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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1934. ==Events== * January 7 - The first ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip is published in the United States. * January - B. Traven's novel ''The Death Ship'' (1926) is first published in English. * February - Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London. * March 16 & October 5 - P. G. Wodehouse's ''Thank You, Jeeves'' and ''Right Ho, Jeeves'', the first Jeeves stories written as full-length novels, are published. * April - F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth and final completed novel, ''Tender Is the Night'', is published in book form in New York on conclusion of its serialization in the monthly ''Scribner's Magazine'' (since January). * April 3 - English literary biographer Thomas Wright (of Olney) first publishes some facts concerning Charles Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan (writing in the ''Daily Express''). * April 6 - Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. * June * * A medieval manuscript of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' used by Caxton is identified in the Fellows' Library of Winchester College (England) by schoolmaster and bibliophile Walter Fraser Oakeshott. * * English poet Laurie Lee walks out one midsummer morning from his Gloucestershire home bound for Spain. * July 17 - Circular Manchester Central Library, England, opened. * August - Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those present at the first Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers. * September - Henry Miller's novel ''Tropic of Cancer'' is published in Paris by the Obelisk Press; the United States Customs Service prohibits its import into the U.S. * October 24 - The first of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective novels, ''Fer-de-Lance'', is published in New York (and also abridged in ''The American Magazine'' for November under the title "Point of Death.") * November 20 - Lillian Hellman's first successful play, ''The Children's Hour'', with a theme of accusations of lesbianism, is premièred at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on Broadway in New York where it will run for 2 years. * Two notable gentleman detective series characters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction set in England are introduced: * * The first book featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard, ''A Man Lay Dead'', is published by Ngaio Marsh (at this time resident in her native New Zealand) in London. * * The first Sir Henry Merrivale locked room mystery, ''The Plague Court Murders'', is published by John Dickson Carr (at this time resident in England) writing as "Carter Dickson" in New York around early June, followed in December by ''The White Priory Murders''. * The first three volumes of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' are first published in English under this title. 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「1934 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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