1909 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1909.

Events[]

  • January – T. E. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the Poets' Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII, as the first examples of Imagism.
  • January 15 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama La donna è mobile opens at the Teatro Alfieri, Turin.
  • February 1 – The first issue appears of La Nouvelle Revue Française, a literary magazine founded in Paris by André Gide, Jacques Copeau, Jean Schlumberger, Gaston Gallimard, and others.[1]
  • February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto first appears in the French newspaper Le Figaro.
  • March 2 – Katherine Mansfield, while pregnant by another man, marries the singing teacher George Bowden, whom she barely knows. She leaves him the same evening to resume lesbian relations with Ida Baker.[2]
  • April
    • The opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama Le Roi bombance (The Feasting King, written 1905) is heckled by the audience and the writer himself.
    • The German periodical Die Tat is founded by Ernst Horneffer.[3]
  • April 24 – The Metropolitan Library (京师图书馆, Jīngshī Túshūguǎn) in Beijing, predecessor of the National Library of China, is founded by the Qing government.
  • September 6 – Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot opens in New York City.
  • September 23 – Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois.
  • September 29 – Franz Kafka's short story "The Aeroplanes at Brescia (Die Aeroplane in Brescia)", based on a real event, is published in the Prague newspaper Bohemia, as the first description of airplanes in German literature.[4]
  • November – E. M. Forster's science fiction short story "The Machine Stops" is published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review.
  • unknown date – Babelstornið (The Tower of Babel), by Rasmus Rasmussen, writing as Regin í Líð, becomes the first Faroese language novel to be published.[5]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poster by Oskar Kokoschka advertising the première of his play

Poetry[]

Main article: 1909 in poetry
  • Guillaume Apollinaire – L'Enchanteur pourrissant (The Putrifying Enchanter)
  • François Mauriac – Les Mains jointes (Clasped Hands)
  • John Millington Synge – Poems and Translations

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 20 – Mae Virginia Cowdery, African American poet (died 1953)
  • January 18 – Oskar Davičo, Serbian novelist and poet (died 1989)
  • January 29 – Phoebe Hesketh (Phoebe Rayner), English poet (died 2005)
  • February 15 – Miep Gies (Hermine Santruschitz), Austrian-born biographer (died 2010)
  • February 24 – August Derleth, American anthologist (died 1971)
  • March 17 – Margiad Evans, Anglo-Welsh poet, novelist and illustrator (died 1958)
  • March 22 – Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian author (died 1983)
  • March 28 – Nelson Algren, American novelist (died 1981)
  • March 31 – Robert Brasillach, French author (died 1945)
  • April 8 – John Fante, American novelist (died 1983)
  • May 1 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (died 1990)
  • May 5 – Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian poet (died 1944)
  • May 9 – Robert Garioch, Scottish poet (died 1981)
  • June 6 – Isaiah Berlin, German philosopher (died 1997)
  • June 19 – Osamu Dazai (太宰 治), Japanese author (died 1948)
  • June 28 – Eric Ambler, English novelist (died 1998)
  • July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (died 1994)
  • July 8 – Petar Šegedin, Croatian diplomat, novelist and essayist (died 1998)
  • July 17 – G. P. Wells, son and co-author of H. G. Wells (died 1985)
  • July 28 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (died 1957)
  • July 29 – Chester Himes, American writer (died 1984)
  • July 30 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (died 1993)
  • August 3 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist (died 1971)
  • August 11 – Uku Masing, Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (died 1985)
  • August 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (died 1983)
  • October 24 – Sheila Watson (Sheila Doherty), Canadian novelist and critic (died 1998)
  • November 12 – Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Nepali poet, playwright, and novelist (died 1959)
  • November 26 – Eugène Ionesco (Eugen Ionescu), Romanian-born French playwright (died 1994)
  • November 27 – James Agee, American writer (died 1955)
  • December 14 – Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton), Welsh novelist and children's writer writing in English
  • December 16 – Edgar Mittelholzer, Guyanese novelist (suicide 1965)

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ "La Nouvelle Revue française (NRF)", Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010, retrieved 2010-07-21
  2. ^ Woods, Joanna (2007). "Katherine Mansfield, 1888–1923". Kōtare. Victoria University of Wellington. 7 (1): 63–98. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
  3. ^ Ernst Horneffer: Unsere Ziele, in: Die Tat, 1. Jg., Heft 1 (April/1909), p. 1 (German)
  4. ^ Wagenbach, Klaus (1964). Franz Kafka, in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag. p. 73. ISBN 3-499-50091-4.
  5. ^ Faroese Short Stories. Ardent Media. 1972. p. 7.
  6. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
  7. ^ Pearson, Sidney. "Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism". The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  8. ^ Baskett, Sam S. (Spring 1976). "Martin Eden: Jack London's Poem of the Mind". Modern Fiction Studies. 22 (1): 23–36. JSTOR 26280173?seq=1.
  9. ^ Meadowcroft, Charles William. The Place of Eden Phillpotts in English Peasant Drama. University of Pennsylvania, 1924. Page 7.
  10. ^ Per Hallström. "Critical Essay". Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  11. ^ James, Edward T.; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-67462-731-4.
  12. ^ Crisp, Jane (1989). Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1904): A Bibliography. St. Lucia: Department of English, University of Queensland. p. 2. ISBN 9780867763607.
  13. ^ Adams, Henry Brooks (1911). The Life of George Cabot Lodge.
  14. ^ Earl C. Haag (1988). A Pennsylvania German Anthology. Susquehanna University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-945636-00-7.
  15. ^ Katherine Ashley (2004). Prix Goncourt, 1903-2003: essais critiques (in French). Peter Lang. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-03910-018-7.


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