The year '1938 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.
Events
★ The trilogy, ''
U.S.A.'' by
John Dos Passos, is published containing his three novels ''
The 42nd Parallel'' (1930), ''
1919'' (1932), and ''
The Big Money'' (1936).
★
Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning in December. While recovering next year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.
★
Samuel Beckett's first completed novel ''
Murphy'' is published.
New books
★
Margery Allingham - ''
The Fashion in Shrouds''
★
Eric Ambler
★
★ ''
Cause for Alarm''
★
★ ''
Epitaph for A Spy''
★
Vladimir Bartol - ''
Alamut''
★
Elizabeth Bowen - ''
The Death of the Heart''
★
Edgar Rice Burroughs - ''
Tarzan and the Forbidden City''
★
Taylor Caldwell - ''
Dynasty of Death''
★
Agatha Christie - ''
Hercule Poirot's Christmas''
★
René Daumal - ''
A Night of Serious Drinking''
★
Isak Dinesen - ''
Out of Africa''
★
John Dos Passos - ''
U.S.A. trilogy''
★
Daphne du Maurier - ''
Rebecca''
★
Rachel Field - ''
All This and Heaven Too''
★
Robert Graves - ''
Count Belisarius''
★
Graham Greene - ''
Brighton Rock''
★
Eric Knight - ''
Lassie Come-Home''
★
C. S. Lewis - ''
Out of the Silent Planet''
★
Henry Miller - ''
Tropic of Capricorn''
★
Vladimir Nabokov - ''
Invitation to a Beheading''
★
John O'Hara - ''
Hope of Heaven''
★
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - ''
The Yearling''
★
Emilio Lussu - ''Un anno sull'altopiano''
★
Ayn Rand - ''
Anthem''
★
Jean-Paul Sartre - ''
La Nausée''
★
Kate Seredy - ''
The White Stag''
★
Esphyr Slobodkina - ''
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business''
★
B. Traven - ''
The Bridge in The Jungle''
★
Evelyn Waugh - ''
Scoop''
★
Nathanael West - ''
The Day of the Locust''
★
T. H. White - ''
The Sword in the Stone''
★
Virginia Woolf - ''
Three Guineas''
New drama
★
Jean Anouilh - ''
Thieves' Carnival (Le bal des voleurs)''
★
Robert Ardrey - ''
Casey Jones''
★
Patrick Hamilton - ''
Gas Light''
★
Kaj Munk - ''Han sidder ved Smeltediglen''
★
Robert E. Sherwood - ''
Abe Lincoln in Illinois''
★
Rodolfo Usigli - ''The Gesticulator''
★
Thornton Wilder - ''
Our Town''
★
Emlyn Williams - ''
The Corn is Green''
Poetry
★
Alfred Kreymborg - '' (radio play in verse)
Non-fiction
★
Hall Caine - ''
Life of Christ'' - published post-humously
★
Cyril Connolly - ''
Enemies of Promise''
★
Geoffrey Faber - ''The Romance of a Bookshop 1904-1938''
★
Robert McAlmon - ''
Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930''
★
Thomas Mann - ''
The Coming Victory of Democracy''
★
George Orwell - ''
Homage to Catalonia''
Births
★
February 12 -
Judy Blume, children's author
★
April 29 -
Larry Niven, sci-fi author
★
May 13 -
Norma Klein, author
★
July 19
★
★
Nicholas Bethell, historian
★
★
Dom Moraes, poet and columnist
★
October 12 -
Anne Perry, historical novelist
★
October 13 -
Hugo Young, journalist
★
December 14 -
Leonardo Boff, philosopher and theologian
★ ''date unknown''
★
★
Christopher Booker, journalist and editor
★
★
Charles L. Mee, dramatist
★
★
M. K. Wren, novelist
Deaths
★
January 19 -
Branislav Nušić, novelist and dramatist
★
March 1 -
Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet and novelist
★
April 19 - Sir
Henry Newbolt, poet
★
April 21 - Lady
Ottoline Morrell, literary hostess
★
May 26 -
James Forbes, dramatist and screenwriter
★
June 26 -
James Weldon Johnson
★ 'June 26' -
E. V. Lucas, essayist and biographer
★
August 7 -
Konstantin Stanislavski, theatre director
★
September 15 -
Thomas Wolfe, novelist
★
December 25 -
Karel Čapek, science fiction author and dramatist
Awards
★
Hawthornden Prize -
David Jones for ''In Parenthesis''
★
Newbery Medal for
children's literature:
Kate Seredy, ''The White Stag''
★
Newdigate prize:
Michael Thwaites
★
Nobel Prize for literature:
Pearl S. Buck
★
Pulitzer Prize for Drama:
Thornton Wilder, ''Our Town''
★
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Marya Zaturenska: ''Cold Morning Sky''
★
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel:
John Phillips Marquand - ''The Late George Apley''
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