1903 in literature

1903 in literature

The year 1903 in literature involved some significant new books.

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".

New books

*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"

New drama

*Dusé Mohamed Ali - "The Jew's Revenge"
*J.M. Synge - "In the Shadow of the Glen

Poetry

*Giovanni Pascoli, "Canti di Castelvecchio"
* Thomas Traherne, "Poetical Works" (posthumous)
* William Butler Yeats, "In the Seven Woods", "Ideas of Good and Evil"

Non-fiction

*Ada Cambridge - "Thirty Years in Australia"
*W. E. B. DuBois - "The Souls of Black Folk"
*G. E. Moore - "Principia Ethica"

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

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 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

Awards

* Goncourt Prize: John Antoine Nau for "Force ennemie"
* Nobel Prize for Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


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