1534 in literature

• 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.{{cite book|author=David McKitterick|title=A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfttG9tnd5UC|date=28 September 1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-30801-4|page=35}}
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• 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).

• 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

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

• November 23 – Otto Brunfels, German botanist and theologian (born 1488)
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• Cesare Magni, Italian printer
• Wynkyn de Worde, Lotharingian-born English printer{{cite book|author=Charles Henry Timperley|title=Encyclopedia of Literary and Typograpical Anecdote: Being a Chronological Digest of the Most Interesting Facts Illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5BCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA258|year=1842|publisher=H.G. Bohn|pages=258}}

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