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See also: 1932 in literature, other events of 1933, 1934 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
• James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into United States

New Books

• Anthony Adverse - Hervey Allen[?]
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas[?] - Gertrude Stein
• Banana Bottom[?] - Claude McKay[?]
• The Case of the Sulky Girl[?] - Erle Stanley Gardner
• La Condition humaine[?] - André Malraux
• God's Little Acre[?] - Erskine Caldwell[?]
• The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales[?] - Marjorie Bowen[?]
• Lost Horizon - James Hilton
• Man's Fate[?] - Andre Malraux
• Papa La Fleur[?] - Zona Gale[?]
• Peter Abelard - Helen Waddell[?]
• Princess Malah[?] - John H.Hill[?]
• South Moon Under[?] - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings[?]
• The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
• Vanessa[?] - Hugh Walpole[?]
• Wardens of the Seas[?] (poetry) - Edwin James Brady[?]
• The Werewolf of Paris[?] - Guy Endore[?]
• Woman In The Dark[?] - Dashiell Hammett
• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze[?] - Elizabeth Foreman Lewis[?]

Births

• January 16 - Susan Sontag[?], author
• February 12 - Costa-Gavras[?], director, writer
• September 19 - Gilles Archambault, Quebecois novelist

Deaths

• January 21 - George A. Moore, poet, novelist
• January 31 - John Galsworthy, writer
• July 8 - Anthony Hope
• September 25 - Ring Lardner, writer

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis[?], Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
• Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson[?], Both Your Houses
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald Macleish[?]: Conquistador
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling[?] - The Store

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