1901 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1901.

Events

January 31 â Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (Ð¢ÑÐ¸ ÑeÑÑÑÑ, Tri sestry) opens at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko with Stanislavski as Vershinin, Olga Knipper as Masha, Margarita Savetskaya as Olga, Maria Andreyeva as Irina, and Maria Lilina (Stanislavski's wife) as Natasha.
February 22 â Leo Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church.^[1]
May 1 â Publication of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee in Belgium.^[2]
May 6 â Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, 52, marries his third wife, the Swedish-Norwegian actress Harriet Bosse, 23, after an engagement in March during rehearsals for his play Easter (PÃ¥sk).
May 25 â Chekhov marries Olga Knipper in a quiet ceremony.^[3]
May 28 â Cherry v. Des Moines Leader is decided in the Iowa Supreme Court, upholding the right to publish critical reviews.
June 28 â G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg at St Mary Abbots, Kensington.
July â The first modern performances of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, are given by William Poel's Elizabethan Stage Society outdoors at the Charterhouse in London.^[4]
July 24 â O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement.
October
- Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, is published in Berlin.
- The Irish Literary Theatre project gives its final performance.^[5]
October 23 â Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature from Yale University. In the same month he moves to Riverdale, New York.
December 2 â The Romanian literary review SÄmÄnÄtorul is founded.^[6]
December 10 â The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme.^[7]
unknown date â World's Classics series of publications is founded by Grant Richards in England.

New books

Poetry

Henry Ames Blood â Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood
Maxim Gorky â The Song of the Stormy Petrel (ÐÐµÑÐ½Ñ Ð¾ ÐÑÑÐµÐ²ÐµÑÑÐ½Ð¸ÐºÐµ)
Thomas Hardy â Poems of the Past and the Present
Akiko Yosano (ä¸è¬é æ¶å) â Midaregami (ã¿ã ãé«ª, Tangled Hair)

Non-fiction

Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater â Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
Sigmund Freud â The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens)
Francis Procter and Walter Frere â A New History of the Book of Common Prayer
Seebohm Rowntree â Poverty, A Study of Town Life
Edith Helen Sichel â Women and Men of the French Renaissance
Rudolf Steiner â Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens, und ihr VerhÃ¤ltnis zur modernen Weltan-schauung (Mysticism at the Dawn of Modern Spiritual Life, and its Relationship with Modern World-views)
A. E. Waite â The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
Booker T. Washington â Up from Slavery
H. G. Wells â Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought

Births

January 1 â Elisabeth Kyle, Scottish novelist and journalist (died 1982)
January 17 â Hryhorii Epik, Ukrainian writer and journalist (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh 1937)^[11]
January 30 â Hans Erich Nossack, German poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer (died 1977)
January 31 â Marie Luise Kaschnitz (Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett), German story writer, novelist and poet (died 1974)
February 1 â Langston Hughes, African-American poet and novelist (died 1967)
February 2 â Valerian Pidmohylny, Ukrainian modernist (shot at Sandarmokh 1937)^[12]
February 3 â Rosamond Lehmann, English novelist (died 1990)
February 13 â Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), Scottish novelist (died 1935)
February 23 â Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish novelist and journalist (died 1990)
March 4 (or 1903) â Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo), Malagasy Francophone poet (suicide 1937)
April 10 â Anna Kavan (Helen Emily Woods, Helen Ferguson), French-born English novelist and short story writer (died 1968)
April 21 â Gladys Mitchell, English crime fiction writer (died 1983)
May 1 â Antal Szerb, Hungarian writer (died 1945)
May 2 â Margaret Wetherby Williams (Margaret Erskine), English crime fiction writer (died 1984)
May 15 â Xavier Herbert, Australian novelist (died 1984)
May 26 â Norman Denny, English writer and translator (died 1982)
June 1 â John Van Druten, English-born American dramatist (died 1957)
June 23 â Ahmet Hamdi TanpÄ±nar, Turkish novelist and essayist (died 1962)
July 9 â Barbara Cartland, English romantic novelist, historian and playwright (died 2000)
July 20 â Dilys Powell, English film critic (died 1995)
July 25 â Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (died 1993)
August 10 â Sergio Frusoni, Cape Verde poet and promoter of Cape Verdean Creole language (died 1975)
August 14 â Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (died 1998)
August 17 â HeÃ°in BrÃº, Faroese fiction writer and translator (died 1987)
August 20 â Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet and translator (died 1968)
October 25 â Samuil LehtÈir, Soviet Moldovan poet, critic and literary theorist (shot 1937)
November 4 â Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (died 1957)
December 9 â ÃdÃ¶n von HorvÃ¡th, Austro-Hungarian dramatist and novelist (died 1938)
December 16 â Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (died 1978)^[13]

Deaths

January 1 â Ignatius L. Donnelly, American politician and writer (born 1831)
January 14 â VÃctor Balaguer, Catalan Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1824)
January 17 â Frederic W. H. Myers, British poet (born 1843)
January 26 â Grigore Sturdza, Moldavian and Romanian adventurer, literary sponsor and philosopher (pneumonia, born 1821)
February 2 â John Cordy Jeaffreson, English novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1831)
February 7 â Rowena Granice Steele, first female novelist in California (born 1824)
February 15 â Maurice Thompson, American novelist (born 1844)
February 18 â Anna Gardner, American author, abolitionist, teacher, reformer (born 1816)
March 19 â Philippe Gille, French dramatist (born 1831)
April 6 â George Murray Smith, English publisher (born 1824)
April 10 â Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, reformer and author (born 1828)
April 12 â Louis Auguste Sabatier, French theologian (born 1839)
April 26 â Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, American educator, author, editor, and publisher (born 1819)
May 24 â Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (born 1823)
June 4 â Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (born 1814)
June 5 â Dagny Juel, Norwegian writer and artists' model (shot, born 1867)
June 9 â Walter Besant, English novelist and historian (born 1836)^[14]
June 10 â Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1841)
July 7 â Johanna Spyri, Swiss children's writer (born 1827)
July 18 â Jan ten Brink, Dutch novelist (born 1834)
July 20 â William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (born 1840)
July 27 â Brooke Foss Westcott, English theologian (born 1825)
August 4 â Harriet Pritchard Arnold, American author (born 1858)
August 9 â Vishnudas Bhave, Indian dramatist (unknown birth year)
October 31 â Julien Leclercq, French Symbolist poet and art critic (born 1865)
November 6 â Kate Greenaway, English children's illustrator and writer (born 1846)^[15]
November 21 â V. A. Urechia, Romanian historian, writer and politician (born 1834)^[16]
December 28 â Mary K. Buck, Bohemian-born American author (born 1849)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme

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