Literature year 1934

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Further events

Literature year 1934
The literary magazine Das Innere Reich appears for the first time.	Luigi Pirandello receives the Nobel Prize in Literature .

Events

prose

Erich Kästner publishes the novels Three Men in the Snow and Emil and the Three Twins .
Max Frisch publishes his first novel with Jürg Reinhart .
PG Wodehouse publishes the novels Bertie and Then Not, Jeeves . Both had already appeared as serial stories in magazines in 1933.
Agatha Christie publishes two detective novels, Murder on the Orient Express and Why Didn't They Ask Evans? .
After 13 publishers had previously rejected the novel, James M. Cain published the detective novel The Postman Always Rings Twice .
Dashiell Hammett published his last detective novel The Thin Man , which was made into a film that same year.
Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer ( Tropic of Cancer ) is published in Paris for the first time.
John O'Hara's debut novel Appointment in Samarra is published.
PL Travers publishes the first volume in the children's book series Mary Poppins .
By Ilya Ehrenburg developing novel in Moscow appear the second day .
The story The Boys and the River is published by Josef Mühlberger .

Pearl S. Buck's novel Ostwind - Westwind is published in German.

Andrei Platonow writes the story The Takyr .

By Georgette Heyer , the novel appears The Convenient Marriage .

drama

December 13 : Ödön von Horváth's comedy Back and forth has its world premiere under the direction of Gustav Hartung at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . At this point in time Horváth's works were no longer allowed to be performed in Germany .
December 29 : The Drama Yerma by Federico García Lorca has its premiere at the Teatro Español in Madrid. It is the first part of a trilogy planned by the poet .

Comic

January 7th : The comic series by the cartoonist Alex Raymond about the space hero Flash Gordon starts in US newspapers.
December 13th : The first story of Eoplauen's father and son appears in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung .

Periodicals

April: The Munich literary magazine Das Innere Reich appears for the first time.
May 6th : The first edition of the illustrated weekly L'Osservatore Romano della Domenica appears in the Vatican .
December 1 : The emigrant newspaper Aufbau appears for the first time as a journal of the “German Jewish Club” in New York.

Scientific works

JRR Tolkien publishes the second part of his essay Sigelwara Land .

Awards ceremonies

Luigi Pirandello receives the Nobel Prize in Literature .

Others

August 18 : The Völkischer Beobachter published an appeal by the cultural sector in favor of Adolf Hitler.

Born

January to April

0January 4 : Hellmuth Karasek , German journalist, book author and literary critic († 2015 )
0January 7 : Jack D. Forbes , American indigenous writer, scientist and political activist († 2011 )
0January 8 : Alexandra Ripley , American writer († 2004 )

0February 3 : Johannes Kühn , German writer
0February 9 : Jean Stein , American author and editor († 2017 )
February 17 : Frederik Hetmann , German writer († 2006 )
February 19 : Herbert Rosendorfer , German lawyer and writer († 2012 )
February 20 : Kurt Wölfflin , Austrian writer († 1998 )
February 21 : Warren Johansson , American author and philologist († 1994 )
February 24th : Erich Pawlu , German author
February 26 : Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina , Algerian film director and screenwriter
February 27 : N. Scott Momaday , Native American writer, literary scholar, and painter

0March 1 : Jacques Chessex , Swiss writer († 2009 )
0March 3 : Raymond Kennedy , American writer († 2008 )
0March 3 : Jacek Kuroń , Polish civil rights activist, publicist, historian and politician († 2004 )
0March 8 : Kurt Mahr , German writer († 1993 )
0March 9th : Dietmar Grieser , Austrian writer
March 13 : Barry Hughart , American fantasy writer († 2019 )
March 14 : Volker von Törne , German poet and writer († 1980 )
March 16 : Jürg Willi , Swiss psychotherapist and author († 2019 )
March 20 : Peter Berling , German author and actor († 2017 )
March 20 : David Malouf , Australian author
March 24 : Richard Leising , German poet († 1997 )

0April 1 : Elmar Faber , German publisher († 2017 )
0April 9 : Walter Foelske , German writer († 2015)
April 25 : Jean Firges , Belgian-German literary scholar and writer († 2014 )
April 28 : Lois Duncan , American writer († 2016 )

May to August

0May 3 : Georges Moustaki , French singer and poet († 2013 )
May 10 : Jayne Cortez , American poet and improviser († 2012 )
May 12 : Werner Bräunig , German writer († 1976 )
May 13 : Adolf Muschg , Swiss writer and literary scholar
May 16 : Ilse Seemann , German author, actress, radio play speaker and radio presenter
May 27 : Harlan Ellison , American author († 2018 )
May 28 : Gerhard Dahne , German publicist and publisher

0June 4th : Yaak Karsunke , German writer and actor
0June 6 : Charlotte Worgitzky , German writer († 2018 )
June 12 : Winfried Scharlau , German journalist and historian († 2004 )
June 14 : Peter O. Chotjewitz , German writer and lawyer († 2010 )
June 23 : Ingrid Kötter , German author for children and young people

0July 3 : Wolfgang Milde , German manuscript scholar and library director († 2011 )
0July 3 : Manfred Bieler , German writer, radio play and television play author († 2002 )
0July 8 : Marty Feldman , British-American author, actor and director († 1982 )
0July 9 : Arno Reinfrank , German writer, publicist and translator († 2001 )
0July 9 : Pierre Perret , French author and singer
July 11 : Helen Cresswell , British writer († 2005 )
July 13 : Wole Soyinka , Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature
July 17 : Rainer Kirsch , German writer and poet († 2015 )
July 20 : Uwe Johnson , German writer († 1984 )

0August 6 : Piers Anthony , American writer
0August 6 : Diane DiPrima , American writer
0August 7th : Dieter Schlesak , German writer and member of the German PEN Center
0August 8 : Chaplain Burović , Albanian writer and journalist
0August 9 : Graeme Gibson , Canadian writer († 2019 )
August 20 : Arno Surminski , German writer
August 20 : Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer , German writer, playwright, translator and musicologist

September to December

0September 2 : Allen Carr , British writer († 2006 )
0September 9 : Shulamit Lapid , Israeli writer
September 14 : Kate Millett , American essayist († 2017 )
September 16 : Reinhard Döhl , German literary and media scholar, author and artist († 2004 )
September 16 : Jakup Halil Mato , Albanian literary critic († 2005 )
September 20 : Eva Moldenhauer , German translator of French literature († 2019 )
September 21 : Leonard Cohen , Canadian writer, composer and singer († 2016 )
September 22 : Akira Abe , Japanese writer († 1989 )
September 23 : Per Olov Enquist , Swedish writer and journalist († 2020 )
September 23 : Rolf Kosiek , German scientist, publicist and politician
September 24 : John Brunner , British science fiction writer († 1995 )
September 24 : Yasutaka Tsutsui , Japanese writer
September 30 : Zdena Frýbová , Czech writer († 2010 )

0October 7 : Ulrike Meinhof , German journalist and publicist († 1976 )
0October 7 : Amiri Baraka , American poet, playwright, music critic and prose author († 2014 )
October 10 : Kunie Iwahashi , Japanese writer († 2014 )
October 17 : Digne Meller Marcovicz , German photographer and author († 2014 )
October 24 : Ute Quast , German doctor and non-fiction author
October 25 : Carlos Sherman , Belarusian-Spanish translator and writer († 2005 )
October 26 : Ulrich Plenzdorf , German writer, screenwriter and dramaturge († 2007 )
October 26 : Peter Marginter , Austrian author and translator († 2008 )
October 28 : Herold Belger , Kazakh writer and translator of Russian-German origin († 2015 )

November 18 : Vasilis Vasilikos , Greek writer
November 22 : Muniruddin Ahmed , Pakistani writer and translator († 2019 )
November 22 : Aldyr Schlee , Brazilian writer († 2018 )
November 24 : Dieter E. Zimmer , German writer, translator and publicist († 2020 )
November 30th : Roberto Cossa , Argentine writer and journalist

0December 5 : Joan Didion , American writer and journalist
0December 7th : Peter Horn , South African Germanist, poet and essayist († 2019 )
0December 7th : Jan Wornar , Sorbian writer († 1999 )
December 27 : Aidan Chambers , British author and editor
December 29 : Forugh Farrochzad , Iranian poet and film director († 1967 )