1903 in literature
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The year 1903 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- October 24 - Mark Twain moves to Florence.
- The first Goncourt Prize for French literature is awarded to John Antoine Nau.
- The Ambassadors by Henry James is serialized in twelve installments, from January to December.
- Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild is serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.
[edit] New books
- L. Frank Baum - The Enchanted Island of Yew
- René Boylesve - Enfant à la Balustrade
- Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh
- Robert Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands
- Joseph Conrad - Typhoon and Other Stories
- John Fox, Jr. - The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Wind in the Rose Bush
- George Gissing - The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
- Henry James - The Ambassadors
- Jack London - The Call of the Wild
- John Antoine Nau - Force ennemie
- Frank Norris - The Pit
- Marmaduke Pickthall - Said the Fisherman
- Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
- Bram Stoker - The Jewel of Seven Stars
- Jules Verne - Traveling Scholarships
- Mary Augusta Ward - Lady Rose's Daughter
- Kate Douglas Wiggin - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Emile Zola - Vérité
[edit] New drama
- Dusé Mohamed Ali - The Jew's Revenge
- J.M. Synge - In the Shadow of the Glen
[edit] Poetry
- Giovanni Pascoli, Canti di Castelvecchio
- Thomas Traherne, Poetical Works (posthumous)
- William Butler Yeats, In the Seven Woods, Ideas of Good and Evil
[edit] Non-fiction
- Ada Cambridge - Thirty Years in Australia
- W. E. B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
- G. E. Moore - Principia Ethica
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston
- February 11 - Alan Paton, writer
- February 13 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer
- February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
- July 10 - John Wyndham, British writer
- October 17 - Nathanael West, novelist and screenwriter
[edit] Deaths
- January 22 - Augustus Hare, biographer and travel writer
- February 8 - Ada Ellen Bayly, novelist
- March 6 - Gaston Paris, literary critic and scholar
- March 14 - Ernest Legouvé, dramatist
- May 12 - Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet
- May 25 - Max O'Rell, journalist
- April 29 - Paul du Chaillu, travel writer
- July 11 - William Henley, British poet
- September 1 - Charles Bernard Renouvier, philosopher
- October 4 - Otto Weininger, philosopher
- November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian
- December 28 - George Gissing, British novelist
[edit] Awards
- Goncourt Prize: John Antoine Nau for Force ennemie
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
