1534 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1534.

Events

 * July 20 – Cambridge University Press is granted a royal charter by King Henry VIII of England to print "all manner of books" and becomes the first of the privileged presses.
 * unknown dates
 * Luther Bible: Martin Luther's Biblia: das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch, a translation of the complete Bible into German is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg, including woodcut illustrations.
 * Rabbi Asher Anchel's Mirkevet ha-Mishneh (a Tanakh concordance) becomes the first book printed in Yiddish (in Kraków).

New books

 * Anthony Fitzherbert – La Novelle Natura Brevium
 * François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Gargantua (La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel)
 * Polydore Vergil – Historia Anglica
 * Juan Luis Vives – De conscribendis epistolis
 * Syed Shah Israil – Maʿdan al-Fawāʾid in Persian

Births

 * April 18 – William Harrison, clergyman and writer (died 1593)
 * October 18 – Jean Passerat, poet and satirist (died 1602)

Deaths

 * November 23 – Otto Brunfels, German botanist and theologian (born 1488)
 * Unknown dates
 * Cesare Magni, Italian printer
 * Wynkyn de Worde, Lotharingian-born English printer