Literature year 1924

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

• January: The writer Miguel de Unamuno is removed from his university position by the Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera and goes into exile in Fuerteventura ,
• January: The publishing house Simon & Schuster is founded in New York City , initially specializing in crossword puzzles.
• JANUARY 15: The BBC radiates the radio play Danger (German title: risk ) of Richard Hughes of which is considered the first storyteller in European history.
• February 29: The Drama gas masks from Sergei Tretyakov will be premiered in Moscow.
• March 3: Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock premieres at the Abbey Theater in Dublin .
• March: Leonard and Virginia Woolf move the Hogarth Press, which they founded, to 52 Tavistock Square , Bloomsbury (London).
• April: Ford Madox Ford publishes the first volume of his work Parade's End , which he does not complete until 1928.
• June 4th: EM Forster's novel In Search of India is published. Forster will not publish another work in the remaining 46 years of his life.
• September: Thomas Mann's work Buddenbrooks appears in English for the first time; The translator is the American Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter .
• November 29: The Pumpkin , a PG Wodehouse short story from the Blandings Castle saga , appears in the US Saturday Evening Post .

Literary prizes

• Büchner Prize : Alfred Bock
• Newbery Medal for Children's Literature : Charles Hawes , The Dark Frigate
• Nobel Prize in Literature : Władysław Reymont , The Peasants
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Hatcher Hughes , Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Robert Frost , New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Margaret Wilson , The Able McLaughlins

New releases

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Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain. Title page of the first edition

• Akhnaton, King of Egypt - Dmitri Merezhkovsky
• The Art of the Theater - Sarah Bernhardt
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain - Mark Twain
• Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
• By Sanction Of Law - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
• The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes
• The Fire In The Flint - Walter F. White
• The Green Bay Tree - Louis Bromfield
• Krakatite - Karel Čapek
• The Land of the Sun (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
• The Old Maid - Edith Wharton
• A Passage to India - Edward Morgan Forster
• Peronnik the Fool - George A. Moore
• So Big - Edna Ferber
• Some Do Not , the first volume of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End (1924–1928)
• The Treasures of Typhon - Eden Phillpotts
• The White Guard - Mikhail Bulgakov
• When We Were Very Young - AA Milne
• The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

Born

• January 16 : Aleksandar Tišma , Serbian writer († 2003 )
• January 26 : Armand Gatti , French writer († 2017 )
• January 27 : Francesco Leonetti , Italian writer and poet († 2017 )
• January 30th : Lloyd Alexander , American writer († 2007 )
• January 30th : Tuvia Rübner , Hebrew and German-speaking Israeli poet, literary scholar and literary translator († 2019 )

• 0February 8 : Lisel Mueller , German-American poet and translator († 2020 )

• 0March 3 : Paul Moor , American-German writer and critic († 2010 )
• 0March 9 : Hanna Mina , Syrian writer († 2018 )
• 0March 9 : Peter Scholl-Latour , Franco-German journalist and writer († 2014 )
• March 22 : Michael Hamburger , German-British poet, essayist, literary critic and translator († 2007 )

• 0April 7 : Johannes Mario Simmel , Austrian writer († 2009 )

• 0May 7 : Arno Lustiger , German-Jewish writer and historian († 2012 )
• May 21 : Simon Ruge , German graphic artist and writer († 2013 )
• May 23 : Karlheinz Deschner , German writer († 2014 )
• May 23 : Flora Groult , French writer († 2001 )

• 0June 3 : M. Karunanidhi , Indian politician and author († 2018 )
• 0June 9 : Arthur Häny , Swiss writer and translator († 2019 )
• June 24 : Michel Ragon , French writer († 2020 )

• 0July 2 : Francis Wyndham , British writer († 2017 )
• July 20 : Thomas Berger , American writer († 2014 )
• July 29th : Mix Weiss , Swiss writer († 2014 )
• July 30 : William Gass , American writer († 2017 )

• 0August 2 : James Baldwin , American writer († 1987 )
• 0August 3 : Leon Uris , American writer († 2003 )
• August 17 : Charles Simmons , American writer († 2017 )

• 0September 4th : Joan Aiken , British writer († 2004 )
• 0September 4 : Walter Wager , American writer († 2004 )
• September 20 : Eberhard Lämmert , German literary scholar, essayist and editor († 2015 )
• September 22 : Rosamunde Pilcher , British writer († 2019 )
• September 26 : Kurt Hoffmeister , German writer and historian († 2020 )
• September 27 : Arthur Honegger , Swiss journalist and writer († 2017 )
• September 28 : Siegfried Unseld , German publisher († 2002 )

• October 10 : James Clavell , British writer († 1994 )
• October 14 : Gunnel Linde , Swedish writer († 2014 )

• 0November 9 : Larry T. Shaw , American editor and writer of science fiction and horror literature († 1985 )
• November 21 : Christopher Tolkien , British medievalist and editor († 2020 )
• November 25 : Yoshimoto Takaaki , Japanese poet and literary critic († 2012 )

• December 19 : Michel Tournier , French writer († 2016 )
• December 20 : Friederike Mayröcker , Austrian writer

Died

• April 21 - Marie Corelli , British writer
• June 3 - Franz Kafka , Czech writer
• August 3 - Joseph Conrad , writer of Polish origin
• October 12 - Anatole France , French writer and Nobel Prize for Literature

Single receipts

1. ^ Frederick Lewis Allen : Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s 1931, ISBN 0-06-095665-8 , p. 165.
2. ↑ Mining the seams of radio history . In: The Stage .