1927 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927.
Events
- January â The Books Kinokuniya (ç´ä¼åå±æ¸åº) bookstore business is established in Tokyo.
- February 4 â Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes,[1] an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris salon. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien.[2]
- February 24 â The new John Golden Theatre (Theatre Masque) opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan.
- May 5 â Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel To the Lighthouse is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism,[3]
- June 29 â T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock. In November he takes British citizenship.[4]
- July 5 â James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.[5]
- July 9 â P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty, introduces Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings. The first UK appearance follows in the August issue of The Strand Magazine).
- August â T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi appears in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series in London, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer.
- September â Eric Blair (George Orwell) decides while on leave from the Imperial Police in Burma to remain in the U.K. He moves to London to become a writer.
- October â Victor Gollancz founds the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd.
- December â Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club", published in The Royal Magazine.[6]
- unknown dates
- A translation of Franz Roh's work of art criticism Nach Expressionismus â Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism â Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting, 1925) into Spanish by Revista de Occidente leads to the concept of magic realism becoming popular in Latin American literature.[7]
- The Strand Bookstore is founded in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass.[8]
New books
Fiction
- Djamaluddin Adinegoro â Darah Muda (Young Blood)
- Ion Agârbiceanu â Legea minÈii
- Anthony Armstrong â Jimmie Rezaire
- Anthony Berkeley â Cicely Disappears
- Arthur Bernède â Belphégor
- Tjoe Hong Bok â Setangan Berloemoer Darah (A Glove Covered in Blood)
- Elizabeth Bowen â The Hotel
- James Boyd â Marching On
- Lynn Brock â The Kink
- Edgar Rice Burroughs â The Outlaw of Torn
- James Branch Cabell â Something About Eve
- Willa Cather â Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Blaise Cendrars â La Confession de Dan Yack
- Agatha Christie â The Big Four
- J. J. Connington
- Jaime de Angulo â The Lariat
- Mazo de la Roche â Jalna
- Warwick Deeping â Kitty
- Ding Ling â Miss Sophia's Diary
- Arthur Conan Doyle â The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- William Faulkner â Mosquitoes
- David Garnett â Go She Must!
- Anthony Gilbert â The Tragedy at Freyne
- George Goodchild â The Monster of Grammont
- Maxim Gorky â The Life of Klim Samgin («ÐÐ¸Ð·Ð½Ñ Ðлима Самгина», Zhizn' Klima Samgina, first volume, translated as Bystander)
- Julien Green â The Closed Garden
- H. Rider Haggard â Allan and the Ice-gods
- Frances Noyes Hart â The Bellamy Trial
- Ernest Hemingway â Men Without Women
- Hermann Hesse â Steppenwolf
- James Weldon Johnson â God's Trombones
- Franz Kafka â Amerika
- Margaret Kennedy â Red Sky at Morning
- Joseph Kessel â Nights of Princes
- Ronald Knox â The Three Taps
- Kwee Tek Hoay â Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky â Samson
- D. H. Lawrence â John Thomas and Lady Jane
- Halldór Laxness â Vefarinn mikli frá KasmÃr (The Great Weaver from Kashmir)
- Rosamond Lehmann â Dusty Answer
- Sinclair Lewis â Elmer Gantry
- Marie Belloc Lowndes â The Story of Ivy
- Philip MacDonald â Patrol
- Compton Mackenzie
- A. E. W. Mason â No Other Tiger
- François Mauriac â Thérèse Desqueyroux
- Vilhelm Moberg â Raskens
- Paul Morand â The Living Buddha
- Mourning Dove â Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
- Yury Olesha â Envy («ÐавиÑÑÑ», Zavist')
- Edith Olivier â The Love Child
- E. Phillips Oppenheim â Miss Brown of X.Y.O.
- Baroness Orczy â Sir Percy Hits Back
- T. F. Powys â Mr. Weston's Good Wine
- J. B. Priestley â Benighted
- Marcel Proust (died 1922) â Le Temps retrouvé (Time Regained or The Past Recaptured; final instalment of In Search of Lost Time)
- Waverley Lewis Root â King of the Jews
- Joseph Roth â Flight without End
- Rafael Sabatini â The Nuptials of Corbal
- Dorothy L. Sayers â Unnatural Death
- Upton Sinclair â Oil!
- Cecil Street
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy â The Garin Death Ray («ÐипеÑболоид инженеÑа ÐаÑина»)
- B. Traven â The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Der Schatz der Sierra Madre)
- Sigrid Undset
- The Snake Pit
- The Son Avenger
- Konstantin Vaginov â Goat Song
- S. S. Van Dine â The Canary Murder Case
- Edgar Wallace
- Thornton Wilder â The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Henry Williamson â Tarka the Otter[9]
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf â To the Lighthouse[10]
- Eiji Yoshikawa (åå· è±æ²») â Naruto Hitcho (é³´éç§å¸, A Secret Record of Naruto; serialization concludes)
- Francis Brett Young â Portrait of Clare
- Arnold Zweig â The Case of Sergeant Grischa (Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa)[11]
Children and young people
- Walter R. Brooks â To and Again (reissued 1949 as Freddy Goes to Florida, first of the Freddy the Pig series)
- Franklin W. Dixon â The Tower Treasure
- Will James â Smoky the Cowhorse
- May Justus â Peter Pocket: A Little Boy of the Cumberland Mountains
- John Masefield â The Midnight Folk
- A. A. Milne â Now We Are Six (verse)
- Edward Wyke Smith â The Marvellous Land of Snergs (proto-Hobbits)
- Ruth Plumly Thompson â The Gnome King of Oz (21st in the Oz series overall and the seventh written by her)
- Constancio C. Vigil
- Botón Tolón
- Cuentos para niños
- La hormiguita viajera
- Los escarabajos y la moneda de oro
Drama
- Isaac Babel â Sunset
- Philip Barry â Paris Bound
- Noel Pemberton Billing â High Treason
- Bertolt Brecht â In The Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte in its final version)
- Mikhail Bulgakov â Flight («Ðег», Beg, written)
- Noël Coward
- Hamilton Deane â Dracula (1927 revision of a 1924 stage adaptation)
- James Bernard Fagan â The Greater Love
- Federico GarcÃa Lorca
- Mariana Pineda
- The Curse of the Butterfly (El Maleficio de la Mariposa) (first production, in Teatro Eslava, Madrid)
- Joseph Goebbels â Der Wanderer (only performances; written 1923)
- Walter Hackett â The Wicked Earl
- Oscar Hammerstein II (book & lyrics) â Show Boat (musical play adaptation)
- DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward â Porgy
- Vsevolod Ivanov â Armoured Train 14-69 («ÐÑонепоезд 14-69», Bronepoezd 14-69)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson â Plumes
- George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber â The Royal Family
- John Howard Lawson â Loud Speaker
- Alexander Lernet-Holenia â Szene als Einleitung zu einer Totenfeier für Rainer Maria Rilke
- Frederick Lonsdale â The High Road
- W. Somerset Maugham â The Letter
- Harrison Owen â The Happy Husband
- Ernst Toller â Hoppla, We're Alive! (Hoppla, wir leben!)
- Ben Travers â Thark
- Jim Tully â Twenty Below
- John Van Druten
- Bayard Veiller â The Trial of Mary Dugan
- Roger Vitrac â Les Mystères de l'amour (The Mysteries of Love)
- Frank Vosper â The Combined Maze
- Edgar Wallace
- Emlyn Williams â Full Moon
- Carl Zuckmayer â Schinderhannes
Poetry
- Robert Desnos â La Liberté ou l'amour! (Liberty or Love!)
- Muhammad Iqbal â Zabur-i Ajam (Persian Psalms)
- James Joyce â Pomes Penyeach
- Don Marquis â archy and mehitabel
Non-fiction
- Nan Britton â The President's Daughter[12]
- Alexandra David-Néel â Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa (translated as My Journey to Lhasa)
- John Dewey â Philosophy and Civilization[13]
- J. W. Dunne â An Experiment with Time
- Walter Evans-Wentz (translator) â The Tibetan Book of the Dead (translation of Bardo Thodol)
- E. M. Forster â Aspects of the Novel[14]
- Sigmund Freud â The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)
- Charles Homer Haskins - The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
- Martin Heidegger â Being and Time (Sein und Zeit)[15]
- Christopher Hussey â The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View
- Ernst Kantorowicz â Frederick the Second (Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite)
- Ronald Knox - The Belief of Catholics
- John Livingston Lowes â The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
- Bertrand Russell â An Outline of Philosophy
- Helen Waddell â The Wandering Scholars[16]
Births
- January 8 â Charles Tomlinson, English poet (died 2015)
- January 16 â OldÅich DanÄk, Czech dramatist (died 2000)
- January 24
- Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer, playwright and actor (died 2019)
- Marvin Kaplan, American actor, screenwriter and playwright (died 2016)
- January 25 â John Calder, Canadian-born Scottish publisher (died 2018)
- January 28 â Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
- February 1 â Galway Kinnell, American poet (died 2014)[17]
- February 6 â William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist and journalist (died 1974)
- February 16 â Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971)
- February 21 â Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
- March 6 â Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Colombian novelist (died 2014)[18]
- March 15 â Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995)
- March 18 â George Plimpton, American writer and actor (died 2003)[19]
- March 24 â Martin Walser, German author (died 2023)[20]
- March 22 â Vera Henriksen, née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist (died 2016)
- April 2 â Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (died 1980)[21]
- April 24 â Trudi Birger, German Holocaust survivor and writer (died 2002)[22]
- April 25 â Albert Uderzo, French author and illustrator (died 2020)[23]
- May 1 â Tamar Bornstein-Lazar, Israeli children's writer (died 2020)
- May 7 â Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, British-American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013)
- May 10 â Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author[24]
- May 19 â Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (died 1991)
- May 25 â Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)[25]
- May 27 â Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997)
- May 28 â William A. Hilliard, American journalist (died 2017)
- June 6 â Alan Seymour, Australian playwright (died 2015)
- June 1 â Moyra Caldecott, English writer of historical fiction (died 2015)[26]
- June 13 â Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (died 2006)
- June 20 â Simin Behbahani, Persian poet (died 2014)
- June 23 â Jacobo Langsner, Romanian-born Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (died 2020)
- June 24 â Frederick Vreeland, American diplomat and writer
- June 27 â Dominic Jeeva (à®à¯à®®à®¿à®©à®¿à®à¯ à®à¯à®µà®¾), Ceylonese Tamil fiction writer and essayist (died 2021)
- June 30 â James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998)
- July 4 â Neil Simon, American playwright (died 2018)[27]
- July 15 â Ann Jellicoe, British playwright, stage director and actress (died 2017)
- July 16 â Shirley Hughes, English writer and illustrator of children's books (died 2022)
- July 22 â Katharine Topkins, American novelist
- July 27 â John Seigenthaler, American journalist, writer and political figure (died 2014)
- July 28
- John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)[28]
- Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (died 1986)[29]
- July 31 â Peter Nichols, English playwright (died 2019)
- August 9 â Robert Shaw, English-born actor, novelist and playwright (died 1978)[30]
- August 15 â Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (died 2011)
- August 17 â Stefan Geosits, Burgenland Croatian writer and translator (died 2022)
- August 23 â Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator (died 2017)[31]
- August 24 â David Ireland, Australian novelist (died 2022)[32]
- August 27 â Fouad al-Tikerly, Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008)
- September 4 â Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (died 2000)
- September 30 â W. S. Merwin, American poet (died 2019)[33]
- October 7 â Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
- October 16 â Günter Grass, German novelist (died 2015)[34]
- October 31 â Sybil Wettasinghe, Ceylonese children's writer and illustrator (died 2020)[35]
- November 2 â Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (died 2018)[36]
- November 16 â Franz Jalics, Hungarian Jesuit priest and author (died 2021)
- November 24
- Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist (died 2003)[37]
- Charles Osborne, Australian-born British writer and arts administrator (died 2017)
- December 4 â Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (died 2019)[38]
- December 13 â James Wright, American poet (died 1980)
- December 16 - Peter Dickinson, English author and poet (died 2015)
- December 24
- Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (died 2020)[39]
- Diane de Margerie, French translator (died 2023)
Deaths
- January 4 â Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet (born 1870)[40]
- January 9 â Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-born German author (b. 1855)[41]
- January 21 â Margret Holmes Bates, American novelist and poet (born 1844)
- January 24 â Agnes Maule Machar, Canadian poet and author (born 1837)[42]
- February 5 â Osório Duque-Estrada, Brazilian poet, essayist, journalist and literary critic (born 1870)[43]
- February 26 â Alfred Remy, German-born American philologist and music writer (born 1870)
- February 27 â Roi Cooper Megrue, American playwright (b. 1882)[44]
- March 3 â Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (born 1878)[45]
- March 10 â George W. Forbes, American journalist and librarian (born 1864)[46][47]
- March 18 â Philip Wicksteed, English theologian and critic (born 1844)[48]
- March 31 â Mabel Collins, British theosophist and author (born 1851)
- April 2 â Ottokár Prohászka, Hungarian Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (born 1858)
- April 16 â Gaston Leroux, French novelist (born 1868)[49]
- April 17 â Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, American fantasy fiction writer (born 1850)
- April 19 â Minnie S. Davis, American author and mental scientist (born 1835)
- May 2 â Fukuda Hideko, Japanese feminist author (born 1865)[50]
- May 20 â N. Samuel of Tranquebar, Ceylonese poet and author (born 1850)
- May 25 â Henri Hubert, French sociologist (born 1872)[51]
- May 29 â Georges Eekhoud, Belgian novelist (born 1854)
- June 1 â J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
- June 9 â Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet (born 1857)
- June 14 â Jerome K. Jerome, English humorous writer (born 1859)[52]
- June 20 â Clara Louise Burnham, American novelist (born 1854)[53]
- July 5 â Lesbia Harford, Australian poet (born 1891)
- July 16 â Emily Selinger, American author, painter, and educator (born 1848)
- July 17 â Harriet Earhart Monroe, American lecturer, educator, writer, producer (born 1842)[54]
- July 24 â RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa (è¥å· é¾ä¹ä»), Japanese short story writer and poet (suicide, born 1892)
- July 26
- Kazimir Barantsevich, Russian writer (born 1851)
- Federico De Roberto, Italian novelist and dramatist (born 1861)
- August 13 â James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (born 1878)
- August 24 â Manuel DÃaz RodrÃguez, Venezuelan writer (born 1871)
- September 14 â Hugo Ball, German poet (born 1886)
- September 15 â Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist (born 1864)
- October 8
- Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet (Hodgkin's disease, born 1886)[55]
- Mary Webb, English novelist (born 1881)[56]
- October 22 â Borisav StankoviÄ, Serbian realist writer (born 1876)
- October 23 â Bernhard Alexander, Hungarian philosopher and polymath (born 1850)
- October 29 â Hermann Muthesius, German architect and author (born 1861)
- November 23 â StanisÅaw Przybyszewski, Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet (born 1868)
- December 5 â Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist and essayist (born 1863)
- December 17 â Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (born 1883)
- date unknown â Emma Scarr Booth, British-born American novelist and poet (born 1835)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
- Newdigate Prize for poetry: G. E. Trevelyan, Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner)
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson
- Prix Goncourt: Maurice Bedel, Jérôme 60° latitude nord[57]
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn