This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1893.
Children and young people
Margaret Marshall Saunders – Beautiful Joe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona
Island Nights' Entertainments (three stories)
Rosario de Acuña – La voz de la patria ("Pregnant Woman")
Alexandre Bisson and Albert Carré – Le Veglione (le Bal masqué)
Herman Heijermans – Dora Kremer
Maurice Maeterlinck – Pelléas et Mélisande
George Moore – The Strike at Arlingford
Arthur Wing Pinero – The Second Mrs Tanqueray
Arthur Schnitzler – Anatol published
George Bernard Shaw – Mrs. Warren's Profession written
Oscar Wilde
Salome first published (in French)
A Woman of No Importance
Gabriele D'Annunzio – Odi Navali
Maryana Marrash – Bint fikr
Alice Meynell – Poems
Eric Stenbock – The Shadow of Death: poems, songs, and sonnets
Francis Thompson – Poems, including "The Hound of Heaven"
Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford, 1st edition
Henry James – Essays in London and Elsewhere
George Panu – Portrete și tipuri parlamentare
Alois Riegl – Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik
William Wynn Westcott – Collectanea Hermetica is started to be published
January 3 – W. N. Hodgson (Edward Melbourne), English war poet (died 1916)
January 12 – Maria Jolas, born Maria McDonald, American-born French literary publisher (died 1987)
January 13 – Clark Ashton Smith, American poet and short-story writer (died 1961)
February 11 – Nan Shepherd, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1981)
March 11 – Wanda Gág, American children's author and artist (died 1946)
March 18 – Wilfred Owen, English war poet (killed 1918)
April 9
Victor Gollancz, English publisher (died 1967)
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer, scholar (died 1963)
May 6 – Margaret Cole (Margaret Postgate), English political writer, biographer and activist (died 1980)
May 14 – Louis Verneuil, born Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage, French playwright (suicide 1952)
May 19 – H. Bonciu, Romanian novelist, poet and translator (died 1950)
June 13 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer of detective fiction and translator (died 1957)
July 3 – Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet, novelist and translator (died 1921)
July 21 – Hans Fallada (Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen), German novelist (died 1947)
August 7 – Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt', Indian poet and dramatist (died 1983)
August 14 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (died 1975)
August 22 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, journalist and wit (died 1967)
September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (died 1984)
October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (died 1945)
October 15 – Saunders Lewis, English-born Welsh poet, dramatist and critic (died 1985)
October 26 – Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet and novelist (died 1977)
November 10 – John P. Marquand, American novelist (died 1960)
November 14 – Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian author (died 1973)
December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, English novelist and poet (died 1978)
December 29 – Vera Brittain, English memoirist, novelist, feminist and pacifist (died 1970)
Unknown dates
Samuel Roth, Galician-born American publisher (died 1974)
Dorothy Whipple, English writer of fiction and children's books (died 1966)
January 7 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician and poet (born 1835)
January 15 – Fanny Kemble, English actress (born 1809)
January 22 – Kawatake Mokuami (河竹黙阿弥), Japanese dramatist (born 1816)
January 23 – José Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1817)
February 10 – Alphonse Jolly, French dramatist and librarian (born 1810)
April 6 – Charlotte Anley, English didactic novelist and religious writer (born 1796)
April 19 – John Addington Symonds, English poet and essayist (born 1840)
June 14 – Jakob Frohschammer, German theologian and philosopher (born 1821)
July 6 – Guy de Maupassant, French novelist and short story writer (born 1850)
September 4 – Francis Adams, Maltese-born English political writer, poet and novelist (born 1862)
October 7 – William Smith, English lexicographer (born 1813)
November 12 – Jemima von Tautphoeus, English-born novelist (born 1807)
December 2 – Charlotte Maria Tucker, English children's writer (born 1821)
December 25 – Ivan Broz, Croatian linguist and literary historian (born 1852)
Newdigate Prize - John Burland Harris-Burland
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