February–September –D. H. andFrieda Lawrence migrate from Europe to the United States, visiting Australia on the way, where he completes writing his novelKangaroo.
July – Having issued a 2nd edition ofAntónio Botto's poetry collectionCanções through hisLisbon publishing house Olisipo,Fernando Pessoa publishes a magazine article praising Botto's courage and sincerity in shamelessly singinghomosexual love as a trueaesthete,[8] sparking controversy overliteratura de Sodoma.
Bengali writerKazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" (The Advent of the Delightful Mother) in support of theIndian independence movement, in thePuja issue of his new biweeklyDhumketu. For this he is arrested in theBengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge ofsedition for much of the following year. He goes on a hunger strike and composes many poems while in prison. His poem "Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, The Rebel, December 1921) appears in his first anthology,Agnibeena.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story collectionTales of the Jazz Age is published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.
November –Uri Zvi Greenberg flees to Berlin after the second issue of theYiddish literary journalAlbatros, which he edits, is seized. TheWarsaw authorities accuse him of blasphemy for iconoclastic depictions of Jesus, notably his prose poem "Royte epl fun veybeymer" (Red Apples from the Trees of Pain).
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