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1930 in literature
See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is published.
New Books
- Aphrodite in Aulis - George A. Moore
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
- Bridal Pond - Zona Gale
- Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
- A Flood - George A. Moore
- The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
- Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
- The Great Meadow - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field
- It's Never Over - Morley Callaghan
- Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
- The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
- The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
- Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
- Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes
- Powder and Patch – Georgette Heyer
- The Promised Land - Gilbert Lubin
- Rogue Herries - Hugh Walpole
- The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
- 1066 and All That - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
- Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
- Woman of Andros - Thornton Wilder
Births
- January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
- February 17 - Ruth Barbara Rendell, writer
- August 16 - Ted Hughes, poet
- October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
- November 18 - J. G. Ballard, author
Deaths
- March 2 - D.H. Lawrence, author
- July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field , Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver Lafarge - Laughing Boy
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