1902 in literature


This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1902.

Events

Fiction


  • J. M. Barrie – The Admirable Crichton
  • Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers – Le Cœur a ses raisons
  • Clyde Fitch – The Girl with the Green Eyes
  • Maxim Gorky – The Lower Depths
  • Haralamb Lecca – Septima. Câiniĭ
  • Maurice Maeterlinck – Monna Vanna
  • Frank Wedekind – King Nicolo
  • W. B. Yeats – Cathleen Ní Houlihan

    Poetry

  • Edwin James Brady – The Earthen Floor
  • Walter de la Mare – Songs of Childhood
  • Ștefan Petică – Fecioara în alb

    Non-fiction

  • Jane Addams – Democracy and Social Ethics
  • James Allen – As a Man Thinketh
  • Hilaire Belloc – The Path to Rome
  • Euclides da Cunha – Os Sertões
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct
  • Michael Fairless – The Roadmender
  • John A. Hobson – Imperialism: a study
  • William James – The Varieties of Religious Experience
  • Vilfredo Pareto – Les Systèmes socialistes
  • Bertrand Russell – A Free Man's Worship
  • William Wynn Westcott – Collectanea Hermetica

    Births

  • January 5 – Stella Gibbons, English novelist
  • January 20 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish lyricist and dramatist
  • January 30 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born architectural historian
  • February 1 – Langston Hughes, African-American poet and novelist
  • February 16 – Ion Călugăru, Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist
  • February 19 – Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and political activist
  • February 27 – John Steinbeck, American novelist and journalist
  • March 10 – Stefan Inglot, Polish historian
  • March 29 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and short-story writer
  • April 2 – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer
  • April 6 – Julien Torma, French poet and dramatist
  • April 9 – Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer
  • April 23 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist
  • June 5 – Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator
  • July 10 – Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet
  • July 8 – Gwendolyn B. Bennett, African American writer and artist
  • July 27 - Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright, translator, and publicist
  • August 15 – Katharine Brush, American short story writer
  • August 16 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist
  • August 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet and humorist
  • August 24
  • *Felipe Alfau, Spanish-American fiction writer, poet and translator
  • *Fernand Braudel, French historian
  • October 13 – Arna Bontemps, African American poet
  • October 23 – Dadie Rylands, English Shakespeare scholar
  • October 26 – Beryl Markham, English-born Kenyan adventurer and memoirist
  • October 31 – Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet
  • November 1 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author
  • November 2
  • *Hu Feng, Chinese novelist
  • *Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author
  • November 29 – Carlo Levi, Italian writer
  • December 7 – N. Crevedia, Romanian poet, novelist and journalist.
  • December 20 – Jolán Földes, Hungarian novelist and playwright

    Deaths

  • January 7 – Wilhelm Hertz, German poet and translator
  • April 6 – Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer
  • April 20 – Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist
  • May 6 – Bret Harte, American author and poet
  • June 10 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
  • June 18 – Samuel Butler, English novelist
  • July 10 – Annie French Hector, Irish-born novelist
  • August 31 – Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet
  • September 11 – Ernst Dümmler, German historian
  • September 19 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku poet
  • September 29
  • *William McGonagall, Scottish doggerel poet
  • *Émile Zola, French novelist
  • October 7 – George Rawlinson, English historian
  • October 13 – John George Bourinot, Canadian historian
  • October 25 – Frank Norris, American novelist
  • November 16 – G. A. Henty, English historical novelist

    Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen