1910 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1910.

Events

January 8 – Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) concludes serialization in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois.
April – Halley's comet reappears (after 76 years), and Mark Twain dies on April 21, the day following the comet's perihelion. In his biography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
March 18 – The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the United States by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features (unbilled) actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
August 11 – Buenos Aires Convention signed, providing for the international recognition of copyright.
September First appearance of G. K. Chesterton's fictional detective Father Brown in the short story "The Blue Cross" in the Story-Teller magazine (London); previously published on June 23 as "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail" in The Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia).
September 1 – Opening of Herbert Beerbohm Tree's elaborate revival of Shakespeare's Henry VIII in London which will run for 254 consecutive performances.
October – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first novel Mafarka il futurista is cleared of obscenity charges.^[1]
Fall Damon Runyon begins working as a journalist on The New York American.
Thomas Mofolo writes Pitseng and Chaka, the latter not published at this time.
Boris Pasternak drops out of the Moscow Conservatory and begins to study law, moving on to study philosophy at the University of Marburg.

New books

Births

February 6 – Irmgard Keun, German author (died 1982)
May 8 – Andrew E. Svenson, American author and publisher (died 1975)
June 21 – Clive Sansom, English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright (died 1981)
June 23 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (died 1987)
July 14 – Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (died 2004)
September 8 – Julián Padrón, Venezuelan novelist, journalist and lawyer (died 1954)
September 11 – Manuel Mujica Láinez, Argentine novelist (died 1984)
October 15 – Haddis Alemayehu, Ethiopian politician and novelist (died 2003)
November 17 – Rachel de Queiroz, Brazilian author (died 2003)
December 19
- Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (died 1986)
- José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (died 1976)
December 24
- Jean-Paul Crespelle, French writer (died 1994)
- Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (died 1992)

Deaths

January 29 – Edouard Rod, French-Swiss novelist (born 1857)
April 9 – Vittoria Aganoor, Italian poet (born 1855)
April 21 – Mark Twain, American writer (born 1835)
May 7 – Emil Friedrich Kautzsch, German Bible scholar (born 1841)
May 22 – Jules Renard, French novelist (born 1864)
July 2 – Frederick James Furnivall, English lexicographer (born 1825)
August 4 – Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, German New Testament commentator (born 1832)
August 26 – William James, American philosopher (born 1842)
October 17
- William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet (born 1869)
- Julia Ward Howe, American poet and abolitionist (born 1819)
November 6 – George Panu, Romanian memoirist, literary critic, journalist and politician (born 1848)
November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist (born 1831)
November 20 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (born 1828)

Awards

References

^ Blum, Cinzia Sartini (1996). The Other Modernism: F.T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520916272., p181
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ "A History of Persia". World Digital Library. 1921. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

[1] Blum, Cinzia Sartini (1996). The Other Modernism: F.T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520916272., p181

[2] Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

[WDL-3] "A History of Persia". World Digital Library. 1921. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

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Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young adults

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

References