1903 in literature
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Events
Poetry
- This collection of poems Parsifal - The Early Gardens is published, which helps its author Karl Gustav Vollmoeller breakthrough.
New Books
- The Ambassadors Henry James
- Enfant à la balustrade: René Boylesve
- Force ennemie: John Antoine Nau
- The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker
- Lady Rose 's Daughter: Mary Augusta Ward
- The Pit by Frank Norris
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft: George Gissing
- The Riddle of the Sands: Robert Erskine Childers
- Principia Ethica: G. E. Moore
- Said the Fisherman: Marmaduke Pickthall
- The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. DuBois
- The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin: Beatrix Potter
- Typhoon and Other Stories: Joseph Conrad
- Verite: Emile Zola
- Les affaires sont les affaires (Business is Business ( comedy) ): Octave Mirbeau
- The Way of All Flesh ( posthumously ): Samuel Butler
- The Wind in the Rose Bush: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Literary Awards
- The Prix Goncourt for French literature, will be inaugurated. John Antoine Nau is with Force ennemie the first prize winner.
- The Norwegian Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson receives " as a proof of recognition for his noble, magnificent and versatile effectiveness as a poet who was always distinguished by unique freshness of inspiration and a rare purity of soul ," the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Others
- October 24: Mark Twain is moving to Florence.
Born
- February 2: Eugen Kogon, German journalist and political scientist ( The SS - State ) ( † 1987)
- FEBRUARY 11: Alan Paton, South African writer († 1988)
- February 13: Georges Simenon, Belgian writer († 1989)
- FEBRUARY 20: Ella Maillart, the Swiss travel writer († 1997)
- February 21 Anaïs Nin, American writer († 1977)
- Raymond Queneau, French poet and writer († 1976)