September 11 – Agatha Christie marries archaeologist Max Mallowan in Edinburgh.It will appear in book form in 1931 as the fifth of 75 novels (and 28 short stories) in which Simenon features the pipe-smoking Paris detective. July 19 – Georges Simenon's Detective Inspector Jules Maigret makes a first appearance in print, under Simenon's own name after he abandons pseudonyms, in the novel Pietr-le-Letton ( The Strange Case of Peter the Lett), which begins serialization in the French weekly magazine Ric et Rac published by Fayard.July 14 – Luigi Pirandello's The Man with the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first broadcast television drama, by the BBC in England, directed by Val Gielgud.May 10 – John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

May 6 – The Collins Crime Club is launched as a crime fiction imprint by the U.K.

March 19 – Paul Robeson plays the title role of Othello at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona.

February 23 – Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen nichts Neues, 1929) is banned in Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick.

Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) are Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley, The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and several on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes.

February – The Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State.

and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.

January 6 – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by A.

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1930.

Dark Visions by T. Lucien Wright