1928 in literature

none 1928 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1928. Events thumb|Stockholm Public Library January The Soviet magazine Oktyabr begins publishing Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don («Тихий Дон», Tikhiy Don) in instalments. Ford Madox Ford publishes Last Post in the U.K., as the last in his World War I tetralogy Parade's End, which has been appearing since 1924. January 16 – The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London. Pallbearers include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw.Threefold Tribute To Thomas Hardy Liverpool Echo 1928-01-16 12 Meanwhile, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset.Charles Angell Bradford Bradford Charles Angell Heart Burial 1933 Allen & Unwin London 978-1-162-77181-6 246 Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1891 (Macmillan), in fact largely dictated by Hardy.Gittings Robert Robert Gittings Young Thomas Hardy 1978 Penguin Books 15–17 February – Weird Tales magazine publishes H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu" in the United States. March 31 – Stockholm Public Library, designed by Gunnar Asplund, opens. April 19 – Publication of the Oxford English Dictionary is completed. Spring – George Orwell moves from London to Paris; his first articles as a professional writer appear later in the year.George Orwell A Kind of Compulsion (1903–36) 113 June – The literary magazine Contemporáneos is first published in Mexico by Jaime Torres Bodet, giving a name to the group Los Contemporáneos. June 27 – The English writer Evelyn Waugh marries Evelyn Gardner, daughter of Lady Winifred Burghclere, in St Paul's Church, Portman Square, London, with only Harold Acton, Alec Waugh (the author's brother) and Pansy Pakenham present.Hastings Selina Selina Hastings (writer) Evelyn Waugh: A biography Sinclair-Stevenson London 1994 1-85619-223-7 175–76 They move into a flat in Canonbury Square, Islington. In September the author's first completed novel, the satire Decline and Fall, is published by Chapman & Hall, of which his father, Arthur Waugh, is managing director. It is illustrated by the author. It reaches a third impression by the end of the year. The marriage lasts until the following September. July – D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is published in Florence. It will not be published unexpurgated in Britain until 1960. August 27 – Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe in Galway is founded as the national Irish-language theater, opening with Micheál Mac Liammóir's version of Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne. August 31 – The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper), adapted by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and composer Kurt Weill (with set designer Caspar Neher) from The Beggar's Opera, is launched at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, with Harald Paulsen and Lotte Lenya in the principal rôles.Pressley Nelson 2014-04-18 In Signature's Threepenny Opera, old themes find a new relevance and a new look The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/in-signatures-threepenny-opera-old-themes-find-a-new-relevance-and-a-new-look/2014/04/17/e1e25222-c1b6-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html 2023-06-28 September S. S. Van Dine's "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories" are published in The American Magazine.NA NA Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=_U6vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1415 25 December 2015 Springer 978-1-349-81366-7 1415 Leslie Charteris's Meet the Tiger, the first adventure of Simon Templar ("the Saint"), is published in the U.K.. Charteris will write dozens of novels and stories with the character in 1928–1963; successor writers will continue until 1983. September 21 – The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner (Gwas Myghal) and others.John T. Koch The Celts: History, Life, and Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=3cHdQC1cXLEC&pg=PA392 2012 ABC-CLIO 978-1-59884-964-6 392 October W. H. Auden goes to Berlin and is soon joined by Christopher Isherwood.Hello to Berlin, boys and books The Daily Telegraph London 2004-05-18 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3617069/Hello-to-Berlin-boys-and-books.html Luk Phu Chai (A Real Man), perhaps the first major original Thai novel, is published by Siburapha (Kulap Saipradit).Benjamin A. Batson Kulab Saipradit and the War of Life Journal of the Siam Society 69 1981 http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/1981/JSS_069_0g_Baltson_KulabSaipraditAndWarOfLife.pdf 59–60 2013-06-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20140203081251/http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/1981/JSS_069_0g_Baltson_KulabSaipraditAndWarOfLife.pdf 2014-02-03 live October 14 – The Gate Theatre in Dublin is founded by English actors and lovers Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards, initially using the Abbey Theatre's Peacock studio to stage works by European and American dramatists. November–December – Erich Maria Remarque's antiwar novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) appears in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung. Hans Herbert Grimm's Schlump is also published (anonymously) by Kurt Wolff in Berlin this year. November 1 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey, introduces the Roman-based 29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace the Ottoman script as the official writing system for the Turkish language. November 6 – Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (Zài Bié Kāngqiáo, "On Leaving Cambridge Once More"). November 9–16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, published on July 27 by Jonathan Cape in London with an appreciation by Havelock Ellis, is tried and convicted at Bow Street Magistrates' Court on the grounds of obscenity under the Hicklin test, for its theme of lesbian love, after a campaign against it by James Douglas in the Sunday Express. The presiding magistrate, Sir Chartres Biron, holds that the book contains "not one word which suggested that anyone with the horrible tendencies described was in the least degree blameworthy. All the characters in the book were presented as attractive people and put forward with admiration."Novel Condemned As Obscene The Times London 1928-11-17 5 Other lesbian literature published in England this year evades prosecution: Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Hotel, Virginia Woolf's fictional Orlando: A Biography, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical Extraordinary Women. Djuna Barnes' novel Ladies Almanack, published in Paris, also alludes to the controversy.Baker Michael Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall GMP Publishers 1985 London 0-85449-042-6Foster Jeanette H. Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey Vantage Press 1956 New York December 9 – R. C. Sherriff's drama Journey's End, set on the Western Front (World War I), is premièred by the Incorporated Stage Society at the Apollo Theatre in London, with Laurence Olivier in a principal rôle.Sherriff R. C. No Leading Lady: An Autobiography London Victor Gollancz Ltd 1968 0-575-00155-0 thumb|Sigrid Undset at the Nobel prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1928. December 10 – Danish-born Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages."The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 nobelprize.org December 19 – Italo Svevo (Aron Schmitz), returning from an Alpine resort to Trieste, suffers a car accident. He dies next day leaving his novel Il Vegliardo (The Old Man) unfinished in mid-word. unknown dates Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali first appears as a serial in a Calcutta periodical.Robinson Andrew W. Andrew Robinson Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye https://archive.org/details/satyajitrayinner00robi_0 registration 1989 University of California Press 978-0-520-06946-6 The clerihew, a comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is first mentioned in print.In The Week-end Book – Oxford English Dictionary. It is claimed that one in four of all secular books printed and sold in England this year are the work of Edgar Wallace.David Glover Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar (1875–1932) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36703 10 March 2015 10.1093/ref:odnb/36703 thumb|Edgar Wallace with trademark trilby hat and cigarette holder at the height of his success in 1928 New books Fiction Leslie Barringer – Joris of the Rock Vicki Baum – Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry Marjorie Bowen – General Crack André Breton – Nadja Lynn Brock – The Slip-Carriage Mystery Mary Butts – Armed with Madness Ferreira de Castro – Emigrantes (Emigrants) Agatha Christie – The Mystery of the Blue Train G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole – The Man from the River Colette – Break of Day (La Naissance du jour) J.J. Connington Mystery at Lynden Sands The Case with Nine Solutions Freeman Wills Crofts – The Sea Mystery Clemence Dane – Enter Sir John Frank Parker Day – Rockbound Franklin W. Dixon – Hunting for Hidden Gold Jessie Redmon Fauset – Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Esther Forbes – A Mirror for Witches Rosita Forbes – King's Mate Ford Madox Ford – Last Post E. M. Forster – The Eternal Moment and Other Stories R. Austin Freeman – As a Thief in the Night August Gailit – Toomas Nipernaadi Anthony Gilbert – The Murder of Mrs. Davenport Maxim Gorky – The Life of Klim Samgin (second volume, translated as The Magnet; «Жизнь Клима Самгина», Zhizn', Klima Samgina) Reşat Nuri Güntekin – Yeşil GeceThe Politics of EU Accession: Turkish Challenges and Central European Experiences Lucie Tunkrova Pavel Šaradín Taylor & Francis 2010 9781136979262 1832 Radclyffe Hall – The Well of Loneliness Dynes Wayne History of homosexuality in Europe and America Garland Pub New York 1992 9780815305507 559 Thea von Harbou – The Rocket to the Moon Georgette Heyer – The Masqueraders James Hilton – The Silver Flame Sydney Horler – The Curse of Doone Aldous Huxley – Point Counter Point Ilf and Petrov – The Twelve Chairs («Двенадцать стульев», Dvenadtsat stulyev) Mikheil Javakhishvili – Givi Shaduri (გივი შადური)Great Soviet Encyclopedia Macmillan 1973 492 Joseph Kessel – Belle de Jour Lucey Michael Someone : the pragmatics of misfit sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert The University of Chicago Press Chicago London 2019 9780226606217 31 Ronald Knox –The Footsteps at the Lock Kwee Tek Hoay – Drama dari Krakatau (serialization) Selma Lagerlöf – Anna Svärd Nella Larsen – Quicksand D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley's Lover Claude McKay – Home To Harlem Wyndham Lewis - The Childermass: Section I Compton Mackenzie – Extremes Meet W. Somerset Maugham – Ashenden: Or the British AgentH. R. F. Keating H. R. F. Keating Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction London Windward 1982 0-7112-0249-4 Abdul Muis – Salah Asuhan Dhan Gopal Mukerji – Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon Vladimir Nabokov (as V. Sirin) – King, Queen, Knave («Король, дама, валет», Korol', dama, valet) Baroness Orczy – Skin o' My Tooth Anthony Powell – The Barnard Letters Premchand – Nirmala Jenaro Prieto – The Partner Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front Siegfried Sassoon – Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (anonymous in 1st impression)Sanford Sternlicht Siegfried Sassoon Twayne 1993 9780805770216 82 Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Views the Body The Unpleasantness at the Bellona ClubCatherine Kenney The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers https://books.google.com/books?id=w9DiArv98MQC&pg=PA45 15 June 1991 Kent State University Press 978-0-87338-458-2 45 Arthur Schnitzler – Therese Nan Shepherd – The Quarry Wood Cecil Street – The Murders in Praed Street Păstorel Teodoreanu – Hronicul Măscăriciului VălătucIon Pop Dicționar analitic de opere literare românești https://books.google.com/books?id=rs3hAAAAMAAJ 1999 Editura Didactică și pedagogică R.A. 978-973-686-008-9 400 ro S. S. Van Dine The Greene Murder Case The Bishop Murder Case Henry Wade – The Missing Partners Hugh Walpole – Wintersmoon Mika Waltari – Suuri illusioni Evelyn Waugh – Decline and Fall H. G. Wells – Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island Franz Werfel – Class Reunion (Der Abituriententag) Valentine Williams – The Crouching Beast Virginia Woolf – Orlando: A Biography S. Fowler Wright – Deluge Francis Brett Young The Key of Life My Brother Jonathan Children and young people Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle Wanda Gág – Millions of Cats A. A. Milne – The House at Pooh Corner Felix Salten – Bambi, A Life in the Woods (Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde, 1923) Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Giant Horse of Oz Drama Jacinto Benavente – Pepa Doncel Charles Bennett Blackmail The Last Hour Bertolt Brecht – The Threepenny Opera Joe Corrie – In Time o' Strife Eduardo De Filippo – Filosoficamente Nikolai Erdman – The Suicide («Самоубийца», written) Marieluise Fleißer – Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Pioniere in Ingolstadt) Eigler Friederike The feminist encyclopedia of German literature Greenwood Press Westport, Conn 1997 9780313293139 175 Garrett Fort – Jarnegan Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Sita Banbas (published)Amaresh Datta Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA101 1987 Sahitya Akademi 978-81-260-1803-1 101 Kwee Tek Hoay (郭德懷)– Korbannja Yi Yong Toen (Victims of Yi Yong Toen, published serially) Patrick Hastings – The Moving Finger Monckton Hoffe – Many Waters Daniil Kharms – Elizabeth Bam («Елизавета Бам») Miroslav Krleža – The Glembays (Gospoda Glembajevi) John Howard Lawson – The International Alexander Lernet-Holenia, as Clemens Neydisser, and Stefan Zweig – Gelegenheit macht Liebe (Opportunity creates love) or Quiproquo Federico García Lorca – The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden (Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, written)Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism University of Kansas 2000 38 Walter Hackett – Other Men's WivesJ. P. Wearing The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel Rowman & Littlefield 2014 584 W. Somerset Maugham – The Sacred Flame Ivor Novello – The Truth Game Eugene O'Neill – Strange InterludeEugene O'Neill Complete Plays 1920-1931 Travis Bogard Library of America 1988 10800-940450-49-6 Eugen Ortner – Meier HelmbrechtFrank Noack Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker University Press of Kentucky 2016 72 Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩) – Pan Jinlian (潘金蓮) R. C. Sherriff – Journey's EndSherriff Robert Cedric No Leading Lady: An Autobiography 39, 9, 43–44, 45, 52, 49, 70–76, 129, 130, 181 London Victor Gollancz 1968 978-0-575-00155-8 Ben Travers – Plunder Sophie Treadwell – Machinal John Van Druten – The Return of the Soldier Louis Verneuil – Monsieur Lamberthier Roger Vitrac – Victor, or Power to the Children (Victor, ou les enfants au pouvoir) Edgar Wallace The Lad The Man Who Changed His Name The Squeaker Carl Zuckmayer – Katharina Knie Poetry 1928 in poetry Stephen Vincent Benét – John Brown's Body Robert Frost – West-Running Brook Robinson Jeffers – Cawdor Federico García Lorca – Gypsy Ballads (Romancero Gitano) Siegfried Sassoon – The Heart's JourneyJean Moorcroft Wilson Siegfried Sassoon: the Journey from the Trenches Duckworth London 2003 0-7156-3324-4 166–169 Non-fiction Max Aitken – Politicians and the War Clive Bell – Civilization: An Essay Edmund Blunden – Undertones of War (autobiography)Fussell Paul 1975 The Great War and Modern Memory New York Oxford University Press 310 9780195133325 Hall Caine – Recollections of Rossetti (second expanded version) Julius Evola – Imperialismo Pagano (Pagan Imperialism) Sidney Bradshaw Fay – Origins of the World War Dion Fortune – Esoteric Orders and Their Work Harold Lloyd – An American Comedy (autobiography) Dora Marsden – The Definition of the Godhead Margaret Mead – Coming of Age in Samoahttps://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/books/hearts-of-darkness.html Hearts of Darkness John Horgan New York Times 12 November 2000 14 February 2021 Paul Morand – Black Magic Tomas O'Crohan – Allagar na h-Inise (Island Cross-Talk) Edgar Wallace – The Trial of Patrick Herbert Mahon H. G. Wells – The Open ConspiracyH.G. Wells The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution Doubleday, Doran 1928 163 Stefan Zweig – Drei Dichter ihres Lebens. 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W. Wilson Company 23 February 5 – Andrew Greeley, Irish-American priest and novelist (died 2013)Allen John L. Fr. 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Stern, American novelist and educator (died 2013) February 28 – Walter Tevis, American novelist (died 1984)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/queens-gambit-netflix-true-story-author-walter-tevis/ Literature's lonely alien: the troubled author behind The Queen's Gambit The Daily Telegraph Jake Kerridge 30 October 2020 9 June 2024 February 29 – Jean Adamson, English children's author and illustrator (died 2024)Jean Adamson http://www.gold.ac.uk/honorands/jean-adamson/ Goldsmiths, University of London 25 December 2016 March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English novelist (died 2010)Gillian Mary Hanson Understanding Alan Sillitoe https://books.google.com/books?id=WM5uNlLeqL4C&pg=PA1 1999 Univ of South Carolina Press 978-1-57003-219-6 1 March 12 – Edward Albee, American dramatist (died 2016)Barbara Lee Horn Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook https://books.google.com/books?id=nu8Q92GKE88C&pg=PA10 2003 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-31141-3 10 March 13 – Jane Grigson, English cookery writer (died 1990)Deborah Andrews Annual Obituary, 1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=6VIYAAAAIAAJ 1991 St. James Press 978-1-55862-092-6 173 March 22 – E. D. Hirsch, American academic literary critic and educator March 30 – Tom Sharpe, English satirical author (died 2013)https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22794761 Obituary: Tom Sharpe June 6, 2013 BBC News June 16, 2021 April 4 – Maya Angelou, American poet (died 2014)Elaine Showalter Lea Baechler A. Walton Litz Modern American Women Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=30UkL9DTj5UC&pg=PA1 27 September 1993 Simon and Schuster 978-0-02-082025-3 1 April 7 – Alan J. Pakula, American screenwriter (died 1998) April 11 – Lionel Abrahams, South African novelist, poet and essayist (died 2004) April 17 – Cynthia Ozick, American authorJoseph Lowin Cynthia Ozick https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiFbAAAAMAAJ 1988 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-7526-6 April 24 – Martin Seymour-Smith, English poet, biographer and critic (died 1998)Nye, Robert. Obituary: Martin Seymour-Smith, The Independent (1998) May 4 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet (died 2021)2021-12-26 Obituary: Thomas Kinsella, the gifted poet who lived and breathed Dublin https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/obituary-thomas-kinsella-the-gifted-poet-who-lived-and-breathed-dublin/41183201.html 2024-02-21 Independent.ie en May 24 – William Trevor, Irish fiction writer and playwright (died 2016) June 10 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author and illustrator (died 2012)Hal Marcovitz Maurice Sendak https://books.google.com/books?id=yGLr6hqCMqsC&pg=PA115 2006 Infobase Publishing 978-0-7910-8796-1 115 June 28 – Stan Barstow, English novelist (died 2011)James Hardin Gale Cengage British Short-fiction Writers, 1945-1980 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ls4UAQAAIAAJ 1994 Gale Research 978-0-8103-5398-5 14 July 11 – Jane Gardam, English writer of fiction and literary critic (died 2025) July 16 Anita Brookner, English novelist (died 2016)Lynn Veach Sadler Sadler Anita Brookner https://books.google.com/books?id=XUlaAAAAMAAJ 1990 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-6991-3 1 Robert Sheckley, American writer (died 2005) July 18 – Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer, Poet Laureate of the Netherlands (d. 2009) July 19 – Samuel John Hazo, American author July 24 – Griselda Gambaro, Argentine writer July 26 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist (died 2004)C. Bloom Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=CpKFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA253 29 September 2008 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-0-230-58387-0 253 August 7 – Anthony Lejeune, English writer, editor and broadcaster (died 2018) August 12 – Beni Virtzberg, Israeli forester, Holocaust survivor and writer (died 1968) September 6 – Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author (died 2017) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/25/robert-pirsig-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-dies-aged-88 Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance author dies aged 88 April 24, 2017 The Guardian April 26, 2017 September 11 – William X. Kienzle, American priest and author (died 2001) September 18 – Sigrid Kahle, Swedish journalist and writer (died 2013)Sigrid Ida Mathilda Kahle Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon 21 October 2019 Sjöberg, Maria https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/SigridIdaMathildaKahle September 20 – Donald Hall, American poet and poet laureate (died 2018) September 30 – Elie Wiesel, American Jewish author and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 2016)Mark Chmiel Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership https://books.google.com/books?id=TdhwE27xaG4C&pg=PA3 2001 Temple University Press 978-1-56639-857-2 3 October 2 – Zora Tavčar, Slovenian writer and translator October 3 – Alvin Toffler, American futurist writer (died 2016)https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html Alvin Toffler, Author of 'Future Shock,' Dies at 87 The New York Times Keith Schneider June 29, 2016 June 29, 2016 October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (died 1980) October 10 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (died 2009) October 17 – Rosemary Tonks, English poet, prose writer and children's writer (died 2014) October 21 – Yu Guangzhong, Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic (died 2017)Qin Amy Yu Guangzhong, Exiled Poet Who Longed for China, Dies at 89 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/obituaries/yu-guangzhong-exiled-poet-who-longed-for-china-dies-at-89.html 22 February 2018 New York Times October 27 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer and poetH. Graham Rawlinson J. L. Granatstein The Canadian 100: The 100 Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=_B_LxMnyClkC 1997 McArthur 978-1-55278-005-3 323 November 2 – Paul Johnson, English historian and journalist (died 2023) November 9 – Anne Sexton, American poet (died 1974)Elaine Showalter Lea Baechler A. Walton Litz Modern American Women Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=30UkL9DTj5UC&pg=PA312 27 September 1993 Simon and Schuster 978-0-02-082025-3 312 November 11 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (died 2012)Tracy Chevalier Encyclopedia of the Essay https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA315 1997 Taylor & Francis 978-1-884964-30-5 315 November 12 – Marjorie W. Sharmat, American children's writer (died 2019)https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/obituaries/marjorie-weinman-sharmat-nate-the-great-author-dies-at-90.html Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, 90, ‘Nate the Great’ Author, Dies March 16, 2019 New York Times October 19, 2021 November 20 – Dolf Verroen, Dutch writer of children's literature November 28 – Bano Qudsia, Punjab-born Pakistani fiction writer (died 2017) Kumar Sukrita Mapping memories: Urdu stories from India and Pakistan Katha New Delhi 1998 9788185586762 28 December 3 Karin Bang, Norwegian novelist and poet (died 2017)Karin Bang Norsk biografisk leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo Helle, Knut Tom Lotherington Tom Lotherington 1 1999 http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Karin_Bang/utdypning no 19 October 2021 Barbara Probst Solomon, American author, essayist and journalist (died 2019) December 16 – Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (died 1982) Kucukalic Lejla Philip K. Dick: canonical writer of the digital age 27 Taylor and Francis 2008 978-0-415-96242-1 December 31 – Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (died 2015) Deaths January 8 – Juan B. Justo, Argentine journalist (born 1865) January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (born 1840) Widdowson Peter Thomas Hardy : Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose Macmillan Education, Limited London 1996 9781349250820 xx en January 19 – Hans Hinrich Wendt, German theologian (born 1853) January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist, journalist and politician (born 1867)Cuquerella Toni La complicada historia de la tumba de Blasco Ibáñez, el escritor y político que quería reposar en una València republicana https://www.eldiario.es/comunitat-valenciana/vulneraciones-ideologicas-tumba-republicano-anticlerical-vicente-blasco-ibanez_1_7387228.html 12 April 2021 ElDiario.es 11 April 2021 es February 19 – Mildred Aldrich, American journalist (born 1853) February 29 – Adolphe Appia, Swiss writer and scenery and lighting designer (born 1862) March 4 – Paul Sabatier, French religious writer (born 1858)Paul Sabatier (1858-1928) http://data.bnf.fr/13331934/paul_sabatier/ Bibliothèque nationale de France 21 November 2021 fr March 18 – Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish poet (born 1896) March 24 Didrik Hegermann Grønvold, Norwegian novelist (born 1855) Charlotte Mew, English poet (born 1869; suicide)Joy Grant Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop University of California Press 125 April 10 – Stanley J. Weyman, English novelist (born 1855) April 19 – Ladislav Klíma, Czech novelist and philosopher (born 1878) May 5 – Barry Pain, English writer (born 1864) May 16 – Edmund Gosse, English poet and critic (born 1849)Steve Clark T. Connolly Jason Whittaker Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=aohMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT69 24 January 2012 Springer 978-0-230-36668-8 69 May 19 – Max Scheler, German philosopher (born 1874)Francis Dunlop Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler https://books.google.com/books?id=mTUqAQAAMAAJ 1991 Claridge Press 978-1-870626-71-2 15 May 22 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (suicide, born 1904) May 25 – George Ranetti, Romanian humorist and playwright (born 1875) July 1 – Avery Hopwood, American playwright (heart attack, born 1882) Sharrar Jack Avery Hopwood: his life and plays University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 1998 9780472109630 3 July 8 – Crystal Eastman, American journalist (born 1881) August – Isaac Markens, American journalist (born 1846)"ISAAC MARKENS.; Author of Several Books on Lincoln Succumbs at 82 in Newark",The New York Times, August 1928. August 16 – Antonín Sova, Czech poet (born 1864)Czechoslovak Life Orbis 1988 37 August 17 – Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, British statesman and author (born 1838) Torrance David The Scottish Secretaries Birlinn Edinburgh 2006 9781841584768 20 August 3 – Oskar Jerschke, German dramatist (born 1861)Wilhelm Kosch Deutsche Theater-Lexikon 2 2011 9783110954333 908 October 24 – Henry Festing Jones, English biographer, editor and lawyer (born 1851)"Jones, Henry Festing". Retrieved 1 January 2018. December 1 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (born 1888)Dr. Jose E. Rivera, Author, Dies Here. Colombian Was Writing English Edition of His Novel 'La Voragine'. Prominent Diplomat https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0CE4DB1331E33ABC4A53DFB4678383639EDE New York Times December 2, 1928 2015-11-25 December 13 – Joseph Bucklin Bishop, American journalist and publisher (born 1847) December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (stroke, born 1885) December 19 – Italo Svevo, Italian writer (born 1861)Sorrel Kerbel The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=SqQsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1072 23 November 2004 Routledge 978-1-135-45607-8 1072 December 23 – Ludwig Rosenthal, German antiquarian bookseller (born 1840) Awards James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Buchan, Montrose Newbery Medal for children's literature: Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon Nobel Prize for Literature: Sigrid Undset Prix Goncourt: Maurice Constantin-Weyer, Un Homme se penche sur son passéHarold J. Salemson Tambour https://books.google.com/books?id=_mRERPAsfDUC&pg=RA7-PA74 2002 Univ of Wisconsin Press 978-0-299-17414-9 7 Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Tristram Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis ReyElizabeth A. Brennan Elizabeth C. Clarage Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA104 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-1-57356-111-2 104 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1928 at Goodreads Published 1928 Books at Goodreads 1928 Books at Goodreads