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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1921.

Events

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  January 1 – The Jonathan Cape publishing business is established in Bloomsbury (London) by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard.


• 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.^[1]
  


• March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe.


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  April 20 – Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English.


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  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 performance of Pericles, Prince of Tyre at The Old Vic in London directed by Robert Atkins restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since the Shakespearean era.


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  June 6 – The première of Tristan Tzara's parodic The Gas Heart (Le Cœur à gaz) at a Dada Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris provokes audience derision.


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  June 10 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love is first published commercially by Martin Secker in London.


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  September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613).^[2]
  


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  September 26 – Opening of the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, England, an old chapel reconstructed as a recreation of an English Renaissance theatre building for the production of period drama by an amateur repertory company under the direction of Walter Nugent Monck.^[3] The opening production is As You Like It.


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  December 9 – John William Gott becomes the last person in England to be imprisoned for blasphemous libel.


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  December 31 – Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual n°1 (Mexico City).

New books

Fiction

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  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – "Autumn Mountain" (秋山, Akiyama)


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  Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible
  


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  James Branch Cabell – Figures of Earth
  


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  Hall Caine – The Master of Man
  


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  Karel Čapek – Trapné povídky (Embarrassing Stories, translated as Money and other stories)


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  Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge
  


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  Arthur Chapman – Mystery Ranch
  


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  A. E. Coppard – Adam & Eve & Pinch Me: Tales
  


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  Mary Cholmondeley – The Romance of His Life
  


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  Marie Corelli – The Secret Power
  


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  Miloš Crnjanski – The Journal of Čarnojević (Дневник о Чарнојевићу, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću)


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  Walter de la Mare – Memoirs of a Midget
  


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  Mary Frances Dowdall – Three Loving Ladies
  


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  Fran Saleški Finžgar – Pod svobodnim soncem
  


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  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
  
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    The Beautiful and Damned (serialized in Metropolitan Magazine (New York))
  
  
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    Flappers and Philosophers (short stories)
  
  
  
  


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  Mikkjel Fønhus – Troll-Elgen^[4]
  


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  John Galsworthy – To Let (last book of The Forsyte Saga)


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  H. Rider Haggard – She and Allan
  


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  Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth
  


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  A. S. M. Hutchinson – If Winter Comes^[5]
  


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  Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow
  


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  Frigyes Karinthy – Capillaria
  


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  Sheila Kaye-Smith – Joanna Godden
  


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  Denis Mackail – Romance to the Rescue
  


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  René Maran – Batouala
  


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  L. M. Montgomery – Rilla of Ingleside
  


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  George Moore – Heloise and Abelard
  


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  Paul Morand – Tender Shoots (Tendres stocks, short stories)


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  Baroness Orczy
  
  
  
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    Castles in the Air (short stories)
  
  
  • The First Sir Percy
  
  
  
  


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  Alejandro Pérez Lugín – Currito of the Cross (Currito de la Cruz)
  


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  Gene Stratton Porter – Her Father's Daughter
  


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  Marcel Proust
  
  
  
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    The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes II, second part of vol. 3 of In Search of Lost Time)
  
  
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    Sodom and Gomorrah (Sodome et Gomorrhe I, first part of vol. 4 of In Search of Lost Time)
  
  
  
  


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  Sukumar Ray – HaJaBaRaLa
  


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  Iñigo Ed. Regalado – May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso
  


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  Rafael Sabatini – Scaramouche
  


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  Naoya Shiga – A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路, An'ya Kōro; serialized 1921–37)


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  Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams
  


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  Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Road to Calvary (publication begins)


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  Sigrid Undset – Husfrue (The Wife or The Mistress of Husaby, second part of Kristin Lavransdatter)


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  Eugene Walter – The Byzantine Riddle and other stories
  


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  Elinor Wylie – Nets to Catch the Wind
  


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  Francis Brett Young – The Black Diamond
  


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  Yevgeny Zamyatin – We (Мы; completed)

Children and young people

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  Dorita Fairlie Bruce – The Senior Prefect (later entitled Dimsie Goes to School)


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  Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  


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  Charles Boardman Hawes – The Great Quest
  


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  Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind (non-fiction)


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  Albert Payson Terhune – The Heart of a Dog
  

Drama

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  Hjalmar Bergman – Farmor och vår Herre (Grandmother and Our Lord, translated as Thy Rod and Thy Staff)


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  Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (performed)


• Karel and Josef Čapek – Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu, published)


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  Clemence Dane – A Bill of Divorcement
  


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  Susan Glaspell – Inheritors (written) and The Verge (performed)


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  A. de Herz – Mărgeluș (Tiny Bead)


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  Avery Hopwood – The Demi-Virgin
  


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  René Morax – Le Roi David
  


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  Roland Pertwee – Out to Win
  


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  Luigi Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author
  


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  Tristan Tzara – The Gas Heart
  


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  Raden Adipati Aria Muharam Wiranatakusumah – Lutung Kasarung
  


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  Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Water Hen (Kurka Wodna)
  

Poetry

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  Langston Hughes – "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", in The Crisis
  


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  Charlotte Mew – Saturday Market
  


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  William Carlos Williams – Sour Grapes
  


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  William Butler Yeats – Michael Robartes and the Dancer
  


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  Robert Frost – Mountain Interval (second print)

Non-fiction

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  Adolphe Appia – L'Œuvre d'art vivant (The Living Work of Art)


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  Charles Bean (ed.) – Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, vol. 1


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  Joseph Chaikov – Skulptur (first Yiddish-language work on the subject)^[6]
  


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  Frank H. Knight – Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
  


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  D. H. Lawrence
  
  
  
  • Sea and Sardinia
  
  
  • (as Lawrence H. Davison) – Movements in European History
    
  
  
  
  


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  Edward Sapir – Language: an introduction to the study of speech
  


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  Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk – Further Essays on Capital and Interest
  


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  Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  


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  Zitkala-Sa – American Indian Stories
  

Births

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  January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990)


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  January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime writer (died 1995)


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  February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist author (died 2006)


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  February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (died 1985)


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  March 1 – Richard Wilbur, American poet and translator (died 2017)


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  March 24 – Wilson Harris, Guyanese-born poet, novelist and essayist (died 2018)


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  April 21 – Angela Bianchini, Italian fiction writer and literary critic (died 2018)


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  May 23
  
  
  
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    James Blish, American science fiction author (died 1975)
  
  
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    Ray Lawler, Australian dramatist
  
  
  
  


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  May 29 – Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (died 2012)


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  June 11 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (died 2000)


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  August 11 – Alex Haley, American writer (died 1992)


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  August 17 – Elinor Lyon, British children's writer (died 2008)


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  September 12 – Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician (died 2006)


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  September 15 – Richard Gordon, English author (died 2017)


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  September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (died 2007)


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  October 2 – Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer (died 1978)


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  October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer (died 2014)


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  October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (died 1996)


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  November 6 – James Jones, American novelist (died 1977)


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  November 22 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (died 2003)


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  December 20 – Israil Bercovici, Romanian dramatist and historian (died 1988)

Deaths

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  March 22 – E. W. Hornung, English author (born 1866)


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  April 6 – Maximilian Berlitz, German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor (born 1852)


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  May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian publicist (born 1864)


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  May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist (born 1851)


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  May 13 – Jean Aicard, French writer (born 1848)


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  June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (born 1862)


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  July 7 – Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet, novelist and translator (pneumonia, born 1893)


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  June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, English Theosophist author (born 1840)


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  July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, Polish Esperantist (born 1857)


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  August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (born 1880)


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  August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (executed, born 1886)


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  October 10 – Otto von Gierke, German historian (born 1841)


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  November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born 1849)


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  November 14 – Christabel Rose Coleridge English novelist and editor (born 1843)


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  Unknown date – John Habberton, American critic (born 1842)^[7]
  

Awards

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  James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
  


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  James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
  


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  Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
  


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  Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
  


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  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
  


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  Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
  

References