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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1921.
Events
- January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard.[1]
- February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of The Little Review, are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.[2]
- March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe.
- April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English.
- May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.
- May – A production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic, London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Shakespeare's day.
- June 6 – The première of Tristan Tzara's parodic The Gas Heart (Le Cœur à gaz) takes place at a Dada Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris. It provokes audience derision.
- June 10 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love is first published commercially by Martin Secker in London.
- September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613).[3]
- September 26 – The Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, England, an old chapel, is turned into an English Renaissance theatre for period drama by an amateur repertory company directed by Walter Nugent Monck.[4] It opens with As You Like It.
- December 9 – John William Gott becomes the last person in England imprisoned for blasphemous libel.
- December 31 – Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual No. 1 in Mexico City.
New books
Fiction
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – "Autumn Mountain" (秋山, Akiyama)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible
- James Branch Cabell – Figures of Earth
- Hall Caine – The Master of Man
- Karel Čapek – Trapné povídky (Embarrassing Stories, translated as Money and other stories)
- Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge
- Arthur Chapman – Mystery Ranch
- A. E. Coppard – Adam & Eve & Pinch Me: Tales
- Mary Cholmondeley – The Romance of His Life
- Marie Corelli – The Secret Power
- Miloš Crnjanski – The Journal of Čarnojević (Дневник о Чарнојевићу, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću)
- Walter de la Mare – Memoirs of a Midget
- Mary Frances Dowdall – Three Loving Ladies
- Fran Saleški Finžgar – Pod svobodnim soncem (Under the free sun)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Beautiful and Damned (serialized in Metropolitan Magazine (New York))
- Flappers and Philosophers (short stories)
- Mikkjel Fønhus – Troll-Elgen[5]
- John Galsworthy – To Let (last book of The Forsyte Saga)
- H. Rider Haggard – She and Allan
- Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth
- A. S. M. Hutchinson – If Winter Comes[6]
- Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow
- Frigyes Karinthy – Capillaria
- Sheila Kaye-Smith – Joanna Godden
- Gaston Leroux – The Crime of Rouletabille
- Marie Belloc Lowndes – What Timmy Did
- Denis Mackail – Romance to the Rescue
- Compton Mackenzie – Rich Relatives
- René Maran – Batouala
- L. M. Montgomery – Rilla of Ingleside
- George Moore – Heloise and Abelard
- Paul Morand – Tender Shoots (Tendres stocks, short stories)
- Baroness Orczy
- Castles in the Air (short stories)
- The First Sir Percy
- Alejandro Pérez Lugín – Currito of the Cross (Currito de la Cruz)
- Gene Stratton Porter – Her Father's Daughter
- Marcel Proust
- The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes II, second part of vol. 3 of In Search of Lost Time)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (Sodome et Gomorrhe I, first part of vol. 4 of In Search of Lost Time)
- Sukumar Ray – HaJaBaRaLa
- Iñigo Ed. Regalado – May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso
- Rafael Sabatini – Scaramouche (novel)
- Naoya Shiga – A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路, An'ya Kōro; serialized 1921–37)
- Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Road to Calvary (publication begins)
- Sigrid Undset – Husfrue (The Wife or The Mistress of Husaby, second part of Kristin Lavransdatter)
- Edgar Wallace
- The Book of All Power
- The Law of the Four Just Men[7]
- Eugene Walter – The Byzantine Riddle and other stories
- Elinor Wylie – Nets to Catch the Wind
- Francis Brett Young
- The Black Diamond
- The Red Knight
- Yevgeny Zamyatin – We (Мы; completed)
Children and young people
- Dorita Fairlie Bruce – The Senior Prefect (later entitled Dimsie Goes to School)
- Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
- Charles Boardman Hawes – The Great Quest
- Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind (non-fiction)
- Albert Payson Terhune – The Heart of a Dog
- Else Ury – Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest[8]
Drama
- Hjalmar Bergman – Farmor och vår Herre (Grandmother and Our Lord, translated as Thy Rod and Thy Staff)
- Dorothy Brandon – Araminta Arrives
- Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (performed)
- Karel and Josef Čapek – Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu, published)
- Clemence Dane – A Bill of Divorcement
- Gerald du Maurier – Bulldog Drummond (with H.C. McNeile)
- Susan Glaspell – Inheritors (written) and The Verge (performed)
- Ian Hay – A Safety Match
- A. de Herz – Mărgeluș (Tiny Bead)
- Avery Hopwood – The Demi-Virgin
- René Morax – Le Roi David
- Roland Pertwee – Out to Win
- Luigi Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Tristan Tzara – The Gas Heart
- Edgar Wallace – M'Lady
- Raden Adipati Aria Muharam Wiranatakusumah – Lutung Kasarung
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Water Hen (Kurka Wodna)
Poetry
- Robert Frost – Mountain Interval (second print)
- Langston Hughes – "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", in The Crisis
- Charlotte Mew – Saturday Market
- William Carlos Williams – Sour Grapes
- William Butler Yeats – Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Non-fiction
- Adolphe Appia – L'Œuvre d'art vivant (The Living Work of Art)
- Charles Bean (ed.) – Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, vol. 1
- Joseph Chaikov – Skulptur (first Yiddish-language work on the subject)[9]
- Frank H. Knight – Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
- D. H. Lawrence
- Sea and Sardinia
- (as Lawrence H. Davison) – Movements in European History
- Edward Sapir – Language: an introduction to the study of speech
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk – Further Essays on Capital and Interest
- Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Zitkala-Sa – American Indian Stories
Births
- January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990)
- January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime writer (died 1995)
- February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist author (died 2006)
- February 5 – Marion Eames, Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh (died 2007)
- February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (died 1985)
- March 1 – Richard Wilbur, American poet and translator (died 2017)
- March 3 – Paul Guimard, French novelist (died 2004)
- March 24 – Wilson Harris, Guyanese-born poet, novelist and essayist (died 2018)
- April 21 – Angela Bianchini, Italian fiction writer and literary critic (died 2018)
- May 23
- James Blish, American science fiction author (died 1975)
- Ray Lawler, Australian dramatist
- May 29
- Mona Van Duyn, American poet (died 2004)
- Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (died 2012)
- June 11 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (died 2000)
- June 14 – John Bradburne, English poet and missionary (killed 1979)
- August 11 – Alex Haley, American writer (died 1992)
- August 17 – Elinor Lyon, British children's writer (died 2008)
- August 18 – Frédéric Jacques Temple, French poet and writer (died 2020)
- September 12 – Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician (died 2006)
- September 15 – Richard Gordon, English author (died 2017)
- September 16 – Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian (died 2017)[10]
- September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (died 2007)
- October 2 – Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer (died 1978)
- October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer (died 2014)
- October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (died 1996)
- November 6 – James Jones, American novelist (died 1977)
- November 22 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (died 2003)
- December 20 – Israil Bercovici, Romanian dramatist and historian (died 1988)
Deaths
- February 24 – John Habberton, American critic (born 1842)[11]
- March 22 – E. W. Hornung, English author (born 1866)
- April 6 – Maximilian Berlitz, German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor (born 1852)
- May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian publicist (born 1864)
- May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist (born 1851)
- May 13 – Jean Aicard, French writer (born 1848)
- June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (born 1862)
- June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, English Theosophist author (born 1840)
- July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, Polish Esperantist (born 1857)
- July 7 – Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet, novelist and translator (pneumonia, born 1893)
- August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (born 1880)
- August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (executed, born 1886)
- September 22 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (born 1850)[12]
- October 10 – Otto von Gierke, German historian (born 1841)
- November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born 1849)
- November 14 – Christabel Rose Coleridge English novelist and editor (born 1843)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Anatole France
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
References
- ^ The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1970. p. 2640.
- ^ Ellmann, Richard (1982). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 502–04. ISBN 0-1950-3103-2.
- ^ "Teatro Nacional Cervantes" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-01-14.
- ^ "Norwich Players' New Theatre". The Times (42836). London. 1921-09-27. p. 8.
- ^ Elster, Kristian (1924). Illustreret Norsk litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian). 2. Kristiania: Gyldendal. p. 808.
- ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
- ^ Edgar Wallace (3 March 2010). The Four Just Men. House of Stratus. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7551-2247-9.
- ^ Rudolf Käser; Beate Schappach (31 October 2014). Krank geschrieben: Gesundheit und Krankheit im Diskursfeld von Literatur, Geschlecht und Medizin (in German). transcript Verlag. p. 147. ISBN 978-3-8394-1760-7.
- ^ Apter-Gabriel, Ruth (1987). Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928. Israel Museum. p. 67.
- ^ Ataullah Siddiqui (15 April 1997). Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-312-16510-9.
- ^ Non Series #138- Trif and Trixy // John Habberton autograph 7 March 2012. Accessed 9 January 2012.
- ^ Frank Northen Magill (1958). Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors. Salem Press. p. 1106.