December 10

In literary history

• 1957Albert Camus accepted the Nobel Prize in Stockholm and told the banquet that writers owe allegiance to two things only: the refusal to lie about what they know, and the resistance to oppression. He was dead in a car crash twenty-five months later.
• 1969Samuel Beckett, whose life's work concerned men waiting for something that would not come, responded to winning the Nobel Prize by booking a hotel room under a false name and hiding. His publisher accepted the award on his behalf.

Writers born on December 10

• Emily Dickinson (1830),
• Clarice Lispector (1920)

The Daily Canon for December 10

Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson (1863).