1908 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1908.

Events[]

1st ed.
  • February 15 – The weekly boys' story paper The Magnet is first published in London, containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional Greyfriars School written by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of Billy Bunter.
  • March – Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he publishes himself his first collection of poems, A Lume Spento (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish A Quinzaine for this Yule.[1]
  • June 18 – Mark Twain buys a house in Redding, Connecticut.[2]
  • Summer – The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre, Cambridge (England), of Milton's masque Comus, directed by Rupert Brooke.
  • July – Katherine Mansfield moves to London; she will never return to her native New Zealand.
  • September 30 – Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu) is premièred, at Konstantin Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre.
  • October 3 – The Avenida Theatre opens on Buenos Aires' Avenida de Mayo with a production of Lope de Vega's El castigo sin venganza (Justice Without Revenge, 1631) directed by María Guerrero.
  • November 10 – Opening of a production of Euripides' The Bacchae directed by William Poel in Gilbert Murray's verse translation at the Royal Court Theatre in London under the management of Harley Granville-Barker with his wife Lillah McCarthy in the role of Dionysus.[3]
  • November 18 – The release in France of La Mort du duc de Guise marks the first film with a screenplay by an eminent man of letters, the playwright Henri Lavedan;[4] it is also directed by two men of the theatre, Charles Le Bargy and André Calmettes, and features actors of the Comédie-Française.
  • December – Ford Madox Hueffer begins publication of the literary magazine The English Review in London. The first issue contains original work by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy and W. H. Hudson, and begins serialization of H. G. Wells's realist semi-autobiographical satirical novel Tono-Bungay.
  • December 1 – Cuala Press, set up at Churchtown, Dublin, as a private press independent of the former Dun Emer Press in connection with the Irish Literary Revival and Arts and Crafts movement by Elizabeth "Lolly" Yeats with editorial support from her brother W. B. Yeats, produces its first publication, Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson (died 1902).[5]
  • unknown dates
    • Ethiopian linguist Afevork Ghevre Jesus's ልብ ፡ ወለድ ፡ ታሪክ ። (Libb Wolled Tārīk, "A Heart-Born Story"), the first novel in Amharic, is published in Rome.[6]
    • The Malay tale Hikayat Hang Tuah (c. 1700) is first published, edited by Sulaiman bin Muhammed Nur and William Shellabear.[7]
    • The Romanian writer Urmuz is known to be working on his manuscript stories, the Bizarre Pages, printed only after 1922.[8]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

1st ed.

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1908 in poetry
  • Edward Carpenter – Iolaus: Anthology of Friendship
  • W. H. Davies – Nature Poems
  • Maria Konopnicka – Rota (Oath)

Non-fiction[]

Cover of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, 1st part
  • Robert Baden-Powell – Scouting for Boys
  • Sarah Bernhardt – My Double Life
  • Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater – Occult Chemistry
  • Edward Carpenter – The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
  • G. K. Chesterton – All Things Considered
  • W. H. Davies – The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp[11]
  • Levi H. Dowling – The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
  • Gertrude Jekyll – Colour in the Flower Garden
  • Jack London – War of the Classes
  • Francisco I. Madero – La sucesión presidencial en 1910[12]
  • Titu Maiorescu – Critice (Critical Essays)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (died 1900) – Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist (written 1888)
  • M. Ostrogorski – Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties (La Démocratie et l'organisation des partis politiques, 1903)
  • George Panu – Amintiri de la Junimea din Iași (Recollections from Junimea of Iași; first volume)
  • Charlotte Carmichael Stopes – The Sphere of 'Man' in Relation to that of 'Woman' in the Constitution
  • Alfred R. Tucker – Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa[13]

Births[]

  • January 9 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist philosopher (died 1986)[14]
  • January 16 – Pavel Nilin, Soviet novelist and playwright (died 1981)
  • January 18 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born scientist and poet (died 1974)
  • January 20
    • Fleur Cowles, American journalist, editor and illustrator (died 2009)
    • Jean S. MacLeod, Scottish-English romantic novelist (died 2011)
  • February 4 – Julian Bell, English poet (killed 1937)
  • February 11 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director, and producer (died 1992)
  • February 29 – Dee Brown, American novelist and historian (died 2002)
  • March 5 – Irving Fiske, American playwright, WPA writer, and speaker; co-founder of Quarry Hill Creative Center (died 1990),[15]
  • March 6 – Dame Felicitas Corrigan, English writer and Benedictine nun (died 2003)
  • March 8 – Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Indian-born Bahraini poet (died 2002)
  • March 22 – Louis L'Amour, American author (died 1988)
  • April 12 – Ida Pollock, British romantic novelist (died 2013)
  • May 17 – Frederic Prokosch, American novelist and poet (died 1989)
  • May 20 – Aleksei Arbuzov, Soviet playwright (died 1986)
  • May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
  • May 27 – Peggy Ramsay, born Margaret Venniker, Australian-born British theatrical agent (died 1991)
  • May 28 – Ian Fleming, English espionage novelist (died 1964)[16]
  • June 14 – Kathleen Raine, English poet, scholar, and translator (died 2003)[17]
  • June 27 – João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian novelist (died 1967)
  • June 30
    • Winston Graham, English novelist (died 2003)[18][19]
    • Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (died 1999)
  • July 7 – Laurie Fitzhardinge, Australian historian and librarian (died 1993)
  • July 10 – Carl Richard Jacobi, American journalist and author (died 1997)
  • July 23 – Elio Vittorini, Italian author (died 1966)
  • August 21 – M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist and autobiographer (died 2004)
  • August 23 – Arthur Adamov, French Absurdist playwright (died 1970)
  • August 28
    • Robert Merle, French novelist (died 2004)
    • Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (died 1995)
  • August 31 – William Saroyan, American writer (d. 1981)[20]
  • September 4 – Richard Wright, African-American novelist and poet (died 1960)
  • September 9 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (died 1950)
  • September 15 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (died 1983)
  • September 17 – John Creasey, English crime writer (died 1973)[21]
  • October 5 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer and director (died 1988)
  • October 13 – Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (died 1992)
  • October 23 – Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian (died 1997)
  • October 24 – Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Phyllis Byam Shand), Dominican writer (died 1986)
  • October 25 – Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (died 2004)
  • November 8 – Zhou Yang, Chinese literary theorist (died 1989)
  • November 8 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide 1998)[22]
  • November 9 – Lucian Boz, Romanian and Australian literary critic (died 2003)
  • November 20 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist (died 2004)
  • November 21 – Elizabeth George Speare, American children's writer (died 1994)
  • November 23 – Nelson S. Bond, American author, playwright and scriptwriter (died 2006)
  • November 28
  • November 30 – Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet and writer (died 1974)
  • December 14 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (died 2007)
  • December 22 – Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, Italian comic book author and writer (died 2001)
  • December 25 – Quentin Crisp, English gay icon, author and raconteur (died 1999)

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken
  • Newdigate Prize: Julian Huxley, "Holyrood"[32]

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