1938 in literature

See also: 1937 in literature, other events of 1938, 1939 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The trilogy, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, is published containing his three novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936).
• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh is published.
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen is published.
• Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning in December. While recovering next year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.
• Samuel Beckett's first completed novel Murphy is published.