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The year 1913 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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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
- - Little Wizard Stories of Oz
- - Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (as "Edith Van Dyne")
- 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 — Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer
- Octave Mirbeau — Dingo (novel)
- Baroness Orczy — Eldorado
- Eleanor H. Porter — Pollyanna
- Marcel Proust — In Search of Lost Time starts to be published
- Saki - When William Came
- 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
Poetry
Main article: 1913 in 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 (d. 2001)
- March 2 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (d. 1971
- August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
- November 7 - Albert Camus, writer (d. 1960)
- November 10 - Karl Shapiro, poet (d. 2000)
- December 27 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (d. 1986)
Deaths
- February 13 - Charles Major, novelist (b. 1856)
- June 2 - Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England (b. 1835)
Awards
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