“1932 in literature”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Events

March – Captain W. E. Johns' English character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as a World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker" in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine (dated April) edited by Johns. In August, the first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels are Coming, is published.

April 23 – To celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday:

The Royal Shakespeare Company's new theatre opens at Stratford-upon-Avon.^[1]
The Folger Shakespeare Library opens in Washington, D.C.

April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship Orizaba in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered.^[2]

May – First issue of the English journal of literary criticism Scrutiny: a quarterly review edited by F. R. Leavis.

June 28 – Following a visit to the United States, Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, meets publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies, the inspiration for Peter Pan, at a Lewis Carroll centenary exhibition in a London bookshop.^[3]

July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham and publishes Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems.^[4]

Summer

Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, is established as a regular venue in London by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins.
First performances at the Minack Theatre, an open-air venue on the coast of Cornwall (England), a staging of The Tempest.

October 3 – The Times newspaper of London first appears set in the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison.^[5]

November 16 – Compton Mackenzie is prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act in the U.K. for material in his Greek Memories.^[6]

October – Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters primarily to oppose the Censorship of Publications Board.^[7]

December – E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of Punch magazine.

Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is written in Paris and rejected by several publishers.

The first issues of Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train (published by Heinemann in London) are withdrawn and the text altered under threat of a libel action by J. B. Priestley.

Serialization of the first three volumes of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don («Тихий Дон») concludes in the Soviet magazine October.

In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country.

New books

Fiction

Laura Adams Armer – Waterless Mountain

Henry Bellamann – The Richest Woman in Town

Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (as Adela Quebec) – The Girls of Radcliff Hall (privately circulated roman à clef)

Hermann Broch – The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, trilogy completed)

John Buchan – The Gap in the Curtain

Pearl S. Buck – Sons

Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan Triumphant

Erskine Caldwell – Tobacco Road

Morley Callaghan – A Broken Journey

John Dickson Carr

The Waxworks Murder
Poison in Jest

Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit)

Agatha Christie

Peril at End House
The Thirteen Problems

Colette – The Pure and the Impure (Le Pur et l'impur)

John Creasey – Seven Times Seven

A. J. Cronin – Three Loves

Catherine Isabella Dodd – Paul and Perdita

John Dos Passos – 1919

Hans Fallada – Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann, was nun?)

William Faulkner – Light in August

Lion Feuchtwanger – Josephus

Rudolph Fisher – The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem

Elena Fortún – Celia en el colegio

Gilbert Frankau – Christopher Strong

Lewis Grassic Gibbon – Sunset Song

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

Jean Giono – Blue Boy

Ellen Glasgow – The Sheltered Life

Graham Greene – Stamboul Train

Ernst Haffner – Blood Brothers (Blutsbrüder)

Hermann Hesse – Journey to the East (Die Morgenlandfahrt)

Pamela Hinkson – The Ladies' Road

Soeman Hs – Mentjahari Pentjoeri Anak Perawan

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) – Before the Fact

Irmgard Keun – The Artificial Silk Girl (Das kunstseidene Mädchen)

W. Somerset Maugham – The Narrow Corner

Nancy Mitford – Christmas Pudding

Abdul Muis – Pertemuan Jodoh

Vladimir Nabokov

Glory
Laughter in the Dark

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall – Mutiny on the Bounty

Seán Ó Faoláin – Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories

Edith Philips – The Good Quaker in French Legend

Anthony Powell – Venusberg

John Cowper Powys – A Glastonbury Romance

Ellery Queen

The Greek Coffin Mystery
The Egyptian Cross Mystery

Joseph Roth – Radetzky March (Radetzkymarsch)

Damon Runyon – Guys and Dolls

Dorothy L. Sayers – Have His Carcase

Israel Joshua Singer – Yoshe Kalb

J. Slauerhoff – Het verboden rijk (The Forbidden Kingdom, serial publication concludes and first book publication)

Thorne Smith – Topper Takes a Trip

Lesbia Soravilla – El dolor de-vivir

John Steinbeck – The Pastures of Heaven

Julia Strachey – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Thomas Sigismund Stribling – The Store

Margareta Suber – Charlie

Phoebe Atwood Taylor – Death Lights a Candle

Wallace Thurman – Infants Of The Spring

Sigrid Undset

Burning Bush
The Son Avenger

Maxence Van Der Meersch – The House on the Dune

Hugh Walpole – The Fortress

Evelyn Waugh – Black Mischief

Charles Williams – The Greater Trumps

S. Fowler Wright

Beyond the Rim
The New Gods Lead (short stories)

Francis Brett Young – The House Under the Water

Children and young people

Laura Adams Armer – Waterless Mountain

W. E. Johns – The Camels Are Coming

Arthur Ransome – Peter Duck

Alison Uttley – Moonshine and Magic

Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House in the Big Woods

Drama

S. N. Behrman – Biography
Elias Canetti – Hochzeit (Wedding)
Noël Coward – Design for Living
Anthony Kimmins – While Parents Sleep
Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo – Toko Atolia
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – Dinner at Eight
W. Somerset Maugham – For Services Rendered
Marcel Pagnol – Fanny
Ahmed Shawqi – Amirat el-Andalus (The Andalusian Princess)
Ödön von Horváth – Kasimir und Karoline

Poetry

W. H. Auden – The Orators
Cecil Day-Lewis – From Feathers To Iron
An "Objectivist's" Anthology
Boris Pasternak – The Second Birth

Non-fiction

Adrian Bell – The Cherry Tree
Henri Bergson – The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion)
Emil Brunner – The Divine Imperative: a study in Christian ethics (Gebot und die Ordnungen)
F. J. Harvey Darton – The Story of English Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life
Bernard DeVoto – Mark Twain's America
Annabel Jackson – A Victorian Childhood
T. S. Eliot – Selected Essays, 1917–1932
J. B. S. Haldane – The Causes of Evolution
Hugh Kingsmill – Frank Harris
F. R. Leavis – New Bearings in English Poetry
Q. D. Leavis – Fiction and the Reading Public
Maxwell House Haggadah
Beverley Nichols – Down the Garden Path
Walter B. Pitkin – Life Begins at Forty
E. C. Titchmarsh – The Theory of Functions
Florence White – Good Things in England (food)
S. Fowler Wright – The Life of Sir Walter Scott

Births

January 5 – Umberto Eco, Italian novelist and semiotician (died 2016)
January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson, American novelist and playwright (died 2007)
January 19 – George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (died 1992)
February 7 – Gay Talese, American literary journalist
February 15 – Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish scriptwriter (died 2009)
February 16 – Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli novelist and poet
March 4 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, traveller, poet and writer (died 2007)
March 18 – John Updike, American novelist and poet (died 2009)
March 31 – John Jakes, American historical novelist
May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English poet (died 2018)
May 8 – Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican author and translator (died 2007)
May 24 – Arnold Wesker, English dramatist (died 2016)
June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish autobiographer and poet (died 1981)
June 6 – Sara Banerji, English author and sculptor
June 18 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet (died 2016)
July 17 – Karla Kuskin, American children's writer and illustrator (died 2009)
July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and writer (died 2017)
August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet (died 1967)
August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born novelist (died 2018)
August 27 – Antonia Fraser, English biographer, novelist and historian
September 7 – Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist (died 2000)
October 27 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (died 1963)
October 31 – Katherine Paterson, Chinese-American author^[8]

Deaths

January 12 – Ella Hepworth Dixon, English writer, novelist and editor (born 1857)
January 21 – Lytton Strachey, English biographer (cancer, born 1880)^[9]
January 28 – F. M. Mayor, English novelist (born 1872)
February 10 – Edgar Wallace, English crime writer (diabetes, born 1875)
February 15 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (born 1865)
March 16 – Harold Monro, British poet and poetry bookshop proprietor (alcohol-related, born 1879)
April 20 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
April 23
- Evelyn Everett-Green, English novelist and children's writer (born 1856)
- Laura Kieler, Norwegian novelist and dramatic inspiration (born 1849)
April 26 – Hart Crane, American poet (suicide, born 1899)
May 22 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist (born 1852)
June 17 – Sir John Quick, Australian politician and author (born 1852)
July 6 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-born children's and short-story writer (born 1859)
July 20 – René Bazin, French novelist (born 1853)
July 22 – J. Meade Falkner, English novelist and poet (born 1858)
August 29 – Raymond Knister, Canadian writer (drowned, born 1899)
September 5 – Paul Bern, German-American screenwriter (suicide, born 1889)
October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet (born 1870)
October 14 – Ahmed Shawqi, Egyptian poet (born 1868)
November 13 – Catherine Isabella Dodd, English education writer and novelist (born 1860)
November 17 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (born 1858)
November 23 – Henry S. Whitehead, American genre novelist (gastric ailment, born 1882)^[10]

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Helen de Guerry Simpson, Boomerang
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Mary Kingsley
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth

References

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4. ^{{cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6}}
5. ^{{cite book |page=50 |title=The Times: Past, Present, Future |year=1985}}
6. ^{{cite news |title=Novelist's War Experiences |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=1932-11-17 |page=9 |issue=46293}}
7. ^{{cite journal |title='The best banned in the land': censorship and Irish writing since 1950 |first=Donal |last=O Drisceoil |journal=Yearbook of English Studies |year=2005 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb351/is_35/ai_n29187827/ |accessdate=2012-03-21}}
8. ^{{cite web |title=Library of Congress |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n79074318 |website=lccn.loc.gov |accessdate=24 December 2016}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/giles-lytton-strachey/ |work=Bookrags |title=Giles Lytton Strachey Biography |accessdate=2012-10-28}}
10. ^{{cite web |url=http://hellnotes.com/ron-breznay%E2%80%99s-masters-of-horror-henry-s-whitehead |work=Hellnotes |title=Ron Breznay's Masters of Horror: Henry S. Whitehead |accessdate=2012-10-28}}

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