People - Literature

Release of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Heroes in Crisis Series

Announced as Writer for New Gods Film

Wins Eisner Award for Best Writer

Starts as Batman Writer

Mister Miracle Release

The Omega Men Relaunch

Vision Series Announcement

Publication of A Once Crowded Sky

Tom King Born

Investigation into Neruda's Cause of Death

Death of Pablo Neruda

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Neruda

Publication of Canto General

Neruda Goes into Hiding

Neruda Elected as Senator in Chile

Spanish Civil War and Neruda's Political Awakening

Neruda Appointed as Chilean Consul

Publication of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Birth of Pablo Neruda

Death of John Galsworthy

Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of Swan Song

Publication of The White Monkey

Election as Chairman of P.E.N.

Completion of The Forsyte Saga

Publication of Justice

Publication of The Man of Property

Debut of The Silver Box

Birth of John Galsworthy

Salvatore Quasimodo's Death

Publication of "Il falso e vero verde"

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of "Ed è subito sera"

Publication of "Acque e terre"

Salvatore Quasimodo's Birth

Death of Eugenio Montale

Publication of 'Collected Poems'

Appointed as Senator for Life

Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Release of "La bufera e altro"

Move to Milan

Resistance Poetry in 1943

Join Solaria

Torino Meeting Publication

Birth of Eugenio Montale

Death of Sigrid Undset

Return to Norway After World War II

World War II and Escape to the United States

Honorary Degree from Smith College

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded

Completion of The Master of Hestviken

Publication of Kristin Lavransdatter

Conversion to Catholicism

Debut Novel Published

Birth of Sigrid Undset

Death of Juan Ramón Jiménez

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of 'Animal de fondo'

'Español del éxodo y del llanto' Written and Published

Exile following the Spanish Civil War's outbreak

Marriage to Zenobia Camprubí

Publication of 'Diario de un poeta recién casado'

Publication of 'Platero y yo'

Publication of 'Arias tristes'

Birth of Juan Ramón Jiménez

Entered the French Academy

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Awarded the Cervantes Prize

Presidential Campaign in Peru

Release of the Film 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'

Publication of 'The War of the End of the World'

Publication of 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'

Publication of 'The Green House'

Publication of 'The Time of the Hero'

Mario Vargas Llosa's Birth

Death of Roger Martin du Gard

Publication of Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort

Awarded the French Legion of Honour

Publication of Summer 1914

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded

Publication of La Belle Saison

Publication of Jean Barois

Writing of Les Thibault Begins

Publication of Devenir!

Birth of Roger Martin du Gard

Selma Lagerlöf Featured on New Swedish Banknote

150th Anniversary Celebration of Selma Lagerlöf's Birth

Launch of Selma Lagerlöf's Image on Swedish Currency

Death of Selma Lagerlöf

Publication of Mårbacka

Selma Lagerlöf Becomes a Member of the Swedish Academy

Selma Lagerlöf Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Publication of Gösta Berling's Saga

Birth of Selma Lagerlöf

Death of Joseph Brodsky

Becomes Poet Laureate of the United States

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Exile from the Soviet Union

Publication of First Poetry Collection

Publication of 'Watermark: An Essay on Venice'

Publication of 'Less Than One: Selected Essays'

Conviction and Sentencing for 'Parasitism'

Start of Brodsky's Trial

Birth of Joseph Brodsky

Death of Pär Lagerkvist

Publication of "Aftonland"

Play "Barabbas" premiered

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of "Dvärgen"

Publication of "The Hangman"

Publication of "Onda Sagor"

Publication of the poetry collection "Ångest"

Debut of the play "Människor"

Birth of Pär Lagerkvist

The Books of Jacob in English

Analysis of Olga Tokarczuk's Themes by Critics

Nobel Prize in Literature

Man Booker International Prize

Publication of Flights

Primeval and Other Times

Debut Novel: The Journey of the Book-People

Birth of Olga Tokarczuk

Orhan Pamuk on Writing During the Pandemic

Birth of Pamuk's Museum of Innocence

Publication of 'A Strangeness in My Mind'

Orhan Pamuk Resigns from His University Post

Hrant Dink Assassination and Its Relation to Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Orhan Pamuk Charged with 'Insulting Turkishness'

Publication of 'Istanbul: Memories and the City'

Publication of 'Snow'

Birth of Orhan Pamuk

Death of Kenzaburō Ōe

Publication of 'Death by Water' in English

Publication of 'The Changeling' in English

Publication of 'Somersault'

Publication of 'A Healing Family'

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of 'A Personal Matter'

Birth of Kenzaburō Ōe's son, Hikari

Publication of 'Shiiku' (The Catch)

Birth of Kenzaburō Ōe

Death of Pearl S. Buck

Publication of 'The Good Deed'

Publication of 'The Living Reed'

Founding of Pearl S. Buck Foundation

Founding of Welcome House

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded

Publication of 'The Exile'

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Awarded

Publication of 'The Good Earth'

Birth of Pearl S. Buck

Death of Henryk Sienkiewicz

Inauguration of the Grunwald Monument

Nobel Prize in Literature

Completion of The Knights of the Cross

Centenary Celebration of Henryk Sienkiewicz's Birth

Publication of Quo Vadis

Publication of With Fire and Sword

Publication of The Trilogy's Second Book in Newspaper

Journey to the United States

Birth of Henryk Sienkiewicz

Death of Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of 'The Sweetest Dream'

Appointment as a Companion of Honour

Publication of 'The Good Terrorist'

Publication of 'Shikasta'

Publication of 'The Golden Notebook'

Doris Lessing Joins the Communist Party

Publication of 'The Grass is Singing'

Birth of Doris Lessing

Release of Gao Xingjian's Film 'Requiem for Beauty'

Retrospective of Gao Xingjian's Art Opens in Beijing

Gao Xingjian's Play 'The Other Shore' Premieres in English

Gao Xingjian Elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts

New Book 'Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather' Published

Gao Xingjian's Painting Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery

Publication of 'One Man's Bible'

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Gao Xingjian Attains French Citizenship

Publication of 'Soul Mountain'

Death of William Faulkner

Awarded the Legion of Honour

Publication of 'Requiem for a Nun'

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of 'Intruder in the Dust'

Faulkner's Screenwriting for Hollywood

Publication of 'Light in August'

Publication of 'Sanctuary'

Publication of 'The Sound and the Fury'

Birth of William Faulkner

Publication of 'Journal 1889–1939'

Death of André Gide

André Gide Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Gide Joins the Communist Party

Publication of 'Les Faux-Monnayeurs'

Publication of 'La Symphonie Pastorale'

Founding of La Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF)

Publication of 'L'Immoraliste'

Publication of André Gide's First Novel

Birth of André Gide

Death of Albert Camus

Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of The Fall

Publication of The Rebel

Publication of The Plague

Joins French Resistance and edits Combat

Publication of The Stranger

Publication of Betwixt and Between

Graduation from University of Algiers

Birth of Albert Camus

Death of Yasunari Kawabata

Graduation from Tokyo Imperial University

Publication of "The Izu Dancer"

Publication of "Snow Country"

Publication of "Thousand Cranes"

Posthumous Publication of Collected Works

Publication of "The Old Capital"

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Birth of Yasunari Kawabata

Death of Frédéric Mistral

Publication of his Memoirs "Moun espelido"

Nobel Prize in Literature

Opening of the Museon Arlaten

Appointment as Secretary of Académie de Marseille

Publication of L'Ange Bleu

Publication of Calendau

Publication of Mirèio

Founding of Félibrige

Birth of Frédéric Mistral