1925 in literature
Overview of the events of 1925 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1925.
Events
February 21 – The first issue of The New Yorker Harold Ross .[ 1] February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in Vorwärts Berlin ).April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris , after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Charles Scribner's Sons in New York City) and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in The Sun Also Rises
May 14 – Virginia Woolf 's novel Mrs Dalloway Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury , London.[ 2] To the Lighthouse May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford , where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954.[ 3] Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two first-class cricket matches, for Dublin University against Northamptonshire .
July 22 – The first of Ben Travers ' "Aldwych farces ", A Cuckoo in the Nest Aldwych Theatre in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls featuring the brothers Ralph Lynn , Gordon James and Hastings Lynn.[ 4] October 1 – J. R. R. Tolkien becomes Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford .December 24 – A. A. Milne 's Winnie-the-Pooh story "The Wrong Sort of Bees" appears in the London Evening News December 28 – The Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (born 1895 ) writes a farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья) in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel , Leningrad .December – W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood meet for the first time as adults in London.[ 5]
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New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Anthologies
Births
January 7 – Gerald Durrell , Indian-born British naturalist and author (died 1995 )[ 17] January 8 – James Saunders , English dramatist (died 2004 )January 9 – Abdelhamid ben Hadouga , Algerian writer (died 1996 )January 11 – William Styron , American writer (died 2006 )January 14 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Kimitake Hiraoka), Japanese author and political activist (died 1970 )[ 18] January 17 – Robert Cormier , American young-adult novelist (died 2000 )January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal , Nicaraguan Catholic priest and poet (died 2020 )January 26 – Miep Diekmann , Dutch writer of children's literature (died 2017 )February 18
February 20 – Alex La Guma , South African novelist and political activist (died 1985 )February 22
March 6 – Peter Whigham , English poet and translator (died 1987 )March 8 – Marta Lynch , Argentinian writer (died 1985 )March 14 – John Wain , English novelist and short-story writer (died 1994 )March 16 – Ismith Khan , Trinidad-born novelist (died 2002 )March 21 – Peter Brook , English theatre director (died 2022 )March 25 – Flannery O'Connor , American author (died 1964 )March 27 – John Bayley , Indian-born English literary critic (died 2015 )April 25 – Janete Clair , Brazilian television, radio play and novel writer (died 1983 )May 1 – Mãe Stella de Oxóssi , Brazilian Ialorixá and writer (died 2018 )May 4 – Beryl Te Wiata , New Zealand actor, author and scriptwriter (died 2017 )[ 20] May 25 – Rosario Castellanos , Mexican writer (died 1974 )June 10 – Nat Hentoff , American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic and syndicated columnist (died 2017 )June 11 – William Styron , American writer (died 2006 )[ 21] June 15 – Attilâ İlhan , Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (died 2005 )June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson , French writer (died 2017 )June 17 – Luce d'Eramo , Italian writer and literary critic (died 2001 )June 25 – John Briley , American writer (d. 2019 )[ 22] July 4 – Ciril Zlobec , Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician (died 2018 )[ 23] July 5 – Jean Raspail , French writer (died 2020 )July 13 – Huang Zongying , Chinese actress and writer (died 2020 )July 19 – Jean-Pierre Faye , French philosopher, poet and writerJuly 26 – Ana María Matute , Spanish novelist (died 2014 )[ 24] August 1 – Pam Gems , born Iris Pamela Price, English playwright (died 2011 )August 12
August 17 – John Hawkes , American novelist (died 1998 )August 18 – Brian Aldiss , English science fiction author and editor (died 2017 )August 25 – Thea Astley , Australian writer (died 2004 )August 28
September 4 – Forrest Carter , American speechwriter and author (died 1979 )September 6 – Andrea Camilleri , Italian novelist and playwright (died 2019 )[ 25] October 1
October 1 – Abraham Louis Schneiders , Dutch writer and diplomat (died 2020 )October 3 – Gore Vidal , American writer (died 2012 )October 8 – Andrei Sinyavsky , Russian writer and dissident (died 1997 )October 11 – Elmore Leonard , American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013 )October 25 – Romek Marber , Polish-born book designer (died 2020 )[ 26] October 26 – Jan Wolkers , Dutch writer and artist (died 2007 )October 29 – Dominick Dunne , American writer, investigative journalist and producer (died 2009 )[ 27] December 19 – Tankred Dorst , German dramatist (died 2017 )[ 28]
Deaths
January 4 – Elisabeth von Heyking , German novelist, travel writer and diarist (born 1861 )[ 29] January 27 – Friedrich von Hügel , Austrian theologian (born 1852 )[ 30] January 31 – George Washington Cable , American writer (born 1844 )[ 31] February 16 – Francisco Díaz-Silveira , Cuban journalist and poet (born 1871 )March 2 – Luigj Gurakuqi , Albanian writer and politician (born 1879 )March 26 – Hugo Bettauer , Austrian journalist and writer (born 1872 )[ 32] April 7 – Gerhard Gran , Norwegian literary historian, essayist and biographer (born 1856 )April 8 – Emma Curtis Hopkins , American spiritual writer (born 1849 )May 2 – Antun Branko Šimić , Croatian poet (born 1898 )[ 33] May 12 – Amy Lowell , American poet (born 1874 )[ 34] May 14 – H. Rider Haggard , British adventure novelist (b. 1856 )[ 35] June 6 – Pierre Louÿs , French poet (born 1870 )July 13 – Margaret Dye Ellis , American social reformer, lobbyist, and correspondent (born 1845 )July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley , English novelist (born 1859 )July 16 – Pyotr Gnedich , Russian writer (born 1855 )August 15 – George Barbu Știrbei , Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts (born 1828 )September 11 – Gustav Kastropp , German poet and librettist (born 1844 )[ 36] October 31 – José Ingenieros , Argentine positivist philosopher, essayist and physician (born 1877 )October 7 – Felix Liebermann , German-Jewish historian (born 1851 )October 27 – Darrell Figgis , Irish-born writer and politician, suicide (born 1882 )c. November – Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald , Irish literary biographer , drama critic and sculptor (born 1834 )
December 5 – Władysław Reymont , Polish novelist, Nobel Prize winner (born 1867 )[ 37] December 15 – Emma B. Alrich , American journalist, author, and educator (born 1845 )December 28 – Sergei Yesenin , Russian poet (born 1895 )[ 38]
Awards
References
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