1913 in literature

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 &mdash; Le Grand Meaulnes
 * L. Frank Baum &mdash; The Patchwork Girl of Oz
 * - Little Wizard Stories of Oz
 * - Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs &mdash; Tarzan of the Apes
 * Hall Caine &mdash; The Woman Thou Gavest Me
 * Willa Cather &mdash; O Pioneers!
 * Arthur Conan Doyle &mdash; The Poison Belt
 * Ellen Glasgow &mdash; Virginia
 * Husayn Haykal &mdash; Zaynab
 * Henry James &mdash; A Small Boy and Others
 * Katherine James &mdash; A City of Contrasts
 * Franz Kafka &mdash; The Judgement
 * D. H. Lawrence &mdash; Sons and Lovers
 * Jack London &mdash; The Valley of the Moon
 * Flora Mayor &mdash; Third Miss Symons
 * Oscar Micheaux &mdash; Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer
 * Octave Mirbeau &mdash; Dingo (novel)
 * Baroness Orczy &mdash; Eldorado
 * Eleanor H. Porter &mdash; Pollyanna
 * Marcel Proust &mdash; In Search of Lost Time starts to be published
 * Saki - When William Came
 * Elsie Singmaster &mdash; Gettysburg
 * Vincent Cartwright Vickers &mdash; The Google Book
 * Mary Augusta Ward &mdash; The Mating of Lydia, The Coryston Family
 * Hugh Walpole &mdash; Fortitude
 * Edith Wharton &mdash; The Custom of the Country

New drama

 * George Bernard Shaw &mdash; Pygmalion

Poetry

 * Delmira Agustini - Los Cálices Vacíos (Empty Chalices)
 * Guillaume Apollinaire&mdash;Alcools
 * Robert Frost&mdash;A Boy's Will
 * Siegfried Sassoon&mdash;The Daffodil Murderer

Non-fiction

 * Guillaume Apollinaire&mdash;The Cubist Painters
 * Walter Lippmann&mdash;A Preface to Politics
 * Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell&mdash;Principia Mathematica

Births

 * January 29 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer (d. 2001)
 * March 2 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (d. 1971
 * June 22 - Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (d. 1989)
 * August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
 * October 19 - Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (d. 1991)
 * 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

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