1933 in literature

See also: 1932 in literature, other events of 1933, 1934 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• February 17 – The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
• James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into United States

New books

• Anthony Adverse – Hervey Allen
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
• Banana Bottom  – Claude McKay
• The Case of the Sulky Girl – Erle Stanley Gardner
• La Condition humaine – André Malraux
• God's Little Acre – Erskine Caldwell
• The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales – Marjorie Bowen
• Lost Horizon – James Hilton
• Man's Fate – Andre Malraux
• Papa La Fleur – Zona Gale
• Peter Abelard  – Helen Waddell
• Princess Malah  – John H.Hill
• The Shape of Things to Come  – H. G. Wells
• South Moon Under – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
• Vanessa – Hugh Walpole
• Wardens of the Seas (poetry) – Edwin James Brady
• The Werewolf of Paris – Guy Endore
• Woman In The Dark – Dashiell Hammett
• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze – Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Births

• January 9 – Wilbur Smith, novelist
• January 16 – Susan Sontag, author (+ 2004)
• February 12 – Costa-Gavras, director, writer
• March 17 – Penelope Lively, novelist
• May 5 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, blockbuster author
• May 29 – Edward Whittemore, writer
• September 19 – Gilles Archambault, Quebecois 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 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

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
• Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling – The Store