Overview of the events of 1906 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1906 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), Japanese Shōwa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group also including Kawabata Bosha; founder of literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in 1946
- January 6 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, (died 1972), German playwright and poet
- January 19 – Robin Hyde (suicide 1939), New Zealand
- February 22 – Humayun Kabir (died 1969) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett (died 1989), Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
- May 10 – Robert Guy Howarth (died 1974), Australian scholar, literary critic and poet[16]
- May 11 – Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer[4]
- May 17 – Frederic Prokosch (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
- June 12 – Sandro Penna (died 1977), Italian
- June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
- June 27 – Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
- August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet and novelist
- August 28 – John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet laureate, writer and broadcaster
- September 2 – Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
- September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
- September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and novelist
- September 27 – William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
- October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
- November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
- November 23 (November 10 O.S.) – Betti Alver (died 1989), Estonia
- December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
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