Literature year 1930
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
New releases
Novels, short stories
- Abd-el-Kader (also known as Midnight People in 1930) - John Knittel
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
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On the way to the American embassy - Anna Seghers
- also contains: Grubetsch , Die Ziegler und Bauern von Hruschowo
- The age of automatons - a prognostic novel - Ri Tokko
- The excavation pit (completed in 1930) - Andrei Platonow
- The Blue Express (dEA) - Agatha Christie
- Bread - Karl Heinrich Waggerl
- Les cahiers et les poésies d'André Walter - André Gide
- Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
- Crazy Cock (completed in 1930) - Henry Miller
- Thirty years later - Hans Dominik
- East Wind: West Wind - Pearl S. Buck
- Success - Lion Feuchtwanger
- The eternal philistine - Ödön von Horváth
- Flowering Judas and Other Stories - Katherine Anne Porter
- The Duchess of Guermantes (dEA; Vol. 3) - Marcel Proust
- Job - Joseph Roth
- In another country (dEA) - Ernest Hemingway
- Disaster 1940 - Karl Ludwig Kossak-Raytenau
- Counterpoint of Life (dEA) - Aldous Huxley
- Leviathan (dEA) - Julien Green
- Lushin's Defense (OA) - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
- The Man Without Qualities (Vol. 1) - Robert Musil
- Mario and the Wizard - Thomas Mann
- The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie
- The Mysterious Mr Quin - Agatha Christie
- Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
- Pasenow or Romanticism - Hermann Broch
- Red Leaves - William Faulkner
- Robert - André Gide
- A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
- The student Gerber graduated - Friedrich Torberg
- The Scout (OA) - Vladimir Nabokov
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- La Voie royale - André Malraux
Dramas
- Emil and the detectives . A play for children (stage version) - Erich Kästner
- Fatzer, 3 - Bertolt Brecht
- House Danieli - Alfred Neumann
- The Yes Man - Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill (music)
- The Hypocritical Cabal (completed in 1930) - Mikhail Bulgakov
- The last days of mankind (stage version) - Karl Kraus
- The measure - Bertolt Brecht
Non-fiction
- The employees - Siegfried Kracauer
- Marriage and morals. A Sexual Ethic - Bertrand Russell
- The rule of the inferior (2nd, expanded and changed edition) - Edgar Jung
- The Myth of the 20th Century - Alfred Rosenberg
- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930 also in German) - Paul Dirac
- The discomfort in culture - Sigmund Freud
Other works
- From a house of the dead - Opera (premier posthumously) by Leoš Janáček (also libretto) based on Dostoevsky's notes from a house of the dead
- From my childhood days (autobiography; OA) - Selma Lagerlöf
- Les Aventures du roi Pausole - operetta by Arthur Honegger based on the novel by Pierre Louÿs
- The Big Trail (film) - based on a story by Hal G. Evarts
- The blue angel (film) - script collaboration: Carl Zuckmayer
- Cyankali (film) - based on the play ofthe same name by Friedrich Wolf
- Nothing new in the West (film) - based on the novel ofthe same name by Erich Maria Remarque
- German speech (speech) - Thomas Mann
- A friend, a good friend (song) - Text: Robert Gilbert
- The Nose - Opera by Dmitri Shostakovich based on the story by Gogol ; Libretto: Yevgeny Zamyatin and others
- Second Manifeste du Surréalisme - André Breton
- Tintin au Congo (comic album; preprint) - Hergé
- Total mobilization (essay) - Ernst Jünger
- La voix humaine (monooper) - Francis Poulenc ; Libretto: Jean Cocteau
Others
- The publishing house Die Runde , which was active until 1940, is founded in Berlin.
- Maxim Gorky founds the Soviet Union magazine .
- Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap justify the (since 1975 re-appearing) philosophical journal knowledge .
- The Japanese literary magazine Bungei appears for the first time.
- The French daily Le Voltaire , founded in 1878 and whose authors included well-known writers, appears for the last time.
- The Egyptian weekly journal for politics and literature Al-Balagh al-Usbuʿi , founded in 1926, appears for the last time.
- The first novels by Georges Simenon emerge , including several works about Commissioner Maigret , which will appear from 1931.
- In Swiss exile written Ignazio Silone with fontamara his first novel, which will be published in Switzerland 1,933th
- The translation of the Gospel of John into the Romanes by Jaja Sattler and Frieda Zeller-Plinzner appears.
- The following literary prizes were awarded for the first time in 1930:
- Frost Medal (USA)
- Lessing Prize from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- Premio Viareggio (Italy)
- Prix Interallié (France)
- Prix du Roman d'Aventures (France)
- Prix du roman populiste (France)
- John Masefield is appointed British Poet Laureate .
Anniversaries (selection)
Born in 1930
January - March
- HG Ewers , German science fiction writer († 2013) January 1:
- Gintautas Iešmantas , Lithuanian editor, poet and writer († 2016) January 1:
- Christel Looks-Theile , German journalist and writer († 2015) January 3:
- Robert Stallman , American author, literary critic and English scholar († 1980) January 6:
- Klaus Paysan , German photographer and author († 2011) January 8:
- Hellmut Walters , German writer († 1985) January 9:
- January 12: Mikio Andō , Japanese children's author, literary critic and translator († 1990)
- January 12th: Jennifer Johnston , Irish writer
- January 16: Horst von Gizycki , German art and social psychologist, author, publicist and essayist († 2009)
- January 20: Buzz Aldrin , American astronaut and author
- January 20: Egon Bondy , Czech poet and philosopher († 2007)
- January 20: Edeltraud Eckert , German poet († 1955)
- January 22nd: Hildegard Goss-Mayr , Austrian peace activist and author
- January 25: Marta Traba , Argentine-Colombian writer and art historian († 1983)
- January 26: Bryan Berry , British science fiction writer († 1966)
- January 27: Takao Aeba , Japanese literary scholar († 2017)
- January 28: Margo Glantz , Mexican writer, essayist, critic, and academic
- January 29: Albrecht Roeseler , German musicologist, publisher and cultural journalist († 1994)
- January 30: Myron Levoy , American writer († 2019)
- January 30th: Friedhelm Werremeier , German writer († 2019)
- January 31: Sergius Golowin , Swiss author († 2006)
- Winfried Elliger , German classical philologist and author († 2019) February 3:
- Eva Lubinger , Austrian writer February 3:
- Adolf Schurr , German philosopher († 2018) February 4:
- Jürg Ulrich , Swiss physician, historian and biographer († 2017) February 4:
- Paul Mommertz , German writer February 5:
- Ilon Wikland , Estonian-Swedish children's book illustrator February 5:
- Liliane Wouters , French-speaking Belgian poet, playwright, writer, essayist and translator († 2016) February 5:
- Amei-Angelika Müller , German entertainment writer († 2007) February 6:
- Eva Strittmatter , German poet and writer († 2011) February 8:
- February 10: Michael Anthony , Trinidadian writer and poet, also non-fiction author
- February 10: Gert Jurgons , German theater director († 2006)
- February 12: Wieland Förster , German visual artist and writer
- February 12: Herbert Nachbar , German writer († 1980)
- February 12: Gerhard Rühm , Austrian writer and visual artist
- February 12: Józef Wilkoń , Polish illustrator of picture books and author
- February 13: Ernst Fuchs , Austrian visual artist and author († 2015)
- February 16: Gilbert Forray , French military and writer († 2017)
- February 16: Richard Kitschigin , German journalist and book author († 2015)
- February 17th: Jörg von Liebenfelß , Austrian-German author
- February 17th: Ruth Rendell , British writer († 2015)
- February 21: Joan Metge , New Zealand social anthropologist and author
- February 21: Wilfried Minks , German set designer and theater director († 2018)
- February 21: Heinrich G. Schneeweiß , Austrian writer and translator (living in the Netherlands)
- February 22nd: Edward D. Hoch , American crime and science fiction writer († 2008)
- February 23: Gerry Davis , British screenplay and science fiction writer († 1991)
- February 23: Jef Geeraerts , Belgian writer († 2015)
- February 25: Erica Pedretti , Swiss writer and visual artist
- February 25: Masao Yamakawa , Japanese writer († 1965)
- February 28: Lex Jacoby , Luxembourgish writer († 2015)
- Fritz Vogelgsang , German translator, essayist and editor († 2009) March 1:
- Tom Wolfe , American writer († 2018) March 2:
- Heiner Geißler , German politician and author († 2017) March 3:
- Robert E. Margroff , American science fiction and fantasy writer († 2015) March 5:
- Zagorka Golubović , Yugoslav-Serbian sociologist and anthropologist († 2019) March 8:
- Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski , Polish-French historical and legal historian († 2017) March 8:
- Ernst Tugendhat , German philosopher March 8:
- Maria Àngels Anglada , Catalan writer and poet († 1999) March 9:
- Ota Filip , Czech-German writer († 2018) March 9:
- Howard L. Myers , American science fiction writer († 1971) March 9:
- March 12: Kurt Flasch , German historian of philosophy, essayist, biographer
- March 14: Ludwig Finscher , German music historian, author and publisher († 2020)
- March 14: Yegor Jakowlew , Russian journalist and writer († 2005)
- March 15: Andreas Okopenko , Austrian writer († 2010)
- March 16: Marianne Kesting , German literary scholar, literary critic, biographer, essayist
- March 18: Héctor Bianciotti , Argentine-French writer and literary critic († 2012)
- March 19: Lina Kostenko , Ukrainian poet
- March 22: Stephen Sondheim , American musical composer and lyricist
- March 24: John Sack , American journalist and writer († 2004)
- March 26: Gregory Corso , American poet († 2001)
- March 26: Adel Theodor Khoury , Lebanese Islamic scholar, author and Koran translator
- March 29: Siegfried Mrotzek , German writer and translator († 2000)
April June
- Frithjof Rodi , German philosopher April 1:
- Chlodwig Poth , German satirist and cartoonist († 2004) April 4:
- Fritz Schranz , German philosopher, action artist and author († 2016) April 4:
- Rainer Schmidt , German psychoanalyst and author († 2020) April 7:
- Klaus Peter Schreiner , German cabaret artist and author († 2017) April 7:
- Rafael Cadenas , Venezuelan poet, essayist and translator April 8:
- Paul Schorno , Swiss theater critic and book author († 2019) April 8:
- Miller Williams , American poet, author, translator and editor († 2015) April 8:
- April 10: Eva Marschang , Romanian-German literary researcher and translator
- April 13: Taras Kermauner , Yugoslav-Slovenian literary historian, philosopher, essayist, ... († 2008)
- April 16: René Ahlberg , Latvian-German sociologist and author († 1995)
- April 18: Roberto Sosa , Honduran poet and writer († 2011)
- April 19: Georg Denzler , German theologian and author
- April 20: Péter Zsoldos , Hungarian science fiction writer († 1997)
- April 21: Herbert Graf , German political scientist and author († 2019)
- April 21: Dieter Roth , Swiss author and visual artist († 1998)
- April 23: Manfred Franke , German writer († 2020)
- April 26: Bruce Jay Friedman , American writer († 2020)
- April 30: Félix Guattari , French psychoanalyst and author († 1992)
- Yoram Kaniuk , Israeli writer († 2013) May 2:
- Sigmar Schollak , German children's book author and aphorist († 2012) May 2nd:
- Bernard Slade , Canadian playwright and screenwriter († 2019) May 2:
- Juan Gelman , Argentine writer and translator († 2014) May 3:
- Philippe Beaussant , French musicologist and writer († 2016) May 6:
- Horst Bienek , German writer († 1990) May 7:
- Johann Diedrich Bellmann , Low German writer, poet, playwright, radio play author and translator († 2006) May 8:
- May 11: Kamau Brathwaite , English-speaking poet and writer from Barbados († 2020)
- May 11: Kurt Morawietz , German writer and poet († 1994)
- May 12: Mazisi Kunene , South African poet and civil rights activist († 2006)
- May 13: Diane Detzer , American science fiction writer († 1992)
- May 13: Adolf Holl , Austrian theologian, sociologist of religion, author and publicist († 2020)
- May 13: José Jiménez Lozano , Spanish poet, writer and essayist († 2020)
- May 15: Grace Ogot , Kenyan writer († 2015)
- May 15: Andrzej Walicki , Polish historian, in particular Historian of ideas († 2020)
- May 16: Paolo Bozzi , Italian psychologist and author († 2003)
- May 16: Alexander Kaempfe , German translator, journalist and writer († 1988)
- May 18: Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel , German publisher
- May 18: Fred Saberhagen , American science fiction and fantasy author († 2007)
- May 23: Friedrich Achleitner , Austrian writer, poet and essayist († 2019)
- May 25: Michel Deguy , French poet, essayist, translator and philosopher
- May 27: Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska , Canadian poet and writer (writing in French)
- May 28: Barbara Flemming , German Turkologist and essayist († 2020)
- May 28: Vytautas Petkevičius , Soviet-Lithuanian writer († 2008)
- May 29: Ekkehard Schall , German actor and poet († 2005)
- Joachim Matthes , German sociologist († 2009) June 1:
- Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer († 1999) June 3:
- Mikhail Jemzew , Soviet science fiction author († 2003) June 3:
- David Brody , American social historian and essayist June 5:
- Alifa Rifaat , Egyptian writer († 1996) June 5:
- Lin Carter , American writer and editor († 1988) June 9:
- Alda Lara , Angolan poet and writer († 1962) June 9:
- June 12: Burton Pike , American Germanist, comparativeist and translator
- June 12th: Otto Schenk , Austrian actor, cabaret artist, theater director, director and author
- June 13th: Paul Veyne , French historian, scientific theorist and essayist
- June 14: Alfred Heinrich , Austrian satirical publicist, (cabaret) author and journalist († 2016)
- June 22nd: Leonard Lamensdorf , American writer
- June 23: Juan Alberto Peña Lebrón , Dominican poet and lawyer
- June 24th: Claude Chabrol , French film director and screenwriter († 2010)
- June 26: Gerd Henniger , German art historian, writer, poet, essayist, editor and translator († 1990)
- June 29: Sławomir Mrożek , Polish writer and playwright († 2013)
July September
- Rolf Trauschein , German sinologist and historian († 2019) July 1:
- Wolfgang Brekle , German Germanist and author († 2019) July 2:
- Ota Pavel , Czechoslovakian writer and narrator († 1973) July 2:
- Radoslav Katičić , Croatian linguist and cultural scientist († 2019) July 3:
- Hans-Jürgen Heise , German poet, writer, essayist, literary critic († 2013) July 6:
- Françoise Mallet-Joris , Belgian-French writer († 2016) July 6:
- Joseph Georg Wolf , German legal historian and author († 2017) July 6:
- Eugene McCabe , Irish novelist and playwright († 2020) July 7:
- Walter Aue , German writer July 8:
- July 10: Fethi Savaşçı , Turkish-German writer (writing in Turkish; † 1989)
- July 11: Harold Bloom , American literary scholar and critic († 2019)
- July 11: Klaus Wagenbach , German publisher and author
- July 12: Dursun Akçam , Turkish writer († 2003)
- July 12: Ruth Drexel , German actress, theater director and director († 2009)
- July 12: Wolfgang Held , German writer and screenwriter († 2014)
- July 12: Bernd Rüthers , German legal scholar and author
- July 13: Jesús López Pacheco , Spanish writer, poet and translator († 1997)
- July 13: Naomi Schemer , Israeli singer and songwriter († 2004)
- July 15: Jacques Derrida , French philosopher († 2004)
- July 21: Lukas Heller , British screenwriter of German origin († 1988)
- July 23: Johan Albert Ankum , Dutch legal historian and author († 2019)
- July 23: Pierre Vidal-Naquet , French ancient and social historian († 2006)
- July 25: Peter Furth , German social philosopher and author († 2019)
- July 29: Lupo Hernández Rueda , Dominican poet and essayist († 2017)
- July 29: Diether Schmidt , German art historian and author († 2012)
- July 30th: FX Toole , American boxing trainer and writer († 2002)
- Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist and social philosopher († 2002) August 1:
- Josef Simon , German philosopher († 2016) August 1:
- Vincenzo Cappelletti , Italian philosopher and science historian († 2020) August 2:
- Inger Sandberg , Swedish writer and illustrator August 2nd:
- Mack McCormick , American musicologist, blues researcher and author († 2015) August 3:
- Carlfriedrich Claus , German (language) artist († 1998) August 4:
- Martin Duberman , American historian and author August 6:
- Hans-Joachim Seeler , German politician and author († 2015) August 9:
- August 13: André Haynal , Hungarian-Swiss psychoanalyst and author († 2019)
- August 17: Ted Hughes , British poet and writer († 1998)
- August 18: Hanno Helbling , Swiss writer, translator and features editor († 2005)
- August 18: Heinz Lemmermann , German music teacher, writer, editor, ... († 2007)
- August 19: David G. Compton , British writer
- August 19: Pierre Fritsch , French writer († 2005)
- August 19: Frank McCourt , American-Irish writer († 2009)
- August 22: Dietrich Eichholtz , German historian and author († 2016)
- August 22: Jan Křen , Czech historian and author († 2020)
- August 23: Michel Rocard , French politician and writer († 2016)
- August 27: Hans-Joachim Gelberg , German publisher and author of books for children and young people († 2020)
- August 28: Helmut Bez , German writer († 2019)
- August 28: Berndt Schaller , German Protestant theologian, Judaist and author († 2020)
- Michel Serres , French philosopher († 2019) September 1:
- Cherry Wilder , New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer († 2002) September 3:
- Willi Beitz , German Slavist and literary historian († 2020) September 7th:
- Mario Adorf , German actor and writer September 8:
- Antonio Requeni , Argentine journalist, writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and author of children's books September 8:
- Svetozar Koljević , Yugoslav or Serbian literary scholar and translator († 2016) September 9:
- September 10: Ivan Aralica , Croatian writer, essayist and politician
- September 10: Ferreira Gullar , Brazilian poet, writer, essayist, ... († 2016)
- September 10: René Rebuffat , French classical scholar and archaeologist († 2019)
- September 12: Werner Toelcke , German actor and writer († 2017)
- September 13: Robert Stromberger , German playwright and screenwriter, director and actor († 2009)
- September 14: Alexandre Voisard , French-speaking Swiss writer
- September 20: Adolf Endler , German poet and writer († 2009)
- September 20: Stanley Tigerman , American architect, architectural theorist and essayist († 2019)
- September 24th: Ingrid Bachér , German writer
- September 24: Catherine Robbe-Grillet , French writer
- September 24: Hans J. Vermeer , German linguist and translation scholar and translator († 2010)
- September 25: Chit Phumisak , Thai intellectual and author († 1966)
- September 25: Herbert Heckmann , German writer († 1999)
- September 25: Shel Silverstein , American musician, poet and writer († 1999)
- September 28: Immanuel Wallerstein , American sociologist and social historian († 2019)
- September 29th: Colin Dexter , British crime novelist († 2017)
October - December
- David Wingeate Pike , British modern historian († 2020) October 2:
- Theo Buck , German Germanist, essayist and biographer († 2019) October 3:
- Wolf Klaußner , German writer († 2005) October 3:
- Hans Peter Willberg , German book designer († 2003) October 4:
- Dieter Perlwitz , German actor, theater director and theater director († 2019) October 5:
- Shugyō Takahashi , Japanese haiku poet October 6th:
- October 10: Daniel Keel , Swiss publisher († 2011)
- October 10: Akiyuki Nosaka , Japanese writer († 2015)
- October 10: Harold Pinter , British novelist and playwright († 2008)
- October 12: Gerd W. Heyse , German aphorist and poet
- October 13: Rudolf Schenda , German literary scholar and narrative researcher († 2000)
- October 15: Tera Fabiánová , Czech Romni, poet and writer († 2007)
- October 16: Dan Pagis , Israeli literary scholar, poet and translator of Romanian origin († 1986)
- October 18: Esther Hautzig , American author († 2009)
- October 21: Jürgen Degenhardt , German author († 2014)
- October 24: Elaine Feinstein , British poet, writer, biographer, translator († 2019)
- October 25: Friedrich Albrecht , German literary scholar, essayist and editor
- October 25: Harold Brodkey , American writer († 1996)
- October 25: Werner Lutz , Swiss poet, narrator and visual artist († 2016)
- October 26: John Arden , British novelist and playwright († 2012)
- October 26: Jörg Steiner , Swiss writer († 2013)
- October 27: Francisca Aguirre , Spanish poet and author († 2019)
- October 28: Barbara Brecht-Schall , main heir to Bertolt Brechts and administrator of Brecht-Erben GmbH († 2015)
- October 29: Eva Kaufmann , German literary scholar († 2019)
- October 30: Timothy Findley , Canadian writer († 2002)
- October 30: György Sebestyén , Hungarian-Austrian writer († 1990)
- October 31: Eduard Prüssen , German graphic artist and book illustrator († 2019)
- Albert R. Gurney , American writer and playwright († 2017) November 1:
- Niels Birger Wamberg , Danish literary critic, literary scholar and writer November 3:
- Hans Mommsen , German historian († 2015) November 5:
- Wolfgang J. Mommsen , German historian († 2004) November 5:
- November 10: Heinz Küpper , German writer († 2005)
- November 11th: Minako Ōba , Japanese writer († 2007)
- November 12th: Tonke Dragt , Dutch author for children and young people
- November 13: Fumiko Kometani , Japanese writer
- November 15: James Graham Ballard , British writer († 2009)
- November 16: Chinua Achebe , Nigerian writer († 2013)
- November 17: Karl-Heinz Janßen , German journalist and modern historian († 2013)
- November 19: Isaac Lipschits , Dutch historian, essayist and biographer († 2008)
- November 21: Marjan Rožanc , Slovenian writer and essayist († 1990)
- November 23: Herberto Helder , Portuguese poet († 2015)
- November 27: Vladimir Maximow , Russian writer and dissident († 1995)
- November 30: Bogdan Wojdowski , Polish writer and editor († 1994)
- Gary Becker , American economist and author († 2014) December 2:
- Jean-Luc Godard , Franco-Swiss film director and author December 3:
- Marc Adrian , Austrian artist and author († 2008) December 4th:
- Leszek Bakuła , Polish poet and prose writer († 1997) December 4th:
- Karl Siegstad , Greenlandic writer († 2010) December 5:
- Rolf Hoppe , German actor, theater founder and director († 2018) December 6:
- John Morressy , American science fiction and fantasy author († 2006) December 8:
- Maximilian Schell , Austrian-Swiss filmmaker and author († 2014) December 8:
- Felicia Langer , German-Israeli lawyer, human rights activist and author († 2018) December 9:
- Edoardo Sanguineti , Italian writer, poet, critic and translator († 2010) December 9:
- December 13: Reinhardt Stumm , German-Swiss cultural journalist, theater critic and non-fiction author († 2019)
- December 13: Natan Zach , Israeli poet
- December 13: Vytautė Žilinskaitė , Lithuanian satirist and writer
- December 13: Reiner Zimnik , German writer and draftsman
- December 15: Edna O'Brien , Irish writer
- December 17th: Armin Mueller-Stahl , German actor, musician, painter and writer
- December 19: Bożena Kowalska , Polish art historian and biographer
- December 19: Miloslav Stingl , Czech ethnologist and non-fiction author († 2020)
- December 20: Volker Klotz , German literary scholar, theater critic and essayist
- December 22: Anna Myrejewa , Soviet or Russian philologist and translator of Evenk origin († 2012)
- December 24th: Frithjof Bergmann , Austrian-American philosopher
- December 25: Gotthart Wunberg , German Germanist, literary historian and cultural scientist († 2020)
Exact date unknown
- Shun Akiyama , Japanese literary critic and book author († 2013)
- Rada Biller , Russian-German writer († 2019)
- Edward de Capoulet-Junac , French science fiction author
- Gustavo Gasparini , Italian writer
- James Heneghan , British-Canadian children's and youth author
- Mahmut Makal , Turkish writer († 2018)
- Malqinhu , Sino-Mongolian writer
- Júlio Moreira , Portuguese writer
- John Morrow , Northern Irish writer († 2014)
- Caesar Rymarowicz , Polish-German translator († 1993)
- Herbert Simmons , American writer (possibly * 1931)
- Gudrun Voigt , German writer
Died in 1930
- Jacob B. Bull , Norwegian writer and playwright (* 1853) January 7th:
- February 18: Adolf Köster , German politician, diplomat and writer (* 1883)
- DH Lawrence , British writer (* 1885) March 2:
- March 11th: Silvio Gesell , founder of free economics and author (* 1862)
- March 12th: Alois Jirásek , Czech writer and historian (* 1851)
- April 14: Vladimir Mayakovsky , Russian or Soviet poet (* 1893)
- April 22nd: Jeppe Aakjær , Danish poet and writer (* 1866)
- Vittorio Pica , Italian literary and art critic and essayist (* 1862) May 1:
- May 12: Pieter Jelles Troelstra , Dutch politician and poet (* 1860)
- May 13: Helene Lange , German educator, women's rights activist and author (* 1848)
- Eugénio Tavares , Cape Verdean poet, translator, ... (* 1867) June 1st:
- June 10: Adolf von Harnack , German theologian and church historian (* 1851)
- June 13: José Antonio Ramos Sucre , Venezuelan poet and diplomat (* 1890)
- June 23: Melville Davisson Post , American detective writer (* 1869)
- June 25: Maryla Wolska , Polish poet (* 1873)
- June 30: Alwin Freudenberg , German writer and educator (* 1873)
- Arthur Conan Doyle , British writer (* 1859) July 7:
- Julius Hart , German poet and literary critic (* 1859) July 7:
- July 11: Andon Zako Çajupi , Albanian writer and translator (* 1866)
- July 13: Joseph Anglade , French Romanist and Medievalist (* 1868)
- July 20: Sascha Simchowitz , dramaturge, writer and theater scholar working in Germany (* 1864)
- July 25th: Emil Claar , Austrian theater director, writer and playwright (* 1842)
- Siegfried Wagner , German composer and librettist (* 1869) August 4th:
- August 11: JE Casely Hayford , Ghanaian lawyer and writer (* 1866)
- Vladimir Arsenjew , Russian explorer and writer (* 1872) September 4th:
- October 30th: Fanny von Bernstorff , north German illustrator and children's book author (* 1840)
- Arno Franz , German writer and publisher (* 1880) November 9:
- Anselma Heine , German writer (* 1855) November 9th:
- Raul Brandão , Portuguese writer (* 1867) December 5:
- December 11: José Toribio Medina Zavala , Chilean bibliographer and author (* 1852)
- December 25: Jakob Mändmets , Estonian writer and journalist (* 1871)
- anonymous: Manuel Zeno Gandía , Puerto Rican doctor, poet and writer (* 1855)
Literature prizes 1930
German literary prizes
- Poet Prize of the City of Munich : Hans Brandenburg
- Georg Büchner Prize (selection): Nikolaus Schwarzkopf
- Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main : Sigmund Freud
- Kleist Prize : Reinhard Goering for Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition
- Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg : Friedrich Gundolf
International literary prizes
- Adalbert Stifter Prize : Dolores Viesèr
- Grand Prix Gobert : Les journées d'octobre et la fin de l'année 1789. Vers la Fédération. La Fédération by Henri Leclercq and Histoire linguistique d'Alsace et de Lorraine by Paul Lévy
- Grand Prix du Roman : Amour nuptial by Jacques de Lacretelle
- Grand Schiller Prize : Jakob Schaffner
- Hawthornden Prize : The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction): The Good Companions by JB Priestley
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography): The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper by David Cecil
- Julius Reich Prize : Erika Mitterer
- Newbery Medal : Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
- Nobel Prize in Literature : Sinclair Lewis
- O. Henry Prize (selection): Dressing-Up by WR Burnett
- Premio Viareggio (selection): Anselmo Bucci for Il pittore volante
- Prix Femina : Cécile de la Folie by Marc Chadourne
- Prix Goncourt / Roman : Malaisie by Henri Fauconnier
- Prix Interallié : La Voie royale by André Malraux
- Prix Jules-Verne : L'Île au sable vert by Tancrède Vallerey
- Prix Renaudot : Piège by Germaine Beaumont
- Prix du Roman d'Aventures : Le Testament de Basil Crookes by Pierre Véry
- Prix du roman populiste : La Rue sans nom by Marcel Aymé
- Pulitzer Prize / Poetry : Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken
- Pulitzer Prize / Novel : Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
- Pulitzer Prize / Theater : The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly
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Swiss Schiller Foundation (selection):
- Honorary gift: Hugo Marti ; Max Rychner
- Individual work prizes: Die Wandlung by Cécile Lauber ; Matka Boska by Cécile Ines Loos
- Tollanderska priset : Emil Zilliacus
- William Dean Howells Medal : Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather