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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1932. ==Events== *March - Captain W. E. Johns' English character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as a World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker" in the first issue of ''Popular Flying'' magazine edited by Johns. In August, the first collection of Biggles stories, ''The Camels are Coming'', is published. *April 23 - Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. *April 26 - 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane throws himself overboard from the steamship ''Orizaba'' in the Gulf of Mexico en route from Mexico to New York in a state of alcoholic depression; his body is never recovered. *May - First issue of the English journal of literary criticism ''Scrutiny: a quarterly review'' edited by F. R. Leavis. *June 28 - Following a visit to the United States, Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', meets publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies, the inspiration for Peter Pan, at a Lewis Carroll centenary exhibition in a London bookshop. *July - W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham and publishes ''Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems''. *Summer * * Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, is established as a regular venue in London by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins. * * First performances at the Minack Theatre, an open-air venue on the coast of Cornwall (England), a staging of ''The Tempest''. *October 3 - ''The Times'' newspaper of London first appears set in the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison. *November 16 - Compton Mackenzie is prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act in the U.K. for material in his ''Greek Memories''. *October - Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters primarily to oppose the Censorship of Publications Board. *December - E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of ''Punch'' magazine. *Samuel Beckett's first novel, ''Dream of Fair to Middling Women'', is written in Paris and rejected by several publishers. *Serialization of the first three volumes of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' (Тихий Дон) concludes in the Soviet magazine ''October''. *In Vietnam, the New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, inaugurating modern literature in that country. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1932 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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