1901 in literature

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The year 1901 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme; many are outraged when Leo Tolstoy does not win.
• 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.
• G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
• Anton Chekhov marries Olga Leonardovna Knipper.

New books

• 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 & Ford Madox Ford - The Inheritors
• Victoria Cross - Anna Lombard
• 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
• 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
• Rabindranath Tagore - Nastanirh
• Jules Verne - The Sea Serpent
  • - The Village in the Treetops
• H. G. Wells - The First Men in the Moon
• Emile Zola - Travail

New drama

• Gabriele D'Annunzio - Francesca da Rimini
• Anton Chekhov - Three Sisters
• August Strindberg - A Dream Play

Poetry

• Henry Ames Blood - Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood
• Maxim Gorky - The Song of the Stormy Petrel

Non-fiction

• Winston Churchill - The Crisis
• Sigmund Freud - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
• Edith Helen Sichel - Women and Men of the French Renaissance
• Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery

Births

• January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German writer (died 1974)
• February 13 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist (died 1974)
• February 23 - Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish writer (died 1990)
• April 10 - Anna Kavan, author (died 1968)
• June 1 - John Van Druten, dramatist (died 1957)
• July 20 - Dilys Powell, film critic (died 1995)
• July 25 - Ruth Krauss, children's book author and poet (died 1993)
• August 10 - Sergio Frusoni, poet (died 1975)
• August 20 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian author (died 1968)
• November 3 - André Malraux, French author (died 1976)
• December 9 - Ödön von Horváth, dramatist and novelist (died 1938)
• December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (died 1978)

Deaths

• February 15 - Maurice Thompson, novelist
• March 24 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, novelist
• April 12 - Louis Auguste Sabatier, theologian
• June 9 - Walter Besant, novelist
• June 10 - Robert Williams Buchanan, writer
• July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author
• July 20 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, poet and critic
• July 27 - Brooke Foss Westcott, theologian
• October 31 - Julien Leclercq, poet and art critic
• date unknown - Victor Balaguer, dramatist and poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme