1930 in literature
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See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- July 14 - Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first-ever broadcast television drama.
- November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
New books
- Angel Pavement - J. B. Priestley
- Aphrodite in Aulis - George A. Moore
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
- Bridal Pond - Zona Gale
- Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
- Checkmate - Sydney Horler
- A Flood - George A. Moore
- The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
- Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
- The Great Meadow - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field
- It's Never Over - Morley Callaghan
- Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
- The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
- The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
- The Mysterious Mr. Quin - Agatha Christie
- Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
- Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes
- Powder and Patch – Georgette Heyer
- The Promised Land - Gilbert Lubin
- Rogue Herries - Hugh Walpole
- The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
- 1066 and All That - W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman
- Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
- Woman of Andros - Thornton Wilder
New drama
- Antoine Bibesco - Ladies All
- Ferdinand Bruckner - Elisabeth von England
- Noel Coward - Private Lives
Births
- January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
- February 17 - Ruth Rendell, writer
- March 8 - Douglas Hurd, politician and novelist
- July 15 - Jacques Derrida, literary critic (d. 2004)
- August 17 - Ted Hughes, poet (+ 1998)
- September 25 - Shel Silverstein, poet (d. 1999)
- October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
- November 1 - A. R. Gurney, dramatist
- November 5 - Clifford Irving, literary forger
- November 18 - J. G. Ballard, author
Deaths
- February 27 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
- March 2 - D.H. Lawrence, novelist and poet
- March 12 - Alois Jirásek, novelist and dramatist
- April 21 - Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate
- May 17 - Herbert Croly, political writer
- June 9 - Arthur St. John Adcock, novelist
- July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
- August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, originator of the "spoonerism"
- date unknown - Sigurd Ibsen, politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: E. H. Young, Miss Mole
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver Lafarge - Laughing Boy
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