1931 in literature

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  • 2.1 January to April
  • 2.2 from May to July
  • 2.3 from August to December
  • 2.4 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Prose

  • February: The written in the previous novel Monsieur Gallet, décédé by Georges Simenon appears. The first novel about Inspector Maigret is immediately to be a resounding success.
  • Erich Kästner published the novel Fabian - The story of a moralist as well as the two children novels dots and Anton and the 35th of May, or Conrad rides in the South Seas.
  • Shortly before his death, Arthur Schnitzler's written 1912-1917 under the working title novella delusion escape in the darkness appears.
  • The Good Earth, the first part of a trilogy of novels of Pearl S. Buck, appears.
  • Felix Hartlaub writes Schuler as the Odenwaldschule a diary of a study trip to Italy. The book will be published in 2013 by Suhrkamp.

Poetry

  • MARCH 24: Erich Kästner's poem The Ballad of imitation appears in the journal The world stage.

Drama

  • October 26: The play Mourning Becomes Electra ( Mourning Becomes Electra ) by Eugene O'Neill has a successful premiere at the Guild Theatre on Broadway. Another 150 performances follow.
  • November 2: Tales from the Vienna Woods by Odon von Horvath will be premiered under the direction of Heinz Hilpert at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Contributors include Carola Neher, Peter Lorre, Hans Moser, Paul and Paul Dahlke Hörbiger. Despite massive criticism from conservative and right-wing circles the piece is granted a great success.

Scientific literature

  • Kurt Gödel published his most important work About formally undecidable propositions of Principia mathematica and related systems with the proof of Godel's incompleteness theorem.

Awards

Born

January to April

  • January 4: Nora Iuga, Romanian poet and translator
  • JANUARY 5: Juan Goytisolo, Spanish journalist and writer
  • January 6: EL Doctorow, American author and publisher
  • January 6: Joachim Specht, German writer
  • January 9: Algis Budrys, American science fiction writer († 2008)
  • January 11: Mary Rodgers, American musical composer and writer
  • JANUARY 14: Yves Berger, French writer († 2004)
  • JANUARY 14: Elmar Gunsch, Austrian presenter and author
  • JANUARY 17: Nikolai von Michalewsky, German writer († 2000)
  • January 20: Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer († 1984)
  • January 27: Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer († 2001)
  • JANUARY 28: Sakyō Komatsu, Japanese science fiction writer
  • JANUARY 29: Gert Hofmann, German writer († 1993)
  • January 31: Léon Wurmser, American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author
  • February 6: Heinz Kahlau, German poet, playwright and author of screenplays and children's books
  • February 9: Thomas Bernhard, Austrian writer († 1989)
  • FEBRUARY 12: Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch writer († 2008)
  • FEBRUARY 16: Alfred Kolleritsch, Austrian writer and poet
  • FEBRUARY 18: Toni Morrison, American writer and Nobel Prize winner
  • February 24: Uri Orlev, Israeli children's author
  • March 2: Tom Wolfe, American author
  • March 8: John McPhee, American non-fiction author
  • MARCH 11: Janosch (Horst Eckert ), German children's book author and writer
  • MARCH 13: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, German film director and writer
  • March 22: William Shatner, Canadian actor, singer, author
  • MARCH 28: Jane Rule, Canadian author († 2007)
  • April 1: Rolf Hochhuth, German dramatist
  • April 2: Howard Engel, Canadian writer
  • April 7: Donald Barthelme, American author († 1989)
  • April 15: Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet
  • APRIL 24: Meinolf Wewel, German publisher

May to July

  • MAY 23: Barbara Barrie, American actress and author
  • June 3: John Norman, American fantasy and science fiction writer
  • June 4: Erasmus Schoefer, German writer
  • June 4: Jan Zábrana, Czech writer, poet and translator († 1984)
  • June 7: p'Bitek Okot, Ugandan poet, teacher and anthropologist († 1982)
  • June 13: Irvin Yalom, American psychiatrist and writer
  • June 16: István Eörsi, Hungarian poet, dramatist, prose writer and essayist († 2005)
  • 21 June: Onesimos Nesib, Ethiopian Bible translator
  • June 21: Erik Neutsch, German writer
  • June 23: Urs Jaeggi, Swiss sociologist, writer, painter and sculptor
  • JUNE 26: Colin Wilson, British writer
  • JUNE 28: Jürg Federspiel, Swiss writer († 2007)
  • June 29: Ror Wolf, German writer and artist
  • JULY 4: Jean -Baptiste Rossi, French journalist, screenwriter and writer († 2003)
  • July 5th: Reimar Lenz, German author, publicist
  • July 6th: Emily Nasrallah, Arabic writer
  • July 7: David Eddings, American fantasy author († 2009)
  • July 10: Julian May, American writer
  • July 10: Alice Munro, Canadian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013
  • July 11: Kurt Batt, German literary scholar, critic and lecturer († 1975)
  • July 15: Clive Cussler, American writer
  • JULY 16: Hans Manz, Swiss writer of children's books
  • JULY 29: Otti Pfeiffer, German poet and children's and youth book author († 2001)
  • JULY 30: Dominique Lapierre, French writer

August to December

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Josef Göhlen, German children's author

Died

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