1908 in literature

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  • 2.1 First half of
  • 2.2 Second half of
  • 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Prose

  • June: The artist 's novel The Road to the Open, Arthur Schnitzler's first novel, in which the author has worked since 1902, is published in Berlin.
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel, Anne of Green Gables appears. Due to the success of the children's book, the Canadian writes soon several sequels.
  • The novel The Assistant by Robert Walser is published by Bruno Cassirer in Berlin.
  • The historical novel L' Île des Pingouins ( The Island of the Penguins ) by Anatole France published in Paris. Supposedly a chronicle of the fictional country Alka in eight books, the novel is a satire on the history of France in particular and the history of the Christian West in general.
  • EM Forster published the novel, A Room With a View.
  • Kenneth Grahame published the novel The Wind in the Willows, which is developing into one of the great classic children's book.

Poetry

  • Rainer Maria Rilke published New Poems The other part, the second volume of his collection of poems.

Drama

  • JANUARY 21: In Stockholm, the premiere of the chamber game takes place The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg by the same sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. The premiere flops, the piece is only four years after the poet's death a success.

Periodicals

  • The first edition of the bi-monthly literary journal Hyperion by Carl Sternberg and Franz Blei is published by Hans von Weber. For the graphic design Walter Tiemann is responsible. Among other works are first published in the journal of Franz Kafka.

Art

  • The Austrian architect Adolf Loos publishes his essay Ornament and Crime.

Awards

  • Rudolf Eucken receives " due to the serious search for truth, the penetrating power of thought and foresight, the heat and power of representation, which he has represented and developed an ideal view of the world in numerous works ," the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Born

First half year

  • JANUARY 9: Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, philosopher and feminist († 1986)
  • January 10: Sam Waagenaar, Dutch photographer and author († 1997)
  • JANUARY 18: Stanisław Stomma, Polish journalist and politician ( † 2005)
  • JANUARY 22: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and writer († 1992)
  • February 29th: Dee Brown, American writer and historian († 2002)
  • March 2: Olivia Manning, English writer († 1980)
  • March 5: Mario salvation de Brentani, German - Canadian writer and magazine publisher ( † 1982)
  • MARCH 16: René Daumal, French writer († 1944)
  • MARCH 16: Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, film director and producer ( † 1966)
  • MARCH 22: Albrecht Goes, German Protestant theologian and writer († 2000)
  • APRIL 14: Kurt Ranke, German German literature and folklorist ( narrative researchers ) ( † 1985)
  • April 28: Edward R. Murrow, American journalist († 1965)
  • May 1: Giovanni Guareschi, Italian journalist, cartoonist and writer († 1968)
  • MAY 15: Joe Grant, American comic book writer at Disney († 2005)
  • May 20: Walter Kolbenhoff German writer, journalist and broadcaster († 1993)
  • MAY 23: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss writer and journalist († 1942)
  • MAY 26: Alexei Nikolaevich Arbuzov, Soviet- Russian playwright († 1986)
  • MAY 26: Robert Morley, British actor and writer († 1992)
  • MAY 28: Ian Fleming, British writer († 1964)
  • MAY 29: Hans Weigel, writer and theater critic († 1991)
  • June 1: Peter de Mendelssohn, German - British writer, historian and essayist († 1982)
  • June 22: Beaumont Newhall, American author, photo historian and curator († 1993)
  • June 30: Winston Graham, British writer († 2003)

Second half- year

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Jonny Rieger, German writer († 1985)

Died

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