1934 in literature
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See also: 1933 in literature, other events of 1934, 1935 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- First Flash Gordon comic strip published
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh is published.
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published.
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller is published.
New books
- Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
- Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
- A Cool Million - Nathaniel West
- The Death Ship - B. Traven (first English publication)
- An Experiment in Autobiography - H. G. Wells
- 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
- The 12.30 from Croydon - Freeman Wills Crofts
Births
- February 10 - Fleur Adcock, poet
- March 28 - Jean Louvet, dramatist
- May 27 - Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.
- July 21 - Jonathan Miller, satirist and non-fiction author
- August 6 - Piers Anthony, English writer of science fiction and fantasy
- November 9 - Ronald Harwood, dramatist
- November 21 - Beryl Bainbridge, novelist
- Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
Deaths
- January 30 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher
- March 10 - F. Anstey, Vice Versa author
- August 13 - Mary Hunter Austin, travel writer
- September 9 - Roger Fry, art critic
- November 23 - Arthur Wing Pinero, dramatist
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