This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1921 .
January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury , London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard .[1]
February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap , publishers of The Little Review , are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce 's Ulysses .[2]
March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe.
April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár 's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English.
May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello 's Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.
May – A production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic , London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Shakespeare's day.
June 6 – The première of Tristan Tzara 's parodic The Gas Heart (Le Cœur à gaz) takes place at a Dada Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris. It provokes audience derision.
June 10 – D. H. Lawrence 's novel Women in Love is first published commercially by Martin Secker in London.
September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega 's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613 ).[3]
September 26 – The Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich , England, an old chapel, is turned into an English Renaissance theatre for period drama by an amateur repertory company directed by Walter Nugent Monck .[4] It opens with As You Like It .
December 9 – John William Gott becomes the last person in England imprisoned for blasphemous libel .
December 31 – Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista , in the broadsheet Actual No. 1 in Mexico City. New books
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January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss writer (died 1990 )
January 19 – Patricia Highsmith , American crime writer (died 1995 )
February 4 – Betty Friedan , American feminist author (died 2006 )
February 5 – Marion Eames , Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh (died 2007 )[11]
February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary , Indian historian and writer (died 1985 )
March 1 – Richard Wilbur , American poet and translator (died 2017 )
March 3 – Paul Guimard , French novelist (died 2004 )
March 24 – Wilson Harris , Guyanese-born poet, novelist and essayist (died 2018 )
April 21 – Angela Bianchini , Italian fiction writer and literary critic (died 2018)
May 20 – Wolfgang Borchert , German author and playwright (died 1947 )
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June 11 – Michael Meyer , English translator and biographer (died 2000 )
June 14 – John Bradburne , English poet and missionary (killed 1979 )
August 11 – Alex Haley , American writer (died 1992 )
August 17 – Elinor Lyon , British children's writer (died 2008 )[12]
August 18 – Frédéric Jacques Temple , French poet and writer (died 2020 )
September 12 – Stanisław Lem , Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician (died 2006 )
September 15 – Richard Gordon , English author (died 2017 )
September 16 – Mohamed Talbi , Tunisian historian (died 2017 )[13]
September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi , Nigerian writer (died 2007 )
October 2 – Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer (died 1978 )
October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish poet, dramatist and writer (died 2014 )
October 17 – George Mackay Brown , Scottish poet (died 1996 )[14]
November 6 – James Jones , American novelist (died 1977 )
November 22 – Brian Cleeve , Irish author (died 2003 )
December 20 – Israil Bercovici , Romanian dramatist and historian (died 1988 )
February 6 – Abba Goold Woolson , American author and poet (born 1838 )
February 17 – Rosetta Luce Gilchrist , American physician, author (born 1850 )
February 24 – John Habberton , American critic (born 1842 )[15]
March 22 – E. W. Hornung , English author (born 1866 )
April 6 – Maximilian Berlitz , German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor (born 1852 )
May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried , Austrian publicist (born 1864 )
May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán , Spanish novelist (born 1851 )[16]
May 13 – Jean Aicard , French writer (born 1848 )
June – N. D. Popescu-Popnedea , Romanian novelist, folklorist, archivist and almanac compiler (born 1843 )
June 5 – Georges Feydeau , French playwright (born 1862 )
June 18 – Eduardo Acevedo Díaz , Uruguayan writer (born 1851 )[17]
June 20 – Mary Lynde Craig , American writer, teacher, attorney, activist (born 1834 )
June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett , English Theosophist author (born 1840 )
July 4 – Antoni Grabowski , Polish Esperantist (born 1857 )[18]
July 7 – Luca Caragiale , Romanian poet, novelist and translator (pneumonia, born 1893 )
August 1 – Helen Vickroy Austin , American journalist and horticulturist (born 1829 )
August 7 – Alexander Blok , Russian poet (born 1880 )
August 8 – Juhani Aho , Finnish author and journalist (born 1861 )[19]
August 19 – Georges Darien , French anarchist writer (born 1862 )
August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev , Russian poet (executed, born 1886 )
September 3 - Maria I. Johnston , American author, journalist, editor and lecturer (born 1835 )
September 22 - Ivan Vazov , Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (born 1850 )[20]
September 26 – Matei Donici , Bessarabian Romanian poet and professional soldier (born 1847 )
October 1 – Lillian Rozell Messenger , American poet (born 1843 )[21]
October 10 – Otto von Gierke , German historian (born 1841 )[22]
November 1 – Sarah Dyer Hobart , American author of poetry, prose, and songs (born 1845/46)[23]
November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav , Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born 1849 )
November 14 – Christabel Rose Coleridge , English novelist and editor (born 1843 )
December 28 – Hester A. Benedict , American poet (born 1838 )[24]
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^ Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce . New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 502–04 . ISBN 0-1950-3103-2 .
^ "Teatro Nacional Cervantes" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-01-14 .
^ "Norwich Players' New Theatre". The Times . No. 42836. London. 1921-09-27. p. 8.
^ Elster, Kristian (1924). Illustreret Norsk litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian). Vol. 2. Kristiania: Gyldendal. p. 808.
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Aldous Huxley (2001). Crome Yellow . Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 978-1-56478-304-2 .
^ Edgar Wallace (3 March 2010). The Four Just Men . House of Stratus. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7551-2247-9 .
^ Rudolf Käser; Beate Schappach (31 October 2014). Krank geschrieben: Gesundheit und Krankheit im Diskursfeld von Literatur, Geschlecht und Medizin (in German). transcript Verlag. p. 147. ISBN 978-3-8394-1760-7 .
^ Apter-Gabriel, Ruth (1987). Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928 . Israel Museum. p. 67. ISBN 9789652780713 .
^ J. Beverley Smith. "Eames, Marion Griffith (1921-2007), historical novelist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2021 .
^ "Elinor Lyon: Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled with feisty, fearless girls and boys" . The Independent . 23 October 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 20 January 2021 .
^ Ataullah Siddiqui (15 April 1997). Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century . Palgrave Macmillan. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-312-16510-9 .
^ Maggie Fergusson, George Mackay Brown: The Life , John Murray , 2006, ISBN 0-7195-5659-7 p. 8
^ Non Series #138- Trif and Trixy // John Habberton autograph 7 March 2012. Accessed 9 January 2012.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James (1911). "Pardo Bazán, Emilia ". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 801.
^ Carlos A. Solé; Maria Isabel Abreu (1989). Latin American Writers . Scribner. p. 299. ISBN 978-0-684-18597-2 .
^ Julius Glück, El la klasika periodo de Esperanto (Grabowski kaj Kabe) , en Muusses Esperanto Biblioteko No. 5, Purmerend, 1937. p. 6.
^ "Aho, Juhani (1861–1921)" . kansallisbiografia.fi . Retrieved 1 December 2015 .
^ Frank Northen Magill (1958). Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors . Salem Press. p. 1106.
^ "OBITUARY. MRS. LILLIAN MESSENGER" . Daily Arkansas Gazette . 7 October 1921. p. 14. Retrieved 28 August 2022 .
^ Otto von Gierke (2 May 2002). Community in Historical Perspective . Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-521-89323-7 .
^ "Poetess Buried" . Wisconsin State Journal . Madison, WI. November 6, 1921. p. 5. Retrieved July 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Obituary of Hester Baldwin Benedict Dickinson" . Oakland Tribune . 29 December 1921. p. 10. Retrieved 24 August 2022 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .