1934 in literature
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See also: 1933 in literature, other events of 1934, 1935 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- First Flash Gordon comic strip published.
- Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those present at the first Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers.
- First Nero Wolfe book published by Rex Stout
New books
- Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
- Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
- A Cool Million - Nathaniel West
- The Death Ship - B. Traven (first English publication)
- Duo - Colette
- An Experiment in Autobiography - H. G. Wells
- Fer-de-Lance - Rex Stout
- Frost in May - Antonia White
- ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton
- A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
- I, Claudius - Robert Graves
- - Zora Neale Hurston
- Lust for Life - Irving Stone
- More Pricks Than Kicks - Samuel Beckett
- Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
- The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
- Rajah Amar - Leopold Myers
- Une Semaine de Bonte - Max Ernst
- Seven Gothic Tales - Isak Dinesen
- Ship without Sails - Barbara Barclay Carter
- Such is My Beloved - Morley Callaghan
- Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- The 12.30 from Croydon - Freeman Wills Crofts
New drama
Non-fiction
- Aldous Huxley - Beyond the Mexique Bay
- Cornelia Meigs -
- A. A. Milne - Peace with Honour
Births
- February 10 - Fleur Adcock, poet
- March 28 - Jean Louvet, dramatist
- May 27 - Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.
- July 21 - Jonathan Miller, satirist and non-fiction author
- August 6 - Piers Anthony, English writer of science fiction and fantasy
- October 17 - Alan Garner, novelist
- November 9 - Ronald Harwood, dramatist
- November 21 - Beryl Bainbridge, novelist
- date unknown - Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
Deaths
- January 8 - Andrei Bely, novelist, poet and critic
- January 15 - Hermann Bahr, dramatist and critic
- January 30 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher
- February 8 - Ferenc Móra, novelist and journalist
- March 10 - F. Anstey, Vice Versa author
- April 11 - Gerald du Maurier, actor-manager, son of George du Maurier and father of Daphne du Maurier
- June 21 - Thorne Smith, humorist and fantasy author
- August 13 - Mary Hunter Austin, travel writer
- September 9 - Roger Fry, art critic
- November 23 - Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatist
- date unknown - Robert Clyde Packer, newspaper magnate
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Robert Graves, I, Claudius and Claudius the God
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa
- Nobel Prize for literature: Luigi Pirandello.
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Caroline Miller - Lamb in His Bosom
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