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The clerihew, a comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is first mentioned in print. [16] It is claimed that one in four of all secular books printed and sold in England this year are the work of Edgar Wallace. [17] Edgar Wallace with trademark trilby hat and cigarette holder at the height of his success in ...
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
The 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Danish-born Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is the third female recipient of the literature prize.
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William Trevor Cox KBE (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016), known by his pen name William Trevor, was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, [ 5 ] he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. [ 6 ]
January 16 – English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; pallbearers at the ceremony include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. [1]
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1928 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. 5 February – David McKee Wright, poet (born 1869) [33]
Pages in category "Literary characters introduced in 1928" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .