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EVENTS

'' Candide '' by Voltaire was declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930.

'' The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes '' is banned in the USSR because of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's interest in the occult.

George Orwell returns to the UK after living in Paris.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir meet for the first time at the École Normale

NEW BOOKS

'' Banjo '' - Claude McKay

'' The Blacker The Berry '' - Wallace Thurman

'' Brown On Resolution '' - C.S. Forester

'' Borgia '' - Zona Gale

'' A Charmed Circle '' - Anna Kavan

'' The Dain Curse '' - Dashiell Hammett

'' The Dark Journey '' - Julian Green

'' Death Of A Hero '' - Richard Aldington

'' Dodsworth '' - Sinclair Lewis

'' Everlasting Man '' - G. K. Chesterton

'' A Farewell To Arms '' - Ernest Hemingway

'' Flowering Judas '' - Katherine Anne Porter

'' A High Wind In Jamaica '' - Richard Hughes

''Im Westen nichts Neues'' ('' All Quiet On The Western Front '') - Erich Maria Remarque

'' In The Wilderness '' - Sigrid Undset

'' The Innocent Voyage '' - Richard Hughes

'' Kiki's Memoirs '' - Kiki

'' Les Enfants Terribles '' - Jean Cocteau

'' Look Homeward, Angel '' - Thomas Wolfe

'' The Magnificent Obsession '' - Lloyd C. Douglas

'' The Mind Reader '' - Walter A. Roberts

'' The Near And The Far '' - Leopold Myers

'' Passing '' - Nella Larsen

'' Peder Victorious '' - O.E. Rolvaag

'''' - Jessie Redmon Fauset

'' The Poisoned Chocolates Case '' - Anthony Berkeley

'' A Preface To Morals '' - Walter Lippmann

'' The Roman Hat Mystery '' - Ellery Queen

'' The Romantic Adventures Of Rosy, The Octoroon; With Some Account Of The Persecution Of The Southern Negro During The Reconstruction Period '' - Albert Evander Coleman

'' A Room Of One's Own '' - Virginia Woolf

'' Rope (novel) '' - Patrick Hamilton

''Sido'' - Colette

'' The Sound And The Fury '' - William Faulkner

'' The Trumpeter Of Krakow '' - Eric P. Kelly

NEW DRAMA

Kaj Munk - ''I Brændingen''

Stanisława Przybyszewska '' - '' The Danton Case ''

George Bernard Shaw - '' The Apple Cart ''

NON-FICTION

Robert Graves - '' Goodbye To All That ''

A. A. Milne - '' Those Were The Days ''

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BIRTHS

January 26 - Jules Feiffer , Cartoon ist, writer

February 17 - Chaim Potok , author (+ 2002 )

February 18 - Len Deighton , novelist

April 1 - Milan Kundera , novelist

August 29 - Thom Gunn , poet

DEATHS

March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates , lyricist of ''America the Beautiful''

April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones , Welsh grammarian and poet

April 21 - Lucy Clifford , novelist

June 8 - Bliss Carman , poet

June 25 – Georges Courteline , dramatist and novelist

July 15 - Hugo Von Hofmannsthal , novelist and poet

AWARDS

, '' The Good Companions ''

, ''The Trumpeter of Krakow''

for ''Big Blonde'' (short story)

, ''Street Scene''

: ''John Brown's Body''

- ''Scarlet Sister Mary''