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Overview of the events of 1911 in literature
Overview of the events of 1911 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 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 ,
[1] instigated by the far-right
Action Française led by writer
Charles Maurras , but in conjunction with the far-left
Guerre Sociale .
[2]
March
March 29 – The
1911 New York State Capitol fire in
Albany destroys 700,000 books and documents belonging to the
New York State Library .
[5]
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 .
[6]
May 9 – The works of
Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the
Index of Forbidden Books by the
Vatican .
May 31 – The French publishers
Éditions Gallimard is founded in Paris by
Gaston Gallimard as Les Éditions de la
Nouvelle Revue Française (nrf). Its first publication is
Paul Claudel 's play
L'Otage .
Summer –
Jaroslav Hašek begins publishing stories of
The Good Soldier Švejk (Dobrý voják Švejk ) in the
Prague 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 .
[7]
October 16 – The new building for the
Mitchell Library opens in
Glasgow .
[8]
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
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 (London); the
Bodleian Library (Oxford); the
Advocates Library (Edinburgh); the
National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth);
Trinity College Dublin ; and
Cambridge University Library .
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 9 –
Eva Alexanderson , Swedish novelist and translator (died
1994 )
[11]
January 18 –
José María Arguedas , Peruvian author (died
1969 )
[12]
January 22 –
Mary Hayley Bell , English dramatist (died
2005 )
[13]
January 24
February 4 –
Geoffrey Willans , English novelist and comic writer (died
1958 )
February 8 –
Elizabeth Bishop , American poet,
Pulitzer Prize winner (died
1979 )
February 17 –
Margaret St. Clair , American science fiction writer (died
1995 )
[15]
March 11 –
Fitzroy Maclean , Scottish political writer and autobiographer (died
1996 )
March 15 –
Ursula Vaughan Williams , British poet, novelist and biographer (died
2007 )
[16]
March 16 –
Sybille Bedford , German-born English novelist and journalist (died
2006 )
March 26 –
Tennessee Williams , American playwright (died
1983 )
[17]
April 8 –
Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher and essayist (died
1995 )
[18]
April 19
May 15 –
Max Frisch , Swiss author (died
1991 )
[21]
May 20 –
Annie M. G. Schmidt , Dutch children's author (died
1995 )
May 28 –
Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian playwright (died
1986 )
June 2 –
Xiao Hong (Qiao Yin, 張廼瑩) Chinese author (died
1942 )
June 15 -
Wilbert Awdry , British Anglican reverend and children's author (died
1997 )
June 6 –
Verna Aardema (Verna Norberg), American children's author (died
2000 )
June 30 –
Czesław Miłosz , Lithuanian-born Polish author,
Nobel Prize in Literature winner (died 2004)
July 17 –
Yang Jiang , Chinese playwright, author, and translator (died
2016 )
July 21 –
Marshall McLuhan , Canadian media theorist (died
1980 )
July 22 –
George Ivașcu , Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (died
1988 )
September 19 –
William Golding , British novelist, playwright and poet,
Nobel Prize in Literature winner (died
1993 )
October 13 –
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla , Albanian poet and writer (died
1938 )
November 2 –
Odysseas Elytis , Greek poet, Nobel Prize winner (died
1996 )
November 19 –
Mary Elizabeth Counselman , American author and poet (died
1995 )
December 11 –
Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize in literature winner (died
2006 )
[22]
December 25 –
Noel Langley , South African-born American screenwriter (died
1980 )
Deaths
January 23 –
David Graham Phillips , American journalist and novelist (murdered, born
1867 )
February 25 –
Friedrich Spielhagen , German novelist, literary theorist and translator (born
1829 )
March 7 –
Antonio Fogazzaro , Italian novelist (born
1842 )
April 14 –
George Cary Eggleston , American memoirist (born
1839 )
April 25 –
Emilio Salgari , Italian adventure novelist (suicide, born
1862 )
[23]
April 30 –
Stanisław Brzozowski , Polish philosopher, publicist and critic (tuberculosis, born
1878 )
May 1 –
Hannah Whitall Smith , American Quaker author (born
1832 )
[24]
May 9 –
Thomas Wentworth Higginson , American writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's suffrage (born
1823 )
May 29 –
W. S. Gilbert , English librettist, dramatist and comic poet (born
1836 )
June 7 –
Henry Abbey , American poet (born
1842 )
June 10 –
Adolf Wilbrandt , German novelist and dramatist (born
1837 )
June 14 –
Charlotte O'Conor Eccles , Irish-born London writer, translator and journalist (born
1863 )
July 21 –
Philippe Monnier , Swiss writer in French (born
1864 )
[25]
September 4 –
John Francon Williams , Welsh-born writer, historian, and cartographer (born
1854 )
September 5 –
Katherine Thurston , Irish novelist (born
1875 )
September 9 –
Francis March , American lexicographer and philologist (born
1825 )
September 23 –
John Arthur Barry , English author and journalist (born
1850 )
October 6 –
Martha D. Lincoln ("Bessie Beech"), American author and journalist (born
1838 )
October 8 –
Hesba Stretton (Sarah Smith), English children's writer (born
1832 )
October 29 –
Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born American journalist and publisher (born
1847 )
November 9 –
Howard Pyle , American children's author (born
1853 )
December 1 –
Richard Barham Middleton , English poet and fiction writer (born
1882 )
December 22 –
Catharine H. T. Avery , American author, editor, and educator (born
1844 )
December 13 –
Henrietta Stannard , English novelist (writing as John Strange Winter, born
1856 )
December 29 –
Rosamund Marriott Watson , English poet (born
1860 )
Awards
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The Mercury . Hobart. 1911-03-06. p. 5.
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ISBN
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^ Wodehouse, P. G. (2013). Ratcliffe, Sophie (ed.). P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters . W. W. Norton & Co. p. 74.
ISBN
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"1911 fire at state Capitol left hole in cultural heritage" . The Daily Gazette . Schenectady. Retrieved 2021-09-29 .
^ Cooper, Jeff.
"Timeline of the Dymock Poets" . Friends of the Dymock Poets. Retrieved 2014-07-03 .
^ Auster, Paul, ed. (1982).
The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets . New York: Random House.
ISBN
0-394-52197-8 .
^ "Lord Rosebery On Books: The Mitchell Library in Glasgow".
The Times . No. 39718. London. 1911-10-17. p. 4.
^ Chronology in
Oxford World's Classics editions of her works.
^ Norman A. Jeffares (17 June 2013).
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ISBN
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^
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"Obituary: Mary Hayley Bell" . The Guardian . 5 December 2005.
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"Authors : St Clair, Margaret" . SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . Retrieved 2019-03-15 .
^ Robert Ponsonby (25 October 2007).
"Obituary: Ursula Vaughan Williams" . The Independent . Retrieved 29 October 2007 .
^ Roudané, Matthew Charles, ed. (1997).
The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams . Cambridge University Press. p. xvi.
ISBN
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^
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^ Marie Henry (1984).
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^
"Monnier, Philippe" . Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse (in French). Retrieved 10 January 2021 .
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^ Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1987).
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