1938 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1938.

Events

January – The trilogy U.S.A., by John Dos Passos, is published, containing his three novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936).
February 21 – Gay American writer and composer Paul Bowles marries lesbian American writer Jane Auer at a Reformed Church in Manhattan.
March 7 – Samuel Beckett's first completed novel Murphy is published in London.
July 11 – The first live drama adaptation in Orson Welles' The Mercury Theatre on the Air series on CBS Radio in the United States is broadcast, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
September 13 – First performance in Britain of a play by Bertolt Brecht, Mrs Carrar's Rifles, opens at the Unity Theatre, London.
October 30 – Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast in The Mercury Theatre on the Air series.
December 24 – Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning. While recovering in the following year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.
First complete performance of both parts of Goethe's Faust (1808/32), unabridged, at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
Avant-garde musician and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer begins his writing career as an essayist for a number of French musical journals.

New books

Births

January 5 – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (also known as James Ngigi), Kenyan novelist
January 20 – Liz Calder, English publisher and editor
February 9 – Jovette Marchessault, French Canadian writer and artist (died 2012)
February 12
- Judy Blume, American children's author
- Tor Obrestad, Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer
February 22 – Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
March 1 – Michael Kurland, American author of sci-fi and detective fiction
March 14 – Eleanor Bron, English humorous writer and actress
March 24 – Ian Hamilton, English critic, biographer and poet (died 2001)
April 29 – Larry Niven, American sci-fi author
May 13 – Norma Klein, American author (died 1989)
May 25
- Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet (died 1988)
- Margaret Forster, English novelist and biographer (died 2016)
May 26 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian novelist and playwright
June 16 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
June 24 – Lawrence Block, American crime writer
July 19
- Nicholas Bethell, English historian and politician (died 2007)
- Dom Moraes, Indian poet and columnist (died 2004)
- Tom Raworth, English poet
August 21 – Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Australian novelist
September 3 – Caryl Churchill, English dramatist
September 15 – Charles L. Mee, American dramatist
October 12 – Anne Perry (Juliet Marion Hulme), English historical novelist
October 13 – Hugo Young, English journalist (died 2003)
October 17 – Les Murray, Australian poet
October 19 – Allan Massie, Singapore-born Scottish writer
December 9 – Willi Glasauer, German artist and illustrator
December 14 – Leonardo Boff (Genézio Darci Boff), Brazilian philosopher and theologian
December 31 – Basudeb Dasgupta, Bengali novelist (died 2005)
Unknown dates
- M. K. Wren (Martha Kay Renfroe), American novelist
- Gabriel Ruhumbika, Tanzanian novelist
- Hansjörg Schneider, Swiss novelist

Deaths

January 4 – Paola Drigo, Italian writer (born 1876)
January 16 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (Sarat Chandra Chattergee), Bengali novelist (born 1876)
January 19 – Branislav Nušić, Serbian novelist and dramatist (born 1864)
January 29 – Armando Palacio Valdés, Spanish novelist and critic (born 1853)
February 13 – Momčilo Nastasijević, Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1894)
March 1 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet and novelist (born 1863)
April 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt, English poet (born 1862)
April 21 – Lady Ottoline Morrell, English literary hostess (born 1873)
May 26 – James Forbes, Canadian American dramatist and screenwriter (born 1871)
June 9 – Ovid Densusianu, Romanian poet, philologist, and literary historian (born 1873)
June 26
- James Weldon Johnson, American politician, poet and activist (born 1871)
- E. V. Lucas, English essayist and biographer, 70
August 7 – Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre director (born 1863)
August 26 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Albanian poet and writer (tuberculosis, born 1911)
September 15 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (tuberculosis, born 1900)
October 27 – Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and literary critic (born 1881)
December 23 – Robert Herrick, American realist novelist (born 1868)
December 25 – Karel Čapek, Czech science fiction author and dramatist (pneumonia, born 1890)
December 27 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and essayist (in detention, born 1891)

Awards

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Noel Streatfeild, The Circus Is Coming
Hawthornden Prize – David Jones for In Parenthesis
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Kate Seredy, The White Stag
Newdigate prize: Michael Thwaites
Nobel Prize for literature: Pearl S. Buck
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Phillips Marquand – The Late George Apley

References

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1938 in literature

Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

References