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 serialized in twelve installments, from January to December. 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
• February 11 - Alan Paton, writer
• February 12 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer
• February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
• July 10 - John Wyndham, British writer
• October 17 - Nathanael West, novelist and screenwriter

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

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