1913 in literature - 1913 in literature See also: 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Egyptian writer Muhammad Hussein Haykal publishes the first Arabic novel titled Zaynab. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Lawrence 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 Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire A Boy's Will - Robert Frost A City of Contrasts - Katherine James Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer - Oscar Micheaux The Coryston.
1913 - 1913 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s Years: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 - 1913 - 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 See also: 1913 in film 1913 in literature 1913 in music 1913 in science 1913 in sports Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes Events January 30 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill February 1 - New York City's Grand Central Station opens as the world's largest train station. February 3 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income tax. February 17 -.
1914 in literature - 1914 in literature See also: 1913 in literature, other events of 1914, 1915 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events George A. Moore publishes the final of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (first in 1911). November 7 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. New Books Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock Chicago - Carl Sandburg Concerning a vow - Rhoda Broughton Delia Blanchflower - Mary Augusta Ward Dubliners - James Joyce Mending Wall - Robert Frost Notes of a Son and Brother - Henry James Our Mr. Wrenn - Sinclair Lewis The Revolt of the Angels - Anatole France Ruggles of Red Gap.
1912 in literature - 1912 in literature See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson Adnams Orchard - Sarah Grand Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Bells and Hobbles (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Between two stools - Rhoda Broughton The Crock of Gold - James Stephens Death in Venice - Thomas Mann The Financier - Theodore Dreiser The King's Caravan (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Mrs. Spring - Sui-Sin Far A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell The Promised - Land Mary Antin The Reef -.
1913 in Canada - 1913 in Canada See also: 1912 in Canada, other events of 1913, 1914 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Births 4 Deaths Events April 17 - Alberta election: Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a third consecutive majority Arts and literature New Books Births Deaths.
Nobel Prize in Literature - Nobel Prize in Literature List of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1901 : Sully Prudhomme 1902 : Theodor Mommsen 1903 : Bjřrnstjerne Martinus Bjřrnson 1904 : Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre 1905 : Henryk Sienkiewicz 1906 : Giosuč Carducci 1907 : Rudyard Kipling 1908 : Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1909 : Selma Lagerlöf 1910 : Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse 1911 : Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck 1912 : Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann 1913 : Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1915 : Romain Rolland 1916 : Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam 1917 : Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan 1919 : Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler 1920 : Knut Hamsun 1921 : Anatole France 1922 : Jacinto Benavente 1923 : William Butler Yeats 1924 : Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont 1925.
Malayalam literature - Malayalam literature Literature written in Malayalam language. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Poetry 2 Fiction 3 Literary Criticism 4 External Links Poetry Manipravalam Champoos Sandesakavyam Niranam poets Cherusseri Namboodiri Thunchathu Ezhuthachan Poonthanam Namboodiri Kottayam Thampuran Unnayi Warrier Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770) Irayimman Thampi Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran K C Kesava Pillai (1868-1914) Kumaran Asan (1873-1924) Ulloor Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949) Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878-1958) Modern Romantics Kuttippurathu Kesavan Nair (1883-1959) Nalappat Narayana Menon (1887-1955) G Sankara Kurup (1900-1978) Balamani Amma Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (1909-1936) Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (1911-1948) Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (1911-1985) Other Modern Poets Balachandran Chullikkadu Edasseri Govindan Nair Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan O N V Kurup Satchidanandan Sugathakumari Vayalar Ramavarma Vishnunarayanan Namboodiri Fiction 19th Century O Chandhu Menon (1847-1900) C V Raman Pillai (1858-1922) Modern Karur Neelakanta Pillai (1898-1974).
List of years in literature - List of years in literature This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - Pre 1710s 2000s 2003 in literature - 2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan 2001 in literature - Life of Pi - Yann Martel 2000 in literature - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published, and creator Charles Schulz dies soon.
Katharine Lee Bates - Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The daughter of a Congregational pastor, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 and for many years was a professor of English literature at Wellesley. The first draft of America the Beautiful was hastily jotted in a notebook during the summer of 1893, which Miss Bates spent teaching in Colorado. Later she remembered, "One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse." The words to her one famous poem.
Karl Jaspers - medicine in 1902. Jaspers graduated from medical school in 1909 and began work at a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg, where Emil Kraepelin had worked some years earlier. Jaspers became dissatisfied with the way the medical community of the time approached the study of mental illness and set himself the task of improving the psychiatric approach. In 1913 Jaspers was given a temporary post as a psychology teacher at Heidelberg University. The post later became permanent and Jaspers never returned to clinical practice. Contributions to Psychiatry Jaspers dissatisfaction with the popular understanding of mental illness led him to question both the diagnostic criteria and the methods of clinical psychiatry. He published a revolutionary paper in 1910 in which he addressed the problem of whether paranoia was an aspect of personality or the.
Kemal Atatürk - the title Pasha), he entered the military secondary school in Salonika in 1893 and the military academy at Monastir (now Bitola) in 1895. After playing a minor role in the Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913, he gained a major victory by repulsing the Allied invasion of Gallipoli in 1915. Kemal organized the Turkish Nationalist Republican Party in 1919 from local resistance groups. This group overthrew the incumbent Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI and the Allies in Anatolia, and he and his lieutenant Ismet Pasha (later Ismet Inönü) presided over the defeat of the Greek invasion of 1920 - 1922. They subsequently founded the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923. He was elected Turkey's first president in 1923. The name "Atatürk", meaning father of Turks was then bestowed on Kemal by.
January 29 - Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing. - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire. 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit. 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. Births 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, naturalist and theosophist (+ 1772) 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British Military leader (+ 1797) 1737 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer (+ 1809) 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (+ 1808) 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (+ 1901 1860 - Anton Chekhov, playwright and short.
Jack London - lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. The first issue of The Atlantic Monthly contained Jack London's story, "An Odyssey of the North." In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $50,000 today. His career was well under way. Accusations of plagiarism Jack London was accused of plagiarism numerous times during his career. He was vulnerable, not only because he was such a conspicuous and successful writer, but also because of his methods of working. In a letter to Elwyn Hoffman he wrote "expression, you see—with me—is far easier than invention." He purchased plots for stories and novels from the young Sinclair Lewis. And he used incidents from newspaper clippings as.
John van Melle - 1906, and after a short sojourn in the Netherlands East Indies, settled in South Africa permanently in 1913. He worked as a teacher in many rural schools and soon started to publish in both Dutch and the newly emerging Afrikaans language. Van Melle's best known work is Bart Nel, a classic of Afrikaans literature. It tells the tale of a farmer whose indomitable spirit allows him to survive the destruction and loss of his farm in wartime and being abandoned by his wife and family. External Link http://www.leidenuniv.nl/host/mnl/mnl/levens/55-56/melle.htm (in Afrikaans).
Josip Plemelj - Göttingen (1900/1901) under Felix Christian Klein and David Hilbert. In April 1902 he became a private senior lecturer at the University of Vienna. In 1906 he was appointed assistant at the Technical University of Vienna. In 1907 he became associate professor and in 1908 full professor of mathematics at the University of Chernivtsi (Russian Черновцы), Ukraine. From 1912 to 1913 he was dean of this faculty. In 1917 his political views led him to be forcibly ejected by the Government and he fled to Bohemia (Moravska). After the First World War he became a member of the University Commission under the Slovene Provincial Government and helped establish the first Slovene university at Ljubljana, and was elected its first Chancellor. In the same year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the.
June 13 - to publish the Pentagon Papers 1973 - Vietnam War - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign a peace agreement 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system Births 823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks (+ 877) 1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (+ 1866) 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (+ 1896) 1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (+ 1939) 1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (+ 1961) 1887 - Bruno Frank, author (+ 1945) 1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (+ 1967) 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957) 1897 - Paavo Nurmi, runner (+.
July 11 - Luther King is posthumously rewarded the Medal of Freedom. 1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth. 1987 - According to the United Nations, on this day the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark. 1991 - A Nigerian DC-8 crashes while landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing 261 1991 - Total solar eclipse in Hawaii. 1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam. 1995 - Bosnian Serbs capture the Muslim city of Srebrenica. Many inhabitants are murdered. 1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 Births 1274 - Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland (1306-1329) 1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia (1701-1713) 1754 - Thomas Bowdler, medical doctor and literary censor 1767 - John Quincy.
I Am Mary Dunne - first two husbands, and her fear that she is on the brink of insanity. Of all of Moore's books, I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps his best novel" in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (ed. Ian Ousby, 1988). Read on One of the classic stream of consciousness novels set during only one day is Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), where preparations for a party open the floodgates of memory for the female protagonist. In Virginia (1913), the wife of a successful playwright is also overshadowed by her husband. John Braine's novel The Jealous God (1964) is also about someone trying to get over their Christian upbringing in the face of seemingly ubiquitous hypocrisy and double standards of morality. In Bharati Mukherjee's novel Jasmine (1989) there is.
Irving Layton - in a small village in Romania to Jewish parents. His family emigrated to Montreal in 1913 and they settled in the vibrant Jewish section of that city. Layton vigorously pursued his education eventually receiving a degree in Agricultural sciences from MacDonald College in 1939. His true interest was poetry, however. Layton read Tennyson and Shelly from an early age and moved through the other great authors throuhgout his youth. He travelled throughout Canada doing odd jobs, and in 1942 joined the army and became an officer a CFB Petawawa. Layton eventually became a teacher, first at a Montreal Jewish High School, and then as a political-science professor at Sir George Williams University. Layton had become a strong socialist while at university and became active in the CCF. Because of this activity.
Ireland in the 20th Century - Champions are Kilkenny (hurling) and Kerry (football) 1910 The Unionist Party is formed with the aim of maintaining the Act of Union. Irish is made compulsory for entry to the National University of Ireland. The All-Ireland Champions are Wexford (hurling) and Louth (football) 1911-1920 1911 The Parliament Act is passed in the House of Commons - Lords can now delay a bill for only two years. The Irish census shows the population to be 4,400,000. The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The All-Ireland Champions are Kilkenny (hurling) and Cork (football) 1912 The Third Home Rule Bill is accepted by the House of Commons, but is postponed for two years. 500,000 Ulster people sign the Solemn League and Covenant. The Titanic sinks in the Atlantic -.
