This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1936.
Children and young people
Edward Ardizzone – Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (Journal d'un curé de campagne)
M. E. Atkinson – August Adventure
Carol Ryrie Brink – Caddie Woodlawn
Noel Langley – The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger
Munro Leaf – The Story of Ferdinand
John A. Moroso – Nobody's Buddy
Carola Oman – Ferry the Fearless
Arthur Ransome – Pigeon Post
Lester Basil Sinclair (as John Mystery) – Why Cows Moo
Noel Streatfeild – Ballet Shoes (illustrated by Ruth Gervis)
Barbara Euphan Todd – Worzel Gummidge (first in the Worzel Gummidge series of eleven books)
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood – The Ascent of F6
S. N. Behrman – End of Summer
Bertolt Brecht – Round Heads and Pointed Heads (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe)
Noël Coward – Tonight at 8:30 and Present Laughter
Mazo de la Roche and Nancy Price – Whiteoaks
Harley Granville-Barker – Waste (first public performance, 1927 version; originally written 1906)
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart – You Can't Take It with You
Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt – It Can't Happen Here (dramatisation)
Federico García Lorca – The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba; written)
Clare Boothe Luce – The Women
Terence Rattigan – French Without Tears
Irwin Shaw – Bury the Dead
Ödön von Horváth
Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg ("Don Juan Comes Back From the War")
Figaro läßt sich scheiden ("Figaro Gets a Divorce")
W. H. Auden – Look, Stranger!
Gottfried Benn – Ausgewählte Gedichte (Selected Poems)
T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909–35 including "Burnt Norton", first of the Four Quartets
Patrick Kavanagh – Ploughman, and Other Poems
Michael Roberts (ed.) – The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Dylan Thomas – Twenty-five Poems
W. B. Yeats (ed.) – The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935
A. J. Ayer – Language, Truth, and Logic
John Dickson Carr – The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
Graham Greene – Journey Without Maps
Carl Gustav Jung – The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy (Die Erlösungsvorstellungen in der Alchemie)
John Maynard Keynes – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Osbert Lancaster – Progress at Pelvis Bay
F. R. Leavis – Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry
C. S. Lewis – The Allegory of Love
Edwin Muir – Scott and Scotland
George Orwell – "Bookshop Memories"
Olavi Paavolainen – Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana (Guest of the Third Reich)
J. R. R. Tolkien – "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (version of a lecture)
January 10 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian (died 2002)
February 18 – Jean M. Auel, American historical novelist
March 1 – Jean-René Huguenin, French novelist and literary critic (died in 1962)
March 7 – Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker and essayist (died 1982)
April 30 – Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet Russian writer and editor
May 23 – Ian Kennedy Martin, English scriptwriter and novelist
May 27 – Ivo Brešan, Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist (died 2016)
June 3
Duff Hart-Davis, English biographer and journalist
Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist and screenwriter
June 23 – Richard Bach, American novelist and non-fiction writer
June 24 – J. H. Prynne, English poet
June 29 – David Rudkin, English playwright
July 22 – Tom Robbins, American novelist
August 24 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist
September 20 – Andrew Davies, Welsh novelist and screenwriter
October 5 – Václav Havel, Czech dramatist and first president of Czech Republic (died 2011)
November 17 – John Wells, English satirical writer and actor (died 1998)
November 20 – Don DeLillo, American novelist
November 25 – William McIlvanney, Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015)
November 27 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (died 2005)
December 1 – Ma Văn Kháng, Vietnamese writer
December 5 – Lewis Nkosi, Zulu writer (died 2010)
December 11 – Ingvar Moe, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
December 17 – Frank Martinus Arion, Curaçaoan novelist and poet (died 2015)
Unknown date – Victor Watson, English children's writer and academic
January 5 – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1866)
January 17 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian novelist and poet (stroke, born 1885)
January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer and Nobel laureate (born 1865)
February 8 – Rahel Sanzara, German dancer, actress and novelist (cancer, born 1894)
February 23 – Lidia Veselitskaya (V. Mikulich), Russian novelist, memoirist and translator (born 1857)
March 1 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, musician and novelist (born 1872)
March 16 – Marguerite Durand, French actress and journalist (born 1864)
April 30 – A. E. Housman, English poet (born 1859)
June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (suicide, born 1906)
June 12 – M. R. James, English ghost story writer and scholar (born 1862)
June 14
G. K. Chesterton, English novelist, poet and Catholic apologist (born 1874)
Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist (born 1868)
July 25 – Donald Maxwell, English travel writer and illustrator (born 1877)
August 8 – Mourning Dove, Native American writer (born 1884)
August 15 – Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer and Nobel laureate (born 1871)
August 19 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish dramatist and poet (shot, born 1898)
October 5 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (born 1898)
November 12 – Stefan Grabiński, Polish horror writer (born 1887)
December 10 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and novelist (born 1867)
December 24 – Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley, English horticulturist and garden writer (born 1872)
December 27 – Kristína Royová, Slovak novelist, religious writer and poet (born 1860)
December 28 – John Cornford, English poet (killed in action, born 1915)
December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish novelist, poet and scholar (born 1864)
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Winifred Holtby, South Riding
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Edward Sackville West, A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
Nobel Prize for literature: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, Idiot's Delight
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis – Honey in the Horn
William Boyd – The Blue Afternoon (1993)
Sebastian Faulks – The Girl at the Lion d'Or (1989)
Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa (play, 1990)
Philip Kerr – March Violets (1989)
Anthony Powell – Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960)
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