1535 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1535.

Events

• January 13 – A statute of the Parlement of Paris is enacted forbidding all printing under threat of hanging and closing all bookshops, although it is quickly abandoned.
• October 4 – Publication of Myles Coverdale's complete Bible translation into English in Antwerp is completed.
• unknown date – The earliest printed book in Estonian, a Catechism with a translation by Johann Koell from the Middle Low German Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg for use in Tallinn.

New books

Prose

• John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners – Huon of Burdeuxe
• Desiderius Erasmus – Ecclesiastes: sive de ratione concionandi
• Simon Wanradt and Johann Koell – Catechism (first book text in Estonian)

Poetry

Births

• Thomas North, English translator (died c.1604)
• Approximate years
• George Gascoigne, English writer, soldier and courtier (died 1577)
• Thomas Legge, English dramatist (died 1607)

Deaths

• February 7 – Thomas More, English social philosopher, politician and author (born 1478)
• October 10 – Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, Spanish poet and dramatist (born 1485)
• Unknown date – Girolamo Angeriano (also "Hieronymus Angerianus"), poet in Italian and Latin (born c. 1470 – 1490)

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