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Overview of the events of 1897 in literature
Overview of the events of 1897 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1897 .
Events 1st ed. New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 8 – Dennis Wheatley , English thriller writer (died 1977 )January 11 – Bernard DeVoto , American historian (died 1955 )January 14 – Wasif Jawhariyyeh , Palestinian Arab diarist, poet and composer (died 1972 )January 19 – Natacha Rambova (Winifred Shaughnessy), American dramatist (died 1966 )January 27 – Iris Tree , English poet (died 1968 )March 8 – Josep Pla , Catalan journalist and writer (died 1981 )March 17 – Barbu Solacolu , Romanian poet, translator and economist (died 1976 )March 23 – Béla Hamvas , Hungarian philosopher (died 1968 )May 11 – Carola Oman , English historical novelist, biographer and children's writer (died 1978 )June 20 – Elisabeth Hauptmann , German writer (died 1973 )July 1 – Edward Tennant , English poet (killed in action 1916 )July 14 – Myroslav Irchan , Ukrainian storywriter and playwright (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh 1937 )[10] July 15 – R. J. Yeatman , English humorous author (died 1968 )July 25 – Basil Willey , English academic literary critic (died 1978 )August 11
September 10 – Georges Bataille , French philosopher, essayist and novelist (died 1962 )September 25 – William Faulkner , American novelist (died 1962 )September 26 – Michael Joseph , English publisher (died 1958 )October 3 – James Hanley , English novelist and dramatist of Irish descent (died 1985 )October 4 – Jirō Osaragi (大佛 次郎, Haruhiku Nojiri), Japanese novelist (died 1973 )October 17 – Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu , Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (died 1995 )October 21 – Alexander Lernet-Holenia , Austrian poet, dramatist and fiction writer (died 1976 )October 22 – Marjorie Flack , American children's author (died 1958 )[12] November 1 – Naomi Mitchison , Scottish novelist and poet (died 1999 )November 5 – Hilda Vīka , Latvian poet and novelist (died 1963 )November 7 – Herman J. Mankiewicz , American screenwriter (died 1953 )November 8 – Dorothy Day , American journalist (died 1980 )November 28 – Marcus Goodrich , American screenwriter and novelist (died 1991 )December 3 – Kate O'Brien , Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1974 )October 23 – Arab Shamilov , Kurdish novelist (died 1978 )December 26 – Willy Corsari (Wilhelmina Schmidt), Dutch author of detective fiction (died 1998 )[13] Deaths January 24 – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford , Irish novelist (born 1855 )[14] February 4 – Walter Gregor , Scottish folklorist, linguist and pastor (born 1825 )[15] March 2 – Guillermo Prieto , Mexican novelist, short-story writer and poet (born 1818 )[16] March 6 – E. Cobham Brewer , English lexicographer (born 1810 )[17] March 7 – Harriet Jacobs , African-American writer (born 1813 )[18] March 11 – Henry Drummond , Scottish evangelist and natural historian (born 1851 )April 26 – Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai , Indian scholar and dramatist (born 1855 )May 4 – Isabella Banks , English poet and novelist (born 1821 )May 12
June 25 – Margaret Oliphant , Scottish novelist (born 1828 )[20] July 6 – Henri Meilhac , French dramatist and opera librettist (born 1831 )July 20 – Jean Ingelow , English novelist and poet (born 1820 )[21] July 28 – Étienne Vacherot , French philosophical writer (born 1809 )August 2 – Adam Asnyk , Polish poet and dramatist (born 1838 )August 5 – James Hammond Trumbull , American philologist (born 1821 )August 8 – Jacob Burckhardt , Swiss historian (born 1818 )August 25 – Léon Gautier , French historian (born 1832 )September 9
October 23 – Jessie Catherine Couvreur , Australian novelist (born 1848 )October 24 – Francis Turner Palgrave , English anthologist (born 1824 )[22] October 27 – Gheorghe Chițu , Romanian classical scholar, publisher and journalist (born 1828 )November 15 – Lucinda Barbour Helm , American author, editor, and activist (born 1839 )November 29 – James Legge , Scottish sinologist, missionary and translator (born 1815 )December 17 – Alphonse Daudet , French novelist (born 1840 )[23] Awards References
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