Literature year 1938

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Literature year 1938
The American writer Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for Literature .	Ödön von Horváth was killed by a falling branch while emigrating to Paris .
Egon Friedell commits suicide for fear of being arrested by the SA .

Events

prose

English-language literature

• Agatha Christie publishes the two crime novels Appointment with Death (May 2nd) and Hercule Poirot's Christmas (December 19th) with the main character of the private detective Hercule Poirot .
• July 16 : The Saturday Evening Post begins The Code of the Woosters ( Age needle does not rust ), another novel PG Wodehouse to Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves to publish as a continuation of history. The comic novel was also published in book form in the same year.
• December 17 : The American writer Eric Knight published in the Saturday Evening Post with Lassie Come Home , the first short story about the dog Lassie .

Daphne du Maurier

• The British Daphne du Maurier publishes her most famous novel Rebecca .
• The American Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published the novel The Yearling ( Spring of Life ), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize the following year .
• Virginia Woolf publishes the feminist essay Three Guineas ( Three Guineas ).

German-language literature

• The novel Zwei on the Grenz by Friedrich Wolf appears.
• Erich Kästner publishes the novel Georg and the Incidents .
• In the same year in which Ödön von Horváth's novel Jugend ohne Gott was translated into eight different languages, he was placed on the list of harmful and undesirable literature in Germany.

Literature in other languages

• Antonio Delfini publishes Il ricordo della Basca , a thematically linked collection of eleven stories.
• Samuel Beckett's first novel Murphy is first published in French.

Poetry

• June / September: The prisoners Jura Soyfer and Herbert Zipper write the Dachau song together with the refrain “ Arbeit macht frei ”.
• In September the gypsy romances by Federico García Lorca will be broadcast by Enrique Beck in Zurich.

drama

• January 22 : The epic play Our Town by Thornton Wilder has its premiere in the United States. In the same year the author received the Pulitzer Prize for it .
• May 21 : Fear and Misery of the Third Reich , a play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht , is premiered in eight scenes in Paris. By June, the number of scenes Brecht designed for what he called the “Montage” rose to 27.

Comic

• April 15 : The volume L'Île Noire from the series Les aventures de Tintin by Hergé appears for the first time in Belgium.
• June: After the rejection by several publishers appear in the United States in the series Action Comics , the first Superman - comic , created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster . Superman is considered to be the first superhero in comic history .

Awards ceremonies

• The American Pearl S. Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her rich and genuine epic accounts of Chinese peasant life and for her biographical masterpieces” .

Born

January to April

• 0January 2nd : Hans Herbjørnsrud , Norwegian writer of short stories and short stories
• 0January 5 : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , Kenyan writer and cultural scientist
• 0January 6 : Mario Rodríguez Cobos , Argentine writer († 2010 )
• 0January 7th : Roland Topor , French author, actor and painter († 1997 )
• January 10 : Renate Schostack , German journalist and writer († 2016 )
• January 13 : Nabanita Dev Sen , Bengali writer († 2019 )
• January 19 : Manfred Osten , German author and cultural historian
• January 25 : Vladimir Vysotsky , Russian singer, poet and actor († 1980 )
• January 28 : William Voltz , German writer († 1984 )

• 0February 1 : Horst Bosetzky , German sociologist and writer († 2018 )
• 0February 4 : Martin Greif , American author († 1996 )
• 0February 5 : John Guare , American playwright
• 0February 7th : Friedrich Karl Barth , German pastor and songwriter
• February 18 : Elke Erb , German poet and writer
• February 24 : Jürgen Günther , German comic artist († 2015 )
• February 26 : Hans Haid , Austrian folklorist, mountain farmer and dialect poet († 2019 )

• 0March 4 : FW Bernstein , German poet and cartoonist († 2018 )
• 0March 4 : Kito Lorenc , Sorbian-German poet, playwright and translator († 2017 )
• March 11 : Dieter Masuhr , German painter, writer and translator († 2015 )
• March 13 : Hans-Joachim Hespos , German composer and publisher
• March 14th : Anar , Azerbaijani writer
• March 14 : Angus MacLise , American drummer, composer, poet and visual artist († 1979 )
• March 15 : Jürgen Schweinbraden , German gallery owner and publicist
• March 18 : Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir , Icelandic writer
• March 23 : Federica de Cesco , Swiss writer
• March 27 : Hansjörg Schneider , Swiss writer and playwright

• April 12 : Ernst Halter , Swiss writer, translator and editor
• April 24 : Michael Koser , German writer
• April 30 : Larry Niven , American science fiction writer

May to August

• 0May 8 : Jean Giraud , French comic artist († 2012 )
• May 16 : Monique Laederach , Swiss writer and literary critic († 2004 )
• May 18 : Ole Haldrup , German doctor and Limerick author
• May 21 : Urs Widmer , Swiss writer († 2014 )
• May 25 : Raymond Carver , American writer and poet († 1988 )
• May 25 : Margaret Forster , British writer († 2016 )

• 0June 4th : Ulrich Grasnick , German author
• June 16 : Torgny Lindgren , Swedish writer († 2017 )
• June 16 : Joyce Carol Oates , American writer
• June 22nd : Peter Griese , German science fiction author († 1996 )
• June 27 : Konrad Kujau , German painter, forger of Hitler's diaries († 2000 )

• 0July 2 : Manfred Sondermann , German cartoonist
• July 13 : Helga Königsdorf , German mathematician and writer († 2014 )
• July 17th : Franz Alt , German journalist and book author
• July 18 : Jan Stanisław Skorupski , Polish poet
• July 19 : Dom Moraes , Indian writer, poet and journalist († 2004 )
• July 21 : Hermann Schulz , German writer and publisher
• July 27 : Jerry Juhl , American screenwriter († 2005 )
• July 29 : Peter Jennings , American journalist († 2005 )

• 0August 1 : Bernward Vesper , German writer, political activist and publisher († 1971 )
• 0Aug 7 : Helen Caldicott , Australian medical doctor, author and anti-nuclear activist
• 0August 9 : Clarisse Nicoïdski , French writer († 1996 )
• August 10 : Tony Ross , British children's author and illustrator
• August 17th : Ruth Stöbling , German translator and interpreter
• August 19 : Barbara Bronnen , German writer († 2019 )
• August 19 : Werner Bucher , Swiss poet, writer and publisher († 2019 )
• August 20 : Anne Cameron , Canadian writer and screenwriter
• August 25 : Frederick Forsyth , British writer

September to December

• 0September 3 : Caryl Churchill , English playwright
• 0September 8 : Wibke Bruhns , German journalist († 2019 )
• September 13 : Janusz Głowacki , Polish writer and playwright († 2017 )
• September 17th : Dilip Chitre , Indian writer († 2009 )

• 0October 6 : Peter Gosse , German poet, prose writer and essayist
• October 15 : Marie-Luise Scherer , German writer and reporter
• October 17 : Les Murray , Australian poet and literary critic († 2019 )
• October 19 : Renata Adler , American journalist and writer
• October 19 : Eugenio Montejo , Venezuelan poet and essayist († 2008 )
• October 24 : Walter Kappacher , Austrian writer
• October 24th : Jörg Schröder , German publisher, editor, writer, translator, ... († 2020 )
• October 25 : Michael Buselmeier , German writer
• October 25 : Claude Minière , French poet and essayist
• October 28 : Anne Perry , British writer
• October 29 : Peter Krassa , Austrian author († 2005 )

• 0November 2 : Pat Buchanan , American politician, journalist
• 0November 3 : Terrence McNally , American playwright († 2020 )
• 0November 9 : Claude Durand , French writer, publisher and translator († 2015 )
• November 12th : Dieter Wedel , German director and screenwriter
• November 14 : Karla Schneider , German writer
• November 23 : Herbert Achternbusch , German writer, director and painter
• November 26th : Luisa Valenzuela , Argentine writer and journalist

• 0December 3 : Claude Lapointe , French children's book illustrator
• 0December 5th : Alois Brandstetter , Austrian writer and philologist
• December 21 : Felix Huby , German journalist, screenwriter and writer

Exact date of birth unknown

• Antonia Arslan , Armenian archaeologist and professor of modern and contemporary Italian literature
• Christiane Olivier , French psychoanalyst and book author
• Bill Schermbrucker , Canadian writer and university professor of Kenyan origin

Died

• 0January 2 : Wassyl Bobynskyj , Ukrainian writer, poet and translator (* 1898 )
• January 16 : Djado Blago , Bulgarian poet and teacher (* 1864 )
• January 25 : William Slavens McNutt , American screenwriter and writer (* 1885 )

• 0February 2 : Friedrich Adler , Austrian-Czechoslovakian writer (* 1857 )
• February 13 : Karl Ludwig Schemann , German writer, translator and anti-Semitic racial theorist (* 1852 )
• February 14 : Arthur Eloesser , German journalist and literary historian (* 1870 )
• February 16 : Otto zur Linde , German writer (* 1873 )
• February 18 : Leopoldo Lugones , Argentine poet and essayist (* 1874 )

• 0March 1 : Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian writer and poet (* 1863 )
• March 16 : Egon Friedell , Austrian writer, philosopher and actor, victim of National Socialism (* 1878 )
• April 22nd : Robert Seitz , German writer (* 1891 )

Carl von Ossietzky's grave in Berlin

• 0May 4 : Carl von Ossietzky , German editor and publisher, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, pacifist and victim of National Socialism (* 1889 )
• May 28 : Diedrich Speckmann , German writer (* 1872 )

Memorial plaque to Ödön von Horváth's place of death in Paris

• 0June 1 : Ödön von Horváth , Austro-Hungarian writer, victim of National Socialism (* 1901 )

• 0August 4 : Rudolf G. Binding , German writer (* 1867 )
• August 26 : Migjeni , Albanian poet (* 1911 )

• 0September 3 : Bart de Ligt , Dutch theologian, author and anarchist (* 1883 )
• September 14th : Adam Karrillon , German doctor and writer (* 1853 )
• September 15 : Thomas Wolfe , American poet (* 1900 )

• 0October 4 : Paul Hagen , German philologist and librarian (* 1864 )
• October 13 : Elzie Segar , American comic artist (* 1894 )
• October 17 : Lily Alice Lefevre , Canadian poet (* 1853 )
• October 27 : Lascelles Abercrombie , British poet and literary scholar (* 1881 )
• November 23 : Eduard Engel , German literary historian and stylist (* 1851 )

• 0December 3 : Antonia Pozzi , Italian poet (* 1912 )
• 0December 8 : Friedrich Glauser , Swiss writer (* 1896 )
• December 25 : Karel Čapek , Czech journalist (* 1890 )
• December 27 : Ossip Mandelstam , Russian poet (* 1891 )

Web links

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