This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1926.
Children and young people
Will James – Smoky the Cowhorse
A. A. Milne – Winnie-the-Pooh
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)
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
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
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
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)
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
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