1935 in literature
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See also: 1934 in literature, other events of 1935, 1936 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.
- Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy is published by James T. Farrell. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
New books
- The Battle for Investment Survival – Gerald M. Loeb
- The Box of Delights - John Masefield
- Burmese Days - George Orwell
- BUtterfield 8 - John O'Hara
- A Clergyman's Daughter - George Orwell
- Death in the Stocks – Georgette Heyer
- Dobry - Monica Shannon
- Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - John Maynard Keynes
- Golden Apples - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Hidden Harbor Mystery - Franklin W. Dixon
- The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins) - John Dickson Carr
- A House Divided - Pearl S. Buck
- Jean Val Jean - Solomon Cleaver
- Journeyman - Erskine Caldwell
- The Last Puritan - George Santayana
- The Lotus Eaters - Stanley G. Weinbaum
- Mistress of Mistresses - E.R. Eddison
- National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
- Ollie Miss - George Wylie Henderson
- Red Sky in the Morning - Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- The Stars Look Down - A.J. Cronin
- The Strange Death of Liberal England - George Dangerfield
- A Stranger Still - Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson)
- Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy - James T. Farrell
- They Shall Inherit the Earth - Morley Callaghan
- Time Out of Mind - Rachel Field
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven
- When the Mountain Fell - Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
- Winterset - Maxwell Anderson
New drama
- T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
- Jean Giraudoux - La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan war will not take place)
- Clifford Odets - Waiting for Lefty
- Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall
Births
- January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
- February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994)
- March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
- March 23 - Barry Cryer, comedy writer
- April 14 - Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods author
- April 15 - Alan Plater, screenwriter
- May 2 - Lynda Lee-Potter, columnist (+ 2004)
- August 15 - Régine Deforges, writer, publisher
- August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, novelist
- September 17 - Ken Kesey, author
- October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist
Deaths
- February 7 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist
- April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
- April 11 - Anna Katharine Green, crime writer
- April 18 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer
- May 19 - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"
- August 11 - Sir William Watson, traditionalist poet
- August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author
- August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
- October 11 - Steele Rudd, short story writer
- November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, poet
- December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, Dobry
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November
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