1911 In Literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1911.

Events

*January – The journal ''Ay Qap, to promote modern Kazakh literature and progressive thought.
*February–March – Antisemitic riots break out in Paris over the staging of Henri Bernstein's ''Après moi'' by the Comédie-Française, instigated by the far-right ''Action Française'' led by writer Charles Maurras, but in conjunction with the far-left '' Guerre Sociale''.
*March
** Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris plans a Futurist conference and publishes a manifesto, ''Le futurisme'', at Sansot.
** Publication in ''The Strand Magazine'' (London) of the P. G. Wodehouse short story "Absent Treatment" introducing the character Reggie Pepper, a prototype for Bertie Wooster.
*March 29 – The 1911 New York State Capitol fire in Albany destroys 700,000 books and documents belonging to the New York State Library.
*April – Hugo Gernsback begins to publish his pioneering science fiction novel ''Ralph 124C 41+'' in the monthly U.S. magazine ''Modern Electrics''.
*c. April 8 – The English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, as the first of the Dymock poets.
*May 9 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
*May 31 – The French publishers Éditions Gallimard is founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard as ''Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française'' (nrf). Its first publication is Paul Claudel's play ''L'Otage''.
*Summer – Jaroslav Hašek begins publishing stories of ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' (''Dobrý voják Švejk'') in the Prague newspaper ''Karikatura'', edited by the illustrator Josef Lada.
*September 7 – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, writing as "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the ''Mona Lisa'' from the Louvre museum in Paris on August 21 and imprisoned for six days. This year he publishes his first book of poetry, ''Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée''.
*October 16 – The new building for the Mitchell Library opens in Glasgow.
*October 17 – Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen, the later German novelist Hans Fallada, kills his best friend in a suicide pact staged as a duel.
*November
**The Kalem Company of New York agrees to pay the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 for having adapted ''Ben Hur'' (1907 film) from his novel without securing prior rights.
** Virginia Stephen begins to share her brother Adrian Stephen's London house at 38 Brunswick Square with other members of the Bloomsbury Group: Leonard Woolf (her future husband), John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant.
*December 16 – The U.K. Copyright Act consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries to which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library (London); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); the Advocates Library (Edinburgh); the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.

New books

Fiction

*Pío Baroja
**''Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía''
**'' The Tree of Knowledge (El árbol de la ciencia)''
*Lima Barreto – ''Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma'' (The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma)
*Max Beerbohm – ''Zuleika Dobson''
*Hilaire Belloc – '' The Four Men: a Farrago''
*Arnold Bennett – ''The Card''
*J. D. Beresford – ''The Hampdenshire Wonder''
*Ambrose Bierce – ''The Devil's Dictionary''
*Algernon Blackwood – ''The Centaur