1930
Following the replacement of Arabic script by the Latin alphabet, the Turkish government orders the post office to return all mail not bearing the new spellings of place-names.
1930
The Austrian writer Robert Musil publishes the first part of his novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften/The Man Without Qualities. The final part appears in 1943.
1930
The English writer Agatha Christie publishes her novel Murder at the Vicarage, which introduces her amateur detective Miss Jane Marple.
1930
The U.S. writer Hart Crane publishes his epic poem The Bridge.
1930
The Welsh writer E. M. Delafield (pseudonym of Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood) publishes Diary of a Provincial Lady.
1930
The U.S. writer John Dos Passos publishes his novel 42nd Parallel.
1930
The U.S. writer William Faulkner publishes his novel As I Lay Dying.
1930
The Portuguese writer José Maria Ferreira de Castro publishes his novel A selva/The Jungle.
1930
The U.S. writer Robert Frost publishes Collected Poems.
1930
The U.S. writer Dashiell Hammett publishes his novel The Maltese Falcon, a classic of U.S. hard-boiled detective fiction.
1930
The German writer Hermann Hesse publishes his novel Narziss und Goldmund/Narcissus and Goldmund.
1930
The English artist and writer Percy Wyndham Lewis publishes his satirical novel The Apes of God.
1930
The English writer W. Somerset Maugham publishes his novel Cakes and Ale.
1930
The Italian writer Salvatore Quasimodo publishes his poetry collection Acque e terre/Water and Land.
1930
The West Indian writer Jean Rhys (pseudonym of Ella Gwendolen Rees William) publishes her novel After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.
1930
The English writer Evelyn Waugh publishes his novel Vile Bodies.
1930
The English-born U.S. writer W. H. Auden publishes Poems.
1930
The U.S.-born English writer T. S. Eliot publishes his poem sequence Ash Wednesday.
1930
The Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset publishes her novel Den braendende busk/The Burning Bush.
1930
The Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky publishes Moia zizhn: opyt avtobiografii/Autobiography.
1930
The English writer and literary critic William Empson publishes his critical work Seven Types of Ambiguity.
1930
John Masefield becomes poet laureate in England, a position he holds until 1967.
1930
The U.S. writer Katherine Anne Porter publishes her short story collection Flowering Judas.
1930
The U.S. writer Carl Van Vechten publishes his collection of short stories Feathers.
1930
The U.S. writer Langston Hughes publishes his novel Not Without Laughter. ??????????????? – drop the not, taught in most grammar classes of the 60’s and 70’s.
1930
The U.S. writer Thornton Wilder publishes his novel The Woman of Andros.
1930–1935
The Hittite hieroglyphic is substantially deciphered. It provides information about the early Indo-European sound system.
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