1913 in literature

Events

• Egyptian writer Muhammad Hussein Haykal[?] publishes the first Arabic novel titled Zaynab[?].

• Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Lawrence 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

• Alcools[?] - Guillaume Apollinaire
• A Boy's Will[?] - Robert Frost
• A City of Contrasts[?] - Katherine James[?]
• Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer[?] - Oscar Micheaux
• The Coryston Family[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Cubist Painters[?] - Guillaume Apollinaire
• The Custom of the Country[?] - Edith Wharton
• Fortitude - Hugh Walpole[?]
• Gettysburg[?] - Elsie Singmaster[?]
• The Judgement[?] - Franz Kafka
• The Mating of Lydia[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• Meditation[?] - Franz Kafka
• O Pioneers![?] - Willa Cather
• A Preface to Politics[?] - Walter Lippmann
• Principia Mathematica - Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell
• Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
• A Small Boy and Others[?] - Henry James
• Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
• Tarzan of the Apes[?] - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Third Miss Symons[?] - Flora Mayor[?]
• This Side of Paradise[?] - F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Valley of the Moon[?] - Jack London
• Virginia[?] - Ellen Glasgow[?]
• The Wanderer[?] - Alain-Fournier[?]
• Zaynab[?] - Muhammad Hussein Haykal[?]

Births

• January 29 - Peter von Zahn[?], journalist and writer (+ 2001)
• August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novellist (+ 1995)
• November 7 - Albert Camus, writer (+ 1960)
• December 27 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (+ 1986)

Deaths

• June 2 - Alfred Austin[?], Poet Laureate of England

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rabindranath Tagore