1909 In Literature

Events

New books

• Anne of Avonlea — Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Ann Veronica — H.G. Wells
• Balthazar — Anatole France
• Daphne — Mary Augusta Ward
• La Derive — André Billy
• L'Enchanteur Pourrissant — Guillaume Apollinaire
• Fraternity — John Galsworthy
• La Jeune Fille bien élevée — René Boylesve
• The Outcast Manufacturers — Charles Hoy Fort
• The Promise of American Life — Herbert Croly
• The Song of Songs — Hermann Sudermann
• Tono-Bungay — H.G. Wells
• The White Prophet — Hall Caine

Births

• Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer
• January 29 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (d. 2005)
• April 8 - John Fante, novelist
• July 1 Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 1994)
• July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist
• July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author

Deaths

• April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet
• May 18 - George Meredith, novelist and poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Selma Lagerlf

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