1901 in literature

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The year 1901 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet René-François-Admand Sully Prudhomme; many people 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
G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
Anton Chekhov marries Olga Leonardovna Knipper.
Collapse of the Irish Literary Theatre.

New books

John Kendrick Bangs — Mr. Munchausen
L. Frank Baum — Dot and Tot of Merryland
René Boylesve — La Becquée
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
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - A Cidade e as Serras
Rabindranath Tagore — Nastanirh
Jules Verne
- The Village in the Treetops
- The Sea Serpent
H. G. Wells — The First Men in the Moon
Emile Zola — Travail

New drama

Gabriele D'Annunzio - Francesca da Rimini
Anton Chekov - The Three Sisters

Poetry

Non-fiction

Winston Churchill - The Crisis
Edith Helen Sichel - Women and Men of the French Renaissance
Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery

Births

January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (d. 1974)
February 13 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist
April 10 - Anna Kavan, author
June 1 - John William Van Druten, dramatist
August 10 - Sergio Frusoni, poet
September 3 - James Hanley, novelist
December 9 - Ödön von Horváth, dramatist and novelist
December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (d. 1978)
date unknown - Dilys Powell, film critic

Deaths

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

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme

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