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      This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1938.


      Events


      January
      The John Dos Passos trilogy U.S.A. is published, containing his novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936).
      Samuel Beckett is stabbed in the chest in Paris and nearly killed.
      February 21 – The gay American writer and composer Paul Bowles marries the lesbian American writer Jane Auer at a Reformed Church in Manhattan.
      March 7 – Samuel Beckett's first completed novel Murphy is published in London.
      July 11 – The first live drama adaptation in Orson Welles' The Mercury Theatre on the Air series on CBS Radio in the United States is broadcast: Bram Stoker's Dracula.
      August – Muslims protest in London against passages they see as disrespectful to their religion in H. G. Wells' A Short History of the World (1922).
      September 13 – The first production in Britain of a play by Bertolt Brecht, Mrs Carrar's Rifles, opens at the Unity Theatre, London.
      October 30 – Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds (with script by Howard Koch) is broadcast in The Mercury Theatre on the Air series.
      December 24 – Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning. While recovering the following year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.
      Uncertain dates
      The first complete performance of both parts of Goethe's Faust (1808/32) is given at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
      The avant-garde musician and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer begins his writing career as an essayist for a number of French musical journals.


      New books




      = Fiction

      =
      Margery Allingham – The Fashion in Shrouds
      Eric Ambler
      Cause for Alarm
      Epitaph for a Spy
      Vladimir Bartol – Alamut
      Anthony Berkeley – Not to Be Taken
      Elizabeth Bowen – The Death of the Heart
      Dorothy Bowers – Postscript to Poison
      Lynn Brock – The Silver Sickle Case
      Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Forbidden City
      Taylor Caldwell – Dynasty of Death
      Victor Canning – Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris
      John Dickson Carr
      The Four False Weapons, Being the Return of Bencolin
      To Wake the Dead
      The Crooked Hinge
      The Judas Window (as Carter Dickson)
      Death in Five Boxes (as Carter Dickson)
      Peter Cheyney
      Can Ladies Kill?
      The Urgent Hangman
      Agatha Christie
      Hercule Poirot's Christmas
      Appointment with Death
      Albert Cohen – Nailcruncher
      Freeman Wills Crofts
      Antidote to Venom
      The End of Andrew Harrison
      J.J. Connington
      For Murder Will Speak
      Truth Comes Limping
      René Daumal – A Night of Serious Drinking (La Grande Beuverie)
      Cecil Day-Lewis – The Beast Must Die
      John Dos Passos – The Big Money (completing the U.S.A. trilogy)
      Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca
      Lawrence Durrell – The Black Book
      Mircea Eliade – Marriage in Heaven (Nuntă în cer)
      William Faulkner – The Unvanquished
      Rachel Field – All This and Heaven Too
      C. S. Forester
      A Ship of the Line
      Flying Colours
      Anthony Gilbert – Treason in My Breast
      Julien Gracq – The Castle of Argol (Au château d'Argol)
      Robert Graves – Count Belisarius
      Graham Greene – Brighton Rock
      Walter Greenwood
      Only Mugs Work
      The Secret Kingdom
      Cyril Hare – Death Is No Sportsman
      Xavier Herbert – Capricornia
      Robin Hyde – The Godwits Fly (semi-autobiographical)
      Michael Innes – Lament for a Maker
      Margaret Kennedy – The Midas Touch
      Alan Kennington – She Died Young
      Emilio Lussu – Un anno sull'altopiano
      C. S. Lewis – Out of the Silent Planet
      Norman Lindsay – Age of Consent
      Ngaio Marsh
      Artists in Crime
      Death in a White Tie
      Gladys Mitchell – St Peter's Finger
      Vladimir Nabokov
      The Gift (Дар)
      Invitation to a Beheading (Приглашение на казнь; serialization concludes)
      E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Colossus of Arcadia
      Kate O'Brien – Pray for the Wanderer
      John O'Hara – Hope of Heaven
      Ellery Queen
      The Devil to Pay
      The Four of Hearts
      Graciliano Ramos – Vidas Secas (Barren Lives)
      Ayn Rand – Anthem
      Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling
      Clayton Rawson – Death from a Top Hat
      Joseph Roth – The Emperor's Tomb
      Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea (La Nausée)
      Georges Simenon
      The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
      Marie of the Port
      Esphyr Slobodkina – Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
      Eleanor Smith – The Spanish House
      Howard Spring – My Son, My Son
      John Steinbeck – The Long Valley
      Rex Stout – Too Many Cooks
      Cecil Street
      The Bloody Tower
      Death at Low Tide
      Invisible Weapons
      Kressmann Taylor – Address Unknown (short story)
      Phoebe Atwood Taylor
      The Annulet of Gilt
      Banbury Bog
      The Cut Direct (as by Alice Tilton)
      Murder at the New York World's Fair (as by Freeman Dana)
      B. Traven – The Bridge in the Jungle
      S. S. Van Dine – The Gracie Allen Murder Case
      František Bernard Vaněk – Na krásné samotě
      Henry Wade – Released for Death
      Winifred Watson – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
      Evelyn Waugh – Scoop
      Ethel Lina White – Step in the Dark
      T. H. White – The Sword in the Stone
      Gale Wilhelm – Torchlight to Valhalla
      Francis Brett Young – Dr. Bradley Remembers


      = Children and young people

      =
      BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) – Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox
      Claire Huchet Bishop – The Five Chinese Brothers
      Enid Blyton – The Secret Island
      Eleanor Graham – The Children Who Lived in a Barn
      Joan Kahn – "Ladies and Gentlemen," said the Ringmaster
      Eric Knight – Lassie Come-Home
      Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling
      Kate Seredy – The White Stag
      Noel Streatfeild – The Circus Is Coming
      T. H. White – The Sword in the Stone
      John F. C. Westerman – John Wentley Takes Charge (first in the John Wentley trilogy)
      Ursula Moray Williams – Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse


      = Drama

      =
      Jean Anouilh – Thieves' Carnival (Le Bal des Voleurs)
      Robert Ardrey – Casey Jones
      Max Catto – They Walk Alone
      Paul Claudel – L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara (The History of Tobit and Sara, first version)
      M. J. Farrell – Spring Meeting
      Patrick Hamilton – Gaslight
      H.M. Harwood – The Innocent Party
      Esther McCracken – Quiet Wedding
      Kaj Munk – Han sidder ved Smeltediglen (He sits by the melting pot)
      Michael Pertwee – Death on the Table
      J. B. Priestley – When We Are Married
      Gordon Sherry – The Bare Idea
      Robert E. Sherwood – Abe Lincoln in Illinois
      Dodie Smith – Dear Octopus
      Stephen Spender – Trial of a Judge
      Lesley Storm – Tony Draws a Horse
      Arnold Sundgaard
      Spirochete: A History
      with Marc Connelly – Everywhere I Roam
      Rodolfo Usigli – El gesticulador
      Theodore Ward – Big White Fog
      Thornton Wilder – Our Town
      Emlyn Williams – The Corn is Green
      Tennessee Williams – Not About Nightingales (written; first performed 1998)
      W. B. Yeats – Purgatory


      = Poetry

      =

      Alfred Kreymborg – The Planets: A Modern Allegory (radio play in verse)
      Mary Pettibone Poole – A Glass Eye at a Keyhole


      = Non-fiction

      =
      Crane Brinton – The Anatomy of Revolution
      Hall Caine (died 1931) – Life of Christ
      Cyril Connolly – Enemies of Promise
      Geoffrey Faber – The Romance of a Bookshop 1904–1938
      Robert Newton Flew – Jesus and His Church. A study of the idea of the Ecclesia in the New Testament
      Edgar Innes Fripp (died 1931) – Shakespeare, Man and Artist
      Elie Halévy – The Era of Tyrannies
      Johan Huizinga – Homo Ludens
      Agnes Hunt – This Is My Life (autobiography of pioneer orthopedic nurse)
      C. L. R. James – The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
      Claude Scudamore Jarvis – Desert and Delta. An account of modern Egypt
      Jomo Kenyatta – Facing Mount Kenya
      Anne Morrow Lindbergh – Listen! The Wind
      Robert McAlmon – Being Geniuses Together, 1920–1930
      Thomas Mann – The Coming Victory of Democracy
      George Orwell – Homage to Catalonia
      Nichita Smochină – Republica Moldovenească a Sovietelor (The Moldavian Republic of Soviets)
      Derek A. Traversi – An Approach to Shakespeare
      H. G. Wells – World Brain
      Virginia Woolf – Three Guineas


      Births


      January 2 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian short story writer (died 2023)
      January 5 – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (also known as James Ngigi), Kenyan novelist
      January 6 – Mario Rodríguez Cobos ("Silo"), Argentine author and spiritualist (died 2010)
      January 20 – Liz Calder, English publisher and editor
      February 7 – Andrea Newman, English novelist and screenwriter (died 2019)
      February 9 – Jovette Marchessault, French Canadian writer and artist (died 2012)
      February 12
      Judy Blume, American children's author
      Tor Obrestad, Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer (died 2020)
      February 22 – Ishmael Reed, American poet, essayist and novelist
      March 1 – Michael Kurland, American author of sci-fi and detective fiction
      March 14 – Eleanor Bron, English humorous writer and actress
      March 24 – Ian Hamilton, English critic, biographer and poet (died 2001)
      March 27 – Hansjörg Schneider, Swiss novelist (died 2016)
      April 20 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese romance novelist (died 2024)
      April 25 – John Nagenda, Ugandan writer and sportsman (died 2023)
      April 30 – Larry Niven, American sci-fi author
      May 13 – Norma Klein, American author (died 1989)
      May 15 – Nancy Garden, American author (died 2014)
      May 16 – Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist (died 2018)
      May 25
      Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet (died 1988)
      Margaret Forster, English novelist and biographer (died 2016)
      May 26 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian novelist and playwright
      June 5 – M. K. Wren (Martha Kay Renfroe), American novelist (died 2016)
      June 16 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
      June 24 – Lawrence Block, American crime fiction writer
      June 26 – Maria Velho da Costa, Portuguese writer (died 2020)
      July 15 – Josephine Cox, English novelist (died 2020)
      July 19
      Nicholas Bethell, English historian and politician (died 2007)
      Dom Moraes, Indian poet and columnist (died 2004)
      Tom Raworth, English poet (died 2017)
      Mary-Kay Wilmers, American-born editor
      July 28 – Robert Hughes, Australian critic and historian (died 2012)
      August 15 – Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (died 1985)
      August 21 – Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Australian novelist (died 2019)
      August 30 – Dorota Terakowska, Polish writer and journalist, author of fantasy books for children and young adults (died 2004)
      September 3 – Caryl Churchill, English dramatist
      September 12 – Richard Booth, Welsh bookseller (died 2019)
      September 15 – Charles L. Mee, American dramatist
      September 18 – Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (died 2007)
      September 19 – Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African Poet Laureate (died 2018)
      October 12 – Anne Perry (Juliet Marion Hulme), English historical novelist (died 2023)
      October 13 – Hugo Young, English journalist (died 2003)
      October 17 – Les Murray, Australian poet (died 2019)
      October 19 – Allan Massie, Singapore-born Scottish writer
      November 3 – Terrence McNally, American playwright (died 2020)
      November 4 – Daniel Snowman, English non-fiction writer and historian
      December 14 – Leonardo Boff (Genézio Darci Boff), Brazilian philosopher and theologian
      December 21 – Frank Moorhouse, Australian journalist, author and screenwriter (died 2022)
      December 31 – Basudeb Dasgupta, Bengali novelist (died 2005)
      unknown date – Gabriel Ruhumbika, Tanzanian novelist


      Deaths


      January 4 – Paola Drigo, Italian writer (born 1876)
      January 16 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (Sarat Chandra Chattergee), Bengali novelist (born 1876)
      January 19 – Branislav Nušić, Serbian novelist and dramatist (born 1864)
      January 29 – Armando Palacio Valdés, Spanish novelist and critic (born 1853)
      February 13 – Momčilo Nastasijević, Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1894)
      March 6 – Eva Allen Alberti, American dramatics teacher (born 1856)
      March 27 – Helen M. Winslow, American editor, author and publisher (born 1851)
      March 31 – Willem Kloos, Dutch poet and critic (born 1859)
      April 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt, English poet (born 1862)
      April 21 – Lady Ottoline Morrell, English literary hostess (born 1873)
      May 26 – James Forbes, Canadian American dramatist and screenwriter (born 1871)
      June 9 – Ovid Densusianu, Romanian poet, philologist, and literary historian (born 1873)
      June 26
      James Weldon Johnson, American politician, poet and activist (born 1871)
      E. V. Lucas, English essayist and biographer, 70
      July 21 – Owen Wister, American Western fiction writer and historian (born 1860)
      August 7 – Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre director (born 1863)
      August 26 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Albanian poet and writer (tuberculosis, born 1911)
      September 15 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (tuberculosis, born 1900)
      October 3 – Olivia Shakespear, British novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (born 1863)
      October 27 – Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and literary critic (born 1881)
      December 13 – Virginia Frazer Boyle, American author and poet (born 1863)
      December 23 – Robert Herrick, American realist novelist (born 1868)
      December 25 – Karel Čapek, Czech science fiction author and dramatist (pneumonia, born 1890)
      December 27 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and essayist (in detention, born 1891)


      Awards


      Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Noel Streatfeild, The Circus Is Coming
      Hawthornden Prize – David Jones, In Parenthesis
      James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours
      James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      Newbery Medal for children's literature: Kate Seredy, The White Stag
      Newdigate prize: Michael Thwaites
      Nobel Prize in Literature: Pearl S. Buck
      Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
      Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska, Cold Morning Sky
      Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Phillips Marquand, The Late George Apley


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