Literature year 1903

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

Poetry

• The book of poems Parcival - The early gardens is published, which helps its author Karl Gustav Vollmoeller to break through.

New releases

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• The Ambassadors : Henry James
• The homosexuality. A contribution to the moral history of our time : Erich Mühsam
• Three questions : Lev Tolstoy
• Enfant à la balustrade : René Boylesve
• Force ennemy : John Antoine Nau
• The Jewel of Seven Stars : Bram Stoker
• King Assarhaddon : Lev Tolstoy
• Kui Anija mehed Tallinnas käisid : Eduard Vilde
• Lady Rose's Daughter : Mary Augusta Ward
• The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days : Andy Adams
• The Pit : Frank Norris
• The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft : George Gissing
• The Riddle of the Sands : Robert Erskine Childers
• Principia Ethica : GE Moore
• Said the Fisherman : Marmaduke Pickthall
• The Souls of Black Folk : WEB DuBois
• The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin : Beatrix Potter
• Typhoon and Other Stories : Joseph Conrad
• Vérité : Émile Zola
• Les affaires sont les affaires ( Business is Business (Comedy) ): Octave Mirbeau
• The Way of All Flesh (posthumous): Samuel Butler
• World poison : Peter Rosegger
• The Wind in the Rose Bush : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Literary prizes

• The Prix ​​Goncourt for French Literature is awarded for the first time. John Antoine Nau is the first winner with Force ennemie .
• The Norwegian Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson received the Nobel Prize for Literature “as proof of recognition for his noble, great and versatile work as a poet, who was always distinguished by a unique freshness of inspiration and a rare purity of soul” .

Others

• October 24th : Mark Twain moves to Florence .
• November: The Popular Magazine appears for the first time in New York City .

Born

• January 11: Alan Paton , South African writer († 1988 )
• February 2: Eugen Kogon , German publicist and political scientist ( Der SS-Staat ) († 1987 )
• February 12: Georges Simenon , Belgian writer († 1989 )
• February 20: Ella Maillart , Swiss travel writer († 1997 )
• February 21: Anaïs Nin , American writer († 1977 )
• February 21: Raymond Queneau , French poet and writer († 1976 )
• February 22: Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer († 1990 )
• February 24: Franz Burda , German publisher († 1986 )
• March 10: Clare Boothe Luce , American writer and publisher († 1987 )
• March 18: Erich Ohser ( eoplauen ), illustrator and cartoonist ( father and son ) († 1944 )
• March 23: Frank Sargeson , New Zealand writer († 1982 )
• April 3: Peter Huchel , German poet († 1981 )
• May 10: Hans Jonas , German-Jewish ethicist († 1993 )
• May 13: Reinhold Schneider , German writer († 1958 )
• June 8: Marguerite Yourcenar , French-speaking writer († 1987 )
• June 25: George Orwell , English writer ( 1984 ) († 1950 )
• July 10: John Wyndham , British writer († 1969 )
• August 29: Ernst Kreuder , German writer († 1972 )
• September 7: Shimaki Kensaku , Japanese author († 1945 )
• September 8: Jane Arbor , British writer († 1994 )
• September 9: Edward Upward , British writer († 2009 )
• September 9: Phyllis Whitney , American mystery writer († 2008 )
• September 11th: Theodor W. Adorno , German social philosopher and composer († 1969 )
• September 14: Mart Raud , Estonian writer and poet († 1980 )
• September 20: Joseph Breitbach , German-French writer († 1980 )
• September 28: Albert Vigoleis Thelen , German writer († 1989 )
• October 17: Nathanael West , American writer and screenwriter († 1940 )
• October 28: Evelyn Waugh , British writer († 1966 )

Died

• May 12: Karl Oppel , German writer (* 1816 )
• July 11: William Ernest Henley , English poet, critic and editor (* 1849 )
• September 18: Alexander Bain , Scottish philosopher (* 1818 )
• November 1: Theodor Mommsen , German historian (* 1817 )
• December 8th: Herbert Spencer , English philosopher (* 1820 )
• December 28: George Gissing , British writer (* 1857 )

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Mühsam: The homosexuality. A contribution to the moral history of our time. In: Dr. Veriphantor (ed.): On the psychology of our time . No. 5 . M. Lilienthalverlag, Berlin 1903 ( archive.org ).