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1917 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1917.

Francis Picabia

or 5 – The English writer Hugh Kingsmill is captured in action in France.[3]

February 4

– The publisher Boni & Liveright is founded in New York City by Horace Liveright with Albert Boni, and initiates the "Modern Library" imprint.

February 16

April – and Virginia Woolf take delivery of a hand printing press needed to establish the Hogarth Press at their home in Richmond upon Thames.[4] Their first publication is Two Stories.

Leonard

May – acquires Thoor Ballylee in Ireland.

W. B. Yeats

– The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first for biography (for Julia Ward Howe), Jean Jules Jusserand the first for history with With Americans of Past and Present Days, and Herbert B. Swope the first for journalism for his work for the New York World.

June 4

Luigi Pirandello's drama Right You Are (if you think so) (Così è (se vi pare)) is first performed, in Milan.

June 18

July – issues a "Soldier's Declaration" against prolonging World War I. He is sent by the military (with assistance from Robert Graves) to Edinburgh's Craiglockhart War Hospital, where Wilfred Owen introduces himself on August 18.[5] At Sassoon's urging, Owen writes his two great war poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est", although like almost all his poetry they remain unpublished until after his death in action next year. Their meeting would later inspire Stephen MacDonald's drama Not About Heroes (1982) and Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (1991).[6]

Siegfried Sassoon

Summer – The expressionist and neo-romantic literary movement in Estonia is formed by young poets and writers.[7][8]

Siuru

– At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Birkenhead, the Chairing of the Bard ceremony ends with the chair draped in black, the winner, Hedd Wyn, having died a month earlier in battle.[9]

September 6

Ernest Hemingway

– The 51-year-old poet W. B. Yeats marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Road register office in London, with Ezra Pound as best man, a couple of months after Yeats' proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress's daughter, Iseult Gonne, is rejected.

October 20

Jesse Lynch Williams' Why Marry?, the first drama to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre (New York).

December 25

unknown dates

Dutch East Indies

Christine

Elizabeth von Arnim

Los caciques (The Bosses)

Mariano Azuela

Under Fire (first English language edition)

Henri Barbusse

E. F. Benson

L'Orage sur le jardin de Candide (The thunderstorm in Candide's garden)

Adrien Bertrand

A Thorn in the Flesh

Rhoda Broughton

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars

The Rise of David Levinsky

Abraham Cahan

The Stucco House

Gilbert Cannan

Devdas

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

The Spy in Black

J. Storer Clouston

Under One Roof

Mary Cholmondeley

The Shadow Line (serialization concluded and in book form)

Joseph Conrad

Regiment of Women

Clemence Dane

Abel Sánchez

Miguel de Unamuno

The Hundredth Chance

Ethel M. Dell

South Wind

Norman Douglas

His Last Bow (collected Sherlock Holmes stories)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fanny Herself

Edna Ferber

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

Anna Katharine Green

A Daughter of the Morning

Zona Gale

The Three Black Pennys

Joseph Hergesheimer

In the Wilderness

Robert Hichens

The Deruga Case (Der Fall Deruga)

Ricarda Huch

Henry James

The Ivory Tower

Rouletabille at Krupp's

Gaston Leroux

The Job

Sinclair Lewis

Jerry of the Islands

Jack London

The Homesteader

Oscar Micheaux

Parnassus on Wheels

Christopher Morley

Baroness Orczy

Lord Tony's Wife

Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall

David Graham Phillips

Knights of Araby

Marmaduke Pickthall

His Family

Ernest Poole

Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte

Horacio Quiroga

(Et Florence Robertson) – Australia Felix (first part of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony)

Henry Handel Richardson

The Tree of Heaven

May Sinclair

Her Irish Heritage

Annie M. P. Smithson

The Excursion to Tilsit (Litauische Geschichten)

Hermann Sudermann

Cvetje v jeseni (Flowers in Autumn)

Ivan Tavčar

The Secret House

Edgar Wallace

Der Spaziergang (The Walk)

Robert Walser

Mary Augusta Ward

The Loom of Youth

Alec Waugh

Gone to Earth

Mary Webb

Summer

Edith Wharton

P. G. Wodehouse

The Man with Two Left Feet

Maeve Brennan, Irish-born short story writer and journalist (died 1993)[13]

January 6

Sidney Sheldon, American novelist (died 2007)[14]

February 11

Anthony Burgess, English novelist (died 1993)[15]

February 25

Robert Lowell, American poet (died 1977)[16]

March 1

Dimitrie Stelaru (Dumitru Petrescu), Romanian poet and novelist (died 1971)

March 8

Carlo Cassola, Italian novelist (died 1987)[17]

March 17

Johannes Bobrowski, German author (died 1965)[18]

April 9

Sven Hassel (Børge Pedersen), Danish novelist (died 2012)

April 19

Juan Rulfo, Mexican fiction writer (died 1986)[19]

May 16

Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (died 2000)[20]

June 7

Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (died 2005)[21]

June 13

Katharine Graham, American journalist (died 2001)[22]

June 16

A. E. Hotchner, American writer (died 2020)[23]

June 28

J. F. Powers, American author (died 1999)[24]

July 8

Robert Conquest, English-born historian and poet (died 2015)[25]

July 15

Ruth Park, New Zealand children's writer (died 2010)

August 24

Magda Szabó, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and essayist (died 2007)[26]

October 5

Denys Val Baker, Welsh writer (died 1984)[27]

October 24

Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (died 2005)[28]

October 31

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish biographer and political writer (died 2008)[29]

November 3

Leila Berg, English children's author and education writer (died 2015)[30]

November 12

Marni Hodgkin (Marion Rous), American children's book editor (died 2015)

November 28

Tove Ditlevsen, Danish poet and fiction writer (suicide 1976)

December 14

– Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English fiction writer (died 2008)

December 16

December 21

Diana Athill

Onni Palaste, Finnish novelist (died 2009)[33]

December 27

date unknown – , Palestinian poet (died 2003)[34]

Fadwa Tuqan

William De Morgan, English novelist and potter (born 1839)

January 15

Andrew Murray, South African minister, writer and teacher (born 1828)[35]

January 18

Agnes Leonard Hill, American author, journalist, enangelist, social reformer (born 1842)

January 20

February – , American author and educator (born 1838)

Emma Pike Ewing

Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and critic (born 1848)

February 16

Arthur Graeme West, English war poet and military writer (killed in action, born 1891)

April 3

April 9

Edward Thomas

L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (born 1859)

April 14

Jane Barlow, Irish novelist and poet (born 1856)

April 17

F. C. Burnand, English dramatist and editor (born 1836)[38]

April 21

Gustav Jaeger, German naturalist (born 1832)

May 13

June (date unknown) - , British novelist and travel writer (born 1824)

Katharine Sarah Macquoid

Joseph Ashby-Sterry, English poet and comic writer (born 1836 or 1838)

June 1

Titu Maiorescu, Romanian culture critic, philosopher, and politician (born 1840)[39]

June 18

July 31

Francis Ledwidge

Martha Capps Oliver, American poet and hymnwriter (born 1845)[42]

August 15

T. E. Hulme, English critic (killed in action, born 1883)

September 28

Walter Flex, German author (died of wounds, born 1887)

October 16

Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (born 1858)

November 15

Georges de Peyrebrune, French novelist (born 1841)[43]

November 16

Adrien Bertrand, French novelist (died of wounds, born 1888)[44]

November 18

George Diamandy, Romanian journalist, dramatist, and political figure (angina, born 1867)

December 27

: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan

Nobel Prize for Literature

World War I in literature