1532 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1532.

Events

 * unknown dates
 * William Thynne's edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer is published in England, the first time an English-language writer's texts have been collected together as "Works".
 * First edition of François Villon's Œuvres with a commentary by Clément Marot is published in France.
 * First complete edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is published in Italy.
 * Yamazaki Sōkan compiles the Shinseninutsukubashū, a significant anthology of Japanese renku poetry (from which haiku will develop).

Prose

 * Otto Brunfels – Contrafayt Kräuterbuch (second and final part: 1537)
 * Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi (first installment)
 * Niccolò Machiavelli (posthumous) – The Prince (Il Principe)
 * Thomas More – The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
 * François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Pantagruel (Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua)
 * Feliciano de Silva – Don Florisel de Niquea

Poetry

 * Clément Marot – L'Adolescence clémentine

Births

 * February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade (died 1589)
 * November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German didactic poet (died c.1599)
 * Unknown dates
 * Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
 * Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)
 * Probable year
 * Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
 * Tulsidas (तुलसीदास), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)

Deaths

 * August 19 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German abbess and chronicler (born 1573)
 * unknown date – Thomas Arthur, dramatist (year of birth unknown)