1903 in literature

Events

• October 24 - Mark Twain moves to Florence, Italy.

• The first Goncourt Prize for French literature is awarded to John Antoine Nau[?].

• The Ambassadors[?] by Henry James is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by James to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

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[?] - Frank Norris
• The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft[?] - George Gissing[?]
• The Riddle of the Sands[?] - 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
• The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
• The Wind in the Rose Bush[?] - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman[?]

Births

• January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston (+ 1960)
• February 11 - Alan Paton, writer (+ 1988)
• February 12 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (+ 1989)
• February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (+ 1990)

Deaths

• Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian
• December 28 - George Gissing[?]

Awards

• Goncourt Prize: John Antoine Nau[?] for Force ennemie
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson