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none 1930 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1930. Events thumb|right|Winnie-the-Pooh listening to Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926); illustration by E. H. Shepard. January 6 – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, giving Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.Shirley Harrison The Life and Times of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh: The Teddy Bear Who Inspired A.A. Milne https://books.google.com/books?id=XcSIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT90 23 July 2012 Pen & Sword Books 978-1-84468-320-8 90 February – The Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State. Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) 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.Iris Oifigiúil (official gazette), 14 May 1930. February 23 – Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues, 1929) is banned in Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick.Tim Kirk Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History https://archive.org/details/cassellsdictiona0000kirk registration London 2002 421 March 19 – Paul Robeson plays the title role of Othello at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona.Samantha Ellis Paul Robeson in Othello, Savoy Theatre, 1930 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/03/theatre The Guardian London 2003-09-03 2013-04-21 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.Sunday Times (Perth, WA), 11 May 1930. Accessed 28 October 2012 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.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 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 (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett), which begins serialization in the French weekly magazine Ric et Rac published by Fayard.http://www.trussel.com/maig/momlet.htm Maigret of the Month: Pietr-le-Letton (Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett) 2013-04-05 July 2004 It will appear in book form in 1931 as the fifth of 75 novels (and 28 short stories) 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 (London), featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast. September 29 – The English satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh joins the Catholic Church.James Francis Carens Critical Essays on Evelyn Waugh https://books.google.com/books?id=ylIeAQAAIAAJ 1987 G.K. Hall 978-0-8161-8762-1 204 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 – American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. December 10 – The first performance of Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstück The Decision (Die Maßnahme), written in collaboration with Slatan Dudow and the composer Hanns Eisler, occurs at the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin, with Ernst Busch as lead. unknown 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 (1926) is translated into English for the first time, by Willa and Edwin Muir. New books Fiction Vicki Baum – Grand Hotel E. F. Benson – The Inheritor Max Brand – Destry Rides Again (original serial version as Twelve Peers)Henryk Hoffmann Western Movie References in American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=qv-ZOB-d4j0C&pg=PA45 9 October 2012 McFarland 978-0-7864-9324-1 45 Lynn Brock – Q.E.D. Pearl S. Buck – East Wind: West Wind John Dickson Carr – It Walks By NightLarry Landrum Romeo T. Toledo Larry N. Landrum American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=rBGohk2hjhUC&pg=PA125 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-21387-8 125 Leslie Charteris – Enter the Saint Gabriel Chevallier – La Peur (Fear) Agatha Christie The Murder at the Vicarage The Mysterious Mr. Quin Giant's Bread (as Mary Westmacott) Albert Cohen – Solal of the SolalsBriton Hadden Time https://books.google.com/books?id=v4MQAAAAIAAJ 1933 Time Incorporated 59 Ferreira de Castro – A Selva (The Forest: A Tale of the Amazon Rubber Tappers) J. J. Connington – The Two Tickets Puzzle Freeman Wills Crofts – Sir John Magill's Last Journey John Dos Passos – The 42nd Parallel William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying Dorothy Canfield Fisher – The Deepening Stream R. Austin Freeman – Mr. Pottermack's Oversight Gaito Gazdanov – An Evening with Claire Anthony Gilbert – The Night of the Fog Jean Giono – Second Harvest Milt Gross – He Done Her Wrong: the Great American Novel (wordless novel) H. Rider Haggard – Belshazzar Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese FalconRonald G. Walker June M. Frazer The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory https://books.google.com/books?id=TaFZAAAAMAAJ 1990 Western Illinois University 978-0-934312-08-0 109 A. P. Herbert – The Water Gipsies Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and GoldmundMario Jacoby Individuation and Narcissism: The Psychology of the Self in Jung and Kohut https://books.google.com/books?id=W4i4gzg2HPAC&pg=PA15 1990 Psychology Press 978-0-415-06464-4 15 Georgette Heyer – Powder and Patch Robert Hichens – The Bracelet Sydney Horler – Checkmate Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter Ianthe Jerrold – Dead Man's Quarry Margaret Kennedy – The Fool of the Family Oliver La Farge – Laughing Boy D. H. Lawrence Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories The Virgin and the Gypsy (novella) Norman Lindsay – Redheaphttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4088880 "REDHEAP" BANNED. The Argus 26,137 Melbourne 22 May 1930 26 July 2017 7 National Library of Australia Bata LoBagola (Joseph Howard Lee) – LoBagola: An African Savage's Own Story (fictional autobiography) Benito Lynch – The Romance of a Gaucho Philip MacDonald – The Noose Compton Mackenzie – April Fools André Malraux – The Royal Way (La Voie royale) Frederic Manning (as "Private 19022") – Her Privates We (first trade edition) Katherine Mansfield (died 1923) – The Aloe W. Somerset Maugham – Cakes and AleA Bibliography of the Writings of William Somerset Maugham https://books.google.com/books?id=2TKz2qClucQC&pg=PA42 1931 Ardent Media 43 Gladys Mitchell – The Longer Bodies George Moore Aphrodite in Aulis A Flood Paul Morand – World Champions (Champions du monde) Robert Musil – The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; publication begins) Stratis Myrivilis – Η ζωή εν τάφω (I zoí en tafo, "Life in the Tomb"; book publication) Vladimir Nabokov The Defense The Eye Irène Némirovsky – Le Bal E. Phillips Oppenheim The Lion and the Lamb The Million Pound Deposit Camil Petrescu – Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război (The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War) Sol Plaatje – Mhudi (written 1919–20) J. B. Priestley – Angel PavementDavid Hughes J. B. Priestley: an Informal Study of his Work Rupert Hart-Davis 1958 111 Ellery Queen – The French Powder Mystery Joseph Roth – Job Rafael Sabatini – The King's MinionWisconsin Library Bulletin, volume 27 Division of Library Services, United States Department of Public Instruction 1931 29 Ernst von Salomon – The Outlaws Dorothy L. Sayers Strong PoisonJames Bernard Burleson (Jr.) A Study of the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers https://books.google.com/books?id=7CseAQAAIAAJ 1976 University of Texas 83 The Documents in the Case (written with Robert Eustace) Nan Shepherd – The Weatherhouse Upton Sinclair – Mental Radio Olaf Stapledon – Last and First MenRobert Crossley An Olaf Stapledon Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=rULPTKNwlx8C&pg=PA3 1 March 1997 Syracuse University Press 978-0-8156-0430-3 3 Cecil Street Peril at Cranbury Hall The Secret of High Eldersham Miguel de Unamuno – San Manuel Bueno, Mártir Ion Vinea – Paradisul suspinelor (A Haven for the Sighs) Edgar Wallace The Clue of the Silver Key The Lady of Ascot Hugh Walpole – Rogue Herrieshttps://www.nytimes.com/1930/04/13/archives/a-weird-compelling-story-in-walpoles-rogue-herries-the-scene-of-his.html A Weird, Compelling Story in Walpole's "Rogue Herries"; The Scene of His New Novel Is Laid in the English Lake Country in the Eighteenth Century 13 April 1930 The New York Times Book Review 63 P. H. Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies Dorothy Whipple – High Wages Thornton Wilder – The Woman of Andros Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Insatiability (Nienasycenie) Gamel Woolsey – One Way of Love (written; published 1987) Philip Gordon Wylie – Gladiator E. H. Young – Miss MoleD. Wallace Sisters and Rivals in British Women's Fiction, 1914-39 Palgrave Macmillan UK 2000 9780230598805 41 Francis Brett Young – Jim Redlake Children and young people William S. Gray – first in the Dick and Jane series of Elson-Gray ReadersFrederik Ohles Shirley M. Ohles John G. Ramsay Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators Greenwood Press 1997 Westport, Connecticut 290 https://books.google.com/books?id=PBj5-zHEMvoC&q=%22Zerna+Sharp%22&pg=PA290 0313291330 (via Google Books) "Carolyn Keene" – The Secret of the Old Clock (first in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series) André Maurois – Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers; illustrated by Jean Bruller) Anne Parrish – Floating Island Watty Piper – The Little Engine That Could Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Little Pig RobinsonBiography of Beatrix Potter Victoria and Albert Museum London http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/biography-beatrix-potter/ www.vam.ac.uk 2019-07-20 2011-01-13 Gwynedd Rae – Mostly Mary (first in the Mary Plain series of 14 books) Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons (first in the Swallows and Amazons series of 12 books) Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Yellow Knight of Oz (24th in the Oz series overall and the 10th written by her) Marion St John Webb – Mr Papingay's Flying Shop (first in the Papingay series of four books) Sadie Rose Weilerstein – The Adventures of K'tonton: a Little Jewish Tom Thumb Drama Rudolf Besier – The Barretts of Wimpole Street Hochman Stanley McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama 1 1984 New York McGraw-Hill https://archive.org/details/mcgrawhillencycl01hoch/page/344/mode/2up 978-0-07-079169-5 344-5 Antoine Bibesco – Ladies All Bertolt Brecht Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)Kurt Weill Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya https://books.google.com/books?id=Upm0TkyixDIC&pg=PA513 1 November 1997 University of California Press 978-0-520-21240-4 513 The Decision (Die Maßnahme) Ferdinand Bruckner – Elisabeth von England (Elizabeth of England)Theatre Under the Nazis John London Manchester University Press 2000 9780719059919 103 Jean Cocteau – The Human Voice (La Voix humaine) Marc Connelly – The Green PasturesHenry Bial Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage University of Michigan Press 2015 9780472052929 197 Noël Coward – Private LivesNoël Coward Collected Plays Methuen 1999 vii Ian Hay and Guy Bolton – A Song of SixpenceJ. P. Wearing The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel Rowman & Littlefield 2014 16 Ian Hay and P. G. Wodehouse – Leave It to Psmith Georgia Douglas Johnson – Blue-Eyed Black Boy Fred Duprez – My Wife's Family Geoffrey Kerr – London CallingGerald Martin Bordman American Theatre: a Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1930-1969 9 Oxford 1996 0-19-509078-0 Kwee Tek Hoay – Nonton Tjapgome (Watching the Lantern Festival)Josh Stenberg Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display University of Hawaii Press 2019 9780824876715 136 Sidney Howard – Marseilleshttps://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-the-premiere-a-new/193368101/ The Premiere: A New Experiment The Brooklyn Citizen November 18, 1930 12 Federico García Lorca The Public (El público) (written)Martínez Nadal Rafael Lorca's The Public: A Study of his Unfinished Play (El público) and of Love and Death in the Work of Federico García Lorca London Calder & Boyars 1974 0-7145-2752-1 70–82 The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife (La zapatera prodigiosa)Atkinson Brooks 15 June 1949 García Lorca's 'The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife' Put On at the Provincetown Playhouse https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/specials/lorca-wife.html 2023-04-20 archive.nytimes.com Patrick MacGill – Suspense Quintero brothers – Mariquilla Terremoto Will Scott – The Limping Man Edgar Wallace On the Spot The Mouthpiece Smoky Cell Emlyn Williams – A Murder Has Been Arranged Christa Winsloe – Ritter Nérestan (written as Gestern und heute, translated as Children in Uniform) W. B. Yeats – The Words Upon The Window Pane Poetry 1930 in poetry W. H. Auden – Poems Samuel Beckett – Whoroscope Hart Crane – The BridgeLudwig Richard M. Clifford A. Jr Nault Annals of American Literature 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 1986 New York Oxford University Press Laxmi Prasad Devkota – Muna Madan (मुनामदन) T. S. Eliot – Ash WednesdayThomas Stearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday https://books.google.com/books?id=FtdaAAAAMAAJ 1930 Faber & Faber D. Iacobescu (died 1913) – Quasi P. H. B. Lyon (editor) – 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 (died 1897) – In the Land of Pain (La Doulou (La Douleur): 1887–1895 et Le Trésor d'Arlatan: 1897) 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 Samuil Lehtțir and Iosif Vainberg – Întrebări literari (Literary Questions) Paul Morand – New York Edouard de Pomiane – Cuisine en dix minutes Alfred Rosenberg – The Myth of the Twentieth Century (Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts) W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman – 1066 and All That David Unaipon (credited to William Ramsay Smith) – Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals Owen Wister – Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship Births January 1 – Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born poet January 20 – Blair Lent, American children's author and illustrator (died 2009) January 23 – Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright (died 2017)Gale, Cengage Learning A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago" https://books.google.com/books?id=jtoWDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 2016 Gale, Cengage Learning 978-1-4103-5264-4 5 February 15 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet (died 2020)Barry Spurr Lloyd Cameron Standard English https://books.google.com/books?id=4gRDngYDAGoC&pg=PA154 2000 Pascal Press 978-1-74125-068-8 154 February 17 – Ruth Rendell (Ruth Barbara Grasemann), English detective and mystery novel writer (died 2015)Ed. Mohit K. Ray The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English https://books.google.com/books?id=A_YatfLrgnMC&pg=PA444 September 2007 Atlantic Publishers & Dist 978-81-269-0832-5 444 February 18 – Gahan Wilson, American author and illustrator (died 2019)Contemporary Contemporary Books Chase's Annual Events: The Day-By-Day Directory to 1994 https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC 1993 Contemporary books 978-0-8092-3732-6 103 February 22 – Edward D. Hoch, American detective fiction writer (died 2008) February 23 – Paul West, English-born American novelist, poet and essayist (died 2015)Paul West, author–obituary https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12053992/Paul-West-author-obituary.html Telegraph.co.uk 3 January 2017 March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (died 2018)Tracy Chevalier Encyclopedia of the Essay https://books.google.com/books?id=nOwBEsoNiUMC&pg=PA903 12 October 2012 Routledge 978-1-135-31410-1 903 March 8 – Douglas Hurd, English politician and novelistMark Stuart Douglas Hurd: The Public Servant: An Authorised Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=OmVnAAAAMAAJ 1998 Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited 978-1-84018-125-8 9 March 26 – Gregory Corso, American poet (died 2001) April 16 – Carol Bly, American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (died 2007) May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet (died 2014)Verity Smith Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=JcjFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA365 26 March 1997 Routledge 1-135-31424-1 365 May 13 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish novelist (died 2020)Enrique Berzal Muere a los 89 años José Jiménez Lozano, Premio Cervantes y exdirector de El Norte de Castilla https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/culturas/libros/muere-escritor-jose-20200309093710-nt.html 9 March 2020 21 July 2021 El Norte de Castilla es May 14 – María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (died 2018)Scott T. Cummings Maria Irene Fornes https://books.google.com/books?id=VeZxtVkLx7IC&pg=PA5 2013 Routledge 978-0-415-45434-6 5 May 15 – Grace Ogot, Kenyan author (died 2015)Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Dictionary of African Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA8 2 February 2012 OUP USA 978-0-19-538207-5 4 May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (died 1965)Henry Louis Gates Jr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham African American Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=3dXw6gR2GgkC&pg=PA373 29 April 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-988286-1 373 May 21 – Stanley Wells, English Shakespearean scholar May 25 – Jón frá Pálmholti (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (died 2004) May 27 – John Barth, American fiction writer (died 2024)Jay Parini The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-515653-9 135 June 3 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (died 1999)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley 30 September 1999 Jack Adrian The Independent 22 May 2020 June 10 – Grace Mirabella, American journalist, editor of Vogue 1971-88Charles Moritz Current Biography Yearbook https://books.google.com/books?id=DWftWR1VGIEC 1992 H. W. Wilson Company 399 June 14 – Charles McCarry, American spy and novelist (died 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/05/charles-mccarry-obituary Charles McCarry obituary Carlson Michael 2019-03-05 The Guardian en-GB 2019-03-19 June 23 – Anthony Thwaite, English poet (died 2021)Europa Publications International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA544 2003 Psychology Press 978-1-85743-179-7 544 June 28 – Maureen Howard, American writer, editor and lecturerDaniel J. Casey Robert E. Rhodes Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=y1D2KCS8gfoC&pg=PA182 1 July 1989 Syracuse University Press 978-0-8156-0234-7 182 July 6 – Gloria Skurzynski, American authorSharron L. McElmeel Educator's Companion to Children's Literature: Folklore, contemporary realistic fiction, fantasy, biographies, and tales from here and there https://books.google.com/books?id=5is7oxA1MjgC&pg=PA135 1995 Libraries Unlimited 978-1-56308-330-3 135 July 11 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (died 2019)https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 Smith Dinitia October 14, 2019 The New York Times October 14, 2019 en-US 0362-4331 July 13 – Sam Greenlee, African American author (died 2014) July 15 – Jacques Derrida, French Algerian literary critic (died 2004)Jacques Derrida Bennington Geoffrey The University of Chicago Press 1993 325. July 17 – Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (died 2018)Ray Galton Alan Simpson Robert Ross Steptoe and Son https://books.google.com/books?id=XzIbAQAAIAAJ 2002 BBC 10 9780563488330 August 8 – Barry Unsworth, English novelist (died 2012)Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Britannica Book of the Year 2013 https://books.google.com/books?id=jXadAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA172 1 March 2013 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 978-1-62513-103-4 172 August 9 – Carmen Balcells, Spanish literary agent (died 2015)Giancarlo Colombo Who's Who in Spain https://books.google.com/books?id=x4oUAQAAIAAJ 2006 Who's Who in Italy 978-88-85246-60-7 62 August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet laureate (died 1998)Terry Gifford Ted Hughes https://books.google.com/books?id=IgR_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT21 13 January 2009 Routledge 978-1-134-38433-4 21 August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (died 2009)Michael D. Sharp Popular Contemporary Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=16esKLrdtYkC&pg=PA1013 2006 Marshall Cavendish 978-0-7614-7609-2 1013 August 25 – Peter Trower, Canadian poet and novelist (died 2017)Who's who in Canadian Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=TPkrAQAAIAAJ 1997 Reference Press 978-0-919981-46-1 326 August 27 – Erzsébet Galgóczi, Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 1989) September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand novelist (died 2002)Something about the Author https://books.google.com/books?id=jMVkAAAAMAAJ 1986 Gale Research 978-0-8103-2253-0 98 September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American poet (died 1999)S. Ward Meet Shel Silverstein https://books.google.com/books?id=qUITFQ7PvIEC&pg=PA6 2001 The Rosen Publishing Group 978-0-8239-5709-5 6 September 29 – Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (died 2017)St James Press Contemporary Popular Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=2MkUAQAAIAAJ 1997 St. James Press 978-1-55862-216-6 117 October 2 – Antonio Gala, Spanish poet, playwright and novelist October 10 – Harold Pinter, English dramatist (died 2008)William Baker Harold Pinter https://books.google.com/books?id=Rou2ffOSHr8C&pg=PA2 8 November 2008 A&C Black 978-0-8264-9971-4 2 October 18 – Esther Hautzig, Polish-born American autobiographer (died 2009) October 24 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist and literary biographer (died 2019)Sorrel Kerbel The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=SqQsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 23 November 2004 Routledge 978-1-135-45607-8 283 October 26 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian researcher and poet (died 2014) October 27 – Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet (died 2019)http://www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/francisca_aguirre.html Francisca Aguirre España es Cultura 16 April 2019 October 30 – Timothy Findley, Canadian author (died 2002)Carol Roberts Timothy Findley: Stories from a Life https://books.google.com/books?id=iOu7AAAAIAAJ 1994 ECW Press 978-1-55022-195-4 10 November 1 – A. R. Gurney, American dramatist (died 2017) November 5 Clifford Irving, American literary forger (died 2017)https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/obituaries/clifford-irving-author-of-a-notorious-literary-hoax-dies-at-87.html Clifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax, Dies at 87 Grimes William December 20, 2017 The New York Times Hans Mommsen, German historian (died 2015)Kelly Boyd Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA826 1999 Taylor & Francis 978-1-884964-33-6 826 November 12 – Irma Chilton, Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (died 1990)R. Reginald Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974: with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II https://books.google.com/books?id=QfEzAQAAIAAJ 1979 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-1051-3 852 November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist and essayist (died 2009)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jg-ballard-writer-whose-dystopian-visions-helped-shape-our-view-of-the-modern-world-1671634.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jg-ballard-writer-whose-dystopian-visions-helped-shape-our-view-of-the-modern-world-1671634.html 2022-05-01 subscription live J.G. Ballard: Writer whose dystopian visions helped shape our view of the modern world John Clute 21 April 2009 The Independent 8 June 2020 November 16 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, academic and literary critic (died 2013)Catherine Lynette Innes Chinua Achebe https://books.google.com/books?id=sUuzRndxR_AC&pg=PA4 26 March 1992 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-42897-2 4 November 20 – Bai Hua, Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist (died 2019) November 27 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (died 2009) December 2 – Jon Silkin, English poet (died 1997) December 9 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (died 2010)John Picchione The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices https://books.google.com/books?id=-RWKEpZ16gMC&pg=PA222 1 January 2004 University of Toronto Press 978-0-8020-8994-6 222 December 15 – Edna O'Brien, Irish fiction writer (died 2024)Nicola Depuis Mná Na HÉireann: Women who Shaped Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=heeon5xC5KwC&pg=PA202 2009 Mercier Press Cork 978-1-85635-645-9 202 December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (died 1986)Robert B. Campbell Crosshatching in Global Culture: A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: an Updated English Version of R.B. Campbell's "Contemporary Arab Writers" https://books.google.com/books?id=yZ0YAQAAMAAJ 2004 Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 551 9783899134070 Deaths January 9 – Edward Bok, American author (born 1863)Hans Krabbendam Johannes Leendert Krabbendam The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok, 1863-1930 https://books.google.com/books?id=WnSxfB_gq1YC&pg=PA224 2001 Rodopi 90-420-1495-4 224 January 16 – Johannes Gilhoff, German writer (born 1861) January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American writer, lecturer, reformer and politician (born 1835)Mrs. Felton Dies. Appointed for One-Day Term From Georgia, She Said She Hoped to See Women in Senate https://www.nytimes.com/1930/01/25/archives/mrs-felton-dies-former-senator-appointed-for-oneday-term-from.html The New York Times January 25, 1930 February 3, 2009 February 9 – Alice Williams Brotherton, American author (born 1848) February 27 George Haven Putnam, American author and publisher (born 1844) Joseph Wright, English philologist and lexicographer (born 1855) February 28 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (born 1889) March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist and poet (born 1885)Ronald P. Draper D. H. Lawrence: The Critical Heritage https://books.google.com/books?id=x9tkI4HE50UC&pg=PA23 1997 Psychology Press 978-0-415-15922-7 23 March 12 – Alois Jirásek, Czech novelist and dramatist (born 1851) March 13 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, American author (born 1852)Fishinger, Sondra. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1852–1930", in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997: 139. 0-8156-0418-1 April 10 – Alfred Williams, English poet and steam-hammer operator (born 1877) April 14 Sigurd Ibsen, Norwegian politician and writer (born 1859) Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet, suicide (born 1893)Martin Crowley Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers https://books.google.com/books?id=6f3V_LVlIioC&pg=PA207 2000 Rodopi 90-420-1432-6 207 John B. Sheridan, Irish-American sports journalist (born 1870)George Seldes Witch Hunt: The Technique and Profits of Redbaiting https://books.google.com/books?id=LNQUAAAAMAAJ 1940 Modern age books 88 April 21 – Robert Bridges, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1844)Lee Templin Hamilton Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988 https://books.google.com/books?id=YiOgjZY4dGMC&pg=PA132 1991 University of Delaware Press 978-0-87413-364-6 132 April 22 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (born 1866) Hoiberg Dale H. Encyclopædia Britannica Aakjaer, Jeppe 15th 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. I: A-Ak - Bayes Chicago, Illinois 978-1-59339-837-8 registration https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency April 29 – Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (born 1902) May 12 – Iso Mutsu (睦磯, Gertrude Ethel Passingham), English-born Japanese travel writer (born 1867)Iso Mutsu Kamakura; Fact & Legend https://books.google.com/books?id=vKRxAAAAMAAJ 1955 Tokyo News Service ii May 15 – William John Locke, British Guiana-born English novelist and playwright (born 1863) May 16 – Florence Bell, English writer and playwright (born 1851) May 17 – Herbert Croly, American political writer (born 1869) June 9 Arthur St. John Adcock, English novelist and poet (born 1864) Thomas Herbert Warren, English scholar and poet (born 1853) June 23 – Israel Gollancz, English Shakespeare scholar (born 1864) July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer of crime fiction (born 1859)Brian W. Pugh A Chronology of the Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Revised 2018 Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=LnaFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84 11 December 2018 Andrews UK Limited 978-1-78705-347-2 84 July 26 – Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian (born 1849) Touloumakos Pantelis Karolidis, Pavlos 2006 Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=8721 27 May 2011 3 August 23 – Lucien Wolf, English journalist and historian (born 1857) August 29 – William Archibald Spooner, English academic and instigator of spoonerisms (born 1844) September 1 –Thomas Nicoll Hepburn (Gabriel Setoun), Scottish writer and poet (born 1861) September 4 – Vladimir Arsenyev, Russian travel writer and explorer (born 1872) September 5 – Georges de Porto-Riche, French novelist and dramatist (born 1849) September 18 –Karam Singh, Sikh historian (born 1884)Bhupinder Singh Grover Karam Singh Historian Jiwan Te Rachna 1986 Punjabi University Patiala Patiala September 25 – Arthur Way, English-born Australian classicist and translator (born 1847) October 4 – Olena Pchilka, Ukrainian writer, translator and publisher (born 1849)Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov Great Soviet encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=6FkNAQAAMAAJ 1982 Macmillan 185 October 11 – Roy Horniman, English novelist and playwright (born 1868)'Mr. Roy Horniman' (obituary), The Times (London), 13 October 1930, page 14. October 16 – James Surtees Phillpotts, English writer and educator (born 1839)The Illustrated London News https://books.google.com/books?id=MDBGVPKDnTAC October 1930 International News Company 722 November 20 – William B. Hanna, American sportswriter (born 1866)Harvard Alumni Directory https://books.google.com/books?id=VGojAQAAIAAJ 1934 447 November 21 – Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born 1855) December 8 – Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (born 1894)Anne Commire Deborah Klezmer Women in World History: Ead-Fur https://books.google.com/books?id=iEQOAQAAMAAJ 2000 Yorkin Publications 978-0-7876-4064-4 262 December 22 Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis), Scottish humorist, novelist and critic (born 1863) Marion Manville Pope, American poet and author of juvenile literature (born 1859) Awards 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 Prix Goncourt: Henri Fauconnier, MalaisieEdoardo Esposito Le letterature straniere nell'Italia dell'entre-deux-guerres https://books.google.com/books?id=0wBlAAAAMAAJ 2004 Pensa multimedia 978-88-8232-343-1 49 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 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1930 at Goodreads Published 1930 Books at Goodreads 1930 Books at Goodreads