Portal:Literature/Adil archive/November/11
- 1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet born
- 1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer died
- 1834 - Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling was first published.
- 1764 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer born
- 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist born
- 1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist born
- 1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author born
- 1914 - Howard Fast, American author born
- 1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist born
- 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist born
- 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer born
- 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer born
- 1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet born
- 1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American author born
- 1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author born
- 1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist died