Literature year 1935

Literature year 1935
The German writer Kurt Tucholsky dies in exile in Gothenburg from an overdose of tablets.

Events

Erich Kästner publishes the novel The Disappeared Miniature .
Agatha Christie publishes the detective novel Death in the Clouds .
John Steinbeck publishes the picaresque novel Tortilla Flat , with which he achieved his first literary success.
British writer Christopher Isherwood publishes the novel Mr Norris Changes Trains .
The Glare , Elias Canetti's first novel, is out in print.
Karl Heinrich Waggerl publishes his last novel Mothers . Then he turns to shorter narrative forms.
By Ilya Ehrenburg developing novel appears without respite .
Dorothy Sayers publishes her most important detective novel, Gaudy Night .
The British Georgette Heyer founded the genre of Regency Romance with her romance and detective novel Regency Buck .

June 15 : The verse drama Murder in the Cathedral ( Murder in the Cathedral ) by TS Eliot has its first performance at the Canterbury Festival . It is about the last days of the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket from December 2, 1170 until his assassination by the Knight Henry II of England on December 29, 1170.
November 21 : The play La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu ( The Trojan War does not take place ) by Jean Giraudoux has its world premiere at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris , under the impression of the growing danger of war in Europe .

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November 12 : The first edition of the social-liberal Swiss weekly newspaper Die Tat, the weekly post of the seven independents, appears. The publisher is the Migros Cooperative under its founder Gottlieb Duttweiler .

The Works Progress Administration , created under the New Deal on May 6, creates the Federal Writers' Project . The academics employed by the FWP - including writers, historians, geographers, anthropologists and photographers - are entrusted with the task of documenting the history and culture of the American nation for posterity. In federally organized editorial offices, they create the now famous American Guide Series , travel guides for each of the then 48 American states and the territories of Alaska and Puerto Rico, as well as monographs on individual cities.

The publisher Allen Lane founded the publishing house Penguin Books . On July 30th, the first ten paperback-format titles will hit the market.

0February 1 : Dieter Kühn , German writer († 2015 )

0February 5 : Sandra Paretti , German writer († 1994 )

0February 6 : Bruno Hillebrand , German literary scholar, poet and writer († 2016 )

0February 7 : Heinz Czechowski , German poet and writer († 2009 )

May 16 : Stein Mehren , Norwegian writer, poet, playwright and essayist († 2017 )
May 19 : Fritz Rudolf Fries , German writer and translator († 2014 )
May 29 : André Brink , South African writer and translator († 2015 )

0October 2 : Paul Goma , Romanian writer († 2020 )
0October 7th : Thomas Keneally , Australian writer
0November 1 : Edward Said , Palestinian-American literary theorist and critic († 2003 )
0November 5 : Christopher Wood , British novelist and screenwriter († 2015 )
November 10 : Peter Heisch , Swiss writer and satirist († 2019 )
November 18 : Rudolf Bahro , German philosopher († 1997 )
0December 6th : Hischam Djait , Tunisian essayist

0April 1 : Dora Fabian , German socialist and journalist (* 1901 )
0April 3 : Johanna Huber , German teacher, kindergarten teacher, specialist and children's literature writer (* 1869 )
0April 6 : Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet (* 1869 )
April 10 : Rosa Campbell Praed , Australian writer (* 1851 )
April 11 : Anna Katharine Rohlfs , American writer (* 1846 )

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