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The year 1829 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read.

New books

• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Devereux
• Honoré de Balzac - Les Chouans
• George Croly - Salathiel
• Catherine Gore - Romances of Real Life
• Washington Irving - Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada
• George Payne Rainsford James - Richelieu
• Frederick Marryat - The Naval Officer
• Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Fate and Fortune
• Julia Pardoe - Lord Morcar of Hereward
• Thomas Love Peacock - The Misfortunes of Elphin
• Sir Walter Scott - Anne of Geierstein

New drama

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
• Victor Hugo - Marion Delorme
• Douglas William Jerrold - Black-Eyed Susan
• John Augustus Stone - Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags

Poetry

• Edgar Allan Poe - Al Araaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems
• Alfred Tennyson - Timbuctoo

Non-fiction

• Hans Christian Andersen - A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - On the Constitution of Church and State
• Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1 (1st edition)
• Washington Irving - A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
• Lord Mahon - Life of Belisarius
• David Walker -Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America

Births

• January 1 - Tommaso Salvini, actor and memoirist
• February 24 - Friedrich von Spielhagen, novelist
• March 4 - Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
• March 16 - Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in Literature winner (+ 1907)
• May 1 - José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
• September 12 - Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist (d. 1900)
• September 25 - William Michael Rossetti, critic and founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• December 8 - Henry Timrod, poet (d. 1867)

Deaths

• January 6 - Josef Dobrovský, historian
• January 11 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, poet and critic
• February 11 - Alexandr Griboyedov, dramatist
• July 7 - Jacob Friedrich von Abel, philosopher
• September 29 - Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer

Awards

• Newdigate prize - Robert Stephen Hawker