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Overview of the events of 1883 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1883 .
Events
The Adventures of Pinocchio January 13 – World première of Henrik Ibsen 's play An Enemy of the People En folkefiende ; 1882) at the Christiania Theatre .[ 1] February – Carlo Collodi 's children's story The Adventures of Pinocchio Le avventure di Pinocchio in Italy.
May 23 – Robert Louis Stevenson 's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island Cassell in London.June – First performance by Footlights , the Cambridge University dramatic club.
June 4 – At Junimea Iași , Mihai Eminescu reads his nationalist poem Doina [ 2] Ion Creangă recalled that it was composed on the spot,[ 3] 1870 .[ 4] June 30 –October 20 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of Tunstall Forest Young Folks July – First issue of Fiamuri Arbërit Cosenza . Managed by Girolamo de Rada , it promotes Ottomanism against Philhellenism .[ 5]
August 29 – Dunfermline Carnegie Library , the first Carnegie library , is opened in Andrew Carnegie 's hometown, Dunfermline , Scotland.December 27 –28 – The Modern Language Association of America holds its first meeting.Mark Twain 's memoirs Life on the Mississippi Boston (Massachusetts) and London, is the first substantial book submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript.[ 6] Kisari Mohan Ganguli begins publication of the first English-language translation of the Mahabharata The Deutsches Theater company is formed in Berlin.
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – Alberto Gerchunoff , Argentine writer (died 1949 )January 6 – Kahlil Gibran , Lebanese-born poet and novelist writing in Arabic and English (died 1931 )January 10 – Aleksei Tolstoy , Russian writer (died 1945 )January 20 – Forrest Wilson , American journalist and author (died 1942 )February 15 – Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (died 1959 )February 20 – Naoya Shiga , Japanese novelist (died 1971 )March 9 – Umberto Saba , Italian poet and novelist (died 1957 )March 17 – Urmuz , Romanian short prose writer (died 1923 )April 30 – Jaroslav Hašek , Czech novelist (died 1923)June 3 – Franz Kafka , Czech novelist writing in German (died 1924 )June 4 – Joseph Jefferson Farjeon , English crime writer (died 1955 )December 13 – Belle da Costa Greene , American librarian (died 1950 )December 23 – Yoshishige Abe , Japanese philosopher and politician (died 1966 )December 30 – Marie Gevers , Belgian novelist writing in French (died 1975 )
Deaths
January 21 – Anna Eliza Bray , English novelist and travel writer (born 1790 )March 14 – Karl Marx , German philosopher (born 1818 )April 24 – Jules Sandeau , French novelist (born 1811 )May 15 – Mary Elizabeth Mohl ("Clarkey"), English-born literary salonnière (born 1793 )May 23 – Cyprian Norwid , Polish poet, dramatist and artist (born 1821 )June 20 – Gustave Aimard , French novelist (born 1818 )July 16 – Edward Backhouse Eastwick , Anglo-Indian orientalist and translator (born 1814 )August 31 – Levin Schücking , German novelist (born 1814 )September 2 – Léon Halévy , French historian and dramatist (born 1802 )September 3 – Ivan Turgenev , Russian novelist (born 1818 )September 25 – George Ayliffe Poole , English writer and cleric (born 1809 )November 26 – Sojourner Truth , African-American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author (born 1797 )December 13 – Victor de Laprade , French poet and critic (born 1812 )
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