See also: 1934 in literature, other events of 1935, 1936 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.

• Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy is published by James T. Farrell. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New books

• The Battle for Investment Survival – Gerald M. Loeb
• The Box of Delights - John Masefield
• Burmese Days - George Orwell
• BUtterfield 8 - John O'Hara
• A Clergyman's Daughter - George Orwell
• Death in the Stocks – Georgette Heyer
• Dobry - Monica Shannon
• Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - John Maynard Keynes
• Golden Apples - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Hidden Harbor Mystery - Franklin W. Dixon
• The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins) - John Dickson Carr
• A House Divided - Pearl S. Buck
• Jean Val Jean - Solomon Cleaver
• Journeyman - Erskine Caldwell
• The Last Puritan - George Santayana
• The Lotus Eaters - Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Mistress of Mistresses - E.R. Eddison
• National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
• Ollie Miss - George Wylie Henderson
• Red Sky in the Morning - Robert P. Tristram Coffin
• The Stars Look Down - A.J. Cronin
• The Strange Death of Liberal England - George Dangerfield
• A Stranger Still - Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson)
• Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy - James T. Farrell
• They Shall Inherit the Earth - Morley Callaghan
• Time Out of Mind - Rachel Field
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven
• When the Mountain Fell - Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
• Winterset - Maxwell Anderson

New drama

• T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
• Jean Giraudoux - La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan war will not take place)
• Clifford Odets - Waiting for Lefty
• Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall

Births

• January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
• February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994)
• March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
• March 23 - Barry Cryer, comedy writer
• April 14 - Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods author
• April 15 - Alan Plater, screenwriter
• May 2 - Lynda Lee-Potter, columnist (+ 2004)
• August 15 - Régine Deforges, writer, publisher
• August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, novelist
• September 17 - Ken Kesey, author
• October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist

Deaths

• February 7 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist
• April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
• April 11 - Anna Katharine Green, crime writer
• April 18 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer
• May 19 - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"
• August 11 - Sir William Watson, traditionalist poet
• August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author
• August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
• October 11 - Steele Rudd, short story writer
• November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, poet
• December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, Dobry
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November

1935 books

Literaturjahr 1935 | 1935 en littérature | 1935 - literatura | Litteraturåret 1935