This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1932.
Children and young people
Laura Adams Armer – Waterless Mountain
W. E. Johns (as William Earle) – The Camels Are Coming (first in Biggles series)
Arthur Ransome – Peter Duck
Alison Uttley – Moonshine and Magic
Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House in the Big Woods
S. N. Behrman – Biography
Elias Canetti – Hochzeit (Wedding)
Noël Coward – Design for Living
Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo – Toko Atolia
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – Dinner at Eight
Marcel Pagnol – Fanny
Ahmed Shawqi – Amirat el-Andalus (The Andalusian Princess )
Ödön von Horváth – Kasimir und Karoline
W. H. Auden – The Orators
Cecil Day-Lewis – From Feathers To Iron
An "Objectivist's" Anthology
Boris Pasternak – The Second Birth
Adrian Bell – The Cherry Tree
Henri Bergson – The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion)
Emil Brunner – The Divine Imperative: a study in Christian ethics (Gebot und die Ordnungen)
Bernard DeVoto – Mark Twain's America
Annabel Jackson – A Victorian Childhood
T. S. Eliot – Selected Essays, 1917–1932
J. B. S. Haldane – The Causes of Evolution
Hugh Kingsmill – Frank Harris
F. R. Leavis – New Bearings in English Poetry
Q. D. Leavis – Fiction and the Reading Public
Maxwell House Haggadah
Beverley Nichols – Down the Garden Path
Walter B. Pitkin – Life Begins at Forty
Florence White – Good Things in England (food)
S. Fowler Wright – The Life of Sir Walter Scott
January 5 – Umberto Eco, Italian novelist and semiotician (died 2016)
January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson, American novelist and playwright (died 2007)
January 19 – George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (died 1992)
February 7 – Gay Talese, American literary journalist
February 15 – Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish scriptwriter (died 2009)
February 16 – Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli novelist and poet
March 4 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, traveller, poet and writer (died 2007)
March 18 – John Updike, American novelist and poet (died 2009)
March 31 – John Jakes, American historical novelist
May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English poet
May 8 – Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican author and translator (died 2007)
May 24 – Arnold Wesker, English dramatist (died 2016)
June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish autobiographer and poet (died 1981)
June 6 – Sara Banerji, English author and sculptor
June 18 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet (died 2016)
July 17 – Karla Kuskin, American children's writer and illustrator (died 2009)
August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet (died 1967)
August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born novelist
August 27 – Antonia Fraser, English biographer, novelist and historian
September 7 – Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist (died 2000)
October 27 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (suicide 1963)
October 31 - Katherine Paterson, Chinese-American author
January 12 – Ella Hepworth Dixon, English writer, novelist and editor (born 1857)
January 21 – Lytton Strachey, English biographer (cancer, born 1880)
January 28 – F. M. Mayor, English novelist (born 1872)
February 10 – Edgar Wallace, English crime writer (diabetes, born 1875)
February 15 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (born 1865)
March 16 – Harold Monro, British poet and poetry bookshop proprietor (alcohol-related, born 1879)
April 20 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
April 26 – Hart Crane, American poet (suicide, born 1899)
May 22 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist (born 1852)
June 17 – Sir John Quick, Australian politician and author (born 1852)
July 6 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-born children's and short-story writer (born 1859)
July 20 – René Bazin, French novelist (born 1853)
July 22 – J. Meade Falkner, English novelist and poet (born 1858)
August 29 – Raymond Knister, Canadian writer (drowned, born 1899)
September 5 – Paul Bern, German-American screenwriter (suicide, born 1889)
October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet (born 1870)
October 14 – Ahmed Shawqi, Egyptian poet (born 1868)
November 17 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (born 1858)
November 23 – Henry S. Whitehead, American genre novelist (gastric ailment, born 1882)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Helen de Guerry Simpson, Boomerang
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Mary Kingsley
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
1932 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
