1913 in literature

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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
  • - 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

• 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 (died 2001)
• March 2 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (died 1971
• June 22 - Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (died 1989)
• August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (died 1995)
• October 19 - Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (died 1991)
• November 7 - Albert Camus, writer (died 1960)
• November 10 - Karl Shapiro, poet (died 2000)
• December 27 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (died 1986)

Deaths

• February 13 - Charles Major, novelist (born 1856)
• June 2 - Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England (born 1835)

Awards

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