See also: 1932 in literature, other events of 1933, 1934 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
• James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into United States

New books

• Anthony Adverse - Hervey Allen
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
• Banana Bottom - Claude McKay
• The Case of the Sulky Girl - Erle Stanley Gardner
• God's Little Acre - Erskine Caldwell
• Grand Canary - A.J. Cronin
• Some Twilight Tales - Marjorie Bowen
• Lost Horizon - James Hilton
• Man's Fate - Andre Malraux
• Papa La Fleur - Zona Gale
• Peter Abelard - Helen Waddell
• Princess Malah - John H.Hill
• The Saint and Mr. Teal - Leslie Charteris
• The Shape of Things to Come - H. G. Wells
• South Moon Under - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
• Vanessa - Hugh Walpole
• Wardens of the Seas (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• The Werewolf of Paris - Guy Endore
• Woman In The Dark - Dashiell Hammett
• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

New drama

• Jean Anouilh - Mandarine
• Ferdinand Bruckner - Die Rassen
• Eugene O'Neill - Ah, Wilderness!
• Jay Tobias - Everybody's Crazy

Births

• January 9 - Wilbur Smith, novelist
• January 16 - Susan Sontag, author (+ 2004)
• February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
• March 17 - Penelope Lively, novelist
• May 5 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, blockbuster author
• May 29 - Edward Whittemore, writer
• September 19 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist
• December 31 - Edward Bunker, crime novelist

Deaths

• January 21 - George Moore, poet, novelist
• January 29 – Sara Teasdale, poet
• January 31 - John Galsworthy, writer
• April 5 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer
• April 29 - Constantine Cavafy, Greek Alexandrine poet
• April 30 - Anne de Noailles, French writer
• May 26 - Horatio Bottomley, journalist and fraudster
• July 8 - Anthony Hope
• September 20 - Annie Besant, Theosophist writer
• September 25 - Ring Lardner, writer
• September 25 - Pascal Poirier, historian
• November 12 - F. Holland Day, publisher
• November 20 - Augustine Birrell, politician and author
• December 4 - Stefan George, poet and translator

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize: A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
• Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling - The Store

1933 books

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