Literature year 1901

Events

Title page of the Duden from 1901

January 30th : premiere of the play Electra by Benito Pérez Galdós in Madrid
February 22 : Exclusion of the Russian writer Leo N. Tolstoy for " blasphemous statements" from the Russian Orthodox Church. There are crowds and demonstrations for Tolstoy in Moscow and Saint Petersburg
June 17 : A uniform German spelling is decided by representatives of the German federal states and Austria-Hungary at a conference in Berlin. Konrad Duden laid the foundation stone in 1880 with the work: Complete orthographic dictionary of the German language.
October 23 : Mark Twain receives an honorary degree in literature from Yale University
December 10 : The first Nobel Prize in literature is to the French poet Sully Prudhomme awarded
The Three Sisters , a drama by Anton Chekhov , will premiere in Moscow on January 31st.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg
Kim from Rudyard Kipling is published. In 2001 the American Modern Library ranked the bookone of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
The one-act play New Year's Eve of Arthur Schnitzler is printed in a magazine.

January 31 : Marie Luise Kaschnitz , German writer († 1974 )
March 18 : Peter Jilemnický , Czech writer († 1949 )
April 10 : Anna Kavan , British writer († 1968 )
April 11 : Glenway Wescott , American writer († 1987 )
May 11 : Rose Ausländer , Austrian poet († 1988 )
September 29 : Lanza del Vasto , philosopher, poet and activist against violence († 1981 )
October 15 : Bernard von Brentano , German writer († 1964 )
November 23 : Marieluise Fleißer , German writer († 1974 )
December 2 : Ida Friederike Görres , Catholic writer († 1971 )
December 16 : Margaret Mead , cultural anthropologist and author († 1978 )
December 9 : Ödön von Horváth , Austro-Hungarian author and playwright († 1938 )