Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/9


 * 1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet born
 * 1728 - Thomas Warton, English poet born
 * 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet born
 * 1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer born
 * 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian poet born
 * 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic born
 * 1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer born
 * 1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer born
 * 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author born
 * 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer died
 * 1928 - Judith Krantz, American author born
 * 1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist born
 * 1931 - Algis Budrys, American author born
 * 1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer born
 * 1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet died
 * 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer died
 * 1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright died