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EVENTS

First '' Flash Gordon '' Comic Strip published.

Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those present at the first Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers.

First Nero Wolfe book published by Rex Stout

NEW BOOKS

'' Appointment In Samarra '' - John O'Hara

'' Call It Sleep '' - Henry Roth

'' A Cool Million '' - Nathaniel West

'' The Death Ship '' - B. Traven (first English publication)

''Duo'' - Colette

'' An Experiment In Autobiography '' - H. G. Wells

''Fer-de-Lance'' - Rex Stout

'' Frost In May '' - Antonia White

'' Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton

'' A Handful Of Dust '' - Evelyn Waugh

'' I, Claudius '' - Robert Graves

'''' - Zora Neale Hurston

'' Lust For Life '' - Irving Stone

'' More Pricks Than Kicks '' - Samuel Beckett

'' Murder On The Orient Express '' - Agatha Christie

'' The Postman Always Rings Twice '' - James M. Cain

'' Rajah Amar '' - Leopold Myers

'' Une Semaine De Bonte '' - Max Ernst

'' Seven Gothic Tales '' - Isak Dinesen

'' Ship Without Sails '' - Barbara Barclay Carter

'' Such Is My Beloved '' - Morley Callaghan

'' Tender Is The Night '' - F. Scott Fitzgerald

'' Tropic Of Cancer '' - Henry Miller

'' The 12.30 From Croydon '' - Freeman Wills Crofts

NEW DRAMA

Lillian Hellman - '' The Children's Hour ''

Federico García Lorca - '' Yerma ''

NON-FICTION

Aldous Huxley - '' Beyond The Mexique Bay ''

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A. A. Milne - '' Peace With Honour ''

BIRTHS

February 10 - Fleur Adcock , poet

March 28 - Jean Louvet , dramatist

May 27 - Harlan Ellison , US science-fiction writer.

July 21 - Jonathan Miller , satirist and non-fiction author

August 6 - Piers Anthony , English writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy

October 17 - Alan Garner , novelist

November 9 - Ronald Harwood , dramatist

November 21 - Beryl Bainbridge , novelist

''date unknown'' - Jayakanthan , Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee

DEATHS

January 8 - Andrei Bely , novelist, poet and critic

January 15 - Hermann Bahr , dramatist and critic

January 30 - Frank Nelson Doubleday , publisher

February 8 - Ferenc Móra , novelist and journalist

March 10 - F. Anstey , ''Vice Versa'' author

April 11 - Gerald Du Maurier , actor-manager, son of George Du Maurier and father of Daphne du Maurier

June 21 - Thorne Smith , humorist and fantasy author

August 13 - Mary Hunter Austin , travel writer

September 9 - Roger Fry , art critic

November 23 - Arthur Wing Pinero , dramatist

''date unknown'' - Robert Clyde Packer , newspaper magnate

AWARDS

, ''I, Claudius'' and ''Claudius the God''

, ''Invincible Louisa''

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, ''Men in White''

: ''Collected Verse''

- ''Lamb in His Bosom''