1911 in literature

The year 1911 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * George Moore (novelist) publishes the first of his three-volume Hail and Farewell (last in 1914).
 * Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard. Its first publication is Paul Claudel's play L'Otage.
 * Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.

New books

 * L. Frank Baum - The Sea Fairies
 * - The Daring Twins
 * - Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * - The Flying Girl (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * Max Beerbohm &mdash; Zuleika Dobson
 * Arnold Bennett &mdash; The Card
 * J. D. Beresford &mdash; The Hampdenshire Wonder
 * Frances Hodgson Burnett &mdash; The Secret Garden
 * J. E. Casely-Hayford - Ethiopia Unbound
 * G. K. Chesterton &mdash; The Innocence of Father Brown
 * Hugh Clifford &mdash; The Downfall of the Gods
 * Joseph Conrad &mdash; Under Western Eyes
 * Marie Corelli &mdash; Life Everlasting
 * Ford Madox Ford &mdash; Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
 * E. M. Forster &mdash; The Celestial Omnibus
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Moving the Mountain
 * Eduard von Keyserling &mdash; Wellen
 * Valery Larbaud &mdash; Fermina Márquez
 * D. H. Lawrence &mdash; The White Peacock
 * Gaston Leroux &mdash; The Phantom of the Opera
 * Beatrix Potter &mdash; The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
 * Baroness Orczy &mdash; A True Woman
 * Forrest Reid &mdash; The Bracknels
 * Bram Stoker &mdash; The Lair of the White Worm
 * Mary Augusta Ward &mdash; The Case of Richard Meynell
 * H. G. Wells &mdash; The New Machiavelli
 * Edith Wharton &mdash; Ethan Frome
 * Owen Wister &mdash; Padre Ignacio

New drama
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 * George Bernard Shaw - Fanny's First Play
 * Emma Orczy - The Duke's Wager
 * Stanislavski and Craig's seminal symbolist production of Hamlet opened at the Moscow Arts Theatre

Poetry

 * Edwin James Brady - River Rovers
 * John Masefield - The Everlasting Mercy

Non-fiction

 * Encyclopædia Britannica.
 * Rudolf Steiner - Mystics of the Renaissance.

Births

 * January 18 - José María Arguedas, Peruvian author (d. 1969)
 * January 24 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author (d. 1987)
 * February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1979)
 * March 11 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish diplomat, adventurer, writer and politician (d. 1996)
 * March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright (d. 1983)
 * April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
 * May 15 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
 * May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author (d. 1995)
 * May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (d. 1986)
 * June 2 - Xiao Hong, Chinese author (d. 1942)
 * June 6 - Verna Aardema, children's author (d. 2000)
 * June 30 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish author (d. 2004)
 * July 21 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
 * November 2 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (d. 1996)
 * November 19 - Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (d. 1995)
 * December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist (d. 2006)
 * December 25 - Noel Langley, screenwriter (d. 1980)

Deaths

 * January 23 - David Graham Phillips, journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
 * February 7 - Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker author (b. 1832)
 * May 9 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, literary mentor of Emily Dickinson (b. 1823)
 * May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, librettist, dramatist (b. 1836)
 * October 8 - Hesba Stretton, author (b. 1832)
 * October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer (b. 1847)
 * November 9 - Howard Pyle, children's author (b. 1853)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist