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Events

January – Acmeist poetry, with roots back to 1909, is officially born as a reaction to Russian Futurism. Manifestos are printed in the journal Apollon by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergey Gorodetsky, with illustrative works by both, and by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Narbut, and Osip Mandelstam — the last with "Hagia Sophia".^[1]
January 1 – The German National Library is founded in Leipzig.
January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London (opened for business November 1912), which becomes a noted international literary meeting-place.^[2]
January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel Amerika, which he never finishes.
March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character Chéri-Bibi begins in Le Matin (France).
April – Bernhard Kellermann's novel Der Tunnel sells 100,000 copies in its first six months.
c. April – Humphrey S. Milford becomes publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press, after the retirement of Henry Frowde.^[3]^[4]
September – F. Scott Fitzgerald enters Princeton University, where he meets Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop.
November 8 – Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck, unfinished on his death in 1837, receives its first performance at the Residenztheater, Munich.
November 13 – Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann), volume 1 of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), is published by Éditions Grasset in Paris at the author's expense.
December 21 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, appears in the New York World.^[5]
December 26 – Ambrose Bierce, an observer with Pancho Villa's army in the Mexican Revolution, sends his last known correspondence. He is never seen again.^[6]
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- Zaynab, by Husayn Haykal, is published; it is sometimes called the first modern Arabic novel.^[7]
- Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing his edition of Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring it to literary prominence.^[8]
- Henri Stahl publishes excerpts from his novel Un român în lună ("A Romanian on the Moon", republished as a book in 1914), one of the earliest works of Romanian science fiction.^[9]

New books

Poetry

Delmira Agustini – Los Cálices Vacíos (Empty Chalices)
Guillaume Apollinaire – Alcools
James Elroy Flecker – The Golden Journey to Samarkand
Robert Frost – A Boy's Will
Osip Mandelstam – Hagia Sophia
Siegfried Sassoon – The Daffodil Murderer
Georg Trakl – Gedichte (Poems)

Non-fiction

Guillaume Apollinaire – The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques)
Miguel de Unamuno – Del sentimiento trágico de la vida (The Tragic Sense of Life)
Sigmund Freud – Totem und Tabu
Maxim Gorky – My Childhood (Детство)
Élie Halévy – Histoire du peuple anglais au XIXe siècle (vol. 1)
Holbrook Jackson – The Eighteen Nineties
Walter Lippmann – A Preface to Politics
Luigi Russolo – The Art of Noises (L'arte dei rumori, Futurist manifesto)
Rosa Luxemburg – Die Akkumulation des Kapitals (The Accumulation of Capital, 1951)
Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell – Principia Mathematica (completed)
Basil Williams – The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Births

January 23 – Joan Adeney Easdale, English poet (died 1998)
January 29 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (died 2001)
February 2 – Racey Helps, English children's writer and illustrator (died 1970)
February 26 – George Barker, British poet (died 1991)
February 27
- T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (died 1992)
- Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (died 1984)
March 2 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (died 1971)
April 18 – Muttathu Varkey, Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1989)
June 22 – Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (died 1989)
June 26 – Aimé Césaire, Martinique writer (died 2008)
July 6 – Gwyn Thomas, Welsh novelist (died 1981)
July 21 – Catherine Storr, English children's writer (died 2001)
August 11 – Angus Wilson, English novelist (died 1991)
August 28 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (died 1995)^[10]
October 19 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (died 1991)
November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer (died 1960)
November 10 – Karl Shapiro, American poet (died 2000)
December 26 – Elizabeth David (née Gwynne), English cookery writer (died 1992)
December 27 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (died 1986)

Deaths

January 21 – Aluísio Azevedo, Brazilian novelist, playwright and short story writer (born 1857)
February 9 – Oscar Méténier, French novelist and dramatist (born 1859)
February 13 – Charles Major, American novelist (born 1856)
March 7 – Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet (born 1861)
March 13
- Thomas Krag, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born 1868)
- Jane Marsh Parker, American novelist and religious writer (born 1836)
April 4 – Edward Dowden, Irish critic and poet (born 1843)
May 8 – Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster, Scottish novelist and essayist (born 1835)
June 2 – Alfred Austin, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1835)
June 13 – Camille Lemonnier, Belgian poet and journalist (born 1844)
July 8 – Louis Hémon, French novelist (rail accident, born 1880)
July 16 — Esther Saville Allen, American author (b. 1837)
October 9 – D. Iacobescu, Romanian poet (born 1893)
October 19 – Emily Lawless, Irish-born modernist novelist and poet (born 1845)^[11]
November 26 – Frances Julia Wedgwood, English feminist novelist, biographer and critic (born 1833)
December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer (born 1864)
December 5 – Ferdinand Dugué, French poet and playwright (born 1816)
December 11 – Ioan Kalinderu, Romanian classical scholar, jurist and agriculturalist (born 1840)

Awards

References

^ Wachtel, Andrew (2009). "Russian Modernism". In Gleason, Abbott (ed.). A Companion to Russian History. Chichester: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 287–288. ISBN 978-1-4051-3560-3.
^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
^ Maw, Martin (2004). "Milford, Sir Humphrey Sumner (1877–1952)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35020. Retrieved 2014-03-14. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ "Oxford University Press: Retirement of Mr. Henry Frowde". The Evening Post. Vol. 85, no. 98. Wellington (New Zealand). 1913-04-26. p. 12. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
^ Rotary International (September 1994). The Rotarian. Rotary International. p. 28.
^ Robert L. Gale (2001). An Ambrose Bierce Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-313-31130-7.
^ Said Faiq (2004). Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic. Multilingual Matters. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-85359-743-5.
^ Suglia, Joseph (2004). Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-sacrifice. Peter Lang. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8204-7273-7.
^ Popescu, Cristian Tudor (1998). Copiii fiarei. Iași: Polirom. pp. 33–41.
^ "Robertson Davies". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
^ Vivien Igoe (1994). A Literary Guide to Dublin: Writers in Dublin : Literary Associations and Anecdotes. Methuen. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-413-67420-3.

[1] Wachtel, Andrew (2009). "Russian Modernism". In Gleason, Abbott (ed.). A Companion to Russian History. Chichester: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 287–288. ISBN 978-1-4051-3560-3.

[2] Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.

[3] Maw, Martin (2004). "Milford, Sir Humphrey Sumner (1877–1952)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35020. Retrieved 2014-03-14. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[4] "Oxford University Press: Retirement of Mr. Henry Frowde". The Evening Post. Vol. 85, no. 98. Wellington (New Zealand). 1913-04-26. p. 12. Retrieved 2014-06-06.

[5] Rotary International (September 1994). The Rotarian. Rotary International. p. 28.

[6] Robert L. Gale (2001). An Ambrose Bierce Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-313-31130-7.

[Faiq2004-7] Said Faiq (2004). Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic. Multilingual Matters. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-85359-743-5.

[8] Suglia, Joseph (2004). Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-sacrifice. Peter Lang. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8204-7273-7.

[9] Popescu, Cristian Tudor (1998). Copiii fiarei. Iași: Polirom. pp. 33–41.

[10] "Robertson Davies". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 8, 2019.

[11] Vivien Igoe (1994). A Literary Guide to Dublin: Writers in Dublin : Literary Associations and Anecdotes. Methuen. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-413-67420-3.

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 *January – [[Acmeist poetry]], with roots back to [[1909 in literature|1909]], is officially born as a reaction to [[Russian Futurism]]. Manifestos are printed in the journal ''Apollon'' by [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] and [[Sergey Gorodetsky]], with illustrative works by both, and by [[Anna Akhmatova]], [[Vladimir Narbut]], and [[Osip Mandelstam]] — the last with "Hagia Sophia".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wachtel |first=Andrew |editor-last=Gleason |editor-first=Abbott |title=A Companion to Russian History |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Chichester |year=2009 |pages=287–288 |chapter=Russian Modernism |isbn=978-1-4051-3560-3}}</ref>
 *[[January 1]] – The [[German National Library]] is founded in [[Leipzig]].
-*[[January 8]] – [[Harold Monro]] founds the [[Poetry Bookshop]] in London, which becomes a noted literary meeting-place.<ref>{{Cite book |editor=Jones, Neal T. |title=A Book of Days for the Literary Year |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofdaysforlit0jone |url-access=registration |location=New York; London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=1984 |isbn=0-500-01332-2}}</ref>
+*[[January 8]] – [[Harold Monro]] officially opens the [[Poetry Bookshop]] in London (opened for business November 1912), which becomes a noted international literary meeting-place.<ref>{{Cite book |editor=Jones, Neal T. |title=A Book of Days for the Literary Year |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofdaysforlit0jone |url-access=registration |location=New York; London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=1984 |isbn=0-500-01332-2}}</ref>
+*[[January 24]] – [[Franz Kafka]] stops working on his novel ''Amerika'', which he never finishes.
+*[[March 24]] – New Broadway theatre [[Palace Theatre (New York City)|Palace Theatre]] opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
 *[[April 5]] – Serialization of the adventures of [[Gaston Leroux]]'s character [[:fr:Chéri-Bibi|Chéri-Bibi]] begins in [[Le Matin (France)|''Le Matin'' (France)]].
 *April – [[Bernhard Kellermann]]'s novel ''[[Der Tunnel (novel)|Der Tunnel]]'' sells 100,000 copies in its first six months.
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 *[[Alain-Fournier]] – ''[[Le Grand Meaulnes]]''
 *[[Maurice Barrès]] – ''[[The Sacred Hill]]''
-*[[Andrei Bely]] – ''[[Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (Петербургъ, ''Peterburg'')
+*[[Andrei Bely]] – ''[[Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (Петербургъ, ''Peterburg'') - Serialization concludes in March 1914
 *[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''The Regent''
 *[[E. F. Benson]]
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 **''Thorley Weir''
 **''The Weaker Vessel''
-*[[Edmund Clerihew Bentley]] – ''[[Trent's Last Case]]''
+*[[Edmund Clerihew Bentley]] – ''[[Trent's Last Case (novel)|Trent's Last Case]]''
 *[[Algernon Blackwood]] – ''A Prisoner in Fairyland''
+*[[Victor Bridges]] – ''[[Another Man's Shoes (novel)|Another Man's Shoes]]''
 *[[Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić]] – ''[[The Brave Adventures of Lapitch]] (Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića)''
 *[[Mary Grant Bruce]] – ''Norah of Billabong''
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 *[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] – ''[[The Return of Tarzan]]''
 *[[Hall Caine]] – ''The Woman Thou Gavest Me''
+*[[Ethel Carnie]] – ''Miss Nobody''
 *[[Willa Cather]] – ''[[O Pioneers!]]''
 *[[Joseph Conrad]] – ''[[Chance (Conrad novel)|Chance]]'' (book publication)
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 **''The Sequence''
 **''The Contrast and Other Stories''
+*[[Frances Nimmo Greene]] — ''[[The Right of the Strongest (novel)|The Right of the Strongest]]''
 *[[Knut Hamsun]] – ''Børn av Tiden''
 *[[Husayn Haykal]] – ''[[Zaynab (novel)|Zaynab]]''
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 *[[Lucy Maud Montgomery]] – ''[[The Golden Road (Montgomery novel)|The Golden Road]]''
 *[[Mori Ōgai]] (森 鷗外) – ''[[The Wild Geese (Mori novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (雁, ''Gan'', serialization concludes December)
+*[[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''[[The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (novel)|The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton]]''
 *[[Baroness Orczy]] – ''[[Eldorado (Novel)|Eldorado]]''
 *[[Luigi Pirandello]] – ''I vecchi e i giovani'' (The Old and the Young, complete)
+*[[N. Porsenna]] – ''La judecata Zeilor'' (A Tribunal of Gods)
 *[[Marcel Proust]] – ''[[Swann's Way]]'' (''Du côté de chez Swann'', first part of ''À la Recherche du temps perdu'')
 *[[Sax Rohmer]] – ''[[The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu]]''
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 *[[Eleanor H. Porter]] – ''[[Pollyanna]]''
 *[[Beatrix Potter]] – ''[[The Tale of Pigling Bland]]''
-*[[Else Ury]] – ''[[Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls]]''
+*[[Else Ury]] – ''[[Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls]] (Nesthäkchen und ihre Puppen)''
 ===Drama===
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 *[[Franz Arnold]] and [[Ernst Bach]] – ''[[The Spanish Fly (play)|The Spanish Fly]] (Die spanische Fliege)''
 *[[Jacinto Benavente]] – ''[[The Unloved Woman (play)|The Unloved Woman]] (La malquerida)''
+* [[Arnold Bennett]] – ''[[The Great Adventure (play)|The Great Adventure]]''
 *[[George A. Birmingham]] – ''[[General John Regan (play)|General John Regan]]''
+*[[G. K. Chesterton]] – ''[[Magic (play)|Magic]]''
 *[[Montague Glass]] and [[Charles Klein]] – ''[[Potash and Perlmutter (play)|Potash and Perlmutter]]''
 *[[A. de Herz]]
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 *[[Miguel de Unamuno]] – ''Del sentimiento trágico de la vida'' (The Tragic Sense of Life)
 *[[Sigmund Freud]] – ''Totem und Tabu''
+*[[Maxim Gorky]] – ''[[Autobiography of Maxim Gorky|My Childhood]]'' (Детство)
+*[[Élie Halévy]] – ''Histoire du peuple anglais au XIXe siècle'' (vol. 1)
 *[[Holbrook Jackson]] – ''The Eighteen Nineties''
 *[[Walter Lippmann]] – ''A Preface to Politics''
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 *[[Rosa Luxemburg]] – ''Die Akkumulation des Kapitals'' (''The Accumulation of Capital'', 1951)
 *[[Alfred North Whitehead]] and [[Bertrand Russell]] – ''[[Principia Mathematica]]'' (completed)
+* [[Basil Williams (historian)|Basil Williams]] – ''[[The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham]]''
 ==Births==
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 *[[January 29]] – [[Peter von Zahn]], German journalist and writer (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])
 *[[February 2]] – [[Racey Helps]], English children's writer and illustrator (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])
-*[[February 27]] – [[Irwin Shaw]], American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])
+*[[February 26]] – [[George Barker (poet)|George Barker]], British poet (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
+*[[February 27]]
+** [[T. B. Ilangaratne]], Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (died [[1992 in literature|1992]])
+** [[Irwin Shaw]], American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])
 *[[March 2]] – [[Godfried Bomans]], Dutch writer (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])
 *[[April 18]] – [[Muttathu Varkey]], Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and poet (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
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 *[[July 21]] – [[Catherine Storr]], English children's writer (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])
 *[[August 11]] – [[Angus Wilson]], English novelist (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
-*[[August 28]] – [[Robertson Davies]], Canadian novelist (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
+*[[August 28]] – [[Robertson Davies]], Canadian novelist (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robertson-davies|title=Robertson Davies|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=September 8, 2019}}</ref>
 *[[October 19]] – [[Vasco Pratolini]], Italian writer (died 1991)
 *[[November 7]] – [[Albert Camus]], French writer (died [[1960 in literature|1960]])
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 *[[February 13]] – [[Charles Major (writer)|Charles Major]], American novelist (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])
 *[[March 7]] – [[Pauline Johnson]], Canadian poet (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])
-*[[March 13]] – [[Thomas Krag]], Norwegian novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
+*[[March 13]]
+**[[Thomas Krag]], Norwegian novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
+**[[Jane Marsh Parker]], American novelist and religious writer (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])
 *[[April 4]] – [[Edward Dowden]], Irish critic and poet (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])
 *[[May 8]] – [[Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster]], Scottish novelist and essayist (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
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 *[[June 13]] – [[Camille Lemonnier]], Belgian poet and journalist (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
 *[[July 8]] – [[Louis Hémon]], French novelist (rail accident, born [[1880 in literature|1880]])
+*[[July 16]] — [[Esther Saville Allen]], American author (b. [[1837]])
 *[[October 9]] – [[D. Iacobescu]], Romanian poet (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
 *[[October 19]] – [[Emily Lawless]], Irish-born modernist novelist and poet (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Vivien Igoe|title=A Literary Guide to Dublin: Writers in Dublin : Literary Associations and Anecdotes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1IfAQAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-67420-3|page=142}}</ref>

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