1914 in literature

Births

• January 2 – Vivian Stuart (aka Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart), British writer (died 1986)
• January 8 – Norman Nicholson, English poet (died 1987)
• January 15 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch correspondent, diarist and Holocaust victim (died 1943)
• January 17 – William Stafford, American poet, pacifist (died 1993)
• January 26 – Kaye Webb, English publisher and journalist (died 1996)
• February 4 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (died 1980)
• February 5 – William S. Burroughs, American author (died 1997)
• February 6 – Arkadi Kuleshov, Soviet poet and translator (died 1978)
• February 13 – Katarína Lazarová, Slovak novelist and translator (died 1995)
• February 25 – Frank Bonham, American novelist (died 1988)
• March 1 – Ralph Ellison, American scholar and writer (died 1994)
• March 4 – Barbara Newhall Follett, American prodigy novelist (went missing in December 1939)
• March 27 – Budd Schulberg, American writer (died 2009)
• March 28 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech poet and controversialist (died 1997)
• March 31 – Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize winning Mexican author (died 1998)
• April 4 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (died 1996)
• April 10 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (died 1999)
• April 25 – Ross Lockridge Jr., American novelist (died 1948)
• April 26 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist (died 1986)
• April 28 – Michel Mohrt, French author and historian (died 2011)
• May 3
  • Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French poet (died 2018)
  • Martín de Riquer, Spanish writer and Romantic scholar (died 2013)
• May 6 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (died 1965)
• May 8 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French novelist (died 1980)
• May 12 – James Bacon, author and journalist (died 2010)
• May 14 – Anne Baker, British writer (died 2025)
• June 15 – Lena Kennedy, English novelist (died 1986)
• June 17 – Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (died 2005)
• June 26 – Laurie Lee, English poet and memoirist (died 1997)
• July 14
  • Wim Hora Adema, Dutch children's author and feminist (died 1998)
  • Béatrix Beck, French writer of Belgian origin (died 2008)
• July 15
  • Hammond Innes, English adventure novelist (died 1998)
  • Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author (died 1969)
• July 17 – Alice Gore King, American entrepreneur, educator, writer and artist (died 2007)
• July 18 – Roy Huggins, American novelist (died 2002)
• July 23 – Alf Prøysen, Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (died 1970)
• July 25 – Winifred Foley, English memoirist (died 2009)
• August 5 – Anthony West, English author and critic, son of 'Rebecca West' and H. G. Wells (died 1987)
• August 9 – Tove Jansson, Finnish children's author (died 2001)
• August 20 – Colin MacInnes, English novelist (died 1976)
• August 21 – Stephen Coulter, British novelist (died 1986)
• August 26 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine author (died 1984)
• September 5
  • Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and physicist (died 2018)
  • Gogu Rădulescu, Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (died 1991)
• September 15 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (died 1999)
• October 1 – Hilda Ellis Davidson, English antiquarian and academic (died 2006)
• October 6 – Joan Littlewood, English theatre director and biographer (died 2002)
• October 20 – L. P. Davies, English novelist (died 1988)
• October 26 – John Masters, British Raj novelist (died 1983)
• October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (died 1953)
• November 22 – Leah Bodine Drake, American poet (died 1964)
• December 12 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (died 2000)
• December 14 – Diana Forbes-Robertson, English writer and biographer (died 1987)
• December 24 – Herbert Reinecker, German novelist and playwright (died 2007)

Deaths

• January 6 – Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1827)
• February 1 – Marie Robinson Wright, American travel writer (born 1853)
• February 15 – Kate Brownlee Sherwood, American poet, journalist, translator, and story writer (born 1841)
• February 25 – John Tenniel, English cartoonist and illustrator (born 1820)
• March – Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette, American short story writer (born 1842)
• March 17 – Hiraide Shū (平出 修), Japanese novelist, poet, and lawyer (born 1878)
• March 19 – Thomas Cooper de Leon, American journalist, author and playwright (born 1839)
• March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, Nobel Prize winning French author (born 1830)
• March 28 - Hjalmar Bergström, Danish playwright, novelist, and short story writer (born 1868)
• March 31 – Christian Morgenstern, German poet and writer (born 1871)
• April 2 – Paul Heyse, Nobel Prize winning German author (born 1830)
• April 7 – Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far, 水仙花), English-born writer on Chinese (born 1865)
• May 13 – Isabella Fyvie Mayo, British poet and novelist born 1843)
• May 19 – William Aldis Wright, English writer and editor (born 1831)
• May 29 – Laurence Irving, English dramatist and novelist (drowned, born 1871)
• June 3 – Danske Dandridge, Danish-born American poet, historian, and garden writer (b. 1854)
• June 6 – Theodore Watts-Dunton, English critic and poet (born 1832)
• June 19 – Brandon Thomas, British actor and playwright (Charley's Aunt) (born 1848)
• June 21 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist writer (born 1843)
• July 6 – Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet (murdered; born 1886)
• July 23 – Charlotte Forten Grimké, African American poet (born 1837)
• September 4 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (killed in action, born 1873)
• September 8
  • Mariana Cox Méndez, Chilean writer (born 1871)
  • Hans Leybold, German nihilist poet (born 1892)
• September 11 – Mircea Demetriade, Romanian poet and actor (born 1861)
• September 22 – Alain-Fournier, French novelist (killed in action, born 1886)
• September 25 – Alfred Lichtenstein, German Expressionist writer (killed in action, born 1889)
• October 9 – Dumitru C. Moruzi, Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (asthma; born 1850)
• October 30 – Ernst Stadler, German Expressionist poet (killed in action, born 1883)
• November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian Expressionist poet (cocaine overdose, born 1887)
• November 9 – Alessandro d'Ancona, Italian critic and writer (born 1835)
• November 12 – Augusto dos Anjos, Brazilian poet (b. 1884)
• November 16 – Nikolai Chayev, Russian writer, poet and playwright (born 1824)
• November 19 – Robert Jones Burdette, American minister and sentimental humorist (born 1844)

Awards

• Newdigate Prize: Robert William Sterling, "The Burial of Sophocles"
• Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
• Prix Goncourt: Adrien Bertrand, L'Appel du Sol

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