1938 in literature

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Agatha Christie published two crime novels Appointment with Death (May 2 ) and Hercule Poirot 's Christmas (December 19 ) with the main character of private detective Hercule Poirot.
December 17: The U.S. writer Eric Knight published in the Saturday Evening Post with Lassie Come Home, the first short story about the dog Lassie.

The British woman Daphne du Maurier published her most famous novel Rebecca.
The American Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published the novel The Yearling ( Spring of Life), for which she was awarded in the following year 's Pulitzer Prize.

The novel two- appears at the border of Friedrich Wolf.
Erich Kästner published the novel George and the incidents.
Is translated in the same year, in the Odon von Horvath 's novel Youth Without God in eight different languages , it is set in Germany on the list of harmful and undesirable writings.

Antonio Delfini published Il ricordo della Basca, a thematically linked collection of eleven stories.
Samuel Beckett's first novel Murphy is first published in French.

June / September: The prisoners Jura Soyfer and Herbert Zipper jointly wrote the Dachau song with the refrain "Work makes you free ".

January 22: The epic play Our Town by Thornton Wilder has its world premiere in the United States. In the same year, the author receives the Pulitzer Prize.
MAY 21: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, a play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, first performed in eight scenes in Paris. By June, the number of designed by Brecht scenes of what he called the "Assembly" rises to 27

The American Pearl S. Buck gets "for her rich and genuine epic descriptions of the Chinese peasant life and for her biographical masterpieces" the Nobel Prize for Literature.

January 2: Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author of tales and short stories
JANUARY 5: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan writer and cultural theorist
January 6: Mario Rodríguez Cobos, Argentine writer († 2010)
January 7: Roland Topor, a French writer, actor and painter († 1997)
January 10: Renate Scho stack, German journalist and writer
JANUARY 19: Manfred Osten, German author and cultural historian
JANUARY 25: Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer, poet and actor († 1980)
January 28: William Voltz, German writer († 1984)
FEBRUARY 4: Martin Greif, American author († 1996)
February 5: John Guare, American playwright
February 7: Friedrich Karl Barth, pastor and songwriter
FEBRUARY 18: Elke Erb, German poet and writer
February 24: Jürgen Günther, German comic artist
FEBRUARY 26: Hans Haid, Austrian folklorist, mining and dialect poet
March 4: Kito Lorenc, Sorbian- German writer, poet and translator
MARCH 13: Hans -Joachim Hesp, German composer and publisher
March 14: Anar, Azerbaijani writer
March 14: Angus MacLise, American percussionist, composer, poet and visual artist († 1979)
March 15: Jürgen pigs Braden, gallerist and writer
MARCH 18: Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir, Icelandic writer
MARCH 23: Federica de Cesco, Swiss writer
MARCH 27: Hans Jörg Schneider, Swiss writer and playwright
APRIL 12: Ernst holder, Swiss writer, translator and editor
APRIL 24: Michael Koser, German writer
APRIL 30: Larry Niven, American science fiction writer

May 8: Jean Giraud, French comic artist († 2012)
MAY 16: Monique Laederach, Swiss writer and literary critic († 2004)
MAY 21: Urs Widmer, Swiss writer († 2014)
MAY 25: Raymond Carver, American writer and poet († 1988)
June 4: Ulrich Grasnick, German author
June 16: Joyce Carol Oates, American writer
June 22: Peter Griese, German science fiction author († 1996)
JUNE 27: Konrad Kujau, painters, forger of the Hitler Diaries († 2000)
02 July: Manfred Sondermann, German cartoonist
July 13: Helga King Village, German mathematician and writer
JULY 17: Franz Alt, German journalist and author
July 18: Jan Stanislaw Skorupski, Polish poet
July 19: Dom Moraes, Indian writer, poet and journalist († 2004)
JULY 21: Hermann Schulz, German writer and publisher
July 27: Jerry Juhl, American screenwriter († 2005)
JULY 29: Peter Jennings, American journalist († 2005)
August 1: Bernward Vesper, German writer, political activist and publisher († 1971)
August 7: Helen Caldicott, Australian physician, author and anti - nuclear activist
AUGUST 20: Anne Cameron, Canadian writer and screenwriter
August 25: Frederick Forsyth, British writer

Antonia Arslan Armenian archaeologist and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
Claude Lapointe, French children's book Illustrator
Clarisse Nicoïdski, French writer († 1996)
Christiane Olivier, French psychoanalyst and author
Marie -Luise Scherer, German writer and journalist
Sherm Bill Brucker, Canadian writer and university teacher of Kenyan origin

January 25: William Slavens McNutt, American screenwriter and novelist (* 1885)
February 2: Friedrich Adler, Austrian writer (* 1857)
FEBRUARY 13: Karl Ludwig Schemann, German writer, translator and racial theorists (* 1852)
February 14: Arthur Eloesser, German journalist and literary historian (* 1870)
FEBRUARY 16: Otto zur Linde, German writer (* 1873)
FEBRUARY 18: Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet and essayist (* 1874)
March 1: Gabriele D' Annunzio, Italian writer (* 1863)
MARCH 16: Egon Friedell, Austrian writer, philosopher, actor ( b. 1878 )
April 22: Robert Seitz, German writer (* 1891)

May 4: Carl von Ossietzky, German editor and publisher, Nobel Peace Prize (* 1889)
MAY 28: Diedrich Speckmann, German writer (* 1872)

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