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

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  • 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".^[1]
  • 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).

• 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

• Clément Marot – L'Adolescence clémentine

• 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)
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  • Étienne Jodelle, French poet and playwright associated with La Pléiade (died 1573)
  • Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist poet and painter (died 1599)
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  • Thomas Norton, English politician and poet (died 1584)
  • Tulsidas (तुलसीदास), Indian Hindu Awadhi language poet, sant and philosopher (died 1623)

• August 19 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German abbess and chronicler (born 1573)
• unknown date – Thomas Arthur, dramatist (year of birth unknown)^[2]