1901 in literature

The year 1901 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet René-François-Admand Sully Prudhomme; many people 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
* G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
* Anton Chekhov marries Olga Leonardovna Knipper.
*Collapse of the Irish Literary Theatre.

New books

*John Kendrick Bangs — "Mr. Munchausen"
*L. Frank Baum — "Dot and Tot of Merryland"
*René Boylesve — "La Becquée"
*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"
*José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - "A Cidade e as Serras"
*Rabindranath Tagore — "Nastanirh"
*Jules Verne
**"The Village in the Treetops"
**"The Sea Serpent"
*H. G. Wells — "The First Men in the Moon"
*Emile Zola — "Travail"

New drama

*Gabriele D'Annunzio - "Francesca da Rimini"
*Anton Chekov - "The Three Sisters"

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

*Winston Churchill - "The Crisis"
*Edith Helen Sichel - "Women and Men of the French Renaissance"
*Booker T. Washington - "Up from Slavery"

Births

*January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (d. 1974)
*February 13 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist
*April 10 - Anna Kavan, author
*June 1 - John William Van Druten, dramatist
*August 10 - Sergio Frusoni, poet
*September 3 - James Hanley, novelist
*December 9 - Ödön von Horváth, dramatist and novelist
*December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (d. 1978)
*"date unknown" - Dilys Powell, film critic

Deaths

*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