Editing 1914 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1914'''.
==Events==
*[[January 18]] – A party held in honour of English poet [[Wilfrid Scawen Blunt]] at his [[stud farm]] in [[West Sussex]] brings together [[W. B. Yeats]], [[Ezra Pound]], [[Thomas Sturge Moore]], [[Victor Plarr]], [[Richard Aldington]], [[F. S. Flint]] and [[Frederic Manning]]. Peacock is on the menu.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Lucy |last=McDiarmid |title=Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary history of a meal |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-872278-6}}</ref>
*[[February 2]] – [[James Joyce]]'s semi-autobiographical novel ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' commences serialization in ''[[The Egoist (periodical)|The Egoist]]'', a new [[London]] literary magazine founded by [[Dora Marsden]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Joyce|author2=Hans Walter Gabler|title=A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UgsMYVfUvn4C&pg=PA6|year=1993|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-1278-9|pages=6}}</ref>
*[[February 4]] – A staging of [[George A. Birmingham]]'s comedy ''[[General John Regan (play)|General John Regan]]'' at [[Westport, County Mayo|Westport]] Town Hall in Ireland provokes a riot.<ref>{{Cite news |title=''General John Regan'': The Westport Riots – Claim For £1,000 Compensation|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |date=1914-04-11}}</ref>
*[[February 10]] – [[Thomas Hardy]] marries his second wife, the children's author [[Florence Dugdale]], at St Andrew's, [[Municipal Borough of Enfield|Enfield]].<ref>[http://neal.oxborrow.net/Thomas_Hardy/Florence_Emily_Dugdale.htm Thomas Hardy website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607125319/http://neal.oxborrow.net/Thomas_Hardy/Florence_Emily_Dugdale.htm |date=2013-06-07}}. Accessed 3 March 2013]</ref>
*March
**''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'' is published separately for the first time (in London).
**''[[The Little Review]]'' is founded by [[Margaret Caroline Anderson]] as part of [[Chicago]]'s literary renaissance.
*[[March 4]] – Irish-born novelist [[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]] publishes ''Vale'', the final of his 3-volume autobiographical ''Hail and Farewell'' (first in [[1911 in literature|1911]]).
*[[March 4]] (dated February) – Publication of the first issue of ''New Numbers'', a quarterly collection of work by the [[Dymock poets]] in England edited by [[Lascelles Abercrombie]] with [[Wilfrid Gibson]].<ref>The only other issues are published on May 15 (dated April), about the beginning of October (dated August) and on February 27, 1915 (dated December 1914). {{cite web|first=Jeff|last=Cooper|title=Timeline of the Dymock Poets 1911–1916|publisher=Friends of the Dymock Poets|accessdate=2023-04-26|url=https://www.dymockpoets.org.uk/Timeline.htm}}</ref>
*[[April 11]] – The first English-language performance of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s comedy ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' at [[His Majesty's Theatre, London|His Majesty's Theatre]] is given in [[London]]<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{Cite book |title=Penguin Pocket On This Day |publisher=Penguin Reference Library |isbn=0-14-102715-0 |year=2006}}</ref> starring [[Mrs. Patrick Campbell]] and [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]], and famously including the Act III line "Not bloody likely!".
*June – James Joyce's ''[[Dubliners]]'', a collection of fifteen short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century, is published in London.
*[[June 20]] – The first issue (of two) appears of the [[Vorticism|Vorticist]] [[literary magazine]] ''[[BLAST (magazine)|BLAST]]'' edited by [[Wyndham Lewis]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 |title=Vorticism |work=Msn Encarta |access-date=2009-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070522043958/http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 |archive-date=2007-05-22 }}</ref> It includes [[Ford Madox Ford|Ford Madox Hueffer]]'s "The Saddest Story", a preliminary version of ''[[The Good Soldier]]''.
*[[June 24]] – [[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]] makes the English railway journey which inspires his poem "[[Adlestrop]]" while traveling to meet [[Robert Frost]]; Thomas begins writing poetry for the first time in December.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harvey |first=Anne |year=1999 |title=Adlestrop Revisited: an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem |location=Stroud |publisher=Sutton Publishing |isbn=0-7509-2289-3 |pages=8–11}}</ref>
*July
**[[E. M. Forster]] completes his novel ''[[Maurice (novel)|Maurice]]'', with its theme of [[Homosexuality|male homosexual]] love; it is not published until [[1971 in literature|1971]].
**[[Heinrich Mann]] completes his novel ''[[Der Untertan]]'', with its critique of German nationalism; it is not published until [[1918 in literature|1918]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Contemporary Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDoeAQAAIAAJ|year=1923|publisher=A. Strahan|page=757}}</ref>
*[[July 23]] – [[July Crisis#Austro-Hungarian ultimatum (23 July)|Austro-Hungarian ultimatum]] includes demands that [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]] should suppress all publications which "incite hatred and contempt of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy", particularly schoolbooks.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrej Mitrović|title=Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CI5Wm8771EYC&pg=PA49|year=2007|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-476-7|pages=44–49}}</ref>
*August
**The [[literature of World War I]] makes its first appearance. [[John Masefield]] writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of ''[[The English Review]]''), the last he will produce before the peace.
**[[Stanley Unwin (publisher)|Stanley Unwin]] purchases a controlling interest in the London publisher George Allen.
**At about this date [[Loughborough]] (England) publishers Wills & Hepworth publish their first illustrated children's books in the [[Ladybird Books|Ladybird]] series, ''[[Hans Christian Andersen|Hans Andersen]]'s Fairy Tales'' by E[thel] Talbot and ''Tiny Tots Travels'' by M. Burridge.<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Lorraine |last1=Johnson |first2=Brian |last2=Alderson |author-link2=Brian Alderson (children's book critic) |title=The Ladybird Story: children's books for everyone |location=London |publisher=[[British Library]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-7123-5728-9 |page=13}}</ref>
*[[August 3]] – [[Siegfried Sassoon]] volunteers for military service, initially as a Trooper in the [[Sussex Yeomanry]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Atkin|title=A War of Individuals: Bloomsbury Attitudes to the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fhSPSPj12hAC&pg=PA128|year=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6071-7|pages=128}}</ref>
*[[August 25]] – The library of the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]] is set on fire by German troops during the [[Rape of Belgium]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Dynamic of Destruction: culture and mass killing in the First World War |last=Kramer |first=Alan |year=2008 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=9781846140136}}; {{Cite news|last=Gibson |first=Craig |title=The culture of destruction in the First World War |journal=[[The Times Literary Supplement]] |date=2008-01-30 |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3277792.ece |access-date=2008-02-18}}</ref>
*September – [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] writes a poem about [[Eärendil]], the first appearance of his [[Mythopoeia|mythopoeic]] [[Middle-earth]] [[Tolkien's legendarium|legendarium]]. Eärendil will much later appear in ''[[The Silmarillion]]''. At this time Tolkien is an Oxford undergraduate staying at Phoenix Farm, [[Gedling]], near Nottingham.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Humphrey |last=Carpenter |author-link=Humphrey Carpenter |title=[[J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography]] |location=New York |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=978-0618057023 |year=2000 |page=79}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Colin |last=Duriez |author-link=Colin Duriez |title=J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend |location=Oxford |publisher=Lion |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-7459-5514-8 |pages=77–9}}</ref>
*[[September 2]] – [[Charles Masterman]] invites 25 "eminent literary men" to [[Wellington House]] in London to form a secret British War Propaganda Bureau. Those who attend include [[William Archer (critic)|William Archer]], [[Arnold Bennett]], [[Hall Caine]], [[G. K. Chesterton]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Ford Madox Ford|Ford Madox Hueffer]], [[John Galsworthy]], [[Thomas Hardy]], [[Rudyard Kipling]], [[John Masefield]], [[Henry Newbolt]], [[Gilbert Parker]], [[G. M. Trevelyan]] and [[H. G. Wells]]. Kipling soon afterwards writes the poem "For all we have and are" and Hardy three days later writes the poem "Men Who March Away".<ref>Published as "Song of the Soldiers" in ''The Times'' (London) on September 9.</ref> [[W. B. Yeats]], however, refuses to sign a letter of support for the War signed by most of the participants (with others) and published in ''[[The Times]]'' (London) on September 18.
*[[September 9]] – [[Hilaire Belloc]] is contracted to write regular articles on the War in the new British weekly ''[[Land and Water]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Belloc and the War: ''Land and Water'' |first=Robert |last=Speaight |author-link=Robert Speaight |url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/27th-october-1956/10/belloc-and-the-war |journal=[[The Tablet]] |location=London |date=1956-10-27 |page=10 |access-date=2014-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612172807/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/27th-october-1956/10/belloc-and-the-war |archive-date=2015-06-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[September 21]] – [[Laurence Binyon]]'s poem "For the Fallen", containing his "[[Ode of Remembrance]]", is published in ''[[The Times]]'' (London).
*[[September 22]]
**French novelist [[Alain-Fournier]] (Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier), aged 27, is killed in action near [[Vaux-lès-Palameix]] ([[Meuse (department)|Meuse]]) a month after enlisting, leaving his second novel, ''Colombe Blanchet'', unfinished; his body will not be identified until [[1991 in literature|1991]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/ |title=Mémoire des hommes |publisher=[[Ministère de la Défense]], Secrétariat Général pour l'Administration}}</ref>
**[[T. S. Eliot]] (at this time in England to study) meets fellow American poet [[Ezra Pound]] for the first time, in London.
*[[September 29]] – [[Arthur Machen]]'s short story "The Bowmen", origin of the legend of the [[Angels of Mons]], is published in ''[[The Evening News (London newspaper)|The Evening News]]'' (London).
*[[October 2]] – The date predicted by [[Charles Taze Russell]], founder of the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), as the date for the [[Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses|"full end" of Babylon, or nominal Christianity]], with statements such as: "True, it is expecting great things to claim, as we do, that within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved.... In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God, will be accomplished at the end of A. D. 1914...."<ref>''Studies In the Scriptures Series II – The Time Is At Hand'' (1889 ed.) pp. 99 and 101.</ref>
*[[November 7]] – The first issue of ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine is published in the United States.
*[[November 16]] – [[M. P. Shiel]] is convicted and imprisoned for "indecently assaulting and carnally knowing" his 12-year-old ''de facto'' stepdaughter on October 26 in London.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=M. P. Shiel and the Love of Pubescent Girls: The Other "Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name" |first=Kirsten |last=MacLeod |journal=English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 |volume=51 |issue=4 |year=2008 |doi=10.2487/elt.51.4(2008)0028 |pages=355–380 |s2cid=162152867 |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/english_literature_in_transition/v051/51.4.macleod.html |access-date=2013-12-06}}</ref>
*December – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the [[pen name]] "[[Guillaume Apollinaire]]", enlists in the French Army to fight in [[World War I]] and becomes a French citizen<ref name=pa20cfv>{{Cite book |editor=Auster, Paul |title=The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry; with translations by American and British poets |location=New York |publisher=Random House |year=1982 |isbn=0-394-52197-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/randomhousebooko00aust }}</ref> after an August attempt at enlistment is rejected.
*[[December 31]] – [[T. S. Eliot]] writes to [[Conrad Aiken]] from Oxford (where he has a scholarship at [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]]), saying: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls.... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Seymour-Jones |first=Carole |url=http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=193222 |title=Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot |publisher=Knopf Publishing Group |page=1}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Ion Agârbiceanu]] – ''Arhanghelii''
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''The Price of Love''
*[[E. F. Benson]] – [[Arundel]]
*[[Rhoda Broughton]] – ''Concerning a Vow''
*[[Mary Grant Bruce]]
**''From Billabong to London''
**''Grays Hollow''
*[[G. K. Chesterton]]
**''[[The Flying Inn]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=G. K. Chesterton|title=The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIsAHxtXyEcC&pg=PA143|year=1986|publisher=Ignatius Press|isbn=978-0-89870-237-8|pages=143}}</ref>
**''The Wisdom of [[Father Brown]]'' (collected detective stories)
*[[Dikran Chökürian]] – ''Vanke'' (Վանքը, The Monastery)
*[[Marie Corelli]] – ''[[Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact]]''
*[[Miguel de Unamuno]]
**''[[Mist (novel)|Niebla]]'' (''Mist'', "[[nivola]]")
**''Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho'' (''The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho'' or ''Our Lord Don Quixote'')
*[[Ethel M. Dell]] – ''[[The Rocks of Valpré (novel)|The Rocks of Valpré]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Ethel May Dell|title=The Rocks of Valpré|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8csAAAAYAAJ|year=1914|publisher=T. Fisher Unwin}}</ref>
*[[Theodore Dreiser]] – ''[[The Titan (novel)|The Titan]]''
*[[Edna Ferber]] – ''[[Personality Plus]]''
*[[James Elroy Flecker]] – ''The King of Alsander''
*[[Anatole France]] – ''La Révolte des anges'' (''[[The Revolt of the Angels]]'')<ref>{{cite book|author=Bertrand Russell|title=The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SnXAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Allen Lane, the Penguin Press|isbn=978-0-7139-9023-2|page=507}}</ref>
*[[André Gide]] – ''[[:fr:Les Caves du Vatican|Les Caves du Vatican]] (The Cellars of the Vatican)''
*[[Elinor Glyn]] – ''Letters to Caroline''
*[[Nathaniel Gould]] – ''[[A Gamble for Love (novel)|A Gamble for Love]]''
*[[John MacDougall Hay]] – ''Gillespie''
*[[Hermann Hesse]] – ''[[Rosshalde]]''
* [[Frederic S. Isham]] – ''[[Nothing But the Truth (Isham novel)|Nothing But the Truth]]''
*[[James Joyce]] – ''[[Dubliners]]'' (short stories)
*[[D. H. Lawrence]] – ''[[The Prussian Officer and Other Stories]]''
*[[Stephen Leacock]] – ''[[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich]]''
*[[Ada Leverson]] – ''Birds of Paradise''
*[[Sinclair Lewis]] – ''[[Our Mr. Wrenn]]''
*[[Harold MacGrath]] – ''[[The Adventures of Kathlyn]]''
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] – ''[[Sinister Street]]'', vol. 2
*[[Natsume Sōseki]] (夏目 漱石) – ''[[Kokoro]]'' (こころ)
*[[Frank Norris]] – ''[[Vandover and the Brute]]''
*[[Baroness Orczy]]
**''[[The Laughing Cavalier (novel)|The Laughing Cavalier]]''
**''Unto Cæsar''
*[[Gertrude Page]] – ''[[The Pathway (novel)|The Pathway]]''
*[[Eleanor H. Porter]] – ''Miss Billy Married''
*[[Raymond Roussel]] – ''[[Locus Solus]]''
*[[Berta Ruck]] – ''His Official Fiancée''
*[[Rafael Sabatini]] – ''[[The Gates of Doom (novel)|The Gates of Doom]]''
*[[Saki]] – ''[[Beasts and Super-Beasts]]''
*[[Paul Scheerbart]] – ''Das graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß: Ein Damenroman ([[The Gray Cloth]] with Ten Per cent White: A Ladies' Novel)''<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Christian Emden |author2=Catherine Keen |author3=David R. Midgley |title=Imagining the City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOP55JBg9QkC&pg=PA154 |year=2006 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-3-03910-532-8 |pages=154}}</ref>
*[[Henri Stahl]] – ''Un român în lună''<ref>{{Cite book |title=DCRR: dicționar cronologic al romanului româanesc de la origini până la 1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H0AkAQAAMAAJ |year=2004 |publisher=Editura Academiei Române |isbn=978-973-27-1039-5 |page=133}}</ref>
*[[Booth Tarkington]] – ''[[Penrod]]''
*[[Robert Tressell]] (died 1911) – ''[[The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists]]''
*[[Mary Augusta Ward]] – ''Delia Blanchflower''
*[[H. G. Wells]]
**''[[The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman]]''
**''[[The World Set Free]]'' (originally serialised as ''A Prophetic Trilogy'' in ''Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine'' January–March)
*[[P. G. Wodehouse]] – ''[[The Man Upstairs (short story collection)|The Man Upstairs]]''
*[[Francis Brett Young]] – ''[[Deep Sea (novel)|Deep Sea]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[L. Frank Baum]]
**''[[Tik-Tok of Oz]]''
**''[[Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West]]'' (as Edith Van Dyne)
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] – ''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]'' (book publication)
*[[Elsie J. Oxenham]] – ''Girls of the Hamlet Club'' (first in the ''[[Abbey Series]]'')
([[Władysław Umiński]] – ''[[Czarodziejski okręt]]'' (The Magic Ship; serialization)

===Drama===
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*[[Lascelles Abercrombie]] – ''The End of the World'' (September, Birmingham, England)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greatwartheatre.org.uk/db/person/14/|title=Lascelles Abercrombie|website=Great War Theatre|access-date=2019-08-17}}</ref>
*[[Frank Craven]] – ''Too Many Cooks'' (February 24, New York)
*[[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John Drinkwater]] – ''Rebellion''
*[[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]] – ''[[Five Plays]]'' (publication)
*[[Harley Granville-Barker]] – ''Vote By Ballot''
*[[D. H. Lawrence]] – ''[[The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd]]'' (publication, revised version)
*[[John Howard Lawson]] – ''Atmosphere''
*[[Terence MacSwiney]] – ''The Revolutionist'' (publication)<ref>{{Cite book |title=History's Daughter: A Memoir from the Only Child of Terence MacSwiney |first=Máire MacSwiney |last=Brugha|publisher=The O'Brien Press |location=Dublin |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-86278-986-2}}</ref>
*[[Roi Cooper Megrue]] and [[Walter Hackett]] – ''[[It Pays to Advertise (play)|It Pays to Advertise]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerald Bordman|title=American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmr35sTB0AoC&pg=PA8|year=1995|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-509078-9|pages=8}}</ref>
*[[Ramanbhai Neelkanth]] – ''[[Raino Parvat]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1072|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|pages=1072}}</ref>
*[[Elmer Rice]] – ''On Trial''
*[[Edward Sheldon]] – ''[[The Song of Songs (play)|The Song of Songs]]''
*[[J. E. Harold Terry]] and Lechmere Worrall – ''[[The Man Who Stayed at Home (play)|The Man Who Stayed at Home]]'' (also ''The White Feather'')<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Luckhurst |editor1-first=Mary |title=A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880 - 2005 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |pages=302–3 |date=2008 |isbn=9780470751473 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpuQAR5Uod8C |access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref>  
*[[E. Temple Thurston]] – ''[[The Evolution of Katherine]]''
*[[Horace Annesley Vachell]] – ''[[Quinneys (play)|Quinneys]]''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{main|1914 in poetry}}
*[[Laurence Binyon]] – "For the Fallen" (including "[[Ode of Remembrance]]")
*[[Janus Djurhuus]] – ''Yrkingar''<ref>{{cite book|author=Jens Hendrik Oliver Djurhuus|title=Yrkingar 1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz-RB3Pj70kC|year=1914|publisher=Prentsmiðja starvsmannaliðsins}}</ref>
*[[Robert Frost]] – ''[[North of Boston]]'' (including "[[Mending Wall]]")
* [[Wilfrid Gibson]] – ''Borderlands'' and ''Thoroughfares''
*[[Thomas Hardy]] – ''[[Satires of Circumstance]]'' (including "''[[Poems 1912–13]]''")
*[[Ernst Lissauer]] – ''Song of Hate against England (Hassgesang gegen England)''
*[[Amy Lowell]] – ''Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds''
*[[Gabriela Mistral]] – ''Los sonetos de la muerte'' (Sonnets of Death)
*[[Ezra Pound]], ed. – ''Des Imagistes: An Anthology''
*[[Ernst Stadler]] – ''Der Aufbruch'' (The Departure)
*[[Gertrude Stein]] – ''[[Tender Buttons (book)|Tender Buttons]]''
*[[Wallace Stevens]] – ''Phases''
*[[Katharine Tynan]] – ''The Flower of Peace''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Clive Bell]] – ''Art''
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''Liberty: A Statement of the British Case''<ref name=Bostridge>{{cite book|author=Mark Bostridge|title=The Fateful Year: England 1914|year=2014|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-0-14-196223-8}}</ref>
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''King Albert's Book''
*[[G. K. Chesterton]] – ''The Barbarism of Berlin''<ref name=Bostridge/>
*[[Henry James]] – ''[[Notes of a Son and Brother]]''
*[[Chrystal Macmillan]] – "Facts versus Fancies on Woman Suffrage" (pamphlet)
*[[Paul Scheerbart]] – ''Glasarchitektur'' (Glass Architecture)
*[[George Bernard Shaw]]
**''The Case for Belgium''
**''Common Sense About The War''<ref name=Bostridge/>
*[[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]] – ''In Pursuit of Spring''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''The War That Will End War'' (collected articles)<ref name=Bostridge/>

==Births==
*[[January 2]] – [[Vivian Stuart]] (aka Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart), British writer (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Geoffrey Handley-Taylor|title=Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire Authors Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ll9TAAAAYAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Eddison Press Limited|isbn=978-0-85649-013-2|page=36}}</ref>
*[[January 8]] – [[Norman Nicholson]], English poet (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Louis Untermeyer|title=The New Modern American & British Poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWFKAAAAIAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|page=414}}</ref>
*[[January 15]] – [[Etty Hillesum]], Dutch correspondent, diarist and Holocaust victim (died [[1943 in literature|1943]])
*[[January 17]] – [[William Stafford (poet)|William Stafford]], American poet, pacifist (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[January 26]] – [[Kaye Webb]], English publisher and journalist (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[February 4]] – [[Alfred Andersch]], German writer (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Margaret Littler|title=Alfred Andersch (1914-1980) and the Reception of French Thought in the Federal Republic of Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csxbAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|isbn=978-0-7734-9679-8|page=346}}</ref>
*[[February 5]] – [[William S. Burroughs]], American author (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joan Hawkins|author2=Alex Wermer-Colan|title=William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-SWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=17 May 2019|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-04136-4|pages=11}}</ref>
*[[February 6]] – [[Arkadi Kuleshov]], Soviet poet and translator (died [[1978 in literature|1978]])
*[[February 13]] – [[Katarína Lazarová]], Slovak novelist and translator (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[February 25]] – [[Frank Bonham]], American novelist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[March 1]] – [[Ralph Ellison]], American scholar and writer (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[March 4]] – [[Barbara Newhall Follett]], American prodigy novelist (went missing in December 1939)
*[[March 27]] – [[Budd Schulberg]], American writer (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[March 28]] – [[Bohumil Hrabal]], Czech poet and controversialist (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Octavio Paz]], Nobel Prize winning Mexican author (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jose Quiroga|author2=James Hardin|title=Understanding Octavio Paz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kJOqj6Sm2p8C&pg=PA2|year=1999|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-263-9|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Marguerite Duras]], French writer (died 1996)<ref>{{cite book|author=Renate Gunther|title=Marguerite Duras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MZhsT4W7KcC&pg=PA2|date=5 July 2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5757-1|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[April 10]] – [[Maria Banuș]], Romanian poet and translator (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Ross Lockridge Jr.]], American novelist (died [[1948 in literature|1948]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Laurence S. Lockridge|title=Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=86XgAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-015871-7|page=55}}</ref>
*[[April 26]] – [[Bernard Malamud]], American novelist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Davis|title=Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yLaSNbbKRUC&pg=PT27|date=13 September 2007|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-160843-8|pages=27}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Michel Mohrt]], French author and historian (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])
*[[May 3]]
** [[Georges-Emmanuel Clancier]], French poet (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
** [[Martín de Riquer]], Spanish writer and Romantic scholar (died [[2013 in literature|2013]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Giancarlo Colombo|title=Who's Who in Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x4oUAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Who's Who in Italy|isbn=978-88-85246-60-7|page=220}}</ref>
*[[May 6]] – [[Randall Jarrell]], American poet (died [[1965 in literature|1965]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Romain Gary]], Lithuanian-born French novelist (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ralph Schoolcraft|title=Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3y_1x4gdGUC&pg=PA1|date=26 May 2012|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-0320-8|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[May 12]] – [[James Bacon (author)|James Bacon]], author and journalist (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])
*[[May 14]] – [[Anne Baker (author)|Anne Baker]], British writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/11227456.Happy_100th_for_Annie/|title=Happy 100th for Anne|publisher=[[Salisbury Journal]]|author=Hannah White|date=21 May 2014|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref>
*[[June 15]] – [[Lena Kennedy]], English novelist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[June 17]] – [[Julián Marías]], Spanish philosopher and author (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])
*[[June 26]] – [[Laurie Lee]], English poet and memoirist (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=77340|title=Lee, (Wilfred) Jack Raymond}}</ref>
*[[July 14]]
** [[Wim Hora Adema]], Dutch children's author and feminist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])
** [[Béatrix Beck]], French writer of Belgian origin (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[July 15]]
**[[Hammond Innes]], English adventure novelist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-hammond-innes-1164546.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-hammond-innes-1164546.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Hammond Innes - Arts & Entertainment|author=Jack Adrian|date=12 June 1998|website=The Independent|access-date=13 January 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
**[[Gavin Maxwell]], Scottish naturalist and author (died [[1969 in literature|1969]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold Oxbury|title=Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211599-7|page=239}}</ref>
*[[July 17]] – [[Alice Gore King]], American entrepreneur, educator, writer and artist (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|author3=American Council of Learned Societies|title=American national biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuIpAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-520635-7|page=467}}</ref>
*[[July 18]] – [[Roy Huggins]], American novelist (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Horace Newcomb|title=Encyclopedia of Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUXIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1149|date=3 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-19472-7|pages=1149}}</ref>
*[[July 23]] – [[Alf Prøysen]], Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])
*[[July 25]] – [[Winifred Foley]], English memoirist (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[August 5]] – [[Anthony West (author)|Anthony West]], English author and critic, son of 'Rebecca West' and H. G. Wells (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[August 9]] – [[Tove Jansson]], Finnish children's author (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=St James Press|title=Reference Guide to Short Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6IRAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-334-7|page=276}}</ref>
*[[August 20]] – [[Colin MacInnes]], English novelist (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])
*[[August 21]] – [[Stephen Coulter]], British novelist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[August 26]] – [[Julio Cortázar]], Argentine author (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ilan Stavans|title=Julio Cortázar: A Study of the Short Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t91eAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-8293-6|page=7}}</ref>
*[[September 5]]
**[[Nicanor Parra]], [[Chilean poetry|Chilean]] poet and physicist (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tracy|title=Contemporary World Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sKAjAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-200-5|page=395}}</ref>
**[[Gogu Rădulescu]], Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Adolfo Bioy Casares]], Argentine author (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[October 1]] – [[Hilda Ellis Davidson]], English antiquarian and academic (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[October 6]] – [[Joan Littlewood]], English theatre director and biographer (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nadine Holdsworth|title=Joan Littlewood's Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4NsNL9XZ5MC&pg=PA5|date=14 April 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-11960-3|pages=5}}</ref>
*[[October 20]] – [[L. P. Davies]], English novelist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[October 26]] – [[John Masters]], British Raj novelist (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[October 27]] – [[Dylan Thomas]], Welsh poet and author (died [[1953 in literature|1953]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Derek Cyril Perkins|title=Dylan Thomas and His World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIBbAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Domino Books (Wales)|isbn=978-1-85772-160-7|page=13}}</ref>
*[[November 22]] – [[Leah Bodine Drake]], American poet (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])
*[[December 12]] – [[Patrick O'Brian]] (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Diana Forbes-Robertson]], English writer and biographer (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[December 24]] – [[Herbert Reinecker]], German novelist and playwright (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tC9ctqv5jv0C|year=1990|publisher=Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag|page=1464}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 6]] – [[Henrietta Keddie]] (Sarah Tytler), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born [[1827 in literature|1827]])<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ewan |first1=Elizabeth L. |last2=Innes |first2=Sue |last3=Reynolds |first3=Sian |last4=Pipes |first4=Rose |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women |date=2006 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9780748626601 |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA189 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[February 1]] – [[Marie Robinson Wright]], American travel writer (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress....|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_lVMAAAAMAAJ|year=1915|publisher=Dodd, Mead|page=799}}</ref>
*[[February 15]] – [[Kate Brownlee Sherwood]], American poet, journalist, translator, and story writer (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[February 25]] – [[John Tenniel]], English cartoonist and illustrator (born [[1820 in literature|1820]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Diane Telgen|title=Something about the Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a8nmnqDY_SkC|year=1993|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-2284-4|page=232}}</ref>
*March – [[Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette]], American short story writer (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
*[[March 17]] – [[Hiraide Shū]] (平出 修), Japanese novelist, poet, and lawyer (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])
*[[March 19]] – [[Thomas Cooper de Leon]], American journalist, author and playwright (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])<ref name="Edgar2006">{{cite book|author=Walter B. Edgar|title=The South Carolina Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90ITAAAAYAAJ|year=2006|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-598-2|page=252}}</ref>
*[[March 25]] – [[Frédéric Mistral]], Nobel Prize winning French author (born [[1830 in literature|1830]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Atlantic Brief Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hozoywf3AlEC|year=1971|page=532}}</ref>
*[[March 28]] - [[Hjalmar Bergström (writer)|Hjalmar Bergström]], Danish playwright, novelist, and short story writer (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti: A-Z|page=710|chapter= Bergström, Hjalmar|author=Istituto Giovanni Treccani|year=1930|editor-last=Treccani|editor-first= Giovanni|publisher=Bestetti & Tumminelli}}</ref>
*[[March 31]] – [[Christian Morgenstern]], German poet and writer (born [[1871 in literature|1871]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Guenther Wachsmuth|title=The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner from the Turn of the Century to His Death|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWrYAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Whittier Books|isbn=978-0-89345-249-0|page=221}}</ref>
*[[April 2]] – [[Paul Heyse]], Nobel Prize winning German author (born [[1830 in literature|1830]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Parker|title=Who's who in the Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Pitman|page=1640}}</ref>
*[[April 7]] – [[Edith Maude Eaton]] (Sui Sin Far, 水仙花), English-born writer on Chinese (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])
*[[May 13]] – [[Isabella Fyvie Mayo]], British poet and novelist born [[1843 in literature|1843]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Publishers Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKkxAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=F. Leypoldt|page=1646}}</ref>
*[[May 19]] – [[William Aldis Wright]], English writer and editor (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])
*[[May 29]] – [[Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving|Laurence Irving]], English dramatist and novelist (drowned, born [[1871 in literature|1871]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w887AQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=Tho. Newcomb|page=6426}}</ref>
*[[June 3]] – [[Danske Dandridge]], Danish-born American poet, historian, and garden writer (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Flora|first1=Joseph M.|last2=Vogel|first2=Amber|title=Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA94|date=21 June 2006|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3123-7|page=94}}</ref>
*[[June 6]] – [[Theodore Watts-Dunton]], English critic and poet (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tom James Truss|title=Theodore Watts-Dunton as Critic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVlVAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|page=7}}</ref>
*[[June 19]] – [[Brandon Thomas (playwright)|Brandon Thomas]], British actor and playwright (''[[Charley's Aunt]]'') (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir John Alexander Hammerton|title=Concise Universal Biography: A Dictionary of the Famous Men and Women of All Countries and All Times...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BsXAQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-4209-5|page=1288}}</ref>
*[[June 21]] – [[Bertha von Suttner]], Austrian pacifist writer (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bertha von Suttner |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1905/suttner/biographical/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=6 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[July 6]] – [[Delmira Agustini]], Uruguayan poet (murdered; born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>{{Cite book |author=Verity Smith |title=Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcjFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |date=26 March 1997 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-135-31424-1 |pages=19}}</ref>
*[[July 23]] – [[Charlotte Forten Grimké]], African American poet (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[September 4]] – [[Charles Péguy]], French poet and essayist (killed in action, born [[1873 in literature|1873]])<ref>{{cite book|title=PN Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bImRAAAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Department of English, University of Manchester|page=12}}</ref>
*[[September 8]]
** [[Mariana Cox Méndez]], Chilean writer (born [[1871 in literature|1871]])
** [[Hans Leybold]], German nihilist poet (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Publications of the English Goethe Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0s8nAAAAYAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Society|page=48}}</ref>
*[[September 11]] – [[Mircea Demetriade]], Romanian poet and actor (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])<ref>[[Rodica Zafiu]], "Demetriade Mircea", in Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', Vol. I, p. 471. Pitești: [[Editura Paralela 45]], 2004.  {{ISBN|973-697-758-7}}</ref>
*[[September 22]] – [[Alain-Fournier]], French novelist (killed in action, born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Cyclopedia of World Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMg3AAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-435-3|page=31}}</ref>
*[[September 25]] – [[Alfred Lichtenstein (writer)|Alfred Lichtenstein]], [[German poetry|German]] [[Expressionist]] writer (killed in action, born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[October 9]] – [[Dumitru C. Moruzi]], Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (asthma; born [[1850 in literature|1850]])<ref>{{in lang|ro}} Florin Marinescu, [http://www.limbaromana.md/index.php?go=articole&n=1439 "Un basarabean înflăcărat. Scriitorul Dumitru C. Moruzi"], in ''Revista Limba Română'', Nr. 5&ndash;6/2012</ref><ref>Bezviconi, ''Boierimea...'', p. 137; Coșa, pp. 399, 403; Penelea Filitti, p. 60</ref>
*[[October 30]] – [[Ernst Stadler]], German Expressionist poet (killed in action, born [[1883 in literature|1883]])
*[[November 3]] – [[Georg Trakl]], Austrian Expressionist poet (cocaine overdose, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{Cite book |title=Austrian Information |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YC4iAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA2 |year=1987 |publisher=Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General |pages=6}}</ref>
*[[November 9]] – [[Alessandro d'Ancona]], Italian critic and writer (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bruce Haddock|author2=James Wakefield|title=Thought Thinking: The Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vU_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT253|date=14 July 2015|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-84540-850-3|pages=253}}</ref>
*[[November 12]] – [[Augusto dos Anjos]], Brazilian poet (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Márcio Souza|title=A Book of Days for the Brazilian Literary Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1ZfAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Fundação Biblioteca Nacional|isbn=978-85-333-0021-7}}</ref>
*[[November 16]] – [[Nikolai Chayev]], Russian writer, poet and playwright (born [[1824 in literature|1824]])
*[[November 19]] – [[Robert Jones Burdette]], American minister and sentimental humorist (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert J. Burdette Dead. Noted Humorist, Lecturer, and Minister Dies in Pasadena. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/11/20/archives/robert-j-burdette-dead-noted-humorist-lecturer-and-minister-dies-in.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=November 20, 1914 |access-date=2011-01-16 }}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Newdigate Prize]]: Robert William Sterling, "The Burial of Sophocles"<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert William Sterling|title=The Burial of Sophocles: The Newdigate Prize Poem 1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGU1AAAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=B.H. Blackwell}}</ref>
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: ''not awarded''
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Adrien Bertrand]], ''L'Appel du Sol''<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Allen Kent |author2=Harold Lancour |author3=Jay E. Daily |title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 24 - Printers and Printing: Arabic Printing to Public Policy: Copyright, and Information Technology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCwqxVvW3zMC&pg=PA207 |date=1 March 1978 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8247-2024-7 |pages=207}}</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
*[[World War I in literature]]

{{Year in literature article categories}}