1929 in literature


This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1929.

Events

Fiction


  • Jacinto Benavente – :es:Vidas cruzadas |Vidas cruzadas
  • Henri Bernstein – Mélo
  • Bertolt Brecht – The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
  • Ferdinand Bruckner – :de:Krankheit der Jugend|Krankheit der Jugend
  • St. John Ervine – The First Mrs. Fraser
  • Jean Giraudoux – Amphitryon 38
  • Patrick Hamilton – Rope
  • Denis Johnston – The Old Lady Says "No!"
  • Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Rustom O Sohrab
  • Frederick Lonsdale – Canaries Sometimes Sing
  • Kaj Munk – I Brændingen
  • Eugene O'Neill – Dynamo
  • Marcel Pagnol – Marius
  • Stanisława Przybyszewska – The Danton Case
  • Elmer Rice – Street Scene
  • George Bernard Shaw – The Apple Cart
  • Ahmed Shawqi – Masraa' Kliyubatra
  • John Van Druten – After All
  • Ödön von Horváth – Rund um den Kongreß
  • Edgar Wallace
  • *The Calendar
  • *Persons Unknown

    Poetry

  • Robinson Jeffers – Dear Judas and Other Poems
  • W. B. Yeats – The Winding Stair

    Non-fiction

  • Ada Boni – Il talismano della felicità
  • G. K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man
  • Aleister Crowley – Magick in Theory and Practice
  • Mahatma Gandhi – The Story of My Experiments with Truth
  • Robert Graves – Goodbye to All That
  • Walter Lippmann – A Preface to Morals
  • A. A. Milne – Those Were the Days
  • Tomas O'Crohan – – Basic English
  • Walter F. Otto – Die Götter Griechenlands
  • Alice Prin – Kiki's Memoirs
  • I. A. Richards – Practical Criticism
  • Various authors – Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress: essays in support of James Joyce
  • A. E. Waite – The Holy Kabbalah
  • E. B. White and James Thurber – Is Sex Necessary?
  • Alfred North Whitehead – Process and Reality
  • Virginia Woolf – A Room of One's Own

    Births

  • January 9
  • *Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
  • *Heiner Müller, German dramatist
  • January 26 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
  • February 6 – Keith Waterhouse, English journalist and novelist
  • February 16 – Peter Porter, Australian-born English poet and educator
  • February 17 – Chaim Potok, American author
  • February 18 – Len Deighton, English novelist
  • March 1 – Thuppettan, Malayalam-language Keralan playwright
  • March 7 – Dan Jacobson, South African novelist
  • March 19 – Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet
  • April 1 – Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist
  • April 9 – Paule Marshall, born Valenza Pauline Burke, American novelist
  • April 23 – George Steiner, French-born literary critic and philosopher
  • May 14 – George Selden, American author
  • May 16 – Adrienne Rich, American poet and essayist
  • June 2 – Norton Juster, American children's writer and academic
  • June 11 – George Garrett, American poet and novelist
  • June 12
  • *Brigid Brophy, English novelist and critic
  • *Anne Frank, German-born Dutch child diarist
  • June 18 – Grigorijus Kanovičius, Jewish Lithuanian writer
  • June 20 – Anne Weale, English writer
  • June 25 – Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator
  • July 8
  • *Shirley Ann Grau, American short story writer
  • *A. T. Q. Stewart, Northern Irish historian and academic
  • July 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe, English poet
  • July 31 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist
  • August 5 – Al Alvarez, English writer and poetry editor
  • August 14 – Thomas Meehan, American screenwriter
  • August 18 – Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist
  • August 21 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet and translator
  • August 27 – Ira Levin, American novelist and playwright
  • August 29 – Thom Gunn, Anglo-American poet
  • October 7 – Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer
  • October 21 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American science fiction and fantasy author
  • October 23 – Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet
  • November 7 – Steve Carter, American playwright
  • November 13 – Theo Aronson, South African-born British biographer
  • December 12 – John Osborne, English playwright and screenwriter
  • December 16 – James Moore, English author
  • December 17 – William Safire, born Safir, American columnist
  • December 19 – Howard Sackler, American dramatist and screenwriter
  • December 23 – Monique Watteau, Belgian fantasy novelist and artist
  • December 31 – Robert B. Silvers, American literary editor

    Deaths

  • January 15 – Leonard Cline, American novelist, poet and journalist
  • January 29 – Hans Prutz, German historian
  • February 6 – Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Scottish writer and women's rights activist
  • March 7 – :de:Auguste Groner|Auguste Groner, Austrian detective fiction writer
  • March 26 – Katharine Lee Bates, American lyricist
  • March 31 – Santeri Nuorteva, Soviet journalist and politician
  • April 12 – Flora Annie Steel, English writer
  • April 16 – Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian and poet
  • April 21 – Lucy Clifford, English novelist, dramatist and screenwriter
  • May 19 – Mary E. Mann, English novelist and short story writer
  • June 8 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet
  • June 18 – Vedam Venkataraya Sastry, Sanskrit and Telugu poet, critic and dramatist
  • June 22
  • *Alfred Brunswig, German philosopher
  • *Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, English writer of romances and children's books
  • June 25 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist
  • June 28 – Edward Carpenter, English socialist poet and philosopher
  • July 15 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist and poet
  • July 31 – José de Castro, Portuguese journalist
  • August – Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer
  • September 12 – Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright
  • September 19 – Francis Darwin, English botanist and academic
  • October – Arno Holz, German Naturalist poet and dramatist
  • October 8 – Max Lehmann, German historian
  • October 19 – Alexandru Davila, Romanian dramatist and diplomat
  • November 3 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and teacher
  • December 10 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet
Unknown dates
  • *Grace Rhys, Irish novelist and poet
  • *Dallas Lore Sharp, American nature writer
  • *Evelyn Whitaker, English children's writer

    Awards

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
  • Newdigate prize: Phyllis Hartnoll
  • Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
  • O. Henry Award: Dorothy Parker, "Big Blonde"
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
  • Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary