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
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

0January 1: HG Ewers , German science fiction writer († 2013)
0January 1: Gintautas Iešmantas , Lithuanian editor, poet and writer († 2016)
0January 3: Christel Looks-Theile , German journalist and writer († 2015)
0January 6: Robert Stallman , American author, literary critic and English scholar († 1980)
0January 8: Klaus Paysan , German photographer and author († 2011)
0January 9: Hellmut Walters , German writer († 1985)
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)

0February 3: Winfried Elliger , German classical philologist and author († 2019)
0February 3: Eva Lubinger , Austrian writer
0February 4: Adolf Schurr , German philosopher († 2018)
0February 4: Jürg Ulrich , Swiss physician, historian and biographer († 2017)
0February 5: Paul Mommertz , German writer
0February 5: Ilon Wikland , Estonian-Swedish children's book illustrator
0February 5: Liliane Wouters , French-speaking Belgian poet, playwright, writer, essayist and translator († 2016)
0February 6: Amei-Angelika Müller , German entertainment writer († 2007)
0February 8: Eva Strittmatter , German poet and writer († 2011)
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)

0March 1: Fritz Vogelgsang , German translator, essayist and editor († 2009)

0March 2: Tom Wolfe , American writer († 2018)

0March 3: Heiner Geißler , German politician and author († 2017)

0March 5: Robert E. Margroff , American science fiction and fantasy writer († 2015)

0March 8: Zagorka Golubović , Yugoslav-Serbian sociologist and anthropologist († 2019)

0March 8: Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski , Polish-French historical and legal historian († 2017)

0March 8: Ernst Tugendhat , German philosopher

0March 9: Maria Àngels Anglada , Catalan writer and poet († 1999)

0March 9: Ota Filip , Czech-German writer († 2018)

0March 9: Howard L. Myers , American science fiction writer († 1971)

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

0April 1: Frithjof Rodi , German philosopher
0April 4: Chlodwig Poth , German satirist and cartoonist († 2004)
0April 4: Fritz Schranz , German philosopher, action artist and author († 2016)
0April 7: Rainer Schmidt , German psychoanalyst and author († 2020)
0April 7: Klaus Peter Schreiner , German cabaret artist and author († 2017)
0April 8: Rafael Cadenas , Venezuelan poet, essayist and translator
0April 8: Paul Schorno , Swiss theater critic and book author († 2019)
0April 8: Miller Williams , American poet, author, translator and editor († 2015)
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)

0May 2: Yoram Kaniuk , Israeli writer († 2013)
0May 2nd: Sigmar Schollak , German children's book author and aphorist († 2012)
0May 2: Bernard Slade , Canadian playwright and screenwriter († 2019)
0May 3: Juan Gelman , Argentine writer and translator († 2014)
0May 6: Philippe Beaussant , French musicologist and writer († 2016)
0May 7: Horst Bienek , German writer († 1990)
0May 8: Johann Diedrich Bellmann , Low German writer, poet, playwright, radio play author and translator († 2006)
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)

0June 1: Joachim Matthes , German sociologist († 2009)
0June 3: Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer († 1999)
0June 3: Mikhail Jemzew , Soviet science fiction author († 2003)
0June 5: David Brody , American social historian and essayist
0June 5: Alifa Rifaat , Egyptian writer († 1996)
0June 9: Lin Carter , American writer and editor († 1988)
0June 9: Alda Lara , Angolan poet and writer († 1962)
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

0July 1: Rolf Trauschein , German sinologist and historian († 2019)
0July 2: Wolfgang Brekle , German Germanist and author († 2019)
0July 2: Ota Pavel , Czechoslovakian writer and narrator († 1973)
0July 3: Radoslav Katičić , Croatian linguist and cultural scientist († 2019)
0July 6: Hans-Jürgen Heise , German poet, writer, essayist, literary critic († 2013)
0July 6: Françoise Mallet-Joris , Belgian-French writer († 2016)
0July 6: Joseph Georg Wolf , German legal historian and author († 2017)
0July 7: Eugene McCabe , Irish novelist and playwright († 2020)
0July 8: Walter Aue , German writer
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)

0August 1: Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist and social philosopher († 2002)
0August 1: Josef Simon , German philosopher († 2016)
0August 2: Vincenzo Cappelletti , Italian philosopher and science historian († 2020)
0August 2nd: Inger Sandberg , Swedish writer and illustrator
0August 3: Mack McCormick , American musicologist, blues researcher and author († 2015)
0August 4: Carlfriedrich Claus , German (language) artist († 1998)
0August 6: Martin Duberman , American historian and author
0August 9: Hans-Joachim Seeler , German politician and author († 2015)
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)

0September 1: Michel Serres , French philosopher († 2019)

0September 3: Cherry Wilder , New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer († 2002)

0September 7th: Willi Beitz , German Slavist and literary historian († 2020)

0September 8: Mario Adorf , German actor and writer

0September 8: Antonio Requeni , Argentine journalist, writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and author of children's books
0September 9: Svetozar Koljević , Yugoslav or Serbian literary scholar and translator († 2016)
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

0October 2: David Wingeate Pike , British modern historian († 2020)
0October 3: Theo Buck , German Germanist, essayist and biographer († 2019)
0October 3: Wolf Klaußner , German writer († 2005)
0October 4: Hans Peter Willberg , German book designer († 2003)
0October 5: Dieter Perlwitz , German actor, theater director and theater director († 2019)
0October 6th: Shugyō Takahashi , Japanese haiku poet
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)

0November 1: Albert R. Gurney , American writer and playwright († 2017)
0November 3: Niels Birger Wamberg , Danish literary critic, literary scholar and writer
0November 5: Hans Mommsen , German historian († 2015)
0November 5: Wolfgang J. Mommsen , German historian († 2004)
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)

0December 2: Gary Becker , American economist and author († 2014)
0December 3: Jean-Luc Godard , Franco-Swiss film director and author
0December 4th: Marc Adrian , Austrian artist and author († 2008)
0December 4th: Leszek Bakuła , Polish poet and prose writer († 1997)
0December 5: Karl Siegstad , Greenlandic writer († 2010)
0December 6: Rolf Hoppe , German actor, theater founder and director († 2018)
0December 8: John Morressy , American science fiction and fantasy author († 2006)
0December 8: Maximilian Schell , Austrian-Swiss filmmaker and author († 2014)
0December 9: Felicia Langer , German-Israeli lawyer, human rights activist and author († 2018)
0December 9: Edoardo Sanguineti , Italian writer, poet, critic and translator († 2010)
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

0January 7th: Jacob B. Bull , Norwegian writer and playwright (* 1853)
February 18: Adolf Köster , German politician, diplomat and writer (* 1883)
0March 2: DH Lawrence , British writer (* 1885)
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)
0May 1: Vittorio Pica , Italian literary and art critic and essayist (* 1862)
May 12: Pieter Jelles Troelstra , Dutch politician and poet (* 1860)
May 13: Helene Lange , German educator, women's rights activist and author (* 1848)
0June 1st: Eugénio Tavares , Cape Verdean poet, translator, ... (* 1867)
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)

0July 7: Arthur Conan Doyle , British writer (* 1859)
0July 7: Julius Hart , German poet and literary critic (* 1859)
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)
0August 4th: Siegfried Wagner , German composer and librettist (* 1869)
August 11: JE Casely Hayford , Ghanaian lawyer and writer (* 1866)
0September 4th: Vladimir Arsenjew , Russian explorer and writer (* 1872)
October 30th: Fanny von Bernstorff , north German illustrator and children's book author (* 1840)
0November 9: Arno Franz , German writer and publisher (* 1880)
0November 9th: Anselma Heine , German writer (* 1855)
0December 5: Raul Brandão , Portuguese writer (* 1867)
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
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