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See also: 1909 in literature, other events of 1910, 1911 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• Canadian Born[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Devil and the Deep Sea[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• The Emerald City of Oz[?] - L. Frank Baum
• Heritage of the Desert[?] - Zane Grey
• Howards End - E. M. Forster
• La Vagabonde[?] - Colette
• Pelle the Conqueror (final volume) - Martin Andersen Nexø[?]
• The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
• The Return[?] - Walter de la Mare
• Twenty Years at Hull House[?] - Jane Addams
• The Village[?] - Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin[?]
• What's Wrong With The World[?] - G. K. Chesterton
• The Woman Thou Gavest Me[?] - Hall Caine

Births

• February 6 - Irmgard Keun[?], author (+ 1982)
• December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet

Deaths

• April 21 - Mark Twain, writer
• August 26 - William James, author
• November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse

Elsewhere

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