1901 in literature 1901 .Events January 31 – Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters 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 as Natasha. February 22 – Leo Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church . May 6 – 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 . May 25 – Chekhov marries Olga Knipper in a quiet ceremony. May 28 – Cherry v. Des Moines Leader is decided in the Iowa Supreme Court , upholding the right to publish critical reviews. June 28 – G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg at St Mary Abbots , Kensington . July – 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. July 24 – 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. October 23 – Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature from Yale University . In the same month he moves to Riverdale, New York . December 2 – The Romanian literary review Sămănătorul is founded. December 10 – The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme . unknown date – World's Classics series of publications is founded by Grant Richards in England.New books Fiction Ignacio Manuel Altamirano – El Zarco Leonid Andreyev – «повести» René Boylesve – La Becquée Samuel Butler – Erewhon Revisited Hall Caine – The Eternal City Winston Churchill – The Crisis Colette – Claudine à Paris Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford – The Inheritors Victoria Cross – Anna Lombard Patrick S. Dinneen – Cormac Ó Conaill George Douglas – The House with the Green Shutters Miles Franklin – My Brilliant Career Géza Gárdonyi – A láthatatlan ember Henry James – The Sacred Fount Johannes V. Jensen – The Fall of the King Rudyard Kipling – Kim Jean Lorrain *Monsieur de Phocas *Le Vice errant George Barr McCutcheon – Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind a Throne Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks George Moore – Sister Theresa Frank Norris – The Octopus Charles-Louis Philippe – Bubu de Montparnasse Luigi Pirandello – L'Esclusa Liane de Pougy – Idylle Saphique José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – A Cidade e as Serras M. P. Shiel *Lord of the Sea *The Purple Cloud Bram Stoker and Valdimar Ásmundsson – Makt Myrkranna Rabindranath Tagore – Nastanirh William Alexander Taylor – Intermere Jules Verne *The Sea Serpent *The Village in the Treetops H. G. Wells – The First Men in the Moon Émile Zola – Travail Children and young people John Kendrick Bangs – Mr. Munchausen L. Frank Baum *American Fairy Tales *The Master Key *Dot and Tot of Merryland Evelyn Everett-Green – True Stories of Girl Heroines Drama Gabriele D'Annunzio – Francesca da Rimini J. M. Barrie – Quality Street Roberto Bracco – Lost in the Dark Hall Caine – The Eternal City Anton Chekhov – Three Sisters Clyde Fitch – The Climbers Haralamb Lecca – Quinta. Suprema forță Wilhelm Meyer-Förster – Old Heidelberg August Strindberg – A Dream Play Stanisław Wyspiański *:pl:Warszawianka |Warszawianka *The Wedding Poetry Henry Ames Blood – Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood Maxim Gorky – The Song of the Stormy Petrel Thomas Hardy – Poems of the Past and the Present Akiko Yosano – Midaregami Non-fiction Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater – Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation Sigmund Freud – The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Seebohm Rowntree – Poverty, A Study of Town Life Edith Helen Sichel – Women and Men of the French Renaissance Rudolf Steiner – Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens, und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltan-schauung A. E. Waite – The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Booker T. Washington – Up from Slavery H. G. Wells – Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought Births January 31 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz , German story writer, novelist and poet February 13 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon , Scottish novelist February 23 – Ivar Lo-Johansson , Swedish novelist and journalist March 4 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo , Malagasy Francophone poet April 10 – Anna Kavan , French-born English novelist and short story writer May 1 – Antal Szerb , Hungarian writer May 15 – Xavier Herbert , Australian novelist June 1 – John Van Druten , English-born American dramatist June 23 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar , Turkish novelist and essayist July 9 – Barbara Cartland , English romantic novelist, historian and playwright July 20 – Dilys Powell , English film critic July 25 – Ruth Krauss , American children's author and poet August 10 – Sergio Frusoni , Cape Verde poet and promoter of Cape Verdean Creole language August 17 – Heðin Brú , Faroese fiction writer and translator August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo , Italian author November 3 – André Malraux , French author November 4 – Ernest Elmore , English crime writer and theatre director December 9 – Ödön von Horváth , Austro-Hungarian dramatist and novelist December 16 – Margaret Mead , American anthropologist and authorDeaths January 14 – Víctor Balaguer , Catalan Spanish dramatist and poet February 2 – John Cordy Jeaffreson , English novelist and non-fiction writer February 15 – Maurice Thompson , American novelist March 19 – Philippe Gille , French dramatist March 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge , English novelist April 6 – George Murray Smith , English publisher April 12 – Louis Auguste Sabatier , French theologian June 5 – Dagny Juel , Norwegian writer and artists' model June 9 – Walter Besant , English novelist and historian June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan , Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist July 7 – Johanna Spyri , Swiss children's writer July 18 – Jan ten Brink , Dutch novelist July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse , English poet and critic July 27 – Brooke Foss Westcott , English theologian August 9 – Vishnudas Bhave , Indian dramatist October 31 – Julien Leclercq , French Symbolist poet and art critic November 6 – Kate Greenaway , English children's illustrator and writerAwards Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme
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