- 1923 in literature
The year 1923 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
*Fictional detective
Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.
*Barry Vincent Jackson 's production of "Cymbeline " is the first modern-dress production of a Shakespearan work.New books
Fiction
*
Sherwood Anderson - "Many Marriages "
*Arnold Bennett - "Riceyman Steps "
*Max Brand - "Seven Trails "
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "Tarzan and the Golden Lion "
*Hall Caine - "The Woman of Knockaloe "
*Willa Cather - "A Lost Lady "
*Agatha Christie - "The Murder on the Links "
*Colette - "Le Blé en herbe "
*Joseph Conrad - "The Rover"
*Marie Corelli - "Love and the Philosopher "
*Zona Gale - "Faint Perfume "
*Jaroslav Hašek - "The Good Soldier Švejk "
*Ernest Hemingway - "Three Stories and Ten Poems "
*Georgette Heyer - "The Great Roxhythe "
*Aldous Huxley - "Antic Hay "
*D. H. Lawrence - "Kangaroo"
*Hugh Lofting - "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle "
*A. A. Milne - "The House at Pooh Corner "
*Felix Salten - "Bambi, A Life in the Woods "
*Dorothy L. Sayers - "Whose Body? "
*James Stephens - "Deirdre"
*Wallace Stevens - "Harmonium "
*Italo Svevo - "La Coscienza di Zeno "
*Alexei Tolstoy - "Aelita"
*Jean Toomer - "Cane"
*H. G. Wells - "Men Like Gods "
*Margaret Wilson -"The Able McLaughlins "
*P. G. Wodehouse
**"The Inimitable Jeeves "
**"Leave It to Psmith "Non-fiction
*
Vladimir Arsenyev - "Dersu Uzala "
*Le Corbusier - "Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture)"
*Khalil Gibran - "The Prophet"
*Robert Henri - "The Art Spirit "
*Max Weber - "Wirtschaftsgeschichte "Poetry
*
E. E. Cummings - "Tulips and Chimneys "
*Robert Frost - "New Hampshire"
*Sukumar Ray - "Abol Tabol "
*William Carlos Williams
**"Go Go "
**"Spring and All "New drama
*
Elmer Rice - "The Adding Machine "
*Jules Romains - "Knock"
*George Bernard Shaw - "Saint Joan"Births
*
January 6 -Jacobo Timerman , Argentine writer (d. 1999)
*January 10 -Ingeborg Drewitz , writer (d. 1986)
*January 16 -Anthony Hecht , American poet (d. 2004)
*January 29 -Paddy Chayefsky , American writer (d. 1981)
*January 31 -Norman Mailer , American writer & journalist (d. 2007)
*February 2 -James Dickey , American poet & author (d. 1997)
*February 9 -Brendan Behan , Irish author (d. 1964)
*March 27 -Louis Simpson , Jamaican-born American poet
*March 30 -Milton Acorn , Canadian poet, writer, & playwright (d. 1986)
*May 1 -Joseph Heller , American novelist (d. 1999)
*May 21 -Dorothy Hewett , Australian poet, playwright & novelist (d. 2002)
*June 24 -Yves Bonnefoy , French poet & essayist
*July 2 -Wisława Szymborska , Polish poet & essayist
*July 17 -James Purdy , American writer
*September 13 -Miroslav Holub , Czech poet (d. 1998)
*October 5 -Stig Dagerman , Swedish author & journalist (d. 1954)
*October 15 -Italo Calvino , Italian writer (d. 1985)
*October 24 -Denise Levertov , British-born American poet (d. 1997)
*November 20 -Nadine Gordimer , South African writerDeaths
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January 3 -Jaroslav Hašek , Czech novelist (b. 1883)
*January 9 -Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
*February 1 -Ernst Troeltsch , German theologian (b. 1865)
*February 8 - Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher & political theorist (b. 1848)
*June 10 -
**Louis Couperus , Dutch novelist & poet (b. 1863)
**Pierre Loti , French novelist & travel writer (b. 1850)
*June 22 -Morris Rosenfeld , Yiddish poet (b. 1862)
*June 24 -Edith Södergran , Finnish-Swedish poet (b. 1892)
*August 24 -Kate Douglas Wiggin , American children's author (b. 1856)
*October 6 -Oscar Browning , English historian (b. 1837)
*December 1 -Virginie Loveling , Flemish poet & novelist (b. 1836)
*December 4 -Maurice Barrès , French novelist & journalist (b. 1862)
*"date unknown"
**Henry Bradley , philologist and lexicographer (b. 1845)
**George Wharton James , journalist (b. 1858)Awards
*
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Arnold Bennett , "Riceyman Steps "
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Sir Ronald Ross , "Memoirs, Etc."
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Hugh Lofting , "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle "
*Nobel Prize for Literature :William Butler Yeats
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama :Owen Davis , "Icebound"
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Edna St. Vincent Millay : "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany"
*Pulitzer Prize for the Novel :Willa Cather - "One of Ours "
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