1935 in literature

The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.
 * W.H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.

New books

 * Enid Bagnold - National Velvet
 * Pearl S. Buck - A House Divided
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Leopard Men
 * Erskine Caldwell - Journeyman
 * Morley Callaghan - They Shall Inherit the Earth
 * Elias Canetti - Die Blendung
 * John Dickson Carr
 * Death-Watch
 * The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins)
 * The Red Widow Murders (as by Carter Dickson)
 * The Unicorn Murders (as by Carter Dickson)
 * Agatha Christie
 * Three Act Tragedy
 * Death in the Clouds
 * Solomon Cleaver - Jean Val Jean
 * Robert P. Tristram Coffin - Red Sky in the Morning
 * Jack Conroy - A World to Win
 * A.J. Cronin - The Stars Look Down
 * Franklin W. Dixon - The Hidden Harbor Mystery
 * Lawrence Durrell - Pied Piper of Lovers
 * E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses
 * James T. Farrell - Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy
 * Rachel Field - Time Out of Mind
 * Charles G. Finney - The Circus of Dr. Lao
 * George Wylie Henderson - Ollie Miss
 * Georgette Heyer–Death in the Stocks
 * Christopher Isherwood - Mr Norris Changes Trains
 * Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson) - A Stranger Still
 * André Malraux - Le Temps du mépris
 * John Masefield - The Box of Delights
 * Alberto Moravia - Le ambizioni sbagliate
 * R.K. Narayan - Swami and Friends
 * George Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter
 * Ellery Queen
 * The Spanish Cape Mystery
 * The Lamp of God
 * Charles Ferdinand Ramuz - When the Mountain Fell
 * Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Golden Apples
 * Herbert Read - The Green Child
 * George Santayana - The Last Puritan
 * Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night
 * Monica Shannon - Dobry
 * John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
 * Rex Stout - The League of Frightened Men
 * Phoebe Atwood Taylor
 * Deathblow Hill
 * The Tinkling Symbol
 * B. Traven - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
 * S.S. Van Dine - The Garden Murder Case
 * Stanley G. Weinbaum - The Lotus Eaters
 * Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

New drama

 * Maxwell Anderson - Winterset
 * T S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
 * Federico García Lorca - Doña Rosita the Spinster
 * Jean Giraudoux - The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
 * Clifford Odets - Waiting for Lefty
 * Lawrence Riley - Personal Appearance
 * Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall

Non-fiction

 * William Henry Chamberlin - Russia's Iron Age
 * George Dangerfield - The Strange Death of Liberal England
 * Ernest Hemingway - Green Hills of Africa
 * Carl Gustav Jung - Dream Symbols of the Process of Individuation.
 * Gerald M. Loeb–The Battle for Investment Survival
 * Nigel Tranter - The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400-1650

Births

 * January 8, 1935 - Elvis Presley
 * January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet (d. 1984)
 * March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
 * March 13 - Kofi Awoonor, Ghana poet and writer
 * March 23 - Barry Cryer, comedy writer
 * April 6 - John Pepper Clark, Nigerian poet and playwright
 * April 14 - Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods author
 * April 15 - Alan Plater, screenwriter
 * May 2 - Lynda Lee-Potter, columnist (d. 2004)
 * August 15 - Régine Deforges, dramatist, publisher, and author of France's best-selling novel ever
 * August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, novelist
 * September 16 - Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
 * September 17 - Ken Kesey, novelist (d. 2001)
 * October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist
 * December 13 - Adélia Prado, Brazilian writer and poet

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" (b. 1888)
 * August 11 - Sir William Watson, traditionalist poet
 * August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author
 * August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
 * September 29 - Winifred Holtby, English novelist
 * October 11 - Steele Rudd, short story writer
 * November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, poet
 * December 17 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet
 * December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers, Thomas More
 * 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