1911 in literature 1911 .Events January – The journal Ay Qap begins monthly publication in Arabic script in Troitsk , to promote modern Kazakh literature and progressive thought. February–March – Antisemitic riots break out in Paris over the staging of Henri Bernstein's Après moi by the Comédie-Française , instigated by the far-right Action Française led by writer Charles Maurras , but in conjunction with the far-left Guerre Sociale . March – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris plans a Futurist conference and publishes a manifesto, Le futurisme , at Sansot. April – Hugo Gernsback begins to publish his pioneering science fiction novel Ralph 124C 41+ in the monthly U.S. magazine Modern Electrics . c. April 8 – The English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire , as the first of the Dymock poets . May 31 – The French publishers Éditions Gallimard is founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard as Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française . Its first publication is Paul Claudel's play L'Otage . Summer – Jaroslav Hašek begins publishing stories of The Good Soldier ŠvejkPrague newspaper Karikatura , edited by the illustrator Josef Lada . September 7 – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, writing as "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris on August 21 and imprisoned for six days. This year he publishes his first book of poetry, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée . October 16 – The new building for the Mitchell Library opens in Glasgow . October 17 – Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen , the later German novelist Hans Fallada , kills his best friend in a suicide pact staged as a duel. November *The Kalem Company of New York agrees to pay the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 for having adapted Ben Hur from without securing prior rights. *Virginia Stephen begins to share her brother Adrian Stephen's London house at 38 Brunswick Square with other members of the Bloomsbury Group: Leonard Woolf , John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant . December 16 – The U.K. Copyright Act consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries to which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library ; the Bodleian Library ; the Advocates Library ; the National Library of Wales ; Trinity College, Dublin ; and Cambridge University Library .New books Fiction Pío Baroja *Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía *The Tree of Knowledge Lima Barreto – Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson Hilaire Belloc – Arnold Bennett – The Card J. D. Beresford – The Hampdenshire Wonder Ambrose Bierce – The Devil's Dictionary Algernon Blackwood – The Centaur J. E. Casely-Hayford – Ethiopia Unbound G. K. Chesterton – The Innocence of Father Brown Hugh Clifford – The Downfall of the Gods Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes Marie Corelli – Life Everlasting Warwick Deeping - Fox Farm Penelope Delta – Paramythi Horis Onoma Theodore Dreiser – Jennie Gerhardt W. E. B. Du Bois – The Quest of the Silver Fleece Edna Ferber – Dawn O'Hara Ford Madox Ford – Ladies Whose Bright Eyes E. M. Forster – The Celestial Omnibus R. Austin Freeman – The Eye of Osiris Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Moving the Mountain Anna Katharine Green – Initials Only Ian Hay – A Safety Match Robert Hichens – The Fruitful Vine Violet Jacob – Flemington Pauline Johnson – Legends of Vancouver Mary Johnston – The Long Roll Eduard von Keyserling – Wellen Valery Larbaud – Fermina Márquez D. H. Lawrence – The White Peacock Stephen Leacock – Nonsense Novels Gaston Leroux *Balaoo *The Phantom of the Opera Katherine Mansfield – In a German Pension John Masefield *Jim Davis; or, The Captive of Smugglers *The Street of Today A.E.W. Mason – Miranda of the Balcony Mori Ōgai – The Wild Geese Baroness Orczy – A True Woman Forrest Reid – The Bracknels Ameen Rihani – The Book of Khalid Saki – The Chronicles of Clovis Una Lucy Silberrad *The Affairs of John Bolsover *Sampson Rideout, Quaker Bram Stoker – The Lair of the White Worm Gene Stratton-Porter – The Harvester Kathleen Thompson Norris – Mother Sigrid Undset – Jenny Hugh Walpole – Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill Mary Augusta Ward – The Case of Richard Meynell H. G. Wells – The New Machiavelli Edith Wharton – Ethan Frome Owen Wister – Padre Ignacio Jerzy Żuławski – Stara Ziemia , last of the Trylogia Księżycowa Children and young people J. M. Barrie – Peter and Wendy L. Frank Baum *The Sea Fairies *The Daring Twins *Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John *The Flying Girl Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden L. M. Montgomery – The Story Girl Ferenc Móra – Mindenki Jánoskája Lucy Fitch Perkins – Dutch Twins Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes Jean Webster – Just Patty Drama Hugo Ball – Die Nase des Michelangelo. Tragikomödie in vier Auftritten Tristan Bernard – The Little Cafe Hall Caine – The Quality of Mercy George Diamandy – Dolorosa St. John Greer Ervine – Mixed Marriage A. de Herz *Biruința *Când ochii plâng Edward Knoblock – Kismet Gregorio Martínez Sierra *Canción de cuna *Primavera en otoño Clifford Mills – Where the Rainbow Ends Emma Orczy – The Duke's Wager Louis N. Parker – Disraeli Rainis – Indulis un Ārija Arthur Schnitzler – Das weite Land George Bernard Shaw – Fanny's First Play Karl Vollmöller – The Miracle Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Jedermann W. B. Yeats – The Countess Cathleen Poetry Edwin James Brady – River Rovers Else Lasker-Schüler – Meine Wunder John Masefield – The Everlasting Mercy Non-fiction Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.Wassily Kandinsky – Über das Geistige in der Kunst Walter John Kilner – The Human Atmosphere Jack London – The Cruise of the Snark Filippo Tommaso Marinetti – Le futurisme Robert Michels – Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy George Moore – Ave John Muir – My First Summer in the Sierra R. Scott-Moncrieff – The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie , 1692–1733 C. T. Onions – A Shakespeare Glossary Percy Simpson – Shakespearean Punctuation Rudolf Steiner – Mystics of the Renaissance Evelyn Underhill – Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness A. E. Waite *The Pictorial Key to the Tarot *The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry Births January 9 – Eva Alexanderson , Swedish novelist and translator January 18 – José María Arguedas , Peruvian author January 24 *C. L. Moore, American science fiction author *L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction writer , founder of Scientology February 4 – Geoffrey Willans , English novelist and comic writer February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop , American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner February 17 – Margaret St. Clair, American science fiction writer March 11 – Fitzroy Maclean , Scottish political writer and autobiographer March 16 – Sybille Bedford , German-born English novelist and journalist March 26 – Tennessee Williams , American playwright April 19 *Frank Barlow, English historian, ) *Ursula Moray Williams, English children's writer April 8 – Emil Cioran , Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist May 15 – Max Frisch , Swiss author May 20 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author May 28 – Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian playwright June 2 – Xiao Hong Chinese author June 6 – Verna Aardema , American children's author June 30 – Czesław Miłosz , Lithuanian-born Polish author, Nobel Prize in Literature winner July 17 – Yang Jiang , Chinese playwright, author, and translator July 21 – Marshall McLuhan , Canadian media theorist July 22 – George Ivașcu , Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant October 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla , Albanian poet and writer November 2 – Odysseas Elytis , Greek poet, Nobel Prize winner November 19 – Mary Elizabeth Counselman , American author and poet December 11 – Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize in literature winner December 25 – Noel Langley , South African-born American screenwriterDeaths January 23 – David Graham Phillips , American journalist and novelist February 7 – Hannah Whitall Smith , American Quaker author February 25 – Friedrich Spielhagen , German novelist, literary theorist and translator March 7 – Antonio Fogazzaro , Italian novelist April 14 – George Cary Eggleston , American memoirist April 25 – Emilio Salgari , Italian novelist April 30 – Stanisław Brzozowski , Polish philosopher, publicist and critic May 9 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson , American writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's suffrage May 29 – W. S. Gilbert, English librettist, dramatist and comic poet June 7 – Henry Abbey , American poet June 10 – Adolf Wilbrandt , German novelist and dramatist June 14 – Charlotte O'Conor Eccles , Irish-born London writer, translator and journalist July 21 – Philippe Monnier , Swiss writer in French September 4 – John Francon Williams , Welsh-born writer, historian, and cartographer September 5 – Katherine Thurston , Irish novelist September 9 – Francis March , American lexicographer and philologist October 8 – Hesba Stretton , English children's writer October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born American journalist and publisher November 9 – Howard Pyle , American children's author December 1 – Richard Barham Middleton , English poet and fiction writer December 13 – Henrietta Stannard , English novelist December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson , English poetAwards Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist
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