January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London (opened for business November 1912), which becomes a noted international literary meeting-place.[2]
January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel Amerika, which he never finishes.
March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Zaynab, by Husayn Haykal, is published; it is sometimes called the first modern Arabic novel.[7]
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.[8]
Henri Stahl publishes excerpts from his novel Un român în lună ("A Romanian on the Moon", republished as a book in 1914), one of the earliest works of Romanian science fiction.[9]
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^Robert L. Gale (2001). An Ambrose Bierce Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-313-31130-7.
^Said Faiq (2004). Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic. Multilingual Matters. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-85359-743-5.
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