Deaths

• January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist (born 1852)
• January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
• January 31 - John Galsworthy, novelist and dramatist (born 1867)
• April 5 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer
• April 19 - E. W. Hobson, pioneering writer on mathematics (born 1856)
• April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet (born 1863)
• April 30 - Anna de Noailles, French writer (born 1876)
• May 26 - Horatio Bottomley, journalist and fraudster (born 1860)
• June 7 - Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian poet (born 1875)
• July 8 - Anthony Hope, adventure novelist (born 1863)
• September 20 - Annie Besant, Theosophist writer (born 1847)
• September 23 - György Almásy, travel writer (born 1867)
• September 25
  • Ring Lardner, writer (born 1885)
  • Pascal Poirier, historian (born 1852)
• November 12 - F. Holland Day, publisher
• November 20 - Augustine Birrell, politician and author
• November 28 - Minnie Earl Sears, librarian (born 1873)
• December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator
• date unknown - Hugo Zöller, explorer and journalist (born 1852)

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Violet Clifton, The Book of Talbot
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
• Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling - The Store

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