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Overview of the events of 1913 in literature
Overview of the events of 1913 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1913 .
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]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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
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
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 .