1913 in literature

See also: 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Egyptian writer Muhammad Hussein Haykal publishes the first Arabic novel titled Zaynab.

• Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is published.

New Books

• Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire
• A Boy's Will - Robert Frost
• A City of Contrasts - Katherine James
• Oscar Micheaux
• The Coryston Family - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Cubist Painters - Guillaume Apollinaire
• The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
• The Daffodil Murderer - Siegfried Sassoon
• Fortitude - Hugh Walpole
• Gettysburg - Elsie Singmaster
• The Judgement - Franz Kafka
• The Mating of Lydia - Mary Augusta Ward
• Meditation - Franz Kafka
• O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
• A Preface to Politics - Walter Lippmann
• Principia Mathematica - Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell
• Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
• A Small Boy and Others - Henry James
• Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
• Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Third Miss Symons - Flora Mayor
• This Side of Paradise - F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Valley of the Moon - Jack London
• Virginia - Ellen Glasgow
• The Wanderer - Alain-Fournier
• Zaynab - Muhammad Hussein Haykal

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Births

• January 29 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer (+ 2001)
• August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (+ 1995)
• November 7 - Albert Camus, writer (+ 1960)
• December 27 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (+ 1986)

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Deaths

• June 2 - Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England

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Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rabindranath Tagore