1901 in literature
See also: 1900 in literature, other events of 1901, 1902 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
- Anton Chekhov marries Olga Leonardovna Knipper.
New books
- 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
- 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
- Rabindranath Tagore — Nastanirh
- Jules Verne — The Aerial Village
- H. G. Wells — The First Men in the Moon
- Emile Zola — Travail
New drama
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 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
Categories
1901 books