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1864 in literature
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The year 1864 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
New books
New drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936)
- February 14 - Israel Zangwill, novelist and playwright, (d. 1926)
- April 21 - Max Weber, sociologist
- July 20 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
- October 14 - Stefan Żeromski, novelist, poet and dramatist
- November 11 - Alfred Hermann Fried, pacifist writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)
- December 12 - Paul Elmer More, critic and essayist (d. 1937)
Deaths
- January 29 - Lucy Aikin, historian
- February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter, poet
- March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sports writer
- May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist
- May 20 - John Clare, poet
- May 26 - Charles Sealsfield, novelist
- July 4 - Thomas Colley Grattan, novelist
- August 7 - Janez Puhar, poet
- September - Antônio Gonçalves Dias, poet (lost at sea)
- September 17 - Walter Savage Landor, poet
- date unknown - Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven
Awards
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