1935 in literature

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Events

Prose

• Erich Kästner published the novel The Missing miniature.
• Agatha Christie published the detective novel Death in the Clouds.
• John Steinbeck published the picaresque novel Tortilla Flat, with which he achieved his first literary success.

Others

• The publisher Allen Lane founded the publishing house Penguin Books. On July 30, the first ten titles in paperback come to market.

Literary Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature 1935: Monica Shannon Dobry
• Nobel Prize for Literature in 1935: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize, Drama Division: Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
• Pulitzer Prize, Poetry Division: Audrey Has man: Bright Ambush
• Pulitzer Prize, division novella: Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November

Born

• JANUARY 30: Richard Brautigan, writer
• February 1: Dieter Kühn, German writer
• February 5: Sandra Paretti, author († 1994)
• February 7: Heinz Czechowski, German writer
• March 1: Judith Rossner, writer
• April 14: Erich von Däniken, a Swiss hotelier and writer
• APRIL 16: Sarah Kirsch, German writer
• August 12: Karl Mickel, German writer († 2000)
• August 15: Régine Deforges, writer and editor
• September 17: Ken Kesey, author
• October 7: Thomas Keneally, an Australian novelist
• NOVEMBER 1: Edward Said, literary theorist and critic († 2003)
• November 18: Rudolf Bahro, German philosopher († 1997)

• Mohamed Choukri: Moroccan writer († 2003)

Died

• April 6: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Poet
• August 17: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author
• August 30: Henri Barbusse, French journalist and novelist
• December 14: Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science fiction writer
• DECEMBER 21: Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist