1901 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded.

• October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University.

• October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York

• The Three Sisters drama by Anton Chekov

• Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.

• Kim by Rudyard Kipling is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• The Aerial Village - Jules Verne
• La Becquée - René Boylesve
• Bubu de Montparnasse - Charles-Louis Philippe
• Claudine à Paris - Colette
• The Crisis - Winston Churchill
• The Eternal City - Hall Caine
• The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas
• Kim - Rudyard Kipling
• My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
• The Octopus - Frank Norris
• Travail - Emile Zola
• Sister Theresa - George A. Moore
• Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington

Births

• January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (+ 1974)
• April 10 - Anna Kavan, author
• December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural antropologist and author (+ 1978)

Deaths

• June 9 - Walter Besant, novelist
• June 10 - Robert Buchanan, writer
• July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme