Literature year 1908

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Literature year 1908
Kenneth Grahame publishes the children's novel The Wind in the Willows .	Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel Anne of Green Gables is published.

Events

prose

June: The artist novel The Way to the Free , Arthur Schnitzler's first novel, on which the author has been working since 1902, appears in Berlin.

Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel Anne of Green Gables is published. Due to the great success of the children's book, the Canadian will soon be writing several sequels.
The novel Der Gehülfe by Robert Walser is published by Bruno Cassirer in Berlin.
The historical novel L'Île des Pingouins ( The Island of the Penguins ) by Anatole France appears in Paris. Allegedly a chronicle of the fictional country of Alka in eight books, the novel is a satire on the history of France in particular and the history of the Christian West in general.
EM Forster publishes the novel A Room With a View .
Kenneth Grahame publishes the novel The Wind in the Willows , which is becoming one of the great classics of children's books .
The novel Prohvet Maltsvet is published by Eduard Vilde .

By Peter Rosegger the novel appear Martin, the man and the story The Afel and their love .

Lyman Frank Baum publishes the children's book Dorothy and the Wizzard in Oz ( Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ), another novel from the Wizard of Oz series.

Poetry

Rainer Maria Rilke publishes Der Neue Gedichte other part , the second volume of his collection of poems.

drama

January 21 : The world premiere of the chamber play Die Gespenstersonata by August Strindberg based on the sonata of the same name by Ludwig van Beethoven takes place. The premiere flopped, the play only became a success four years after the poet's death.

Periodicals

The first edition of the bimonthly literary magazine Hyperion by Carl Sternberg and Franz Blei is published by Hans von Weber . Walter Tiemann is responsible for the graphic design . Among other things, the first works are published in the journal Franz Kafkas .

art

The Austrian architect Adolf Loos published his essay Ornament und Verbrechen .

Awards ceremonies

Rudolf Eucken received the Nobel Prize for Literature “because of the serious search for truth, the penetrating power of thought and foresight, the warmth and power of representation, with which he represented and developed an ideal worldview in numerous works” .

Born

First half of the year

January 9 : Simone de Beauvoir , French writer, philosopher and feminist († 1986 )
January 10 : Sam Waagenaar , Dutch photographer and author († 1997 )
January 18 : Stanisław Stomma , Polish publicist and politician († 2005 )
January 31 : Atahualpa Yupanqui , Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and writer († 1992 )
February 29 : Dee Brown , American writer and historian († 2002 )
March 2 : Olivia Manning , English writer († 1980 )
March 5 : Mario Heil de Brentani , German-Canadian writer and magazine editor († 1982 )
March 16 : René Daumal , French writer († 1944 )
March 16 : Robert Rossen , American screenwriter, film director and producer († 1966 )
March 22nd : Albrecht Goes , German writer and Protestant theologian († 2000 )
April 14 : Kurt Ranke , German Germanist and folklorist (storyteller) († 1985 )
April 25 : Edward R. Murrow , American journalist († 1965 )
May 1 : Giovanni Guareschi , Italian journalist, caricaturist and writer († 1968 )
May 15 : Joe Grant , American comic writer at Disney († 2005 )
May 20 : Walter Kolbenhoff , German writer, journalist and radio editor († 1993 )
May 23 : Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Swiss writer and journalist († 1942 )
May 26 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Arbusow , Soviet-Russian playwright († 1986 )
May 26 : Robert Morley , British actor and writer († 1992 )
May 28 : Ian Fleming , British writer († 1964 )
May 29 : Hans Weigel , writer and theater critic († 1991 )
June 1 : Peter de Mendelssohn , German-British writer, historian and essayist († 1982 )
June 22 : Beaumont Newhall , American author, photo historian and curator († 1993 )
June 30 : Winston Graham , British writer († 2003 )