1934 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• First Flash Gordon comic strip published

• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh is published. In 2001, the book would be the first of three works by him named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Fitzgerald to be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller is published. In 2001, the book would be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
• Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
• Cool Million - Nathaniel West
• The Death Ship - B. Traven
• Frost in May - Antonia White
• A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
• I, Claudius - Robert Graves
• Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women - Cornelia Meigs
• Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel - Zora Neale Hurston
• Lust for Life - Irving Stone
• More Pricks Than Kicks - Samuel Beckett
• Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
• The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
• Rajah Amar - Leopold Myers
• Une Semaine de Bonte - Max Ernst
• Seven Gothic Tales - Isak Dinesen
• Ship without Sails - Barbara Barclay Carter
• Such is My Beloved - Morley Callaghan
• Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Births

• Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.

Deaths

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa
• Nobel Prize for literature: Luigi Pirandello.
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Caroline Miller - Lamb in His Bosom