1913 in literature

1913 in literature

The year 1913 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*Husayn Haykal publishes the first modern Egyptian novel "Zaynab".

New books

*Alain-Fournier — "Le Grand Meaulnes"
*L. Frank Baum — "The Patchwork Girl of Oz"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs — "Tarzan of the Apes"
*Hall Caine — "The Woman Thou Gavest Me"
*Willa Cather — "O Pioneers!"
*Arthur Conan Doyle — "The Poison Belt"
*Ellen Glasgow — "Virginia"
*Husayn Haykal — "Zaynab"
*Henry James — "A Small Boy and Others"
*Katherine James — "A City of Contrasts"
*Franz Kafka — "The Judgement"
*D. H. Lawrence — "Sons and Lovers"
*Jack London — "The Valley of the Moon"
*Flora Mayor — "Third Miss Symons"
*Oscar Micheaux — ""
*Octave Mirbeau — "Dingo (novel)"
*Baroness Orczy — "Eldorado"
*Eleanor H. Porter — "Pollyanna"
*Elsie Singmaster — "Gettysburg"
*Vincent Cartwright Vickers — "The Google Book"
*Mary Augusta Ward — "The Mating of Lydia", "The Coryston Family"
*Hugh Walpole — "Fortitude"
*Edith Wharton — "The Custom of the Country"

New drama

*George Bernard Shaw—"Pygmalion"

Poetry

*Delmira Agustini - "Los Cálices Vacíos (Empty Chalices)"
*Guillaume Apollinaire—"Alcools"
*Robert Frost—"A Boy's Will"
*Siegfried Sassoon—"The Daffodil Murderer"

Non-fiction

*Guillaume Apollinaire—"The Cubist Painters"
*Walter Lippmann—"A Preface to Politics"
*Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell—"Principia Mathematica"

Births

* January 29 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer (+ 2001)
* March 2 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (+ 1971
* August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (+ 1995)
* November 7 - Albert Camus, writer (+ 1960)
* November 10 - Karl Shapiro, poet (+ 2000)
* December 27 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (+ 1986)

Deaths

* February 13 - Charles Major
* June 2 - Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Rabindranath Tagore
*Newdigate prize: Maurice Roy Ridley


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