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This year in: cinema , music , theater , science , sports . |
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Prizes
International
- Literature - Karl Gustav Werner von Heydenstam - "As the most prominent representative of the new era in world literature."
France
- Goncourt Prize - Henri Barbus , Fire
Books
- “In People” is the story of Maxim Gorky .
- “The Yoke of War” is a work of Leonid Andreev .
- “Mara. Gingerbread for orphaned children ”- the work of Alexei Remizov .
- “ The Mysterious Incident in Styles ” is a novel by Agatha Christie (published in 1920 ).
- “The Mysterious Stranger” is a novel by Mark Twain .
Stories
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft's story published - The Alchemist
Born
- May 21 - Harold Robbins , American writer (died in 1997 ).
- August 28 - Jack Vance , American science fiction writer.
- December 15 - Kolya Yakov , Albanian playwright, poet, prose writer, screenwriter, theater figure. One of the founders of modern Albanian drama. (Died in 2002 ).
Died
- August 9 - Guido Gozzano , Italian poet and writer (born in 1833 ).
- August 22 - Anatoly Veniaminovich Kalinin , Russian Soviet prose writer, poet and publicist (died in 2008 ).
- August 28 - Gabrielius Landsbergis-ямemkalnis ( Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis ), Lithuanian playwright, theater figure, publicist (born 1852 ).
- December 9 - Natsume Soseki , a Japanese writer who largely determined the path of development of modern Japanese literature (born 1867 ).