1931 în literatură

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Anul 1931 în literatură a implicat o serie de evenimente și cărți noi semnificative.

Cărți noi

• Papucii lui Mahmud de Gala Galaction
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon – The Bridal Canopy
• Margery Allingham – Police at the Funeral
• Roberto Arlt – Los lanzallamas (The Flame-Throwers)
• E. F. Benson – Mapp and Lucia
• Arna Bontemps – God Sends Sunday
• Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth
• Morley Callaghan – No Man's Meat
• Nellie Campobello – Cartucho
• John Dickson Carr
  • Castle Skull
  • The Lost Gallows
• Willa Cather – Shadows on the Rock
• Sigurd Christiansen – To levende og en død
• Agatha Christie – The Sittaford Mystery
• Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth – The Cat Who Went to Heaven
• N. D. Cocea – Vinul de viață lungă
• A. J. Cronin – Hatter's Castle
• E. E. Cummings – CIOPW
• Sergiu Dan – Dragoste și moarte în provincie
• Detection Club – The Floating Admiral
• Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Will O' the Wisp
• Lord Dunsany – The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
• William Faulkner
  • Sanctuary
  • These 13
• Jessie Redmon Fauset – The Chinaberry Tree
• Carlo Emilio Gadda – La madonna dei filosofi
• Emma Goldman – Living My Life
• Caroline Gordon – Penhally
• Dashiell Hammett – The Glass Key
• James Hanley – Boy
• Serge-Simon Held – La Mort du fer (The Death of Iron)
• Harold Heslop – Red Earth
• Georgette Heyer – The Conqueror
• James Hilton – Murder at School
• Knud Holmboe – Desert Encounter
• Fannie Hurst – Back Street
• Francis Iles – Malice Aforethought
• Carolyn Keene – The Secret of Shadow Ranch
• Irmgard Keun – Gilgi – eine von uns (Gilgi – One of Us)
• Halldór Laxness – Salka Valka, pt I: Þú vínviður hreini (O Thou Pure Vine)
• W. Somerset Maugham – Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular
• Pierre Mac Orlan – La Bandera
• Nancy Mitford – Highland Fling
• Thomas Mofolo – Chaka
• Leopold Myers – Prince Jali
• Ilf and Petrov – The Little Golden Calf
• Andrei Platonov – The Foundation Pit (Котлован, Kotlovan; completed; not published until after the author's death in 1951)
• Anthony Powell – Afternoon Men
• Ellery Queen – The Dutch Shoe Mystery
• Erich Remarque – The Road Back
• E. Arnot Robertson – Four Frightened People
• Rafael Sabatini – Captain Blood Returns
• Vita Sackville-West – All Passion Spent
• John Monk Saunders – Single Lady
• Dorothy Sayers – Five Red Herrings
• George S. Schuyler – Black No More
• Nevil Shute – Lonely Road
• Georges Simenon – Pietr-le-Letton (book format)
• Upton Sinclair – Roman Holiday
• Thomas Sigismund Stribling – The Forge
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor – The Cape Cod Mystery
• Sigrid Undset – Wild Orchid
• Hugh Walpole – Judith Paris
• Nathanael West – The Dream Life of Balso Snell
• Virginia Woolf – The Waves
• P. G. Wodehouse
  • Big Money
  • If I Were You
• Sax Rohmer - Daughter of Fu Manchu

Teatru

Articol principal: 1931 în teatru.

• Chen Liting – Put Down Your Whip (放下你的鞭子, Fàngxià nǐde biānzi)
• Noël Coward – Post Mortem (published)
• John van Druten – London Wall
• Federico García Lorca – When Five Years Pass (Así que pasen cinco años, written)
• Jean Giraudoux – Judith
• Eugene O'Neill – Mourning Becomes Electra
• Ahmed Shawqi – Qambeez (Cambyses)
• Dodie Smith – Autumn Crocus
• Gladys Bronwyn Stern – The Man Who Pays The Piper
• Ödön von Horváth – Tales from the Vienna Woods (Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald)
• Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas Dinner
• Carl Zuckmayer – The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)

Poezie

Articol principal: 1931 în poezie.

Non-ficțiune

• Samuel Beckett – Proust
• Adrian Bell – Silver Ley
• Marc Bloch – Les Caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale française
• Arthur Bryant – King Charles the Second
• Herbert Butterfield – The Whig Interpretation of History
• W. Chapman and V. C. A. Ferraro – A New Theory of Magnetic Storms
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda et al. – Dehkhoda Dictionary of the Persian language
• Julius Evola – The Hermetic Tradition
• Dion Fortune – Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science
• John Middleton Murry – Son of Woman: The Story of D. H. Lawrence
• Irma S. Rombauer – The Joy of Cooking
• Helen Thomas – World Without End

Premii

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