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EVENTS

First Nobel Prize For Literature awarded.

October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University .

October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York

Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.

Anton Chekhov marries Olga Leonardovna Knipper.

'' Kim '' by Rudyard Kipling is published.

NEW BOOKS

''A láthatatlan ember'' - Géza Gárdonyi

'' The Aerial Village '' - Jules Verne

'' La Becquée '' - René Boylesve

'' Bubu De Montparnasse '' - Charles-Louis Philippe

'' Claudine à Paris '' - Colette

'' The Crisis '' - Winston Churchill

'' The Eternal City '' - Hall Caine

'' The House With The Green Shutters '' - George Douglas

'' Kim '' - Rudyard Kipling

'' My Brilliant Career '' - Miles Franklin

'' The Octopus '' - Frank Norris

'' Travail '' - Emile Zola

'' Sister Theresa '' - George Moore (novelist)

'' Up From Slavery '' - Booker T. Washington

NEW DRAMA

Gabriele D'Annunzio - '' Francesca Da Rimini ''

Anton Chekov - '' The Three Sisters ''

BIRTHS

January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz , writer (d. 1974 )

February 13 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon , novelist

April 10 - Anna Kavan , author

June 1 - John William Van Druten , dramatist

August 10 - Sergio Frusoni , poet

September 3 - James Hanley , novelist

December 9 - Ödön Von Horváth , dramatist and novelist

December 16 - Margaret Mead , cultural anthropologist and author (d. 1978 )

''date unknown'' - Dilys Powell , film critic

DEATHS

March 24 - Charlotte Mary Yonge , novelist

June 9 - Walter Besant , novelist

June 10 - Robert Buchanan , writer

July 7 - Johanna Spyri , author

July 20 - William Cosmo Monkhouse , poet and critic

July 27 - Brooke Foss Westcott , theologian

AWARDS