1913 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1913.
Events
- January 1 – German National Library established in Leipzig.
- January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London; it becomes a significant literary meeting-place.[1]
- April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character Chéri-Bibi begins in Le Matin (France).
- April – Bernhard Kellermann's novel Der Tunnel is published, selling 100,000 copies in the following six months.
- c. April – Humphrey S. Milford becomes publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press[2] following the retirement of Henry Frowde.[3]
- September – F. Scott Fitzgerald enters Princeton University where he meets Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop.
- November 8 – Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck, left unfinished at the writer's death in 1837, receives its first performance, at the Residenztheater, Munich.
- December 13 – Ambrose Bierce, accompanying Pancho Villa's army in the Mexican Revolution as an observer, is last heard from.
- December 21 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
- Husayn Haykal publishes the first modern Egyptian novel, Zaynab.
- Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring his work to literary prominence.
New books
Fiction
- Alain-Fournier – Le Grand Meaulnes
- Maurice Barrès – The Sacred Hill
- Andrei Bely – Petersburg (Петербургъ, Peterburg)
- Arnold Bennett – The Regent
- E.F. Benson
- Dodo's Daughter
- Thorley Weir
- The Weaker Vessel
- E.C. Bentley – Trent's Last Case
- Algernon Blackwood – A Prisoner in Fairyland
- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić – The Brave Adventures of Lapitch (Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića)
- Mary Grant Bruce – Norah of Billabong
- John Buchan – The Power-House (serialization)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – The Return of Tarzan
- Hall Caine – The Woman Thou Gavest Me
- Willa Cather – O Pioneers!
- Joseph Conrad – Chance (book publication)
- Miguel de Unamuno – El espejo de la muerte ("The Mirror of Death", stories)
- Arthur Conan Doyle – The Poison Belt
- Roger Martin du Gard – Jean Barois
- Edna Ferber – Roast Beef, Medium
- Ellen Glasgow – Virginia
- Elinor Glyn
- The Sequence
- The Contrast and Other Stories
- Knut Hamsun – Børn av Tiden
- Husayn Haykal – Zaynab
- Franz Hessel – Der Kramladen des Glücks
- Henry James – A Small Boy and Others
- Annie Fellows Johnston – Miss Santa Clause of the Pullman
- Mary Johnston – Hagar
- Bernhard Kellermann – Der Tunnel
- Valery Larbaud – A. O. Barnabooth
- D. H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
- Jack London
- The Valley of the Moon
- The Abysmal Brute
- Marie Belloc Lowndes – The Lodger
- Arnold Lunn – The Harrovians
- Compton Mackenzie – Sinister Street, vol. 1
- Patricio Mariano – Ang Tala sa Panghulo ("The Bright Star at Panghulo")
- Flora Mayor – The Third Miss Symons
- Oscar Micheaux – Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer
- Octave Mirbeau – Dingo
- Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Golden Road
- Mori ÅŒgai (森 鷗外) – The Wild Geese (é›, Gan, serialization concludes December)
- E. Nesbit – Wet Magic
- Baroness Orczy – Eldorado
- Luigi Pirandello – I vecchi e i giovani ("The Old and the Young", complete)
- Marcel Proust – Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann, vol. 1 of À la recherche du temps perdu)
- Sax Rohmer - The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu
- Saki - When William Came
- Ewald Gerhard Seeliger – Peter Voss, Thief of Millions
- Gene Stratton-Porter – Laddie
- Booth Tarkington – The Flirt
- 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
- P. G. Wodehouse – The Little Nugget
- Leonard Woolf – The Village in the Jungle
Children and young adults
- L. Frank Baum
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz
- Little Wizard Stories of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (as Edith Van Dyne)
- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić – The Brave Adventures of Lapitch (Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića)
- Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Pigling Bland
- Eleanor H. Porter – Pollyanna
Drama
- Jacinto Benavente – La malquerida ("The Unloved")
- Victor Ido – Karinda Adinda
- Oskar Luts – Kapsapea ("The Cabbage")
- Gregorio MartÃnez Sierra
- Mamá ("Mama")
- Sólo para mujeres ("For Women Only")
- Hans Müller-Schlösser – Schneider Wibbel ("Wibbel the Tailor")
- Carl Sternheim – Bürger Schippel ("Citizen Schippel")
Poetry
Main article: 1913 in poetry
- Delmira Agustini – Los Cálices VacÃos ("Empty Chalices")
- Guillaume Apollinaire – Alcools
- James Elroy Flecker – The Golden Journey to Samarkand
- Robert Frost – A Boy's Will
- Siegfried Sassoon – The Daffodil Murderer
Non-fiction
- Guillaume Apollinaire – The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques)
- Miguel de Unamuno – Del sentimiento trágico de la vida ("The Tragic Sense of Life")
- Sigmund Freud – Totem und Tabu
- Holbrook Jackson – The Eighteen Nineties
- Walter Lippmann – A Preface to Politics
- Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell – Principia Mathematica (completed)
Births
- January 29 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (died 2001)
- February 2 – Racey Helps, English children's writer and illustrator (died 1970)
- February 27 – Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (died 1984)
- March 2 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (died 1971)
- April 18 – Muttathu Varkey, Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1989)
- June 22 – Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (died 1989)
- June 26 – Aimé Césaire, Martinique writer (died 2008)
- July 6 – Gwyn Thomas, Welsh novelist (died 1981)
- August 11 – Angus Wilson, English novelist (died 1991)
- August 28 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (died 1995)
- October 19 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (died 1991)
- November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer (died 1960)
- November 10 – Karl Shapiro, American poet (died 2000)
- December 27 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (died 1986)
Deaths
- January 21 – AluÃsio Azevedo, Brazilian novelist, playwright and short story writer (born 1857)
- February 9 – Oscar Méténier, French novelist and dramatist (born 1859)
- February 13 – Charles Major, American novelist (born 1856)
- March 7 – Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet (born 1861)
- March 13 – Thomas Krag, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born 1868)
- April 4 – Edward Dowden, Irish critic and poet (born 1843)
- June 2 – Alfred Austin, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1835)
- June 13 – Camille Lemonnier, Belgian poet and journalist (born 1844)
- July 8 – Louis Hémon, French novelist (rail accident, born 1880)
- October 9 – D. Iacobescu, Romanian poet (born 1893)
- November 26 – Frances Julia Wedgwood, English feminist novelist, biographer and critic (born 1833)
- December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer (born 1864)
Awards
In literature
- The main action of Ford Madox Ford's novel The Good Soldier (1915) opens in this year.
- Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Stranger's Child (2011) opens in this year.
- Georges Simenon's detective fiction Maigret's First Case (La Première enquête de Maigret, 1948) is set in this year.
References
- ↑ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
- ↑ Maw, Martin (2004). "Milford, Sir Humphrey Sumner (1877–1952)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35020. Retrieved 2014-03-14. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ "Oxford University Press: Retirement of Mr. Henry Frowde". The Evening Post 85 (98) (Wellington (New Zealand)). 1913-04-26. p. 12. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
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