1905 in literature


This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1905.

Events

Uncertain dates

Fiction


  • David Belasco – The Girl of the Golden West
  • Jacinto Benavente – :es:Rosas de otoño|Rosas de otoño
  • Clyde Fitch – The Woman in the Case
  • Maxim Gorky – Children of the Sun
  • Harley Granville-Barker – The Voysey Inheritance
  • Sacha Guitry
  • *Le KWTZ
  • *Nono
  • Alois Jirásek – Lantern
  • Rainis – Uguns un nakts
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • *Major Barbara
  • *Man and Superman
  • J. M. Synge – The Well of the Saints

    Poetry

  • E. Clerihew Bentley – Biography for Beginners
  • Gjergj Fishta – Lahuta e Malcís
  • Sarojini Naidu – The Golden Threshold
  • Rainer Maria Rilke – The Book of Hours
  • Violet Teague – Night Fall in the Ti-Tree

    Non-fiction

  • Phan Bội Châu – Viet Nam vong quoc su
  • G. K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy
  • Afevork Ghevre Jesus – Grammatica della lingua amarica
  • Mary Scharlieb – The Mother's Guide to the Health and Care of her Children
  • Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    Births

  • January 2 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian author and translator
  • January 6 – Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet
  • January 25 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer
  • January 31 – John O'Hara, American writer
  • February 2
  • *John Davy Hayward, English literary editor and bibliophile
  • *Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter
  • February 7 – Paul Nizan, French philosopher and writer
  • February 26 – Robert Byron, English travel writer
  • March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic
  • March 23 – Joseph Henry Reason, African-American librarian
  • March 31 – Kulap Saipradit, Thai novelist
  • May 1 – Emmanuel Mounier, French philosopher, journalist and theologian
  • May 16 – H. E. Bates, English novelist
  • May 20 – Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
  • May 24 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist
  • June 20 – Lillian Hellman, American dramatist
  • June 21 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and playwright
  • July 25
  • *Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright writing in German
  • *Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer
  • September 5 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born English novelist and social philosopher
  • October 15 – C. P. Snow, English novelist
  • October 17 – Lev Nussimbaum, Russian and Azerbaijani novelist
  • October 31 – Elizabeth Jenkins, English author
  • November 10 – Kurt Eggers, German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright
  • December 4 – Munro Leaf, American children's author
  • December 12
  • *Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist
  • *Vasily Grossman, Russian novelist and writer
  • December 21 – Anthony Powell, English novelist
  • December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic
  • December 30 – Daniil Kharms, born Daniil Ivánovich Yuvatchov, Russian surrealist, children's writer, absurdist poet, short prose author and dramatist

    Deaths

  • January 19 – Debendranath Tagore, Hindu philosopher and religious reformer
  • February 15 – Lew Wallace, American novelist and general
  • February 26 – Marcel Schwob, French writer
  • March 20 – Antonin Proust, French journalist and politician
  • March 25 – Jules Verne, French novelist
  • April 9 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, American children's writer
  • April 18 – Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish realist novelist
  • May 23 – Mary Livermore, American journalist and women's rights activist
  • August 14 – Gertrude Bloede, American poet
  • August 22 – David Binning Monro, Scottish Homeric scholar
  • September 18 – George MacDonald, Scottish poet, writer and minister
  • October 6 – Hibbard H. Shedd, American politician and novelist
  • October 28 – Alphonse Allais, French humorist
  • December 3 – John Bartlett, American lexicographer and publisher
  • December 9 – Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Scottish classicist and politician
  • December 11 – Paul Meurice, French novelist and playwright
  • December 12 – William Sharp, Scottish poet, biographer and novelist
  • December 20 – Henry Harland, American novelist and editor
  • December 29 – Victor Daley, Australian poet

    Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz