1913 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Egyptian writer Muhammad Hussein Haykal publishes the first Arabic novel titled Zaynab.

• Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is published.

New Books

• Alcools — Guillaume Apollinaire
• A Boy's Will — Robert Frost
• A City of Contrasts — Katherine James
• — Oscar Micheaux
• The Coryston Family — Mary Augusta Ward
• The Cubist Painters — Guillaume Apollinaire
• The Custom of the Country — Edith Wharton
• The Daffodil Murderer — Siegfried Sassoon
• Fortitude — Hugh Walpole
• Gettysburg — Elsie Singmaster
• The Judgement — Franz Kafka
• The Mating of Lydia — Mary Augusta Ward
• Meditation — Franz Kafka
• O Pioneers! — Willa Cather
• A Preface to Politics — Walter Lippmann
• Principia Mathematica — Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell
• Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw
• A Small Boy and Others — Henry James
• Sons and Lovers — D. H. Lawrence
• Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Third Miss Symons — Flora Mayor
• This Side Of Paradise — F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Valley of the Moon — Jack London
• Virginia — Ellen Glasgow
• The Wanderer| — Alain-Fournier
• Zaynab — Muhammad Hussein Haykal

Births

• January 29 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer (+ 2001)
• August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (+ 1995)
• November 7 - Albert Camus, writer (+ 1960)
• December 27 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (+ 1986)

Deaths

• June 2 - Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rabindranath Tagore