1883 in literature

The year 1883 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * The Modern Language Association forms

New books

 * Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Phantom Fortune
 * Rhoda Broughton - Belinda
 * Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science
 * Jonas Lie - Familien paa Gilje (The Gilje family)
 * John Macnie - The Diothas
 * George A. Moore - A Modern Lover
 * Guy de Maupassant - Une Vie
 * Friedrich Nietzsche - Also sprach Zarathustra
 * Howard Pyle - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
 * Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid - Gladys Fane
 * Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
 * Jules Verne - Kéraban the Inflexible

New drama

 * Frances Hodgson Burnett & William Gillette - Esmeralda
 * François Coppée - Severo Torelli
 * George Robert Sims - In the Ranks
 * August Strindberg - Lucky Pehr

Non-fiction

 * Hall Caine - Cobwebs of Criticism
 * Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi

Births

 * January 6 - Khalil Gibran, poet, novelist (d. 1931)
 * January 10  - Aleksei Tolstoy, writer (d. 1945)
 * February 15 - Sax Rohmer, author (d. 1959)
 * April 11 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
 * April 30 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
 * June 3 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (d. 1924)
 * Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer (d. 1949)

Deaths

 * January 21 – Anna Eliza Bray, novelist (b. 1790)
 * March 14 – Karl Marx, philosopher (b. 1818)
 * December 13 – Victor de Laprade, poet and critic (b. 1812)
 * date unknown – Gustave Aimard, novelist (b. 1818)