1935 in literature

Events

• Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.

• Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy[?] is published by James T. Farrell[?]. 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

• Box of Delights[?] - John Masefield
• Burmese Days[?] - George Orwell
• Butterfield 8 - John O'Hara
• A Clergyman's Daughter[?] - George Orwell
• Dobry[?] - Monica Shannon[?]
• Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money[?] - John Maynard Keynes
• Golden Apples[?] - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings[?]
• The Hidden Harbor Mystery[?] - Franklin W. Dixon[?]
• A House Divided[?] - Pearl S. Buck
• Journeyman[?] - Erskine Caldwell[?]
• The Last Puritan[?] - George Santayana
• The Lotus Eaters[?] - Stanley G. Weinbaum[?]
• Mistress of Mistresses[?] - E.R. Eddison[?]
• National Velvet[?] - Enid Bagnold[?]
• Ollie Miss[?] - George Wylie Henderson[?]
• Red Sky in the Morning[?] - Robert P. Tristram Coffin[?]
• The Strange Death of Liberal England[?] - George Dangerfield[?]
• A Stranger Still[?] - Anna Kavan[?] (writing as Helen Ferguson)
• Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy[?] - James T. Farrell[?]
• They Shall Inherit the Earth[?] - Morley Callaghan
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre[?] - B. Traven[?]
• When the Mountain Fell[?] - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz[?]
• Winterset[?] - Maxwell Anderson[?]

Births

• January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
• February 5 - Sandra Paretti[?], author (+ 1994)
• March 1 - Judith Rossner[?], writer
• August 15 - Régine Deforges, writer, publisher
• September 17 - Ken Kesey, author
• October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist

Deaths

• April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
• August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author
• August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
• December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon[?], Dobry
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoe Akins[?], The Old Maid
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann[?]: Bright Ambush
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson[?] - Now in November