Literature year 1931

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Literature year 1931
Stories from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth has its world premiere at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin .

Events

prose

• February: The novels Monsieur Gallet, décédé and Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon , written last year, appear as the first novels about Commissioner Maigret .

• The novel Kaiserwetter is published by Karl Jakob Hirsch .
• Erich Kästner publishes the novel Fabian - The Story of a Moralist as well as the two children's novels Pünktchen and Anton and Der 35. Mai or Konrad rides in the South Seas .
• Shortly before Arthur Schnitzler's death, his novella Flight into Darkness, written between 1912 and 1917 under the working title Wahn , appears .
• By Franz Werfel , the novel appears the siblings of Naples .
• The Good Earth , the first part of a trilogy ofnovelsby Pearl S. Buck , appears.
• From August Gailit the novel appears Nippernaht and the seasons .
• The children's book Calico Bush is published by Rachel Field .
• The novel Le Feu follet is published by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle .

Poetry

• March 24th : Erich Kästner's poem The Ballad of Imitation Instinct appears in the magazine Die Weltbühne .

drama

• October 26 : The play Mourning Becomes Electra ( Mourning Becomes Electra ) by Eugene O'Neill has a successful premiere at the Guild Theater on Broadway. Another 150 performances will follow.
• November 2nd : Stories from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth is premiered at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , directed by Heinz Hilpert . Contributors include Carola Neher , Peter Lorre , Hans Moser , Paul Hörbiger and Paul Dahlke . Despite massive criticism from conservative and right-wing extremist circles, the piece is a great success.

Scientific literature

• Kurt Gödel publishes his most important work on formally undecidable theorems of the Principia mathematica and related systems with the proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorem .

Awards ceremonies

Erik Axel Karlfeldt shortly before his death

• The Swede Erik Axel Karlfeldt posthumously receives the Nobel Prize for Literature .
• Ödön von Horváth and Erik Reger receive the Kleist Prize .

Others

• October 12 : The weekly The New York Times Best Seller list appears for the first time in The New York Times Book Review .
• October: The American pulp magazine The Popular Magazine , which has appeared since November 1903, is published for the last time as an independent publication.

Born

January to March

• 0January 4th : Nora Iuga , Romanian poet and translator
• 0January 4 : Menis Koumandareas , Greek writer († 2014 )
• 0January 5 : Juan Goytisolo , Spanish journalist and writer († 2017 )
• 0January 5 : Joachim Knauth , German playwright, radio play author and essayist († 2019 )
• 0January 6 : EL Doctorow , American writer and editor († 2015 )
• 0January 6 : Joachim Specht , German writer († 2016 )
• 0January 9 : Algis Budrys , American science fiction writer († 2008 )
• January 11 : Mary Rodgers , American musical composer and writer († 2014 )
• January 14 : Yves Berger , French writer († 2004 )
• January 14 : Elmar Gunsch , Austrian moderator and author († 2013 )
• January 15 : Tölögön Kasymbekow , Kyrgyz writer and publicist († 2011 )
• January 17 : Nikolai von Michalewsky , German writer († 2000 )
• January 20 : Ariyoshi Sawako , Japanese writer († 1984 )
• January 22nd : Pat O'Shea , Irish writer († 2007 )
• January 27 : Mordecai Richler , Canadian writer († 2001 )
• January 28 : Sakyō Komatsu , Japanese science fiction writer († 2011 )
• January 29 : Gert Hofmann , German writer († 1993 )
• January 31 : Léon Wurmser , American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author († 2020 )

• 0February 6 : Heinz Kahlau , German poet, playwright and writer of screenplays and children's books († 2012 )
• 0February 9 : Thomas Bernhard , Austrian writer († 1989 )
• February 12 : Janwillem van de Wetering , Dutch writer († 2008 )
• February 16 : Alfred Kolleritsch , Austrian writer and poet († 2020 )
• February 16 : Makoto Ōoka , Japanese poet and literary scholar († 2017 )
• February 18 : Toni Morrison , American writer and Nobel Prize for Literature († 2019 )
• February 24 : Uri Orlev , Israeli children's author

• 0March 8 : John McPhee , American non-fiction author
• March 11th : Janosch (Horst Eckert), German children's book author and writer
• March 13 : Wolfgang Kohlhaase , German director and writer
• March 22 : William Shatner , Canadian actor, singer, writer
• March 23 : Masako Togawa , Japanese writer († 2016 )
• March 28 : Jane Rule , Canadian author († 2007 )

April to June

• 0April 1 : Rolf Hochhuth , German playwright, narrator and essayist († 2020 )
• 0April 2 : Howard Engel , Canadian writer († 2019 )
• 0April 7 : Donald Barthelme , American writer († 1989 )
• 0April 9th : Leone Frollo , Italian comic artist and author († 2018 )
• April 15 : Tomas Tranströmer , Swedish poet and Nobel Prize winner († 2015 )
• April 24th : Meinolf Wewel , German publisher
• April 28 : Chukwuemeka Ike , Nigerian writer († 2020 )

• 0May 7 : Gene Wolfe , American science fiction writer († 2019 )
• May 23 : Barbara Barrie , American actress and writer

• 0June 2 : Anders Ehnmark , Swedish journalist and writer († 2019 )
• 0June 3 : John Norman , American fantasy and science fiction writer
• 0June 4th : Erasmus Schöfer , German writer
• 0June 4 : Jan Zábrana , Czech writer, poet and translator († 1984 )
• 0June 6 : Kiki Dimoula , Greek poet († 2020 )
• 0June 7 : Okot p'Bitek , Ugandan poet, teacher and ethnologist († 1982 )
• June 13 : Irvin D. Yalom , American psychiatrist and writer
• June 16 : István Eörsi , Hungarian poet, playwright, prose writer and essayist († 2005 )
• June 21 : Erik Neutsch , German writer († 2013 )
• June 23 : Urs Jaeggi , Swiss sociologist, writer, painter and sculptor
• June 26 : Colin Wilson , British writer († 2013 )
• June 28 : Jürg Federspiel , Swiss writer († 2007 )

July to September

• 0July 4th : Jean-Baptiste Rossi , French journalist, screenwriter and writer († 2003 )
• 0July 5 : Reimar Lenz , German author and publicist († 2014 )
• 0July 6 : Emily Nasrallah , Arabic writer († 2018 )
• 0July 7 : David Eddings , American fantasy author († 2009 )
• July 10 : Julian May , American writer († 2017 )
• July 10 : Alice Munro , Canadian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
• July 11 : Kurt Batt , German literary scholar, critic and lecturer († 1975 )
• July 15 : Clive Cussler , American writer († 2020 )
• July 16 : Hans Manz , Swiss author of children's books († 2016 )
• July 29 : Otti Pfeiffer , German poet and children's and young adult book author († 2001 )
• July 30th : Dominique Lapierre , French writer

• 0August 2 : Philippa Schuyler , American pianist, journalist and author († 1967 )
• August 12 : William Goldman , American author († 2018 )
• August 12 : Jiří Stránský , Czech writer, playwright and translator († 2019 )
• August 17th : Jacques Neirynck , French electrical engineer, consumer advocate and author
• August 28 : Henri Boulad , Egyptian Jesuit, mystic and author

• 0September 1 : Martin Stade , German writer († 2018 )
• 0September 3 : Fritz J. Raddatz , German columnist and writer († 2015 )
• September 14 : Ivan Klíma , Czech writer
• September 14 : Rudi Strahl , German playwright, narrator and poet († 2001 )
• September 17 : Jacinto Gimbernard , Dominican violinist and writer († 2017 )
• September 19 : Jean-Claude Carrière , French screenwriter and writer
• September 22nd : Fay Weldon , British author and feminist
• September 26 : Gerhard Wehr , German writer († 2015 )

October to December

• October 12 : Christian Grote , German writer
• October 13 : Dritëro Agolli , Albanian writer and publicist († 2017 )
• October 17 : Ernst Hinterberger , Austrian writer († 2012 )
• October 17 : Anatoly Pristavkin , Russian writer († 2008 )
• October 17 : Gina Ruck-Pauquèt , German writer († 2018 )
• October 19 : John le Carré , British writer
• October 20 : Antti Hyry , Finnish writer († 2016 )
• October 27 : Nawal El Saadawi , Egyptian writer and campaigner for human rights
• October 30 : Ruth Klüger , American literary scholar and writer
• October 31 : Dan Rather , American journalist

• November 18 : Wolfgang Wickler , German zoologist, behavioral scientist and publicist
• November 28 : Tomi Ungerer , French writer and illustrator († 2019 )

• 0December 2 : Nigel Calder , British journalist and essayist († 2014 )
• 0December 3 : Franz Josef Degenhardt , German songwriter, writer and lawyer († 2011 )
• 0December 7th : Josef Göhlen , German children's book author
• December 15 : Klaus Rifbjerg , Danish writer († 2015 )
• December 15 : Tanikawa Shuntarō , Japanese writer and poet
• December 24 : Walter Abish , American writer
• December 24th : Christian Enzensberger , German writer († 2009 )
• December 31 : Bob Shaw , British science fiction writer († 1996 )

Died

• 0January 1 : Hjalmar Bergman , Swedish writer (* 1883 )
• 0January 9 : Claude Anet , French writer (* 1868 )
• January 15 : Leonhard Schrickel , German writer and local researcher (* 1876 )
• January 20 : Margrethe Munthe , Norwegian writer (* 1860 )
• February 11 : Dora Hohlfeld , German poet (* 1860 )
• February 19 : Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie , Austrian writer (* 1864 )
• 0March 2 : Georg Schaumberg , German writer (* 1855 )
• March 26th : Otto Keller , Swabian dialect poet and composer (* 1875 )
• March 27 : Arnold Bennett , British writer (* 1867 )
• 0April 8 : Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet (* 1864 )
• April 10 : Khalil Gibran , Lebanese artist and poet (* 1883 )
• May 14 : Viktor Dyk , Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and lawyer (* 1877 )
• May 29 : Felix Hollaender , German writer (* 1867 )
• July 10 : Tony Schumacher , German children's book author (* 1848 )
• July 12 : Friedrich Gundolf , German literary scholar of Jewish origin (* 1880 )
• August 27 : Frank Harris , Irish-English author and editor (* 1856 )
• October 13 : Ernst Didring , Swedish writer (* 1868 )
• October 19 : Georg Engel , German writer (* 1866 )
• October 21 : Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian writer and playwright (* 1862 )
  

  Schnitzler's grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery
• 0November 5 : Ole Edvart Rølvaag , Norwegian-American writer (* 1876 )
• November 18 : Charles-Maurice Couyba , French politician and writer (* 1866 )
• November 19 : Xu Zhimo , Chinese poet (* 1897 )
• December 10 : Georg von Ompteda , German writer and translator (* 1863 )
• December 20 : Edvard Brandes , Danish cultural politician and writer (* 1847 )

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