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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards and honors 6 See also

Events

Sully Prudhomme, first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

• a small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"
• The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.

Works published

• Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present
• George Meredith, A Reading of Life

Births

• January 16 — Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
• March 27 — Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
• May 1 — Sterling Brown (died p1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore, and literary critic
• August 20 — Salvatore Quasimodo, (died 1968), Italian poet
• Date not known:
  • J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand
  • Adrian Hanbury Bell
  • Ignatius Campbell South African poet
  • Andreas Empeirikos, Greek

Deaths

• June 10 — Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scots poet, novelist and dramatist
• July 20 — William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61, English poet and critic
• December 23 — William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
• date not known:
  • Sarah Carmichael
  • Albery Whitman

Awards and honors

See also

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