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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1883.

Events

thumb|220px|[[The Adventures of Pinocchio, illustration from the first Italian edition]]

  • January 13 – Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende, 1882) gains its first performance at the Christiania Theatre.
  • February – Carlo Collodi's children's story The Adventures of Pinocchio appears first in Italy complete in book form as Le avventure di Pinocchio.
  • May 23 – Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island first appears in book form from Cassell in London.
  • June – Footlights, the University of Cambridge drama club in England, gives its first performance.
  • June 4 – Mihai Eminescu reads his nationalist poem Doina to an enthusiastic crowd at Junimea in Iași. It is sometimes described as his last work before a mental breakdown later this year. Eminescu's host Ion Creangă recalls it being composed on the spot, but some researchers date it back to 1870.
  • June 30–October 20 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of Tunstall Forest is serialized in the British magazine Young Folks as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.
  • July – The first issue of Fiamuri Arbërit, an Albanian literary and political magazine, is published from Cosenza. Managed by Girolamo de Rada, it promotes Ottomanism against Philhellenism.
  • August – Ivan Turgenev dictates his last story, "An end", to Pauline Viardot (who writes it in French) on his deathbed at Bougival in France.
  • August 29 – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library, opens in Andrew Carnegie's home town, Dunfermline, Scotland.
  • October 3–9 – Turgenev's body is returned by train from Paris to Saint Petersburg with crowds turning out to honor him.
  • Kisari Mohan Ganguli begins publication of the first English-language translation of the Mahabharata.
  • The Deutsches Theater company is formed in Berlin.

New books

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Fiction

  • Emilia Pardo Bazán – La tribuna
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Phantom Fortune
  • Rhoda Broughton – Belinda
  • Wilkie Collins – Heart and Science
  • Hugh Conway – Called Back
  • Anne Elliot – Dr. Edith Romney
  • Ludwig Ganghofer – The Hunter of Fall
  • John Hay – The Bread-Winners (anonymous serialization in The Century Magazine)
  • Alexander Kielland – Poison (Gift)
  • Jonas Lie – Familien paa Gilje (The Gilje family)
  • John Macnie (as Ismar Thiusen) – The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead
  • Mary E. Mann – The Parish of Hilby
  • Guy de Maupassant – Une Vie
  • George A. Moore – A Modern Lover
  • Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra, publication begins)
  • Margaret Oliphant – "Hester (novel)"
  • Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid – Gladys Fane
  • Charlotte Riddell – A Struggle for Fame
  • Annie S. Swan – Aldersyde
  • Giovanni Verga – Novelle rusticane (Rustic short stories, about Sicily)
  • Jules Verne – Kéraban the Inflexible (Kéraban-le-têtu)
  • Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam – Contes cruels

Children and young people

  • Carlo Collodi – The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
  • George MacDonald – The Princess and Curdie
  • Howard Pyle – The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island (book publication)

Drama

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett and William Gillette – Esmeralda
  • François Coppée – Severo Torelli
  • Imre Madách – The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, first performed)
  • Edward Rose – Vice Versa
  • George Robert Sims – In the Ranks
  • August Strindberg – Lycko-Pers resa (Lucky Peter's Travels or Lucky Pehr)
  • Oscar Wilde – Vera; or, The Nihilists (first performed)
  • William Young – The Rajah; or Wyncot's Ward

Poetry

Non-fiction

  • American Medical Association – Journal of the American Medical Association
  • Mathilde Blind – George Eliot
  • Hall Caine – Cobwebs of Criticism
  • Thomas Hill Green (died 1882) – Prolegomena to Ethics
  • J.-K. Huysmans – L'Art moderne
  • Agnes Catherine Maitland (as A. C. M., Examiner...) – The Rudiments of Cookery: a Manual for Use in Schools and Homes
  • William Robinson – The English Flower Garden
  • J. R. Seeley – The Expansion of England
  • Alfred Percy Sinnett – Esoteric Buddhism
  • John Addington Symonds – A Problem in Greek Ethics: an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists
  • Mark Twain – Life on the Mississippi

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)
  • January 21 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and teacher (died 1929)
  • February 8 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian/American political economist (died 1950)
  • February 15 – Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (died 1959)
  • February 16 – Elizabeth Craig, British writer (died [1980)
  • February 20 – Naoya Shiga, Japanese novelist (died 1971)
  • March 2 (February 18 O.S.) – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek novelist (died 1957)
  • March 9 – Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (died 1957)
  • March 17 – Urmuz, Romanian short prose writer (died 1923)
  • March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under, Estonian poet (died 1980)
  • April 18 – Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (died 1956)
  • April 27 &ndash; Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (died 1927)
  • 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)
  • July 29 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (died 1942)
  • September 14 – Rose Combe, French writer and railway worker (died 1932)
  • September 22 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (died 1932)
  • October 18 – Helena Boguszewska, Polish writer, columnist and a social activist (died 1978)
  • 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)
  • unknown date – May Edginton, English popular novelist (died 1957)

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)
  • June 11 – Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, English poet, novelist, short story writer (born 1813)
  • 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 10 – Hendrik Conscience, Flemish novelist (born 1812)
  • 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)
  • unknown date – Mary S. B. Shindler, American poet (born 1810)

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