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1903 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1903.

Events
advertising The Call of the Wild'', first episode • January–December – Henry James's novel The Ambassadors is published as a serial in the monthly North American Review. • May 22 – Japanese philosophy student Misao Fujimura (藤村操, born 1886) carves a poem into a tree at Kegon Falls before committing suicide over unrequited love. • June 20Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild begins serial publication in the Saturday Evening Post. • October 24Mark Twain sets out for Florence (Italy). • December – The Prix Goncourt for French literature is awarded for the first time, to John Antoine Nau for his novel Force ennemie. • December 16 – The London County Council erects a plaque to novelist Charles Dickens (d. 1870) on his former home in Doughty Street. • December 19 – The first of G. K. Chesterton's short stories in the series The Club of Queer Trades, "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown", appears in ''Harper's Weekly''. • unknown dateWilliam Foyle and his brother Gilbert establish the London bookselling business of Foyles. ==New books==
New books
FictionPío BarojaEl Mayorazgo de Labraz (Lord of Labraz, second of La Tierra Vasca – The Basque Country trilogy, 19001909) • Ioan A. BassarabescuNuveleThio Tjin BoenTjerita Oeij SeRené BoylesveEnfant à la BalustradeSamuel Butler (died 1902) – The Way of All FleshErskine ChildersThe Riddle of the SandsJoseph ConradTyphoon and Other Stories (U. K. book publication) • Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox HuefferRomanceFlorence ConverseLong WillGrazia DeleddaElias PortoluIsabelle EberhardtTrimardeur (serialization begins) • John Fox, Jr.The Little Shepherd of Kingdom ComeMary E. Wilkins FreemanThe Wind in the Rose BushGeorge GissingThe Private Papers of Henry RyecroftHenry JamesThe AmbassadorsJack LondonThe Call of the WildJohn Antoine NauForce ennemieFrank Norris (died 1902) – The PitMarmaduke PickthallSaid the FishermanBram StokerThe Jewel of Seven StarsJules VerneTravel Scholarships (Bourses de voyage)Mary Augusta Ward – ''Lady Rose's Daughter'' • Émile ZolaVéritéJerzy ŻuławskiNa Srebrnym Globie (On the Silver Globe, first in the Trylogia Księżycowa – Lunar Trilogy) Children and young peopleL. Frank BaumThe Enchanted Island of YewBeatrix PotterThe Tale of Squirrel NutkinThe Tailor of GloucesterHerminie Templeton – ''Darby O'Gill and the Good People'' (book publication) • Kate Douglas WigginRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm DramaDusé Mohamed Ali – ''The Jew's Revenge'' • Jacinto BenaventeLa noche del sábado (Saturday Night) • Haralamb LeccaCancer la inimă André de LordeLe Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur PlumeW. Somerset MaughamA Man of HonourRené MoraxLa DîmeȘtefan PeticăFrațiiFlorencio Sánchez – ''M'hijo el dotor'' (My son, the doctor) • George Bernard ShawMan and Superman (published) • J. M. SyngeIn the Shadow of the GlenPierre WolffThe Secret of Polichinelle (Le Secret de Polichinelle)Stanisław WyspiańskiWyzwolenie (Liberation) PoetryGiovanni PascoliCanti di CastelvecchioThomas Traherne (died 1674) – Poetical WorksW. B. YeatsIn the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age Non-fictionJames AllenAs a Man ThinkethAda CambridgeThirty Years in AustraliaE. K. ChambersThe Mediaeval StageW. E. B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkHelena Rutherfurd Ely – ''A Woman's Hardy Garden'' • Auguste EscoffierLe Guide culinaireHelen KellerThe Story of My Life (book publication) • G. E. MoorePrincipia EthicaJohn MorleyThe Life of GladstoneAlois RieglDer moderne Denkmalkultus, sein Wesen, seine Entstehung (The Modern Cult of Monuments, Its Character and Origin) • W. B. YeatsIdeas of Good and Evil (essays) ==Births==
Births
January 10E. Arnot Robertson, English novelist and broadcaster (died 1961) • February 11Alan Paton, South African novelist and activist (died 1988) • February 13Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer (died 1989) • February 17Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-born novelist (suicide 1951) • February 21Anaïs Nin, French-American novelist and diarist (died 1977) • Raymond Queneau, French poet (died 1976) • February 22Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (died 1990) • February 24Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (died 1967) • Irène Némirovsky, Russian-born French novelist (died 1942) • June 8Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (died 1987) • June 18Raymond Radiguet, French author (died 1923) • June 25George Orwell, English novelist and journalist (died 1950) • July 3Oliver Stonor, English novelist (died 1987) • July 10John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (died 1969) • September 5János Kemény, American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer (died 1971) • September 9Edward Upward, English novelist and short story writer (died 2009) • September 10Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (died 1974) • September 14Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (died 1980) • October 17G. E. Trevelyan, English novelist (died 1941) • Nathanael West, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1940) • October 28Evelyn Waugh, English novelist and critic (died 1966) • December 6 (November 23 OS) – Gaito Gazdanov, Russian-born novelist (died 1971) • December 10Mary Norton, English children's writer (died 1992) • William Plomer (Robert Pagan), South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor (died 1973) • December 13Todhunter Ballard, American novelist (died 1980) • December 24Nancy Brysson Morrison, Scottish novelist (died 1986) • December 29Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (died 1976) • Uncertain datesKathleen Lindsay, prolific English-born romance novelist (died 1973) ==Deaths==
Deaths
January 22Augustus Hare, English biographer and travel writer (born 1834) • February 8Ada Ellen Bayly, English novelist (born 1857) • March 4Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (born 1834) • March 6Gaston Paris, French literary critic and scholar (born 1839) • March 8Josefina Wettergrund, Swedish writer (born 1830) • March 9Minnie Mary Lee, American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels (born 1825) • March 14Ernest Legouvé, French dramatist (born 1807) • April 28Frances Augusta Conant, American journalist (born 1841) • April 29Paul Du Chaillu, French American travel writer (born c. 1831) • May 12Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (born 1825) • May 24Max O'Rell (Léon Paul Blouet), French journalist (born 1847) • June 12Claymoor, Romanian fashion and entertainment critic (peptic ulcer; born c. 1842) • July 11W. E. Henley, English poet (tuberculosis, born 1847) • August 31William Hastie, Scottish theologian (born 1842) • September 1Charles Bernard Renouvier, French philosopher (born 1815) • October 4Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (suicide, born 1880) • November 1Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian (born 1817) • November 11Lavilla Esther Allen, American author (born 1834) • November 19Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (born 1862) • December 28George Gissing, English novelist (emphysema, born 1857) ==Awards==
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