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The year 1933 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

February 17 - The magazine '' Newsweek '' is published for the first time.

James Joyce 's '' Ulysses '' is allowed into United States .

NEW BOOKS

Hervey Allen - '' Anthony Adverse ''

Jorge Amado - '' Cacau '' (''Cacao'')

Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie - '' When Worlds Collide ''

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - '' Tarzan And The City Of Gold ''

Erskine Caldwell - '' God's Little Acre ''

Leslie Charteris - '' Once More The Saint '' (a.k.a. ''The Saint and Mr. Teal'')

Agatha Christie - '' The Hound Of Death ''

A. J. Cronin - '' Grand Canary ''

Guy Endore - '' The Werewolf Of Paris ''

Zona Gale - '' Papa La Fleur ''

Erle Stanley Gardner - '' The Case Of The Sulky Girl ''

Walter Greenwood - '' Love On The Dole ''

Dashiell Hammett

---'' The Thin Man ''

---'' Woman In The Dark ''

John H.Hill - '' Princess Malah ''

James Hilton - '' Lost Horizon ''

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis - '' Young Fu Of The Upper Yangtze ''

Arthur Machen - '' The Green Round ''

Claude McKay - '' Banana Bottom ''

Andre Malraux - '' Man's Fate ''

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - '' South Moon Under ''

Gertrude Stein - '' The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas ''

Hugh Walpole - '' Vanessa ''

H. G. Wells - '' The Shape Of Things To Come ''

Franz Werfel - '' The Forty Days Of Musa Dagh ''

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NEW DRAMA

Jean Anouilh - ''Mandarine''

Ferdinand Bruckner - ''Die Rassen''

Eugene O'Neill - '' Ah, Wilderness! ''

Jay Tobias - '' Everybody's Crazy ''

POETRY

Edwin James Brady - '' Wardens Of The Seas ''

Filip Shiroka - ''Zâni i zêmrës''

William Butler Yeats - '' The Winding Stair And Other Poems ''

NON-FICTION

Vera Brittain - '' Testament Of Youth ''

George Orwell - '' Down And Out In Paris And London ''

Helen Waddell - '' Peter Abelard ''

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - '' In Praise Of Shadows ''

BIRTHS

January 9 - Wilbur Smith , novelist

January 16 - Susan Sontag , author (+ 2004 )

February 12 - Costa-Gavras , director, writer

March 17 - Penelope Lively , novelist

April 14 - Boris Strugatsky , Russian sci-fi writer

May 5 - Barbara Taylor Bradford , blockbuster author

May 29 - Edward Whittemore , writer

September 19 - Gilles Archambault , '' Québécois '' novelist

December 31 - Edward Bunker , crime novelist

DEATHS

January 21 - George Moore , poet, novelist

January 29 – Sara Teasdale , poet

January 31 - John Galsworthy , writer

April 5 - Earl Derr Biggers , writer

April 29 - Constantine Cavafy , Greek Alexandrine poet

April 30 - Anne De Noailles , French writer

May 26 - Horatio Bottomley , journalist and fraudster

July 8 - Anthony Hope

September 20 - Annie Besant , Theosophist writer

September 25 - Ring Lardner , writer

September 25 - Pascal Poirier , historian

November 12 - F. Holland Day , publisher

November 20 - Augustine Birrell , politician and author

December 4 - Stefan George , poet and translator

AWARDS

, '' England, Their England ''

, ''Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze''

, ''Both Your Houses''

: ''Conquistador''

- ''The Store''