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1926 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1926.

Contents

Events

  • February 8 – Seán O'Casey's play The Plough and the Stars opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. On February 11, the performance is marred by ugly scenes in the audience: one man strikes an actress.
  • February 12 – The Irish Free State minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints a Committee on Evil Literature.
  • February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church.
  • April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in the United States.
  • May 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien meet for the first time in Oxford.
  • October 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The White Guard (Белая гвардия), partially serialized in Rossiya before the magazine's suppression earlier in the year, opens in a dramatic adaptation, The Days of the Turbins, at the Moscow Art Theatre which is enjoyed by Stalin.
  • October 14 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published by Methuen in London.
  • December 3 – English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found staying at a Harrogate hotel (under her husband's mistress's surname) by journalist Ritchie Calder.
  • December – Thomas Mann begins writing Die Geschichten Jaakobs in Munich, first of the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) on which he will work until January 1943.
  • Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac establish the Théatre Alfred-Jarry in Paris for the production of surrealist drama.
  • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is founded in Middlebury, Vermont.
  • Ford Madox Ford publishes A Man Could Stand Up --, the third book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
  • Vsevolod Meyerhold stages a landmark expressionistic production of Gogol's satirical comedy The Government Inspector (Ревизор, 1836) in Moscow.
  • Margaret Mitchell begins writing the novel Gone with the Wind (published 1936).
  • The remains of English poet Isaac Rosenberg (k. 1918) are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France.
  • S. S. Van Dine publishes the first Philo Vance mystery novel, The Benson Murder Case.
  • Peter Llewelyn Davies establishes the London publishing house Peter Davies Ltd.

    • Fiction

  • Ion Agârbiceanu – Legea trupului
  • Marcel Arland – Monique
  • Roberto Arlt – Mad Toy (El juguete rabioso)
  • Isaac Babel – Red Cavalry (Конармия, short stories)
  • Henry Bellamann – Petenera's Daughter
  • Louis Bromfield – Early Autumn
  • Willa Cather – My Mortal Enemy
  • Marjorie Bowen – Mistress Nell Gwynne
  • Arthur Bowie Chrisman – Shen of the Sea
  • Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • James R. Crowell and Samuel C. Hildreth – The Spell of the Turf
  • Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Tirano Banderas: novela de tierra caliente (Tyrant Banderas)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – The Land of Mist
  • William Faulkner – Soldiers' Pay
  • Ronald Firbank – Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli
  • Ford Madox Ford – A Man Could Stand Up—
  • C. S. Forester – Payment Deferred
  • Dion Fortune – The Secrets of Dr. Taverner
  • Zona Gale – Preface to Life
  • Hugo Gernsback – Ralph 124C 41+ (in book form)
  • Ellen Glasgow – The Romantic Comedians
  • Ricardo Güiraldes – Don Segundo Sombra
  • Harold Heslop – Pod vlastu uglya (Under the Sway of Coal, translation of Goaf)
  • Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades
  • Ernest Hemingway - The Torrents of Spring
  • Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
  • Mikheil Javakhishvili – The White Collar (თეთრი საყელო, Tetri sakelo)
  • Franz Kafka – The Castle
  • Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) – "The Dancing Girl of Izu" (伊豆の踊子, "Izu no odoriko", short story)
  • D. H. Lawrence – The Plumed Serpent
  • Agnes Mure Mackenzie – The Quiet Lady
  • George A. Moore – Ulich and Soracha
  • Vladimir Nabokov (as V. Sirin) – Mary (Машенька, Mashen'ka)
  • Baroness Orczy
  • Unravelled Knots
  • The Celestial City
  • Cassiano Ricardo – Vamos caçar papagaios
  • Grigol Robakidze – The Snake's Skin (გველის პერანგი)
  • Sagitta (John Henry Mackay) – Der Puppenjunge (The Pansy)
  • Marquis de Sade – Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
  • Dorothy L. Sayers – Clouds of Witness
  • Arthur Schnitzler – Dream Story (Traumnovelle)
  • Anton Hansen Tammsaare – Tõde ja Õigus (Truth and Justice, begins publication)
  • Sylvia Thompson – The Hounds of Spring
  • B. Traven – The Death Ship (Das Totenschiff)
  • S. S. Van Dine – The Benson Murder Case
  • Edgar Wallace – The Terrible People
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner – Lolly Willowes
  • H. G. Wells – The World of William Clissold
  • Walter F. White – Flight

    • Children and young people

  • Will James – Smoky the Cowhorse
  • A. A. Milne – Winnie-the-Pooh

    • Drama

  • Bertolt Brecht – Man Equals Man (Mann ist Mann)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov – Days of the Turbins (Дни Турбиных)
  • St. John Greer Ervine – Anthony and Anna
  • J. B. Fagan – And So To Bed
  • John Galsworthy – Escape
  • Seán O'Casey – The Plough and the Stars
  • Ben Travers – Rookery Nook
  • Sergei Tretyakov – I Want a Baby (Хочу ребёнка)

    • Poetry

  • Mário de Andrade – Losango cáqui
  • Langston Hughes – The Weary Blues
  • Robert McAlmon – The Portrait of a Generation
  • Hugh MacDiarmid – A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
  • Vita Sackville-West – The Land

    • Non-fiction

  • Germán List Arzubide – El movimiento estridentista
  • Angela Brazil – My Own Schooldays
  • T. E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • Otto Schmidt (chief editor) – Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая советская энциклопедия, Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya; begins publication)
  • R. H. Tawney – Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
  • Helen Thomas – As It Was
  • W. B. Yeats – Autobiographies
  • Paul Zarifopol – Din registrul ideilor gingașe (A Register of Tender Ideas)
  • Alfred Eckhard Zimmern – The Third British Empire

    • Births

  • January 5 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (died 2009)
  • January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (died 1991)
  • February 3 – Richard Yates, American writer (died 1992)
  • February 20 – Richard Matheson, American writer (died 2013)
  • March 3 – James Merrill, American poet (died 1995)
  • March 24 – Dario Fo, Italian dramatist and actor (died 2016)
  • March 27 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (died 1966)
  • March 31 – John Fowles, English novelist (died 2005)
  • April 3 – Luís de Sttau Monteiro, Portuguese novelist and dramatist (died 1993)
  • April 13 – Egon Wolff, Chilean dramatist (died 2016)
  • April 23 – Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist and children's writer (died 2003)
  • April 28 – Harper Lee, American novelist (died 2016)
  • May 15 – English twins
  • Anthony Shaffer, dramatist and screenwriter (died 2001)
  • Peter Shaffer, dramatist (died 2016)
  • May 21 – Robert Creeley, American author (died 2005)
  • June 3 – Allen Ginsberg, American Beat Generation poet (died 1997)
  • June 13
  • Kanam EJ, Malayalam novelist and lyricist (died 1982)
  • Dalmiro Sáenz, Argentinian writer (died 2016)
  • June 19 – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian publisher (died 1972)
  • July 7 – Spencer Holst, American writer and storyteller (died 2001)
  • July 11 – Frederick Buechner, American author and minister
  • July 18 – Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (died 2001)
  • August 12 – Wallace Markfield, American comic novelist (died 2002)
  • August 14
  • René Goscinny, French writer and co-creator of Asterix (died 1977)
  • Alice Adams, American short story writer (died 1999)
  • September 14 – Michel Butor, French writer
  • October 2 – Jan Morris (James Morris), Welsh historian and travel writer
  • October 15 – Evan Hunter, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
  • November 5 – John Berger, English art critic and novelist (died 2017)
  • November 11
  • José Manuel Caballero, Spanish novelist and poet
  • Harold Perkin, English social historian (died 2004)
  • November 19 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (died 2011)
  • November 20 – John Gardner, English novelist (died 2007)
  • November 25 – Poul Anderson, American science fiction writer (died 2001)
  • December 23 – Robert Bly, American writer

    • Deaths

  • January 14
  • René Boylesve, French author (born 1867)
  • August Sedláček, Czech historian (born 1843)
  • February 1 – Ishibashi Ningetsu (石橋 忍月), Japanese author and critic (born 1865)
  • February 6 – Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin, German theologian (born 1847)
  • February 12 – Radu Rosetti, Romanian politician, historical novelist and memoirist (born 1853)
  • March 3 – Sir Sidney Lee, English biographer (born 1859)
  • May 9 – J. M. Dent, English publisher (born 1849)
  • May 21 – Ronald Firbank, English novelist (born 1886)
  • May 26 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian Expressionist poet (meningitis, born 1904)
  • July 8 – Karel Václav Rais, Czech realist novelist (born 1859)
  • July 11 – Fran Detela, Slovenian academic and writer (born 1850)
  • August 1 – Israel Zangwill, English poet (born 1864)
  • October 5 – Javier de Viana, Uruguayan writer (born 1868)
  • October 9 – Helena Nyblom, Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales (born 1843)
  • October 11 – Albert Robida, French illustrator and novelist (born 1848)
  • November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, Russian memoirist (born 1869)
  • December 8 – Sarah Doudney, English novelist, children's writer and hymnist (born 1841)
  • December 12 – Jean Richepin, French poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1849)
  • December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (born 1875)

    • Awards

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Herbert Brook Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Grazia Deledda
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George Kelly, Craig's Wife
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock
  • Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
  • Blindman International Poetry Prize: Ruth Manning-Sanders, The City

    • References

    1926 in literature Wikipedia
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