February 4 – The poet W. B. Yeats, at a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.
November – While tutoring a Trieste businessman in English, James Joyce reveals that he is a writer, and his pupil, known to Joyce as Ettore Schmitz, proves to be the published novelist Italo Svevo. A literary friendship ensues.[13]
Thomas Mofolo's Moeti oa bochabela (much later translated into English as "The Traveler of the East") becomes the first work of literature to be published in the Sotho language.[14]
Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner Renée Vivien for another woman. Vivien's volume of love poetry Flambeaux éteints (Doused Torches) is published this year.[15]
New books
Fiction
Sholom Aleichem – From Home to America (פֿון דער היים קיין אַמעריקע, Fun der heym keyn amerike), first part of Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son: The Writings of an Orphan Boy (מאָטל פּייסי דעם חזנס; כתבֿים פֿון אַ ייִנגל אַ יתום, Motl peysi dem khazns: ksovim fun a yingl a yosem)
↑ de Coks, Paul (1907). "Expulzarea unui trubadur". Furnica (139): 7. Săvulescu, Traian (1952). "Barbu Lăzăreanu". Studii. Revistă de Istorie și Filosofie (1): 247.
↑ Roman, Ion (1957). "Scriitorii și 1907. I. C. Vissarion și Lupii". Contemporanul (10): 3.
↑ Șerban, Mihail (1928-06-27). "Cu d. Const. Banu, evocând trecutul. După 25 de ani dela apariția revistei Flacăra, fostul ei director ne vorbește despre începuturi, colaboratori și drumul parcurs". Adevărul. Bucharest. p.3.
↑ "It's a "Blurb" Now to Puff New Book: Gelett Burgess Coins Odd Term for the Booksellers' Annual Dinner". The New York Times. 1907-05-16. p.7.
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