See also: 1908 in literature, other events of 1909, 1910 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• Anne of Avonlea — Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Ann Veronica — H.G. Wells
• Balthazar — Anatole France
• Daphne — Mary Augusta Ward
• La Derive — André Billy
• L'Enchanteur Pourrissant — Guillaume Apollinaire
• Fraternity — John Galsworthy
• La Jeune Fille bien élevée — René Boylesve
• The Outcast Manufacturers — Charles Hoy Fort
• The Promise of American Life — Herbert Croly
• The Song of Songs — Hermann Sudermann
• Tono-Bungay — H.G. Wells
• The White Prophet — Hall Caine

New drama

• John Galsworthy - Strife

Poetry

• John Millington Synge - Poems and Translations

Births

• January 29 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (d. 2005)
• February 24 - August Derleth, anthologist
• March 28 - Nelson Algren, novelist
• April 8 - John Fante, novelist
• May 9 - Robert Garioch, poet (d. 1981)
• June 6 - Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
• June 28 - Eric Ambler, novelist
• July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 1994)
• July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist
• July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author
• Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer

Deaths

• March 24 - John Millington Synge, dramatist and poet
• March 27 (probable) - John Davidson, poet
• April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet
• April 26 - Marcus Dods, theologian
• May 18 - George Meredith, novelist and poet
• June 11 - Jacob Gordin, dramatist
• December 14 - Frederick Greenwood, journalist

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Selma Lagerlöf

1909 books

1909 en littérature | 1909 - literatura | Litteraturåret 1909