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Events
February – Having joined the Japanese Communist Party, the Chinese novelist Hu Feng is arrested and "badly beaten" in Tokyo, Japan, for his protests against imperialism. Returning to the Republic of China as a popular hero, he is nevertheless prevented from joining the Chinese Communist Party by a rival, Zhou Yang.Denton Kirk A. The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling Stanford University Press 1998 0-8047-3128-4 Stanford 81–82 37713016
February 17 – The magazine News-Week is published for the first time in New York City, United States.http://bztv.typepad.com/instanthistory/2007/02/newsweek_1_a_lo.html Instant History: Review of First Newsweek with Cover Photo BZTV February 17, 1933 December 25, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121025034807/http://bztv.typepad.com/instanthistory/2007/02/newsweek_1_a_lo.html October 25, 2012
March 8 – Premiere of Federico García Lorca's play Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre) is held at the Teatro Beatriz in Madrid, Spain.https://www.abc.es/archivo/abci-noticia-inspiro-lorca-bodas-sangre-202003040848_noticia.html La noticia del misterioso crimen que Lorca leyó en ABC y le inspiró «Bodas de sangre» es Archivo ABC Mónica Arrizabalaga 18 January 2025
April 23 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla is appointed schoolteacher among the Serbs of Vraka, Kingdom of Albania. The next two years bring his creative period as a short story writer, describing his sense of despair at being isolated in a backward region.Elsie Robert Robert Elsie A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History I. B. Tauris London & New York 2012 308 978-1-78076-431-3
thumb|330px|Book burning in the Opernplatz, Berlin, May 11, 1933
May – Nazi book burnings take place in Germany by the German Student Union, principally of works by Jewish intellectuals, leading to an Exilliteratur. Although his novels are spared (unlike those of his brother Heinrich Mann), Thomas Mann settles in Switzerland. Lion Feuchtwanger, on a lecture tour of the United States in January, has decided not to return to Germany; Bertolt Brecht has moved to Prague in February; and Alfred Döblin to Switzerland in March.
June
W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape".Preface to his anthology The Protestant Mystics (1964).
Robert Walser, under treatment for schizophrenia since 1929, is placed in a sanatorium in Herisau, Switzerland. This ends his work as a writer, though he will live until 1956.Heffernan Valerie Provocation from the Periphery: Robert Walser Re-examined Königshausen & Neumann Würzburg 1998 15–16 978-3-8260-3264-6
July – Poedjangga Baroe, the Indonesian avant-garde literary magazine, is first published, by Armijn Pane, Amir Hamzah and Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana.
October 8 – The General Union of Roma in Romania is set up by writer Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică, with Grigoraș Dinicu as honorary president; by 1934, it publishes the Romani-language newspaper O Ròm, and books of Romani mythology, edited by Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor.Achim Viorel The Roma in Romanian History CEU Press Budapest & New York 2007 154–157 978-963-9241-84-8
October
(approximate) The name Inklings, previously used by a disbanded undergraduate group, is taken by an informal literary discussion group of University of Oxford academics, including C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.Colin Duriez The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle https://books.google.com/books?id=1lF4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA240 20 February 2015 Lion Books 978-0-7459-5792-0 240
Friedo Lampe's novel Am Rande der Nacht (At the Edge of Night) is published in Germany but in December is suppressed by the Nazis on the grounds of its themes of homoeroticsm and interracial relationship. It is not republished until 1949, first published unexpurgated in 1999, and first in English translation in 2019.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/23/acclaimed-german-novel-banned-by-nazis-gets-first-english-translation The Guardian Acclaimed German novel banned by Nazis gets first English translation London 2019-01-23 2019-03-24
November 7 – Premiere of Samuil Lehtțir's Biruința (Victory), at Tiraspol's State Theater; it is the first local play to have been produced within the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.Colesnic Iurie Iurie Colesnic 2014-06-23 Prima piesă montată pe scena tiraspoleană a fost a unui basarabean Timpul Chișinău
December
Codex Sinaiticus sold by the Soviet Union to the British Museum Library through the agency of Maggs Bros Ltd at a price of £100,000, the highest ever paid for a book at this time.
Raymond Chandler's first short story, the detective fiction "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", is published in the magazine Black Mask in the United States.
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 be obscene.5 F.Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933).
New books
Fiction
Hervey Allen – Anthony AdverseCritic Receives 'A Great Novel' with Acclaim Chicago Daily Tribune Fanny Butcher June 28, 1933 21
Jorge Amado – Cacau (Cacao)Dineen Mark Jorge Amado 1912- 1997 Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature Smith Verity 57–61 Oxfordshire Routledge
Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie – When Worlds Collide
Marjorie Bowen – Album LeafJames Vinson Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers Macmillan 1982 92
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the City of Gold
Dino Buzzati – Bàrnabo delle montagne
Erskine Caldwell – God's Little Acre
John Dickson Carr – The Mad Hatter Mystery
Leslie Charteris – Once More the Saint (also The Saint and Mr. Teal)
Agatha Christie
The Hound of Death
Lord Edgware Dies
J.J. Connington – Tom Tiddler's Island
Freeman Wills Crofts – The Hog's Back Mystery
A. J. Cronin – Grand CanaryRoss McKibbin Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History Oxford University Press 2019 9780198834205 54
Warwick Deeping – Two Black Sheep
Mircea Eliade – Bengal Nights (Mayitreyi)
Guy Endore – The Werewolf of Paris
Susan Ertz – The ProselyteRichard L Saunders Dale Lowell Morgan Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Part 1: Collected Works, 1939-1951 University of Oklahoma Press 2012 153
Miles Franklin – Bring the Monkeyhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132986249 Miles Franklin's New Novel The News 5 June 1933 2 21 February 2026
John Galsworthy – One More River
Matila Ghyka – Pluie d'étoiles
Anthony Gilbert
Death in Fancy Dress
The Musical Comedy Crime
Portrait of a Murderer
Walter Greenwood – Love on the Dole
Dashiell Hammett – The Thin Man
Ernest Hemingway – Winner Take Nothing
Robert Hichens – The Paradine CaseQ. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965
James Hilton
Knight Without Armour
Lost Horizon
Volter Kilpi – Alastalon salissa (In the Parlour at Alastalo)
Ronald Knox –The Body in the Silo
Pär Lagerkvist – Bödeln (The Hangman; novella)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia – I Was Jack Mortimer
E. C. R. Lorac
The Case of Colonel Marchand
Death on the Oxford Road
Arthur Machen – The Green Round
Compton Mackenzie – Water on the Brain
André Malraux – La Condition humaine Christopher Hitchens Malraux': One Man's Fate New York Times 10 April 2005 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/books/review/10HITCHEN.html
Caroline Pafford Miller – Lamb in His Bosom
A. A. Milne – Four Days' Wonder
Camil Petrescu – Patul lui Procust (The Bed of Procrustes)
E. R. Punshon – Information Received
Ellery Queen
The American Gun Mystery
The Siamese Twin Mystery
Raymond Queneau – Le Chiendent
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – South Moon Under
E. Arnot Robertson – Ordinary Families
Profira Sadoveanu – Mormolocul (Tadopole)
Dorothy L. Sayers
Hangman's Holiday (short stories)
Murder Must Advertise
Bruno Schulz – The Street of Crocodiles (short stories, published as Sklepy cynamonowe, "Cinnamon Shops", in December, dated 1934)
Gertrude Stein – The Autobiography of Alice B. ToklasGertrude Stein Writings 1903–1932 Library of America 1998 924 1-883011-40-X
John Steinbeck - To a God Unknown
Gladys Bronwyn Stern – Long Lost Father
Cecil Street
The Claverton Mystery
The Motor Rally Mystery
The Venner Crime
Thomas F. Tweed – Rinehard: a melodrama of the nineteen-thirties
S. S. Van Dine – The Kennel Murder CaseJacques Barzun Wendell Hertig Taylor A Catalogue of Crime Harper & Row 1971 0-06-015796-8
John Vandercook – Murder in Trinidad
Henry Wade – Mist on the Saltings
Helen Waddell – Peter Abelard
Hugh Walpole – Vanessa
H. G. Wells – The Shape of Things to Come
Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh)
Nathanael West – Miss Lonelyhearts
Dennis Wheatley – The Forbidden Territory
Antonia White – Frost in May
Virginia Woolf – Flush: A Biography
Children and young people
Marjorie Flack – The Story about Ping
Norman Hunter – The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (first in Professor Branestawm series)
Erich Kästner – The Flying Classroom2015 The Flying Classroom by Erich Kastner https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781782690566 2024-11-26 www.publishersweekly.com
Arthur Ransome – Winter Holiday
Felix Salten – Florian: The Emperor’s Stallion
Dorothy Wall – Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian (first in the Blinky Bill series of three books)
Drama
thumb|400px|The original Broadway production of Ah, Wilderness!, with George M. Cohan, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Gene Lockhart
Tawfiq al-Hakim – Ahl el-Kahf (The People of the Cave)
Jean Anouilh – Mandarine
Anthony Armstrong
Ten Minute Alibi
Without Witness
Clifford Bax – The Rose Without a Thorn
Ferdinand Bruckner – Die Rassen
Gordon Daviot (Josephine Tey) – Richard of Bordeaux
Selli Engler – Heil Hitler
Walter Hackett – Afterwards
Ian Hay – A Present from Margate
Hanns Johst – Schlageter
Sidney Kingsley – Men in White
Samuil Lehtțir – Biruința (Victory)
Federico García Lorca – Blood Wedding
W. Somerset Maugham – Sheppey
R. J. Minney – Clive of India
Ivor Novello – Fresh Fields
Eugene O'Neill – Ah, Wilderness!
J. B. Priestley – Laburnum Grove
Lennox Robinson – Drama at Inish
Mordaunt Shairp – The Green Bay Tree
John Van Druten – The Distaff Side
Maxim Ziese – Siebenstein
Poetry
1933 in poetry
Edwin James Brady – Wardens of the Seas
Benjamin Fondane – Ulysse
Mascha Kaléko – Das Lyrische Stenogrammheft: Verse vom Alltag
Osip Mandelstam – "Stalin Epigram"
Vita Sackville-West – Collected Poems
Filip Shiroka – Zâni i zêmrës
J. Slauerhoff – Soleares
W. B. Yeats – The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Non-fiction
Vera Brittain – Testament of Youth
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – Warum Krieg?
Benjamin Fondane – Rimbaud le voyou
Ionel Gherea – Le Moi el le monde. Essai d'une cosmogonie anthropomorphique (The Self and the World. An Essay in Anthropomorphic Cosmogony)
Carl Jung – Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Agnes Mure Mackenzie – An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714
George Orwell – Down and Out in Paris and London
Wilhelm Reich – The Mass Psychology of Fascism (Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus)
Upton Sinclair – Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin (Maurice O'Sullivan) – Fiche Bliain ag Fás (Twenty Years a-Growing)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) – In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, essay on aesthetics)
Births
January 1 – Joe Orton, English playwright (murdered 1967)Orton, John Kingsley [Joe] (1933–1967), playwright Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/35334 free 9780198614128
January 2 – Seiichi Morimura (森村誠一), Japanese author (died 2023)
January 4 – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, American children's and adult novelist
January 9 – Wilbur Smith, South African historical novelist (died 2021)Agence France-Presse 2021-11-14 The Guardian Bestselling author Wilbur Smith dies aged 88 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/14/bestselling-author-wilbur-smith-dies-aged-88
January 13 – Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer and politician (died 2017)
January 16 – Susan Sontag (Susan Rosenblatt), American novelist (died 2004)Homberger Eric Susan Sontag obituary https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/dec/29/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries The Guardian 29 December 2004 October 20, 2020
January 25 – Alden Nowlan, Canadian poet and novelist (died 1983)
February 1 – Reynolds Price, American novelist and literary scholar (died 2011)
February 5 – B. S. Johnson, English novelist (died 1973)
February 12 – Costa-Gavras (Konstantinos Gavras), Greek-French film director and writer Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months Bernan Press 2018 9781641432641 127
February 20 – Zamenga Batukezanga, Congolese francophone writer and philanthropist (died 2000)
February 21 – Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Native American author Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 1984 - SDHoF https://sdexcellence.org/Virginia_Driving_Hawk_Sneve_1984 https://web.archive.org/web/20170731081925/http://sdexcellence.org:80/Virginia_Driving_Hawk_Sneve_1984 2026-09-10 2017-07-31
February 22 – Christopher Ondaatje, Ceylonese-born English travel writer, biographer and philanthropistCharles Whately Parker Charles Wolcott Parker Barnet M. Greene Who's who in Canada https://books.google.com/books?id=rnxmAAAAMAAJ 2000 International Press 978-0-7715-7726-0 433
February 27 – Edward Lucie-Smith, Jamaican-born English writer, critic and broadcaster
March 17 – Penelope Lively (Penelope Low), Egyptian-born English novelistMary Hurley Moran Penelope Lively https://books.google.com/books?id=PghbAAAAMAAJ 1993 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-7028-5 7
March 18 – Sergio Pitol, Mexican fiction writer, translator and diplomat (died 2018)
March 19 – Philip Roth, American novelist (died 2018)Sanford Pinsker Professor Sanford Pinsker, B.A., PH.D. The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh7Ya84bjtcC&pg=PA145 1991 SIU Press 978-0-8093-1581-9 145
April 2 – György Konrád, Hungarian novelist, essayist, political dissident and President of PEN International (died 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/07/gyorgy-konrad-obituary György Konrád obituary 7 October 2019 The Guardian George Gomori 14 November 2021
April 7 – Cong Weixi, Chinese author (died 2019)
April 14 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer (died 2012)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/20/boris-strugatsky-russia-sci-fi-writer Boris Strugatsky: Russia mourns death of sci-fi writer – even Vladimir Putin 20 November 2012 The Guardian Miriam Elder 14 November 2021
April 24 – Patricia Bosworth, American writer/biographer (died 2020)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/books/patricia-bosworth-dead-virus.html Patricia Bosworth, actress-turned-author, dies at 86 April 16, 2020 Elsa Dixler New York Times August 8, 2021
May 9 – Jessica Steele, English romance novelist (died 2020)
May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford (Barbara Taylor), English-born American novelist (died 2024)Dave Mote Contemporary Popular Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=2MkUAQAAIAAJ 1997 St. James Press 978-1-55862-216-6 43
May 12 – Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian-born writer (died 2021)Ratcliffe Michael 2021-08-29 Stephen Vizinczey obituary en-GB The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/29/stephen-vizinczey-obituary 2023-03-31 0261-3077
May 22 – Arnold Lobel, American children's writer and illustrator (died 1987)
May 29
Abdul Rahman Munif, Arab writer (died 2004)
Edward Whittemore, American novelist (died 1995)
June 9 – Vicente Leñero, Mexican novelist and playwright (died 2014)
June 11 – Martti Soosaar, Estonian journalist and author (died 2017)
June 20 – Claire Tomalin (Claire Delavenay), English journalist and biographer
June 25 – James Meredith, African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
June 30 – Mauricio Rosencof, Uruguayan playwright, poet and journalist
July 2 – John Antrobus, English playwright and scriptwriter
July 4 – David Littman, English historian (died 2012)
July 10 – Kevin Gilbert, Australian writer and artist (died 1993)
July 13 – David Storey, English novelist and playwright (died 2017)
July 14 – Solange Fasquelle, French novelist (died 2016)
July 15 – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian novelist (died 2024)ലേഖകൻ മാധ്യമം 2021-07-29 എം.ടിക്ക് ഇന്ന് പിറന്നാൾ Madhyamam https://www.madhyamam.com/kerala/today-is-mt-vasudevan-nairs-birthday-829928 2021-07-29 www.madhyamam.com en
July 20 – Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 2023)
July 21
John Gardner, American novelist (died 1982)
Brigitte Reimann, German novelist (died 1973)
July 31 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch poet and writer (died 2026)
August 1 – Ko Un (Ko Untae), South Korean poet
August 2 – Michel del Castillo, Spanish-born French writer (died 2024)
August 7 – Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer (died 2017)https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/obituaries/jerry-pournelle-science-fiction-novelist-and-computer-guide-dies-at-84.html Jerry Pournelle, Science Fiction Novelist and Computer Guide, Dies at 84 Neil Genzlinger The New York Times September 15, 2017 September 1, 2019 NYTimes.com
August 13 – Madhur Jaffrey, Indian actress and food writerScreen International Film and TV Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=6uBkAAAAMAAJ 1992 Screen International, King Publications Limited 978-0-900925-21-4 130
August 16 – Tom Maschler, Austrian-born English literary publisher (died 2020)Thomson Liz 16 October 2020 Tom Maschler obituary en-GB The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/16/tom-maschler-obituary 17 October 2020 0261-3077
September 8 – Michael Frayn, English playwright and novelistR. Reginald Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2 Wildside Press, LLC 2010 9780941028776 904
September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher and author (died 2017)
September 19 – Gilles Archambault, French Canadian novelist
September 27 – Paul Goble, English-American author and illustrator (died 2017)
October 21 – Maureen Duffy, English poet, playwright, author and activist (died 2026)Maureen Duffy https://www.bl.uk/people/maureen-duffy www.bl.uk 20 November 2022 14 June 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210614044710/https://www.bl.uk/people/maureen-duffy dead
October 24 – Norman Rush, American writer
November 1
Viačasłaŭ Adamčyk, Belarusian journalist, writer, playwright and screenwriter (died 2001)
Huub Oosterhuis, Dutch poet, theologian and liturgy reformer
Samir Roychoudhury, Indian Bengali poet and philosopher (died 2016)
November 5 – Ilie Purcaru, Romanian journalist and poet (died 2008)
November 13 – Peter Härtling, German novelist and poet (died 2017)
November 23 – Daniel Chavarría, Uruguayan writer and translator (died 2018)
December 2 – Kent Andersson, Swedish dramatist (died 2005)
December 22 – Jim Barnes, Native American poet and translatorContemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields https://books.google.com/books?id=HsHiAAAAMAAJ 1999 Gale Research Company 978-0-7876-2670-9 32
December 31 – Edward Bunker, American crime novelist (died 2005)
Deaths
January 5 – J. M. Robertson, British Liberal Party politician, writer and journalist, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (born 1856)Wells G. A. George Albert Wells J.M. Robertson (1856-1933): liberal, rationalist, and scholar 1987 Pemberton 978-0-30187-002-1 26
January 11 – Hugo Zöller, German explorer and journalist (born 1852)The New International Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=vZwYAAAAIAAJ 1934 Dodd, Mead and Company 587
January 21 – George Moore, Irish poet and novelist (born 1852)Moore, George (1852-1933) Blue Plaques English Heritage 1937 https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/george-moore/ 8 December 2023
January 29 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (born 1884; suicide)http://www.poemhunter.com/sara-teasdale/biography/ Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) 2009-04-22
January 31 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and dramatist (born 1867)James Gindin John Galsworthy's Life and Art: An Alien's Fortress https://books.google.com/books?id=YcevCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 18 June 1987 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-1-349-08530-9 1
February 20 – Takiji Kobayashi (小林多喜二), Japanese writer (born 1903)
April 5 – Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (heart attack, born 1884)J.K. Van Dover Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925-1930 McFarland, Incorporated 2010 9780786456895 163
April 19 – E. W. Hobson, English writer on mathematics (born 1856)HB874EW Hobson, Ernest William
April 24 – Janet Milne Rae, Scottish novelist (born 1844)http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2013/01/british-women-writers-of-fiction-1910_59.html British Women Writers of Fiction Furrowed Middlebrow 1 January 2013 16 November 2020
April 29 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet (born 1863)
April 30 – Anna de Noailles, French writer (born 1876)Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia Taylor & Francis 2013 9781135616700 334
May 2 – Leonard Huxley, British writer (born 1860)https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-post-and-mercury-death-of-mr/132098939/ Death of Mr. Leonard Huxley Liverpool Daily Post 8 1933-05-04 2023-09-19 Newspapers.com
May 16 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish-born German anarchist writer and philosopher (born 1864)https://books.google.com/books?id=0masjfeO6isC&pg=PA600 Kräm – Marp 9783110220490 Kühlmann Wilhelm 29 September 2010
May 26 – Horatio Bottomley, English journalist and fraudster (born 1860) Hyman Alan The Rise and Fall of Horatio Bottomley https://archive.org/details/risefallofhorati0000hyma Cassell & Co. Littlehampton, West Sussex 1972 0-304-29023-8 289–90
June 7 – Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian poet (born 1875)Great Soviet Encyclopedia Macmillan 1973 362
June 27 – Jennie M. Bingham, American author (born 1859)Jane Maria Bingham 16 March 1859 – 27 June 1933 • MFYZ-3C2 https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MFYZ-3C2 ident.familysearch.org 25 October 2022
July 8 – Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English adventure novelist (born 1863)Obituary in The Times, 10 July 1933, p. 16
August 12 – Alexandru Philippide, Romanian linguist and polemicist (atherosclerosis, born 1859)
September 20 – Annie Besant, English Theosophist writer (born 1847)22 September 1933 Dr. Annie Besant 12 Sydney Morning Herald https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LvVUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7137%2C2455951 Google News Archive
September 22 – György Almásy, Hungarian travel writer (born 1867)Wolfgang Behn Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume One (A-G) 2004 9789047413905 34 -Brill
September 25
Ring Lardner, American writer (born 1885)Ring Lardner Dies; Noted as Writer https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0306.html
Pascal Poirier, Canadian historian (born 1852)Leo J. Hynes Moncton's Catholic Roots Tribune Press 1982 23
September 28 – G. R. S. Mead, British writer (born 1863)Gilbert R.A. Mead, George Robert Stow http://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-53879 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/53879
October 30 – Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, Anglo-Irish-American short story writer (born 1861?)Doig James Herminie Templeton Kavanagh (1861-1933) The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature 2022 20 69–74 48687413 https://www.jstor.org/stable/48687413 1 July 2024 2009-6089
November 12 – F. Holland Day, American publisher (born 1864)
November 20 – Augustine Birrell, English politician and author (born 1850)Birrell, Augustine 3 989–990
November 28 – Minnie Earl Sears, American librarian (born 1873)Alumni Association News Letter University of Illinois 1953 7
November 30 – Annie Armitt, English novelist and poet (born 1850)Cumbria https://books.google.com/books?id=q9EMAQAAMAAJ 1959 Dalesman Publishing Company 444
December 4 – Stefan George, German poet and translator (born 1868)Hoffmann Peter Peter Hoffmann (historian) https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/43675/hoffmann-norton-secret-germany-stefan-george-and-his-circle Review of Norton, Robert, Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle May 2003 H-German H-Net live https://web.archive.org/web/20240314222244/https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/43675/hoffmann-norton-secret-germany-stefan-george-and-his-circle 2024-03-14
December 16 – Robert W. Chambers, American writer (born 1865) Robert Chambers, Novelist, Is Dead December 17, 1933 New York Times 36
December 27 – Georgina Castle Smith (pseudonym Brenda), English children's writer (born 1845)
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 in 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
References
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External links
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