Calendar of Literary Facts
1921
- Luigi Pirandello’s drama Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore Six Characters in Search of an Author is produced
- Fernando Pessoa publishes English Poems
- Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes Collected Poems
- Conrad Aiken publishes Punch: The Immortal Liar, Documents in His History
- Booth Tarkington publishes Alice Adams
- Louis Hemon’s Maria Chapdeline: Recit du Canada français is published
- Austin Clarke publishes The Fires of Baal
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is founded
- V. I. Lenin introduces the collectivist New Economic Policy (NEP) in Russia
- The German economy begins to experience high inflation as the Deutshe-mark falls in value
- Anatole France receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Edith Wharton receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Age of Innocence
- Zona Gale receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Miss Lulu Bett
- Robert W. Service publishes Complete Poetical Works
- H.D. publishes Hymen
- Pablo Neruda publishes La cancion de la fiesta
- Paulo Freire is born
- Walter de la Mare publishes The Veil and Other Poems
- Patricia Highsmith is born (January 1)
- Richard Wilbur is born (March 1)
- Satyajit Ray is born (May 2)
- Friedrich Duerrenmatt is born (January 5)
- Georges Feydeau dies (June 5)
- Mona Van Duyn is born (May 9)
- Tadeusz Rozewicz is born (October 9)
- Farley Mowat is born (May 12)
- Alex Haley is born (October 12)
- James A. Houston is born (June 12)
- Raymond Souster is born (January 15)
- George Mackay Brown is born (October 17)
- Jacques Ferron is born (January 20)
- Brian Moore is born (August 25)
- Cyprian Ekwensi is born (September 26)
- Hisaye Yamamoto is born (April 27)
