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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1930. ==Events== *January 6 - An early literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works. *February - Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State. Among the first 13 books to be banned (announced in May) are ''Point Counter Point'' by Aldous Huxley, ''The Well of Loneliness'' by Radclyffe Hall and several books on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes.〔''Iris Oifigiúil'', 14 May 1930.〕 *February 23 - Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' is banned in all Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick. *March 19 - Paul Robeson appears in the title role of ''Othello'' at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. *May 6 - Collins Crime Club is launched as an imprint and marketing device for crime fiction published by British publisher William Collins. *May 10 - John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.〔(''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA), 11 May 1930. Accessed 28 October 2012 )〕 *July 14 - Luigi Pirandello's ''The Man with the Flower in His Mouth'' becomes the first-ever broadcast television drama, by the BBC in England, directed by Val Gielgud. *July 19 - Georges Simenon's detective character Inspector Jules Maigret makes his first appearance in print, under Simenon's own name (following his abandonment of pseudonyms), when the novel ''Pietr-le-Letton'' (known in English as ''The Strange Case of Peter the Lett'') begins serialization in the French weekly magazine ''Ric et Rac'' (published by Fayard).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maigret of the Month: ''Pietr-le-Letton'' (Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett) )〕 It will appear in book form in 1931 as the fifth of the 75 novels (as well as 28 short stories) Simenon will eventually write featuring the pipe-smoking Paris detective. *September 11 - Agatha Christie marries archaeologist Max Mallowan in Edinburgh. *September 24 - First performance of Noël Coward's comedy ''Private Lives'' at the Phoenix Theatre (London) featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast.〔 *September 29 - English satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh is received into the Catholic Church. *October 13 - Agatha Christie's ''The Murder at the Vicarage'', the first full-length novel to feature her amateur detective character Miss Marple, is published in the United Kingdom in the Collins Crime Club series, having previously been serialized in the United States. *November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. *December 10 - First performance of Bertolt Brecht's ''Lehrstück'' ''The Decision'' (''Die Maßnahme''), written in collaboration with Slatan Dudow and the composer Hanns Eisler, at the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin with Ernst Busch in the principal rôle. *John Langalibalele Dube publishes the historical novella ''Insila kaShaka'', the first work of fiction in the Zulu language. *Franz Kafka's novel ''The Castle'' (1926) is first translated into English, by Willa and Edwin Muir. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1930 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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