1901 in literature
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The year 1901 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme; many are outraged when Leo Tolstoy does not win
- October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University. In the same month, he moves to Riverdale, New York
- December 2 - the Romanian literary review Sămănătorul is founded
- G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
- Anton Chekhov marries Olga Leonardovna Knipper
- Collapse of the Irish Literary Theatre
[edit] New books
- John Kendrick Bangs - Mr. Munchausen
- L. Frank Baum - American Fairy Tales
- René Boylesve - La Becquée
- Samuel Butler - Erewhon Revisited
- Hall Caine - The Eternal City
- Colette - Claudine à Paris
- Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Ford - The Inheritors
- Victoria Cross - Anna Lombard
- George Douglas - The House with the Green Shutters
- Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career
- Géza Gárdonyi - A láthatatlan ember
- Henry James - The Sacred Fount
- Rudyard Kipling - Kim
- Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
- George Moore - Sister Theresa
- Frank Norris - The Octopus
- Charles-Louis Philippe - Bubu de Montparnasse
- Luigi Pirandello - L'Esclusa
- Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - A Cidade e as Serras
- Rabindranath Tagore - Nastanirh
- Jules Verne - The Sea Serpent
- H. G. Wells - The First Men in the Moon
- Emile Zola - Travail
[edit] New drama
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Francesca da Rimini
- Anton Chekhov - Three Sisters
- August Strindberg - A Dream Play
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1901 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Winston Churchill - The Crisis
- Sigmund Freud - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
- Edith Helen Sichel - Women and Men of the French Renaissance
- Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery
[edit] Births
- January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German writer (died 1974)
- February 13 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist (died 1974)
- February 23 - Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish writer (died 1990)
- April 10 - Anna Kavan, author (died 1968)
- June 1 - John Van Druten, dramatist (died 1957)
- July 20 - Dilys Powell, film critic (died 1995)
- July 25 - Ruth Krauss, children's book author and poet (died 1993)
- August 10 - Sergio Frusoni, poet (died 1975)
- August 20 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian author (died 1968)
- November 3 - André Malraux, French author (died 1976)
- December 9 - Ödön von Horváth, dramatist and novelist (died 1938)
- December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (d. 1978)
[edit] Deaths
- February 15 - Maurice Thompson, novelist
- March 24 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, novelist
- April 12 - Louis Auguste Sabatier, theologian
- June 9 - Walter Besant, novelist
- June 10 - Robert Williams Buchanan, writer
- July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author
- July 20 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, poet and critic
- July 27 - Brooke Foss Westcott, theologian
- October 31 - Julien Leclercq, poet and art critic
- date unknown - Victor Balaguer, dramatist and poet
