1919 in literature - 1919 in literature See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The American Language - H. L. Mencken Caesar or Nothing - Pio Baroja Demian - Hermann Hesse Fields of Victory - Mary Augusta Ward The Forerunners - Romain Rolland Helena - Mary Augusta Ward The House of the Winds (poetry) - Edwin James Brady In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Java Head.
1856 in literature - 1856 in literature See also: 1855 in literature, other events of 1856, 1857 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books Adam Bede - George Eliot Aurora Leigh (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Benito Cereno - Herman Melville The Daisy Chain - Charlotte Mary Yonge The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe Ernest Linwood - Caroline Lee Hentz I and My Chimney - Herman Melville The Young Fur-Traders - RM Ballantyne Births April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915) May 15 - L. Frank Baum (+ 1919) July 26 - George Bernard Shaw (+ 1950) Deaths Awards.
1919 - 1919 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s Years: 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes Events The Paris Peace Conference XWA (now CFCF),in Montreal, Quebec is the first public radio station in North America to go the air. January 1 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 11 - Romania annexes Transylvania. January - Spartacist uprising in Germany: an unsuccessful attempt at a communist coup. January 15 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people January 15 - Ignace.
1920 in literature - 1920 in literature See also: 1919 in literature, other events of 1920, 1921 in literature, List of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, opens at a special matinee at the Morosco Theater on February 2 – partly as an experiment on the part of the producer, partly to quiet the pleading of actor Richard Bennett who has demanded a chance to play the lead role. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill becomes famous. The Emperor Jones is staged in November. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published. It is a sensation, immediately establishing Fitzgerald as a writer and celebrity. Though the book's reputation.
1918 in literature - 1918 in literature See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events First Pulitzer Prizes awarded Author Hall Caine made a Knight of the British Empire. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War - Guillaume Apollinaire Colas Breugnon - Romain Rolland Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey Hope's Highway - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming I Have Killed - Blaise Cendrars.
1932 in literature - 1932 in literature See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Huxley to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books 1919 - John Dos Passos Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh Brave New World - Aldous Huxley A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan Burning Bush - Sigrid Undset Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem -.
1938 in literature - 1938 in literature See also: 1937 in literature, other events of 1938, 1939 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events A very good year in books: The trilogy, U.S.A by John Dos Passos, is published containing his three novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936). In 2001, the trilogy would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh is published. In 2001, the book would be the second of three works by him named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by.
2002 in literature - 2002 in literature See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events March 16, 2002: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit. New Books Atonement - Ian McEwan Beach House - James Patterson Bel Canto - Ann Patchett Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art - Dan Franck & Cynthia Liebow The Bridge at No.
Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1919-1937) - Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1919-1937) The Communist Party and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but never succeeded, with rare exceptions, either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in converting their influence in any particular union into membership gains for the Party. The CP has had only negligible influence in labor since its supporters' defeat in internal union political battles in the aftermath of World War II and the CIO's expulsion of the unions in which they held the most influence in 1949. Historians disagree why the union movement never formed a labor party and why American workers have never embraced socialist parties in any numbers in the last ninety years..
Nobel Prize in Literature - Nobel Prize in Literature List of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1901 : Sully Prudhomme 1902 : Theodor Mommsen 1903 : Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson 1904 : Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre 1905 : Henryk Sienkiewicz 1906 : Giosuè Carducci 1907 : Rudyard Kipling 1908 : Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1909 : Selma Lagerlöf 1910 : Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse 1911 : Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck 1912 : Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann 1913 : Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1915 : Romain Rolland 1916 : Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam 1917 : Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan 1919 : Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler 1920 : Knut Hamsun 1921 : Anatole France 1922 : Jacinto Benavente 1923 : William Butler Yeats 1924 : Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont 1925.
Malayalam literature - Malayalam literature Literature written in Malayalam language. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Poetry 2 Fiction 3 Literary Criticism 4 External Links Poetry Manipravalam Champoos Sandesakavyam Niranam poets Cherusseri Namboodiri Thunchathu Ezhuthachan Poonthanam Namboodiri Kottayam Thampuran Unnayi Warrier Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770) Irayimman Thampi Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran K C Kesava Pillai (1868-1914) Kumaran Asan (1873-1924) Ulloor Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949) Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878-1958) Modern Romantics Kuttippurathu Kesavan Nair (1883-1959) Nalappat Narayana Menon (1887-1955) G Sankara Kurup (1900-1978) Balamani Amma Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (1909-1936) Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (1911-1948) Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (1911-1985) Other Modern Poets Balachandran Chullikkadu Edasseri Govindan Nair Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan O N V Kurup Satchidanandan Sugathakumari Vayalar Ramavarma Vishnunarayanan Namboodiri Fiction 19th Century O Chandhu Menon (1847-1900) C V Raman Pillai (1858-1922) Modern Karur Neelakanta Pillai (1898-1974).
List of children's literature authors - List of children's literature authors List of important Children's literature authors and their most famous works. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Aesop - Fables Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), Little Women Hans Christian Andersen, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories Victor Appleton, Jr - Tom Swift William H. Armstrong - Sounder B Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop Enid Bagnold - National Velvet Lynne Reid Banks - Indian in the Cupboard series Helen Bannerman - Little Black Sambo (published in 1899, no longer politically correct) J. M. Barrie, (1860-1937), Peter Pan Graham Base - Animalia L. Frank Baum, (1856-1919), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
List of years in literature - List of years in literature This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - Pre 1710s 2000s 2003 in literature - 2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan 2001 in literature - Life of Pi - Yann Martel 2000 in literature - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published, and creator Charles Schulz dies soon.
Literature of World War I - Literature of World War I World War I has inspired great novels, drama and poetry. During the war itself, it has been estimated that thousands of poems were written every day by combatants and their relatives. After the war, many participants published their memoirs and diaries. A common subject for fiction in the 1920s and 1930s was the effect of the war, including shell-shock and the huge social changes caused by the war. From the latter half of the 20th century onwards, the First World War continued to be a popular subject for fiction, mainly novels. Novels written from personal knowledge Richard Aldington: Death of a Hero Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms Frederic Manning: Her Privates.
Karl Adolph Gjellerup - Adolph Gjellerup Karl Gjellerup (1857-1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. In Denmark Gjellerup's award was received with little enthusiasm. He had been regarded long as a German writer. Because Sweden was neutral during World War I, the divided prize did not arouse political speculations about partial decision, but showed on the other hand allegiance between the Nordic neighbors. External Links http://www.nobel-winners.com/Literature/karl_gjellerup.html.
Kemal Atatürk - academy at Monastir (now Bitola) in 1895. After playing a minor role in the Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913, he gained a major victory by repulsing the Allied invasion of Gallipoli in 1915. Kemal organized the Turkish Nationalist Republican Party in 1919 from local resistance groups. This group overthrew the incumbent Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI and the Allies in Anatolia, and he and his lieutenant Ismet Pasha (later Ismet Inönü) presided over the defeat of the Greek invasion of 1920 - 1922. They subsequently founded the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923. He was elected Turkey's first president in 1923. The name "Atatürk", meaning father of Turks was then bestowed on Kemal by the national parliament. Atatürk began a variety of Westernizing reforms by abolishing the Caliphate (March 1924)..
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen - polar explorer and anthropologist. When on his first expedition in 1902-1904, "The Literature Expedition" with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen to examine Inuit culture. In 1910 he established the Thule Trading Station at Cape York (Uummannaq), Greenland as a base. He went on several expeditions between 1912-1919, including travelling over the Viscount Melville Sound and crossing the Northwest Passage by dogsled. From 1921-1924 he went on his famous "Great Sledge Journey" to collect and describe Inuit songs and legends. For that effort he gained a post at the University of Copenhagen. He was also patron of the first long polar movie "SOS Iceberg" (regie: Leni Riefenstahl).
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia - 1893 - July 17, 1975) was a classic of Georgian literature of the 20th century and famous public benefactor, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, PhD of the Berlin University, Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize of Georgia. Life and works Konstantine Gamsakhurdia was born in 1893, in Abasha (Samegrelo region of Western Georgia). His father was Prince Svimon Gamsakhurdia. In 1911 he graduated from the Georgian Gimnasium of Kutaisi (Western Georgia) and in 1918 from the Berlin University (Germany). In 1918 he was member of the Board of the Constituent Society of the Tbilisi State University and in 1920-1924 Associate Professor of German literature of this University. In 1918-1919 Gamsakhurdia was the 1st Secretary of the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Germany, in 1920 -.
Jacobitism - to as the "Second Jacobite Rebellion"), led by the Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Old Pretender, in his father's name, took place in 1745. In the 1745 rebellion Jacobite troops advanced into England as far as Derby before turning back. In 1746 they were finally defeated near Inverness at the Battle of Culloden by Hanoverian forces made up of English and Scottish troops. The seemingly suicidal Highland sword charge against cannon and muskets had succeeded earlier in the campaign but failed now owing to the completely unsuitable nature of the battlefield. This battle crushed the rebellion and effectively ended Jacobitism as a serious political force in Britain. Decline of Jacobitism Jacobitism entered permanent decline after the "Forty-Five" rebellion. In an effort to prevent further trouble, the government outlawed.
Johns Hopkins University - Maryland and the United States Naval Academy. The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame is adjacent to the university. Some well-known alumni: Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States Peter Agre - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003 Madeleine Albright - Secretary of State under Bill Clinton John Astin - actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family Russell Baker - author, Pulitzer Prize winner, host Masterpiece Theatre John Barth - novelist Michael Bloomberg - Founder of Bloomberg LP, mayor of New York City Rudy Boschwitz - Republican Senator from Minnesota Rachel Carson - enivornmentalist, Silent Spring J.D. Considine - music critic Richard Ben Cramer - journalist, author What It Takes, Pulitzer Prize winner Wes Craven - film director, producer Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944 Robert W..
