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

Events[]

Anton Chekhov with Olga Knipper, on their honeymoon

January 31 – Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (Три сeстры, 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 (Stanislavsky's wife) as Natasha.
February 22 – Leo Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church.^[1]
May 1 – Publication of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee in Belgium.^[2]
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 (Påsk).
May 25 – Chekhov marries Olga Knipper in a quiet ceremony.^[3]
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.^[4]^[5]
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.^[6]
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.^[7]
December 10 – The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme.^[8]
unknown date – World's Classics series of publications is founded by Grant Richards in England.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano – El Zarco^[9]^[10]
Leonid Andreyev – «повести» (stories)
E.F. Benson – The Luck of the Vails
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 (first novel in Irish published complete in book form)
George Douglas – The House with the Green Shutters
Miles Franklin – My Brilliant Career
Géza Gárdonyi – A láthatatlan ember (The Invisible Man)
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 (The Excluded Woman)
Liane de Pougy – Idylle Saphique
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – A Cidade e as Serras
M. P. Shiel
- Lord of the Sea^[11]
- The Purple Cloud
Bram Stoker and Valdimar Ásmundsson – Makt Myrkranna (Powers of Darkness, Icelandic language adaptation of Stoker's Dracula)
Rabindranath Tagore – Nastanirh (নষ্টনীড়, The Broken Nest)
William Alexander Taylor – Intermere
Jules Verne
- The Sea Serpent (Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin)
- The Village in the Treetops (Le Village aérien)
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 (Sperduti nel buio)
Hall Caine – The Eternal City
Anton Chekhov – Three Sisters
Clyde Fitch – The Climbers
Haralamb Lecca – Quinta. Suprema forță
Wilhelm Meyer-Förster – Old Heidelberg (Alt Heidelberg)
Louis N. Parker – The Cardinal
August Strindberg – A Dream Play (Ett drömspel, published)
Stanisław Wyspiański
- Warszawianka (Varsovian Anthem, stage première)
- The Wedding (Wesele)

Poetry[]

Henry Ames Blood – Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood
Maxim Gorky – The Song of the Stormy Petrel (Песня о Буревестнике)
Thomas Hardy – Poems of the Past and the Present
Akiko Yosano (与謝野晶子) – Midaregami (みだれ髪, Tangled Hair)

Non-fiction[]

Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater – Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
Sigmund Freud – The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens)
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 (Mysticism at the Dawn of Modern Spiritual Life, and its Relationship with Modern World-views)
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 (Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett), German story writer, novelist and poet (died 1974)
February 13 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), Scottish novelist (died 1935)
February 23 – Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish novelist and journalist (died 1990)
March 4 (or 1903) – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo), Malagasy Francophone poet (suicide 1937)
April 10 – Anna Kavan (Helen Emily Woods, Helen Ferguson), French-born English novelist and short story writer (died 1968)
May 1 – Antal Szerb, Hungarian writer (died 1945)
May 15 – Xavier Herbert, Australian novelist (died 1984)
June 1 – John Van Druten, English-born American dramatist (died 1957)
June 23 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish novelist and essayist (died 1962)
July 9 – Barbara Cartland, English romantic novelist, historian and playwright (died 2000)
July 20 – Dilys Powell, English film critic (died 1995)
July 25 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (died 1993)
August 10 – Sergio Frusoni, Cape Verde poet and promoter of Cape Verdean Creole language (died 1975)
August 17 – Heðin Brú, Faroese fiction writer and translator (died 1987)
August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian author (died 1968)
November 3 – André Malraux, French author (died 1976)
November 4 – Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (died 1957)
December 9 – Ödön von Horváth, Austro-Hungarian dramatist and novelist (died 1938)
December 16 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (died 1978)^[12]

Deaths[]

January 14 – Víctor Balaguer, Catalan Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1824)
January 26 – Grigore Sturdza, Moldavian and Romanian adventurer, literary sponsor and philosopher (pneumonia, born 1821)
February 2 – John Cordy Jeaffreson, English novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1831)
February 15 – Maurice Thompson, American novelist (born 1844)
March 19 – Philippe Gille, French dramatist (born 1831)
March 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (born 1823)
April 6 – George Murray Smith, English publisher (born 1824)
April 12 – Louis Auguste Sabatier, French theologian (born 1839)
June 5 – Dagny Juel, Norwegian writer and artists' model (shot, born 1867)
June 9 – Walter Besant, English novelist and historian (born 1836)^[13]
June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1841)
July 7 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss children's writer (born 1827)
July 18 – Jan ten Brink, Dutch novelist (born 1834)
July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (born 1840)
July 27 – Brooke Foss Westcott, English theologian (born 1825)
August 9 – Vishnudas Bhave, Indian dramatist (unknown birth year)
October 31 – Julien Leclercq, French Symbolist poet and art critic (born 1865)
November 6 – Kate Greenaway, English children's illustrator and writer (born 1846)^[14]

Awards[]

Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme

References[]

^ Decree of Excommunication of Leo Tolstoy.
^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 27. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
^ "I have a horror of weddings, the congratulations and the champagne, standing around, glass in hand with an endless grin on your face." Letter to Olga Knipper, April 19, 1901.
^ Stephen G. Kuehler (2008).
^ Concealing God: The "Everyman" revival, 1901–1903. Tufts University Ph.D. thesis, p. 108.
^ William Butler Yeats (30 June 2008). The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement. Simon and Schuster. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4391-0612-9.
^ Râpeanu, Valeriu (December 2001). "Sămănătorul acum 100 de ani". Magazin Istoric.
^ Nobel Prize official website: From the First Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1901. Accessed March 11, 2013.
^ "Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel". Escritores.org. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
^ "Resumen de El Zarco (Ignacio Manuel Altamirano)". 28 June 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
^ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.
^ "Margaret Mead | Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
^ Charles Wells Moulton (1966). The mid-nineteenth century to Edwardianism. F. Ungar Publishing Company. p. 416.
^ Clark; Mary Bruccoli; Richard Layman; Gale Cengage; Clark Bruccoli; Mary Layman Richard (1994). British Children's Writers, 1880-1914. Gale Research. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8103-5555-2.

[1] Decree of Excommunication of Leo Tolstoy.

[2] Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 27. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.

[3] "I have a horror of weddings, the congratulations and the champagne, standing around, glass in hand with an endless grin on your face." Letter to Olga Knipper, April 19, 1901.

[4] Stephen G. Kuehler (2008).

[5] Concealing God: The "Everyman" revival, 1901–1903. Tufts University Ph.D. thesis, p. 108.

[6] William Butler Yeats (30 June 2008). The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement. Simon and Schuster. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4391-0612-9.

[7] Râpeanu, Valeriu (December 2001). "Sămănătorul acum 100 de ani". Magazin Istoric.

[8] Nobel Prize official website: From the First Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1901. Accessed March 11, 2013.

[9] "Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel". Escritores.org. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

[10] "Resumen de El Zarco (Ignacio Manuel Altamirano)". 28 June 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

[11] Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.

[12] "Margaret Mead | Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

[13] Charles Wells Moulton (1966). The mid-nineteenth century to Edwardianism. F. Ungar Publishing Company. p. 416.

[14] Clark; Mary Bruccoli; Richard Layman; Gale Cengage; Clark Bruccoli; Mary Layman Richard (1994). British Children's Writers, 1880-1914. Gale Research. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8103-5555-2.

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