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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1937. ==Events== *January 9 – The first issue of ''Look'' magazine goes on sale in the United States. *January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' by J. Bissell Thomas from its London station, the first play written for television. *April – Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen and Seán Ó Faoláin first meet, in London. *May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of ''Twelfth Night'', the first known instance of a Shakespeare play televised. Among the cast are Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson. *May 21 – Penguin Books launches its Pelican Books sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint in the U.K. with a 2-volume edition of Bernard Shaw's ''The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''. *June – John Cowper Powys visits Sycharth, birthplace of Owain Glyndŵr, which becomes the inspiration for his 1940 novel ''Owen Glendower. *June 30 – Poems of colonial American pastor Edward Taylor (d. 1729), discovered by Thomas H Johnson, are published in ''The New England Quarterly''.〔(Library of Congress, ''Catalog of Copyright Entries: Periodicals, Part 2'' ). Accessed 23 February 2015〕 *Summer – American-born writer Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets German-born novelist Klaus Mann in Europe and they form a relationship. *July * *Establishment of Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany around the Goethe Oak. * *American academic librarian Randolph Greenfield Adams, in a controversial ''Library Quarterly'' essay "Librarians as Enemies of Books", complains about librarians de-emphasizing books and scholarship in favor of other responsibilities. *July 4 – ''The Lost Colony'' historical drama by Paul Green is first performed at an outdoor theater in the location where it is set, Roanoke Island, North Carolina. *July 31 – Stephen Vincent Benét's post-apocalyptic short story "By the Waters of Babylon", inspired by April's Bombing of Guernica, is published in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (U.S.) as "The Place of the Gods". *September 10 – Soviet playwright Sergei Tretyakov commits suicide while under sentence of death at Butyrka prison in Moscow as part of the Great Purge. *September 21 – J. R. R. Tolkien's juvenile fantasy novel ''The Hobbit, or There and Back Again'' is published in England by George Allen & Unwin on the recommendation of young Rayner Unwin. *September 29 – French playwright Antonin Artaud is expelled from Ireland. *October 6 – The fictional character 'Mrs. Miniver' first appears in the column on domestic life written by 'Jan Struther' for ''The Times'' (London). *November 11 (Armistice Day) – BBC Television broadcasts ''Journey's End'' by R. C. Sherriff (1928, set on the Western Front (World War I) in 1918), the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play. Reginald Tate plays the lead, a rôle he has performed extensively in the theatre. *Undated * *The National Library of Iran is inaugurated in Tehran. * *The future novelist Angus Wilson becomes a book cataloguer at the British Museum Library in London. 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「1937 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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