Overview of the events of 1932 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1932 .
Events
March – Captain W. E. Johns ' character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as an English World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker ", in the first, April, issue of Popular Flying magazine, edited by Johns. The first Biggles collection, The Camels Are Coming , ensues in April.
April 23 – To mark Shakespeare's birthday:
April 26 – The 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane , in a state of alcoholic depression, throws himself overboard from the Orizaba [ 3] May – The first issue appears of the English journal of literary criticism Scrutiny: a quarterly review F. R. Leavis .
June 28 – Alice Hargreaves , the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Peter Llewelyn Davies , the inspiration for Peter Pan , at a Lewis Carroll centenary exhibition in a London bookshop.[ 4] July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham and publishes Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems .[ 5]
Summer
October 3 – The Times Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison .[ 6] October – Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters that opposes the Censorship of Publications Board .[ 7]
November 16 – Compton Mackenzie is prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act in the U.K. for material in his Greek Memories .[ 8] December
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New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 2 – Jean Little , Canadian children's fiction author (died 2020 )[ 28] January 5 – Umberto Eco , Italian novelist and semiotician (died 2016 )January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson , American novelist and playwright (died 2007 )January 19 – George MacBeth , Scottish poet and novelist (died 1992 )February 7 – Gay Talese , American literary journalistFebruary 9 – Roderick Cook , English actor and playwright (died 1990 )February 15 – Troy Kennedy Martin , Scottish scriptwriter (died 2009 )February 16 – Aharon Appelfeld , Israeli novelist and poet (died 2018 )February 20 – Adrian Cristobal , Filipino journalist, playwright and author (died 2007 )[ 29] March 4 – Ryszard Kapuściński , Polish journalist poet and travel writer (died 2007)March 18 – John Updike , American novelist and poet (died 2009)[ 30] March 31 – John Jakes , American historical novelist (died 2023 )[ 31] April 5 – Fănuș Neagu , Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer (died 2011 )April 8 – Joan Lingard , Scottish novelist (died 2022 )[ 32] April 10 – Adrian Henri , English poet (died 2000 )May 7 – Jenny Joseph , English poet (died 2018)[ 33] May 8 – Julieta Campos , Cuban-Mexican author and translator (died 2007)May 24 – Arnold Wesker , English dramatist (died 2016 )[ 34] June 5 – Christy Brown , Irish autobiographer and poet (died 1981 )[ 35] June 6 – Sara Banerji , English author and sculptorJune 18 – Geoffrey Hill , English poet (died 2016)July 17 – Karla Kuskin , American children's writer and illustrator (died 2009)July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko , Russian poet and writer (died 2017 )August 16 – Christopher Okigbo , Nigerian poet (died 1967 )August 17 – V. S. Naipaul , Trinidad-born novelist (died 2018 )[ 36] August 27 – Antonia Fraser , English biographer, novelist and historian[ 37] September 7 – Malcolm Bradbury , English novelist (died 2000 )[ 38] September 9 – Alice Thomas Ellis , English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (died 2005 )[ 39] October 24 – Adrian Mitchell , English poet, playwright and fiction writer (died 2008 )October 27 – Sylvia Plath , American poet (suicide 1963 )[ 40] October 31 – Katherine Paterson , Chinese-American author[ 41] December 5 – Jacques Roubaud , French poet, writer, and mathematician (died 2024 )
Deaths
January 6 – Iacob Negruzzi , Romanian poet, columnist and memoirist (born 1842 )January 12 – Ella Hepworth Dixon , English writer, novelist and editor (born 1857 )January 21 – Lytton Strachey , English biographer (cancer, born 1880 )[ 42] January 28 – F. M. Mayor , English novelist (born 1872 )February 4 – Mona Caird , English novelist, essayist and feminist (born 1854 )February 10 – Edgar Wallace , English crime writer (diabetes, born 1875 )February 15 – Minnie Maddern Fiske , American actress and playwright (born 1865 )March 16 – Harold Monro , British poet and poetry bookshop proprietor (alcohol-related, born 1879 )[ 43] April 20 – Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858 )April 22 – Ferenc Oslay , Hungarian -Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (born 1883 )April 23
April 27 – Hart Crane , American poet (suicide, born 1899 )[ 44] May 22 – Augusta, Lady Gregory , Irish dramatist (born 1852 )June 17 – Sir John Quick , Australian politician and author (born 1852 )July 6 – Kenneth Grahame , Scottish-born children's and short-story writer (born 1859 )July 20 – René Bazin , French novelist (born 1853 )[ 45] July 22 – J. Meade Falkner , English novelist and poet (born 1858 )July 23 – Emma Pow Bauder , American novelist, evangelist, missionary, and reformer (born 1848 )August 29 – Raymond Knister , Canadian writer (drowned, born 1899 )August 30 – Emma Wolf , American novelist (born 1865 )[ 46] September 5 – Paul Bern , German-American screenwriter (suicide, born 1889 )September 24 – Rose Combe , French writer and railway worker (born 1883 )[ 47] October 5 – Christopher Brennan , Australian poet (born 1870 )[ 48] October 14 – Ahmed Shawqi , Egyptian poet (born 1868 )November 11 – Georgina Fraser Newhall , Canadian author (b. 1860 )November 13 – Catherine Isabella Dodd , English education writer and novelist (born 1860 )November 15 – Charles W. Chesnutt , American writer (born 1858 )[ 49] November 23 – Henry S. Whitehead , American genre novelist (gastric ailment, born 1882 )[ 50] date unknown — Hester M. Poole , American writer, poet, art critic (born 1833 /34 )[ 51]
Awards
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