1910 in literature

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• 2.1 First half of
• 2.2 Second half of

Events

Prose

• January 8: The last part of the written by Gaston Leroux Le Fantôme de l' serialized novel Opéra ( The Phantom of the Opera ) appears in the newspaper Le Gaulois.

• Karl May's last completed novel Winnetou IV appears. The author processed therein his trip to America in 1908 and simultaneously sets an end to the adventures of Old Shatterhand in North America.
• Rainer Maria Rilke completed in Leipzig, his only novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, which he began in 1904 in Rome. The work consists of 72 records, which often resemble prose poems and follow mostly unconnected to each other, and is itself always referred to by Rilke " prose book" and never " Roman".
• Hermann Bahr publishes the novel O man.
• The novel Gertrude by Hermann Hesse appears in its final form.
• The Fool in Christ, Emanuel Quint, the first novel by Gerhart Hauptmann, appears in Berlin.
• Thomas Mann begins work on his novel Confessions of Felix Krull.

Poetry

• The collections of poetry Palmström and contemplation by Christian Morgenstern appear in Berlin publishing house of Bruno Cassirer.
• The song collection Gitanjali ( Sangesopfer ) appears next to other works of Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta. You will contribute to the author in 1913 as the first non-European Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Börries Baron Munchausen written the ballad of Nettle.

Drama

Periodicals

• March 3: The Expressionist periodical Der Sturm, weekly for Culture and the Arts, edited by Herwarth Walden, appears for the first time.

• The literary magazine Hyperion by Carl Sternberg and Franz Blei provides after two years their appearance.

Scientific works

• The German physician Magnus Hirschfeld coined the term transvestism.

Awards

• The German Paul Heyse receives " as a tribute proof of the completed and stamped by an ideal conception artistry, which he put to the day during a long and distinguished efficacy as a poet, dramatist, novelist and poet of world famous short stories ," the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Born

First half year

Second half- year

• July 2: Hans Günther Adler, Austrian writer († 1988)
• July 2: CC Bergius, German writer († 1996)
• July 7: Monika Mann, German writer († 1992)
• JULY 22: Richard Plant, German - American author († 1998)
• July 27: Julien Gracq, French writer († 2007)
• July 27: Rajzel Zychlinski, Yiddish poet († 2001)

• August 9: Robert van Gulik, Dutch crime writer († 1967)
• August 25: Dorothea Tanning, American painter, sculptor and writer († 2012)
• AUGUST 30: Pierre Vago, French architect, editor and secretary general of the UIA († 2002)

• 4 October: Adolf Branald, Czech writer († 2008)
• 4 October: Guðmundur Daníelsson, Icelandic writer († 1990)
• October 8: Winston Hibler, American screenwriter, film producer and director as well as actor and off-speakers († 1976)
• October 9: Eckart Hachfeld, German writer, lyricist and scriptwriter († 1994)
• October 22: Maurice Zermatten, Swiss writer († 2001)
• October 26: Eva Hoffmann- Aleith, German pastor, teacher and writer († 2002)

• November 8: Elfriede Brüning, German writer and teleplay writer
• November 14: Eric Malpass, English writer († 1996)
• November 18: Friedrich Weinreb, Jewish Hasidic sage, storyteller and writer († 1988)

• December 9: Fritz A. Koeniger, German author
• December 19: Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet († 1986)
• December 19: José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer († 1976)
• DECEMBER 30: Paul Bowles, American author and composer († 1999)

Died

• JANUARY 29: Édouard Rod, Swiss writer (* 1857)
• February 1: Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer and writer (* 1865)
• February 7: Joseph Schoeffel, Austrian journalist and politician ( * 1832)

• APRIL 21: Mark Twain, American writer (* 1835)
• April 26: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian poet and politician (* 1832)
• APRIL 30: Jean Moréas, French - Greek poet (* 1856)
• MAY 22: Jules Renard, French writer (* 1864)
• MAY 28: Kálmán Mikszáth, Hungarian writer (* 1847)
• June 3: Julius Wolff, German poet and writer (* 1834)
• June 5: O. Henry, American writer (* 1862)
• June 29: Wilhelm Spemann, German publisher (* 1844)
• August 20: August Robert Wolff, Polish publishers and booksellers (* 1833)

• October 8: Maria Konopnicka, Polish poet (* 1842)
• October 14th: Rudolf Lindau, German writer and diplomat (* 1829)
• OCTOBER 17: Kurd Laßwitz, German writer and philosopher (* 1848)
• November 15: Wilhelm Raabe, German Narrator ( * 1831)

• November 20: Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (* 1828)
• December 3: Mary Baker Eddy, American author and religion founder (* 1821)
• DECEMBER 17: Max Wilhelm Meyer, German astronomer, naturalist and writer (* 1853)

• Marina cancer, German writer (* 1838)