1930 in literature

See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is published.

New Books

• Aphrodite in Aulis - George A. Moore
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• Bridal Pond - Zona Gale
• Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
• A Flood - George A. Moore
• The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
• Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
• The Great Meadow - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field
• It's Never Over - Morley Callaghan
• Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
• The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
• Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
• Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes
• Powder and Patch – Georgette Heyer
• The Promised Land - Gilbert Lubin
• Rogue Herries - Hugh Walpole
• The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
• 1066 and All That - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
• Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
• Woman of Andros - Thornton Wilder

Births

• January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
• February 17 - Ruth Barbara Rendell, writer
• August 16 - Ted Hughes, poet
• October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
• November 18 - J. G. Ballard, author

Deaths

• March 2 - D.H. Lawrence, author
• July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver Lafarge - Laughing Boy