Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/11
- 1757 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller died
- 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer born
- 1810 - Alfred de Musset, French poet born
- 1882 - Subramanya Bharathi, Indian poet born
- 1905 - Robert Henriques, British writer born
- 1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet died
- 1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer born
- 1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer died
- 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer born
- 1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer died
- 1922 - Grace Paley, American writer born
- 1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author died
- 2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Côte d'Ivoire writer died