This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1903.
Children and young people
L. Frank Baum – The Enchanted Island of Yew
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Kate Douglas Wiggin – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Dusé Mohamed Ali – The Jew's Revenge
Jacinto Benavente – La noche del sábado (Saturday Night)
Haralamb Lecca – Cancer la inimă
W. Somerset Maugham – A Man of Honour
Ștefan Petică – Frații
George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman (published)
J. M. Synge – In the Shadow of the Glen
Stanisław Wyspiański – Wyzwolenie ("Liberation")
Giovanni Pascoli – Canti di Castelvecchio
Thomas Traherne (died 1674) – Poetical Works
W. B. Yeats – In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age
Ada Cambridge – Thirty Years in Australia
E. K. Chambers – The Mediaeval Stage
W. E. B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk
Helena Rutherfurd Ely – A Woman's Hardy Garden
Auguste Escoffier – Le Guide culinaire
G. E. Moore – Principia Ethica
John Morley – The Life of Gladstone
Alois Riegl – Der moderne Denkmalkultus, sein Wesen, seine Entstehung (The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Origin)
W. B. Yeats – Ideas of Good and Evil (essays)
January 10 – E. Arnot Robertson, English novelist and broadcaster (died 1961)
February 11 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and activist (died 1988)
February 13 – Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer (died 1989)
February 21 – Raymond Queneau, French poet (died 1976)
February 22 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (died 1990)
February 24
Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (died 1967)
Irène Némirovsky, Russian-born French novelist (died 1942)
June 8 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (died 1987)
June 18 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (died 1923)
June 25 – George Orwell, English novelist and journalist (died 1950)
July 10 – John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (died 1969)
September 5 – János Kemény, American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer (died 1971)
September 9 – Edward Upward, English novelist and short story writer (died 2009)
September 10 – Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (died 1974)
September 14 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (died 1980)
October 17 – Nathanael West, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1940)
October 28 – Evelyn Waugh, English novelist and critic (died 1966)
December 6 (November 23 OS) – Gaito Gazdanov, Russian-born novelist (died 1971)
December 10
Mary Norton, English children's writer (died 1992)
William Plomer (Robert Pagan), South African novelist, poet and literary editor (died 1973)
December 13 – Todhunter Ballard, American novelist (died 1980)
December 29 – Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (died 1976)
Unknown date – Dora Birtles, Australian poet and novelist (died 1992)
January 22 – Augustus Hare, English biographer and travel writer (born 1834)
February 8 – Ada Ellen Bayly, English novelist (born 1857)
March 6 – Gaston Paris, French literary critic and scholar (born 1839)
March 8 – Josefina Wettergrund, Swedish writer (born 1830)
March 14 – Ernest Legouvé, French dramatist (born 1807)
April 29 – Paul Du Chaillu, French American travel writer (born c. 1831)
May 12 – Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (born 1825)
May 24 – Max O'Rell (Léon Paul Blouet), French journalist (born 1847)
June 12 – Claymoor, Romanian fashion and entertainment critic (born c. 1842)
July 11 – W. E. Henley, English poet (tuberculosis, born 1847)
August 31 – William Hastie, Scottish theologian (born 1842)
September 1 – Charles Bernard Renouvier, French philosopher (born 1815)
October 4 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (suicide, born 1880)
November 1 – Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian (born 1817)
November 19 – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (born 1862)
December 28 – George Gissing, English novelist (emphysema, born 1857)
Prix Goncourt: John Antoine Nau for Force ennemie
Nobel Prize for Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1903 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
