1932 in literature
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See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of Punch magazine.
- Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is rejected by several publishers.
- W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.
- The New Poetry (Thơ mới) period began, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, beginning Modern Literature in Vietnam.
New books
- 1919 - John Dos Passos
- Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan
- Burning Bush - Sigrid Undset
- Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford
- - Rudolph Fisher
- The Fortress - Hugh Walpole
- The Greater Trumps - Charles Williams
- Guys and Dolls - Damon Runyon
- Infants Of The Spring - Wallace Thurman
- Josephus - Lion Feuchtwanger
- Journey to the East - Herman Hesse
- Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Le Pur et L'Impur - Colette
- Light in August - William Faulkner
- Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Norman Hall
- The Narrow Corner - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Richest Woman in Town - Henry Bellamann
- Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Sheltered Life - Ellen Glasgow
- The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset
- Sons - Pearl S. Buck
- Tarzan and the Leopard Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Three Loves - A.J. Cronin
- Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
- Topper Takes a Trip - Thorne Smith
- Waterless Mountain - Laura Adams Armer
New drama
- Elias Canetti - Die Hochzeit (The Wedding)
- Noel Coward - Design for Living
- George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - Dinner at Eight
- Marcel Pagnol - Fanny
Poetry
- W. H. Auden - The Orators
- Boris Pasternak - The Second Birth
Non-fiction
- Henri Bergson - Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion (The Two Sources of Morality and Religion)
- T. S. Eliot - Selected Essays, 1917-1932
- John Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven
Births
- January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author
- February 7 - Gay Talese, author
- March 18 - John Updike, novelist and poet
- March 31 - John Jakes, blockbuster novelist
- May 7 - Jenny Joseph, poet
- June 5 - Christy Brown, My Left Foot author (d. 1981)
- August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, novelist
- September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, novelist (d. 2000)
- October 27 - Sylvia Plath, poet
- unknown date - Troy Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
Deaths
- January 21 - Lytton Strachey, biographer
- February 10 - Edgar Wallace, crime writer
- March 16 - Harold Monro, poet
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, philosopher
- April 26 - Hart Crane, poet
- May 22 - Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist
- June 17 - Sir John Quick, politician and author
- July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, Wind in the Willows author
- July 20 - René Bazin, novelist
- July 22 - J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet author
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Helen Simpson, Boomerang
- 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
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