Overview of the events of 1927 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927 .
January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo .
February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes ,[ 1] an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris salon . Others honored include Colette , Anna Wickham , Rachilde , Lucie Delarue-Mardrus , Mina Loy , Djuna Barnes , and posthumously, Renée Vivien .[ 2]
February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre (Theatre Masque) opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan.
May 5 – Virginia Woolf 's stream of consciousness novel To the Lighthouse is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism ,[ 3]
June 29 – T. S. Eliot , hitherto Unitarian , is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock . In November he takes British citizenship .[ 4]
July 5 – James Joyce 's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris.[ 5]
July 9 – P. G. Wodehouse 's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty , introduces Lord Emsworth 's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings . The first UK appearance follows in the August issue of The Strand Magazine ).
August – T. S. Eliot 's poem Journey of the Magi appears in Faber and Gwyer 's Ariel poems series in London, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer .
September – Eric Blair (George Orwell ) decides while on leave from the Imperial Police in Burma to remain in the U.K. He moves to London to become a writer.
October – Victor Gollancz founds the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd .
December – Agatha Christie 's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club ", published in The Royal Magazine .[ 6]
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A translation of Franz Roh 's work of art criticism Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting, 1925 ) into Spanish by Revista de Occidente leads to the concept of magic realism becoming popular in Latin American literature .[ 7]
The Strand Bookstore is founded in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass.[ 8] Children and young people [ edit ] January 8 – Charles Tomlinson , English poet (died 2015 )
January 16 – Oldřich Daněk , Czech dramatist (died 2000 )
January 24
January 25 – John Calder , Canadian-born Scottish publisher (died 2018 )
January 28 – Vera Williams , American author and illustrator (died 2015 )
February 1 – Galway Kinnell , American poet (died 2014 )[ 13]
February 6 – William Gardner Smith , expatriate American novelist and journalist (died 1974 )
February 16 – Shahidullah Kaiser , Bangladeshi novelist (died 1971 )
February 21 – Erma Bombeck , American humorist (died 1996 )
March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian novelist (died 2014 )[ 14]
March 15 – Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , German journalist (died 1995 )
March 18 – George Plimpton , American writer and actor (died 2003 )[ 15]
March 24 – Martin Walser , German author[ 16]
March 22 – Vera Henriksen , née Roscher Lund, Norwegian historical novelist (died 2016 )
April 2 – Kenneth Tynan , English theatre critic (died 1980 )[ 17]
April 24 – Trudi Birger , German Holocaust survivor and writer (died 2002 )[ 18]
April 25 – Albert Uderzo , French author and illustrator (died 2020 )[ 19]
May 1 – Tamar Bornstein-Lazar , Israeli children's writer (died 2020 )
May 7 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , British-American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013 )
May 10 – Nayantara Sahgal , Indian author[ 20]
May 19 – Yusuf Idris , Egyptian writer (died 1991 )
May 25 – Robert Ludlum , American novelist (died 2001 )[ 21]
May 27 – Malayattoor Ramakrishnan , Indian Malayali novelist (died 1997 )
May 28 – William A. Hilliard , American journalist (died 2017 )
June 6 – Alan Seymour , Australian playwright (died 2015 )
June 1 – Moyra Caldecott , English writer of historical fiction (died 2015 )[ 22]
June 13 – Paul Ableman , English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (died 2006 )
June 20 – Simin Behbahani , Persian poet (died 2014 )
June 23 – Jacobo Langsner , Romanian-born Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (died 2020 )
June 24 – Frederick Vreeland , American diplomat and writer
June 27 – Dominic Jeeva (டொமினிக் ஜீவா), Ceylonese Tamil fiction writer and essayist (died 2021 )
June 30 – James Goldman , American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998 )
July 4 – Neil Simon , American playwright (died 2018 )[ 23]
July 15 – Ann Jellicoe , British playwright, stage director and actress (died 2017 )
July 16 – Shirley Hughes , English writer and illustrator of children's books (died 2022 )
July 22 – Katharine Topkins , American novelist
July 27 – John Seigenthaler , American journalist, writer and political figure (died 2014 )
July 28
July 31 – Peter Nichols , English playwright (died 2019 )
August 9 – Robert Shaw , English-born actor, novelist and playwright (died 1978 )[ 26]
August 15 – Patrick Galvin , Irish poet and dramatist (died 2011 )
August 17 – Stefan Geosits , Burgenland Croatian writer and translator
August 23 – Dick Bruna , Dutch author and illustrator (died 2017 )[ 27]
August 24 – David Ireland , Australian novelist (died 2022)[ 28]
August 27 – Fouad al-Tikerly , Iraqi novelist and writer (died 2008 )
September 4 – Bernardino Zapponi , Italian novelist (died 2000 )
September 30 – W. S. Merwin , American poet (died 2019 )[ 29]
October 7 – Robert Westall , English novelist and children's writer (died 1993 )
October 16 – Günter Grass , German novelist (died 2015 )[ 30]
October 31 – Sybil Wettasinghe , Ceylonese children's writer and illustrator (died 2020 )[ 31]
November 2 – Steve Ditko , American comic-book writer and artist (died 2018 )[ 32]
November 16 – Franz Jalics , Hungarian Jesuit priest and author
November 24
December 4 – Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio , Spanish writer (died 2019 )[ 34]
December 13 – James Wright , American poet (died 1980 )
December 16 - Peter Dickinson , English author and poet (died 2015 )
December 24
January 4 – Süleyman Nazif , Turkish poet (born 1870 )[ 36]
January 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain , English-born German author (b. 1855 )[ 37]
January 21 – Margret Holmes Bates , American novelist and poet (born 1844 )
January 24 – Agnes Maule Machar , Canadian poet and author (born 1837 )[ 38]
February 5 – Osório Duque-Estrada , Brazilian poet, essayist, journalist and literary critic (born 1870 )[ 39]
February 26 – Alfred Remy , German-born American philologist and music writer (born 1870 )
February 27 – Roi Cooper Megrue , American playwright (b. 1882 )[ 40]
March 3 – Mikhail Artsybashev , Russian writer (born 1878 )[ 41]
March 10 – George W. Forbes , American journalist and librarian (born 1864 )[ 42] [ 43]
March 18 – Philip Wicksteed , English theologian and critic (born 1844 )[ 44]
March 31 – Mabel Collins , British theosophist and author (born 1851 )
April 2 – Ottokár Prohászka , Hungarian Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (born 1858 )
April 16 – Gaston Leroux , French novelist (born 1868 )[ 45]
April 17 – Florence Carpenter Dieudonné , American fantasy fiction writer (born 1850 )
April 19 – Minnie S. Davis , American author and mental scientist (born 1835 )
May 2 – Fukuda Hideko , Japanese feminist author (born 1865 )[ 46]
May 20 – N. Samuel of Tranquebar , Ceylonese poet and author (born 1850 )
May 25 – Henri Hubert , French sociologist (born 1872 )[ 47]
May 29 – Georges Eekhoud , Belgian novelist (born 1854 )
June 1 – J. B. Bury , Irish historian (born 1861 )
June 9 – Adolfo León Gómez , Colombian poet (born 1857 )
June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome , English humorous writer (born 1859 )[ 48]
June 20 – Clara Louise Burnham , American novelist (born 1854)[ 49]
July 5 – Lesbia Harford , Australian poet (born 1891 )
July 16 – Emily Selinger , American author, painter, and educator (born 1848 )
July 17 – Harriet Earhart Monroe , American lecturer, educator, writer, producer (born 1842 )[ 50]
July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介), Japanese short story writer and poet (suicide, born 1892 )
July 26
August 13 – James Oliver Curwood , American novelist and conservationist (born 1878 )
August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez , Venezuelan writer (born 1871 )
September 14 – Hugo Ball , German poet (born 1886 )
September 15 – Herman Gorter , Dutch poet and socialist (born 1864 )
October 8
October 22 – Borisav Stanković , Serbian realist writer (born 1876 )
October 23 – Bernhard Alexander , Hungarian philosopher and polymath (born 1850 )
October 29 – Hermann Muthesius , German architect and author (born 1861 )
November 23 – Stanisław Przybyszewski , Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet (born 1868 )
December 5 – Fyodor Sologub , Russian dramatist and essayist (born 1863 )
December 17 – Hubert Harrison , African-American writer, critic, and activist (born 1883 )
date unknown – Emma Scarr Booth , British-born American novelist and poet (born 1835 )James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young , The Portrait of Clare
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: H. A. L. Fisher , James Bryce , Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
Newbery Medal for children's literature : Will James , Smoky the Cow Horse
Newdigate Prize for poetry: G. E. Trevelyan , Julia, Daughter of Claudius (first female winner)
Nobel Prize for Literature : Henri Bergson
Prix Goncourt : Maurice Bedel , Jérôme 60° latitude nord [ 53]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Paul Green , In Abraham's Bosom
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Leonora Speyer , Fiddler's Farewell
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Louis Bromfield , Early Autumn
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