April 11

In literary history

• 2007Kurt Vonnegut died of brain injuries from a fall at his Manhattan home. He had spent a career arguing that human beings were put on earth to fart around. He did not seem to regard that as a criticism.

Writers born on April 11

• Sándor Márai (1900)

The Daily Canon for April 11

Fatelessness by Imre Kertész (1975).