1541 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1541.

Events

 * Late August – Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda.
 * Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.
 * unknown dates
 * The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala.
 * The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár.
 * John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne.

Prose

 * George Buchanan
 * Baptistes
 * Jephtha
 * Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh – Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia

Drama

 * Lodovico Dolce – Il ragazzo
 * Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Orbecche

Poetry

 * Anonymous – The Schole House of Women
 * Francesco Berni (died 1535) – Orlando innamorato
 * Jacques Pelletier du Mans – Ars Poetica (translation into French from Latin of Horace)

Births

 * January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet (died 1596)

Deaths

 * April 24 – Celio Calcagnini, Ferraran polymath and Latin poet (born 1479)
 * August
 * Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet (birthdate unknown)
 * Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)
 * unknown date – Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian bishop and poet (born 1480)