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The year 1923 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.
- Barry Vincent Jackson's production of Cymbeline is the first modern-dress production of a Shakespearan work.
- A riot breaks out at the re-staging of Tristan Tzara's Dadaist play The Gas Heart on 6 July at the Théâtre Michel, Paris, between those artists aligned with André Breton and those aligned with Tzara; the conflict leads to a permanent split in the Dada movement and the founding of Surrealism as an alternative.
New fiction
- Sherwood Anderson - Many Marriages
- Arnold Bennett - Riceyman Steps
- Max Brand - Seven Trails
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Golden Lion
- Hall Caine - The Woman of Knockaloe
- Willa Cather - A Lost Lady
- Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links
- Colette - Le Blé en herbe
- Joseph Conrad - The Rover
- Marie Corelli - Love and the Philosopher
- Zona Gale - Faint Perfume
- Jaroslav Hašek - The Good Soldier Švejk
- Ernest Hemingway - Three Stories and Ten Poems
- Georgette Heyer - The Great Roxhythe
- Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
- D. H. Lawrence - Kangaroo
- Hugh Lofting - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- A. A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner
- Felix Salten - Bambi, A Life in the Woods
- Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?
- James Stephens - Deirdre
- Wallace Stevens - Harmonium
- Italo Svevo - La Coscienza di Zeno
- Alexei Tolstoy - Aelita
- Jean Toomer - Cane
- H. G. Wells - Men Like Gods
- Margaret Wilson -The Able McLaughlins
- P. G. Wodehouse
New drama
- Bertolt Brecht - In The Jungle of Cities
- Georg Kaiser - Side by Side
- Elmer Rice - The Adding Machine
- Jules Romains - Knock
- George Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan
- Ernst Toller - Hinkemann
- Sergei Tretyakov - Do You Hear, Moscow? and Earth in Turmoil
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - The Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive
Poetry
- E. E. Cummings - Tulips and Chimneys
- Robert Frost - New Hampshire
- Sukumar Ray - Abol Tabol
- William Carlos Williams
Non-fiction
- Vladimir Arsenyev - Dersu Uzala
- Le Corbusier - Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture)
- Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
- Robert Henri - The Art Spirit
- Max Weber - Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Births
- January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
- January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
- January 16 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
- January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
- January 31 - Norman Mailer, American writer & journalist (d. 2007)
- February 2 - James Dickey, American poet & author (d. 1997)
- February 9 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
- March 27 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born American poet
- March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, & playwright (d. 1986)
- May 1 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
- May 21 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright & novelist (d. 2002)
- June 24 - Yves Bonnefoy, French poet & essayist
- July 2 - Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet & essayist
- July 17 - James Purdy, American writer
- September 13 - Miroslav Holub, Czech poet (d. 1998)
- October 5 - Stig Dagerman, Swedish author & journalist (d. 1954)
- October 15 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (d. 1985)
- October 24 - Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997)
- November 20 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
Deaths
- January 3 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- January 9 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
- February 1 - Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian (b. 1865)
- February 8 - Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher & political theorist (b. 1848)
- June 10 -
- Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist & poet (b. 1863)
- Pierre Loti, French novelist & travel writer (b. 1850)
- June 22 - Morris Rosenfeld, Yiddish poet (b. 1862)
- June 24 - Edith Södergran, Finnish-Swedish poet (b. 1892)
- August 24 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (b. 1856)
- October 6 - Oscar Browning, English historian (b. 1837)
- December 1 - Virginie Loveling, Flemish poet & novelist (b. 1836)
- December 4 - Maurice Barrès, French novelist & journalist (b. 1862)
- date unknown
- Henry Bradley, philologist and lexicographer (b. 1845)
- George Wharton James, journalist (b. 1858)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Ronald Ross, Memoirs, Etc.
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- Nobel Prize for Literature: William Butler Yeats
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Owen Davis, Icebound
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Willa Cather - One of Ours
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