This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1934 .
January 7 – The first Flash Gordon comic strip is created and illustrated by Alex Raymond and published in the United States.[1]
January 25 – James Joyce 's novel Ulysses , after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses , is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales.[2]
January – B. Traven 's novel The Death Ship (1926 ) first appears in English.
February – Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London.
February 6 – The February 6 riots in France, partly provoked by a performance of Shakespeare's Coriolanus by the Comédie-Française , will become the focus of a cult in the works of far-right authors, notably Death on Credit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1936 ) and Gilles by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1939 ). Also in 1934, Drieu announces his conversion to fascism, with the essay Socialisme fasciste .[3]
March 16 and October 5 – P. G. Wodehouse 's Thank You, Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves , the first full-length novels to feature Jeeves , are published.
April – F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fourth and final completed novel, Tender Is the Night , appears in book form in New York, after serialization since January in the monthly Scribner's Magazine .
April 3 – The English literary biographer Thomas Wright (of Olney ) first publishes, in the Daily Express , some facts about Charles Dickens ' relations with the actress Ellen Ternan .[4]
April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
May 1 – The first officially designated Thingplatz for the performance of Thingspiele is dedicated in the Brandberge in Halle (Nazi Germany ).[5]
June
A medieval manuscript of Le Morte d'Arthur used by Caxton is identified in the Fellows' Library of Winchester College (England) by the bibliophile Walter Fraser Oakeshott .[6]
The English poet Laurie Lee walks out one midsummer morning from his Gloucestershire home, bound for Spain.
Two notable gentleman detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction , set in England, appear for the first time in print, later to have whole series written about them. The first to feature Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard is A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh , at this time resident in her native New Zealand, published in London. The first Sir Henry Merrivale locked room mystery , The Plague Court Murders , appears from John Dickson Carr , at this time resident in the UK and writing as "Carter Dickson", in New York around early June. It is followed in December by The White Priory Murders .[7]
July 17 – The circular Manchester Central Library , England, opens.
August – Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those at the first Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers .[8]
September – Henry Miller 's novel Tropic of Cancer is published in Paris by the Obelisk Press . The United States Customs Service prohibits imports of it.[9]
October 22 – A new Cambridge University Library , designed by Giles Gilbert Scott , opens in England.
October 24 – The first of Rex Stout 's Nero Wolfe detective novels , Fer-de-Lance , is published in New York, and abridged in the November The American Magazine as "Point of Death."
November 20 – Lillian Hellman 's first successful play, The Children's Hour , dealing with a theme of accusations of lesbianism , opens at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on Broadway in New York, where it will run for two years.
December 25 – The Romanian novelist Panait Istrati , a former communist, begins his collaboration with the quasi-fascist Cruciada Românismului with a polemic against antisemitism.[10] The weekly newspaper, edited by Mihai Stelescu and Alexandru Talex , later hosts pieces by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu .[11]
Unknown date – The first three volumes of Mikhail Sholokhov 's novel And Quiet Flows the Don first appear in English under this title.
New books
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M. Ageyev – Cocain Romance (Roman s kokainom)
Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie – After Worlds Collide
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay – Pother Kanta
Samuel Beckett – More Pricks Than Kicks [12]
Phyllis Bottome – Private Worlds
Marjorie Bowen – Moss Rose
Ernest Bramah – The Bravo of London
James Branch Cabell – Smirt
John Brophy – Waterfront
James M. Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice
Morley Callaghan – Such Is My Beloved
Victor Canning – Mr. Finchley Discovers His England
Willy Corsari – Terugkeer tot Thera (Return to Thera , introduces Inspector Lund, the archetypal Dutch detective)[13]
John Dickson Carr
Gabriel Chevallier – Clochemerle
Agatha Christie
Colette – Duo
J.J. Connington – The Ha-Ha Case
Freeman Wills Crofts
Henry de Montherlant – Les Célibataires (The Bachelors)
Isak Dinesen – Seven Gothic Tales
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – The Comedy of Charleroi (La Comédie de Charleroi , linked short stories)
Max Ernst – Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness, graphic novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender Is the Night
Carlo Emilio Gadda – Il castello di Udine
Jeanne Galzy – Jeunes Filles en serre chaude (Young girls in a greenhouse)
Anthony Gilbert – An Old Lady Dies
Jean Giono – The Song of the World
Robert Graves – I, Claudius
Graham Greene – It's a Battlefield
Walter Greenwood – His Worship the Mayor
Harold Heslop
The Crime of Peter Ropner
Goaf (English version)
Robert Hichens – The Power To Kill
James Hilton – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Richard Hull – The Murder of My Aunt
Zora Neale Hurston – Jonah's Gourd Vine : A Novel
F. Tennyson Jesse – A Pin to See the Peepshow
D. Gwenallt Jones – Plasau'r Brenin
John Knittel – Via Mala
Halldór Laxness – Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk ) — Part I, Icelandic Pioneers (Landnámsmaður Íslands )
Alexander Lernet-Holenia – The Standard
Eiluned Lewis – Dew on the Grass
Eric Linklater – Magnus Merriman
E. C. R. Lorac
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Compton Mackenzie – The Darkening Green
Ngaio Marsh – A Man Lay Dead
Alan Melville
Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
Gladys Mitchell – Death at the Opera
Leopold Myers – Rajah Amar
Vladimir Nabokov – Despair
Carolina Nabuco – A Sucessora
John O'Hara – Appointment in Samarra
E. Phillips Oppenheim
George Orwell – Burmese Days
John Cowper Powys
Ellery Queen – The Chinese Orange Mystery
Henry Roth – Call It Sleep
Rafael Sabatini – Venetian Masque
Dorothy L. Sayers – The Nine Tailors
Bruno Schulz – The Street of Crocodiles (short stories, Sklepy cynamonowe – Cinnamon Shops – in December 1933 , dated 1934)
Mihail Sebastian – De două mii de ani (For Two Thousand Years)
J. Slauerhoff – Het leven op aarde (Life on Earth)
Howard Spring – Shabby Tiger
Irving Stone – Lust for Life
Rex Stout – Fer-de-Lance
Cecil Street
Ruth Suckow – The Folks
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
'Torquemada ' – Cain's Jawbone [14]
Thomas F. Tweed – Blind Mouths
S. S. Van Dine
Simon Vestdijk – Terug tot Ina Damman (Return to Ina Damman, first published of the Anton Wachter cycle )
Henry Wade – Constable Guard Thyself
Evelyn Waugh – A Handful of Dust
Nathanael West – A Cool Million
Dennis Wheatley – The Devil Rides Out
Dorothy Whipple – They Knew Mr. Knight
P. G. Wodehouse
S. Fowler Wright
David
Prelude in Prague: The War of 1938
Who Else But She? (as Sydney Fowler)
V. M. Yeates – Winged Victory
Francis Brett Young – This Little World
Marguerite Yourcenar – A Coin in Nine Hands (Denier du rêve)
Louis Aragon – The Bells of Basel (Les Cloches de Bâle)
Children and young people
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Non-fiction
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January 4 – Hellmuth Karasek , German journalist, literary critic, and novelist (died 2015 )[16]
January 8 – Alexandra Ripley , American novelist (died 2004 )
January 12
January 18 – Raymond Briggs , English writer and illustrator (died 2022 )[18]
February 10
February 18 – Audre Lorde , American poet, writer and feminist (died 1992 )
February 27 – N. Scott Momaday , Native American novelist (died 2024 )
March 28 – Jean Louvet , Belgian dramatist (died 2015 )
April 24 – Jayakanthan , Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee (died 2015 )
May 10 – Richard Peck , American novelist (died 2015 )
May 12 – Elechi Amadi , Nigerian novelist (died 2016 )
May 27 – Harlan Ellison , American science fiction writer (died 2018 )
June 11 – Lady Annabel Goldsmith , English memoirist and socialite
July 11 – Helen Cresswell , English children's writer and scriptwriter (died 2005 )[19]
July 13 – Wole Soyinka , Nigerian writer, playwright and Nobel laureate
July 20 – Uwe Johnson , German writer (died 1984 )
July 21 – Jonathan Miller , English satirist and non-fiction author (died 2019 )
August 5 – Wendell Berry , American poet, novelist and activist (died 2019)
August 6
August 16 – Diana Wynne Jones , English children's fantasy novelist (died 2011 )[20]
September 11 – Leon Rooke , Canadian novelist
September 17 – Binoy Majumdar , Indian Hungryalist poet (died 2006 )
September 21 – Leonard Cohen , Canadian-born poet, singer-songwriter and novelist (died 2016 )
September 23 – Per Olov Enquist , Swedish novelist (died 2020 )
October 1 – Shakeb Jalali , Pakistani poet in Urdu (suicide 1966 )
October 17 – Alan Garner , English children's novelist[21]
October 24 – Adrian Mitchell , English poet, playwright and children's author (died 2008 )
November 9 – Ronald Harwood (Ronald Horwitz), South African-born English dramatist and screenwriter (died 2020 )
November 12 – John McGahern , Irish novelist (died 2006 )
November 15 – Irén Pavlics , Slovene author in Hungary
November 19 – Joanne Kyger , American poet (died 2017 )
November 21 – Beryl Bainbridge , English novelist (died 2010 )[22]
December 5 – Joan Didion , American writer (died 2021 )
December 28 – Alasdair Gray , Scottish novelist and artist (died 2019 )[23]
unknown dates
January 1 – Jakob Wassermann , German-Jewish novelist (born 1873 )
January 6 – Dorothy Edwards , Welsh novelist (suicide, born 1903 )
January 8 – Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev), Russian novelist, poet and critic (born 1880 )
January 11 – Helen Zimmern , German-born English writer and translator (born 1846 )
January 15 – Hermann Bahr , Austrian dramatist and critic (born 1863 )
February 8 – Ferenc Móra , Hungarian novelist and journalist (born 1879 )
February 28 – Emeline Harriet Howe , American poet, writer and social activist (born 1844 )
March 10 – Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey), English comic novelist and journalist (born 1856 )
April 9 – Safvet-beg Bašagić , Bosnian poet (born 1870 )
April 12 – Robert Clyde Packer , Australian journalist and newspaper magnate (heart failure, born 1879 )
May 1 – Paul Zarifopol , Romanian critic (born 1874 )
June 14 – John Gray , English poet (born 1866 )
June 21 – Thorne Smith , American humorist and fantasy author (heart attack, born 1892 )
June 26 – Naito Torajiro (内藤 虎次郎), Japanese historian (born 1866 )
June 30 – Night of the Long Knives
July 4 – Hayim Nahman Bialik , Hebrew-language poet (born 1873 )
July 21 – Julian Hawthorne , American journalist and novelist (born 1846 )
July 23 – Karl Joel , German philosopher (born 1864 )
July 29 – Frane Bulić , Croatian historian (born 1846 )
August 13 – Mary Hunter Austin , American travel writer (born 1868 )
August 30 – Rebecca Richardson Joslin , American non-fiction writer (born 1846 )
September 9 – Roger Fry , English art critic (born 1866 )
September 21 – Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică , Romanian literary critic (born 1866 )
November 23 – Arthur Wing Pinero , English dramatist (born 1855 )
December 15 – Gustave Lanson , French historian and literary critic (born 1857 )
December 26 – Wallace Thurman , African American novelist (TB, born 1902 )
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