page_title: 1901 in literature
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1901 in literature / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Anton Checkov and Olga Knipper in May 1901 during honeymoon, eventually they married on 25 May 1901 at the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross; photo taken in the Chekhov museum in Badenweiler
context_section_description: January 31 – Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (Три сeстры, Tri sestry) opens at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko with Stanislavski as Vershinin, Olga Knipper as Masha, Margarita Savetskaya as Olga, Maria Andreyeva as Irina, and Maria Lilina (Stanislavsky's wife) as Natasha.
  February 22 – Leo Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church.
  May 6 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, 52, marries his third wife, the Swedish-Norwegian actress Harriet Bosse, 23, after an engagement in March during rehearsals for his play Easter (Påsk).
  May 25 – Chekhov marries Olga Knipper in a quiet ceremony.
  May 28 – Cherry v. Des Moines Leader is decided in the Iowa Supreme Court, upholding the right to publish critical reviews.
  June 28 – G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg at St Mary Abbots, Kensington.
  July – The first modern performances of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, are given by William Poel's Elizabethan Stage Society outdoors at the Charterhouse in London.
  July 24 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement.
  October
  Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, is published in Berlin.
  The Irish Literary Theatre project gives its final performance.
  October 23 – Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature from Yale University. In the same month he moves to Riverdale, New York.
  December 2 – The Romanian literary review Sămănătorul is founded.
  December 10 – The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme.
  unknown date – World's Classics series of publications is founded by Grant Richards in England.
caption: Anton Chekhov with Olga Knipper, on their honeymoon
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