On this day in literature
November 9
In literary history
- 1918Guillaume Apollinaire died of Spanish influenza at thirty-eight, two days before the Armistice, weakened by a shrapnel wound to the temple he had taken in 1916 and never recovered from. He had given French the word surrealism two years before.
Writers born on November 9
- Ivan Turgenev (1818),
- Imre Kertész (1929)