1883 in literature

See also: 1882 in literature, other events of 1883, 1884 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Modern Language Association forms

New books

• Also sprach Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
• Belinda – Rhoda Broughton
• Gladys Fane – Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid
• Heart and Science – Wilkie Collins
• Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain
• A Modern Lover – George A. Moore
• Phantom Fortune – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Une Vie – Guy de Maupassant

Births

• January 6 – Khalil Gibran, poet, novelist (d. 1931)
• January 10  – Aleksei Tolstoy, writer (d. 1945)
• February 15 – Sax Rohmer, author (d. 1959)
• April 11 – Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
• June 3 – Franz Kafka
• Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer

Deaths

Awards