This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1931.
Children and young people
Jean de Brunhoff – Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (translated as The Story of Babar)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Fighting Man of Mars
Tarzan the Invincible
Erich Kästner – The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (Der 35. Mai)
Arthur Ransome – Swallowdale
Chen Liting – Put Down Your Whip (放下你的鞭子, Fàngxià nǐde biānzi)
John van Druten – London Wall
Federico García Lorca – When Five Years Pass (Así que pasen cinco años, written)
Jean Giraudoux – Judith
Eugene O'Neill – Mourning Becomes Electra
Ahmed Shawqi – Qambeez (Cambyses)
Dodie Smith – Autumn Crocus
Gladys Bronwyn Stern – The Man Who Pays The Piper
Ödön von Horváth – Tales from the Vienna Woods (Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald)
Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas Dinner
Carl Zuckmayer – The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
Samuel Beckett – Proust
Adrian Bell – Silver Ley
Arthur Bryant – King Charles the Second
Herbert Butterfield – The Whig Interpretation of History
W. Chapman & V.C.A. Ferraro – A New Theory of Magnetic Storms
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda et al. – Dehkhoda Dictionary of the Persian language
Julius Evola – The Hermetic Tradition
Dion Fortune – Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science
John Middleton Murry – Son of Woman: The Story of D. H. Lawrence
Irma S. Rombauer – The Joy of Cooking
Helen Thomas – World Without End
January 6
E. L. Doctorow, American author (died 2015)
P. J. Kavanagh, English poet, novelist, lecturer, actor, broadcaster and columnist (died 2015)
January 9 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-born science fiction author (died 2008)
January 10 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (died 2004)
January 17 – Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky), German journalist and science fiction author (died 2000)
January 27
John Hopkins, English screenwriter (died 1998)
Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (died 2001)
January 27
Allan W. Eckert, American historian and novelist (died 2011)
Shirley Hazzard, Australian author
February 9 – Thomas Bernhard, Dutch-born Austrian author (died 1989)
February 11 – Larry Merchant, American author and boxing commentator
February 12 – Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch-born crime writer (died 2008)
February 18
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (died 2007)
Toni Morrison, American writer and Nobel Prize winner
February 19 – Robert Sobel, American business writer (died 1999)
March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American novelist
March 16 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theater director and writer (died 2009)
March 22 – Leslie Thomas, Welsh novelist (died 2014)
March 26 – Alison Prince, English-born Scottish children's writer and illustrator
April 1 – Rolf Hochhuth, German dramatist
April 15 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and translator (died 2015)
April 21 – Gabriel de Broglie, French historian
April 29 – Robert Gottlieb, American editor
June 12 – Robin Cook (Derek Raymond), English crime novelist (died 1994)
June 21 – Patricia Goedicke, American poet (died 2006)
July 4 – Sébastien Japrisot, French novelist and screenwriter (died 2003)
July 7 – David Eddings, American novelist (died 2009)
July 10
Nick Adams, American screenwriter
Julian May, American science fiction author
Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer
August 2 – Karl Miller, British writer and literary editor (died 2014)
August 12 – William Goldman, American author
August 22 – Maurice Gee, New Zealand novelist
September 14 – Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist and dramatist
September 22 – Fay Weldon, English novelist
October 8 – Dennis Silk, American-born English writer on literature and cricket, and first-class cricketer
October 19 – John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell), English spy novelist
November 18 – Nikoloz Janashia, Georgian historian (died 1982)
January 26 – Graça Aranha, Brazilian diplomat and writer (born 1868)
March 27 – Arnold Bennett, English novelist (born 1867)
April 4 – André Michelin, French originator of Michelin Guides (born 1853)
April 10 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-born American poet (born 1883)
June 29 – Nérée Beauchemin, French-Canadian poet (born 1850)
July 2 – Harald Høffding, Danish philosopher (born 1843)
August 1 – Bertha McNamara, German-born Australian pamphleteer and bookseller (born 1853)
August 15 – Delfín Chamorro, Spanish poet and language teacher (born 1863)
August 27 – Frank Harris, Irish-born American author and editor (born 1856)
August 31 – Hall Caine, Manx novelist and dramatist (born 1853)
October 13 – Ernst Didring, Swedish novelist (born 1868)
October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (born 1862)
November 3 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Uruguayan epic poet (born 1855)
November 5 – Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian American writer (born 1876)
November 19 – Xu Zhimo (徐志摩), Chinese poet (air accident, born 1897)
December 10 – Enrico Corradini, Italian novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1865)
December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American inventor of library classification system (born 1851)
December 27 – Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author and collector of songs and ballads (born 1846)
December 31 – Ieronim Yasinsky, Russian writer, poet and essayist (born 1850
Chancellor's Gold Medal: Robert Gittings
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Kate O'Brien, Without My Cloak
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: J. Y. R. Greig, David Hume
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Nobel Prize for literature – Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Ayer Barnes – Years of Grace
1931 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
