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''
Births
- Thomas North, English translator
- Approximate years
- *George Gascoigne, English writer, soldier and courtier
- *Thomas Legge, English dramatist
Deaths
- February 7 – Thomas More, English social philosopher, politician and author
- October 10 – Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, Spanish poet and dramatist
- Unknown date – Girolamo Angeriano, poet in Italian and Latin