1901 in literature

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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1901.

Events

• January 31 – Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (Три сeстры, Tri sestry) opens at the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of 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.
• May 6 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, 52, marries his third wife, Swedish-Norwegian actress Harriet Bosse, 23, having become engaged in March during rehearsals for his play Easter (Påsk).
• May 25 – Chekhov marries Olga Knipper in a quiet ceremony.
• June 28 – G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg at St Mary Abbots, Kensington.
• July – First modern stage productions of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, by William Poel's Elizabethan Stage Society outdoors at the Charterhouse in London.
• 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.
• October 23 – Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University. In the same month, he moves to Riverdale, New York.
• December 2 – The Romanian literary review Sămănătorul is founded.
• December 10 – The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme.
• The World's Classics editions are established by Grant Richards in England.

New books

• Leonid Andreyev – повести ("Stories")
• John Kendrick Bangs – Mr. Munchausen
• L. Frank Baum
  • American Fairy Tales
  • The Master Key
  • Dot and Tot of Merryland
• René Boylesve – La Becquée
• Samuel Butler – Erewhon Revisited
• Hall Caine – The Eternal City
• Colette – Claudine à Paris
• Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford – The Inheritors
• Victoria Cross – Anna Lombard
• Patrick S. Dinneen – Cormac Ó Conaill, the 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
• Henry James – The Sacred Fount
• 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
• Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – A Cidade e as Serras
• M. P. Shiel
  • Lord of the Sea
  • The Purple Cloud
• Rabindranath Tagore – Nastanirh
• 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

New drama

• Gabriele D'Annunzio – Francesca da Rimini
• Roberto Bracco – Lost in the Dark (Sperduti nel buio)
• Anton Chekhov – Three Sisters
• Clyde Fitch – The Climbers
• Wilhelm Meyer-Förster – Old Heidelberg (Alt Heidelberg)
• August Strindberg – A Dream Play (Ett drömspel, published)
• Stanisław Wyspiański
  • Warszawianka ("Varsovian Anthem", stage première)
  • The Wedding (Wesele)

Poetry

Main article: 1901 in 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 – Midaregami (みだれ髪, "Tangled hair")

Non-fiction

• Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater – Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
• Winston Churchill – The Crisis
• 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 1974)
• 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 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian author (died 1968)
• November 3 – André Malraux, French author (died 1976)
• December 9 – Ödön von Horváth, Austro-Hungarian dramatist and novelist (died 1938)
• December 16 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (died 1978)
• Unknown date – Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theater director (died 1957)

Deaths

• January 14 – Víctor Balaguer, Catalan Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1824)
• 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)
• 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 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)

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme