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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.
May 16 –17 – In the Soviet Union , Joseph Stalin orders the NKVD to "preserve but isolate" Osip Mandelstam , after having been informed of the "Stalin Epigram "; Mandelstam is then arrested. A protest by literary figures, including Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak , prompts Stalin to declare that he might "review the case" (he never will). His admiration for Pasternak as a poetic genius is strengthened when the latter asks for a private meeting to discuss "life and death" — although he never grants it, he instructs the NKVD to "leave that cloud-dweller [Pasternak] alone".[3]
June
July – Poedjangga Baroe , the Indonesian avant-garde literary magazine, is first published, by Armijn Pane , Amir Hamzah and Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana .
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 .[6]
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 .[7]
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 .[8]
December
December 6 – In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses , U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is not as a whole pornographic and therefore cannot not be obscene .[9]
Children and young people
January 1 – Joe Orton , English playwright (murdered 1967 )
January 2 – Seiichi Morimura (森村誠一), Japanese author
January 4 – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , American children's and adult novelist
January 9 – Wilbur Smith , South African historical novelist (died 2021 )[14]
January 13 – Shahnon Ahmad , Malaysian writer and politician (died 2017 )
January 16 – Susan Sontag (Susan Rosenblatt), American novelist (died 2004 )[15]
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[16]
February 20 – Zamenga Batukezanga , Congolese francophone writer and philanthropist (died 2000 )
February 22 – Christopher Ondaatje , Ceylonese-born English travel writer, biographer and philanthropist[17]
February 27 – Edward Lucie-Smith , Jamaican-born English writer, critic and broadcaster
March 17 – Penelope Lively (Penelope Low), Egyptian-born English novelist[18]
March 18 – Sergio Pitol , Mexican fiction writer, translator and diplomat (died 2018 )
March 19 – Philip Roth , American novelist (died 2018)[19]
April 2 – György Konrád , Hungarian novelist, essayist, political dissident and President of PEN International (died 2019 )[20]
April 7 – Cong Weixi , Chinese author (died 2019 )
April 14 – Boris Strugatsky , Russian sci-fi writer (died 2012 )[21]
April 24 – Patricia Bosworth , American writer/biographer (died 2020 )[22]
May 9 – Jessica Steele , English romance novelist (died 2020 )
May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford (Barbara Taylor), English-born American novelist[23]
May 12 – Stephen Vizinczey , Hungarian-born writer (died 2021)[24]
May 22 – Arnold Lobel , American children's writer and illustrator (died 1987 )
May 29
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[25]
July 20 – Cormac McCarthy , American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 2023 )
July 21
August 1 – Ko Un (Ko Untae), South Korean poet
August 7 – Jerry Pournelle , American science fiction writer (died 2017 )[26]
August 13 – Madhur Jaffrey , Indian actress and food writer[27]
August 16 – Tom Maschler , Austrian-born English literary publisher (died 2020 )[28]
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 11 – David Daniels , American visual poet (died 2008 )
October 21 – Maureen Duffy , English poet, playwright, author and activist[29]
October 24 – Norman Rush , American writer
November 1
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 translator[30]
December 31 – Edward Bunker , American crime novelist (died 2005 )
January 5 – J. M. Robertson , British Liberal Party politician, writer and journalist, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (born 1856 )[31]
January 11 – Hugo Zöller , German explorer and journalist (born 1852 )[32]
January 21 – George Moore , Irish poet and novelist (born 1852 )[33]
January 29 – Sara Teasdale , American poet (born 1884 ; suicide)[34]
January 31 – John Galsworthy , English novelist and dramatist (born 1867 )[35]
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 )[36]
April 19 – E. W. Hobson , English writer on mathematics (born 1856 )[37]
April 24 – Janet Milne Rae , Scottish novelist (born 1844 )[38]
April 29 – Constantine Cavafy , Greek Alexandrine poet (born 1863 )
April 30 – Anna de Noailles , French writer (born 1876 )
May 2 – Leonard Huxley , British writer (born 1860 )[39]
May 16 – John Henry Mackay , Scottish-born German anarchist writer and philosopher (born 1864 )[40]
May 26 – Horatio Bottomley , English journalist and fraudster (born 1860 )[41]
June 7 – Dragutin Domjanić , Croatian poet (born 1875 )[42]
July 8 – Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English adventure novelist (born 1863 )[43]
August 12 – Alexandru Philippide , Romanian linguist and polemicist (atherosclerosis, born 1859 )
September 20 – Annie Besant , English Theosophist writer (born 1847 )[44]
September 22 – György Almásy , Hungarian travel writer (born 1867 )[45]
September 25
September 28 – G. R. S. Mead , British writer (born 1863 )[47]
October 30 – Herminie Templeton Kavanagh , Anglo-Irish-American short story writer (born 1861 ?)[48]
November 12 – F. Holland Day , American publisher (born 1864 )
November 20 – Augustine Birrell , English politician and author (born 1850 )[49]
November 28 – Minnie Earl Sears , American librarian (born 1873 )[50]
November 30 – Annie Armitt , English novelist and poet (born 1850 )[51]
December 4 – Stefan George , German poet and translator (born 1868 )
December 16 – Robert W. Chambers , American writer (born 1865 )[52]
December 27 – Georgina Castle Smith (pseudonym Brenda), English children's writer (born 1845 )
date unknown – Jennie M. Bingham , American author (born 1859 )
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Achim, Viorel (2007). The Roma in Romanian History . Budapest & New York: CEU Press. pp. 154–157. ISBN 978-963-9241-84-8 .
Colesnic, Iurie (2014-06-23). "Prima piesă montată pe scena tiraspoleană a fost a unui basarabean". Timpul . Chișinău.
James Vinson (1982). Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers . Macmillan. p. 92.
Ross McKibbin (2019). Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History . Oxford University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780198834205 .
Dale Lowell Morgan (2012). Richard L Saunders (ed.). Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Part 1: Collected Works, 1939-1951 . University of Oklahoma Press. p. 153.
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
Agence France-Presse (2021-11-14). "The Guardian" . Bestselling author Wilbur Smith dies aged 88 .
Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months . Bernan Press. 2018. p. 127. ISBN 9781641432641 .
J.K. Van Dover (2010). Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925-1930 . McFarland, Incorporated. p. 163. ISBN 9780786456895 .
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Wolfgang Behn (2004). Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume One (A-G) . -Brill. p. 34. ISBN 9789047413905 .
Alumni Association News Letter . University of Illinois. 1953. p. 7.
Cumbria . Dalesman Publishing Company. 1959. p. 444.
"Robert Chambers, Novelist, Is Dead". New York Times . December 17, 1933. p. 36.