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The year 1930 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

July 14 - Luigi Pirandello 's '' The Man With The Flower In His Mouth '' becomes the first-ever broadcast television drama.

November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize In Literature .

John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.

NEW BOOKS

Vicki Baum - '' Grand Hotel ''

Edgar Rice Burroughs - '' Tarzan At The Earth's Core ''

Morley Callaghan - '' It's Never Over ''

Gabriel Chevallier - ''La Peur''

Agatha Christie - '' The Mysterious Mr. Quin ''

John Dos Passos - '' The 42nd Parallel ''

William Faulkner - '' As I Lay Dying ''

Rachel Field - '' Hitty, Her First Hundred Years ''

Zona Gale - '' Bridal Pond ''

Dashiell Hammett - '' The Maltese Falcon ''

Hermann Hesse - '' Narcissus And Goldmund ''

Georgette Heyer - '' Powder And Patch ''

Sydney Horler - '' Checkmate ''

Langston Hughes - '' Not Without Laughter ''

Carolyn Keene - '' The Secret Of The Old Clock ''

Oliver La Farge - '' Laughing Boy ''

Gilbert Lubin - '' The Promised Land ''

W. Somerset Maugham - '' Cakes And Ale ''

George A. Moore

---'' Aphrodite In Aulis ''

---'' A Flood ''

Watty Piper - '' The Little Engine That Could ''

J. B. Priestley - '' Angel Pavement ''

Elizabeth Madox Roberts - '' The Great Meadow ''

Upton Sinclair - '' Mental Radio ''

Olaf Stapledon - '' Last And First Men ''

Hugh Walpole - '' Rogue Herries ''

Evelyn Waugh - '' Vile Bodies ''

Thornton Wilder - '' The Woman Of Andros ''

NEW DRAMA

Antoine Bibesco - ''Ladies All''

Ferdinand Bruckner - ''Elisabeth von England''

Noel Coward - '' Private Lives ''

POETRY

Richard Church -''The Glance Backward''

Viola Meynell - ''The Frozen Ocean''

NON-FICTION

Muhammad Iqbal - '' The Reconstruction Of Religious Thought In Islam ''

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman - '' 1066 And All That ''

BIRTHS

January 23 - Derek Walcott , author

February 17 - Ruth Rendell , writer

March 8 - Douglas Hurd , politician and novelist

July 15 - Jacques Derrida , literary critic (d. 2004)

August 17 - Ted Hughes , poet (+ 1998 )

September 25 - Shel Silverstein , poet (d. 1999)

October 10 - Harold Pinter , playwright

November 1 - A. R. Gurney , dramatist

November 5 - Clifford Irving , literary forger

November 18 - J. G. Ballard , author

DEATHS

February 27 - George Haven Putnam , American author, publisher

March 2 - D.H. Lawrence , novelist and poet

March 12 - Alois Jirásek , novelist and dramatist

April 21 - Robert Bridges , Poet Laureate

May 17 - Herbert Croly , political writer

June 9 - Arthur St. John Adcock , novelist

July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle , British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes

August 29 - William Archibald Spooner , originator of the "spoonerism"

''date unknown'' - Sigurd Ibsen , politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen

AWARDS

, ''Miss Mole''

, ''Hitty, Her First Hundred Years''

, '' The Green Pastures ''

: ''Selected Poems''

- ''Laughing Boy''