Literature year 1937

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Literature year 1937
The fantasy book The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien is published.
The American author HP Lovecraft dies.

Events

prose

German-language exile literature

Youth without God

• Ödön von Horváth's second novel, Jugend ohne Gott , was first published in Amsterdam. At the request of the Gestapo , the work was added to the " List of harmful and undesirable literature " in Germany in 1938 .
• Irmgard Keun publishes her first exile novel After Midnight at Querido Verlag, Amsterdam .
• The German-Jewish writer Ernst Sommer publishes the historical novel Message from Granada in Czechoslovakia .

Further German-language literature

• Hans Fallada publishes the novel Wolf among wolves . The work is expressly praised by Joseph Goebbels . Alfred Rosenberg, on the other hand, and the Rosenberg subordinate office, see Fallada very critically and forbid the book. As a result, Fallada has to switch from time-sensitive material to light entertainment literature.
• The resistance fighter Adam Kuckhoff published the novel Der Deutsche von Bayencourt, first as a serial in the Kölnische Zeitung and then as a book by Rowohlt Verlag in Berlin .

English-language literature

• Agatha Christie publishes the crime novels Dumb Witness (July 5th) and Death on the Nile (November 1st). She is also bringing out the short story collection Murder in the Mews and Other Stories on March 15th .
• September 21st : The fantasy book The Hobbit or There and Back Again ( The Hobbit ) by JRR Tolkien is published by the British publisher George Allen & Unwin .

• John Steinbeck publishes the novel Of Mice and Men . It describes the story of two migrant workers who dream of a better life and is considered a typical work of the American Dream .
• The Happy Return , CS Forester's first bookfrom the Hornblower cycle , is published.
• Zora Neale Hurston , author of the Harlem Renaissance , published the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God ( Before their eyes they saw God ). Initially, she received mostly negative reviews for the work.
• By Georgette Heyer , the novel appears to Infamous Army .

French-language literature

• The surrealist writer André Breton published the work L'Amour fou , in which he describes getting to know his wife and muse Jacqueline Lamba .

Poetry

• The fascist politician and poet Sekula Drljević wrote the text of the Montenegrin folk song Oj svijetla majska zoro ( Oh, you bright dawn in May ), today's national anthem of Montenegro .

drama

• April 2 : The play Figaro gets a divorce from Odon von Horváth as a continuation of Beaumarchais ' comedy The great day, or The Marriage of Figaro is at the Deutsches Theater premiered in Prague.
• June 5th : Luigi Pirandello's unfinished drama I giganti della montagna ( The Giants from the Mountains ) has its world premiere in Florence six months after the author's death.

• John Boynton Priestley writes the play Time and the Conways .

Comic

• April 15 : The comic book L'Île Noire ( The Black Island ) from the series Les aventures de Tintin by Hergé is published. It is the first story in the series that does not take the protagonist to exotic countries.
• The story L'oreille cassée from the series Les aventures de Tintin by Hergé , published in sequels from 1935 to 1937 , is published in Belgium as a complete volume in black and white.
• The first Lurchi booklet appears.
• The first comic with Sheena - Queen of the Jungle by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger appears in the British magazine Wags # 1 .

Military literature

• Of Heinz Guderian tangible book appears Panzer - Attention! on the uses of motorized warfare.

periodical

• The Parisian satirical magazine Le Charivari , which has been published since 1832 , appears for the last time.

Scientific works

• The first volume of the sinological book series Monumenta Serica Monograph Series appears in Beijing.

Awards ceremonies

• The Frenchman Roger Martin du Gard receives "for the artistic power and truth with which he portrayed human contrasts and essential aspects of contemporary life in the novel series 'Les Thibault'", the Nobel Prize for Literature .

Born

January February

• 0January 1st : Petros Markaris , Greek writer
• 0January 8 : Eckart Krumbholz , German writer and editor († 1994 )
• 0January 8 : Waldtraut Lewin , German writer († 2017 )
• 0January 8 : Anton Pashku , Albanian writer and editor († 1995 )
• 0January 9 : Klaus Schlesinger , German writer and journalist († 2001 )
• January 10 : Gianni Celati , Italian writer and translator
• January 22 : Joseph Wambaugh , American writer
• January 22nd : Uwe Hans Wilken , German writer († 2001 )
• January 25 : Werner Schneyder , Austrian cabaret artist, author, actor, director and sports commentator († 2019 )
• January 27 : David Yallop , British writer and screenwriter († 2018 )

• 0February 7th : Doris Gercke , German crime novelist
• February 11 : Anders Bodelsen , Danish writer
• February 11 : Maryse Condé , French writer
• February 12 : Hans Dieter Baroth , German journalist and writer († 2008 )
• February 17th : Kundeyt Şurdum , Turkish-Austrian poet and editor († 2016 )
• February 22nd : Joanna Russ , American author
• February 26th : Eduardo Arroyo , Spanish painter, graphic artist, set designer and writer († 2018 )
• February 27 : Peter Hamm , German poet, essayist, literary critic, translator and editor († 2019 )

March April

• 0March 6 : Arild Nyquist , Norwegian writer († 2004 )
• 0March 8 : Richard Fariña , American writer and musician († 1966 )
• March 12 : Lisa Block de Behar , Uruguayan literary scholar
• March 13 : Vladimir Semjonowitsch Makanin , Russian writer († 2017 )
• March 15 : Valentin Rasputin , Russian writer and environmental activist († 2015 )
• March 16 : Hushang Golschiri , Persian writer († 2000 )
• March 17th : Matthias Bronisch , German poet and translator
• March 20 : Lois Lowry , American author for children and young people
• March 23 : Moacyr Scliar , Brazilian writer and doctor († 2011 )
• March 25 : Klaus Walther , German literary scholar and writer
• March 30 : Warren Beatty , American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• March 30th : Gisela Brackert , German journalist
• March 31 : Hartmut Lange , German writer

• 0April 6 : Viljo Anslan , Estonian writer († 2017 )
• 0April 8 : Seymour Hersh , American investigative journalist
• 0April 9 : Barrington J. Bayley , British writer († 2008 )
• April 11th : Gertrud Zelinsky , German writer
• April 13 : Lanford Wilson , American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner († 2011 )
• April 20 : Jiří Dienstbier , Czech journalist and politician († 2011 )
• April 20 : Yılmaz Onay , Turkish writer and translator († 2018 )
• April 21 : Giorgio Pressburger , Italian director, writer and playwright of Hungarian origin († 2017 )
• April 26th : Hannelies Taschau , German writer
• April 27 : Zhang Jie , Chinese writer

May June

• 0May 2 : Gisela Elsner , German writer († 1992 )
• 0May 5 : Nicolás Suescún , Colombian poet and writer († 2017 )
• 0May 7 : Marco Augusto Quiroa , Guatemalan painter and writer († 2004 )
• 0May 8 : Thomas Pynchon , American writer
• May 12th : Misha Defonseca , Belgian writer
• May 13 : Ralph Günther Mohnnau , German author
• May 13 : Roger Zelazny , American writer († 1995 )
• May 14 : Göran Tunström , Swedish writer († 2000 )
• May 23 : Werner Funk , German journalist, editor and publisher
• May 24 : Archie Shepp , American jazz musician, composer, literary and theater scholar
• May 25 : Friedrich Dieckmann , German writer
• May 27 : Andrei Bitow , Soviet or Russian writer († 2018 )
• May 30th : Armando Valladares , Cuban writer
• May 31 : Gerd Hergen Lübben , German writer

• 0June 1 : Colleen McCullough , Australian writer († 2015 )
• 0June 3 : Wilfried Barner , German literary scholar and Lessing expert
• 0June 4 : Minoru Betsuyaku , Japanese playwright, essayist and literary critic († 2020 )
• 0June 7th : Hannjost Lixfeld , German folklorist and storyteller († 1998 )
• June 13 : Hubert Wiedfeld , German writer and radio play author († 2013 )
• June 15 : Herbert Feuerstein , German-Austrian journalist, cabaret artist and entertainer
• June 16 : Yves Giraud , French literary scholar († 2008 )
• June 18 : Peter Steiner , Austrian geologist and author
• June 19 : André Glucksmann , French philosopher and essayist († 2015 )
• June 20 : Piero Heliczer , Italian-American writer, screenwriter, poet, actor, publisher and underground filmmaker († 1993 )
• June 24th : Anita Desai , Indian writer
• June 27 : Alexander Heimann , Swiss crime writer († 2003 )
• June 28 : Juan José Saer , Argentine writer († 2005 )

July August

• 0July 3 : Tom Stoppard , British playwright
• 0July 4 : Hanns HF Schmidt , German writer († 2019 )
• 0July 6 : Bessie Head , Botswana writer († 1986 )
• 0July 9 : Peter Märthesheimer , German screenwriter († 2004 )
• July 10 : Kurt Bartsch , German poet and prose author († 2010 )
• July 14 : Hans Weber , German writer († 1987 )
• July 15 : Robert Wohlleben , German poet, essayist, translator and publisher
• July 17th : Stanisław Tym , Polish satirist, actor, director and author
• July 18 : Frank J. Coppa , American historian, biographer, and editor
• July 18 : Hunter S. Thompson , American writer and reporter († 2005 )
• July 25 : Anders Cleve , Finnish writer († 1985 )
• July 28th : Francis Veber , French journalist, screenwriter, film director and producer

• 0August 3 : Klaus Peter Cadsky , German-Swiss cartoonist († 2011 )
• 0August 3 : Diane Wakoski , American poet and university professor
• 0August 8 : Cornelis Vreeswijk , Dutch-Swedish troubadour, composer and poet († 1987 )
• August 14 : Jochen Lobe , German writer
• August 18 : Edward Stachura , Polish writer and poet († 1979 )
• August 19 : Alexander Vampilow , Soviet writer and playwright († 1972 )
• August 23 : Hermann A. Griesser , Austrian journalist
• August 24th : Otto Dann , German historian and author
• August 26th : Nina Companéez , French screenwriter and director
• August 26 : Jürgen Kross , German writer († 2019 )
• August 29 : Dieter Kalenbach , German comic artist

September October

• 0September 1 : Henrik Stangerup , Danish author and film director († 1998 )
• 0September 9 : Uwe Herms , German writer
• September 11 : Tomas Venclova , Lithuanian poet and writer
• September 13 : Don Bluth , American director, producer and screenwriter
• September 14th : Sigrid Brunk , German writer
• September 16 : Karel Milota , Czech poet, writer and translator († 2002 )
• September 18 : Geert Müller-Gerbes , German journalist and children's book author
• September 25 : Robert Tobler , Swiss writer († 2019 )
• September 26 : Hans-Joachim Griephan , German journalist
• September 30 : Jurek Becker , German writer († 1997 )

• 0October 2 : Helga Schütz , German writer
• 0October 4 : Jackie Collins , British-American writer († 2015 )
• 0October 8 : Barbara Yurtdaş , German-Turkish writer, teacher and translator
• October 12 : Martin Warnke , German art historian and essayist († 2019 )
• October 16 : John Whitmore , British racing car driver, consultant and non-fiction author († 2017 )
• October 17 : Peter Nilson , Swedish astronomer and novelist († 1998 )
• October 19 : Hans Conrad Zander , German-speaking Swiss journalist and writer
• October 24 : Dirk Alvermann , German photographer, filmmaker and writer († 2013 )
• October 25 : Julian Schutting , Austrian writer
• October 26 : Wolfgang Körner , German writer († 2019 )
• October 27 : Peter Lustig , German television presenter and children's book author († 2016 )
• October 28 : Helge Breloer , German expert, lawyer and non-fiction author
• October 30 : Rudolfo Anaya , American writer († 2020 )
• October 31 : Tom Paxton , American folk singer, songwriter, and children's book author

November December

• 0November 3 : FK Waechter , German draftsman and writer, theater and film director († 2005 )
• November 11th : André Brugiroux , French globetrotter and writer
• November 12th : Irene Rodrian , German writer and screenwriter
• November 14th : Michael Jungblut , German author and journalist
• November 20 : Viktorija Samoilovna Tokareva , Russian writer and screenwriter
• November 23 : Karol Modzelewski , Polish historian, writer and politician († 2019 )
• November 25 : Helmut Zöpfl , German educator and author
• November 30th : Adeline Yen Mah , Chinese-American writer

• 0December 7th : Ary dos Santos , Portuguese poet, songwriter and reciter († 1984 )
• 0December 7th : Peter Vujica , Austrian music critic, culture editor, composer and author
• December 11 : Jim Harrison , American writer († 2016 )
• December 11th : Horst Landau , German writer
• December 13 : Paul Maar , German children's author, illustrator, screenwriter and playwright
• December 13 : Hans Dieter Stöver , German writer († 2020 )
• December 17 : Bertha Harris , American writer († 2005 )
• December 17 : John Kennedy Toole , American writer († 1969 )
• December 22nd : Eduard Nikolajewitsch Uspenski , Russian children's author
• December 22nd : Renate Welsh , Austrian author for children and young people
• December 23 : Edward Irving Wortis , American author for children and young adults
• December 25th : Ernst Röhl , German satirist and cabaret artist († 2015 )
• December 26th : Jean Van Leeuwen , American children's author
• December 31 : Nicolas Born , German writer († 1979 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Wolfgang Funke , German writer († 2009 )
• Mahamadou Halilou Sabbo , Nigerien politician and writer († 2006 )
• Patrick McGinley , Irish writer
• Wolf Moser , German musician and writer
• Bernhard Müller-Hülsebusch , German journalist and book author
• Klaus Oettinger , German Germanist and literary historian
• Reiner Uthoff , German writer and theater director
• Wolfgang Werth , German literary critic
• David Henry Wilson , British author for children and young adults
• Virginia Euwer Wolff , American writer for young people

Died

January to April

• 0January 3 : Anna von Krane , German writer (* 1853 )
• January 30th : Henri Duvernois , French writer (* 1875 )

Grave site of Lou Andreas-Salomé in Göttingen

• 0February 5 : Lou Andreas-Salomé , Russian-German psychoanalyst, writer, narrator and essayist (* 1861 )
• February 12 : Christopher Caudwell , British author and Marxist theorist (* 1907 )
• February 17 : Viktor Kraemer junior , German publisher (* 1881 )

• 0March 4 : Engelbert Wittich , Yenish writer (* 1878 )
• 0March 6 : Rudolf Otto , Protestant theologian and religious scholar (* 1869 )
• 0March 9 : Alfred Flechtheim , German art dealer, art collector, publicist and publisher (* 1878 )
• March 10 : Yevgeny Ivanovich Samjatin , Russian writer and revolutionary (* 1884 )
• March 15 : HP Lovecraft , American writer (* 1890 )

• April 13 : Ilja Arnoldowitsch Ilf , Russian-Soviet writer (* 1897 )
• April 27 : Antonio Gramsci , Italian writer and politician (* 1891 )
• April 29 : Anton Günther , folk poet and singer of the Ore Mountains (* 1876 )

May to August

• 0May 6 : Camillo Berneri , Italian author, philosopher and anarchist (* 1897 )
• May 23 : Ivan Prijatelj , Slovenian cultural and literary historian (* 1875 )

• 0June 1st : Ljubomir Miletitsch , Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist, historian and publicist
• June 10 : Woldemar Lippert , German archivist and historian (* 1861 )
• June 11 : Máté Zalka , Hungarian writer and revolutionary (* 1896 )
• June 19 : JM Barrie , Scottish novelist and playwright, creator of Peter Pan (* 1860 )

• 0July 8 : Axel Bakunts , Armenian writer, translator and screenwriter (* 1899 )

Monument to Daschdordschiin Natsagdordsch in Ulaanbaatar

• July 13 : Daschdordschiin Natsagdordsch , Mongolian writer (* 1906 )
• July 21 : Eleonore Kalkowska , Polish-German writer and actress (* 1883 )

• 0August 1 : Ndre Mjeda , Albanian cleric and poet (* 1866 )
• 0August 6 : Adele Gerber , German editor and women's rights activist (* 1863 )
• August 10 : Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Sarudin , Soviet writer, victim of the Stalin purges (* 1899 )
• August 11 : Edith Wharton , American writer (* 1862 )
• August 13 : Alexander Konstantinowitsch Voronsky , Russian-Soviet literary critic and revolutionary, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1884 )
• August 19 : Iwan Iwanowitsch Katajew , Russian prose writer, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1902 )
• August 28 : Frederick Burr Opper , American comic book artist and illustrator (* 1857 )
• August 31 : Vladimir Jakowlewitsch Sasubrin , Soviet writer, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1895 )

September to December

• September 26 : Andrei Iwanowitsch Wostrikow , Russian-Soviet philosopher and literary scholar, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1902 )
• September 30 : Mikheil Javachishvili , Georgian-Soviet writer, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1880 )

• 0October 8 : Sergei Antonowitsch Klychkov , Russian-Soviet writer, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1889 )
• October 19 : Hermann Herder , German publisher (* 1864 )
• October 22 : Nakahara Chūya , Japanese lyric poet (* 1907 )
• Around October 24: Nikolai Alexejewitsch Kljujew , Russian-Soviet writer, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1884 )

• 0November 5 : Kinoshita Naoe , Japanese writer (* 1869 )
• November 13 : Max Mohr , German playwright and narrator (* 1891 )
• November 21 : Henri Cain , French librettist and painter (* 1857 )
• November 27th : Yeghische Charenz , Armenian poet (* 1897 )
• November 30th : Harry Graf Kessler , German diplomat, author, patron (* 1868 )

• 0December 5 : Hōjō Tamio , Japanese writer (* 1914 )
• December 10 : Labori Gilelewitsch Kalmanson , Soviet writer and literary critic, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1901 )
• December 23 : Nils Collett Vogt , Norwegian writer (* 1864 )
• December 29 : Berthold Feiwel , Austrian writer, translator, publicist and Zionist politician (* 1875 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Muhammadsharif Soʻfizoda , Uzbek poet and educator (* 1869 )

Web links

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Commons : 1937 magazines  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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