1933 in literature
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See also: 1932 in literature, other events of 1933, 1934 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
- James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into United States
New books
- Anthony Adverse - Hervey Allen
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
- Banana Bottom - Claude McKay
- The Case of the Sulky Girl - Erle Stanley Gardner
- God's Little Acre - Erskine Caldwell
- Grand Canary - A.J. Cronin
- - Marjorie Bowen
- Lost Horizon - James Hilton
- Man's Fate - Andre Malraux
- Papa La Fleur - Zona Gale
- Peter Abelard - Helen Waddell
- Princess Malah - John H.Hill
- The Saint and Mr. Teal - Leslie Charteris
- The Shape of Things to Come - H. G. Wells
- South Moon Under - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
- Vanessa - Hugh Walpole
- Wardens of the Seas (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
- The Werewolf of Paris - Guy Endore
- Woman In The Dark - Dashiell Hammett
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
New drama
- Jean Anouilh - Mandarine
- Ferdinand Bruckner - Die Rassen
- Eugene O'Neill - Ah, Wilderness!
- Jay Tobias - Everybody's Crazy
Births
- January 9 - Wilbur Smith, novelist
- January 16 - Susan Sontag, author (+ 2004)
- February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
- March 17 - Penelope Lively, novelist
- May 5 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, blockbuster author
- May 29 - Edward Whittemore, writer
- September 19 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist
- December 31 - Edward Bunker, crime novelist
Deaths
- January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist
- January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
- January 31 - John Galsworthy, writer
- April 5 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer
- April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
- April 30 - Anne de Noailles, French writer
- May 26 - Horatio Bottomley, journalist and fraudster
- July 8 - Anthony Hope
- September 20 - Annie Besant, Theosophist writer
- September 25 - Ring Lardner, writer
- September 25 - Pascal Poirier, historian
- November 12 - F. Holland Day, publisher
- November 20 - Augustine Birrell, politician and author
- December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
- Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling - The Store
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