1903 in literature


This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1903.

Events

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Fiction


  • Dusé Mohamed Ali – The Jew's Revenge
  • Jacinto Benavente – :es:La noche del sábado|La noche del sábado
  • Haralamb Lecca – Cancer la inimă
  • W. Somerset Maugham – A Man of Honour
  • René Morax – La Dîme
  • Ștefan Petică – Frații
  • Florencio Sánchez – M'hijo el dotor
  • George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman
  • J. M. Synge – In the Shadow of the Glen
  • Stanisław Wyspiański – Wyzwolenie

    Poetry

  • Giovanni Pascoli – Canti di Castelvecchio
  • Thomas Traherne – Poetical Works
  • W. B. Yeats – In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age

    Non-fiction

  • James Allen – As a Man Thinketh
  • Ada Cambridge – Thirty Years in Australia
  • E. K. Chambers – The Mediaeval Stage
  • W. E. B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk
  • Helena Rutherfurd Ely – A Woman's Hardy Garden
  • Auguste Escoffier – Le Guide culinaire
  • G. E. Moore – Principia Ethica
  • John Morley – The Life of Gladstone
  • Alois Riegl – Der moderne Denkmalkultus, sein Wesen, seine Entstehung
  • W. B. Yeats – Ideas of Good and Evil

    Births

  • January 10 – E. Arnot Robertson, English novelist and broadcaster
  • February 11 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and activist
  • February 13 – Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer
  • February 17 – Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-born novelist
  • February 21
  • *Anaïs Nin, French-American novelist and diarist
  • *Raymond Queneau, French poet
  • February 22 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
  • February 24
  • *Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author
  • *Irène Némirovsky, Russian-born French novelist
  • June 8 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist
  • June 18 – Raymond Radiguet, French author
  • June 25 – George Orwell, English novelist and journalist
  • July 10 – John Wyndham, English science fiction writer
  • September 5 – János Kemény, American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer
  • September 9 – Edward Upward, English novelist and short story writer
  • September 10 – Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer
  • September 14 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer
  • October 17 – Nathanael West, American novelist and screenwriter
  • October 28 – Evelyn Waugh, English novelist and critic
  • December 6 – Gaito Gazdanov, Russian-born novelist
  • December 10
  • *Mary Norton, English children's writer
  • *William Plomer, South African novelist, poet and literary editor
  • December 13 – Todhunter Ballard, American novelist
  • December 29 – Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist
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