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Overview of the events of 1922 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922 .
Under modern copyright law of the United States , all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in 1998 .
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This is a significant year for high modernism in literature .[1]
January – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 's modernist short story "In a Grove " (藪の中, Yabu no naka ) is published in the Japanese magazine Shinchō
January 24 – Façade – An Entertainment Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton , are first performed, privately in London.[2]
January 27 – Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel The Castle (Das Schloss) Spindlermühle , ceasing around early September in mid-sentence.[3]
February 2
February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest [5]
February–September – D. H. and Frieda Lawrence migrate from Europe to the United States, visiting Australia on the way, where he completes writing his novel Kangaroo
March 3 – F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel The Beautiful and Damned Charles Scribner's Sons in New York; on December 10 a silent film version is released.
c. March 8 – The Czech playwrights Karel and Josef Čapek 's play Pictures from the Insects' Life Ze života hmyzu , also known as The Insect Play , published 1921 ) is first performed at the National Theatre Brno . It is also first performed this year in English translation, in the United States.
April – Marcel Proust 's Sodome et Gomorrhe II (part of the novel sequence À la Recherche du temps perdu
May 18 – Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Sergei Diaghilev , Igor Stravinsky , Pablo Picasso , Erik Satie and Clive Bell , hosted by English art patron and novelist Sydney Schiff , dine in Paris at the Hotel Majestic : their one joint meeting.[6]
May 27 – F. Scott Fitzgerald 's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " is published in The Smart Set
June
July – Having issued a 2nd edition of António Botto 's poetry collection Canções through his Lisbon publishing house Olisipo, Fernando Pessoa publishes a magazine article praising Botto's courage and sincerity in shamelessly singing homosexual love as a true aesthete ,[8] literatura de Sodoma .
August – T. E. Lawrence is recruited into the British Royal Air Force as Ordinary Aircraftman 352087 John Hume Ross by Flying Officer W. E. Johns in London. Lawrence later writes The Mint
Summer – F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby 1925 ) is set on Long Island at this time, partly inspired by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald 's life from October 9 at Great Neck, New York , with the novelist Ring Lardner , newspaper editor Herbert Bayard Swope and (probably) bootlegger Max Gerlach as friends and neighbors.
September
September 14 – Sinclair Lewis 's satirical novel Babbitt Harcourt, Brace & Company .
September 22
Bengali writer Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" (The Advent of the Delightful Mother) in support of the Indian independence movement , in the Puja issue of his new biweekly Dhumketu Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of sedition for much of the following year. He goes on a hunger strike and composes many poems while in prison. His poem "Bidrohi " (বিদ্রোহী, The Rebel, December 1921) appears in his first anthology, Agnibeena .
F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age
September 29 – Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht)Munich Kammerspiele , becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged.
October 15 – T. S. Eliot founds The Criterion The Waste Land [2] Boni & Liveright in New York in December.
October 26 – Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf is published by the Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames with a jacket design by the author's sister Vanessa Bell . Also this summer, Woolf writes the short story "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" (published July 1923), the groundwork of the novel Mrs Dalloway 1925 ).
November – Uri Zvi Greenberg flees to Berlin after the second issue of the Yiddish literary journal Albatros , which he edits, is seized. The Warsaw authorities accuse him of blasphemy for iconoclastic depictions of Jesus, notably his prose poem "Royte epl fun veybeymer" (Red Apples from the Trees of Pain).
December – A valise containing all Ernest Hemingway 's manuscripts of the past year's writing is stolen at Paris-Gare de Lyon .
December 6 – W. B. Yeats becomes a nominated member of Seanad Éireann in the Irish Free State .
December 10 – The National Library of Albania is inaugurated in Tirana .[10]
December 20 – Jean Cocteau 's Antigone Théâtre de l'Atelier in the Montmartre district of Paris, with sets by Pablo Picasso , music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel . Génica Athanasiou plays the title rôle, with Charles Dullin as Créon and Antonin Artaud as Tiresias . There are Dadaist protests.[11]
unknown date – The first Newbery Medal for authors of distinguished children's books is awarded by the American Library Association to Hendrik Willem van Loon for The Story of Mankind 1921 ).[12]
New books [ edit ]
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Carl Sandburg 's Rootabaga Stories Maud and Miska Petersham 1st publication 1st ed. title page
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January 1 – Idris Jamma' , Sudanese poet (died 1980 )[18]
January 10 – Terence Kilmartin , Irish journalist and translator (died 1991 )
January 22 – Howard Moss , American poet, playwright, and critic (died 1987 )
January 23 – Vernon Scannell , British poet (died 2007 )
February 6 – Denis Norden , English comedy writer (died 2018 )
February 18 – Helen Gurley Brown , American editor and publisher (died 2012 )
March 7 – Sara Woods , British crime fiction writer (died 1985 )
March 12 – Jack Kerouac , American author of On the Road 1969 )
March 27 – Dick King-Smith , English children's author (died 2011 )
April 2 – Zenia Larsson , Polish-Swedish writer and sculptor of Jewish descent (died 2007 )
April 4 – Máire Mhac an tSaoi , Irish poet and scholar (died 2021 )
April 13 – John Braine , English novelist (died 1986 )[19]
April 16
April 22 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Cuban novelist (died 2005 )
April 28 – Alistair MacLean , Scottish novelist (died 1987 )
May 6 – Alan Ross , Indian-born English poet and editor (died 2001 )
May 8 – Mary Q. Steele , American naturalist and author (died 1992 )
May 27 – Sidney Keyes , English poet (died 1943 )[22]
May 30 – Hal Clement , American science fiction writer (died 2003 )
June 2 – Božena Mačingová , Slovak writer, author of books for children and young adults (died 2017 )
June 11 – Erving Goffman , Canadian sociologist (died 1982 )
June 29 – Vasko Popa , Yugoslav poet (died 1991 )
June 30 – Mollie Hunter , Scottish novelist and children's writer (died 2012 )
July 12 – Michael Ventris , English translator (died 1956 )
July 15 – Cathal Ó Sándair , Irish language novelist (died 1996 )
July 17 – Donald Davie , English poet (died 1995 )
July 19 – George McGovern , American author and politician (died 2012 )
August 9 – Philip Larkin , English poet (died 1985 )[23]
August 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet , French novelist (died 2008 )[24]
September 12 – Jackson Mac Low , American poet (died 2004 )
October 3 – Raffaele La Capria , Italian novelist and screenwriter (died 2022 )[25]
October 21 – Peter Demetz , Czech-born American scholar of German literature (died 2024 )[26]
November 11 – Kurt Vonnegut , American novelist (died 2007 )
November 16 – José Saramago , Portuguese writer (died 2010 )
November 29 – Michael Howard , English historian, author and academic (died 2019 )[27]
November 26 – Charles M. Schulz , American cartoonist (died 2000 )
December 11 – Grace Paley , American writer (died 2007 )
December 28 – Stan Lee , American comic-book writer and editor (died 2018 )
December 29 – William Gaddis , American novelist (died 1998 )
December 30 – Jane Langton , American author and illustrator (died 2018 )[28]
December – Lu Yongfu , Chinese translator
January 3 – Berthold Delbrück , German linguist (born 1842 )
January 12 – Thomas Gibson Bowles , English founder of The Lady Vanity Fair 1881 )
January 27
February 3
February 21 – Nellie Blessing Eyster , American journalist, writer, and reformer (born 1836 )
February 25 – Emma Southwick Brinton , American army nurse and foreign correspondent (born 1834 )
March 20 – Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell , American novelist and short-story writer (born 1836 )
June 12 – Wolfgang Kapp , Prussian journalist (born 1858 )
June 28 – Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian writer (born 1885 )
July 4 – Laura Rosamond White , American author, poet, editor (born 1844 )
July 8 – Mori Ōgai (森鷗外), Japanese novelist and poet (born 1862 )
July 26 – Ehrman Syme Nadal , American author (born 1843 )[30]
August 14
August 25 – Edward George Honey , Australian journalist (born 1885 )
August 29 – Georges Sorel , French philosopher (born 1847 )
September 2 – Henry Lawson , Australian poet (born 1867 )
September 4 – George R. Sims , English writer (born 1847 )
September 10 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , English poet and radical (born 1840 )
October 13 – Elizabeth Williams Champney , American author (born 1850 )[32]
October 22 – Lyman Abbott , American theologian (born 1835 )[33]
October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi , Hungarian historical novelist (born 1863 )[34]
November 1 – Lima Barreto , Brazilian novelist and journalist (born 1881 )
November 18 – Marcel Proust , French author (born 1871 )[35]
November 24 – Erskine Childers , Irish historian and novelist (born 1870 )
November 27 – Alice Meynell , English poet (born 1847 )[36]
December 13 – Hannes Hafstein , Icelandic poet and prime minister (born 1861 )
December 19 – Clementina Black , English novelist and political writer (born 1853 )[37]
unknown date – Mary Anna Needell (Mrs. J. H. Needell), English novelist (born 1830 )
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
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