Editing 1913 in literature (section)

==Events==
*January – [[Acmeist poetry]], with roots back to [[1909 in literature|1909]], is officially born as a reaction to [[Russian Futurism]]. Manifestos are printed in the journal ''Apollon'' by [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] and [[Sergey Gorodetsky]], with illustrative works by both, and by [[Anna Akhmatova]], [[Vladimir Narbut]], and [[Osip Mandelstam]] — the last with "Hagia Sophia".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wachtel |first=Andrew |editor-last=Gleason |editor-first=Abbott |title=A Companion to Russian History |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Chichester |year=2009 |pages=287–288 |chapter=Russian Modernism |isbn=978-1-4051-3560-3}}</ref>
*[[January 1]] – The [[German National Library]] is founded in [[Leipzig]].
*[[January 8]] – [[Harold Monro]] officially opens the [[Poetry Bookshop]] in London (opened for business November 1912), which becomes a noted international literary meeting-place.<ref>{{Cite book |editor=Jones, Neal T. |title=A Book of Days for the Literary Year |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofdaysforlit0jone |url-access=registration |location=New York; London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=1984 |isbn=0-500-01332-2}}</ref>
*[[January 24]] – [[Franz Kafka]] stops working on his novel ''Amerika'', which he never finishes.
*[[March 24]] – The new [[Palace Theatre (New York City)|Palace Theatre]] opens at 1564 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
*[[April 5]] – Serialization of the adventures of [[Gaston Leroux]]'s character [[:fr:Chéri-Bibi|Chéri-Bibi]] begins in [[Le Matin (France)|''Le Matin'' (France)]].
*April – [[Bernhard Kellermann]]'s novel ''[[Der Tunnel (novel)|Der Tunnel]]'' sells 100,000 copies in its first six months.
*c. April – [[Humphrey S. Milford]] becomes publisher to the [[University of Oxford]] and head of the London operations of [[Oxford University Press]], after the retirement of Henry Frowde.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Martin |last=Maw |title=Milford, Sir Humphrey Sumner (1877–1952) |work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition=Online |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35020 |accessdate=2014-03-14 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35020}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Oxford University Press: Retirement of Mr. Henry Frowde |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19130426.2.106 |newspaper=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand) |The Evening Post]] |location=Wellington (New Zealand) |volume=85 |issue=98 |date=1913-04-26 |page=12 |accessdate=2014-06-06}}</ref>
*September – [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] enters [[Princeton University]], where he meets [[Edmund Wilson]] and [[John Peale Bishop]].
*[[November 8]] – [[Georg Büchner]]'s play ''[[Woyzeck]]'', unfinished on his death in [[1837 in literature|1837]], receives its first performance, at the Residenztheater, [[Munich]].
*[[November 13]] – [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[Swann's Way]] (Du côté de chez Swann)'', volume 1 of ''[[In Search of Lost Time]] (À la recherche du temps perdu)'', is published by [[Éditions Grasset]] in Paris at the author's expense.
*[[December 21]] – [[Arthur Wynne]]'s "word-cross", the first [[crossword puzzle]], appears in the ''[[New York World]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rotary International|title=The Rotarian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|date=September 1994|publisher=Rotary International|pages=28}}</ref>
*[[December 26]] – [[Ambrose Bierce]], an observer with [[Pancho Villa]]'s army in the [[Mexican Revolution]], sends his last known correspondence. He is never seen again.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert L. Gale|title=An Ambrose Bierce Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SWZkmUJEGkQC&pg=PA49|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31130-7|pages=49}}</ref>
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**''[[Zaynab (novel)|Zaynab]]'', by [[Husayn Haykal]], is published; it is sometimes called the first modern Arabic novel.<ref name="Faiq2004">{{Cite book |author=Said Faiq |title=Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8sox94YIAUcC&pg=PA40 |year=2004 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=978-1-85359-743-5 |pages=40–}}</ref>
**[[Norbert von Hellingrath]] begins publishing his edition of [[Friedrich Hölderlin]]'s complete works (''Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe'', the "''Berliner Ausgabe''"), restoring it to literary prominence.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Joseph|last=Suglia|title=Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-sacrifice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KDY0cMI9MLkC&pg=PA36|year=2004|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-7273-7|pages=36}}</ref>
**[[Henri Stahl]] publishes excerpts from his novel ''Un român în lună'' ("A Romanian on the Moon", republished as a book in [[1914 in literature|1914]]), one of the earliest works of [[Romanian science fiction]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Popescu |first=Cristian Tudor |authorlink=Cristian Tudor Popescu |title=Copiii fiarei |publisher=Polirom |location=Iași |year=1998 |pages=33–41}}</ref>